This article is full of assumptions. Maybe the backer lost a lot of money so he had to cut his fund.
We don't know anything about 'Lee' and his financial situation. So we can't make any assumptions about his motivations.
We don't know anything about 'Lee' and his financial situation. So we can't make any assumptions about his motivations.
IIRC from that time, this is a bigger problem when you consider that Kickstarter doesn't have any mechanismo for flagging suspicious backers, so even in the (unlikely, IMHO) case that this is an honest mistake from the backer, it will only increase once 4chan and friends hear about this.