- Watching Phil STILL be bad at videogames when he has been actively gaming for most of his life. This is the more casual appeal and most people rely on clippers for it.
- Watching Phil peddle his bullshit 419 scam at literal retards and pulling apart his lies. Post bank leaks this appeal is mostly gone as everyone and their dog knows that the money goes to Scopely. But, much like people in 419 eating communities hate the scammers with a passion, people now hate Phil with a passion. This'll only get worse with time.
- Watching his degenerate dented fans do their thing. If Derich had more internet presence, he'd steal Phil's show in a heartbeat, I tell you that much.
And I gotta say, the worst fucking part, is he does this while pretending he's a heartwarming, dear old hardworking suburban dad who believes in traditional values while still having his heart and mind open to those newfangled woke virtues, and only wants to provide for his family, and needs your help for that, and he's really greatful, dear viewer. Everytime he starts bloviating about putting food in the mouths of his family, I want to personally tell him to fuck off. Or buy cheaper catfood at least. If you don't push him to clarify, he'll let you think he's a struggling father of two. That shit's just slimy. Phil sees no issue trying to farm unwarranted empathy, and that is bound to make some people sore.
It's undeniable that people hate Phil way more nowadays, and wanting to prod him into something happening is a natural outcome that was brought around by himself. By removing any sort of appeal to people into games and people wanting to watch a trainwreck, his three remaining appeals directly work against him, first being the outrageously autistic community he has curated, directly as a result of him not allowing any dissent. If you're allowed there, you're dumb enough to believe Phil's obvious bullshit, so you're probably not very pleasant to be around. This is why most nightstreams he's rocking a tumbleweed chat. Without the bots he's getting and the whales to prop him up, Phil would have faded into obscurity already. No way he's gonna get new fans, cool mods, or discussion in his social media because of both actively squashing it and how dented everyone around him is. You literally can't talk about anything with him around. Bryan and Kekon tried to discuss a little bit of Soulcalibur and Phil's dent started to show, he basically went "Oh my god my head's spinning I don't understand anythinnnnggguuuuhhh" and shut that shit down with the quickness.
It's said a lot but, hypothetically, you click on a stream on Youtube. The chat's completely dead except for two dudes very enthusiastically doing a Diaper Furfag Erotic Roleplay, and Derich copypasting shit from wikipedia. "Jin Kazama is the son of Kazuya Mishima and Jun Kazama." Well thank you Derich, I knew that. Nightbot politely reminds you that the best way to help right now is via tips, as Phil gets those immediately to funnel to Scopely. You were wearing headphones so Phil just unleashed a powersnort in your ear, piercing your eardrums. And the stream is labelled "Tekken 8" but all the guy's doing is discussing that Lil' Wayne is a literal who and giving very lukewarm takes on whatever gaming news were making the rounds on twitter. He starts to enthusiastically discuss how him and his mo-wife Khet -thumb towards door- just had amazing quesadillas, which are comprised of a tortilla, cheese, and ground beef with a really good sauce, this pepper-infused sauce that's robust, tasty, yummy, and very good. They do love Mexican-style food. They also had Margaritas, premixed, from a bottle. You ask "Game when?", you had to be subbed for 24 hours to even chat, and you catch a LIMB.
By constantly and incessantly begging for money even AFTER he was caught with his hand in Hogan's jockstrap, REPEATEDLY, he's done nothing to clear his name or assuage doubts that all of that money isn't going into Scopely's blackhole other than going "Nuh-uh, wadn't me! Couldn't be! It's those sick trolls, mayuuuhn!" which, of course, is the sort of thing that attracted guys like Actually first and then Peace to hypercompetently track his shit, and will prevent him from getting new whales in the future. I would argue this is Phil's biggest problem and will eventually be his undoing. You can't just keep crying poor and claiming to be almost destitute when a quick google search proves you earn about five minimum wages every month. A few of his paypigs, like Jaxx Raxxor, are significantly worse off than he is. And of course, no one who's mentally sound is gonna donate under the guise of charity to a guy who's making bank.
Phil, for all his insistence that he's not, is a scammer. And the main problem with that is that of course it attracts people who hate scammers. There's a cartload of scammer payback channels on youtube making bank. At this point I'm just surprised someone like Jim Browning hasn't honeytrapped his ass, because it would rake in the views like nothing before. Feigning distress for money is against most streaming sites' TOS, and that's the one thing I feel Null missed. Sure, it's kind of a nerd thing to do to call the teacher, and obviously the teacher doesn't even care in the first place, unless you're caught red handed, but the joke is, Phil HAS been caught red handed.
Yet Youtube lets him ply his scammer trade right on their website. Hey, if Phil told his dents "Guys, I really WANT that new Medieval Hogan, money please" I doubt anyone would have a problem with that. It's the fact that he's always going "I don't even have enough money to buy groceries." "I need to save the house." "I got two big bills coming up (Every single fucking week!)" to trick the mentally feeble into parting with their welfare checks.
I get that as a streamer you can ask for crowdfunding and if people wanna give you money, well, nothing wrong with that in my book. I would however say that showing up in a wheelchair every day, looking emaciated and gaunt, and weakly asking for money to survive another month only to then add another Lambo to the Lambo pile you've been secretly building, is, if nothing else, a bit of a dick move.
