I'm not familiar with a lot of his earlier content. But this clip comes to mind. You don't get moments like this from him anymore. There's some salt but the rage is gone.
1) Paul has a back injury..thats not great? Not terrible, but not great like most back injuries.
2) Mama Nell also has bad health, which is why he went to go visit them last time. Not because they paid for the trip and for him to get married in their smoke-ridden, cat filled home.
3) They also had this bad health back then, which is why fans donated for him to go see them for the last time.
4) Eventually he is going to go back to see them. When they are about to die the second time. Get ready to buy those plane tickets, plus 1** in flight wifi.
Fuck that, I wanna see him work an early shift. He said that waking up at 9am the other day completely destroyed him, that it's unreasonable to expect manbaby Phil to wake up that early because "he has a life" (??????) and that it took him two days to recover from waking up at such an early ungodly hour. Imagine if he had to wake up at 4:30am like Pedro getting ready for his meat packing plant job.
Cheers for 2000 pages already, my friends. I can't wait for what it'll be like at the end of the year. I'm pretty confident we'll get at least 1 or 2 new plot elements to our cow by the end of the year, Phil's current situation is already putting him in a spot to be more and more desperate.
Jesus Christ, let the people who raised you live where they want to live, you arrogant piece of shit.
From that profile of Dave that was on here a while ago he seems happier and more rooted than you’ll ever be.
Also, you’re the ‘risk taker’ with the ‘better quality of life’? You sit in a spare room 6 days a week, venturing out once to sit in a restaurant. Almost like you could be doing that in CT. Or anywhere in the world.
Doesn’t make sense. It’s almost like you moved to isolate some barely-legal girl from her friends and family.
Your parents don’t have that problem so let them live where they want to live, fat boy.
Why did you move across the country?
- bad weather
- high taxes
- horrible overpopulation
- crime
Why Renton:
- moderate weather
- everything is close to him (Translation: restaurants)
I TOLD YOU TO MOVE AWAY FROM CT, WHY DIDN'T YOU LISTEN TO ME. They grew complacent and kept making excuses and once they ran out of excuses they were too old to move.
Does he fear becoming like that? Yeah, but he isn't because he took a risk moving to Seattle which his parents criticised heavily and he's happy while they are sad and stuck in CT. View attachment 3402436
'I was the one who took the risks. I was the one who changed my life for the better.'
Dude, your life is objectively worse. You have less money, you have less friends (none), you have a major downgrade in the chick who's living with you...
'And by the way, they were veeeeery against my doing it. When I told them I was getting out of there, out of CT, they said NO YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS.... Basically anything with risk.... Now I'M THE ONE on the west coast and happy'
Yeah, man, imagine how it must have sucked when they saw how wrong they were to caution you and then had to eat a ton of shit when you successfully filed for bankruptcy. Oh, hey! You DID succeed at something! What morons! Screw your dad and all of his stoopid 'stability' from sticking with one job that he'll probably get some kind of retirement / pension out of. His life must really suck, because how could he be happy not having to beg for grocery money on the internet?
Given his really gross use of saying his parents were pretty much on death's door to scam money to pay for a wedding and just how he talks about them generally as if they're about to croak, I find it hilarious that Phil is probably the one between him and his parents who is actually in poorer health.
I'm sure his parents have a lot to do with why he is the way he his, so it's not like I hold them on some pedestal, but he really pisses me off when he shits on them in order to build himself up. Given that he's probably the parasite that he is today because they likely indulged him in everything he wanted, you'd think he'd not detest them the way he seems to. Then again, I could very much see him getting 99% of anything he ever wanted but resenting them for the 1% (Wolverine toy) that they didn't.
After all, even if we all are conspiracy nudniks, strip away any layer of security that Phil seems to think, is easily washed away and it boils down to his begging being the usual schtick for his longevity
Parents being abandoned doesn't do favours but I guess independence somewhat = still having parents pay taxes...
