One thing that we detractors many times don't remember due to not empathizing with Phil (which, granted, is pretty hard to do), is that the world appears to Phil very differently from what we see.There are streamers that literally continue to grow despite streaming Ocarina of Time every day, yet DSP and his 12 year legacy is reliant on new games to bring viewers.
I love that even DSP thinks that it's the games that bring the money, not the streamer.
To us, we see that Phil is a shitty streamer whose career is carried by no more than 10 different people, and that those people don't really care about what Phil does.
However, Phil actually is rewarded when he plays variety, and he does get more money because of day-one views.
Yes, it's money from the same people. Yes, he could still make that money playing anything else and begging extra hard.
But my point is that, from Phil's point of view, he sees people actually loving his "new streams" (because remember, money = love to Phil). So in his mind, when a game isn't performing well and then he plays a new game and gets loads of money, his mind doesn't register that it was money from the same retarded whales, it just registers "NEW GAME = MONEY = GOOD".