Honestly what's way more damning to me is the fact that he gives the same practiced spiel every single time the suggestion of proving his innocence comes up, and to top it off, it's absolute cop-out bullshit, which is obviously a very Phil thing to do. Any time he doesn't do something because he just doesn't want to, that's how he attempts to brush it off: with a lame-ass excuse that holds water about as well as a wicker basket does. Phil puts as much energy and thought into his shitty excuses as he does just about anything else he does a half-ass (or sometimes quarter-ass) job at.
Except here there is more distress in it, especially these days, which coincides nicely with the way the game has been ruined at this point for whoever owns the "TheyCallMeDSP" account. Anything else he gets advice for or is prodded to do by fans, Phil can be counted on to be, at most toxic but not legit pissed, or simply his usual oblivious "can't see the forest for the trees" self.
I've said before, and I'll maintain this forever: not even Phil would be so bent out of shape over something if it legit was just a "dumb detractor meme", and not even he would refuse to take so seriously the need to prove his own innocence even with some risk involved if it wasn't something that he was, in fact, guilty of.
@Near Phil probably just talks to himself any time he needs to rage about Nigel fucking with his shit. He has nowhere to go to do that safely. Regardless of how Khet would actually react to knowing about his gacha addiction, I seriously doubt that the biggest coward I've ever seen has the cajones to even try bitching about getting fucked with by Nigel in a way that doesn't expose him as a pathetic addict. We know how fragile his ego is, it's not unreasonable to assume that even someone like Khet being aware of who he really is terrifies him beyond belief. He has probably said more truthful things to his paypigs than he has to his maid/wife/mother, because he can LIMB them if they step out of line. I don't buy that Khet has him cucked, but he has no pimp hand either. I don't see her giving him lip for anything because she probably doesn't care enough, but I'll especially never see him having a spine in the face of that.
That's the best part of the guild kicking streak, actually, the fact that he's Phil, and therefore HAS to bitch about it, but can't, to anyone, ever, because he has no balls.