DSP Throwback Channel is Nothing More Than A Money Grab. Doody Reacts To Phil''s Introduction Video

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  • @johnnyb_right1629
    @johnnyb_right1629 9 месяцев назад +80

    He truly believes there are people that care about his old garbage.... Phil has reached god level lolcow status

    • @TheBadderman
      @TheBadderman 9 месяцев назад +6

      Zero self awareness

    • @NervousNoodles
      @NervousNoodles 9 месяцев назад +3

      I know the TIHYDP community will just make more videos out of his old playthroughs so I look forward to those. As for watching it, nobody cares about it.

  • @Silenthilldude87
    @Silenthilldude87 9 месяцев назад +18

    A professional panhandler that lives in a gated community! You can't make this $h!t up 😂

  • @danielhackleton8639
    @danielhackleton8639 9 месяцев назад +28

    Pigroach is the human manifestation of a meeting that could have been an email 😂

  • @UltimaterializerX
    @UltimaterializerX 9 месяцев назад +64

    Of course it’s a money grab. It’s all he does.

    • @gwoody4003
      @gwoody4003 9 месяцев назад

      Thats not fair. You make him sound so 1 dimensional.
      He also lies, complains, drinks, commits tax fraud and whales out on WWE Champions.
      He is a multifaceted turd.

    • @ELPRES1DENTE45
      @ELPRES1DENTE45 9 месяцев назад +2

      That, and WWE Champions.

  • @billvolk4236
    @billvolk4236 9 месяцев назад +13

    I just realized, Phil did this when he did because of the news that RUclips will soon be purging subscriptions from dead accounts. He needs to believe that there really are 20,000 people waiting with bated breath for his dead third channel to do something, and his ego can't handle losing 99-100% of his follows, even on a channel he never uses.

  • @laughingseal2282
    @laughingseal2282 9 месяцев назад +55

    Ramping up the begging to the stratosphere, triple dipping on subscriptions to milk the same wallets. Reminder: Do no watch, do not click even to leave a dislike. Let it rot away.

    • @punksnotdeaditsconservativ1693
      @punksnotdeaditsconservativ1693 9 месяцев назад +7

      I think you may be correct. Even my shitty comments that only DSP will see help his channel with engagement since the system doesn't know the difference.

    • @NASkeywest
      @NASkeywest 9 месяцев назад +8

      80% of Phil’s revenue comes from detractors watching his live stream.

    • @wpeniche
      @wpeniche 9 месяцев назад

      @@NASkeywestyou mean ad revenue?

    • @laughingseal2282
      @laughingseal2282 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@NASkeywest LARPERS to me are losers just as much as Derich and other dents. Some of them go to every single one of his streams and watch it entirely just to troll him. It's pathetic

    • @kdot8340
      @kdot8340 9 месяцев назад

      If you leave a dislike under 30 seconds, doesn't count as a view.

  • @TheModelGamer
    @TheModelGamer 9 месяцев назад +9

    Phil is like Clark Griswold in Vegas Vacation. He just needs a Blackjack dealer to say, "Why don't you just give me half the money you were gonna gamble anyway, then we'll go out back, I'll kick you in the nuts, and we'll call it a day?"

  • @DonGreks22
    @DonGreks22 9 месяцев назад +35

    I’ve said it before but Phil strikes me as a guy who it would sucked to have in a group project in school.

    • @Chengeist
      @Chengeist 9 месяцев назад +7

      It would even suck when he was in the same school as you, let alone in the same class.

    • @thebigbient8736
      @thebigbient8736 9 месяцев назад +5

      Project? Hows about just having to be around him? 😂

  • @dougwhitney7712
    @dougwhitney7712 9 месяцев назад +18

    DSP dream stream is him in a money booth with wind blowing 100$ bills all around him while he tries to grab as much as he can. Screaming I NEED THIS MONEY, I REALLY REALLY DO! 😆

  • @alecaquino4306
    @alecaquino4306 9 месяцев назад +22

    He loves patting himself on the back and letting everyone know just how accomplished in life he believes himself to be. All signs of a very insecure person.

    • @sheldoncooper8199
      @sheldoncooper8199 9 месяцев назад

      @alecaquino4306
      Signs of a future alcoholic and morbidly obese person.