If 1MM is a hiding dent, or someone as a an alt, it's still money that's wasted of Phil, and thats good enough to warrant laughter and derision aimed at Philiam
And him losing members also is fact that those 60 or so expiring means that it is still fake metrics just to keep him happy and content and just to bump up rather than obvious organic natural growth
I'm just glad I'm not adding to the gayest addiction ever known
So, regarding priming the tip jar with 1MM's tips: I think the tips really do come in, but he's definitely doing it. I'm not sure he understands why he does it, but he does it. Sure, Phil's ego comes first, but he's also got tiered tips goals. It's a simple thing that a lot of streamers do. Smaller streamers than Phil, normally, but a lot of them. Phil will viciously beg no matter what, round tips down, and he's got no popups for certain tips and manually updates his tips goal to obscure as much as possible.
Same thing as a busker. It has at least three names: seed money, priming or salting the tip jar. It works on a mental principle called social proof. Having a friend drop some money in your hat, or having a few coins makes it look like people already supported you. Yes, seeing a big fat 0/50 on the tips goal persuades some types to immediately remedy that, but people typically support something that someone else considered worth supporting more often. Specially in this age of widely available internet and content, we often equate popular to good. The best way to have a video with a ton of views and likes is having a video... With a ton of views and likes. This is why buying subs and views is so important if you're trying to get your foot in the door. You can have amazing content with incredibly insightful takes, you can have speedrun world records, but if you're not ALREADY popular, it's gonna be hard to GET popular.
In fact, people judge you based on this. You see an amazing player kicking ass at their game of choice on Twitch, but he's only got 3 viewers and 0 tips? This guy's a loser. You see a thot mashing buttons with her tits out and 300 viewers but a dead chat and 50$ in tips? Girl is popular and succesful! The best way to be succesful is to already be succesful. The best way to get views on your Twitch channel is to be on the frontpage. The best way to get tips is to be at a sweet spot where you're not a complete loser who could never get a buck from even their mom, and also to not be a loaded moneywagon who just plain doesn't need more tips. Even Phil knows this shit, as he's often gloated about being top 5 streamers on youtube on whatever he was streaming. And he often complains aloud about how things seem to slow down when he hits all his tips goals. Nevermind that he's getting botted and whaled but alright.
Yes, Phil's an idiot, but he's not so much of an idiot that he won't listen to advice from his whale mods. I personally think this is all OIC/Swagginz' doing. Either they're both lost at birth twins or they're the same person, but that's not the main point here. The main point is these two idiots are balls deep into streamer culture, and they know Phil's actively watched by like 10 dents and 290 bots. His chat is dead. His tips goals are propped up by 10 whales. Either you make up a community at that point or you completely fade into obscurity: Not helped along by Phil's manifest wish to stay playing only easy singleplayer games on normal, tops. Phil's never gonna get popular again organically. Not just because that sort of thing barely ever happens for anyone anymore and has to be staged, but because Phil's erased his only appeal, being a terrible gamer over the last few years to instead turn into the living messenger of the Begmaggedon.
Phil's got complete control over his tip jar and he often uses this to his advantage to milk the dents as hard as possible. Rounding down when he gets a 1,99$ tip at 98 dollars, so he just writes 99 dollars, means some other dent is likely to tip another 1.99 just to see the stupid hat. Phil basically wants to appear supportable. Frontload the whale tips so at least the Dentspecs are achiveable even by lowly minnows, 25 dollars isn't that much, then load up on fat whale massive tips to hit the hat and vest. Yes, Phil is dumb, but his whales probably put their foot down with how Phil must conduct his begging. While Phil is happy just putting increasingly more pressure on the ones he's got, DasBoSchitt and OIC probably don't want Phil to just completely erase any chance of meeting prospective new whales. Phil has to keep up the illusion, at least for them, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
TL;DR: Even if Phil is dumb, OIC and Swagginz know streamer culture well enough to know Phil needs to salt the jar, and he needs to appear fairly high on searches to maintain any degree of relevance. Back in the last days of Twitch his chat was 99% detractors by weight. Nowadays he's cut off all the detractors, so all he's got left is Derich, Habib, Slayer, Rahb and the remaining Crême De La Dent. We do a lot to keep Phil relevant, but the same begging day in day out for the rest of his life with him progressively playing less and less games is only gonna make him sink further into obscurity.
