We all already knew it, but it's nice to see it all laid out on black and white sometimes: Phil is a slave. Us, the wheelchairs in his chat, the employees of Twitch, we all own a share. He dances when we say so because he will do anything, anything, anything for a dollar, up to and including sacrificing his future wellbeing for more immediate profits. You can buy and sell his ass for a fucking nickel. Don't get it twisted by anything he says or does. If the chips were down, and you waved a Lincoln in his face and told him "medium pace, and watch the teeth" he wouldn't even hesitate to shed a tear before getting down to business.
I actually disagree with this. Or at least part of it. Phil definitely will sacrifice his future well being for immediate profits. Sometimes not even for immediate profits, just because he's entitled or in a pissy mood or to be a contrarian. And at the end of the day, Phil is reliant on his wheelchairs to keep him/his wrestling addiction going.
But I don't think Phil will do anything for a dollar. He's way too lazy for that. You only have to look as far back as yesterday with him bitching about the viewers choice game. He's already trying to back out of it and make excuses for why he doesn't have to play it. It's kind of similar with bounties or sponsored stuff. He'll gladly shill whatever they tell him to, but only if they're the ones that approach him first. Improving his stream uses the same mentality, to the point where we now know even if you send Phil expensive stream equipment, he won't even bother to unbox it. There have also been plenty of examples of people sending him $50 and $60 tips after he complains about not being able to buy and stream Game X, with the tips explicitly stating they are for that game, only to pocket the money and then the very next day (sometimes the next stream) make the same complaint about not being able to afford it.
He's also repeatedly ignored requests to play a game if he really didn't want to. I can't recall the specific name as I didn't play it myself, but there was that one fighting game that everyone was saying was really good, but also very skill based and not about throwing out combos that Phil refused to play. We've also seen Phil refuse to go into overtime, though to be fair, I'm sure if there was a big enough donation attached, he'd gladly change his tune on this. And there have been times we're he's sat around/dragged things out past the usual time until he's gotten his desired donation, but that's more him having control over the paypigs versus them controlling him. I mean, that's why we specifically call them paypigs in the first place.
I think Phil would actually be more successful if he was willing to shamelessly dance for his viewers. It's been discussed before, but Phil could probably make a killing if he did a stream where people could play him in Street Fighter/some other game, but only if they paid X amount of dollars to get in the queue. That isn't to say Phil isn't still a beggar or anything, and he can certainly be bought, we've seen that before with Tut throwing out huge tips and making demands of Phil. But because of the actions of a few loyal paypigs, Phil is at the point where he can comfortably beg and grift without having to actually do anything for said paypigs. Look at how many times they come crawling back and apologize to him versus how many times he's done the same to them.
