Is there some lore behind why Phil started turning off comments and hiding/turning off the thumbs-up/down on his YouTube uploads of his Pre-Streams starting December 7th, 2015? Hiding/Turning off the upvote functionality is something he is manually doing to every Pre-Stream upload as he occasionally forgets to do it. On his December 7th, 2015 Pre-Stream he mentions this about "the usual IDIOT crowd spamming the comments because I mentioned views" regarding 'The Week in Preview'
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Here's a link to the December 6th, 2015 'The Week in Preview'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwc4H9Fddzg unless he manually deleted all the comments (looking further he likely did do this) he was bitching about the next day no one even mentions it and the video only has 35 comments so no one was "spamming" anything. The upvote functionality is hidden/turned off for this video and Phil himself left this comment:
"I'd like to thank those that watched the video, enjoyed the information, and are looking forward to the new content this week.
Despite it being the holiday season, isn't it fun seeing how many sociopathic, antisocial dregs of the internet love to come and dislike the Week in Preview?
No worries though, it's not affecting me nor this channel, but it is wasting YOUR limited time on this planet. We're going to still be here enjoying games while you're raging about how I'm still making a living doing this, despite all of your trolling efforts.
Maybe you should write a letter to Santa asking him to "take me off of YouTube" for Christmas? Because your efforts aren't working, lol!"
@KingjadVCMP under this comment by Phil are several comments tagging a 'KingjadVCMP' YouTube channel in the reply chain but those comments are gone. Was this you and if so could you shed some light if Phil deleted your comments and/or the number off comments Phil considered "spamming"?
The previous 'The Week in Preview' from November 29th, 2015 has both comments turned off and upvotes hidden/turned off.
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The November 8th, 2015 'The Week in Preview' he's talking about some drama related to his Fallout 4 playthrough and comments are turned off but the upvote functionality is on.
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In the description of the December 13th, 2015 'The Week in Preview' Phil says, "NOTE: Since downvote bots have been used recently on all videos on this channel, likes/dislikes will be temporarily disabled. Thanks for understanding."
ABSOLUTE LAST CHANCE to post up your nominations for the funniest moments of 2015 here: https://thekingofhate.com/forums/topic/140-the-funniest-moments-of-20...
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It seems like Phil has hidden/turned off the upvote functionality on all his videos on THEKINGOFHATEVLOGS ever since this December 13th, 2015 description announcement unless they specifically are either: a vlog, a review, or a React video. . .and holy shit I didn't know Phil has a series of React videos on his vlog channel from when he was trying to get popular on YouTube again. Phil was literally whoring himself out hoping to get some of that React YouTube coin.
I guess he also says this about why he turned off comments and upvote functionality specifically on a REEmergeny video he made on December 8th, 2015
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Here is the December 8th, 2015 REEmergeny video about how Machinima is renegotiating his contract and how his views have been falling for a long time so he doesn't know if he'll be able to keep doing this, so he's planning on doing lots of vlogs, reviews, and react videos because "that's what's popular on YouTube now".
I know this is a bit long, but this was all before my time. I found it interesting looking back to how Phil was always a hypocritical fagot who can't take the slightest criticism, deleting comments or entire comments sections, calling an equal number of downvotes to upvotes the result of 'downvote bots', and how long he has actually been fucking over his YouTube viewer engagement by hiding/turning off the upvote functionality long before he pulled the absolute bitch-made move of turning off comments on all his gameplay videos. The complete pivot from the December 6th comment 'no-load losers are mad I still make a living doing this, lol!' to 2 days later making an hour long REEmergeny video saying 'guys my views have been falling for a long time and I don't know if I can keep doing this, but I'm going to try my darndest to be a YouTube views whore!' really cracked me up, classic Phil.
If anyone has other anecdotes, more information, or something I didn't notice from this time period I would enjoy hearing them. It's really funny seeing how this fagot reacted to when he really started to amass a large following of people mocking and disliking him.