- Joined
- May 23, 2019
Yes, Phil has a wife so he doesn't need to virtually date video game women.I think we all agree that the no-waifu-content rule DSP pulled out of his ass all of a sudden is mind-bogglingly dumb and extremely childish, but I'm willing to take it a step further and say that, from a professional point of view, he's actually fucking over his audience, thus fucking over himself (as usual).
He says he doesn't "need it (anymore)", which would mean that if he did decide to dive into waifu content, it wouldn't affect him. He's a grown man and happily married after all, right? Well, then what exactly is the reason for denying your viewers content intended by game developers to be consumed and experienced? And with viewers I mean the people who throw money at him so he can keep paying his 2nd mortgage and play through content created by said developers. It's part of the game, it's in there for a reason. You're hurting the experience people are paying you for, even if that experience is as shallow as "lolol, look at the bouncy bewbs!" You can at least have a laugh about it and be done with it, and no one would think anything of it.
But what he's doing now, is basically giving (random) viewers an excuse to possibly stop contributing. I mean, he's in no position whatsoever to actively ignore segments of a game people might be looking forward to seeing him play. If he'd still be making the big bucks on Youtube, sure, why the hell not? But the the Mister Twitch DSP from 2019? No way.
I think what he's doing in this regard is so dumb from both a general/social and professional point of view, that I'm having issues with finding words to correctly explain how I feel about this, but I hope it made sense anyway.
-edit- I forgot to add:
DSP is a weird man.
But how many of his viewers have wives? Phil is not a children's entertainer. He plays totally serious full adult games like Donkey Kong, Crash Bandicoot, and Super Mario. His viewers don't want to see sexy ladies, they want to watch chill Minecraft fishing.
Phil knows his audience. It's not like almost every hardcore fan of his who gets doxed has some degenerate sexual fetish. Saru's futa boxing obsession, Sidella's twitter stalking of underage girls, Lutherkujo and his gay furry F-list, Swaggins and his Twitch thot ASMR, etc.