So I'm a bit confused here, maybe cause I live on this planet called earth not Goutinuim Ginanus but Stuttering Craig has a lot of stuff going on voice acting, business deals, cameo's in movies, his own podcast, he made game attack then sold his half off but somehow thats "throwing in the towel"?
Phil has a very limited of idea of 'success' as it relates to content creation. He thinks that playing games and dumping tons of videos of it onto whatever platform he is currently limited to is basically the pinnacle of what can be achieved. SO many people who once made videos go on to do other adjacent things with the skills they learned from making videos, while Phil has never done anything but sit down, press play, and hit record. He's learned zero skills that could translate into doing something else where he could be very much behind the scenes and say goodbye to all the trolling.
Notice how whenever the subject of doing something else comes up he pretty much limits the scope of it to 'making minimum wage flipping burgers'. The idea of doing something else in relation to online entertainment doesn't even enter his mind because he's learned absolutely nothing. Thus (I like how it autocorrects that to 'this' when I'm trying to talk like DSP), anybody who walks away from the very limited field of sitting on a couch in front of a camera has 'failed' or 'quitting', because to him there are no opportunities that exist beyond that.
I think that he legitimately doesn't realize that people who no longer just make let's plays are more than likely doing something adjacent to it, enjoying it more / being more challenged, and are making more money. He thinks they're just dropping into a gutter somewhere.
Look at how he talked about PewDiePie just today. He said that he was disappointed and disheartened by the loss of opportunities he had as a result of his n word incident, and doesn't do much gaming anymore. First, he has zero clue what PDP thinks, so it's weird he says shit like that as if they've talked. Love, like, dislike, or hate PDP, the guy will be rich his whole life. He's taken advantage of an incredible amount of opportunities that came out of him originally pretty much just playing games instead of squandering them. He has branched out to do all kinds of other things in entertainment from putting out a game (regardless of what level of input he had on it), making a web series, writing a book, etc. He's also different from Phil in that even if you're just a little familiar with him, you know that he's nowhere near as fucking stupid about money. He invests, doesn't live the lavish kind of daily life that Phil would be loving with that money (as he immediately demonstrated when he got even just the smallest taste of it). He seems like he's done everything with long-term stability in mind, which is the exact opposite of Phil's impulsive and addictive driven 'live for today... hell, live for the minute' behavior.
All of this is super illustrative of how narrow-minded he is and what kind of absolute lack of ambition or vision he has. He wants to get a completely unreasonable and unattainable maximum out of the absolute least expenditure of time and effort, aka: an enormous sense of entitlement.
