No wonder most of his commentary is dead air now, he can’t string together anything that’s funny, or interesting to present to his “audience”
Phil legit doesn't have anything to say unless he's bitching, begging, talking down to others, berating his chat for being tards, pretending to be knowledgeable so he can feel superior because he KNOWS he isn't, or saying really insensitive things that would, today, get the woke crowd on his case if they knew he existed.
And that audio of him telling Katherine about the water he splashed on himself demonstrates that it's his true self we see when he's doing any of those things, because he got all polite with her. Even said "How dare you..." in a playful tone in response to whatever presumably slightly insulting thing she said that, probably would've gotten somebody in the chat the LIMB and a toxic tirade.
As for WHY this is the case, I chalk that up mostly to his hatred of others. Most of the aforementioned things he has to offer revolve around him being a dick to people, after all, with the one exception being when he tries to sound smart because he knows he actually isn't, which is from his massive insecurity. That doesn't stem from his misanthropy, in fact it contradicts it completely, which has me thinking that it stems instead from his astonishing level of being self-centered. That's independent from misanthropy, because you can be possessed of a strong dislike for others while also finding no need for them. The Unibomber is like that, dude lived in a shack in the woods by himself for years with no power or running water, and would to this day if he hadn't also decided to send bombs through the mail because he took exception to humans doing human stuff.
This is why we should feel gross, but also fortunate, that Phil is too weak to be a mountain man or something, because it means we not only keep an eye on him, but we get to laugh at him forever thanks to the particular flaw of him being unable to turn off how much it bugs him that people laugh at him. For all his contempt for others, due to how self-centered he is, Phil can never ignore it when their knowledge of his bullshit is enough to prevent him from fooling them. It's the one way in which people can get through to him with their opinions, though obviously it'll never motivate him to do anything but get pissed off. Fair enough trade, if you ask me.