You missed the point. Spending tens of thousands of dollars on virtual game assets is baffling, and it's unbelievable, but true. Plenty of nut jobs do it. It's definitely plausible whoever would do that would also steal a popular e-celeb's alias. To larp as them to bask in their clout within their online communities; to just proclaim yourself as a fan of their content because it's the most important thing going on in your life and DSP serves as a role model for you; or to initiate a trolling campaign - because why not, you're already blowing money on junk, why not receive something extra.
@Fapcop
1. People can make poor purchasing decisions. Whoever is blowing money on the mobile game certainly is making bad choices. And for all you know, others may be camping out in the next-door houses with a glass pressed against the wall.
2. This is very easily solved. Whoever manages the acc plays the game when Phil is offline to sell the notion it has to be him.
Not that this isn't done and dusted and has been for a long time, but for it to be a troll and indeed NotDSP, just y'know, some dude named Dennis Saint Pierre therefore TheyCallMeDSP, what a coincidence.
- Dennis managed to grab a hold of DSP's phone, that happened to not be protected, used the number to sign up for a LINE account, then used that to communicate with other whales for whale-related activities. In spite of this, he always manages to return Phil's phone to Phil and hasn't really upset his life or schedule at all.
- Dennis' schedule lines up perfectly with Phil's. Intentionally or not. Like, the dude doesn't miss a SINGLE stream and if DSP has an empty chair segment, Dennis pounces like a mountain lion and logs into Champs to do a little whaling.
- Dennis has 100K laying around that he can throw at Gacha shit for the purpose of trolling Phil.
- In addition, Dennis' spending is tailored to match when Phil is flush and suitably lower when Phil's having slow days.
- Dennis is a master actor and has DSP's writing style and personality down to a T, to a point he can flawlessly impersonate him over Discord. This may seem easy, but it's not.
- He also has full access to DSP's Discord account, as the Dentleaks proved that the same account he used for the Dentcord was used for whale action on Champs as well.
- On top of being a particularly talented troll, he's also a cybersecurity expert as he's managed to spoof DSP's phone to bypass 2FA, and Phil has never caught on to all those logins.
- Phil has decided to run with this until it gets disproven, not taking his golden chance at an out with Stuttering Craig.
- Phil's moodswings that could be very much related to a gacha addiction spiraling out of control (Argentina hiccup where he rushed to whale the fuck out on an event expecting more money) are just cleverly exploited, maybe even orchestrated, by Dennis.
- Dennis started this whole shebang six years ago and kept waiting until it was naturally found out. Not only is he the most ambitious gayopper of all time, he's also playing the long game.
Or, and this is gonna blow your mind:
- Phil is an out of control gacha addict, compulsive liar and all around piece of shit who needs to keep fleecing his dents to keep fueling his addiction. Therefore schedules line up, phone number is his, moodswings are justified by bouts of spending that are gonna get him in hot water, Discord logs that were very distinctly DSP-like, DSP having access to DSP's Discord used for this, DSP having access to DSP's phone used for this, DSP never getting on voicechat with other whales and avoiding voicechat requirement guilds after being found out...
Occam's razor is in full effect here. I get that Phil would like everyone to believe that there's a fucking Illuminati level conspiracy out to make him look slightly bad to a bunch of dents who, to be completely fair, don't even understand just how much fuck you money Phil's making currently and how he could easily live like a king in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. Phil's not even a good scammer, he lucked into a position where he's had easy unrestricted access to a LOT of extremely dumb people who just buy his bullshit. But no, legitimately Phil could just come out and say he loves WWE Champions and he wouldn't even lose that many dents. At this point the only people who donate to him unironically are straight up too dented to understand much of how the world works. So they take everything Phil says at face value.
Hell, it's a REQUIREMENT to take Phil's bullshit at face value if you wanna hang around in his chat. You'll get banned for even suggesting that yes, youtube's paying him next month and he needs not stress about it. This used to be one of his cyclical begging bullshit excuses. Nowadays we just get the ominous yet vague "Two Big Bills" every week.
If people buy that and support him, Champs isn't gonna bury the king of hate, let's be real.