DarkSydePhil (DSP) Documentary by Mike Clum - Interested in being involved in a film on DarkSydePhil? Want to share some ideas you'd like to see in the film? Message me!

[stanpandalee]

I request that you ask him the following:

1. Over the years you have gained a reputation as one of the most shameless and aggressive e-beggars out there,do you think your reputation as such is well deserved and if not why do you think people portray you as such?

2. You constantly cry poor yet you live in a 6 bedroom condo in one of the most expensive metropolitan areas in with nothing but another adult (your wife) while working exclusively from home;
given this do you not think it would be reasonable for you to move to a smaller and cheaper place located somewhere less expensive in order to ameliorate your financial woes?

3. While you're not asked to provide details about your finances,most detractors who follow you estimate that your gross annual income is at least 100.000 USD.
Given the fact that you have no dependants and the only person living with you is your adult and body-able wife,why do claim you live in poverty when you should be doing pretty well financially given your income?

I can already give you dsp's answers using snort logic.

1. Absolutely not. Those who think so are either cultist, mouth-drooling morahns who want to believe the slander, or they haven't seen my raw content and have only viewed small snippets of my stream. I advertise maybe 5 or 6 times a day, which is only about 5% of my entire stream. The rest is chill, pahsitive kahntent that my fans love and appreciate. If people would give me a fair chance and watch my streams instead of the bullshit detractor videos, they would find that my kahntent is actually very tame. I even have emails from people telling me this dood!

2. Uhm, how would I be able to buy a new house if I have no credit, genius? No bank is going to give me a loan to buy a new house, and I would have to spend time off-stream selling the damn thing. That's hours I lose streaming, which would put me in an even bigger financial situation.

3. First of all, my income is not anyone's business. But even if that were the case, that's gross, not net. You're not taking into account all the fees that take place from YouTube and PayPal. Plus, I'm still paying off all the back-ack-ack taxes. *continues to rant about tax guy*

 

[FaXmachine]

@mikeclum

I don't know if you'll see this but I have some suggestions.

• Firstly as others have said watch the SideScrollers interview and note what Phil avoids and manipulates his way around. Or talk to Adam privately.
• Secondly since you are dealing with a retard cult leader I'd recommend watching Louis Theroux's documentaries about similar subject matters, he deals with difficult people very well even narcs, catering to them enough to not set off warning bells, giving them enough rope as it were.
• Thirdly since it hasn't been said I'd actually recommend making a sock account in Phil's chat and experiencing his streams "as a fan" or at least someone unbiased. I feel this would be unique as no one has really done this, giving you a fair insight into the cult, its a viable thing to bring up with Phil too if he mentions how evil the trolls are in his chat.

Of course likely because you've opened up about this publically it likely won't happen because its Phil, to have a chance you are gonna have to walk the perfect unbias line or make it seem like a puff piece but this is providing you didn't blow it...

Some bonus things could you somehow make him address the scat and strange tight shirts he wears and if his wife suggests them?

 

[Need Help With Tips]

If he's actually cooperating with Mike to make this, it really seems like DSP believes that if he goes through enough unbiased documentarians and interviewers then eventually one will produce a video that makes him look good. You're wrong, DSP, anyone truly unbiased will arrive at the same conclusions every one before them has.
Taking bets on if he says "and this will be it, no more documentaries or interviews after this" until the documentary actually drops and he does the same 180 he did to Craig.

 

[Two Yum Yums]

I request that you ask him the following:

1. Over the years you have gained a reputation as one of the most shameless and aggressive e-beggars out there,do you think your reputation as such is well deserved and if not why do you think people portray you as such?

2. You constantly cry poor yet you live in a 6 bedroom condo in one of the most expensive metropolitan areas in with nothing but another adult (your wife) while working exclusively from home;
given this do you not think it would be reasonable for you to move to a smaller and cheaper place located somewhere less expensive in order to ameliorate your financial woes?

3. While you're not asked to provide details about your finances,most detractors who follow you estimate that your gross annual income is at least 100.000 USD.
Given the fact that you have no dependants and the only person living with you is your adult and body-able wife,why do claim you live in poverty when you should be doing pretty well financially given your income?