  • @MattyLight816
    @MattyLight816 9 месяцев назад +7

    Maximum profits with minimal effort. The DSP way. Jayde, Derich, 1MM, and OIC better open up their velcro wallets and give Phil them disability paychecks 😂😂😂

  • @bharlan2002
    @bharlan2002 9 месяцев назад +43

    He's doing everything he can to avoid playing games. Between this future failure and his reack ack channel it's going to take him even longer to finish games and he'll get even less support on the playthroughs.

    • @snoozeflu
      @snoozeflu 9 месяцев назад +7

      A lot of comments seem to imply that later this year he will be launching a 4th channel called DSPolitics since it's an election year and he wants to take advantage of that sweet election money.

    • @bharlan2002
      @bharlan2002 9 месяцев назад

      @@snoozeflu if that’s true I can’t wait for him pigsplaining democracy and the nail biting stories of him going to the voting place when he was younger.

    • @yurikendal4868
      @yurikendal4868 9 месяцев назад

      Dsp is very unqualified for that​@@snoozeflu

  • @speedbeyondlogic
    @speedbeyondlogic 9 месяцев назад +13

    Dsp put a gifted vest behind a paywall. Charged money for people to name a pokemon. Charged people for an 8 ball question. Expected to get paid when doing something that was suppose to be for his community. Then put that on the chopping block because he wasn't getting enough money. Something that he was suppose to do to give back he wanted to get paid for and gave that the wo long treatment. That's just crazy to me.

  • @Snaffs
    @Snaffs 9 месяцев назад +15

    Gotta love DSP breaking down his "15 year old begacy" over and over like he has new people coming in and watching him, and even if he did it'd only be like 1-2 people max so it makes no sense to annoy 200-300 people over and over just to break it down for that 1 person lol.

    • @Blisterdude123
      @Blisterdude123 9 месяцев назад +1

      He has to keep rehashing and rewriting his tedious past because he has no future. The forward progression of his life stalled 15 years ago when got fired from his actual job his dad got for him and he started playing videogames and begging for money. Since then, he's done nothing, he is nothing, he has nothing. What he's doing isn't living, it's literally just waiting to die.

    • @anthonyredgrave3069
      @anthonyredgrave3069 9 месяцев назад

      If you arent hypnotized like them, the pignosis is just annoying I know

  • @ELPRES1DENTE45
    @ELPRES1DENTE45 9 месяцев назад +6

    Cant wait to hear how he neglected to pay any of these new "editors." PLUS, im sure that he'll try to load these compilations up with new begging ads.

  • @randomname4344
    @randomname4344 9 месяцев назад +14

    He must have short term memory loss cause he says the same shit over and over

  • @Derwood_McSlovich
    @Derwood_McSlovich 9 месяцев назад +21

    This guy will do anything to spend less time with his wife. It's probably the reason they've lasted so long.

    • @TheBadderman
      @TheBadderman 9 месяцев назад +1

      Let's be honest. He's never seen her money slot or sniffed it.

  • @JaxXxonSly
    @JaxXxonSly 9 месяцев назад +3

    He sounds like the guy from the "before" in infomercials. "I love fresh orange juice, who doesn't? But who has the time to go to the store, buy a bag, get out the juicer, deal with the arm and shoulder pain of manually juicing each orange..."

  • @yugameru5187
    @yugameru5187 9 месяцев назад +6

    I wonder if there will be a warning at the beginning of every video: "Please remember that this playthrough was a product of its time. Back then he was still an immature 30 year old man-child who didn't know any better, as he was still recovering from not getting a figure of Wolverine from his parents on his birthday."

    • @paulettebarton7257
      @paulettebarton7257 9 месяцев назад +1

      He probably will have his unpaid helpers write something, but I doubt that makes his offensive content immune from YT TOS.

  • @crome2sniper
    @crome2sniper 9 месяцев назад +8

    Ive said it before : his business degree was in shoveling shit. Who knew it was his own shit

  • @Tacozilla
    @Tacozilla 9 месяцев назад +6

    As soon as DSP added memberships to DSP reacts I knew he would want to find a way to have memberships on his other channels. I love that he basically just wants to also re-upload videos from his old main channel that doesn't make money, claim he is "enhancing" them and then shifting them to a new channel in a hopes to get money. No one wants to watch his old crap again, even his dents will start to get bored of it and then he will complain "guys, no one is watching the content...i spent so much time making the new channel...."

