While Phil represents everything wrong with the gaming community today, his widespread hate and declining fanbase in contrast to other gaming personalities that share similar issues could be attributed to his insistence that he represents the views of the "average gamer" and occasionally the gaming community as a whole. Both fans and haters alike have criticized this claim for various reasons, in order to detach themselves from such actions as:
- Entitlement to profit ranging from blocking Adblock users to accusing his hater-made videos of "stealing" his "work", and even ranting repeatedly against competing Youtuber, Toby "Tobuscus" Turner for his ads appearing on DSP's videos. DSP also has a clear bias against Nintendo, likely based on the idea that videos featuring Nintendo games wouldn't be as profitable, due to copyright regulations on Youtube. He has shown on camera the amount of collectible figurines he purchases and luxury hotel rooms he's booked. He's been shown regularly complaining about a lack of money, while also engaging in piracy such as downloading the Resident Evil 6 Demo and playing Earthbound with emulated software.
- Money. There's not much to say about this. As soon as he saw money in leeching off YouTube, he lost ANY passion for anything ever, except maybe for throwing out dosh for pussy. DSP also likes to excessively throw away money for things he doesn't need. If that wasn't enough, Phil did several giveaways. What amazing prizes did he offer? Empty game boxes from his "reasonable" collector's edition purchases to games he traded-in immediately after finishing them. They would be signed with DSP's autograph, valued at roughly -$3.25 USD. If anyone tells you Phil wasn't doing this for the money, just remember that his fans were not worth the twenty dollars of store credit for a Day 6 trade-in to actually include a game with his giveaways. By the way, his paid subscribers had priority when a winner was chosen.
- Not so subtle racial insensitivity, running the gamut from mocking foreign accents and ethnicity of people, both characters and real live human beings, to the Dead Space 2 Demo where he roleplayed as the last living Nazi to exterminate the Necromorph Jews. Attempts to defend it as humor have been a losing battle, since it likely offended more people than it entertained.
- Elitism that has been amateur-diagnosed as the Dunning-Kruger effect, namely "illusory superiority". His overconfidence in his skills in the face of such overwhelming evidence to the contrary is baffling without resorting to medical diagnosis. His belief in his competence has been speculated to be the largest barrier to his ability to learn from his mistakes or improve what barely existent skill he has.
- Gaming ineptitude combined with denial of fault so adamant, that Phil once confessed that he believes himself to be "one of the best overall gamers in the country". This comes in complete contrast of his refusal to adapt to or experiment with new control schemes between games. His MGS playthroughs specifically revealed his dependence on auto-aiming and run-and-gun tactics, all of which were useless during Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil 4, leading him to constantly blame bad controls and the game not explaining things. This has given him a reputation of being the exact kind of gamer supposedly pandered to with modern tutorials.
- Anti-conformist attitude to the insulting degree of panning most popular games and systems (namely capture cards) solely based on his inability to play or use them, and demeaning the fans that use or enjoy them far enough to lend rise to the Kojima World Order. He regularly calls game mechanics that he can't adapt to "bullshit", and forms inflammatory opinions based on little to no knowledge of the subject he talks about. Most notably, his refusal to use capture cards for his gameplay videos was largely because of a (mostly incorrect) mindset that LP-ers on Youtube did nothing but wear headsets while hunched over their computer monitors to record video and audio, and the amount of effort, namely video editing, that would be required.
- Profanity that has been known to cause even his most loyal fans to cringe. Whether it's swearing at the game, at opponent players, or his commenters, good or bad, Phil seems to base a lot of his "wit" on how harshly he swears at any given moment.
- Leaving behind / destroying things that actually made him popular. When DSP moved out of Conneticut, he basically left the couch he was gaming on for all these years, which became an "icon" of him, behind. This may sound like nothing to the average person, but all these brainless drones actually seemed to have enjoyed the familiarity with this piece of furniture. It's a subtle psychological trick. For example: Are you a fan of Ashens, that elitist britbong prick that reviews shit directly on his couch? If Ashens threw away/replaced that couch his views would tank and a major shitstorm would start. DSP is basically giving all his old fans the finger, because he refused to take with him his most visible thing that was on camera all these years, showing that he does not give a fuck about anything but money and materialism or maybe DSP was just too fucking stupid to see it. Replace the couch with his fanbase and you understand the whole point. It also doesn't help that he burned all his bridges. Phil also left behind his entire posse of real life friends he met before becoming the gaming disease he is today, including notable fuckwad, John Rambo. It's unlikely that Phil will make any new friends in Washington, given he has the charisma of a poisonous viper, and internet infamy to make associating with him a social death sentence.
