DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell - General Discussion

[LordAutismo]

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Does it come with a Wolverine toy?

 

[werek89]

Agreed. Instead of waiting for the uploads he could make thumbnails. It's not even hard to do it, it takes minutes or even seconds because they can look like however he wants.

Tier 1: Some of the most popular youtubers have a simple screenshot (search for a good capture that should look promising in your thumbnail) with bland text.
Tier 2: Some have no screenshot but the game title and only change the episode number on the thumb
Tier 3: And the fancy ones are with screenshot + changing episode number
Tier 4: And the most fancy ones have additional artworks

Phil can't even accomplish Tier 0: Black background and shitty text from MS Paint

Yes, its true i could imagine that phil is a beginner, but he's been in youtube for over 10 years. The best titles are "Troll send me more Tips or Who made the Cardboard. If this was a prank or a experiment I can understand this.

But for his methods, it is rather disrespectful and largely dumb.

 

[andr0id psycho sho(ker]

Yes, its true i could imagine that phil is a beginner, but he's been in youtube for over 10 years. The best titles are "Troll send me more Tips or Who made the Cardboard. If this was a prank or a experiment I can understand this.

But for his methods, it is rather disrespectful and largely dumb.

Hasn't phil been disrespectful and dumb throughout his youtube and gaming career? He's stayed pretty consistent on that front

 

[Waveysauce]

The problem is even his largest supporters are running out of money to give him. He's jerking off his viewership dry, and he doesn't seem to understand that.

It's one thing to expect them to float you a few grand on one rare occasion -- but expecting them to give you thousands of dollars every month for the same issue is ridiculous. At that point you seriously need to start reevaluating your financial decisions/plans for the future. But instead he thinks everything will be okay if he keeps hounding the same 300 people for money every single day until god knows when.

And instead of cultivating new growth through shit every other streamer does (branching out with his content, doing collaborations, interacting with his community, etc), he thinks it's a smart idea to put the shit his fans actually want to see behind paywalls so he can squeeze even more shekels out of them.

He's always boasting about his business degree, but it's obvious he has no idea what he's doing. Reality is going to smack his ass hard when he defaults on that first tax payment.

If he was smart he would at least TRY applying for real jobs now. As you said his biggest pay pigs are gone. He has to beg the same small group left every month. He works at a "job" that offers no 401k or any benefits. He is slowly dying and has nothing to fall back on. But claims a 9-5 would be easy so he should just do it....but we all know he would die even as a cashier or fast food worker. Honestly dont know where he thinks he will be working in 4 years. Its sad he really thinks he will still be on twitch being able to do the same shit

 

[Pubic Enemy #1]

I completely agree. Phil isn't concerned with actual growth, he is only concerned with money.

This right here sums up Phil perfectly. Phil is a guy who held his begathon in December, made $10k that month, and thought "sweet, I have $10,000 now!" like it was just money that he had in his pocket to spend on whatever he wanted. He never invests a penny back into his business apart from buying new games. He never sets aside any money for his bills or debts or taxes, he just sees the money in his pocket and thinks its his money. It's his business' money, and there's a subtle difference, one that Phil can't seem to understand.

You think when Pewdiepie, or Game Grumps, or any big internet personality really, made their first million dollars in revenue they went "wowee, I'm a millionaire now, time to buy a speedboat!" and just spent it all? No, because they have other costs and other shit to pay for for their business first. Just because you're self-employed doesn't mean you just pocket every penny you earn. You don't need to have a bizniz degree to know that.

 

[Monday Michiru]

DSP doesn't make headlines (besides that one time when he masturbated). The minor "fanbase" he has is just supremely dedicated for some reason (:autism.

I wonder how many people comprise the DSPhere, all sides considered. 100,000? The SoK started getting 1,000 on stream in 2017, and dozens of thousands of video views. Other commentary riffers or mirror channels all punch above their sub counts views-wise.

Phil only has 25,000 Twitter followers. And not-fantastic engagement. He can barely get 100 favorites on tweets. Drgnkiller gets more buzz. (Good job blocking 1/10th of the userbase, you obese Steve Shives!) Also, 6.5 million lifetime Twitch views. This megathread mindblowingly has 7 million views now, almost 5 years after the OP.

