Numerous other "full-time" streamers:
- Relatively flexible schedule
- Regular 9+ hour streams (and that's 9+ hours of actual gameplay, not full of breaks/1hr pre-streams) that steadily climb in viewership
Phil "$16,000" Burnell:
- Bizarre strict schedule (CLOCK IN / CLOCK OUT!, "Gotta leave to have dinner guys", updates with schedule pics every fucking day on Twitter for some reason)
- Does a 6 hour stream (often with less than 4.5-5 hours of gameplay due to breaks and pre-stream) then fucks off (which resets his viewer count) only to come back for a 2 hour stream (which sometimes doesn't even happen, like today for example)
This is why I call bullshit on Phil's apparent financial woes. I believe he's in some shit, don't get me wrong, but I don't believe he's as deep in shit as he claims. If he was, he would be on the fucking grind to build his stream, network with other streamers, change his attitude so as to roll with the punches, and fix his setup so he doesn't have to pause gameplay to update the tip/donation counter manually, among other things. He'd have no other choice. Grind or starve.
You might say he's avoiding doing all of this because he's just lazy , but as lazy and incompetent as he indeed is, surely basic survival instincts kick in at some point. His survival instincts haven't kicked in yet because he knows he's not quite at breaking point. Not yet. Whether it be due to paypigs, family support, hidden money, miscellaneous things he hasn't revealed, I guess we can't be entirely sure.
All I know is that Phil's behaviour does not reflect that of a man who's on the brink of truly losing it all. You don't #SaveTheHouse by relying on donations given to you during 6 hour twitch streams and literally nothing else.