“That is also the reason why he never ever wants to get a 9-5 job again. If you check out his old reeemergency videos (and there are a lot from 2016 onwards) he often says "I just want to play games and have fun"”
— @Balr0g
It’s a lie of omission like so many others with Phil. He’s leaving out his definition of “fun”, which is “I play games that immediately roll over and allow me to win while my audience sits rapt and only opens their mouths when I inform them it’s time to drink my piss”.
He also conveniently leaves off the back half of his statement, that being “…while I make more money per year than an ER nurse or a municipal garbage collector and while forcing all of the responsibility for all of the poor decisions I’ve made over the last twelve years onto people half my age”.
People hate you for very good reasons Phil. If you’d ever like to lose some sleep just HMU.
Yep. One of the things that I always think about, whenever I start to feel somewhat sympathetic to Phil's plight (I mean, let's be real: if I was facing Phil's long-term prospects, I don't know how I'd sleep at night, and I've seen others on here, including Pargon IIRC, admit to feeling the same), is the way some YouTuber once described Phil. I can't remember the exact video, but this person either brought Phil up in conversation or was showing one of his videos to others to garner a reaction, and when asked by someone who "DarkSydePhil" was, said individual thought about it and slowly responded with something along the lines of:
"DarkSydePhil... is a shitty Let's Player... who proved to be SO insufferable, and behaved SO obnoxiously toward his fans, that he's attracted an ENTIRE ARMY of haters around him."
Phil has often spoken about how "mentally ill" people like us have to be to dedicate so much time talking, speculating, and making videos about him, when all he wants to do is "play games and have fun." What I loved about the description this YouTuber gave to his friend was the way it flipped Phil's point on it's head: what does it say about someone when they inspire an entire subculture to form around hating him?
Now, Phil obviously isn't the only lolcow, and a website such as this makes it easy for individuals interested in any given internet celebrity to congregate with each other. But Phil still has the dubious distinction of being one of the select 'cows with a subforum dedicated to him. While I'm not a longtime forum member, I've inferred that this was not the case regarding Phil earlier on. That is to say, Phil earned this.
You wanted to be the "King of Hate," Phil. You've got your wish. Congratulations.