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Just cause you're "married" Phil, doesn't mean you'll get any sex. There are countless cases of people who are married haven't had sex in months,years, and sometimes never. Considering how Kat is turned off being around you all the time, you also look like another case of a sexless marriage. Congrats on being ignorant once again.
 
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Last night I was searching for Phil's original playthrough of Red Dead Redemption, but couldn't find it. I understand that he created a special channel for his playthrough of Rockstar Games because of fears of channel strikes or something like that. But now it appears the channel doesn't exist anymore. So I presume the original Red Dead playthrough is gone? I would like to see it if anyone can point to a mirror anywhere.
 
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N0thingICanDo said:
Click the link below to hear Phil explaining his sex life after getting married



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"IM MARRIED, STOOPID!"

Oh, now I understand. The subtext of course is, "now that I'm married, Kat has my balls in a vise and no longer needs to do a thing to ingratiate herself to me, as I was too characteristically foolish and shortsighted to get a prenup".

Understood. Thanks for clarifying, Phil!
 
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Nigel of Ukip said:
So I've been checking out some DSP detractors and can someone fill me in on why LSB is popular? He seems really cringe trying very hard to be Tevin and constantly showing his power level. Beanerology is also his mod which is beyond funny if you know Beanerology's drama that involves Ralph.

Who actually is somewhat original any fun to follow? I need more deep deep lore.
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No clue. He's pretty cringe indeed. Le reddit humor "doggo cam" and saying " like, fuckin," every 5 seconds. Also it seems like he doesn't like jews, but unironically loves Donald Trump (Zion Don) Also probably a weeb. Memo's a bit of a lolcow too. His channel went to shit. I don't see the appeal in either of them, but apparently others do. Fair enough.

Tevin is the only one with actual charisma and is a proper a historian that knows the lore. I'd say his stream is the best apart from the obnoxious bits. I like Dark Dave's a lot, too. Mostly because it doesn't have a thousand people in it.

I don't understand his problem with the frog emote. Its not a detractor meme, that i'm aware of.

Also is KingofGalfHD the same person as Jon Cuck?
 
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big ups liquid richard said:
Gotcha, thanks.

Frogs Playing Golf was a tevin chat-tard i believe, i noticed he threw at least 20 bucks in bits at him before he got shit canned. Cucked.
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I wonder what percantage of Phil's income comes from "detractors" at this point? I bet that dude will come back under a new HILARIOUS name to give him more money. Sigh.
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You're right, he probably will.
His whales make up most of the income but there's only about 6-8 of them at any given time.
"Trolls" definitely make up a significant amount though. Certain days his stream would actually be near death if it wasn't for the constant stream of 1 dollar troll tips and 100 bit bait cheers.
I'm not counting patreon or youtube in this estimate.
 
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big ups liquid richard said:
No clue. He's pretty cringe indeed. Le reddit humor "doggo cam" and saying " like, fuckin," every 5 seconds. Also it seems like he doesn't like jews, but unironically loves Donald Trump (Zion Don) Also probably a weeb. Memo's a bit of a lolcow too. His channel went to shit. I don't see the appeal in either of them, but apparently others do. Fair enough.

Tevin is the only one with actual charisma and is a proper a historian that knows the lore. I'd say his stream is the best apart from the obnoxious bits. I like Dark Dave's a lot, too. Mostly because it doesn't have a thousand people in it.
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Yeah, if there's one thing you can't deny Tevin, it's that he knows his history and is willing to go through a bunch of videos to point out hypocrisy and retcons, and generally he knows what to search for and it doesn't take him long to find it if he's doing it mid-stream.
 
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samovski said:
I'm curious about how big he was at the start. Back when he actually seemed to like his job, was he ever close to being the biggest LPer? Or was he always on the heels of better creators?
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Synth said:
Yeah, around 2008.

I think it depends on what you consider widespread acknowledgement of his existence, though. His first playthrough of FO3 is what I can remember being his first "breakthrough" game that got him any kind of recognition, and that was in 2008. Part 1 sits at like 180k views right now, Part 2 at 80k, and then his usual drop in viewer retention that looks something like a graph of the inverse square law.

You can't look at views over time of a video on YT anymore and I don't care enough to try and extract that information anywhere else, but I imagine most of those were when his channel was new. Back in that time period, getting that sort of viewership was pretty good and he was actually showing up high on search lists/front page or whatever the hell YT did to promote content back then. So I think people were starting to be aware of who he was, and it was pretty significant considering the time period, but his problem is that he never really grew beyond that.
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His gaming the system saw his vids on the YT Front Page back in the day. It was based off views in a certain period of time as to which vids got on the front page. D$P figured out quick that if he got his vids uploads ASAP he'd get lots of views, which would get him on the Front Page...which would generate more views. He mentioned several times that he was uploading vids while recording more gameplay. What he did was to go get the game at a Midnight release. Rush home and immediately start filming with his camera. He's play for ~30 mins, remove the card from his camera, take it to his PC and start uploading his first three 10 min videos in individual tabs ( which is why his uploads were often not in sequential order as sometimes a vid would finish processing before another). He then put another card in his camera and go back to recording while his vids uploaded. As most LPers played for an entire sitting and would more often than not EDIT said footage which took time, D$P's first 3 episodes would be Live (on YT ) for folks to watch before most of the other LPer's.

Additionally, the sheer volume of vids he spammed onto the platform on a daily basis served to place his on the generated search page due to the way Keywords and Tags worked back then.