  • @Steven-ex3ne
    @Steven-ex3ne 9 месяцев назад +3

    As soon as he appeared on camera, the GAME OVER sign explained everything.

  • @Chengeist
    @Chengeist 9 месяцев назад +13

    I have expected nothing from Phil, but he even managed to underdeliever with this "idea".

  • @asjoalsjka
    @asjoalsjka 9 месяцев назад +5

    DSP's entire life takes place 15 years ago.

  • @MsGhoulz
    @MsGhoulz 9 месяцев назад +8

    God he sounds like a soulless snake oil salesman any time he tries to pitch his terrible ideas.

  • @shuffleB
    @shuffleB 9 месяцев назад +4

    "imagine running it (old game footage) through an editor". You're going to have to imagine it, cause phil would never do it himself.

  • @sswpp8908
    @sswpp8908 9 месяцев назад +3

    Grocery store cashier: "Hi sir, how are you today?"
    Phil: "Well to answer that we have to go back to 2010 when I got laid off from my job..."

  • @izunia8436
    @izunia8436 9 месяцев назад +9

    Phil is under the delusion that each channel has a completely separate and different audience apparently its not possible for people to be subscribed and watching more than one of his channels at the same time

  • @punksnotdeaditsconservativ1693
    @punksnotdeaditsconservativ1693 9 месяцев назад +10

    Yay! Doody's back with some commentary!

  • @UTC_Audio
    @UTC_Audio 9 месяцев назад +7

    He has the subscribers, but is missing watch time. That’s why he does this.

  • @youtubecrack
    @youtubecrack 9 месяцев назад +5

    DSP has repeatedly stated that he could be just as popular as other streamers... If he wanted to....ok Dave.

  • @asura48
    @asura48 9 месяцев назад +5

    This is no surprise he does have a business degree in "money grab tactics"

    • @Silenthilldude87
      @Silenthilldude87 9 месяцев назад +1

      Sometimes I think he just went to a cult college instead.

  • @punksnotdeaditsconservativ1693
    @punksnotdeaditsconservativ1693 9 месяцев назад +13

    Phil uses these video rants as a therapy session wether he knows it or not. The problem is that doesn't work without another human to talk to and respond to the idiocy Phil spews.

  • @Foxhound3857
    @Foxhound3857 9 месяцев назад +3

    17:03 Yep, pretty much. His relationship with the dents is to string them up by the ankles and shake the change out of their pockets into a deep dark bucket, every single day.
    I've said this and I still stand by this, but his greed overrules everything, even his ego.

  • @OneCentWonder
    @OneCentWonder 9 месяцев назад +5

    Phil doesn't understand that it's harder to revive an already dead inactive channel rather than just starting a new channel. Though if he started a new one he'd probably only get like 500 subs

  • @tehblotso943
    @tehblotso943 9 месяцев назад +3

    i'm pretty sure the "This is how you don't play" guys have already squeezed all the watched time out of Phil's "legacy" content.

  • @georgedavidson957
    @georgedavidson957 9 месяцев назад +7

    a minimum effort money grab is right up phails alley

  • @SonofSun100
    @SonofSun100 9 месяцев назад +5

    Will be interesting to see if those "stored hard drives" are still viable.

  • @Geo-Media
    @Geo-Media 9 месяцев назад +5

    It's a money grab to triple dip the Dents, he doesn't want to do gaming much anymore so he's in hope to do less work for more money. Whoever is the reject that's gonna do these throwback videos , just know phil is not gonna pay them. If they cry about getting paid Phil will say he's a "dumb detractor". Then it will go right back to unedited videos yet again like the reacts in hopes to just sit there and Financially Audit the viewers who show up.

  • @carloshill
    @carloshill 9 месяцев назад +3

    Its funny that he truly believes people crave and been wanting to see his old videos and what makes it funny is he really believes this will work and he's going to make tons of money from it.

  • @ThakkMylde
    @ThakkMylde 9 месяцев назад +3

    Triple dipping his dented chip.

  • @surge1337
    @surge1337 9 месяцев назад +1

    Same guy who charged money to eat skittles

  • @BenHeckHacks
    @BenHeckHacks 9 месяцев назад +1

    He thinks every sub he ever had is like the dog from Futurama, forever standing outside, waiting for their master to return.

