Even better idea, I remember back when Metokur restreamed him half a decade ago he said that companies should hire Phil to do black PR on rival brands by shilling their rival's products. I mean think about it would you do business with a brand that gets shilled by Phil?
See this is one of the many clever things Phil fucks himself out of by stupidly prioritizing his ego over his very future for so many years, thinking that it totally wouldn't backfire. It's genius, and he would never do it, because it means admitting that he's deservedly plutonium. It means admitting that even if detractors never warn anybody about Phil ahead of time, the second he opens his mouth to promote a product, his own words let everybody know that hiring him was a big mistake. And then when you cut ties with him, he runs your name through the mud like a child who got their toy taken away for abusing it, further cementing that it isn't the detractors who are the problem.
How many of the people in his chat are real fans though?
Virtually none. They're like you say, in it for something else, that's far more about them than it is Phil.
Which, honestly, is actually fairly normal, it just takes a weird turn in the autism vortex. People who tune in to virtually every Max Dood or Aris stream are there for their own entertainment as well. The difference is that with watching Phil, there's no ignoring the community of dedicated haters because the streamer themselves keeps giving them ammo. Max and Aris have critics, people who don't like them, for sure, but who notices them? When do they become a factor? Never, because the streamer in question doesn't feed into their existence. There's no one to feel good about "sticking it to", no enemy to fight, no one to be united with the streamer against.
Phil made a mistake using "we" and otherwise encouraging a cult mentality, because in doing so he creates an opponent for his natural self-centered nature, something to rub his ego and insecurity the wrong way, constantly. He fosters a hatred for the detractor community, which then bashes into his need to be the center of the universe, because there is no such thing as keeping all the attention to yourself, taking all the credit, when you feed into a distraction like us. Phil didn't see this coming because he was stupid enough to treat the paypigs like they'll always do what he wants, when he wants, and never have any autonomy.
Not even tards are command-following to THAT degree. In fact, I dare say his tards are the least apt to be disciplined little drones at his disposal, because as we've seen, they're exactly the kinds of people who are LOOKING for a community that's all about the third party, not the streamer. Such folks are like a pack of angry mutated animals: you don't wield them, you drop them behind enemy lines and pray they don't find their way home.