I'm sorry but the only people Phil swindles money out of are low-IQ and literally handicapped people. If he were good at swindling money like a gypsie/pikey he'd be bigger and have a larger following of actual people not just wheelchair symbols and people who are trying to stick it to the trolls.
Don't get me wrong, he's got a grift going, but it's a shit one that 99/100 people don't fall for, I mean the grift is just "I play games and talk shit come watch me". Not sure why people are trying to talk up Phil suddenly in this thread like he's big brained with a huge vocabulary and not at all mentally challenged but cut that shit out before it becomes the next "pEoPle sAy I cAn'T bE cAnCeLeD!" meme that Phil loves. Maybe try watching a TIHYDP and remind yourself that this guy can't even play fucking children's video games properly.
Edit because this rant is less about the original post now: Phil didn't achieve any success in any part of his life, he just walked backwards in to the cash cow that was early youtube and his mass uploads and putting himself in the wrong category got him views. This didn't last long because, get this, he's a fucking idiot. Every bit of cash he had he spent like crazy and all his fame he squandered on shit like the Project 7 scam (which led to the copyright strikes that destroyed his youtube channel) which wasn't even a good scam. I could go on for hours with examples of how this man is just an idiot, and frankly the nearly 5000 page KiwiFarms thread talking about his fuck ups shows that I'm not the only one.