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jpenny2 posted...

Nazanir posted...

He already clears 6 figures per year so why bother.

This is an important point that doesn't get discussed as often as it probably should. If he can make the kind of money he does by putting out increasingly poor and lazy content, while at the same time focusing more on begging than actual gameplay, why would he ever feel the need to change? Anyone else with such a terrible personality, awful commentary, and horrible gaming skills would be laughed off the platform, yet Phil makes 100 grand a year. He won't change because he's succeeding.

To delve a little deeper in it, because then you really start to see the madness: Lets say that on average Phil clears 100.000 dollars per year. He has an average of 400 viewers. If you take 100.000/400 that equals 250 dollars per viewer per year.

On average that ends up being about 20 dollars per viewer per month. Given the fact for example, that Twitch keeps half of the money per tier 1 sub, the average goes up from 20 to maybe 25 per month.

But to make it worse, Phil has whales, if you take into consideration that someone like PlanetJeff gave 1k during the Jasper reveal, he got over 15k from Tut and over 15k from Emerald.

So some people will maybe spend 1 dollar per month on Phil on average while others are closer to 100 dollars on average per month.

And the question to end all questions: what on earth causes someone to consider donating over 5 dollars to Phil, given the quality of his content, much less drop up to 17k on someone like him.
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