DSP could be making bank if he wasn't a paranoid lazy fuck.
New series "DSP:Learns How to Cook".
Put that as a 200 dollar tips goal reward (or higher you greedy Walrus)
Top contributer gets to choose a dish to cook for the event so it incentivezes competition between donors and trolls to alike.
He makes
His fans would love it.
We would like it.
It breaks up the mundane schedule.
DSP can rage and not look like a baby because learning to cook can be frustrated.
Kat would find him more attractive.
But nope! DSP is scared that you might see his furniture and and use it against him while everyone already knows his address.
It is immensely easy to monetize stupidity on the internet now, and if you don’t believe me please scroll through Page One of the Lolcow sub at any time. You will hit on at least two who stream, e-beg, and/or use Patreon to support themselves as very few of these people have actual jobs that are able to keep them alive.
People don’t like to see people unlike them in entertainment. This is why Tom Cruise never plays a manic manlet Scientologist in his films, because people can’t relate to his weirdo ass and would not find him likable. People like to see themselves in their entertainment (but not too much because then they start seeing their own flaws and they don’t like that, but that’s for a different post). And not to use a tautology but normal people are average. Normal people are not especially smart or skilled across the board, so normal people tend toward finding the average appealing.
Let me give a specific example. In the earliest days of the American TV sitcom, the father character traditionally had a blue-collar job. Ralph Kramden was a bus driver. Fred Flintstone worked in a quarry on heavy machinery. Al Bundy sold shoes. Why is this? Because at the time more blue-collar fathers watched TV, and they were both the breadwinner and made most of the big purchasing decisions for the household, so they were the most profitable to be advertised at. This is a shallow example at this point, though, so let’s go deeper. It isn’t enough for a person to see a character in the same life circumstances as them, though; they have to be likable, too, as I’ve already pointed out. So these characters can’t be especially smart (because then they’d have better jobs, or at least want them), but they do have to be kind and care for their families, and as it turns out, that’s enough. Even a buffoon like Homer Simpson can be rendered relatable and sympathetic because in the end he makes decisions with Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie in mind. He’s an idiot but he means well and usually he isn’t harmful, which his why his stupidity is comedic and not tragic.
Granted, these are all oversimplifications to an extent; I’m just highlighting a trope in media and discussing why it works. And here’s the context for those of you who were patient!
Phil is an idiot. Phil could easily market his stupidity in ways just like you laid out with learning how to cook. But! Phil is neither average in his life situation nor is he at all likable, on top of course of him being lazy. People would flock to see a well-meaning, affable schlub burn a grilled cheese sandwich (or at least one who already had a known internet presence) but Phil is not that. On top of being retarded Phil is also abrasive, cruel to his audience, greedy, overly sensitive to criticism and mockery and milquetoast at best in his personality and tastes in literally everything. He has no charm, no élan, nothing to compensate for his lack of savvy or skill. And that’s why he’ll never achieve greater notoriety as an entertainer.
tl;dr Phil is dumb but also a jerk, and very few people other than fellow dumb jerks will ever like him.
️ will be literally setting their money on fire burning legal and/or illegal fireworks because America? Fourth of July feels bad, man.
