@Cyber Bowling
Purposely showing your phone to rile up your detractors is not 500D chess. I've addressed that in a previous post. It only appears highly complex because of the length of time the theory has carried on for, and the 500 some pages of scrutiny.
Arranging it so your cat "accidentally" knocks your phone over so it's just visible for a few seconds seems excessive. Especially for someone like Phil, who isn't exactly known for having foresight.
But, okay, let's run with the theory that Phil is doing it to rile up detractors. Why? What's the end game? Why in this specific instance does Phil want to rile detractors? Normally, when Champions is brought up, Phil will feign ignorance or completely ignore it and try to move on to something else. To the best of my knowledge, his fans aren't donating with messages like "lol, here's more for Champions, right?" or things like that to suggest it is getting them to donate money. From all appearances, it isn't something he wants people to discuss. When he was on the Sidescroller interview, he was trying to debunk it. He wanted to do that interview as a way to debunk a lot of misconceptions about him, presumably with the hope of getting a new audience. Unless you're proposing it was an extremely long con, he wasn't doing it as a way to get at the detractors. During the interview, he was offered the chance to privately show his account to clear up the misconceptions and prove that it was actually a troll. He declined.
Phil loves to dunk on people when he perceives they are wrong. If he was doing this as a way to prove that detractors are dumb and believe anything, why keep it going all this time? When someone who wronged Phil in the past has something bad happen to them, like ProJared, Phil doesn't even wait 24 hours to dunk on them and smugly do a "told you so" style post, so why in this instance is Phil willing to seemingly wait years and let a lie spread that could arguably hurt his business if anything.
Again, I'm not suggesting someone is performing the most expensive troll campaigns ever. Rather, they are already whaling out and added DSP into the mix for an additional enjoyment factor.
So let's run with this one now. In the early days of the thread, this was a pretty common concern. Stranger things have happened in the goutverse. But, as I've mentioned before, it doesn't really hold up when you compare the login times. Someone is so addicted to the game they're willing to spend thousands of dollars, but exercise enough restraint to only fuel their addiction specifically during DSP's off hours? That also means they're spending X hours every day watching DSP specifically to line up with his bathroom breaks, it's not like they're just looking at DSP's stream schedule and waiting for the end of the stream.
It also doesn't explain why they'd change their name. If they're impersonating DSP to rile people up or whatever, why would they stop using the DSP alias? Or if it's all part of some long con to still impersonate DSP, why not use something more related to him, like Mr.Stupid1.
It also raises other questions, like if DSP isn't spending on Champions, where is his money going? What are the spendings on Apple Pay really for? What about the other games we found with TheyCallMeDSP that also line up with games we know Phil was playing? Were those ones the same troll, or were they actually Phil?
And there's no reason to be upset at all. This is a spot for discussion. So let it pass through you if it's deemed worthless. Are your minds so fragile that you would allow my supposed foolishness to wreck your preconceived conclusions?
As I previously stated, I think DSP skepticism is healthy and I'll reitierate, I genuinely encourage you to look into things and do some digging if you don't believe it. Seriously, it's not a passive aggressive "read the thread" style diss or anything else like that. While I personally don't think you'll find anything to disprove it, I'll gladly take the L if you do because it would be such a wild twist in the goutverse. Or, who knows, maybe you'll find some other spending source that we all missed because we were only looking at the Champions side of things.
It's not like we gain anything from Champions being Phil's addiction. I think if anything some people were disappointed that it was ultimately something so mundane because they were hoping for something more scandelous. Again, see the escort saga, that was one of the reasons why people believed it, because the idea of DSP being addicted to hookers and spending thousands of dollars not only explained where the money went, but it was funny because it made DSP appear extra pathetic.