Not 5 mins in....
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Almost no support = $30 dollars in tips + $10 in superchats + game was fucking free.
I know this has been brought up before, but it's so weird how he uses "support" as a weasel word to explain a number of things, and blur others.
Someone with no experience watching him might think "support" means "people didn't enjoy it", but what he's really saying (without saying it) is that he got so little tips and viewership that it's not worth continuing, even if he liked it. His entire barometer is based on the money it makes, and he doesn't even have the balls to be honest about that.
Like, I get when streamers try to "bring their audience on the adventure" of them trying to "make it", because it's an easy way of attaching people to their cause. Ideally, a viewer who's part of a healthy creator community (or well, one that's engaged) feels a good feeling by supporting with views, shares, advocacy or purchases because they think that person deserves it, or has earned it through producing good stuff.
Phil does the moral grandstanding thing in the "crusade against the detractors", but
utterly fails to do it otherwise; again, why would a non-wheelchair audience member care about how much tips he got, since they're still getting the same entertainment regardless? That whole "let's bring you along for my adventure being a FT creator" utterly fails when people don't feel like they're getting a benefit.
I know this isn't anything new, but I've been spending a lot of time on KWF on streamer pages who somehow remain zombies, doing it full-time, rather than failing. And Phil is just this mystical case that should be studied in a lab somehow.