Two thoughts on Phil before I retire to my chambers:
1. It's funny how lag never benefits him
I'm nearly two decades younger than Phil but even with just a few years of experience in Mortal Kombat games, I think I could pretty easily body someone through lag on MK11 for example. Lag is experienced by both players by nature, and it says a lot about Phil's actual execution that this "pro fighting game player" can't win a single round if he's not getting sub 20ms connections, and even then he loses and says it's delayed.
2. I didn't do that
This is just his best complaint overall, and one that really deserves its own thread... But in reality that thread would just be too long and too redundant since he uses this excuse multiple times a day, and has for over a decade. Every time he says "I didn't do that", the ludicrosity of that statement is unbelievable. As if there is literally a phantom standing over Phil pressing buttons on his controller. He says this excuse so often. Yet the only examples I can think of that are legitimately "I didn't do that" are speedruns with N64 cartridges that had code at the machine level somehow unexpectedly altered by electromagnetic interference from thunderstorms or other such natural occurrences, and through these specific errors caused by events entirely out of human control different events can be triggered in the game at times where they ought not to be. If Phil is to be believed, this level of random event, probably with similar odds to lightning striking the same spot 10 times in a row and then 10 people in the same room winning the lottery simultaneously, is happening to Phil regularly. What's funny about this excuse is not even the totally disingenuous nature, but the fact that anyone with an IQ above 80 is going to think Phil is destroying his watchability with it. I'm not too big into youtube or streaming, but any youtubers I've watched ever just don't do this, because it's an incredibly easy way to discredit yourself to any audience. If you insist constantly that magnificently out of the ordinary, reality-bending things are causing you to fail, it's going to make people laugh at you, not with you. Especially when your follow up is always some variation of "huh huh, it's LAUGHABLY BAD". Any normal person is going to think, no lmao, YOU are laughably bad.
I will powerlevel slightly. A close friend of mine and I would play videogames during our childhood, coop games were a favorite. We would get together and play coop games every day. At 10 years old, we looked up walkthroughs on youtube to get past a very tough part of a game. We found Phil, originator of let's plays and former powerlifter who stands without fault. We laughed our asses off at him, this 30 year old man, who was struggling even worse than us and calling everything a beginner's trap, a glitch, a this and a that. It was never his fault and we thought it was hilarious. It's always difficult for me to understand why anyone gets pissed over Phil, as I always remember being literally a child, figuratively a baby compared to his fat 30 year old self, and laughing at him. If a child is laughing at him, any normal person will be laughing at him. Sure he has a wonderful established grift, in essentially cashing the welfare checks of 100 or so different people, but in terms of his reputation he will always be that: The man that even children will laugh at. The Guy. DSP. He will never be someone a normal person speaks positively about and we all know that devastates him far more than only making $32 on a nightstream.
