The only concrete reason I heard him state for hiding the cat was 'because we didn't want detractors making up negative lies about him[Jasper]-such a pahsitive thing-when we were in such a bad, stressful financial sitiation", translated from Pigroachian and run through a De-garbler it's literally he hid the cat because he was afraid it would fuck up his begging narrative.
Exactly. It's the same position he would have been in if he had revealed this information for free. The only difference is the $2000 that got deposited into his PayPal account, and that's not even including the extra cheer and sub money he suckered out of these people.
And I really want to emphasize that. In no fucking way is Phil some kind of innocent victim in this scenario. His "muh trolls" excuse holds no water whatsoever. He sat here lying to these people because he knew they would be pissed if he told him he got a cat and followed it up with constant begathons he claimed were for bills and taxes. That's not a detractor spin, that's not defamatory, that's not making shit up. That's absolute fact.
There is a huge difference in narrative between telling your lie as: "A cat is something I'm not looking into at the moment" and "I can't afford a cat, getting money for my bills is more important right now."
The only reason you would feel the need to spin your response the latter way is for the purpose of deceiving people into giving you money. That's not a lie that's told out of fear, that's a lie that's told out of greed.
He wanted his 10 IQ paypigs to go "Oh wow, Phil is so broke that he can't even afford a cat, that's so sad. I guess I should give him money to help him with those bills"; Phil was fully aware of what the optics were. The trolls didn't make him get a cat he shouldn't have gotten, and the trolls didn't make him lie to everyone about it for months; but he has so little respect for the people that give him money that he has no remorse over taking advantage of their generosity. He doesn't need to change his lifestyle, he doesn't need to make smart financial decisions, you just need to keep giving him money whenever he says needs it.
And yet these retards believe being blatantly conned and manipulated by this dude like that is somehow holding a W against "the trolls". It blows my fucking mind.
His other justifications for it are also complete garbage. He wants to spin this as some kind of benevolence on his part, when it's more than obvious that's not the case.
- It wasn't a scenario for him to unveil a brand new stream mascot (even accepting the ridiculous claim people were begging for one)
- It wasn't because he wanted to introduce him to the viewers formally.
- It wasn't because he thought it would be a genuine improvement to his content.
- It wasn't because this was positive news worth sharing.
The sole purpose was the squeeze money out of his viewership. Period. Even if you put the blatant contradictions and lies aside, there's still no justification for putting this behind a paywall. There were no unexpected bills, no taxes, no overdraft fees, fucking nothing. This faggot is always begging for contributions; there's never a time when he doesn't need to beg for contributions. What makes this circumstance so special that you need $1000 by the end of the night?
The only reason to do that shit would be for the sake of exploiting your viewership; which he confirmed by expressly stating that the unveil wouldn't happen without them hitting the goal. That's him seriously admitting that he would have continued to lie to and grift these people if they couldn't come up with he ransom he demanded. To somehow to spin that on the trolls is absolute horseshit. That's called pure, objective fucking greed (and it's clearly massively strong).
What took place here is the textbook definition of a confidence trick. He deceived his viewers into believing that it would only happen if they managed to come up with $1000, or they would miss out on the big reveal; all while knowing planetjeff was going to be sending him enough money to cover whatever money (if any) was missing at the end. He planted this fear of missing out in his viewers heads in order to spur urgent donations in a scenario that never actually called for them.
How that's an acceptable thing to do on Twitch? I have no fucking idea.