  • @pflaute
    @pflaute 9 месяцев назад +4

    No one wanted or asked for decade old content from Phill on a recycled channel

  • @Lowenssohn
    @Lowenssohn 9 месяцев назад +2

    The clips, the memes, the content for everyone to use.

  • @wong8706
    @wong8706 9 месяцев назад +2

    I give it six months before he lectures his dents for not watching and supporting. Even if people did, there’s a finite number of playthroughs he can upload. This whole grift seems like an alcohol-induced delusion that he thought up at 3AM.

  • @tibbydudeza
    @tibbydudeza 9 месяцев назад +1

    Video capture via a camera setup like it is 1999

  • @LudwigVon
    @LudwigVon 9 месяцев назад +1

    It amazes me that someone so greedy can be so wasteful at the same time. All that work begging only to throw it away

  • @derek258crusco5
    @derek258crusco5 9 месяцев назад +2

    Great work bro thank you for always calling this creep out. Great job

  • @GinSoakedBrain
    @GinSoakedBrain 9 месяцев назад +3

    Doody. phill is an addict. You know this. And this is why he does these things that make no sense.

  • @LeeONardo
    @LeeONardo 9 месяцев назад +2

    I love the way he treated the one channel of his that actually had a chance. KOGaming could have grown, he could have actually gotten some other members to join (paid!) and keeping it as narration only, keeps his stupid face off camera.
    But no, first he gives up on it to take a staycation, then he quits on it fully because he realises he screwed up, then he uses it simply because his main channel is down but the moment it's back he chucks it in the trash, and finally he now just erases it for this trash.

  • @xxcffff8275
    @xxcffff8275 9 месяцев назад +1

    He really wants his dents speedrunning bankruptcy 😂

  • @LUX711
    @LUX711 9 месяцев назад +1

    Pure greed & desperation thinly velied

  • @TamaOne
    @TamaOne 9 месяцев назад +1

    Greed, greed is massively strong

  • @c.p.browne6871
    @c.p.browne6871 9 месяцев назад +1

    The only reason he wants to do a react channel for his old streams is because he keeps getting the advertising money taken away by the people that own the stuff he's reacting to, so he figures if he's only reacting to his own old shit he keeps all the money.

  • @jeffoff7795
    @jeffoff7795 9 месяцев назад +2

    This isn’t the money grab he’s hoping for. As is pointed out over and over again, all this money comes from the same people who are probably already maxing out their contributions. He’s just making it a little harder for his “tax attorney”. This won’t bring in a single new viewer or a single new dollar. It may actually lose him members on his primary channel.

  • @monfr0
    @monfr0 9 месяцев назад +2

    I am kinda impressed dsp backed up his old videos

  • @grapescom7535
    @grapescom7535 9 месяцев назад +2

    piggy is just posting content from the guy he claims he isnt anymore instead of replaying the games again because one hes lazy and two hes admitting that his old playthorughs that he constantly disavows with 'thats not me anymore guysl i was trying to appeal to the younger audience' are valuable enough to recycle This is another scheme by piggy to try and make muney with 'minimum effort maximum profit'.

  • @vtownhood
    @vtownhood 9 месяцев назад +1

    7:12 - I was thinking the same thing but I looked at the comments and a whole bunch of people commented stuff like "You're back!!" or shit like that so he might have quite a few people to market this to. However, knowing Phil, he will screw this up somehow 😂

  • @bbqking68
    @bbqking68 9 месяцев назад +1

    Phil's decline is looming more and more so grabbing all money he can while he can 21:41

  • @CoffeexBoi
    @CoffeexBoi 9 месяцев назад +3

    When Adam on SideScrollers said he has delusions of grandeur, here it is. He talks like he has a giant audience, thought 20k people stuck around for 8 years, and now wants those imaginary people to pay for it. Insanity 🤷‍♂️

  • @richardwilliams5387
    @richardwilliams5387 9 месяцев назад

    Imagine you're seeing this as a newbie...and the first thing you see is more "woe is me".

  • @DickiMoltisanti
    @DickiMoltisanti 9 месяцев назад +1

    pig roach using towels in his backdrop lol

  • @leradmuiel7634
    @leradmuiel7634 9 месяцев назад +1

    This is hardcore Pignosis.

