I hope that everyone eagerly anticipating DSP getting nailed to the wall for his mobile gaming addiction are prepared for a big letdown. As funny as it would be, it's probably not going to happen. Remember that no one involved in his bankruptcy is likely to ever watch any of his streams or read literally thousands of pages of autistic breakdowns in some openly oddball internet forum.
And even if they do check into him and skim some of his streams because he's so shady looking (and he is), they're not going to go watch decades of footage for specific breakdowns of how long he played each game and what in-game purchases he made while doing so. The time and motivation just aren't going to be there for what amounts to chump change in the big picture. Phil explained to the court that he's a video game streamer by trade and told them that those game microtransactions, every single one, are business expenses, and that's probably going to be accepted without a fight. I'd love to be proven wrong on that one because it'd be absolutely hilarious if he gets raked over the coals for being hopelessly addicted to Bejeweled: Scantily Clad Men edition, but I just don't see that actually happening.
Similarly, no one's going to say that he's got too many games or consoles, or the wrong ones, or that he's not being efficient enough in parting out his less-used gaming inventory once he might be done with it. Yeah, sure, some streamers only ever play Minecraft and spend very little as a result, but that's not what Phil does and no one's going to shout angrily at him in a courtroom that he needs to be more like some other streamer. He has a stockpile of underused gaming equipment he could realistically liquidate, but his entire schtick is regularily playing new games while being a clown and begging for pennies, so he's not going to catch any heat for games that he's bought and not yet sold off. And arguably he shouldn't. There's laws against outright fraud, but there's absolutely nothing illegal about being bad at your job and making poor financial decisions. It's not a crime to be an abject failure.
He is totally fucked though, just not for those reasons. What is going to fuck him is that even though he's making six figures but is so bad at running his business that he's still declaring bankruptcy, somehow every single one of his expenses and costs magically line up perfectly with the value of his overpriced condo in a way that will allow him to keep his home and change absolutely nothing about his life or his habits. That shit will come under scrutiny really fast, in a way that no one's going to be willing to drop until they're completely satisfied.
If he was telling the truth about the home's value, he'd probably still be okay, lies about his mobile gaming addiction and all. But he lied about the wrong thing, the thing everyone is looking for every time someone files their papers. And now he's about to find out that he turned what would have been him getting handwaved through the system into the system putting a rubber glove and reaching all the way up his ass.