Because in Phil's world his gaming PC was a failure because it couldn't simultaneously play a graphic intensive game, record AND stream. Since his main source of information is the WWE Network and he knows nothing about the thing that he makes his money off (video games) that means that the 20 million steam users are not just people on toaster PCs but privileged people who are able to afford master race PC gaming rigs that can play games, record and stream at the same time.

Re: his main sources of information:

Lack of interaction with the wider society, or even his chosen subculture. He follows 68 people on Twitter, zero on Instagram, zero on Twitch, barely reads gaming articles, and admits to never watching YouTube videos.

Phil doesn't like Reddit, is scared of Discord, only reads GameFaqs for walkthroughs, and hasn't posted on SRK (or any forum) in 10-15 years? He'd be laughed off SRK if he tried to return, of course. Going by DSP threads on 4chan /v/ he has a small cult of ironic followers there, but do you think Phil even knows what 4chan is?

The reason 2018 has been the best Phil season in years is because organized trolling has pretty much dead.

We have discussed with no resolution the idea that the absence of organized trolling and a 30,000-to-50,000-views podcast is the reason he has seemingly gone into overdrive the last six months.

 

[snappedspines]

I asked how much 1000 bits is and all his mods kept saying the dollar amount. Lots of other users doing it now as well. He has also lost 2 subs and is down to 425

 

[neger psykolog]

I wonder how many people comprise the DSPhere, all sides considered. 100,000? The SoK started getting 1,000 on stream in 2017, and dozens of thousands of video views. Other commentary riffers or mirror channels all punch above their sub counts views-wise.

Phil only has 25,000 Twitter followers. And not-fantastic engagement. He can barely get 100 favorites on tweets. Drgnkiller gets more buzz. (Good job blocking 1/10th of the userbase, you obese Steve Shives!) Also, 6.5 million lifetime Twitch views. This megathread mindblowingly has 7 million views now, almost 5 years after the OP.

I think the only reason for the large amount of commentary surrounding Phil is that he's easy to hate. He acts like an ass. His Twitter profile is smug. He's just an all around piece of shit. That's probably the only way to explain the volume of attention surrounding him.

I have no doubt that if it weren't for the masturbation incident a large number of people would have no idea who he was and that stuff like the SoK and Twitter accounts surrounding Phil would probably been quite a bit more obscure.

 

[BallBuster]

He can barely get 100 favorites on tweets

More like 20-25 favorites. All those followers must have been gifted.

 

[Accoutrement]

a lot of the good stuff lately has been generated by phil himself. He never stops generating lolz. Is jealous cause a 11 year old girl has a gaming pc. Says he would pimp slap a 11 year old girl. Random youtuber Elpressador makes a drama video. It just never ends with Phil.

"Gaming PC" The kid probably got her parents old laptop. Phil was a computer enthusiast, guyz.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I wonder how many people comprise the DSPhere, all sides considered. 100,000? The SoK started getting 1,000 on stream in 2017, and dozens of thousands of video views. Other commentary riffers or mirror channels all punch above their sub counts views-wise.

Phil only has 25,000 Twitter followers. And not-fantastic engagement. He can barely get 100 favorites on tweets. Drgnkiller gets more buzz. (Good job blocking 1/10th of the userbase, you obese Steve Shives!) Also, 6.5 million lifetime Twitch views. This megathread mindblowingly has 7 million views now, almost 5 years after the OP.


Re: his main sources of information:



We have discussed with no resolution the idea that the absence of organized trolling and a 30,000-to-50,000-views podcast is the reason he has seemingly gone into overdrive the last six months.

He's a sideshow attraction where a lot of passersby will look at. I'm sure those guys hear through the grapevines what he's up to.

@neger psykolog @Null How many views does this thread get on a daily basis?

