To make this unnecessarily broad, when it comes to "people who exist within the vortex" I think you can categorize them as such:
Whales
Ironic viewers
Ironic fans (I think there is a distinction from the former)
Wheelchairs
Lonely and/or Power-hungry faggots who cling onto Phil for some reason
*Detractors*
Hate watchers/ restream viewers
Kiwi Farmers
Dents (Real fans)
*Note that there is some crossover between categories. For example, Jaxx_Raxor is a whale, but also a real genuine fan, or a "dent", in my opinion
Whales | People like Planet Jeff, Ndo103, guitarplayer1939, Gametrekker, Jaxx, Shoggoth, etc. Some are more active than others, but considering that the step below these people is the modern equivalent of 50 bit bitches, I think it's still more accurate to include someone like Shoggoth, who whaled the fuck out for FF7, with someone like Planet Jeff.
People such as OnlyIcedCoffee and Phrenelith/heaving_earth *hint hint, wink wink* are also whales, obviously, but they are also ironic fans in the sense that they use Phil's stream as their personal playground, creating all sorts of havoc and draaaaaaaahma.
For example, OnlyIcedCoffee and the totally real doxing of real person Kevin Burnstein, as well as Phrenelith going berserk over trolls and Kiwi Farmers in Phil's chat, very much like how King Vanity would as well.
There are also all of the sock accounts that whale on Phil such as Emil, AJ_Gamer, TeamIcoGamer, but these are exactly that, sock accounts.
Other than PlanetJeff/1mm and OIC on whichever sock/s he's using for that day, how many of these people regularly watch Phil? How many of them watch Phil for any significant amount of time? Ndo shows up like once a month, Gametrekker only appears when Phil plays Kirby or some shit. Jaxx only watches street fighter, and since Phil has stopped playing it, he hasn't been seen since October 2022. When OIC isn't creating some gayops larp incident, does he even watch Phil? We know Jeff used to schedule time off of work just to watch Phil's videos..does he still do this? Phil has said that 1mm doesn't even watch the streams.
What i'm getting at, is that, it seems like the people who empty their wallets for Phil, dont even watch his shit that much.
* I want to note that Haseox5 is a fat fucking whale who kind of flies under the radar. I originally thought of him as just one of the few true dents / true fans, but this dude has given Phil more than $1,700 in the last year and a half. He drip feeds 10 - 30 dollar tips roughly once a week, so it kind of slips through the cracks, but the tips tracker doesn't lie |
Ironic Viewers | These are the people who pay Phil 4 dollars a month to be a member, so that they have a bit more leniency with their sneak dissing. They make up the bulk of Phil's chat, much more than the real fans or dents. Hell, some of them don't even give Phil a cent, like Clyde Baxter, or the handful of people who come into Phil's chat from DDM and type fake positive messages just for the lulz. |
Ironic Fans | Snowkarl, PwDubz, the guy that tips Phil 1.50 over and over and fucking over, with different types of messages (scat jokes, wrestling references, magic the gathering quotes, real questions about games just to keep up the illusion) and Phil pretends that these are all different people. Basically people who tip Phil the minimum with a trolly question in an attempt to get a rise out of him. They hang out for a bit, but they dont actually watch or engage outside of this. OIC and Phrenelith are ironic fans who also just whale on Phil hard. |
Wheelchairs | I mean real retarded people. Jayde being the prime example. You could argue that Jayde is a real fan, or a dent, but he doesn't seem cognisant enough to know what the fuck is going on outside of whether "i love this" or " i dont love this go watch wrestling now" RobonWheels is literally a wheelchair, but he was self-aware enough to wheel himself away from Phil. It took him a long fucking time, and a lot of money too, so... is he a wheelchair? DantheMan aka RedemptionGames is another contender. Revolt_Evolve |
Lonely and/or Power hungry faggots who latch onto Phil | Swagginz, Madara, Kinggoken, Kgahleon, basically all of Phils mods. Some of the mods were real honest fans at one point, but due to their longevity, they've seen Phils true colors, so now they just hang out for an hour, clean up chat a little bit like good little cucks, and then leave. Phil's most loyal and trusted cucks don't even watch his fucking streams. But they still stick around and defend Phil's honor for no fucking reason other than that they have nothing better to do. Dasboschitt also fits here, even though he used to whale, he should be most well known for being a faggot |
Detractors | People who make content about Phil. Phil uses this term interchangeably with "troll". Some of these people are massive a-logging faggots who would be giving money to Phil if it weren't for the staggering amount of detractor content that has been made about Phil over the years |
Hate watchers/DDMers | Self Explanatory |
Kiwi Farmers | Self Explanatory |
And then we have "dents". So who the fuck are these people? It's almost as if they are a nameless, faceless entity, such as the "Silent Majority" If these people exist, and if there is more than a handful of them (Jayde, Jaxx, Derich, other couple wheelchairs, Kagome, Haseo??) then they aren't on Phil's stream. And if they are watching Phil live, they never chat. So again.. silent majority?
I took a look at Phil's youtube page to get an idea of how many people actually watch Phil's videos.
Excluding day 1 views, super hype games, and the beginning of a new playthrough, Phil is lucky if he breaks 1k views on any given video. The people I mentioned above in all of those categories, ...are they watching Phil's videos? Maybe a few of them are? But I would say most of them probably aren't. So who is? Are these the dents? Phil is always talking about how he has so many fans who are just afraid to engage with him in any way because of the vicious trolls. Is there really a group of roughly 500-1500 people who are true, authentic, robust fans of DSPGaming? If so, why aren't they members? Why don't they drop Phil 5 bucks every month or whatever?
And you would think with this consistent group of viewers, and Phil's nonstop begging for engagement, that he could manage to get more than 2-3% of his viewers to like his fucking videos
