I’m still reeling over Phil’s genuine frustration over how many “subs” refuse to subscribe to his Patreon.
Even if we ignore the fact that he hasn’t updated it in three years (but still siphoned money from the people who were subbed to it, how generous), is he forgetting that literal hundreds of his subs were given to him by a SINGLE PERSON?
I just can’t get enough of Phil pretending that his streams aren’t kept afloat by a handful of whales and are unwatchable to the average person.
The problem here is that they've fucked with what I suspect was his plan. Phil wanted to play his Patreon like OiC's inflated subs goal. The subs were supposed to flock to the Patreon at the start of May and immediately inflate it to at least $1500. Phil was then going to set goals to get it to the $2-$3k he recently said he needed to compare to his Twitch income.
What Phil does not want to do is have to set goals for what he considers to be paltry sums. He doesn't want to have to do something with the Patreon until it is a high enough value for him to care. So the idea of having to overhaul the perks and set a goal in order to attract people to the Patreon and grow it? He doesn't want to do that. He wants it immediately to where his subs were so that he can set goals that will inflate it and let his whales keep it at unreasonable levels, then he'll do things.
A job wouldn't solve anything, he's never going to get a job where he makes $120k a year.
This needs to be kept in mind. This was reasonable before Phil openly revealed that he makes, expects, and apparently 'needs' $120k/year in order to
survive. He isn't going to get a job that will pay him this.
But even if he somehow did, there is the issue that he couldn't do what he just did today. When you want more money at a job, they have a tendency to expect that you do more in order to justify paying you more. Phil can turn on the stream and play the same game he has been playing for a month and just say 'crisis, I need $500 today, shut up and give it to me' and it'll work because his whales are subhuman. Right now, his fans should cut him off completely until BTTV goes live. He needs to be backhanded to do something that will take him 20 minutes to set up for his fans to replace what they lost. If he was working a job and he just decided to do less, they'd stand on his neck, not give him more.
Really, this is turning into a great era for Phil because the grift is not hidden anymore. We have a pretty good mark on his expenses because of the bankruptcy and what we know about his mobile gaming, he has had to finally be transparent about the amount of money he 'requires', and nothing can be properly memoryholed or obscured because he is so reliant on the day to day tips he now has to dance even harder for. We're going to get more of today, where he has to completely lose his mind before the whales are willing to step up. And I know he is used to constantly whining and begging, but he cannot sustain the manic pace that this now demands.
I think he'll end up back on YT again just so that he has avenues by which to obscure how much he is making. His regular paypigs were actually too stupid to keep track of all that, and this $120k has been a revelation for them that is doing serious damage. The fact that he has to ban the basic math that you see on screen suggests Phil knows how much he benefitted from hiding his money, but outright banning the math sends the message that he can't properly justify the total being what it is.