It's a very obvious liars' tactic. They think that forceful and complete denials make you look you have something to hide. Instead, they think that by making small admissions that they gain credibility for bigger denials later (no one is perfect right?).
With Phil, there's an additional motivation, that being his childish need to bitch about paying consequences for his actions. He's not supposed to, in his mind, and it ensures that any time he sees fit, he'll bring it up to try ditching it, like in his debunk stream. So much of that runtime was taken up by him bitching about shit he actually did that had consequences, that it destroyed any chance of him getting new people because they could immediately tell that there's no such thing as him atoning for anything. Ever.
I expect him to do it again, especially since has already been drudging up the past as of late.
It is just not a like to him, it's an endorsement. Every single one of those people likes Phil now, they love him! Why else would they like a tweet he made?
Then there's this. I forget when it was, or what exactly incited it, but Phil went on a big a ramble about how it endorsed what he as doing, told him that it was working. That people were with him, supporting him. He clearly has a very powerful need to hear that he doesn't need to change for the better, and anything he can take as confirmation of it, he will. Not just because he's so stubborn, but because these days especially, he's scared of a day when the good times really are finally over, and he has to do things like stop chasing fake internet points in order to fucking eat. And that's what it'll be one day, his priorities are never going to stop being fucked, even as he chooses food over gacha. He'll be the most miserable fuck ever, because he feels no relief from personal growth. He feels pain.
The piggy doth protest too much, methinks
Raw version (timestamped 38:07):
Tevin version (timestamped 1:21:32):
TLDW; The retcon is thus: he said that her parents should "discipline that kid, slap him (sic) or whatever."
This is perhaps the most perfect example of Phil having no idea that contrary to his vision of himself coming across as a mature adult with a point, he's exposing himself as a childish fat lying baby who feels entitled to the rules never applying to him. He spent that entire rant knowing what he really did and what he lies about in general, and you can see it even without knowing so much about him.
What gets me is that he has seen so many fucking movies, and has learned nothing about how to act. No wonder the good roles went to his classmates in high school.