  • @joshkokichi
    @joshkokichi 9 месяцев назад +1

    I think he really believes there are 20K subscribers sitting on KOGaming who were laying dormant waiting for him to come back

  • @astrophage3848
    @astrophage3848 9 месяцев назад

    I can hear the velchro wallets tearing open already

  • @konnen7354
    @konnen7354 9 месяцев назад +2

    Bro recycling his content more than triple A devs 😂

  • @PeopleRTellingme
    @PeopleRTellingme 9 месяцев назад +1

    It’s mind blowing to think this guy believes these 17 dents have the funds for yet another channel membership. He knows how tiny his unironic audience is, he might pretend to believe he has a bigger audience on stream but he sees where the money comes from. He knows it’s all coming from 3-4 whales and another dozen dents with some monthly pocket money.

  • @doublebogey6273
    @doublebogey6273 9 месяцев назад +1

    Didn't he get demonetized because he told his audience to click the ads? lol I love how he says "For no reason"

    • @doodystreams
      @doodystreams  9 месяцев назад +2

      Thats was for his first channel.
      This got demonetized because he was posting racist shit, etc.

  • @ichigio
    @ichigio 9 месяцев назад

    Doody, I'm worried about your blood pressure lol.
    Either way, I love that he's doing a 3rd channel, cause DSPReacts did so well lol.

    • @doodystreams
      @doodystreams  9 месяцев назад +1

      118 over 71.
      Im good.. lol

  • @shambleshef
    @shambleshef 9 месяцев назад

    I like how he's trying to market it like an old/classic video game lmao. What's he gonna do re-upload his old begathons?

  • @Andy_Young
    @Andy_Young 9 месяцев назад +1

    we all know that the "help" is lilshakeNbake and derich, the people who's life revolves around phil

  • @Pit_Lord
    @Pit_Lord 9 месяцев назад

    I was betting on the DSP Archive or something along those lines, but the name hardly matters. Phil really knows how to give the dents what they want - more old crap.

  • @punksnotdeaditsconservativ1693
    @punksnotdeaditsconservativ1693 9 месяцев назад +1

    Is it possible that he knows his tips support is dwindling so he is trying to increase his RUclips income? Well, we will see just how much disability money the dents have to play with I guess.

  • @NonstopNoah
    @NonstopNoah 9 месяцев назад

    "So guys, thats my idea. *SNORT* Sound good?"

  • @Blisterdude123
    @Blisterdude123 9 месяцев назад +1

    He made an intro video because despite his claims of never watching other content creators, we know he's watched other content creators and he's seen they all do intro videos to new channels.
    Start as you mean to go on though Philly, use your intro video to a 'fresh' new channel by immediately talking about money. You need money. More money. Money money money.

  • @Vin.P
    @Vin.P 9 месяцев назад +1

    Phil's officially a snake oil salemen 😂

  • @Proppa-Gander
    @Proppa-Gander 9 месяцев назад

    If someone calls you a throwback in Glasgow, it means you are the runt of the litter 👀😶👀 xx

  • @Fluctuatingmiasma
    @Fluctuatingmiasma 9 месяцев назад

    In Phil's mind all those subscribers left on that channel immediately saw he uploaded and clicked on the video to see what's going on

  • @baypos
    @baypos 9 месяцев назад

    Pigroach only skill is scamming the dents. Whales call!

  • @butters_rtx
    @butters_rtx 9 месяцев назад +1

    Remember when George Lucas "remastered" Star Wars and how popular he became? 🤑

    • @tibbydudeza
      @tibbydudeza 9 месяцев назад

      He did rerender Jaba the Hut

    • @Drums_of_Liberation
      @Drums_of_Liberation 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@tibbydudezatoo bad no one cares enough about it when he screwed up Han gunning down Greedo like the cold mother he was and removed the superior Yub nub song from Jedi

  • @wpeniche
    @wpeniche 9 месяцев назад

    Philbert lives in Groundhog Day, except he never becomes a better person.

