Phil spent over 15 minutes pigsplaining the concept of licensed music (right down to defining it) and how it affects him.
He already promised to let the music in GTA play this time because he is a 'livestreamer' now, so he doesn't need to worry about what happens to the YT archive when there is already a 'safe' playthrough up.
Now we're starting to walk that back a little. Now his audience needs to 'buy-in'. This non-specific terminology means 'financially compensate him'. Which is odd, because I thought this was going to put butts in seats and net big money. Wild business strategy to drive hype to laughable proportions and then immediately walk it back right before the playthrough actually starts. The bait and switch isn't supposed to be this obvious, Phil. It's better to disappoint your audience after the playthrough starts... like always. He even went so far as to reach out to the 'hundreds if not thousands' of people who are watching on YT because he needs financial help from them, not just the stream viewers.
He's also going to have to keep people updated throughout the playthrough as to how it is going. He implies that this is related to copyright strikes and videos getting muted.
A curious note about this speech is that Phil says what happens sometimes is that he can contest a claim on a video with licensed music and the ad money gets held in escrow, sometimes for months. Phil then casually said that he never knows what happens to that money - sometimes he assumes he gets it, sometimes he assumes he does not, but because the money takes months to process, he doesn't notice.
So is it a lot of money, or not?
Do you actually monitor your income or not?
If you've never noticed... why does it matter?
Why does this conveniently work exactly like chargebacks where we hear about the money being contested, but not the win/loss?
EDIT: He would like contributions from the YT crowd via SuperThanks on the video, once those get enabled. He really wants to those tips on the videos so the stream can't see them.
EDIT 2: Phil is telling people to comment and hit the like button on his videos. This is after repeatedly mocking YTbers for doing exactly this. Now he suddenly needs engagement.
Methinks Phil was not included in the SuperThanks program because his channel engagement is too low. He's now operating on the premise that if he can drive engagement, YT will enable his new scam avenue.
