If Phil Was Smart - Just for funsies - Don't take this thread too seriously friend

[The Penultimate Warrior]

If Phil was smart, he wouldn't turn on the a/c in his whole house when his waif is out at work.

He could just leave the AC on in the awffice but why cool the whole house?

Or just open the window because it's only about 22 Commie degrees outside

 

[PutridElephant]

Or just open the window because it's only about 22 Commie degrees outside

Open the window? The squirrels will attack and the screens are weak and flimsy. Who knows if they're the advance detractor force out to get him and Jasper!

 

[Rusty_Shackleford3]

I often wonder where Phil would be if he saved up, just $100 a month lets say, just ANYTHING! He hasn't saved up anything, or at least it doesn't seem that way, when he was in CT making bank on YT, he wasted his money on stupid junk from ThinkGeek and his stupid figures for $100's each. He's been doing this for ~11 years (?), $200 a month set aside would be more than $25,000 by now.

I guess the draw of useless pictures of old wrestlers is more important.

 

[HX-2]

I often wonder where Phil would be if he saved up, just $100 a month lets say, just ANYTHING! He hasn't saved up anything, or at least it doesn't seem that way, when he was in CT making bank on YT, he wasted his money on stupid junk from ThinkGeek and his stupid figures for $100's each. He's been doing this for ~11 years (?), $200 a month set aside would be more than $25,000 by now.

I guess the draw of useless pictures of old wrestlers is more important.

If Phil was smart he would bother to save.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

Literally the only thing I can think of that would make Phil "smart" is if he took a good hunk of his income every year and put it into an investment portfolio rather than constantly spending everything he has.

-If Phil was smart, he'd have faded into obscurity like countless other of his contemporaries, especially given his relative lack of ability as an entertainer
-If Phil was smart half the internet wouldn't immediately know the name "DSP"
-If Phil was smart he would've given up years ago rather than pigheadedly continuing
-If Phil was smart he wouldn't have developed an entire cabal of retarded supporters and "trolls" who will throw thousands upon thousands of dollars at him for no reason
-If Phil was smart he wouldn't be able to stay up until 3AM drinking gin then wake up in the afternoon and wander his ass into another room of the house to make hundreds of dollars
-If Phil was smart he never would've considered the idea of putting on a vest for money, perhaps one of the most consistently effective streaming gimmicks I've seen
-If Phil was smart he wouldn't be a 38 year old streamer still making a healthy living in an arena almost exclusively dominated by people a decade or more younger than him

I mean, friends, I don't know what kind of life you guys are leading, but I'm sure as hell not getting paid 4x the average American income to fuck around on a couch for a few hours 6 days a week.
Sure, in a more existential sense he's in a sham marriage, he's unfulfilled, he lives like a hermit, he's petrified of intimacy, and in the long term he's going to almost certainly be screwed since, again, he refuses to invest for the future, but in an objective sense his lifestyle kind of makes me personally wonder if maybe I'm the idiot.

Just saying, for all the shit Phil does that serves as an excellent example of what not to do, at the same time his popularity (or infamy, perhaps) and financial success that's resulted almost exclusively from his complete inability to ever stop and consider he could be wrong no matter how blatantly obvious it is also serves as a lesson that a lot of times being smart or talented is less valuable than being persistent.

 

[TheGoutburglar]

-If Phil was smart he wouldn't be able to stay up until 3AM drinking gin then wake up in the afternoon and wander his ass into another room of the house to make hundreds of dollars

I'm not convinced he doesn't spend every hour of his life in that dusty-ass pigpen he streams from. We've seen that he doesn't immediately leave upon ending a stream, and when he jacked off in front of everybody, it was because he chose THAT room to play with his little potato in. Why else would he do that unless it was way more than just a streaming room to him?

