Wonder which paypig is view botting for him. I don't think Piggy has the cash or knowledge to do it himself, right?
If the view bots keep disappearing when the stream goes down, but other viewers remain, wouldn't that suggest the bots are originating from Phil? I'm not sure how the viewbots work. I suppose if the stream went down for a moment, that may result in them resetting and therefore they'd disappear briefly, even if they were coming from another party.
Meanwhile, someone commented it was dead in the chat tonight. Phil said he wasn't sure why because he was still streaming and there were no problems on his end.
He then said that the chat must be broken because nobody was talking.
He then asked people to say something to confirm chat is working.
When they did, he said chat was working again. This was all in under a minute.
This weird little narrative is one of my favorite indicators that he legitimately has psychological issues. This lie is only for himself. The YT viewers can't see the chat anyway, so this doesn't need to be said on the video. The people watching the stream are aware that they're not chatting and that there's nothing to talk about. He could just ask a question or something to get the chat moving again, but instead he needs to couch it in a lie to save face, and he does it in a completely casual manner. He then uses the response to validate the lie. He just immediately seeks ways to validate himself and protect his ego, even if it's a completely stupid lie.
It is also hilarious that his go-to tactic is to try to gaslight his audience before he'll ever consider trying to sincerely engage with them.