Uhh... no! This money pays more than any job Phil has ever had or could probably get.
But also, it doesn't pay enough to cover basic bills and groceries, so please tip!
Is this because he is living outside of his means? No! Phil is perfect, it's because detractors keep messing with his money and he is a victim, please tip!
So the trolls are winning and Phil is broke and should quit streaming? No! The trolls are mentally ill failures and Phil is successful... and this pays more than any job he has ever had or could get!
Repeat ad nauseam.
This is actually where we've got to. Phil has built a narrative where his life, job and finances are a complete contradiction. I think this is the new frustration. Previously this cycle had gaps of uncertainty, or events and sagas would put us in different places over the course of months. We lacked critical information, and it meant any part could be truth or a lie.
Now Phil is so frenetic that we'll do the whole cycle twice in one prestream. He'll openly contradict himself within 10 minutes and just keep going with the cycle when called out. Meanwhile we know enough between the bankruptcy and tracking his income that we now see the only true part is that he makes a ton of money. If he wasn't scamming before, he is now, because he cannot be all of these things simultaneously. There is no 'maybe something we don't know about is happening'. No. He's lying, and not only is nobody stopping him, they're rewarding him.
The saddest part is that this is ripping through half of Twitch's money-related ToS, more than he ever has before. But you wouldn't know that he is feigning distress unless you listened to a few prestreams and kept track of the income. He is, again, getting away with a massive scam because nobody with any authority cares enough to do anything, even though it is so painfully obvious.
2020 has been a big year for our boy. It's the year he finally just dropped all the pretenses and started scamming in the open while smirking at us behind a pair of smudged gunners, a shiny vest, and an ear wick.