This is based on real napkin and denthead math in my head, but I feel like this Pokemon saga poses a real risk to Phil. One of Quartering's major issues is that he takes a business like livestreaming where the cost of production is borderline nil and finds a way to barely break even or even lose money on it, by paying Hannah Claire, Melonie Mac, and blowing money on opening card packs. Phil watched the doc on him and for some reason (gambling/gacha addiction) decided that he needed to emulate this closely.
The risk to Phil is that Quartering is a multi millionaire, with a wealthy family, other sources of income (as dubious or sparse as they are speculated to be), who owns a mcmansion and a decent amount of land. Phil is a nigger rich (more accurately, nigger upper-middle class) retard with a middle unit condo and a used toyota. If he's going to be openly dropping $300-400 a day on packs, binders, mickey mouse gloves oh my, he needs to be making that money back daily, but he's still having ~$50 streams a few times a week, rarely exceeding $150, and when you add to that that he is also dropping hundreds on boxes to open off screen which then can't even be written off, he really needs to be careful here.
A few weeks ago, before he went out of his way to acquire this expensive new addiction, he was making the same amount with no overhead. Now every other day he is dropping $250-300, and he is not getting $150 every stream consistently to even break even with it. Yes he profits approximately 5x for each pack he opens on stream, as each pack is approximately $8-10, but they're not going gangbusters in the sense that he's making significantly more than before. He's making the same amount, essentially, while massively increasing the cost to produce his "product" (his viewer-repellent streams). Assuming a baseline cost of $10 a pack, that just means every $50 on stream that he gets now, he has taken a 20% haircut on compared to before this saga where he had no real input costs besides buying the games he was going to wagequit.
Consider, too, that now all khantributions count, not just tips. We've all been seeing some of the recent streams where he makes barely anything on tips, and instead gets most of his money through superchats. That's another 30% hit for what has become the majority of his income. This was a very dumb move by Phil to go out of his way to get addicted to this Pokemon shit he does not even care about, and he's wading into some dangerous waters here, in my opinion.
