no matter how much time you spend on dsp you are stealing time from your wife and kids.. do you even have a job? dsp is your alcohol now. he makes 100k and how much do you make to provide for your family? It may be time for all of us to grow up and leave the dsp universe.. you make fun of high pitched phil but you do the same thing annoyingly.
Phil's hell is what he's doing right now. It's like the Twilight Zone episode of the guy who thinks he's in heaven and is in a casino and eternally plays a game he always wins.
really love how he explains taxes like it's some unfair, unknown thing that only effects him and he has to inform others of them and the federal government should understand that his income isn't consistent and should make an exception just for him. how is he real? he really is mentally 15
You dont understand, phil has to pay bills, every month, and TAXES omg, you know what I am saying? Things are a little tight and he hates to ask but he needs that money, he really really does.
This is why Phil is so obsessed with painting himself as a "legit not shill gamer". Because during this arc he descended into a full on beggar and has never stopped. Everything he's done has been a detriment to his fans, his content, his reputation, and his personal relationships. But it has benefited him financially at the cost of all that, and that's all he cares about.
He started begging REALLY hard right around the time he started with mobile games. In hindsight, its kinda obvious, the tweaking voice and shit. You can see his gambling addiction getting out of control in real time almost
The true peak to me is that March prestream when DSP after all those months of crying about losing the house, taxes, dying parents, telling trolls they don't know what they're talking about, suddenly flipped 180 and announced that hold on guys, he just found out that if you don't pay your taxes you just get a fine! You don't lose the house, you just get fined for being late! And I quote, "it's total BS, you don't HAVE TO PAY AT ALL!"! So all those trolls telling him for the entire tax begging that had been going on a year so far were right after all! But please, still give money because why not!
Oh man, I miss this era of Phail -- the begging had that mild-shame-tinged flavour to it -- different from the utter mercenary nature of today's ongoing grift -- but ultimately just collapsed into an orgy of constant con. Say what you will about the Pig Roach, the man successful grifted money out both his dents for the tax and house cons, and later ultimately from several financial institutions as well. He could give lessons.
I will never understand not selling the Connecticut condo before moving to and buying a place in Washington. Just so irresponsible and I don't get what the rush was.
The RU-vid gig was not doing well by mid-2013, so I believe he wanted to do it before the money dried up a little (he moved in 2014). It is all so convenient that in 2015, he opened a patreon to supplement this.
“I haven’t done a darn thing wrong whatsoever.” Except for get kicked off BlipTV for being antisemitic, refusing to adopt direct capture even though it was already the standard in 2009, cultivating a toxic fanbase, abandoning projects immediately instead of building up their viewership over time, moving away from your friends, being overly defensive to criticism, exploiting parasocial relationships instead of building a legitimate fanbase, putting no effort or care into the content, resting on your laurels, antagonizing your detractors into escalation, playing games badly with no thought or care, being consistently drunk while doing your job, doing nothing to improve your content, being lazy, and being toxic to your own fanbase until they were driven off one by one. Other than all of that, he did nothing wrong.
"There have been a few times my parents have been able to help here or there" is such a sad thing to hear when he just means money. He makes it sound like they're not able to help as much as they 'should' when they shouldn't need to help at all! He's not struggling with children or health issues or anything, except maybe terminal narcissism. Tragic!
He doesn't seem to understand that downsizing is a real thing and so many people do it. Does it suck to leave a nice place for somewhere probably not as nice? Sure, but it's life. Just because everything was going great one minute doesn't mean it'll always be like that. Stuff happens, you either accept defeat or keep trying to brute force your way through it, either way the outcome will always be the same. Phil might be ok now, but guarantee we will be facing this crisis in the future, he hasn't learnt his lesson.
He's the one who gets to determine whether his content is entertaining and meaningful. Spoiler: it is. And since he's putting out such unparalleled entertainment of the meaningful and robust variety, you, dear dents, are required to uphold your end of the bargain. He needs your buy in.
Imagine giving money to a guy that is ALWAYS behind on his taxes. The only way that happens is if you're not paying them. That should set off alarm bells that any donation isn't going to be spend wisely.
Yeah idk how people were jumping down his throat over that shit. Year after year of not paying taxes. Dude set aside 30%, it isn't that hard. Nobody should be bailing this moron out.
He has sooooo many excuses for why he can't do anything to improve his situation. It's all on the viewers. He needs a miracle in the $16K range, although he would settle for more.
The craziest thing about people rallying around Phil is how unsympathetic he is. Why would anyone ever feel sorry for him? He’s not an adorable, creative character like Scott the Woz or something. Phil is a gross monster who needs you to pay his taxes so he doesn’t have to live within his means.
He thinks he's entitled to it. The only thing he's been successful at is conditioning his little cult to step up the contributions when Phil finds himself in dire straits. He's got terrible impulse control and he's a mobile game addict. I believe he's committing some sort of fraud by misrepresenting his financial problems. The money is given voluntarily but under false pretenses.
FHA loans are fine for your first home---you can pay as low as 3.5% down on a house. You will have to pay a PMI (private mortgage insurance) per month until you meet 20% equity in the home. The PMI I use to pay was about 75-110 dollars a month. The percentages might be wrong but the idea is correct. Still preferable to paying rent as you are building equity.
oh my god, the way he treats his parents fucking BOTHERS me. i'm sure they weren't ideal parents. i mean, they produced phil. but they seem to be trying, and they act like normal, functional, sympathetic, empathetic HUMANS. and seeing how he views their total value as equivalent to their UTILITY... it fucking bothers me.
I'd love to know what the first beg was. Like, the first beg where he actually begged. Like, if you don't give me money I'm going to have to get a job style beg. Big ups ALT. Great video once again ❤❤❤
What, you want to criminalise debt again and forget your own history. Georgia was a massive open debtor's prison, where people were made to work off their debts. You'd love that, wouldn't you, with your 300 years out of date views. Well, it was written into the colonial articles that slavery was not possible in that colony, because rich families bought slaves to work off the debts for relatives. Each colony had its own parliament with unique legislative and tax raising powers. We call that taxation with representation in English, regardless, you copied that as state's rights. As you know, Georgia rebelled for the right to own slaves and that was the first thing they did after their revolution, was allow the slaves banned under the British, so that debtors would not use them to work off their debts. If you criminalise debt, even if you make them work on someone else's plantation, the original creditors don't get their money back, with debt being civil now, creditors get the most money back directly in their pockets, and 7 years is a really long time. Out here in the free world it's 5 years, so your system is already more medieval than everyone else anyway, and it still does not deter people, because debt doesn't work like that, much like you have the most people locked up per capita than China or Iran and much worse crime against the person than both, or anyone else in the free world.
