Phil: "If I didn't exist, the landscape of the internet would be different and there would be a lot of people in totally different places than they are today. My internet presence has had an impact on a lot of people."
Thread full of ridiculous users who spend every day obsessively dissecting every scrap of anything DSP says/does:
"Nuh uh! That's delusional! Where would DSP get that silly idea! Lol!"
Phil's correct, his bizarre existence has prominantly impacted the internet, and technically therefore life.
I don't know if I'd agree with his summarization that it's overall "positive", it's been a very mixed bag (although I think it's positive because it's funny and that's all I care about), but nobody can argue the enigma that is DarkSydePhil hasn't had an unusually large effect on internet culture, especially when you take into account how few other people have had a hand in Philburt's "career".
That's a well aimed holiday truth bomb.