 

[The Ancestor]

I can't wait for him to bring back his emergency vlogs, like end of 2016. There's one thing I really liked that the SoK pointed out, on his 3rd or 4th video, he said he has to block comments because of the 'trolls' when in reality it was also his own fans who pushed back, since they already helped with the previous vlog emergencies. It'll be very interesting if he attempts one now with the way Twitch is, and his paypigs dropping faster than celebrities.

 

[Done]

We have discussed with no resolution the idea that the absence of organized trolling and a 30,000-to-50,000-views podcast is the reason he has seemingly gone into overdrive the last six months.

I think that indirectly, it has.

Remember that organized groups targeting Phil (e.g. SoK, KWO) has created a lot of sympathy for him among his fans, not to mention that it heavily reaffirms his worldview, now he has to generate money by using his own ideas and charm, which are things he definitely doesn't have.

Of course, going with either of our statements is a gross oversimplification, we can't say that the trolling doesn't have an effect at all because most of the events I listed involved trolls in one way or another, and we can't say that they have great effect because a lot of them involved trolls reporting DSP to some authority or capping said events.

The DSPsphere works in mysterious ways, my friends.

He's a sideshow attraction where a lot of passersby will look at. I'm sure those guys hear through the grapevines what he's up to.

@neger psykolog @Null How many views does this thread get on a daily basis?

Keep in mind that repeat viewers and non-member clicks are going to be a huge factor here, think of how many times you visit or refresh this thread and multiply it by the number of regulars.

IMO, a far better metric is to see how many people follow DRGNkiller or Fred Fuchs at their peaks and utilize a +/- 10% margin of error (for socks or dead accounts..etc), because their accounts aren't appealing to anyone who doesn't know/care about DSP or his zany adventures in vidya streaming.

 

[Panpizza]

Phil was able to milk his fanbase hard these past three months because of the surge of drama around him. He makes himself out to be a victim, and his mouth-breathing fanbase doubles down with their support. Notice how now that the drama around Phil has quieted, he's bleeding like a stuck pig?

Yeah, the best way to see Phil suffer is to starve him of attention and let him bore his audience to death. He's complete shit as a streamer, and that really shows when he has no drama to latch onto and is forced to instead showcase his non-existent game commentary and chat interaction skills. Phil's at his most hilarious when he starts whining about nobody watching his shit or "supporting" his stream.

 

[LordAutismo]

"Do you like Radiohead, Kat?"

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What's with all this paper on the floor? Do you have a chow or something?

 

[Accoutrement]

What's with all this paper on the floor? Do you have a chow or something?

I can't use the toilet because of my back problem ACK ACK ACK.

 

[LordAutismo]

I can't use the toilet because of my back problem ACK ACK ACK.

But why are they all torn up McDonalds take out bags?

 

[Keystone]

I agree in part, but DSP's smug reaction so far is great in showing what kind of person he is:
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This coming from a guy that just ate his first strike not even a week ago.

If he actually ends up getting suspended again over the "11 year old girl saga" then it will be a true festival of autism. How someone who so dearly relies on Twitch for money can be so smug... well that's DSP being DSP.

Phil being smug is the harbinger of woes for him. Like I and many others have pointed out before, every time he gets smug he inevitably gets pimp slapped to the ground by reality. If he's actually fucking dumb enough to get smug over this "Shit talking an 11 yr old" incident then he's for sure gonna eat that second suspension, or some other hilarious repercussion.

 

[CausticMinory]

I know Phil is a bumbling idiot most of the time, but do you think he chose to do vr chat cause he figured something would come up that would cause controversy? Like with his WOW stream? Like he'd figure one of his trolls would mess with him that would cause his paypigs to donate for his feefees. He wouldn't have expected an 11 year old girl would be the one though.

 

[gobbogobb]

I know Phil is a bumbling idiot most of the time, but do you think he chose to do vr chat cause he figured something would come up that would cause controversy? Like with his WOW stream? Like he'd figure one of his trolls would mess with him that would cause his paypigs to donate for his feefees. He wouldn't have expected an 11 year old girl would be the one though.

Absolutely. He was expecting de vey memes and Leanna jokes he could rightfully laugh off as stale. Like I said earlier. He can’t hit the curveballs.