Some probably went a little overboard on the amazing content that was a 30yo man cleaning his toy closet out.
40 y/o!! Let's not forget how much sadder that really is.
"He claims the trolls are trying to hurt him because they can't go after anything controversial because he's somehow a better person now and that they need to concoct wild stories to keep people away from his streams. But why would anyone believe wild stories about an honest YouTuber? They wouldn't. It's Phil's history of dishonesty which makes the "wild stories" the detractors tell plausible. Because he lies so often ("to protect his family!"), people become skeptical of anything he tells them. Especially when he stands to benefit from belief in his version of events"
The whole premise of his 'I changed for the better / my streams have no controversy anymore' is false anyway.
His streams are still full of non-stop, cancerous begging, He's still regularly toxic as fuck towards anybody who commits the slightest infraction all the way down to asking a question that he doesn't like. He still makes cringey slavery jokes about little black kid game characters and talks about smacking 11-year old kids. The statute of limitations might be up because he's 'changed' again since that last one, I'm never sure how far back into his history we're supposed to disregard on the basis of him being a new man.
Other than his tweets, he doesn't have a documented presence outside of his streams, so most of the criticism of him and the examples of him being an asshole are FROM his supposedly 'chill, non-controversial' streams that are nothing like they used to be in the past. You know, those really 'chill' streams where as far back as... Wednesday... he has half hour meltdowns about the 'mentally ill literal pieces of shit' detractors.
When he has a respectable stretch of time where he:
1. ACTUALLY ignores the detractors instead of having endless rants about how much he ignores them and how little he cares about what they say
2. Only mentions the ways you can support him once at the end of his 'podcast' (maybe once more after he gets back from his mid-stream break) instead of keeping track of when somebody last gave him money down to the exact minute
3. Doesn't at any point mention any of his financial issues that are his own problem and nobody elses
4. In line with no 2 and 3, removes the obscene tip goals and expectation of $300 every day just for general things that, when asked about, are said to be 'none of your business'. He could maybe be allowed visible goals in a situation where it's a one day thing for something very specific
5. Since we're not in kindergarten and most people have outgrown 'pull my finger' kinds of 'humor', he shows some fucking courtesy and, even if he's not going to mute his mic, at least turns away or attempts to cover up his snorting and belching instead of purposefully doing it right into his microphone and then saying, 'Oh, god, that was disgusting!'
6. A lot more shit I'm forgetting
When he's done all that, he can claim to have changed, but it'd still only be on a probationary basis.