This arc is truly bizarre and honestly the only good thing has been the Null interview.
Phil in the course of nearly 3 weeks has debased himself completely and gone against everything he has said. He clearly has questionable morals anyway with the Derich protection and his clear history of fraud and I am starting to think he is not LARPing as a king but Icarus. Phil has no restraint when he is "winning" because his idea of "winning" is just very short term monetary gain and nothing academic, spiritual etc. He also has a warped perspective of his followers and the types of funds they can grant him, the KC whale pool is somewhat smaller than I thought and the issue is too his old viewers do not like drama streams. I think he has opened Pandora's box with this one and he not only pretty much confirms that he is DFTR but its activated the part of his addictive brain.
My pet theory is Phil has a gambling addiction but due to the lack of funds presented to him when he moved, he chose gacha instead and honestly I don't think he has the intelligence to be a poker or cards player because there are many facets to it. Would I watch him FUCK YES I WOULD because he would get rinsed. He does not have the audience to make this sustainable and it is clear there are more than one of these games which is horrifying.