Just a question in which hopefully someone can clear up: When Darks lost his adsense account back in the day, I was under the impression that the account loss was permanent. Was he able to get it back or did he have to utilize someone else's credentials to establish a new one? If it's the latter I'm assuming that this could fall under fraudulent activity. Thanks in advance.
I assume most people who look into this don't actually look into how to get around a Google AdSense ban. It's really not as hard as people seem to think, in fact some of the methods are so easy Phil might have done it without even knowing. Something as simple as changing your mailing address can get Google to approve a new account after you've been b&.
So 'yes', technically if you get your personal AdSense account b& it's 'forever and there's no appeals process and you can never get another one', and that's what the first Google search results will tell you.
While Phil's account was b& in 2011 he didn't try to use an AdSense account until 2017 after he had demanded Machinima fire him or cater to his personality disorder. At that point he had literally moved across the entire country, and iirc there was some system update in 2016 that allowed people previously b& to open a new account. Phil likely just thought he was plugging in his old data and he just got a new account because his old info had been purged and/or didn't match the new info he entered, and Phil thought 'Whoa, the ban expired dood!'
Also people like to say 'You can only have one AdSense account and Phil says he has two! Phil's a LIAR & a SCAMMER!' but this isn't true either. Sure if you look at the first Google search results they tell you everyone is only allowed to have one
Personal AdSense account, but there is such a thing as a Business AdSense account. You can have both a Personal AdSense account and be the account manager for a Business AdSense account that pays out to you. You can even have someone else who isn't b& make a Business AdSense account then de-associate themselves from the account and designate you as account manager if you've had a Personal account ban and aren't allowed to create a Business account because of this.
In 2017 Phil likely made a Business account when partnering his main channel with Curse and a Personal account to put his other channels under. We've also seen him get his DSPGayming account b& when he got released from Curse, and during the short ban
he still had a second open and active AdSense account that he linked to his main channel after he cried enough. This is why I think his main channel was under a Business account. I highly doubt he ever used Leanna's AdSense account.
I do think it's an interesting point that he didn't list either of his AdSense accounts on his bankruptcy filing similar to how he left his Paypal account off. That would bring the total to 3 financial accounts he owns that are paying into his bank account that he didn't list, and I hadn't thought about that yet.