the vest streak has been exposed as something that didn't help him financially since he hadn't been paying taxes & didn't upgrade equipment
is he trying to say he needs to double his tips from the original vest streak.. so then he can afford a camera, green screen and his taxes?
$200 a day wasn't enough
It's entirely unclear on what would be required at this point, and he seems to be aware of this so he has refrained from making any statements beyond "if this support continues" and now the return of "we just need to make it to the 15th" again. Visions of the future have been left quite vague.
Phil has mentioned that his car payments, the back tax payment plan, and the CT condo fees are his lingering issues, but all of those are expenses that can be reasonably covered by his income, and of those, only the condo fees are something that could be deemed 'extra' or somehow unjust (from Phil's perspective). Most households have to pay for a vehicle and taxes. He also seems to still not grasp that if the taxes have gone up because he made more money, then he should have more money to pay the taxes. They don't raise 1:1 and take all the additional income, but for his narratives to work this would have to be the case.
He said repeatedly that the vest streak was unprecedented support and it won't happen again, and OiC has turned into a second E7 at this point... and this
still wasn't enough to even make ends meet, let alone save. So where are the earnings supposed to go from here?
We know the reality is that Phil just scales his spending to match his income - it's the only explanation why he can't afford his taxes. But if we just removed spending/Champions from the equation, and believed Phil's reasonable expenses, taxes included, actually somehow exceed his earnings, then he is saying that he needs well over $150k just to cover everything and make ends meet. Phil needs to make 2.5x the income of the average American household to make ends meet, while he lives in a middle unit condo with no kids and has had all of his debt wiped clear.
But he is an underdog who deserves support over rich streamers. And his whales are apparently cool with this idea. And we're mentally ill and don't understand how the world works.
He's sort of run out of wiggle room here, which is probably why he has suddenly started to go nuts about the Farms and Champions... our stories now make more sense than his.