I know it's a rehash, but we have a nice, back-to-back example of the whale patterns today.
OroTurtle came back around today with the $20 to hit the hat goal in the last 25 minutes. He tipped $30 in the first hour of gameplay.
Notice that this is very similar to PhilSmokesCrack yesterday, who followed a similar timeframe with $30 early and $30 to hit the hat goal in the last 20 minutes of the stream.
Pretty weird that these people seem to follow the same schedule and line of thinking, considering they didn't bother to just tip Phil the full amount that they were comfortable tipping at the beginning, and seem particularly interested in maintaining the $100 goal specifically. Between this and the Behind the Scenes tips, this organic support is looking real structured.
It's like they're aren't enough normie, non-whales left to conceal the strange, consistent patterns.
Maybe it also helps that this playthrough is painfully boring so any disruption from the agony is really noticeable.