So, there are things people get wrong about Phil.
None that you mention.
In fact, having skimmed this thread quite a few times over the years I think you’d get along with him.
I'm pretty sure 99.9% of the board wouldn't get along with a retard who scams worse retards for a living, and I assure you if anyone said hi on the street Phil would just run. But hey, if you're in close with the Pigroach, get him to agree to an interview with Proper and Surly with questions fielded from us! That'd be fucking lit.
Phil is not the libcuck some people here think he is.
As Big Brown Schlub once said, his political views can be summed up as "Radical Pigroachism." He's out for number one. Furthermore he doesn't get shit for being either side of the spectrum. He gets more shit for fence sitting.
The reality is Phil is a republican but understands that he’d lose half is audience admitting it. I’d describe him as early 2000s racist/prejudice. South Park/Newgrounds racist. He thinks hip hop music is awful.
His retards don't care about politics. We don't care about politics. He'd lose nothing. Ironically you say later that he sees AVGN as a poser when he himself is a poser centrist, a poser gamer, a poser tough guy, a poser athletic man... That said, I do believe he hates nogs on some level, the nail biting is a bit of a tell. He also seems to hold Asians in contempt. Oh, and the insistence on using the gamer word is a Freeze Peach thing, not a racism thing. Telling us that Phil is racist isn't gonna make us think that he's actually a cool guy.
Makes a lot of racist jokes.
Sure.
All around is disgusted by gay people.
Why does he slobber over Dale's BBC every chance he gets, then? Why does he make homoerotic "Deepthroat a snake, stuff my mouth full of firm bananas" comments constantly?
Call trans people trannies.
Yeah, he's said he doesn't consider it a slur.
One time he saw a TiL on reddit about HP Lovecraft’s cat called Niggerman. So he spent weeks belting out niggerman the way you would sing figaro in an opera.
Sounds dumb enough to be Phil.
His view on women is funny to me. He feels the person paying the lion share of bills shouldn’t be cooking and cleaning. And if you can’t handle that then you need to get your ass to work and pay half.
Fair enough, fair enough...
Some can say that’s dickish. Yeah. But it explains a lot of the friction he had with a certain ex. She wasn’t carrying her wait so he got tired of her costing him so much. That’s why he started inserting her so much in content. He wanted her to eventually be a full time streamer and pay bills with streaming money.
Up until this point. My dude, he plucked the ripest nympho ho from high school to be his child bride, and he expected her to pull her weight right away? Not to mention Phil has gone on record saying that fans liked Panda content but he stopped doing it with her because she had "A big personality" I.E made him look like the bottom bitch he is. Panda could have ripped the controller from his hands and completed anything more competently without prior training. His ego couldn't take it.
If you get a child bride you gotta realize you're dating a child. You might be concerned with paying for bills, making that dough, securing your mortgage payments and looking forward to your retirement, but she's happy she's going to lose her braces and get her driver's license and first car, and YOU are footing the bill, because she left her family for you. It's just how that shit works. You can't tell me Phil expected Panda to be a fully functional, put together adult straight out of highschool? Like she was gonna bolster his finances by being a second income? Just...
Phil isn’t sadistic like some people think.
He puts on a thunderous and invincible image in his own chat because he can instaban everyone. Phil in the wild is fairly meek and reduced to holding in his snorts and nodding politely like a good little soyboy at Chadam and Craig as they tear him limb from limb.
He's not sadistic because he's bitchmade. If he had any sort of power, he would abuse it as much as humanly possible.
But I will say he is naïve. And no… he is not a character or put on. What you see/hear is what you get. He’s just… Phil.
That had been established. Dude can't act for shit.
He had a lot of business ideas when I worked with him. He saw AVGN as the competition to the King of Hate thing he had going. Phil looked at James as a non-authentic poser and that his own personality being authentic was enough to carry his content to the next level.
Proof or GTFO. Furthermore, funny that Phil would see himself as something even remotely close to AVGN's level, or as something remotely close to authentic. Phil was a Johnny-Come-Lately gamer, and has tried to pass himself off as familiar with games far too many times to count.
He wanted to eventually have a cast of a minimum of ten content creators producing content. I was one of them before we moved on.
I'm sure he would have paid them all very well!
He obviously never got to that that creator number.
There may have been an attempt with the Respect The Pact dudes, which is famously remembered because "He never knew they wanted money for their time!". I find that disingenuous, but maybe he was just THAT much of a ragin' retard.
Phil wanted to create a website.
I feel like you're just LARPing this shit because ohhh, shiet, he DID create the tumbleweed forum, maybe dogtigerball is on to something, fuuuuck.
He figured he had something to offer that James or the Channel Awesome people could offer. You see Phil is a huge fan of Howard Stern and Attitude Era wrestling. As well as other edgy late 90s-early 2000s stuff. It’s maybe his most eccentric quality that his head never left that space.
