How does one stop DSP? - Internet villain gets god mode

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Potentially unpopular opinion, but DSP isn't as invincible as some posts make him sound. No denying that as an e-begger he still does pretty well for himself, but there was a point in time where DSP was genuinely making big YouTube money due to abusing the search algorithm and taking a shotgun quantity over quality approach to the system. And hey, credit where credit is due, he took advantage of a big flaw in the system and made bank.

The problem is that Phil, being his own worst enemy, didn't try and change his approach after YouTube fixed the loopholes. I don't think he was ever going to become PewDiePie levels of big, but I think he could have coasted by for most of his career making solid YouTube money close to what he was making in his algorithm abuse days. I don't know how well he'd fare in present day YouTube, but at the very least he'd have several solid years of income instead of hitting a sharp decline and trying to supplement his living with credit cards.

The other big difference is comfort. Phil hates streaming and interacting with his fans. If he had focused on building his YouTube identity and producing better content, he would have a much more flexible schedule and wouldn't desperately have to play day 1 releases that he hates with the hope of striking gold and getting more people to throw their disability checks at him.

Instead of going out in a giant explosion, Phil is slowly bleeding out. The bleeding is made slower by the fact he was successful once upon a time, allowing him to apply for a bunch of credit cards which act as bandages. It isn't that uncommon for people who got lucky and hit it big to do, it's just that most of those rich people who fall into the debt trap don't livestream the majority of their lives for the internet to see. Closest example I can think of is some of the bigger name Hollywood actors who made millions but ended up going bankrupt when they started going balls to the wall with their spending and couldn't continue to supplement their previously high income levels. Like Phil, if they just made a few pretty simple tweaks to their life, they would not only be fine, but still living pretty comfortable lives.

IMO, that's why Phil is so interesting to watch. Outside of his early success with the algorithm abuse, he has defied logic and made every possible wrong decision, even with both genuine fans and detractors spelling out exactly what he could do to improve his situation. I think he still has at least a few more years left in him, but it sounds like those credit card bandages he slapped on his pig carcass are finally starting to fall apart. I think his genius payment plan option of just not making payments on the condo and hoping it goes away marks the beginning of the end. Again, it is a process that will drag out over the course of several years, and at the end of the day I don't think even that will make him stop streaming. Personally, I think it's more entertaining having Phil slowly burn out versus something like the ProJared situation. Sure, that provided funny content for a couple of days, but then it more or less died down and unless Jared makes another stupid tweet, will probably be forgotten about in a few weeks time. Phil became infamous because he's slowly bleeding instead of going out in a greasy explosion.
 
Cyber Bowling said:
Potentially unpopular opinion, but DSP isn't as invincible as some posts make him sound. No denying that as an e-begger he still does pretty well for himself, but there was a point in time where DSP was genuinely making big YouTube money due to abusing the search algorithm and taking a shotgun quantity over quality approach to the system. And hey, credit where credit is due, he took advantage of a big flaw in the system and made bank.

The problem is that Phil, being his own worst enemy, didn't try and change his approach after YouTube fixed the loopholes. I don't think he was ever going to become PewDiePie levels of big, but I think he could have coasted by for most of his career making solid YouTube money close to what he was making in his algorithm abuse days. I don't know how well he'd fare in present day YouTube, but at the very least he'd have several solid years of income instead of hitting a sharp decline and trying to supplement his living with credit cards.

The other big difference is comfort. Phil hates streaming and interacting with his fans. If he had focused on building his YouTube identity and producing better content, he would have a much more flexible schedule and wouldn't desperately have to play day 1 releases that he hates with the hope of striking gold and getting more people to throw their disability checks at him.

Instead of going out in a giant explosion, Phil is slowly bleeding out. The bleeding is made slower by the fact he was successful once upon a time, allowing him to apply for a bunch of credit cards which act as bandages. It isn't that uncommon for people who got lucky and hit it big to do, it's just that most of those rich people who fall into the debt trap don't livestream the majority of their lives for the internet to see. Closest example I can think of is some of the bigger name Hollywood actors who made millions but ended up going bankrupt when they started going balls to the wall with their spending and couldn't continue to supplement their previously high income levels. Like Phil, if they just made a few pretty simple tweaks to their life, they would not only be fine, but still living pretty comfortable lives.

