View attachment 956695I've said it already, but I'm convinced the reason he set the tips goal to $1,000 for the "Special Retrospective" was because it was a topic of discussion during TheQuartering interview, the day previous. You'll notice Phil rapidly gains momentum in talking as the interview progresses, as he gets into the flow of it. There's a conversation 30 minutes in about how "everyone who contributed was SUPER happy" at the 1K cat reveal. It's only asshole trolls who spin it into something it's not. There was a minute where Phil was talking about the "conspiracy" of Planet Jeff coming in at the tail end to casually drop $1K, with Phil reflecting on how setting the goal so high actually succeeded because "
I know my fans will support me if I ask them to".
The point is; I believe it dawned on Phil the day before the Retrospective that he might have discovered a secret to making large amounts of money by setting the goal improbably high, that the 1K cat reveal was not a fluke. And I believe he set it to $1K to test that. Also, emboldened by the interview, and justified in his mind by his looming payments.
I see much more people laughing at the fact that he only received $140/1000 the other day, when he still received $140. He could put an astronomical tips goal beside all his streams and play it off as a failure, and still walk away with $100+. Phil is always spinning plates and pulling strings, when it's a "slow-day", you have a wave of support the following day to fill the perceived gap. The Special Retrospective was a "failure", so we need to step up tomorrow to make up for the lack of support the previous day. Phil is basically tweaking around with manipulative appeal system.
Something amusing I never thought about was there was never a reward at the end of the tunnel if the $1K was met, unlike the cat reveal. As with the daily $100 tips goal,
there is no reward.