 

[Balr0g]

I'm not convinced he doesn't spend every hour of his life in that dusty-ass pigpen he streams from. We've seen that he doesn't immediately leave upon ending a stream, and when he jacked off in front of everybody, it was because he chose THAT room to play with his little potato in. Why else would he do that unless it was way more than just a streaming room to him?

Maybe Khet has banned him to his ahffice to sleep on the couch since she can't stand sleeping next to his ugly ass.

On topic: if Phil was samrt he would have saved enough money to slowly fade into obscurity. If he was samrt he would have made a deal with the TIHYDP guys to earn both sides good money and to give himself a better reputation.. And the most important part: if he was samrt he would stay the fuck away from Twitter.

 

[Optimus Prime]

If he was smart, he wouldn't struggle with video games designed for literal children.

 

[TheGoutburglar]

if Phil was smart he would have saved enough money to slowly fade into obscurity.

Or as a gotcha to us. Seriously, what could steam us more than when he reveals that he has millions in the bank that we didn't know about, and he's going to die rich, in the Bahamas, rather than on stream, begging for tips?

 

[Beverly Sutphin]

If Philliam was smart, he'd would've put at least 60% of that YouTube money into a 401K/Roth IRA/high yield interest savings account back in the late 00's/2010. Stay in the CTKhando, and evolve into something else that catered to his career field once his popularity started to wane.

Another if Philliam was smart, he'd NOT cash out his 401K from Wells Fargo, along with maxing out his credit cards to pay for Evo, after getting fired from his job at Wells Fargo, screwing over his roommates at the time financially, because he couldn't his share of the rent.

 

[Meerkat Ink]

If DSP was smart, he'd be Angry Joe.

I'm not joking, AJ is a pretty dumb dude but knows how to run his brand and find success even after over 10 years of the same content.

He has his friends make content for the channel, feature in videos etc.

He makes the videos his fans want to see, and ones he has fun making as well.

 

[Michael Janke]

If DSP was smart, he'd be Angry Joe.

I'm not joking, AJ is a pretty dumb dude but knows how to run his brand and find success even after over 10 years of the same content.

He has his friends make content for the channel, feature in videos etc.

He makes the videos his fans want to see, and ones he has fun making as well.

phil did initially try to create a brand. he had the whole king of hate thing going on.

 

[Iron Hamster]

If Phil was smart

He's not [/endthread]

 

[Lilly Philly Burnelli]

phil did initially try to create a brand. he had the whole king of hate thing going on.

But Phil will never allow himself to be a "commodity" or give the masses what they want, which is to see him rage and cry about games. I don't know if its out of spite or he really thinks of himself as a god-tier content creator (maybe both) but Phil, for whatever reason, has so much pride that he allows himself to be overlooked by the public. I'd say if he stuck to his old shtick being a bumbling ass, pointing a camera at a TV and making "offensive" cringe-inducing jokes, he could have quite the following.

But then again he would have to learn to laugh at himself.

 

[Michael Janke]

you guys are raising your expectations a bit. we could lower the bar significantly and he'd still be pretty good.

if phil saved half his money from the start, plus paid off his first condo fully. he'd have probably over 2 million dollars in his savings. a fully paid off house, car and 2 million and he might not even have to work anymore.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

Imagine how much more money Phil could be getting in addition to what he already gets if he:
never ended the vest streak by begging for double tips
accepted the Keemstar money
actually played with fans
didn’t play stupid shit no one asked for like Disney Dreamlight Valley
embraced the WWE Champions meme just a little bit and had special tip animations for $16.51 and $110.09

 

[JefOliveira90]

Phil has been incredibly lucky throughout all his life. *If he was smart*, he would’ve capitalized on at least one of the dozen times he lucked out in life and would’ve something to show for his 15-years career. So many people that started creating content at the same time he did either have established business today or retired with fuck-you money; Phil —on the other hand— still is just a very pale weirdo wearing children shirts that sits around all day talking shit about other people, rambling, flailing around and coping about his miserable life.