DSP loves to say he's "busting my ass", it's a meme at this point. First example I remember was that infamous Layton vs. Wright prestream where he whined about low views & how he was "busting my ass" on the voice acting - which was cringey as fuck IMO, and clearly not "busting my ass".
Alas I never got a hard source on this, but people talked of late 2014 prestreams where DSP had something similar to 2015 & 2016's 'viewer wall' in which streams had to get 400 viewers or that playthrough wasn't worth streaming and went offline. In 2014 the rumour was DSP stated that if playthrough videos don't get 1K views in 24 hours, they weren't worth continuing. This likely explains dropping stuff like Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus and Sonic Boom WiiU.
If you're wondering, I'd argue the 2017 equivalent is a subtle 'income wall' where the Twitch streams have to pull in enough money, even more so if it's going to get ContentID claimed to justify the 'lost' YouTube ad revenue e.g. Mario Odyssey. DSP is however at least smart enough to not make that blatant. The most I've seen is a bunch of stream outros (and one break) where he'll note that it's been "slow" for Twitch income. Plus while I was archiving Mrhuth's vidme channel I saw his "WiP Begging" video, a clip from April 16th 2017's Week in Preview... DSP already noticed Twitch income slowing down in under 2 months since going 'full time streamer'. Video is timestamped to the 5+ minute clip starting at 16:20, also a highlight at 20:02 of "I've literally worked myself to the bone here."
DSP did not sound angry to me when I watched this prestream, he sounded smug - like he was enjoying these claims and had the attitude of 'these people are idiots, and are proving my point right now'. I won't be surprised if we see an 'answer' on Ask the King or part of the Christmas Day 'Christmas & Chill' essentially Hate Live video saying detractors are all idiots because they all believe this sort of stuff.
I don't want to touch this 'who is DSP's girlfriend?' shit with a 10 foot pole, no hard evidence. All I'll say is keeping a 'girlfriend' with these new backtax issues is ridiculous, and it can't justify keeping that house - if DSP wanted someone to move in with him, they could live in a one bedroom apartment & lose the tax writeoff status by not having a dedicated office room.
The only grace I'll give DSP is if he'd set up this December visit BEFORE he knew about the backtaxes and his financial situation got that much worse. I will assume this 'girlfriend' visited for the July, October and 'confirmed' December time off periods of a few days each.
That's nothing, that is likely just the current stack he or they were watching recently. He has a wall of BluRays in the kitchen, we've seen it in a few vlogs. I took these screencaps from the most recent example I could find, summer 2016 after the parents cleaned up. DSP even called it "my giant BluRay collection, right?". I also love the fact he has two more empty racks ready to fill with BluRays on the 'windowsill' looking into the living room.
EDIT: I forgot to mention, DSP talked at some point about giving all his DVDs to his dad before moving, and he thinks they were thrown away. So DSP likely had a LOT more than this before the move, remember he was on the "gravy train" in 2011/12 when BluRays were mainstream. Also DSP should have cancelled Netflix now - by my guess, the free month trial and the $25 giftcard he was given should have been spent in these 3? months. So he hadn't 'paid' for Netflix himself. WWE Network, Amazon Video (via Prime), now PSVue to replace cable TV, those he does pay for. He's also adamant about not paying for Crunchyroll or any other anime streaming service.
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