The underlying issue is that Phil never should have been a content creator to begin with because he sucks at everything. He's not good at games, entertaining, funny, likeable, charismatic, intelligent, witty, physically attractive, etc... There's nothing there. As we all know, Phil got to this position of internet fame spamming garbage Youtube gaming videos.
Yeah, even in a bizarro alternate universe where Phil is a genuinely nice, pleasant person he'd still be struggling because he is fundamentally not entertaining. He is not funny, he is not good at games, and he doesn't have anything interesting or insightful to say about anything. The only reason he continues to persist as a content creator is due to a weird confluence of factors you can't intentionally replicate.
I thought he finally comprehended that his reputation couldn't get any better or worse when he canceled the Clum doc, but I think it constantly gnaws at him that he isn't this big well-liked and respected streamer that everyone listens to, like when he tried to save us all from those scammers, but because of dirty trolls, no one listens to him anymore.
So many people have tried to help phil, and he's been given so many chances to change for the better and somehow he still continues to, but he always manages to fuck things up. I think the ol' pig is beyond a lost cause at this point, he'll just keep spiraling with his delusions, addictions, and schizo-esque paranoia of the dang dirty tractors.
So many people have tried to help phil, and he's been given so many chances to change for the better and somehow he still continues to, but he always manages to fuck things up. I think the ol' pig is beyond a lost cause at this point, he'll just keep spiraling with his delusions, addictions, and schizo-esque paranoia of the dang dirty tractors.
Phil has an easy life, but he can’t help spend most of his streaming time using it as therapy, or a seethe session plus when he does actually play a game he’s terrible. If you actually wanted to watch someone play video games why the hell would you watch Phil? It’s hilarious his narcissism won’t allow him to realize that the vast majority of his viewers are detractors.
Phil has an easy life, but he can’t help spend most of his streaming time using it as therapy, or a seethe session plus when he does actually play a game he’s terrible. If you actually wanted to watch someone play video games why the hell would you watch Phil? It’s hilarious his narcissism won’t allow him to realize that the vast majority of his viewers are detractors.
It's way funnier when you realize he's deluded himself into thinking because he's a "Variety-style streamer" that he actually has way more fans that only come around to watch particular games, therefore he actually has a TON of fans that all love him unconditionally. It's definitely not just OIC, a few tourists, and viewbots that watch him all day.
Out of every 10,000 people who know who he is, maybe one comes away with the opinion that he doesnt completely suck. Its truly remarkable that so many people just dont like you.
I think about this a lot. Without being some kind of pedo or murderer it's genuinely impressive how universally detested he is.
Like, truly, who else on the planet, living or dead, has a worse like:dislike ratio? The mind obviously goes to people like Hitler or Stalin but even they have people who like them, despite things like genocide and war crimes holding them back - and that's looking at things from a historical perspective, let alone the fact that these were two leaders of nations at one point with millions of supporters.
Seriously, is there someone more universally disliked than Phil Burnell? Is there another person in history who is both well known enough to have a large enough sample size of people that know them but are also so widely loathed?
Front page features are either a senior Jannie or Null himself, so they would be the ones who care. It even say's who featured a given thread, so you can take it up with them directly. You should do that. They always appreciate being told about how their opinions are gay and retarded and will absolutely take your concerns seriously.
Note that Phil insists on streaming on Youtube, as well. I believe Kick pays far less if you dual stream. Which would explain why he tried weaseling around toggling the dual streaming option on Kick that they had to tell him to change.
Yeah the Kick hourly wage gets cut in half if you're multistreaming meaning he gets $8 an hour at minimum. Given his shit numbers I'm sure it stays at $8 an hour which is still $8 more than his shitty khantent deserves. And yes, he did try to scam Kick on 4 different occasions by "accidentally" forgetting to turn multistreaming on in his dashboard but every single time he got caught by a Kick mod so quickly that he gave up on trying to pull the scam anymore.
For anyone new around here, IronChefSakai was one of the more recent extreme whales that Phil had. ICS first appeared on May 26, 2024, during Phil's May Indies Marathon (remember this as this will be very important later). He had dropped some money on earlier games, but the big donations were during Noita. Phil would end this marathon with a shit ton of money with the majority of it coming from ICS. After this, ICS would engrain himself in Phil's YT community and come in constantly to whale big.
After the KC arc started, ICS would go over to Kick as IronChefSakaiREAL and eventually become a mod since he kept whaling out. He was able to control Phil's streams since he was promising to whale out (an example of this was the low support during the final WWE Champions stream, where ICS told Phil he'd drop a lot of money if he went and played COD. Phil did). Trouble in paradise would start during the Daddy Jim JoontheKing doc react. Everyone thought Phil's react was boring as shit and ICS got mad and started arguing with Phil (the highlight of the stream). Phil would ban ICS and ICS would go do his own stream as an expose-ay of Phil telling us shit we already knew (If you give Phil money, he'll just focus on hitting the next goal. No shit, Sherlock). The two would later make up and ICS would be allowed back, but not as a mod to his spite. When Phil started to make it to the front page, one night, him and StrangelyLex would both be featured and ICS would wander over to donate hundreds to her. Phil and ICS would argue again after this and break out.
