GeneticGamer was salty that Phil didn't answer his questions.
Phil retorted that cheering isn't about having your essay questions answered, it's about supporting the streamer.
It boggles my mind that he demands interaction, restricts it to only limited types of comments, then sits and stews in silence because he can't provide commentary of his own.
At this point, he might as well entertain all paragraphs, baits and essay questions. It might actually fill the void and cut down on the goat laughs.
Genetic and 3rd Eye repeatedly cheer with pointed questions that Phil is obviously scared to address, but he keeps unbanning them because they are some of his most consistent cheers at the moment. Then he points out that he's not going to answer them so everyone can go and look at what he is refusing to answer. If he isn't going to engage them, he needs to get rid of them permanently, he can't let things hang in this limbo. NewFaceofCreation is less of a disruption than this.
It's literally Phil's job to make his stream fun and entertaining, no matter what game he's playing.
The curious thing about this is that he stresses that his presence is the necessary component, and that his raw content is transformative. But here he is tacitly saying that the game carries the entertainment value, and that isn't his responsibility. Phil is again trying to occupy some limbo that grants him the protection of actually doing something, without the effort that is required to do the thing in question.
Saying that something is fun does not magically make it fun. Don't force it. He needs to play the game like no one is watching him (not a huge stretch of the imagination) if he wants it to be actually fun.
And the problem with this is that Phil has no skill and is stupid, as we saw in the days before he had access to a chat. This was when his content was best received because it was actually fun to watch him fail. But Phil's ego can't allow this, and his lack of skills mean that the playthrough will never be engaging for being unique, only laughable. If he could just embrace the notion that he is shit and that is the joke, and ban all backseating in chat (other streamers do this), he might actually see some growth. I think he is too far down this rabbit hole to even try that, though.
EDIT: Minor detail, but Phil silently just started leaving the leaderboard up for every game. He originally made a big deal that it would only be for games that were not cinematic/brand new playthroughs. It has been up for both Spider-Man and Red Dead, two games that should definitely not have it. Another thing he screamed about in the past that he is now doing.
