I don't expect him to address the situation in any reasonable or honest way. I also wouldn't expect to receive any logical responses to all of the discrepancies with both his previous statements and his on-going lies.
His justification for lying will center around da trolls, but that excuse doesn't hold any water here. I can't say I blame him for taking that route though, since it's an easy justifcation that shuts down any further questions. Then he'll immediately obfuscate with shit like the escort saga and the copyright strikes -- "they want to ruin my life"
, etc etc.
People will get overwhelmed by all of his fast talking and just drop the topic so he'll shut the fuck up. Mods will suppress any questions in the chat, and any tips will be dismissed and belittled as trolling.
He'll claim it's conspiracy theories from the usual idiots, "they'll lie and say I spent money when I didn't", "b-but Phil! (Shut the fuck up idiot)", the typical bullshit he says when confronted. None of that is actually the problem here.
This situation is a severe optics violation. It doesn't matter that he got married to his horse, good for him. It's the fact that he wasn't transparent about it -- and that's a big issue. This isn't some white lie he can gloss over, it's an important lie (and very poorly timed one).
If you could blatantly lie to your viewers about something like this, why shouldn't they assume you've been lying about other important issues?
DSP's whole gig centers around the trust of his viewer base. He "spills his soul" and "shares his life" with his fans and viewers. He gives them a fucking shareholder's meeting about the state of "the business
" (it's not a business); how his revenue is looking, what his third quarter projections look like, the whole fucking works.
He presents his life and finances in this way in order to build trust with his viewership (and in return receive money to help with "the cause"). There have been other situations that have shown parts of his confidence trick
(the statue saga being a big one in recently memory), but a lot of it could be dismissed as people trolling.
The situation, on the other hand, solidifies it for me.
He can't seem to grasp that he doesn't have a great track record when it comes to honesty. He think his word has a 700 credit rating when it's really like a 200. When you're pleading for your viewers to help you with your financial straits, you can't violate that level of transparency. You just don't have the credibility to do that. At the very fucking least, try to keep your stories straight.
Much like the cards from the dozen financial institutions he owes, I've reached my credit limit with DSP. There's no way I can believe a word of his stories anymore. Nothing that he's said about this trip adds up. That little bit of leeway that I could give him before is exhausted.
I'm strongly doubting the severity of his financial situation, and it's absolutely justified that people are questioning what the fuck is going on. If you didn't want these claims to arise you should have been real about it from the start. I'm not going to get into all the other minor details, since everyone's hit on those already -- but what a fucking mess we have here. There are so many sound bites that apply to this situation, Snort is going to have a lot of fun making the video about this one.