IMO, that's why Phil is so interesting to watch. Outside of his early success with the algorithm abuse, he has defied logic and made every possible wrong decision, even with both genuine fans and detractors spelling out exactly what he could do to improve his situation. I think he still has at least a few more years left in him, but it sounds like those credit card bandages he slapped on his pig carcass are finally starting to fall apart. I think his genius payment plan option of just not making payments on the condo and hoping it goes away marks the beginning of the end. Again, it is a process that will drag out over the course of several years, and at the end of the day I don't think even that will make him stop streaming. Personally, I think it's more entertaining having Phil slowly burn out versus something like the ProJared situation. Sure, that provided funny content for a couple of days, but then it more or less died down and unless Jared makes another stupid tweet, will probably be forgotten about in a few weeks time. Phil became infamous because he's slowly bleeding instead of going out in a greasy explosion.
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What I'm waiting for following the bleeding out is the aftershock, though, and that I think promises to be glorious. Between Phil losing the house, Phil quitting streaming, Phil going back to work or any other permutation of what he'll need to do next to survive, and every conceivable human coming out of the woodwork to take their pound of flesh from his corpse, it's going to be the sound of the proverbial body hitting the metaphorical floor that I've got front-row seat tickets for.
 
I honestly don't think Phil could work a normal 9-5 day job now, so he's doing to do whatever it takes to ride this online "job" as far as it goes.

The question is what will he do when the profits start becoming truly hard to live on. We know he's remarkably retarded handling his finances. If Phil showed any ability to live frugally, I'd be confident he'd continue this until his dying day.
 
Longish term, a Kat divorce maybe. I don't know how much claim she would have to his stuff now but if she stuck around for a year or two and then divorced him, could she get the house and fuck him over? Especially if she happened to get pregnant and court decided she would get sole parentage. Talking out my ass here but it's my understanding that these things tend to be very favorable to the woman in the relationship.
 
Denmark Mafia said:
As much as I like me some DSP drama, can we stop pretending that large parts of this sub-forum aren't part of DSP's hugely autistic hatebase?
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I mean yeah I'm sure his most ardent 'tractors have and will continue to use this subforum as a resource when they want to top up their specific mix of DSP haterade. The place is loaded with information and a shit-ton of humor to sift through. If the place seems petty it's only because we've been conditioned by the showman himself (a genuine imbecile who pays out in autistic silver dollars daily) to always anticipate and key in on the next inexplicable thing that comes out of his mouth. It gets catalogued for commentary because if we didn't laugh we'd probably cry at the endless miserable cycle he has going on.

Even if we mock and laugh and wallow a bit in the DSP depths I don't think many people around here are seething with anger and if those folks do pop in they always stand out in the crowd and usually get laughed at for allowing themselves to be driven to that point. If this subforum was as bad as the rep its got I know wouldn't be here.. the KF DSP forums are far more chill than the man himself.
 
Why would you wanna stop him?

On really good days, this guy is an absolute joy to listen to, making up one lie after another.

The way things go, he will off himself sooner or later by himself, either by dieing on street, by a heart attack, by Kat, whatever you like to imagine.

We don't need to do anything
 
show up at his house and murder him!!!!

apparently, i mean hes painted a world of thats how detractors actually think.

"bunch of sick fucks who probably want to kill me! thats why i dont tell anyone where im going cause those lunatics will be there!!!
even though they know my address..."
 
This might be kinda unpopular as well, but I am not sure if there is any reason TO take him down tbh, much less how. All he does is make an ass of himself on twitch and twitter daily. His position is far too shitty to be invincible anyways. Invincibility would be him raking in his six figures on top of pro bono deals with game developers for free copies while also being flown out to cover E3 and new releases and shit. Dude, I know smaller streamers who have had opportunities like that.

But I do have to say, what softens the initial blow for Phil is that he more or less has nothing to hide. He never built up a persona that at least pretends to be approachable or even likeable. From day one there was no doubt that he was a sketchy ass hole. So anytime a vid drops of him being assholic, while providing moments of ironic hilarity, it isn't revealing anything new. He can't "fall" like Pro Jared.

As an aside, I am 100% positive that Twitch is sick and fucking tired of being @'ed on twitter or being sent emails about DSP everytime something happens. You KNOW that there are exceptional enough people who make it their life's work to do that shit on the daily thinking, "THIS is the report that will take him down!". Like Phil himself, some detractor circles are their own worst enemy: Neutral parties can get the idea that people are just dogpiling on Phil, and they may feel inclined to align themselves opposite of the attacking party. That's why it's best to just let Phil continue burning his own bridges.

Just enjoy watching a man continue to swab the poop-deck over plugging the giant hole in his ship in an effort to keep it afloat for just a little longer.

TL;DR: Nothing to take down, he's not invincible - just steady, certain detractors don't help.
 
gaarashatan said:
show up at his house and murder him!!!!

apparently, i mean hes painted a world of thats how detractors actually think.

