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- Jan 4, 2020
Get your fedoras ready because the "outlived" meme makes my fucking skin crawl. First off, everyone who Phil has "outlasted" is still alive (apart from TB obviously), the reason they no longer have an internet presence is because they decided it was no longer a worthwhile endeavor. Secondly, despite doing this shit for as long as he has, Phil has never had it harder than any of these content creators. You're telling me it's impressive he survived longer than TotalBiscuit when he doesn't have cancer? Retarded.But Phill, he is....diffrent. He is a survivor.
Phill.....is Eternal!
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The reason Phil is still streaming despite all the (self-inflicted) shit he's put up with is because he literally has zero alternative. Someone like Metokur could quit Youtube in pursuit of other endeavors and be fine. The moment Phil's gaming career fails, he has nothing else besides stocking shelves somewhere no one's ever heard of. It is not at all impressive that Phil has gamed/streamed for 12 years, considering it is the easiest, least demanding job in all of America. That's like being proud of holding down the cashier at McDonald's for 12 years. It's fucking depressing. And if anyone Phil has "outlasted" decides to return to Youtube one day, they would immediately be in a better spot than him anyway, see ProJared.
And finally, Phil's career has not survived. He was fired by Machinima. His Youtube channel doesn't pull in even 1% of the views it once did. His Twitch streams are very visibly carried by a small group of people, which proves that people care about funding him for ulterior reasons apart from the gameplay itself, the one thing Phil insists makes his streams superior to others. Phil is still doing what he's doing because he has nowhere further to fall.
No one on the internet wants to interact with him because it'd be the equivalent of slamming a jet plane into a rodent. The day Phil does manage to reclaim some popularity, he'd be immediately stomped back into the ground as evidence by what happens when he pokes his head into Twitter.
DSP is a shambling corpse of what it was, and even during its highlight it smelled like a dead crab. What many detractors fail to understand is that we aren't on some grand crusade to ensure PP Burnell sees retribution, we're observing the downward spiral of someone who squanders every opportunity ever given to him.
Instead of parroting this dumbass fucking meme, turn your attention to long-lived internet personalities that have actually worked hard to keep things going to this day, like Chuggaaconroy.