Pointless. Phil can easily swerve every question about his finances and issues by denying and deflecting. Every answer will be some variation of how the trolls caused all his issues - because that's Phil's answer to everything. These aren't the "gotcha" questions you think that will cause him to break down and admit that yes, he is a lying, useless piece of shit who has the impulse control and financial literacy of a toddler, they're just overly verbose phrasings of the many areas Phil is an expert at avoiding.

Mike, you could do a documentary about how fucking impossible it is to do a proper documentary on DSP. Detail both his insane attempts to control the narrative and also the sheer volume of autism you will be receiving in DMs and emails since going public with this. At least that would be vaguely novel.

 

[the Man zone]

I finally made an account after all these years to just say that I think Mike is a fucking faggot and this absolutely retarded idea will either go nowhere or totally disappoint everyone. In reality, it would be more interesting to interview everyone around Phil, not the retard himself.

 

[¨¨¨]

These aren't the "gotcha" questions you think that will cause him to break down and admit that yes, he is a lying, useless piece of shit who has the impulse control and financial literacy of a toddler, they're just overly verbose phrasings of the many areas Phil is an expert at avoiding.

The point isn't to make Phil capitulate live on air and admit to everything (the Sidescroller interview already proved that it won't ever happen) but rather to expose him by asking simple,straight forward questions and have him be slippery and refuse to provide plausible and coherent answers.

As far as Phil is concerned none of the allegations are true until he explicitly admits to them being true regardless of how much evidence is provided against him,we can however assume that most of the viewers will understand that refusing to provide a simple and straight forward answer to a simple and straight forward question indicates that he is lying.

 

[Burl McMillan]

Wasn't there an idea floated around here about what if someone makes DSP's "perfect" documentary? Something that actually leans into his narrative and how fucking insane it would sound like to a normal person?

"As a child, Phil had the foresight and forward-thinking behavior that would stay with him throughout his life. He spotted a wolverine action figure on the shelves and he knew that this was the perfect opportunity to buy it. Unfortunately, Dave and Linda Burnell did not share their son's long-term style thought process."

"His financial woes began when an impersonator from the legions of Phil's detractors started the most elaborate currently ongoing conspiracy against him. A troll (or a network of trolls) have been impersonating as Phil in a mobile game called WWE Champions. In order to paint Phil as a "whale" - a person who spends massive amounts of money on these predatory mobile games - the trolls have spent over $200,000 on WWE Champions.

To further this conspiracy, they have even opened a bank account under Phil's name. When "bank leaks" eventually showed "Phil's" account, they even tried to solidify the narrative by making sure other purchases outside of WWE Champions were to businesses within Renton."

Food for thought, Mike.

 

[uncritically]

The point isn't to make Phil capitulate live on air and admit to everything (the Sidescroller interview already proved that it won't ever happen) but rather to expose him by asking simple,straight forward questions and have him be slippery and refuse to provide plausible and coherent answers.

As far as Phil is concerned none of the allegations are true until he explicitly admits to them being true regardless of how much evidence is provided against him,we can however assume that most of the viewers will understand that refusing to provide a simple and straight forward answer to a simple and straight forward question indicates that he is lying.

DSP is a complete bitch in person when he's taken out of his safe space, as shown on the SS interview. He tends to panic answer questions, and probably would have answered more, but got out of it because imo Adam has the interview skills of a simpleton. Saying things like "Oh we already asked him that." or "Oh that was because of...." when pressed by Craig. Yeah that's it, answer for him Adam, you dummy.

If he is pinned down to a question in person, he might admit to something. I wont get my hopes up, however, as I'm sure he's on his guard after the SS interview. He's probably already got another handwritten list of all the 'bills' he has(maybe even printed this time with his new printer, to make it look more official). and a sock account for his mobile games. Or just outright refused to talk about these things.

 

[Cyber Bowling]

DSP is a complete bitch in person when he's taken out of his safe space, as shown on the SS interview. He tends to panic answer questions, and probably would have answered more, but got out of it because imo Adam has the interview skills of a simpleton. Saying things like "Oh we already asked him that." or "Oh that was because of...." when pressed by Craig. Yeah that's it, answer for him Adam, you dummy.