He's been quoting Stone Cold Steve Austin recently, so again, sure. Give your LARP some credibility, by all means, but this isn't exactly insider info. Also, CA was pretty meh back then, still is, but it passed the time and you could get an audience by just existing in a far more limited market.
Well, Phil had big ideas for the website. I’m laughing now thinking about it. His whole idea was to be the boundary pushing Stern to AVGN’s Conan.
AVGN was all about toilet humor anyway, but sure. Phil was racist, ow the edge.
He had this idea of something called “the shit list”. Where if a game was on this list you can click a link and it would feature a video of Phil literally shitting on the game.
This actually sounds too dented for even early 2010s Phil.
He wanted all the creators to live close and to hang out and eventually film this.
No shit, I wouldn't want to drive 600 km round trip to my work every day either.
Phil wanted everyone to have their own distinct personalities that they could market. Again, stern stuff.
Nah, this is bullshit, because even in Project 7 he had to cry that Rambo's lines were only the funniest because he, ree, wrote them. Every time he gets overshadowed he's uncomfortable as shit, and it's so easy for that to happen. Panda, BBC Brian, Kekon, Craig and Chadam, even Lutherkujo made him look like a trash tier entertainer.
His idea was that the content would be so aggressively 18+ that you would eventually need to pay a subscription to access the graphic stuff on the site. Another example of an idea was to pay a stripper to play hard games like Dark Souls as content. He found this idea funny enough to bring it up a lot.
Shit, now Onlyfans girls are playing Dark Souls while getting railed by a fuck machine. Phil was a visionary! Also, who in their right fucking minds would pay a subscription for gameplay? That does strike the right balance of dented to be Phil's idea, actually.
The reason Phil would get so angry in videos is that he was obsessed with getting more content out than anyone else.
Nah, he's just a sore loser. He still gets pissed off constantly and he's not beholden to any deadlines any more. In fact, he stalls like fuck but isn't any more chill. I think he's just a narc who dreads challenge because it makes him feel like the all around fat, flabby, uncoordinated failure that he really is. Case in point: He had a huge rant about how he "Could have totally parried every single one of Krauser's attacks, no problem, if only my controller wasn't a PS5 controller!" Like dude, you can map the parry to fucking Square if you want, and I guarantee you you're STILL gonna suck.
So he would set these due dates for a game and if he fell behind schedule he would get legit pissed at the game designers lol. That’s why in certain games you can hear a sense of panic in his voice. The ironic thing being this would get him tilted and make things take longer. Playing games with him casually he was a lot more relaxed. It’s kind of sad that you guys didn’t see a more relaxed version of that era of Phil. Before the internet became so sanitized Phil could be a funny guy. I challenge you to go back and watch the infamous Dead Space video and not have a laugh. That’s the side of Phil that I like.
Phil in his heyday was a funny trainwreck, Phil in current day is a sad drain circling. Sure. He was entertaining, or at least more entertaining, but he was never entertaining for the RIGHT reasons, which is what he wanted. He was never Pewds, or Max, or even Aris. He was just a lowest common denominator gamer dudebro poser who actual FGC gamer dudebros ran out because he was just a shit person.
Anyway, all I’m saying is that some of the hate here gets is undeserved.
That is subjective. I don't feel we hate him THAT much, either. He's a harmful scammer on the internet. He's hateful, he's gonna get hate, and I feel it's the right amount of hate. We're not gathering outside the snort fort with torches and pitchforks. Fuck, no one's even put that PI on his ass even though that would totally be hilarious because we're just such well behaved good boys and don't engage in IRL trolling. Phil's got it pretty easy. He can live with us harmlessly talking shit about it, and so should you, denty dent. We're literally doing no harm.
Does he treat some of his viewers/payers shitty? Sure.
To a frankly ridiculous degree, and again, keep in mind, this is hateful, so he gets hate. Ingratitude is not a great quality to have.
It’s worth keeping in mind that during my time knowing him Phil was obsessed with his job.
This is what Phil says, but he also says he used to be a raging alcoholic who hated everything about his life, so... Which is it? Personally I think he was a loser who lucked out, and thought he had become an overnight sensation. It's been said a lot that 2012 Phil could be a dent in 2023's Phil chat and I wholeheartedly agree with that.
It’s basically all he talked or thought about. I think sometimes that chat can get to him because he unironically views it as stepping into his home.
His house is pretty fucking empty, save for the coffeebots, Jayde, Derich, Habib and that other regular dent I forget.
Phil is an eccentric dude.
That is part of the definition of lolcow.
But he’s not a terrible person.
Subjective, but you're wrong. Anyway, feel free to shoot Proper and Surly a DM with info on how you met Phil and who you are. None of it will reach us except for the tea, and it'd be cool if you really had something, but you don't, so... Hey, at least the writeup was fun! And that's that.
