I agree this may be possible, but Phil knew before the prestream that people were questioning the date, and he chose to grandstand about it. If he wanted to dunk on everyone, he could have screenshotted it from his PC and told everyone to eat shit. Mysteriously, we got 'just believe me'. I feel like if he can't be arsed to do 2 more seconds of legwork to address a legitimate issue with the screenshot he posted, he deserves no benefit of any doubts.
Particularly after he just insinuated that he could have just lied about everything. Transparent people don't turn around and say 'well I could have just duped you completely'.
And particularly after he claimed for the week preceding that he totally wasn't getting paid and asked for $3k from his fans. It doesn't matter if he didn't get it, he had the audacity to ask.
He should be on the backfoot and humble right now, and instead wants asspats for absolute baseline morality without addressing any concerns.