Anders is a fake character that Gene made up when people called him out on his bullshit about his claims of a website revamp:
For ages Gene was saying that he had a "professional" who was going to revamp the forums and website as well as creating a new webstore. He couched it like it would be the saviour of the Paracast and it became a running joke how long it was taking - a new website doesn't take long to make (especially for an expert).
Most people called bullshit on it and asked who the professional was since Gene would never pay anyone to do anything.
In what seems like a classic response from Gene (from reading these forums and the tweets on SchemeGenRC) he put out the random name of "Anders" as being the person in charge of doing this - as if that would mean anything to anyone.
The way he did it made it absolutely clear that it was a hasty response to the online ridicule.
Anyway after several months the only thing that has happened is that Gene upgraded the forum software version - HIMSELF (this was proven by his comments and moronic questions on the Xenforo forums).
So the revamp turned into a forum software upgrade - and even that click button exercise took months, not only that but Gene managed to cock it up and break lots of things in the first few days because being a lazy bastard he didn't do any testing or checking of what would change.
To make matters worse this was a software upgrade he had previously already done on his forums for his crappy haemorrhoid novels almost a year ago (yes believe it or not they have their own forums).
The end result is that the forum looks exactly the same because nothing changed - a perfect metaphor for Gene himself.
He has completely given up talking about the merchandise store and website revamp now. Again these things could be done in an afternoon (or day or two at most) by a competent professional - it's not like the Paracrud website is doing something complex, it's just a front page that links to the forums and the podcast feeds.
There are also lots of plugin tools for merchandise stores that even a moron like Gene could hook up in a few hours. The greater work would be involved in creating the merch designs but I doubt Gene would do anything beyond just sticking the Paracrud logo on mugs and Tshirts.
There is no way any of that would take months and the fact that Gene (sorry Anders) has still not completed it shows that the whole story was a garbage way of trying to give the impression that he was doing something to change his situation (even though it was a pointless exercise anyway).
Like most dysfunctional liars Gene has absolutely no consistency in the crap he makes up and his own erratic behaviour disproves what he says.
I will admit to being in the minority, possibly even a minority of one, who believed there was and is a real Anders, who volunteered to do some web work for the Paracast.
I did not believe that anything he did would make any real difference to Gene or the Paracast's fortunes.
There is an Anders member on the Paracast forum, and I found the person associated with the account on both Facebook and Twitter. He is real, and it's imaginable to me he decided to make an offer of help, which Gene turned in his emails into assurance of deliverance coming in the form of a web store by 'their new webmaster'.
I will guess for whatever reasons Anders subsequently flaked out, since Gene has seemingly dropped the idea in his emails that the big hope of his future is the Paracast website / web store revamp that will somehow change everything. Then again it's not like he invests any effort in consistency or followup in his dumb emails. It's all just a few sentence saying "give me money now" then more sentences detailing how to give it. The guy is a bum to the core.