Phil has just been insufferable as of late. Even more so than usual and that’s saying a lot.
I think the recognition that being supported by one person primarily is finally dawning on him and how unsustainable this entire venture is. The stream viewer average numbers have also gone down which he is cognizant of, although trying his hardest to appear ignorant of it. Back on Twitch, Phil was comfortably gathering at least 300-400 viewers on average. On certain new releases, he could even push past 400 viewers. We’re now having streams where it’s sub-200 and it’s become the norm for most days of the week to be at less than 250 viewers. This decline is real and is being witnessed by hundreds of people, if not thousands.
Weirdly, the decline isn’t as impactful as you’d think because it’s actually on the streams where he has the lowest amount of viewers where he is consistently hitting his dumb, arbitrary money goals. As usual, everything is fucked backwards and nonsensical within the Pigverse. Who knows, this could also be part the weird long-con game the three-letter acronym cuck is pulling by supporting streams with a low amount of viewers to put Phil into a false sense of comfort then pulling the rug from under him. Really fucking stupid and will backfire once he starts squealing hard enough as he always has. Also, the three-letter acronym idiot thinks he’s controlling Phil but it’s completely the other way around. He has no identity without DSP and cannot branch himself away from being the idiot who’s invested (it’s not donations at this point anymore, but an investment) of over $20,000 into a fat gambling addict and alcoholic. He can’t branch out and start streaming because he’ll get doxed. He can’t stop donating or people will stop taking about him. He doesn’t control Phil, it’s the other way around: he doesn’t exist without DSP. Anyways, onto the next point.
Was really fun watching him get his shit pushed in during the latest SF stream by that Xero-15 dude. Exemplary stream of what happens when someone who actually knows how to play the game at a high level consistently online can pull off against a dude who refuses to adapt to online play or get on FightCade to improve their skill level.
In regards to Psychonauts 2, it’s contender for one of my favorite games of the year so far. Tim Schafer is a really creative dude and has created some of the best story-driven games of my generation from Monkey Island to Day of The Tentacles and other LucasArts classics. You can see all of the elements from his previous games being poured into this new one (same quirky characters, humor, scenery that you simply don’t find in games these days). But leave it to Phil to completely butcher a really fun game like this one. He will never be able to carry such playthroughs because these types of games are only streamable if the streamer can make you feel as if you’re watching a friend play this game on the couch next to you. Phil has neither the charisma nor the personality to make you ever feel a part of his streams. This idiot has built this artificial divide within his streams that HE is the streamer that is inevitably supposed to be having fun and YOU are here to watch HIM have fun. Nothing else is allowed. He already confirmed he’ll never be your friend nor does he want to be. He’s just supposed to have fun and get rewarded by getting paid for it.
It’s such a twisted mindset to have and it’s completely attributable for being a hermit who’s forgotten what normal human relationships entail. Phil doesn’t know how to act like a person anymore. His safe little virtual bubble has become his personal dictatorial space where he holds all the power and refuses to share it or make it inviting for people to hang out with him unless everyone toes the line exactly how he wants them to (think of everyone in his chat behind Derichs as what he would imagine being his expected standard for his streams). He’s such a pitiful and pathetic manchild, his online streams have become the only place left in his life where he has any form of exerting control and abuses the fuck out of such a space. That’s why his nastiness and toxicity have ramped up lately, because he is being pushed out further and further into more obscurity and his ego can’t handle it. From constantly comparing himself to DrDisrespect and constantly fondly speaking about his “white hot popular” YT heydays, Phil is stuck in the past and expects his awful legacy to keep him relevant and important regardless of how he acts. He genuinely believes he invented the concept of playthroughs and Let’s Plays and demands to be recognized for it in perpetuity.
Everything about his streams has become pure delusion. From the twisting of an Orwellian vocabulary that is constantly used to obfuscates the true meaning of his actions (i.e. “behind the scenes” meaning when not streaming but making it sound like it’s a highly concerted snd organized process to get things sorted out; “support” being one of the many synonyms he confounds instead of simply saying money; “crowdfunding” being used to define the action of giving him money collectively instead of using it as a project with clear deliverables as it was intended) to constantly telling himself that he had it good on Twitch when the begging was just as incessant, Phil has just lost grip on reality. Shutting yourself into a room for upwards of 6 hours a day while talking to yourself to reinforce complete lies and fabrications have rendered him impotent (hehe) in being honest with himself and recognizing himself as the source of all of his problems. His refusal to admit fault for why he lost his partnership on Twitch is the most telling fact about his current situation. He refuses to acknowledge the litany of instances where he’s used incredibly toxic and vile language because he justified the use of such terms by saying he was pressured/ provoked into saying so. Therefore it should admonish him completely from any consequences.
Phil has become a case study of the long-term mental health implications of refusing to take blame for anything a person does. And from what I’m seeing, the consequences are dire as this man is losing his grip on reality until the point where what he’s doing is unsustainable and he’ll refuse to do anything about it.