Phil during the prestream:
"The best way to protect your identity is to tip using alternate names and staying away from chat."
Phil during the end of the stream:
"I don't know why the chat is so quiet today. We have 250 people watching and no one's talking!"
"[REDACTED] said that the chat is slow because the ironic fans left after I hit the tips goal. Well, I'm not surprised. Are you?"
So, for what I understand this means you don't have any real fans anymore? And the ones that are your true fans don't talk or interact in any way besides giving you money?
Neat.
When you think about it, the barrier of entry for being a DSP fan is fucking enormous, and it's been raised by Phil himself.
Imagine being a brand new viewer stepping into a modern Darksydephil stream for the first time. Right off the bat, you see "Tips Goal: $0/150" in bright yellow letters at the top of the screen.
If you ask what the Goal is about, what it's for, and what the rewards are, you'll probably get banned because Phil's finances are "none of your business", he'll accuse you of derailing the stream and making it all about money, or he'll call you entitled for expecting him to do some kind of reward for you.
Oh, and he tells you outright that tipping him will likely result in you getting doxxed. By the evil trolls, he says, but also you have to confide in him your personal information. No other streamer on the internet asks this of you. You hear rumors that one of his own mods likes to doxx people himself.
But nevermind that, if you want to chat in the first place you have to wait an entire day. And all the while your mailbox is being spammed by ten videos a day by this guy because he refuses to edit his streams into being more concise.
You want to try and talk to Phil without spending money? Too bad, because his chatroom is being spammed by several people who neither Phil or his mods do anything about.
Maybe you think "Okay, the Tips Goal is something fun that the whole channel pitches in to hit!". Then no one tips for two hours. The goal is still at $15/150. Phil stops the stream for 10 minutes to type something into Twitter while mumbling something about trolls and dickheads. Then Nine Inch Nails tips $85. Then this happens for three streams in a row. You're wondering what the fuck is even the point of donating if this one guy breaks the difference every single time. Don't say anything about this bizarre ritual or you're banned.
Suddenly Phil is wailing about his financial distress. "What the fuck," you think, "wasn't this guy given several hundred dollars over the span of the week? That's more than every other streamer I've ever seen." Don't question this or you're banned.
It's important to step out of the Autism Vortex every now and then just to give your mind the refresher of how fucking insane his streams actually are. I watch several other streamers constantly and not once do they bring up the fact that the audience needs to pay them. Not a single time. Some of them even have less viewers than Phil and stream the same amount of time he does.
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