Good idea LonelyIcedCoffee.
Here's this mornings rants for those that missed it, I broke them down into 3 videos because I felt listening to 20+ minutes of DSP ranting is a chore. Playing with a new format, let me know if it's shit.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tr_5oaOdTM8https://youtube.com/watch?v=IbH2RE4GJUMhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=LngcaUf9Dns
First of all, this is great / super helpful! It's awesome to have people clip these rants for those of us who just can't stomach any kind of extended exposure to his shit, shit content.
Based on his ranting yesterday, it's never been more obvious how much he's on borrowed time. If he's so publicly and repeatedly saying that whatever his problems are right now, they're '100% Twitch's fault', he really has no hope. If at this point he can't be honest enough with himself to realize that him pulling 150 people on stream and regularly struggling to even hit his first goal of $50 without the help of 1 or 2 people to bail him out here and there might have SOMETHING to do with him and his 'content', then he really has no chance of fixing the mess he's in.
To be very clear, it's legitimately amazing that he's gotten so much mileage out of this fucked up business plan of his, where he literally just hopes and prays that a few people will throw some big money at him. If I had to predict somebody's 'success' as a result of doing things the way Phil has, I wouldn't think it would last a month, so what he's done is genuinely remarkable. It cannot be sustained though, and I don't care how many times he's cockroached his way out of jams in the past, it doesn't change that eventuality. If he lived a strict and frugal lifestyle, that'd be one thing, but think about what kind of lifestyle he's trying to maintain with this business model of his that's basically held together with string and chewing gum at this point: multiple internet lines, a monthly car note instead of a one-time payment for something used but reliable when he only leaves his house literally once a week, Doordash, new chairs and laptops, etc, etc...
He doesn't have to come out and humble himself before everybody and explain how he realizes the mistakes he's made and how he has to change, but we should at least see that 'behind the scenes' he's making some efforts to address that. Instead, all of his actions, public and private, suggest he really DOES believe he is a completely innocent victim, it's just a matter of being wronged by Twitch and has zero to do with him personally, and it requires no change on his part.
How can he sustain this with emergency fundraisers? People aren't giving him the money when he's making it very clear multiple times on a daily basis that he's IN an 'emergency' situation, and the results of his last few show that the money just isn't there, no matter how he tries to dress up his begging for it. He hasn't come anywhere near hitting what he's claimed to need in at least the last two he's done. Expecting such massive financial support from such a finite and ever dwindling group of people seems to be the literal only 'plan' he has to survive and continue doing this. He shoots down literally ANY other suggestion.
He's also clearly showing that he hasn't learned anything from his removal from the partnership program. Again, it'd be one thing if he was just quiet about it, but he's very vocal and it's plainly evident that he really thinks he has never behaved in any kind of a toxic way, and that he's going to refuse to interpret 'hateful slurs' as anything beyond specific racial epithets. Even when just allowing for the smallest expansion of the definition, he said just yesterday in his ranting about it that anything 'hateful' that he may have said was only when 'they insulted me first'!
Does he really think that's how it works? That you can insult and curse people up and down and your employer (however loosely you want do define Twitch as being his) will just not care and say, 'Oh, yeah, no he started it, so you're totally justified!' Especially when his definition of 'insult' seems to include the most innocent of questions or suggestions about decisions he's made or should make. Look at how cancerous he acts if someone just says 'have you considered downsizing?', whether they're trolling him or not. To respond the way he does to something like that, whatever the intention of the person who's asking, comes off as being a toxic lunatic who has zero self-control and most people you are representing would want nothing to do with someone like that.
None of this is new, but his ranting yesterday really drove home, to me personally at least, that he's all-in and completely committed his usual blame game of 'I did nothing wrong, I did everything 100% correct, it's Tevin's / Twitch's / everybody's fault but mine for the situation I'm in', mixed with new levels of delusion about, not just people, but people with money to burn flocking to watch him play some new games in the coming months. He has not given any indication that he's put any thought into, or come up with, ONE single thing that he could try or change that falls outside of those two things.