  • @crazyvideoguy1
    @crazyvideoguy1 9 месяцев назад +4

    Money making Phil😂

  • @DauthEldrvaria
    @DauthEldrvaria 9 месяцев назад

    It’s amazing he’s found a way to triple and I’m sure wants to quadruple dip. But what’s even funnier is he’ll call this a diversification of his portfolio but he’s literally doing the same thing, in the same place, 3 ways that are all the same. With help. So pathetic. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Mr__Geno
    @Mr__Geno 9 месяцев назад +1

    Dsp, The money Succubus, back to the same old tricks. Smh

  • @MidTierVillain
    @MidTierVillain 9 месяцев назад

    He should’ve called the channel DSP Closet.. it’s the same thing as that Shht Show he monetized for cleaning out his closet.

  • @David-ni1pg
    @David-ni1pg 9 месяцев назад

    He's talking to his delusions. So much for shutting down his extra channels to focus on DSPGaming.

  • @ak-qd2jk
    @ak-qd2jk 9 месяцев назад

    I would love to know how much of that money are "trolls" superchats or ,"trolls" larping in his chat and accepting gifted memberships.

  • @Raven_Enforcer
    @Raven_Enforcer 9 месяцев назад

    "It was demonitzed for no reason". "I was on Twitch". Yeah, until he was finally exposed. He's always the victim. This is typical narcassism.

  • @bbqking68
    @bbqking68 9 месяцев назад

    Lives off the stupidity of strangers 22:44

  • @punksnotdeaditsconservativ1693
    @punksnotdeaditsconservativ1693 9 месяцев назад

    Let's not forget, DSP paid off his care recently, so that's $200-300 dollars he didn't have.

  • @Frank-DuxVanDamme
    @Frank-DuxVanDamme 9 месяцев назад

    It's called cementing prognosis.

  • @roundishcap
    @roundishcap 9 месяцев назад

    To be extremely fair, if he actually edited his 200 10 minute part videos into a 2 hour "watchable" thing would be actual work. Just making it longer vids and upscaling it isn't.

  • @angrybugs7966
    @angrybugs7966 9 месяцев назад

    Would love to see some day a podcast interviewing one or more of his dents. I can't imagine what is going on in the head of these people.

    • @laughingseal2282
      @laughingseal2282 9 месяцев назад +2

      Agent Proper (one of the worst dectrators, IMHO) did a looong "interview" with OIC. And it was the most boring thing ever since Phil's rpg playthroughs. A complete shitshow with OIC lying his ass off and Agent Proper being butthurt and angry, interrupting the guy very often.
      I would like to hear what goes in the mind of Derich though.

    • @angrybugs7966
      @angrybugs7966 9 месяцев назад

      @@laughingseal2282 be careful what you wish for i guess. The less i see of Derich, the better for me, lol.

    • @Drums_of_Liberation
      @Drums_of_Liberation 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@laughingseal2282the Dutch Bros interview comes pretty close to topping that shitfest with Proper and OIC

    • @saltycarl6581
      @saltycarl6581 9 месяцев назад

      @@laughingseal2282 i like proper but the OiC thing was a shit show, proper made that whole thing worse.

    • @laughingseal2282
      @laughingseal2282 9 месяцев назад

      @@angrybugs7966 The one thing that fascinates me about Derich is that the dude has no brakes and doesn't get social cues. It's also absolutely BONKERS that he followed literally hundreds of p0nstars on his main account with his picture and name.

  • @traviskeller7706
    @traviskeller7706 9 месяцев назад

    RED ALERT! He literally admitted that His stunt being filmed stunt was purely for getting the attention of his younger audience. Even the ABSOLUTE fact that he said it

  • @halicarnassus8235
    @halicarnassus8235 9 месяцев назад

    I don't know anyone who has to introduce themselves every single day and their history every single day to the same people

  • @richardwilliams5387
    @richardwilliams5387 9 месяцев назад

    He's "introducing" the "new" channel as if he expects new people to be seeing it ..

  • @danhulsoor2631
    @danhulsoor2631 9 месяцев назад +2

    What's up doody!

  • @mar7674
    @mar7674 9 месяцев назад +1

    wow, putting this video on 2x speed feels surreal... Phil quite literally has diarrhea of the mouth. He sounds like legit crazy person just going on and on and on...

  • @sadsam2223
    @sadsam2223 9 месяцев назад

    Appealing to the dead accounts in a vainglorious attempt to ignore his dying fanbase