Yes, I don't think he is smart enough to invest back into his own business, but he lucked out with the main three whales: Jeff, who is loaded and tips daily for Phil to use as he sees fit. I'm sure Phil just wanted to sweep this money under the rug, but some other whale came up with the idea of tiered tips goals so Jeff's 25$ can be put to better use: After all, some minnows might scratch their wallet for the Dentspecs. DasBoSchitt who edits videos for free and has at least some Youtube knowhow. And OIC who knows enough about streaming culture to understand that his chat needs to be at least moving and has enough typing speed to be a one man army of dents.
As a streamer, if you want to make some money, you definitely need to have at least 10 to 30 viewers and a couple bucks in your tip jar. Otherwise no one who would pay would pass by your stream and throw a couple bucks at you. It's just how it is. Also some lesser known streamers have a birthday or two... Every month. There's a lot of unethical tricks you can do to fool generous people. Vague mental ilnesses, vague physical illnesses, I'm dying lol, my house is in danger, I desperately need money, I live in a wartorn country, I'm in a wheelchair... Sounds familiar? And I don't think Phil's whales are dumb enough to not know about them, or moral enough to be above any of them.
This is a guy who literally claimed he was going to be out on the street, flat broke, sitting on his ass if he didn't get 300$ a day while living large, getting daily takeout and expensive meals out, whaling on gacha and flying in a sperg to be his live-in maid. And we're putting the relatively harmless priming the tip jar below him because it's what, too difficult? I don't think he's below that level of effort, even if it did take some prodding from his whales.
EDIT: You know Justin Y. from Youtube, right? Justin Y. could comment "Hello there" and still get thousands of likes on his comment. Social proof is a thing. At some point you get fame from being famous, success from being succesful, and goodwill from being liked. Jimmy Saville got to die peacefully BEFORE his sexual scandal shit was uncovered, thanks to being beloved in the public eye.
Why did you move across the country?
- bad weather
- high taxes
- horrible overpopulation
- crime
Why Renton:
- moderate weather
- everything is close to him (Translation: restaurants)
I TOLD YOU TO MOVE AWAY FROM CT, WHY DIDN'T YOU LISTEN TO ME. They grew complacent and kept making excuses and once they ran out of excuses they were too old to move.
Does he fear becoming like that? Yeah, but he isn't because he took a risk moving to Seattle which his parents criticised heavily and he's happy while they are sad and stuck in CT. View attachment 3402436
I love how he's projecting shit onto his parents, 'being complacent', 'making excuses', and 'talking circles'. First, he called them stupid for not getting him that Wolverine toy, then he lied about them potentially dying, and now he's sneak dissing them. He doesn't deserve his parents, period.
By the way, happy Father's Day, Papa Burnell. I hope you're doing well, unlike your failure of a son. Wonder if Phil will say "I MIGHT call my dad and wish him a happy Father's Day".
I'm a big fan of the time he demonstrated the "input lag" in Elden Ring on stream by showing his controller as he pressed the button. "SEE?! SEE?! IT LAGS". Even his own chat was pointing out that he had just shown that there was absolutely no input lag, and he was simply causing delays by mashing buttons.
So what are the odds he will release another HAAALPPPP! video today or tomorrow (he is "working" on tuesday). 16$ isn't enough to feed the whale in his house
I love how he's projecting shit onto his parents, 'being complacent', 'making excuses', and 'talking circles'. First, he called them stupid for not getting him that Wolverine toy, then he lied about them potentially dying, and now he's sneak dissing them. He doesn't deserve his parents, period.
By the way, happy Father's Day, Papa Burnell. I hope you're doing well, unlike your failure of a son. Wonder if Phil will say "I MIGHT call my dad and wish him a happy Father's Day".