If he is pinned down to a question in person, he might admit to something. I wont get my hopes up, however, as I'm sure he's on his guard after the SS interview. He's probably already got another handwritten list of all the 'bills' he has(maybe even printed this time with his new printer, to make it look more official). and a sock account for his mobile games. Or just outright refused to talk about these things.

Jumping off of this, the basic issue is a lot of it ultimately boils down to he said/pig said because most people are working off of second hand information and rarely have the original clips/documents on hand. So it basically boils down to "Is it true you reported $5,000 in business expenses every month."
"No"
"Oh, but I heard that you did."
"That's a detractor meme."

And...that's it. It's not exactly a 200 IQ play to go "that's not true" when someone reports something bad that they heard from another source about you. Even Phil knows that.

Someone else put it really good earlier, that if Mike really wants to do this, it needs to be a hit piece. He has to be willing to ask difficult questions, back up said questions with evidence (documents/clips being the big ones) and push for actual proof when Phil insists the claims aren't true and don't just let him get away with "I have to protect my family" or whatever lame excuse he comes up with. Point out that his address, phone number and gate code have been common knowledge for years, so showing an app isn't suddenly going to put him or his family in danger.

Basically, it needs to be less "here's a week in the life of a lolcow and what some other content creators think about him" and more "to catch a pig predator." Don't make it about his childhood, or his legacy, or even something like "the incident". Just focus specifically on the scamming and spending that can be backed up by evidence.

 

[Sopsy]

If this is gonna go like the one about Boogie, where he just made shit up unchallenged including having lost money from the Wings fight by claiming to have paid for shit Keem covered, Phil will just have one of his pahdcasts in documentary form, think it went great and still come off deranged.

Would be funny if Clum was dragged into this by Keem as some kinda promotion for the lolcow podcast with a softer take on Boogie first and this documentary ended up being deeper than a puddle but pretty sure that's too autistic even for the vortex.

 

[AGoodBrazilian]

Jumping off of this, the basic issue is a lot of it ultimately boils down to he said/pig said because most people are working off of second hand information and rarely have the original clips/documents on hand. So it basically boils down to "Is it true you reported $5,000 in business expenses every month."
"No"
"Oh, but I heard that you did."
"That's a detractor meme."

It's impossible to corner Phil with more documents and clips, even if his lies and contradictions are presented. Just like in the SideScroller interview, he'll continue to deny or play dumb. When Craig questioned the $5000 monthly expenses, he claimed ignorance, stating that the 'tax guy' handled tax accounting, absolving himself. When pressed about how, after 15 years on the internet, he didn't know this information, he shrugged and said, 'I don't know,' attempting to change the subject. When pushed to stay on topic, he insisted that all expenses were reported to the judge. Later in the interview, he showed a hint of self-awareness, saying, 'I know it sounds absurd, and if I were in your place, I wouldn't believe me either.

Phill will never admit his lie. The way to have some fun is to let Phill's megalomania and narcissism write the script for his documentary/mockumentary.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

" or at least someone unbiased. I feel this would be unique as no one has really done this,

Tend to agree. DSP was more of a passing interest for me until recently. I knew of him loosely from some people in the older days that I won't go into.
It wasn't until I saw footage of him bullying literal children and failing at it in a video game that my disgust for him truly bloomed.
The man is an absolute piece of shit. Who talks mad shit, but only when people are out of earshot, even kids. Absolute cowardly worm.


I don't think that even just watching his stream will come across how bad he can be though. Most of the time he just whines and lies and makes excuses. I tend to wonder if Mike looked into DSP cause people were comparing Boogie to him. As both of them are pathological liars, but Phil is superbly paranoid on top of it all.

 

[Derich 2nd of coomland]

I tend to wonder if Mike looked into DSP cause people were comparing Boogie to him. As both of them are pathological liars, but Phil is superbly paranoid on top of it all.

From what I can gather DSP was requested the most for his next lolcow doc.
But I would not be surprised if Boogie told him about Phil, not that I think whatever Boogie has told him has any worth.

