1. The lack of true fans means that the few guys who tip him will get more attention than just pouring their paychecks on a bigger, more popular streamer who likely has bigger whales than them. Some of the biggest Phil whales actually managed to control him to an extend, which I assume made them feel powerful.
2. The hatedom. Unless the lolcow is truly vile, there will always be people who support them out of a perverse desire to stick it to the haters. They want to "felt" people they perceive as bullies without actually getting in a confrontation with them.
3. Some people genuinely believe that Phil is their role model. His talk about how he does everything correct and others fuck him over constantly is very appealing to people who have the same outlook on life, lack of self-reflection and inability to change.
4. LARPers. They don't really like Phil and try to troll him. Some of them go too far and actually tip him. Pretty stupid. But also pretty rare nowadays.
5. And finally, we have the real outcasts. People who are disabled, undiagnosed or just plain weird.
Pretty good categorization, however, I think it's just different strains of the same autism, in order;
1. Paypigs, yes in a parasitic relationship with a pigroach, but still paypigs.
2. Deluded paypigs, at least members of group 1 have no illusions about their gay infatuation with Phil Burnell.
3. Dents in wheelchairs. Slayer is the king of them having ascended to category 1.
4. Deluded paypigs. snowcuck is the most persistent of them.
5. Lol-milk-cows, being cucks to a lolcow pigroach.
So basically, three different veins of cope from #1 paypigs, then literal #2 dented wheelchair watchers and outright other #3 lolcows herding with their bull lolcow out on the digital range.
There's also finsubs who love to be berated for their money. Kino seems to have a lot of them, and I'm sure Phil has a few too.
The "based" cope from this category of degenerate recently around Phil has been the most distasteful thing about the goutosphere for me this fall, like when CWC got weened to critical mass, bossmanjack speed ran this status too in less than a year.
FYI these are the same people who buy sonichu comics and ask Chris for shout outs.

's ruin everything applies to it all, yes. The number of spergs out and proud to be one now is astonishing.