Here is where ICS stands after getting banned.
ICS is on the lifetime leaderboard twice since 1 is a sock account.
At $5 a kick sub, he gave $3210 on kick alone.
StrangelyLex's lifetime
At $5 a kick sub, he gave $7435 on kick alone.
Archived expose stream on DSP with ICS's voice.
Here's what we know about ICS
- He's not OIC
- He said that he sold a tech startup which is why he has money to blow. We don't know if this is true, but he's irresponsible with money regardless.
- Wants to control Phil's streams.
- Wants attention from people.
- Tried to join the detractor community after him and Phil first broke-up. Doody and ALT were both telling people to pretend he wasn't there.
So, recently a new sock account called deuxcentvingt (french for 220) appeared and it has become clear that it is ICS. After, doing some research, I've discovered that ICS has very particular habits he uses while typing.
ICS's Chatting Habits
Here is a sample of ICS's chatting habits
1)He's very chatty with other chatters. He likes attention, so loves to Reply.
2)He RARELY uses periods. Most periods are splitting up 2 sentences. He loves ? and !
3)He loves Daddy's attention and trying to engage with him parasocially.
4)He loves Emojis
5)There are periods where he jumps between starting a new message with a capital letter and a lowercase letter.
So with that criteria, let's jump into the first sock
Ken (YT) / Itsameken (Kick)
On March 10, 2025, Phil did the FNAF Torture-thon marathon. The stream was a disaster stream until a brand new Dent named Ken came in and dumped hundred, being the major whale that saved the stream (do you remember the important thing I told you earlier in the post?). He would eventually get banned on YT and show up on Kick as Itsameken. If we look at his chat history.
* Chatty with other chatters.
* No periods, and use of periods breaks up multiple sentences
* Emojis
If you go through his chat history more, you see the other stuff that I'm not gonna screenshot
* Trying to get daddy's attention
* Mixes of lowercase and uppercase first word at times.
This sock account would eventually get banned and be #5 present day on Phil's lifetime leaderboard at 267 subs ($1335).
ItsameMarkula
During the Itsameken saga, there was also a dent in chat named itsamemarkula after the vampire landlord in aqua teen hunger force. Just gonna post this picture to show they're the same person. Duncefelter banned both accounts same day
Mike Dutch / Kim
During the same FNAF Marathon, Ken was also being out whaled out by a new dent that never appeared again named "Mike Dutch" and another one named "Kim". I couldn't find any logs from Kim, and when we looked into these two, Mike Dutch had a Crypto Bro podcast (the channel was dead) and Kim was his wife, but let's look at Mike's logs.
* Chatty with other chatters.
* No periods, and use of periods breaks up multiple sentences
* Emojis
* Trying to get daddy's attention
* Mixes of lowercase and uppercase first word at times.
I feel like this was a bought account from ICS, same with Kim.
Cremp
During GTA4, a new dent would come into Phil's chat and drop 25 subs out of no where. Chatters would say he was ICS to Phil and Phil would ban him after a short conversation, but let's look at those logs.
* Chatty with other chatters.
* No periods, and use of periods breaks up multiple sentences
* Emojis
* Trying to get daddy's attention
* Mixes of lowercase and uppercase first word at times.
While only having 12 lines of dialog, all signs point toward this being ICS.
deuxcentvingt (Current Sock)
Recently, a dent with the french name for 220 came in and started mass dumping kicks, especially when Daddy gives him attention. Phil has even called him out as being ICS, but keeps him around cause he's dropping a lot of money. For starters, on 10-11-25's night stream, he told Phil that he'd drop 30 subs to switch to Truck Sim, which Phil didn't do. 220 would end up saving the stream last minute during the last minute stall session. Let's look at chat.
* Chatty with other chatters.
* No periods, and use of periods breaks up multiple sentences
* Emojis
* Trying to get daddy's attention
* Mixes of lowercase and uppercase first word at times.
It's ICS
Itsamehim (Active Sock for Kino Casino)
I listen to KC most nights when they stream, for the past few months, a paypig named Itsamehim as been dropping them a lot of money. Let's pretend I didn't already out Itsameken and markula as socks, let's look at his chat history.
* No periods, and use of periods breaks up multiple sentences
* Emojis
* Mixes of lowercase and uppercase first word at times.
KC's chat moves too fast for him to be chatty or to get KC's attention, but you can see he's talking about DSP in those messages.
So there you are, all ICS socks I've learned about. Use the 5 items I learned to ID ICS right away.
Pigroach-to-American-English translation: "Most people" = "I". Back when he did feeding with the pig it was HIM who mixed up Thai and Taiwanese food, saying that Thai food was from Taiwan.
The problem is if Phil does this, he ends the one reason that 99% people follow him.
The underlying issue is that Phil never should have been a content creator to begin with because he sucks at everything. He's not good at games, entertaining, funny, likeable, charismatic, intelligent, witty, physically attractive, etc... There's nothing there. As we all know, Phil got to this position of internet fame spamming garbage Youtube gaming videos.
This is the reason why he lost most of his viewers. I think he would actually get more success if he did the opposite of everything he is doing, and turned things around. People would show up to watch the redemption and actually see him enjoy himself.
