A great example on why the TKHO forums are the most toxic forum about video gaming and twitch streaming:
- OP makes a solid point, at least he does it in a way that is not right out insulting. It however contains critic about Phil and therefore the thread is already doomed.
- One TKOH regular, Meteo in this case, instantly comes up with a bullshit defense because other Twitch streamers beg as well. That doesn't make Phil a better person if he does it during Twitch streams. The argument is instantly used to derail the thread.
- Another user shows up and derails the thread further. Notice this derailing will be used against the OP no matter how solid his argument is. If you criticize Phil in any shape, the TKOH attack force (Sammy Samosa, hardcoreparkour and some others) will derail the thread on purpose, knowing they will get away.
- Finally, a third user appears and calls the OP by a different name, implying that OP is a sock account. This also happens a lot and almost every new user is suspicious being a sock another of one of the many banned users. Getting banned on TKOH is no hard achievement, honestly.
The only thing that this thread is missing is it getting closed without explanation by a mod and then re-opened by Phil who writes a text wall explaining why the OP is an idiot and why everybody disagreeing with him is a moron before closing the thread again. It is too easy for him to ensure having the last word rather than leaving the thread open. It's also possible that mods will delete the thread and ban the user before Phil shows up.
That's TKOH forum in a nutshell. Hundreds of users have been banned no matter what intentions they had and the Patreon donators stay in the forum and can get away without any punishment.