I mean if you count him begging people to click ads then at the very least it goes all the way back to his face reveal video.
He was popular. Phil is just a greedy pig who needs more and more and more, cannibalizing it.
Dave lived by the algorithm but wouldn't change when the algorithm changed.
that would have required some work
Didn't he screw himself in the YouTube algorithm by deleting over a million views worth of content when he was with Machinima. Basically because he didn't let them do their jobs.
Well Phil has never really paid attention to what a truly successful person would or would not do, or else he wouldn't be where he is now. Shit, look at his begging, despite the fact that he could live comfortably even without raking in tips every day. He never sees the forest for the trees and adjusts accordingly.
At that point Youtube was a pond. But now Youtube is a ocean and he is a drop of gout in that ocean. that and he changed way too late because he was lazy
This. When Phil was at his highest popularity there were far fewer people doing what he was doing, and at the time they were all doing it the same way he was. Now it’s over a decade later and not only has he not evolved unless forced to, a lot of the people streaming games now are doing it because they actually enjoy it and want to get better at it. Phil is not competitive and enjoys nothing except his shitty mobile game and eating, and he’s too lazy and prideful even to monetize those things, even though he could because there are channels which feature only those kinds of content as well.
Phil doesn't bring it up as frequently anymore, but back in the day he had this narrative he would constantly come back to that there was "an entire era of gaming" he "missed out" on because he was playing "nothing but competitive Street Fighter at the time." The timeframe for this era? Early 2000s through around 2007. When were Everquest, Final Fantasy 11, City of Heroes and World of Warcraft new, hot popular games? Oh right. The exact same timeframe. Whoops.
It would be funnier if he lost his twitter.
He became a top Youtuber by gaming the algorithm so that makes him an Illegitimate top Youtuber, not legit
I absolutely, positively, without doubt, refuse to believe this imbecile played Final Fantasy 11. Setting up an account, even on the PS2 required a Ph.D. or being able to follow a 50-page guide. During the current influx of WoW refugees, people are even complaining about how hard it is to set up an FF14 account; so little has changed.View attachment 2437949
when did he play wow?
does he mean this as "playing"?
DSP tries it: Getting trolled in World of Warcraft!
How about 500 likes/comments for a brand new DSP tries it? Here you'll get to see nothing but the best trolling moments from when DarksydePhil streamed World of Warcraft! So DSP actually charged his fans $1250 dollars for a World of Warcraft marathon that was supposed to last 6 to 7 hours...yewtu.be
The only question is which will produce more moisture? The tears or the sweat?
I wouldn't take so much issue with this tendency of his if he would at least keep reasonable expectations. I've known plenty of people who rested on their laurels, and paid prices for it, but they didn't bitch. They knew that they did it to themselves.
That has always amused me about him, his pea-sized brain can't comprehend that characters will behave differently at each encounter for reasons of challenge, longevity by way of multiple playthroughs etc.
