Wasn't sure where to put this and didn't want to shit up the main thread. Feel free to move this if needed:
What's everyone's issues with restreamers and making money off of Phil? I've seen this numerous times throughout the years on here. Is there some logic as to why it's bad to make off of Phil? I don't personally donate or superchat or membership to anyone for anything, but I don't really care if someone does or a streamer/restreamer does it. I also like the background noise of someone talking through Phil's streams. His actual content is fucking horrendous and I enjoy the breakdowns by different people on what they think Phil is saying/doing, etc. The only raw phil restreams I can stomach are SF6 because Phil is a man baby, tard raging at the slightest slight to his ego.
I'm the first one to shit on Doody for being a faggot and one of the worst detractors, but I really don't care if he makes money off of Phil. My only issue is when the restreamers start to touch the cow directly. Whether that's through encouraged actions or directly doing something, that shit is gay and very unfun.
So what am I missing? Why do some here hate these people and them making money off the pigroach? My guess is there are valid reasons and I'm just missing them.
You sort of touched upon it with Doody. IMO, Doody is one of the worst detractors, but part of why he's so bad is because, just like Phil, he's essentially "chasing day one views" to try and cash in, without actually putting any thought or effort into his streams. Except his version of day one views is basically Phil rants or whatever.
We talk about it every so often here, but there can be weeks, if not months, where Phil goes through dry spells. During those times, his streams are all more or less the same and blend together. There's still little things to talk about, which works fine for forum posts, but it puts monetized detractors in a difficult spot. They need to cover Phil drama to make money, but there's only like a few minutes max of video content to put out, so they have to resort to making their own content, which can lead to long, meandering videos about nothing, or speculation videos passed off as facts.
This obviously doesn't apply to every detractor, but you can generally tell which ones are following Phil just to make money versus the ones that do it more as a hobby. So I think, for me at least, it's really less about them making money and more them producing low quality content. Like, if there was a restreamer that just hosted Phil's stream and somehow had an OIC figure that was donating $200 every day, I don't think people would stop watching it or say that it sucks. But if that hypothetical dude started doing hour long prestreams to cover previous Phil drama, or make speculation videos every other day and included links to donate in the video description or whatever, they'd probably start to sour on that person because there's rarely enough Phil content to warrant making that many videos, so there's bound to be a quality drop.
