Salis later told police he “did it for content because I’m a content creator.”
But on Monday as he was sentenced over the threats in Perth Magistrates Court, Salis’s lawyer explained to the court that the 22-year-old was furious because his mother would not give him money to buy drugs and was at the time “in psychosis”.
Salis lives with autism spectrum disorder. His lawyer, Lily Thackrah, also told magistrate Dianne Scadden that her client’s content online is about “controversy”.
“The more controversial the content, the more engagement from the views. The more engagement, the more profit,” she said.
