I'm going to try and be fair on Phil and you can downvote me all you want, I don't care.
So, this is Phil's tribute to T Carter segment from 2014:
I've skimmed through it and honestly, it's not that bad. Phil does a good job of telling stories and all the comments that I read were positive. People liked the segment. Mind you, Phil offers too many details and says some things insensitively ("
T couldn't afford to live in a good part of town"). Essentially, this is another case of Phil oversharing and making a social faux pas. He should have known better to not monetize that podcast. Howard has reasons to be mad that Phil did this, T's death should not have been publicized like that, let alone in that much detail. It was obviously insensitive to T's family (the podcast was called Hate Live!, lol). However, I do believe Howard somewhat overreacted a bit because the tribute painted T in a very positive light and people actually really liked it.
John and Howard's fallout with Phil ultimately boiled down to the fact that Phil is autistic and cannot socially function normally. He's simply incapable of maintaining good relationships and puts his ego above everything.
I would now argue that Phil has become a much worse person than he was. Saturday's stream points to that. The crying segment was disgusting. Let me point out that Phil barely teared up during the T Carter tribute segment of the 2014 podcast; But he cried during the John and Howard debunk stream. Get the fuck outta here. He went through that segment like he was acting out a movie scene. It was dead clear he was going for pity. The tears were real for sure, but they were tears of guilt. He deep down knows his life used to be better in his early twenties playing ST in CT. But he ruined all that. He pushed everyone away from him, left those better times in the past and has now isolated himself in WA. That's where the tears came from. He exploited those tears for pity and somehow made them about T and the trolls. That is morally reprehensible.
It really can't be understated how much his autism and ego rule his life. His life consists of autistic social stumbles which he refuses to learn from. Neither does he have people in his life to teach him. But on top of that, he doesn't even have the humility to learn either. His massive ego is so big that it's bound to instigate conflicts in his life. And when individuals call out his behaviour the only thing that he knows to do is to play the victim. In a sense he is a victim; a victim of his autism and ego. Those two same things blind him to the fact that the hurt he's feeling is self-inflicted. He must think that when someone feels like a victim it's always because someone had abused the victim. Well, no, Phil it's not always like that. Sometimes, it's not your fault. Some other times, it is your fault. In the times of your life,
it's pretty much always your fault. You cannot always be in control of what people do to you, but you can and must be in control of how to react and what to learn.