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He's threatening doing a wagequit on MLB The Show 19. If after tonight "people are still bored" (read: don't shower him with money) he'll drop the game, because in that case "it's just not [a game] for us".
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The best part of that is his bitching about not being brought up the the majors yet and that his chat is "bored" and wants something new when literally nobody in his chat has complained about him not getting brought up.
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He's just talking out his ass to justify another wage quit. He can never just man up and admit something, he's always gotta justify it.
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D$P seems to think that promotion to the Majors should be based off of Time Spent Playing not something silly like one's performance. Don't think I've ever seen a worse example of the 'Participation Trophy' generation. 'I shouldn't have to earn achievements! I should be allowed to progress/win because I've been playing the game.'
 
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big ups liquid richard said:
You're right, he probably will.
His whales make up most of the income but there's only about 6-8 of them at any given time.
They definitely make up a significant amount though. Certain days his stream would actually be near death if it wasn't for the constant stream of 1 dollar troll tips and 100 bit cheers.
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He's got like a dozen whales who routinely tip him larger amounts ($10-$20 weekly), and about a dozen more who will tip him smaller amounts frequently. In that first group, there's usually like 5-6 who make up the majority of his contributions.

Everyone else who gives him money is throwing quarters at him or shoving singles into his thong trying to get him to dance a little longer. It's that group that keeps him floating as it's a few hundred people that might donate two or three bucks a week to ask him bait questions, or sub to buy a little bit of protection.

Again, Dave goes as his trolls do. If they all up and disappeared, so would he.
 
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mollymawk said:
Last night I was searching for Phil's original playthrough of Red Dead Redemption, but couldn't find it. I understand that he created a special channel for his playthrough of Rockstar Games because of fears of channel strikes or something like that. But now it appears the channel doesn't exist anymore. So I presume the original Red Dead playthrough is gone? I would like to see it if anyone can point to a mirror anywhere.
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He made a separate channel for rockstar games called red dead dsp or something, but that channel got hacked and deleted, which is part of the reason he replayed those games later. They may not exist anymore. He also made a channel for final fantasy 13 but that also got stolen.
 
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TheyGotUgatz said:
I wonder what percantage of Phil's income comes from "detractors" at this point? I bet that dude will come back under a new HILARIOUS name to give him more money. Sigh.
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big ups liquid richard said:
You're right, he probably will.
His whales make up most of the income but there's only about 6-8 of them at any given time.
"Trolls" definitely make up a significant amount though. Certain days his stream would actually be near death if it wasn't for the constant stream of 1 dollar troll tips and 100 bit bait cheers.
I'm not counting patreon or youtube in this estimate.
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Again, Dave goes as his trolls do. If they all up and disappeared, so would he.
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I tried to figure this out at one point, and at least for tips, the outright troll tips were like 5-7%. Cheers...well, I'm not going to go through hundreds of cheers to identify how many are trolls, tbh. I would wildly speculate that trolls account for maybe $500-$800 a month, depending on if we count people who encourage others to gift them subs and whatnot. If someone really wanted to, they could go to my monthly roundups and look through the cheers and subs. I include the cheerer's name, so someone could definitely make a judgement from that, at least. Or just add all the 25 and 50 bit cheers and assume each one is a troll.
 
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I tried to figure this out at one point, and at least for tips, the outright troll tips were like 5-7%. Cheers...well, I'm not going to go through hundreds of cheers to identify how many are trolls, tbh. I would wildly speculate that trolls account for maybe $500-$800 a month, depending on if we count people who encourage others to gift them subs and whatnot. If someone really wanted to, they could go to my monthly roundups and look through the cheers and subs. I include the cheerer's name, so someone could definitely make a judgement from that, at least. Or just add all the 25 and 50 bit cheers and assume each one is a troll.
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I know you're pretty diligent with tracking the numbers, and, even if I think there's a lot of speculation and it's somewhat inaccurate, I'll give you props for doing it. I think this kind of falls into that category as well, even on my end, but I'd bargain that the percentage is much, much higher than that.

If you're talking about things that are outright insults or obvious "detractor memes" or what have you, that number might be on target, but there really is a nuance to understanding his chat and viewership. I don't know if/how much time you spend there but there is most definitely a game of seeing how far you can push your luck, how much can you disguise your bait and get him to go on a tangent, etc. -- things that wouldn't necessarily show up on a radar when trying to parse what is and isn't money from a troll.

If you're talking about total dollar amounts vs. number of donations, then I think the number is closer to what you're speculating, but I still think you're low-balling it significantly. There's people in there like vote_democrat who's routinely been at/near the top of his weekly leader board for like a month now, but everything I've ever seen him ask has obviously been a bait question or something trying to get under his skin. He falls into that category of people that some would say is a genuine fan pretending to be an ironic fan purely based on the amount of money he gives, but I see it more as people having different levels of disposable income and looking at those sorts of numbers differently. Throwing 30 bucks a week at a circus clown probably means nothing to someone pulling in 150k a year. That's 1% of your income for a few hours of entertainment and attention 6 nights a week.

But yeah, that's my take. I get where you're coming from, but I still think you're low-balling that by a fair bit. Personally, I don't care enough to go through everything and come up with some kind of tally, I'm just giving my two cents on what I see by watching his chat, which is an entirely different experience than watching it via a restreamer, which a lot of people miss.
 
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He's like a rotten apple or something that deteriorates over time. Grotesque looking mutant.
 
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