Jesus this has become a long one, strap in for some autism. Thanks to aqua teal for the clipping, for those of you not wanting to subject yourself directly to this absolute mongoloid we call Phil Burnell, read below.
TLDR: Phil is a hypocrite (shocker). Original vid:
Transcription from his stance back in may 2021:
"Mandalorian Warlords says: "maybe hang the YouTube play button on the wall behind me and buy a Shelf with some figures behind me and some cheap LED lights my setup
would look sick". You mean like every other streamer does? like, I started looking like every streamer who has exactly the same setup where they put like
decorations behind them with LED lights. Every fucking streamer does that, it has nothing to do with the streams at all it just makes them all look like they all copied
each other because they have no originality. So why would I want to do what everybody else already fucking does?"
The tip that set off this retarded rant:
"I received a 2.22 tip and uh here we go right: "it's funny you have made fun of professional streamers for using lights but now you're going to yourself"
(1:05) "In this person's mind, Phil said: "everyone who uses lighting is some weird sellout shill weirdo and he doesn't support the practice" but that wasn't what I said at all,
what I said is did you notice that all of a sudden in the last like four or five years almost everyone who live streams full-time has some kind of weird
ambient lighting that looks the same because they all copied each other" [some more shit about thumbnails and repeating what he just said]
(2:04) "they all do it the same because they're in it for the views they're in it for the money because they want to make a buck
they're not doing it to be original, to have meaningful content they just want to be part of the In Crowd that everyone
wants to click on and watch or else they would diversify themselves right"
Motherfucker you are literally saying the thing you claim people have spun your words into. Literally. Word for word.
The spin: "everyone who uses lighting is some weird sellout shill weirdo and he doesn't support the practice"
Phil: "they all do it the same because they're in it for the views they're in it for the money because they want to make a buck"
(2:1
"there's a difference between jumping on a bandwagon for popularity because the bandwagon is popular right now or doing
something because you feel it has intrinsic value. This lighting does it have intrinsic value? I don't know, you guys tell me do you like this, if you
don't you don't and I'll get rid of it"
So when other streamers have a setup like this it's because they are sellout shills and jumping on the bandwagon, but when you do it it somehow becomes
meaningful?
(2:37) "people sadly just want to twist things in a way that I don't say it on purpose, this happens all the time.
Since day one since I've been on the internet 15 years ago everything Phil says has to be twisted. Did I ever
say in absolute that anyone who uses lighting is a jerk or an idiot or a sellout?"
"Did I ever say in absolute that anyone who uses lighting is a jerk or an idiot or a sellout?" You literally said 20 seconds ago that everyone
who has this same lighting is riding the bandwagon and only doing it to make a buck. This has got to be a new retcon record.
(2:53) "I never said that, what I said is everyone tries to look the same on purpose to ride that wave of popularity and I don't agree with that.
Does my stream right now look like everyone else's? can you answer that for me? do I have a ring light? do I have the angle everyone else has? does everyone else have artwork
like this in the background because you know... is there going to be a click bait thumbnail on the stream today Phil's podcast"
Other streamers: Gamer shit with LED lighting
Phil: Gamer shit with LED lighting
"Does my stream right now look like everyone else's?" Yes, but in a way my 3 year old niece would try to copy that.
(3:21) "I could do that easily and I could probably increase my viewership doing that as well but I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to do what everyone else does just for personal gain"
(3:49) "guys trust me 10 years ago when everyone was becoming the same I could have easily become a homogenized content creator and did everything the same as everyone else and I would be 10 times more rich and famous than I am right now but I never cared about that okay"
Hello copium my old friend. I would like to remind you he said the same exact thing about the "react-style content" bandwagon. Phil was staunchly against
this style of content because it was not "meaningful" and only there to make a quick buck. Oh wait what is this?
Oh and it has the over the top soy faced thumbnail? Wait... Only 3.6k views?
So it has the thumbnail like everyone else, it is the same type of content like everyone else, where
are the millions of views? Why were you still begging for bills during this time? That was supposed to make a quick buck right?
(4:04) "but please don't put words in my mouth. 2.22 Tipper: "see you said all lighting's bad and now you're using lighting you hypocrite".
I never said all lighting was bad, ever. You missed the point."
That's not what he said, he said "it's funny you have made fun of professional streamers for using lights but now you're going to yourself". He is literally pointing to the
fact that you derided streamers for all having the same setup as each other
while now doing the exact same thing. Stop gaslighting you retard.
(4:16) "Nine times out of ten the people that criticize me missed the whole point of what they're criticizing and that's why they think that it's some kind of a criticism because they think the world is black and white.
Either Phil likes lighting or he hates it. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, that's an infant's mindset and that's not how life works okay"
So now we have come full circle. We went from may 2021 "Should I start looking like every streamer who has exactly the same setup where they put like
decorations behind them with LED lights" to now having Phil's stream with decorations with LED lights behind him.
You criticize people for thinking in black and white when all they are doing is repeat your words back to you, those same words painting pictures in black and white.
All streamers look and act the same and they are only in it for the money. Sounds pretty black and white to me.
Jesus fucking christ, this set me off. I wasted 45 minutes cooking this shit up, you better appreciate it
