- Joined
- Sep 6, 2018
Not entirely wrong, but Phil's scam is more of a wide whaling net than a transparent GIMME MUNNIES BECAUSE UHHHH I LEFT MY HORSE IN THE FREEZER AND IT GOT COLD, I NEED A GOLD-PLATED ELECTRIC BLANKET. We even got specific paypigs that have believed specific Phil lines. But yes, some people absolutely believe one or two things that Phil says; You gotta keep in mind, Phil's a 24/7 fountain of pure bullshit, so all it takes is one idiot to believe one thing.
"My life's been tuff!" -PlanetJeff for example seems to feel pity for Phil, for example, and empties his pockets accordingly. PlanetJeff has a dead wife, so his own life's been tuff. He connects with Phil and helps him out. The tractors telling him that he's a moron only seems to encourage him to do what he thinks is the "right" thing.
"I am a lifelong entertainer that has provided a 35 year beggacy of free khantent on the innurnet!" Some people, I think this was why Vidar started donating to him, feel like they should give back on account of all the free content.
"I need money for games, I need money for stream improvements, I need money for BTTV, I need money for a new gamepad!" Famously, DJRuno got FUCKED with Goose Game and charged it back. OIC bankrolls Phil when he needs new stuff like the controller. The anonymous TV donation. The list goes on. Again, let's underline this: DJRuno ABSOLUTELY thought that Phil would buy Goose Game with his 20. Phil said it, Runo donated it, Phil immediately walked it back. Runo charged it back, sure, but he had been supporting for months by then.
"We own the trolls! I'm a success, mane! They're jealous that I'm doing what I love for a living!" ShirtlessMoFo for example seems to donate partly out of this and partly out of pity like Jeff. This is a good angle mostly because it attracts very dumb, but very generous whales trying to get a petty one-up on people who don't give much of a fuck one way or the other.
"I'm barely making ends meet over here! Every week is a reemergency! I have to pay bills every hour!" Because Phil isn't one to let silly things like mutual exclusivity by logic get in the way of his whaling nets, Phil is simultaneously a big dick streamer who makes thousands upon thousands a month, and a poor destitute man, on his last mortgage payment before the repoman comes and shuffles Khet off to the glue factory for the cents she'd be worth.
This is the one that irks the tractorsphere the most. The long con for this one is, everyone that's into DSP knows... But the new viewers don't. By switching games often and discouraging the forming of a community (Discord? Get that shit outta here unless you're a whale! Forum? Fuck off and get to the tumbleweed North Korean grounds where KGhaleon can enforce my pignotizing rules! YT comments? Haha no, they're toxic toilet juice!) Phil aims this at the guys who walk in and have some disposable income but haven't seen him before. Phil avoids begging when there's a raid, for example. But he'll ALWAYS make up some off-the-cuff reactionary emergency around the times stimbux or paychecks are rolling, without fail. This is part of why he pushes so hard for big donos in the form of tips: Phil doesn't want to keep you around. His ideal viewer is a one time 1K$ donator who gets moved to tears by his gouty tales, empties his wallet, wishes Phil well and disappears forever. Having regular whales who aren't pignotized would be incredibly detrimental. That's why he's quick to squash any dissent even when the dissent comes from regulars like Major Riot.
"I'm the realest motherfucker on the internet! I'm a badass who dated a hot asian and doesn't afraid of anything!" This edgy approach attracts immature dorks who think this is really really cool. Phil's been mostly diluting this facet of his persona lately, switching it for the knows-better suburban catdad with a horsewife and an idillic homelife. Still, the remnants of the thunderous figure that snorted with the might of a thousand suns as he leaned in on the shithead trolls attracted a bunch of terribly dumb motherfuckers like Swagginz. Phil obviously wants to just EVAHLVE into a chill streamer like Aris or Max Dood, but he's still an unfunny whiner who begs 24/7. He avoids anything even remotely difficult like the plague because he really thinks he can simply clean up his act by being a chill, item hunting, massive stalling turbobegger like on his recent RE8 streams. Yes, THAT is Phil being on his best behaviour and performance.
Furthermore, a suburban wholesome catdad would fucking cool it with the toilet humor, the scat fetish and the borderline homoerotic shit. He ALWAYS entertains this bullshit that Jasper is his real, actual son and pretty much a human being: Ask him ANYTHING about what character would Jasper play in Street Fighter or something and 9 times out of 10 he'll have a retarded answer to that. It's one of the few things he talks about outside of food and the vidya he's playing nowadays.
As for the suburban wholesome catdad persona in itself, I think it's the root of a new begging persona where Phil's just a cool dude who's had it rough and obviously you'd want to help him and his beautiful family stay afloat, but he hasn't fully fleshed it out yet. Him referring to Kat as a beautiful woman he has a great life with and Jasper as his actual son does have the hilarious consequence of making him look like a man lost in gacha, gin and self delusion with no way back. The whole thing is clearly a fuckwit's attempt at humanizing themselves, but it's just not working. And I think people actually yell "OH MY GOD SHUT THE FUCK UP" at their screens when he starts babytalking Jyamsper.