"bunch of sick fucks who probably want to kill me! thats why i dont tell anyone where im going cause those lunatics will be there!!!
even though they know my address..."
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He broadcasts his every move. Tweets when he's going to the store - find the closest Fred Meyer to his address. Says he's going to the mall - find the local mall in Renton. Fuck, with some decent thermals and a scope you could know when he was coming downstairs to stir his fucking sauce just by watching his stream and put one in his neck from across the street.

For such an otherwise paranoid fucker he's awfully blasé about ensuring the detractors can't track him down. Kat really is a fucking security blanket for him - can't go anywhere without her.
 
purpleboy said:
I predict that a fucking nuke could go off in his town and Mr. Pigroach would still find a way to keep streaming MK11 and ebegging on twitch with both of his legs paralyzed, his wife reduced to ash, 4 kinds of cancer infesting his body, and 90% of the walls in his house torn down
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"All the layers of lead paint in this house made the perfect bomb shelter."

I genuinely feel that he would like being paralyzed as he would get money for doing nothing, and his broken legs would give him an excuse to sit in his loveseat for the rest of his life. Can't shamble round Fred Meyer once a week with Khet if his legs don't work dood! It would also give him an excuse for his mother asking him to get a job, "But mom, muh disability!"
 
It'll be just like Wings. One day he's paying his bills by playing vidya, next day he isn't. That's literally it. He isn't actually a shitty person compared to 99% of the people we follow. He's a lolcow in the purest form: he's mildly autistic to the point of being totally self-unaware, and he's fucking terrible at everything he does. He's not going to have any big controversies that kill him because he is far, far too mundane for that. The spookiest thing I can think of is Khat getting pergert, but in reality he'll probably just make her abort it, in which case she will and just be miserable with him forever or tell him to eat shit and leave, in which case next year instead of a tax saga we'll have a child support saga.

It will be a slow death filled with autistic A-logs to laugh at. Remember: it's about the journey, not the destination.
 
Crippled Eagle said:
It'll be just like Wings. One day he's paying his bills by playing vidya, next day he isn't. That's literally it. He isn't actually a shitty person compared to 99% of the people we follow. He's a lolcow in the purest form: he's mildly autistic to the point of being totally self-unaware, and he's fucking terrible at everything he does. He's not going to have any big controversies that kill him because he is far, far too mundane for that. The spookiest thing I can think of is Khat getting pergert, but in reality he'll probably just make her abort it, in which case she will and just be miserable with him forever or tell him to eat shit and leave, in which case next year instead of a tax saga we'll have a child support saga.

It will be a slow death filled with autistic A-logs to laugh at. Remember: it's about the journey, not the destination.
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DSP is absolutely a shitty person. A monster, no, but he's crossed the line too many times in my estimation.
 
Pargon said:
DSP is absolutely a shitty person. A monster, no, but he's crossed the line too many times in my estimation.
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I mean, you can think that, which is fine, but I was talking in context of everyone else that has a thread.

He doesn't hurt people, rape animals, destroy careers, or advocate violence. He's literally just a douchebag that plays video games poorly.
 
As to the OP's original question, 'What do you think realistically could end such a person's career?' I think it would be exactly the opposite of the things you listed. It's been said many times, but the career ending fuck-up Phil would have to make is genuinely changing for the better as a person and a content creator. Humility, civility, empathy, poise, polish, gratitude, self-awareness. . .if he ever genuinely worked towards and achieved personal betterment it would begin the rapid decline of tard cum'ed monies. No one wants to give money to a kind, considerate, balding, waxy-blobfish grandmotherly looking coma patient.

Also: Attempting a single push-up. His razed & desiccated musculature would cause his own tendons to snap his arm bones halfway up.
DSP, do not attempt a push-up, YOU WILL DIE!
 
There is no stopping him. You only hope for mercy when your time of judgement comes.
 
Prince Lotor said:
As to the OP's original question, 'What do you think realistically could end such a person's career?' I think it would be exactly the opposite of the things you listed. It's been said many times, but the career ending fuck-up Phil would have to make is genuinely changing for the better as a person and a content creator. Humility, civility, empathy, poise, polish, gratitude, self-awareness. . .if he ever genuinely worked towards and achieved personal betterment it would begin the rapid decline of tard cum'ed monies. No one wants to give money to a kind, considerate, balding, waxy-blobfish grandmotherly looking coma patient.
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I actually disagree with you, in part. I think you're right that there would be an initial drop from the more aggressive trolls and rage-addicted fans leaving, but I think someone who is kinder and self-deprecating instead of a hostile manchild will engender more money being given in the long-term. If Phil actually changed as you describe, I think he would make fans out of some detractors, and he would be able to pick up things like sponsorships and maybe even somehow get on the Twitch front page, where random people would find his kindly self and stick around.
 
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