- Excessive amounts of unwarranted blocking. Phil has a blacklist ten miles long containing such "atrocious" offenders as: Constructive criticism, actual tryhard fans, logical questioning of Phil's many poor choices, people who requested a game Phil didn't want to play, actual trolls, people Phil believes to be trolling, people who weren't trolling only to begin trolling because of Phil being a twat, tweens 'stupid' enough to point out what Phil did wrong in his terrible playthroughs, the occasional spambot, people Phil lost an argument to and can't bear the shame, fellow Machinima partners, Pewdiepie, thieves who admitted to using Adblock, people who admitted to being fans of people DSP dislikes, fake fictional character accounts, anyone who disagrees with his girlfriend, the Kojima World Order, Kojima himself, people who criticize blip.tv, his alternate personality accounts, people who actually attempted to warn him about his derogatory anti-channels, and a random account he blocked because he thought the avatar was looking at him funny.
- Backstabbing fans who have built him a good gaming PC for a reduced price, including a entire (ripped) Adobe Software Suite and other extras. Because of a small transport damage and a RAM stick that seemed to have malfunctioned (or even more likely a setting that was forgotten in the BIOS), he continued to VLOG several rants over the years, calling the ones that built the PC scammers, openly badmouthing them on Twitch.tv with no mercy or for them to have a chance to fix the problems. Later on DSP tried to make himself look a victim and even went as far as calling himself once part of the "PC master race" and told the viewers that he once "built gaming pcs for a hobby". DSP takes this phrase dead serious, as if all PC players dedicated their life to one sort of gaming. None of all this could be further from the truth. If DSP had once touched a PC he would have been capable to atleast fix the RAM problem that halfed his memory from 16 to 8. Recently viewers were able to take a glimpse on DSP's desktop. It was filled from top to bottom with folders, files and whatever crapware was installed, proving that DSP doesn't even do any kind of maintenance on his PC, letting it slowly die and making it incapable of playing any games.
- A case of: "Fame kills the soul". DSP may have been a fucking idiot all his life and a shitty gamer, but when he spent his first days in the condo in 2009, take a closer look at how he speaks. He was calmer, he did not (constantly) snort, burp, fart or do his other fucked noises and he was way more collected and polite. Just watch any video from today and you'll see what years of being shut-in in a dirty condo with no life outside and lots of american fast-food can do to you.
- Hoarding & putting everyones lives in danger. In the very first video of his new condo in Conneticut, DSP showed his viewers that he lives in a well-lit, quiet complex with a nice garden and more benefits. Years later his condo was filled with dirt, dust and shitloads of useless merchandise that he kept hoarding. His once good looking condo transformed into a brown-ish dungeon filled with all the shit a manchild could acquire. But that's not even why we started to talk about this point. DSP, in all his wisdom, ripped out a fire alarm that annoyed him one night, and instead of replacing the fire alarm with a new one for like 50 bucks, left his condo unprotected for 6 months+ at the time of this video, probably even until he moved. DSP's explanation for this was that he would "smell the smoke" and jump out of his bed.
- We are quoting YouTube user "memyselfdinges" here: "If you're asleep you don't smell smoke you idiot, if any it lulls you into a deeper sleep and slowly suffocates you, and you won't even notice. How about you open a fucking window when you try to cook something that's 90% fat and gives of a shit ton of smoke, or how about getting a hood (I hope that translated well) to suck away the smoke fuckface.Goddamn you're not only bad in videogames you're bad at life, how the hell did you make it untill now? I'm surprised you didn't electrocute yourself when plugging in yout 10 foot vibrator."
DSP's endless retardation could have not only killed him, but even more people in the nearby complex. Remember what happened to
Chris-Chan, everybody?
- Wllingly putting everyones life in danger. DSP has bad eyesight and needs to wear glasses to drive a car, according to his driving license. DSP openly told everyone on stream that he only gets them again to get his driving license in the state of Washington. After that, he will never use them again. He was even filmed by "Pandalee" not wearing his glasses while driving. He was also once stopped by cops in 2005 and his friend "Rambo" was witness of that happening and had to drive him home. DSP happily drives around in his big BMW, just waiting to accidentally kill a kid at a street crossing because the dumb fuck didn't see shit.
- Sexual perversion so unfiltered and misogynistic, it shows itself during a cut-scene where the woman he's objectifying is bleeding to death. His responses to any cut-scene featuring a female character will rarely be spared of Phil's constant remarks about the character's appearance and which sexual acts he desires to engage with them. He continues to behave this way despite his relationship to Leanna "PandaLee" Hangen, and the lack of any encouragement that this behavior was entertaining in any shape or form. He has no shame.
