If I had to describe Phil again, I'd say he's quite an oddity :
He steers up so much anger in his viewers it's unbelievable. (the recent swatting cases are a good example)
He does have this extremely irritating personality, however one feels compelled to watch him, for reasons that are yet unclear to me.
Whatever he plays, his gameplay is always cringeworthy and frustrating, but at the same time, I can't help to feel the need to teach him
basic logic, like one would do with a chimp :
"You can't block and attack at the same time Phil, it doesn't work. "
"Phil you tried this already 5 times, why do you think the 6th times it will work, when it has previously failed ?"
"No you don't do this, but if you press this button it'll work, see ?"
"This Phil, is called a vendor, it will sell you items. He's not just an idiot that should be disregarded, he might have useful stuff"
"There is no need to cry now. All you have to do is read, see ? it's written right here, just under your nose..."
"Phil, the game doesn't know you personally, it doesn't hate you or anything... it's just a collection of preprogrammed bits"
"Phil you skipped the tutorial, the early parts of the game and half of the quests while rushing the other half. THIS might be why you're challenged now."
"Of course the framerate is crap, you purposely chose to buy the game on a shitty console when you had a 3000$ gaming PC collecting dust. "
"No, Phil, you need a dedicated streaming PC for that, it's no that expensive, and it'll serve you better than another camera
for 2000$, or sound proofing for you room while you have the AC constantly blowing in your mike"
"Phil you have no money because you don't pickup the loot"
Or
"Phil, the quest wont complete because you didn't pickup the quest item in the loot"
"No, the game's not stupid and doesn't intentionally put quest items in the loot of defeated enemies to trick you. That's usual RPG behavior"
"I didn't jump !!! I didn't press this button!!! Yes you did Phil, the game-pad isn't cheating or hating on you, it's just a game-pad"
"No Phil, this guy doesn't suck, he beat you with very good technique and was able to land 10+ combos in your face while you can barely do 3 consecutive hits. Also, his pattern's are not any more online than yours. This random person just managed to humble a PRO SF player before his viewers. Finding excuses, crying and being disrespectful just makes the defeat appear even more bitter in the eyes of your audience"
"No Phil, this guy isn't good, he's just a patreon your licking ass that you considered playing 3 consecutive times so he's doesn't sour up when the next paycheck is due"
No Phil, nothings perfect (you should know, you're a good example of that), even a game is allowed to have few bugs, also, bugs are not always gamebreaking as you seem to claim. You can just go around them or reload and cut the whining"
"This is called a save point. Newsflash : You can even create your own!"
"This person uses a microphone like yourself, there is really no need to be offended or calling this guy an idiot for doing so."
"When you have nothing to say, it's usually better to say nothing"
"When you express an opinion, try not to be so insistent about it, once or twice is OK, but you really don't need to scream NONO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO for 10 minutes straight, that's just retarded"
"Likewise, I understand that you value your commentary much, but maybe you could consider capping your mike or refrain your voice from reaching ear breaking levels . In short, turn the game volume up, your whiny mouth down"
I could go on, but there's so much retardation coming from him I could write a book.
TLDR : He's more stubborn than a donkey and as delicate to the ears as a squealing pig.