"I am a lifelong entertainer that has provided a 35 year beggacy of free khantent on the innurnet!" Some people, I think this was why Vidar started donating to him, feel like they should give back on account of all the free content.
"I need money for games, I need money for stream improvements, I need money for BTTV, I need money for a new gamepad!" Famously, DJRuno got FUCKED with Goose Game and charged it back. OIC bankrolls Phil when he needs new stuff like the controller. The anonymous TV donation. The list goes on. Again, let's underline this: DJRuno ABSOLUTELY thought that Phil would buy Goose Game with his 20. Phil said it, Runo donated it, Phil immediately walked it back. Runo charged it back, sure, but he had been supporting for months by then.
"We own the trolls! I'm a success, mane! They're jealous that I'm doing what I love for a living!" ShirtlessMoFo for example seems to donate partly out of this and partly out of pity like Jeff. This is a good angle mostly because it attracts very dumb, but very generous whales trying to get a petty one-up on people who don't give much of a fuck one way or the other.
"I'm barely making ends meet over here! Every week is a reemergency! I have to pay bills every hour!" Because Phil isn't one to let silly things like mutual exclusivity by logic get in the way of his whaling nets, Phil is simultaneously a big dick streamer who makes thousands upon thousands a month, and a poor destitute man, on his last mortgage payment before the repoman comes and shuffles Khet off to the glue factory for the cents she'd be worth.
This is the one that irks the tractorsphere the most. The long con for this one is, everyone that's into DSP knows... But the new viewers don't. By switching games often and discouraging the forming of a community (Discord? Get that shit outta here unless you're a whale! Forum? Fuck off and get to the tumbleweed North Korean grounds where KGhaleon can enforce my pignotizing rules! YT comments? Haha no, they're toxic toilet juice!) Phil aims this at the guys who walk in and have some disposable income but haven't seen him before. Phil avoids begging when there's a raid, for example. But he'll ALWAYS make up some off-the-cuff reactionary emergency around the times stimbux or paychecks are rolling, without fail. This is part of why he pushes so hard for big donos in the form of tips: Phil doesn't want to keep you around. His ideal viewer is a one time 1K$ donator who gets moved to tears by his gouty tales, empties his wallet, wishes Phil well and disappears forever. Having regular whales who aren't pignotized would be incredibly detrimental. That's why he's quick to squash any dissent even when the dissent comes from regulars like Major Riot.
"I'm the realest motherfucker on the internet! I'm a badass who dated a hot asian and doesn't afraid of anything!" This edgy approach attracts immature dorks who think this is really really cool. Phil's been mostly diluting this facet of his persona lately, switching it for the knows-better suburban catdad with a horsewife and an idillic homelife. Still, the remnants of the thunderous figure that snorted with the might of a thousand suns as he leaned in on the shithead trolls attracted a bunch of terribly dumb motherfuckers like Swagginz. Phil obviously wants to just EVAHLVE into a chill streamer like Aris or Max Dood, but he's still an unfunny whiner who begs 24/7. He avoids anything even remotely difficult like the plague because he really thinks he can simply clean up his act by being a chill, item hunting, massive stalling turbobegger like on his recent RE8 streams. Yes, THAT is Phil being on his best behaviour and performance.
Furthermore, a suburban wholesome catdad would fucking cool it with the toilet humor, the scat fetish and the borderline homoerotic shit. He ALWAYS entertains this bullshit that Jasper is his real, actual son and pretty much a human being: Ask him ANYTHING about what character would Jasper play in Street Fighter or something and 9 times out of 10 he'll have a retarded answer to that. It's one of the few things he talks about outside of food and the vidya he's playing nowadays.
As for the suburban wholesome catdad persona in itself, I think it's the root of a new begging persona where Phil's just a cool dude who's had it rough and obviously you'd want to help him and his beautiful family stay afloat, but he hasn't fully fleshed it out yet. Him referring to Kat as a beautiful woman he has a great life with and Jasper as his actual son does have the hilarious consequence of making him look like a man lost in gacha, gin and self delusion with no way back. The whole thing is clearly a fuckwit's attempt at humanizing themselves, but it's just not working. And I think people actually yell "OH MY GOD SHUT THE FUCK UP" at their screens when he starts babytalking Jyamsper.
TL;DR: Some of his paypigs ABSOLUTELY eat up the bullshit. Generalizing is kinda difficult, they are a many layered village of autists and fools. Phil definitely tries to appeal to a wide variety of retorrrrs though, and it really shows. I wonder how he's gonna work the whole cool catdad and horsefucker Burnell into future begging arcs. Well, he and Kat don't fuck, but you get the idea.