- Sexual overdependence and fear of rejection are two of the things that a person with any self-respect would have never revealed to a public of tens of thounds of people. The very day DSP revealed his previously jailbait girlfriend Pandalee on his channel on Valentine's day, even the most hardcore fans saw the "downfall" of DSP. Pandalee is an almost exact female copy of DSP. She's a gold-digging, autistic camwhore with the passion of a low class prostitute and no empathy. We cover her in another part. Basically, DSP presented her on the cam like some kind of toy he wants to show everyone. From that day on he could not shut up about his "girlfriend" and personal life anymore and kept mentioning "Leanna" several thousand times. DSP's whole motivation behind this is to show that he actually can get laid and therefor likes to show her off. DSP will throw as much money at her as possible, even if he goes bankrupt.
- Risking everything with no Plan B (that survives a reality check). Since DSP needs the pussy so bad, he listened to his gold-digging prostitute and bought(!) a HOUSE(!!) in a CLOSED GATE COMMUNITY(!!!) ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CONTINENT(!!!1!1). The house is near Seattle, in Washington state, on the west coast. He paid approximately 300.000 US DOLLARS for a house that he ONLY LOOKED AT FOR 10 MINUTES. He has to pay both the mortgage for the house in two years and the mortgage of his condo. Then he actually fucks up with signing the papers too late, then he doesn't pack up his shit in condo until the VERY LAST WEEK. When he arrived at his new home, the very first thing he does, is buying completely new furniture, a new BMW, ugly and expensive paintings, a new gaming PC, 2 hamsters and complained about everything in the house. His gold-digging whore even said: "Why did we buy this house again?" - in a monotonous, non-joking way. I want to explain this to you 12 year olds out there who do not understand why we bring this up. His only, ONLY money income is THE INTERNET. He has lost subscribers for years now and is getting more hatred from all parts of the world. He even started to openly BEG for money so he could pay off the debts (mortages) he has. YouTube money is UNSTABLE and could be shut down by Google at any moment (they have proven to do this several times for no reason other than saving money), just three copyright strikes and the channel is gone. (DSP already has one copyright strike, so only two for him). Since DSP did not work in a real job for years, his resumee is screwed up. Nobody but the absolute lowest paying companies would ever hire someone who not only has such a bad reputation in his career, but also his personal life. Hiring DSP would equal a death sentence to the reputation of your company. On top of that, DSP unflinchingly uses every opportunity to complain about his back injury, making him certifiably unqualified to perform any type of physical labor, and has endless online video evidence of his technical ineptitude, ruling out anything involving the use of a computer (he has been filmed striking his keyboard in frustration). If his ability to perform the work wasn't enough, Phil's attitude, unfiltered off-color humor, and belief that he is infallible would burn away the patience of even the most civilized manager, and negate any opportunities in customer service. Food service is also out of the question, thanks to his Cooking with the King series that shows several health code violations such as not washing his hands after handling raw bacon. Most people estimate that DSP won't last more than three months, at best a year.
Overall, Phil has been seen by the community to have lost his privilege to refer to himself as a functioning human being that is part of a normal society. This person is so far from reality that the "average" and "professional gamer" garbage he spews out every other day are nothing compared to his amount of fuck-ups and other problems he's causing to himself. Since he's been so well below average at everything, including life, comments on social media are abound with people who wish to disassociate themselves from someone who tries so desperately to speak for the people who most likely hate him.
Phil's flaws boil down to immaturity that may never be grown out of. His insistence that he is right and the world around him is wrong is akin to a child covering his ears, closing his eyes, and pretending problems don't exist for him. In fact he has rarely, if ever, been seen offering genuine sympathy for anyone while demanding it for everything from his supposed back injury to losing subscribers (and all except getting down on his knees to beg them to return, since that would require humility). He can never take an adult approach to anything from online debating to real world composure. He compulsively blocks everyone that may disillusion his deluded perfection, including other Machinima or Youtube partners, or his own fans. He has supposedly been denied panels at popular conventions such as MAGFest and SGC, based on how distant the gaming community itself wants to be from his undesirable attitude. If Phil ever attended one of these conventions, he would likely return dead or with injury, whether real or feigned to elicit more e-begging donations or to spout more one-sided rage in his vlogs for his cult following to accept without question.
His existence should be openly ridiculed and
parodied, but never supported. Only with the use of the magical Adblock plugin should you DARE to watch any of his videos or streaming channels he profits from. Dislikes should be handed to him frequently and it is most important that people should learn from the mistakes that DSP will not learn from himself, so that the gaming community and future generations of daydreamers can be purged of any derivative filth born from his toxicity.
It's been suggested that DarkSydePhil is secretly an act, put on by Burnell to create attention and controversy to draw in more viewers. Anyone who suggests this is in dire need of a reality check, because attention whoring beneficially requires active discussion to be carried out. Phil on the other hand takes every opportunity to silence discussion about himself that isn't 100% positive for the sake of his self image. A successful troll would allow his fans and haters to engage in bitter verbal combat so they inadvertently pad his videos with views and comments. With Phil silencing not only the haters who give him negative attention, but also his fanboys who try to help him, he's building his own grave.
