- Joined
- Jun 15, 2014
No, it's not people interacting with him, he needs people simply heaping praise on him or talking shit about trolls.I love how the money alone isn't enough to satisfy his ego. He needs people interacting with him during these streams, to know that he has an audience giving him their attention. I don't think I've ever seen another streamer berate their viewers for not participating in chat.
It's all part of how Phil works to create an illusion of success rather than actually doing it. On the surface he has a wife, nice house, higher end car, and his job is playing video games all day, with a fat youtube check.
Below the surface it's all superficial - his wife he literally married to have a wife but otherwise they're practically strangers in their own home, said home is full of worthless junk Phil largely doesn't care about and a cat, he hates driving so having a nice car is hardly better than having a PoS clunker that could serve the same purpose for how little he or Kat drives, and he's living paycheck to paycheck because of his own life choices and addictions.
And of course, Phil's actual personal life is shit, too. He's got a bunch of famous books and movies, but like the library in The Great Gatsby it's all for show and the one who owns them doesn't actually use them for entertainment. All he does is get stoned, maybe watch half naked men grope each other...and that's it. Literally no friends he can even talk or hang out with, a married life where the two parties couldn't be less interested in each other, and nothing he likes to do in his freetime away from the camera besides the aforementioned drinking and watching WWE. Even WWEC itself isn't really a pastime, given Phil's at the level where all you do in the game is press two buttons for the game to auto-play itself for you. It's literally a NFT collector at this point, except Phil doesn't even get to keep the images.
Its little wonder he badly wants his chat to 'interact' with him, really that's the only external validation he gets that his life choices up to this point have not collectively rendered him trapped in a gilded cage of his own making ,where he has everything he could ever want is and utterly miserable for it.