And for the record I think there is a big chance this whole thing will never happen and even if it does it's going to be a wet fart. But I do wish Mike the best of luck and hope he gets the fuck out of the vortex after this, as nothing is gained by being here.

@Sopsy Nothing is too autistic for the vortex.

 

[You're MDNWU]

I'm willing to assume that since Mike came here asking for detractors (didn't he do the same about boogie?), that he's likely already gotten some video with Phil in person. A basic looking in to Phil would've made him realize any mention of talking to detractors would've made Phil run away talking shit the entire time.

As others mentioned previously, a mockumentary of Phil's perfect puff piece for 30-40 minutes followed by Real Life™ would be fucking hilarious and ideal.

 

[uncritically]

Jumping off of this, the basic issue is a lot of it ultimately boils down to he said/pig said because most people are working off of second hand information and rarely have the original clips/documents on hand. So it basically boils down to "Is it true you reported $5,000 in business expenses every month."
"No"
"Oh, but I heard that you did."
"That's a detractor meme."

And...that's it. It's not exactly a 200 IQ play to go "that's not true" when someone reports something bad that they heard from another source about you. Even Phil knows that.

Someone else put it really good earlier, that if Mike really wants to do this, it needs to be a hit piece. He has to be willing to ask difficult questions, back up said questions with evidence (documents/clips being the big ones) and push for actual proof when Phil insists the claims aren't true and don't just let him get away with "I have to protect my family" or whatever lame excuse he comes up with. Point out that his address, phone number and gate code have been common knowledge for years, so showing an app isn't suddenly going to put him or his family in danger.

Basically, it needs to be less "here's a week in the life of a lolcow and what some other content creators think about him" and more "to catch a pig predator." Don't make it about his childhood, or his legacy, or even something like "the incident". Just focus specifically on the scamming and spending that can be backed up by evidence.

yeah, and to top it off none of us really need to be told our opinions of DSP. How many of us started as viewers of him only to see through his shit? I mean, what does he really hope to accomplish with this documentary? to tell DSP's story? expose him? to give dsp a redemption?
that's all been done before. he tells 'his' story every year on his thanksgiving stream or whatever, and like you said how is he going to show proof that his story is bullshit? hes just going to tell the same ole horseshit story for the umpteenth time again..
Hes been exposed countless times now by so many different ppl(not just detractors but actual friends ala Rambo/Howard), so what can he add to that?
He's tried to redeem himself how many times now? whether it be by trying to change his toxic ways(even to this day he's still trying to do that) or by switching platforms for a new start, or when all else fails just flat out lying to change the narrative of his history/drama. It never works.

What can Mike Clum really add to the dspshere? We all know how DSP is.

Edit: I will say though, I hope I'm wrong, as I was equally as skeptical of the SS interview, and at least that gave us some gems.

 

[Crow Money]

If you spend enough time to make an actual documentary about Phil Burnell then you are an unimaginably massive faggot, and so many more degrees of pathetic more than your subject as to put you on the same level as pond scum.

 

[TheTractor]

I just want to see the pigsty and interviews on his family members/John and the band.

There's no way he's gonna show his fat fucking wife on camera.

If Mike is tactically greasing the pig before &?%$# in the ass I applaud the effort.

 

[Let's recap the situation]

I mean, what does he really hope to accomplish with this documentary?

To do an interview with darksydephil for a YouTube video, similar to what quartering did, in which phil gets to do his usual.
Why would this individual who has succumbed to the pignosis want to dive in and ask the meaty questions that only tractors care about?

 

[Chocolate Bandolier]

This is just going to be a big long level 1 pahdcast isn't it.

 

[Need Help With Tips]

I'm willing to assume that since Mike came here asking for detractors (didn't he do the same about boogie?), that he's likely already gotten some video with Phil in person. A basic looking in to Phil would've made him realize any mention of talking to detractors would've made Phil run away talking shit the entire time.

As others mentioned previously, a mockumentary of Phil's perfect puff piece for 30-40 minutes followed by Real Life™ would be fucking hilarious and ideal.

Yeah, Mike talked to RTU on stream yesterday and he said that he's met Phil and/or video chatted with him and he's "really professional" and seems easy to work with. Almost sounded like he's talking to the wrong Phil but who knows