He did. It was around $380. Not a huge amount, but a nice chunk of change.
According to his reaffirmation statement (PDF Page 1, ) $378.20 / month, including interest but not any processing fees the seller/payment processor may have charged.
But the increased spending is much more than what he gets from paying off the car: The SF6 special edition + stick set him back at least $400 and we're now estimating that he spent close to $5,000 / month in Champions. There has to be something else going on here even if we're not sure what it is.
We also know from Phil that Kat bounces between shitty retail minimum wage jobs constantly, and she likely hates all of them. Let's be real, the reason she moved to Renton was because a well-off guy was willing to pay for all her shit. I highly doubt she'll bury herself in further debt for Phil.
I can only speak from my own view but hes always come off as a weird loser with a drinking problem, I wouldnt put anything that gives your brain a rush past him
In hindsight? There are probably more examples I can't think of off the top of my head but at a minimum he got really into lootboxes in Overwatch and tried to come up with any excuse to pull them and underestimated the value of his deck in Hearthstone to avoid admitting he'd spent a few hundred dollars on it.
Phil over the years has played over 13 plus of these gacha mobile games. I believe he gets most of his dopamine from feeling like a winner by paying his way to the tops of the leader boards. When you are a loser like Phil, an easy pay to win gaming loop paired up with a solid incel product is extremely appealing and addicted.
I don't think anyone from those days could've predicted the absolute state of monetization in modern games and gacha games being casinos with anime tits (or in Phil's case, Hogans). The closest example I can think of for predatory wallet sucking games at the time were Korean P2W MMORPGs and Phil definitely wouldn't have been the type to be into those.
Phil is the epitome of the "consooomer" meme. if you watch his old vlog videos; they're exclusively going around to department stores/restaurants/chain stores/big box stores. when he goes to some restaurant, he gets extremely excited if there is a target/barnes & noble combo retail shopping center in the neighboring parking lot because now he can go to multiple stores at one time and how exciting it is that these two valuable stores are located so close together. buying/consuming is pathological to him. add his monstrous burden of slovenly laziness; being able to pay for services, in his broken mind, abstains the effort that he would have to spend performing tasks - so video games for example - which he is monumentally trash at, and has been made fun of for sucking at for 15 years, if he can just pay money to play the game that solves his issues instead of having "TIHYDP" made about him being a retard at Starfield or whatever. Just swipe the card and get an epic pull in private where the detractors can't see him and he can get the dopamine from his gamba, drunk, addict, consoomer brain.
the other hilarious thing is that his consumer brain completely nuked his youtube channel. he is STILLLLLLLL, still, still trying to work youtube's algorithm version from 2011. they've had, who knows how many, iterations since then. how he used to work was upload 50 videos a day when youtube didn't filter that type of spam for subscriber notifications. now it's a standard 1-3 notifications hard cap per day if you have subscribers with notifications set up or the person is an active viewer of the channel, it may be done automatically without notifications turned on. this is relatively known and can be accounted for pretty easily, it's one part of the algorithm that is known and can be used to your benefit.
The interesting thing about Phil and Youtube is, how "deep" he is into the analytics game and stuff.
all while endlessly meandering about how he doesn't want to be like everyone else and how he is his own thinker and wants to do things his own way.
Phil has tried that on the DSPReacts, spreading his videos daily throughout the week.
Yeah, like anytime a game has DLC, he already had it. And he *just so happened* to have a bunch of Hearthstone boosters he got from iTune cards when he played that. Plus his empty box giveaways always had the one slim benefit of him usually having the collector's editions. For games he traded in the discs for. Which, you didn't get extra credit for that. So he was already splurging from the word go. Which then, like some one else mentioned, the gacha shit hadn't quite caught on. But all the landing parties was shit Phil bought into.
I don't remember the exact timeline, but Phil used to complain about how predatory mobile games were. At the time, it seemed like the general reasonable assumptions that even someone as dumb as Phil would make just from an outsider's perspective, and there was still a great deal of debate over what Phil was actually doing on his money so I don't remember anyone saying even Phil is that dumb to be a whale. And to their credit, they were probably right, I suspect he's been hooked on mobile games for awhile and I believe there's been a few deep dives into old games to find older accounts and they didn't seem particularly whaled out.
Phil used to post on the 2K WWE Supercard forums. I think he was a whale right away, and he gloated about it. This was 2015 when he was still making fuck you money despite burying himself in debt.
Bingo.
