I'll try and get into this after work in more depth (unlike Piggy I have a reel jahb) but I think anyone who doesn't understand at this point why DSP can be so entertaining/interesting to some, need to consider how perfectly bad a lie Phil has chosen to run with here. Seriously, there are so many levels to why this was like, mathematically, scientifically the WORST possible lie he could spin about his Champions account, but going so into detail will take a minute
So had Phil just continued with the "it's not and never was me" lie, we all obviously wouldn't believe him, the dents would believe him, nothing would really change. Him saying he had a different account than DFTR, one that was ALSO different from the one he streams with, pushes credulity a bit, but whatever. It's a giant dumb lie, but one he's well-versed in, and has already been applied to dents through thorough pignosis over years. It's much easier to keep someone bought in on an old lie than to spin a new one for them.
Had Phil completely come clean? It would suck at first for him in the sense of us tractors "getting a W" and maybe losing some dents over "betrayal", but he could have played the whole "safety of muh family" card to explain the lies (sure it doesn't make sense but people stupid enough to be unironic Phil fans are stupid enough to buy that excuse) and then he could REALLY tout a REDEMPTION ARC. "See you gais? I'm coming cleen about everything, we're reelly in a pahsitive era, I'm getting that groove back" etc. He could use this reveal to force himself to get addiction help, hell maybe even use it as a beg tool ("I need that money for this Seattle addiction center dood" or "I need to pay for therapy"). OR, he could turn full heel, own the lies, own the addiction, and start streaming on the DFTR account. Better to whale on one account than two.
But this... this half-measure shit is just the absolute worst of both worlds for him.
He can't stream as DFTR because he "doesn't have the account" so he either continues whaling on both, or drops the Champions streams and has to go back to playing games he doesn't actually enjoy.
He still admits he was lying for years to thousands of people, but does so while also trying to spin a newer, far more convoluted, nonsensical lie that DEMANDS scrutiny (which it immediately crumbles under). The logic behind it must tax the brain of even the most discerning Phil dents, especially compared to the simple "DFTR is a detractor conspiracy" proPIGanda he ran for years on them. Now he has to train them on this new story, which conveniently also doesn't make him look THAT bad, while asking they trust that he ISN'T lying about why he previously LIED TO THEM FOR YEARS. Big, big ask, especially for someone so lacking in charm and charisma.
Not to mention that it isn't even a lie that works. Like of course we wouldn't buy it if there WERE some kind of fabricated bit of evidence, but he couldn't even be fucked to buy a years-old account to parade around as "the REEL account". By the way, we're also supposed to believe now that he has played WWEC across THREE DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS now.
It ALSO, ON TOP OF ALL THAT, officially canonizes the original SideScrollers interview as a massive gaslighting campaign. Not to mention the recent KC interview where he similarly denied ever being DFTR! But at least, AT LEAST, had he ACTUALLY COME CLEAN, he would get some kind of genuine kudos from PPP, Warski, maybe even Craig, etc. Instead, he admits he's been a fat faggot liar for years, while ALSO transparently lying to these people, while they TRANSPARENTLY DO NOT BELIEVE HIM. He gets all the negative outcomes of him "revealing the truth", but in true DSP fashion, manages to miss out on ANY of the positive ramifications.