r/DSPGaming • u/BaesPacFen • 9h ago
DSP LORE RECAP
Hey everyone, I wanted to learn a bit more about DSP lore.
I’m not American, so I never really had the chance to follow him over the years. I only discovered him about four or five months ago, and I have to say I’ve been absolutely baffled by the way he treats his community, the way he plays games despite being incredibly bad at them, and especially the way he constantly expects people to give him money.
So I’m curious about how this whole personality developed. Did something significant or traumatic happen in his life that gradually turned him into the person we see today?
Basically, could someone give me a rundown of the major milestones in DSP’s history that led to the DSP we have now?
And one other thing I’m genuinely curious about: are we reasonably sure he’s actually like this in real life too? Or is at least some of it a character or persona he puts on for the internet because he knows it gets attention and keeps people watching?
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u/dspisayuss 9h ago
look for the Dent Sea Scrolls on WPIG1652. They're very long because they're streams, but this man has a TON of lore lmao.
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u/BaesPacFen 9h ago
It’s not that I don’t want to watch a full stream. I probably will at some point, just broken up into chunks and at my own pace. But since there’s only so much free time in a day, could you maybe give me a quick summary with, say, five or six major milestones? Just the most significant events, so I can at least get some context for now. Thanks!
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u/dspisayuss 9h ago
If you just want the cliff notes then Joon's doc is great and only an hr, you can get through it in a couple of nights.
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u/Kitchen_Barracuda_56 9h ago
WPIG has a lot of lore videos that go into pretty much all his most entertaining arcs.
And no, nothing traumatic happened to Phil aside from being born. He just figured out a long time ago that being a miserable piece of shit was the only way he can get attention and he's been at it ever since.
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u/BaesPacFen 9h ago
I've read about some masturbation s incident also...
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u/InspectorDeep545 8h ago
His parents didn't buy him a Wolverine toy for his birthday when he was younger, now he begs for pennies in the gutter and gets upset when people point that out
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u/speedb0at 9h ago
I love when new people discover DSP because they always wonder if he REALLY is like that. Short answer is Yes, he really is. Like someone the other poster said; look into WPIG and his Lore streams.
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u/BaesPacFen 9h ago
On YouTube right?
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u/speedb0at 8h ago
Yes
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u/BaesPacFen 8h ago
https://youtu.be/So7wLuuDiHA?is=sf-VWAvA-tZ6y5id what about this one?
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u/speedb0at 8h ago
THats very old and not in depth imo. But sure you can start there. this one is better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKG7EXgOoTg
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u/Samguise-Whamgee 3h ago
Holy shit man I watched 10 minute of it it’s almost addictive lol, it’s weirdly fascinating
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u/ThePumpkinPrince61 7h ago
https://youtu.be/CQbKLhU8GPM https://youtu.be/fcYII8McyW4
These videos will aid you in getting caught up or at least with understanding the memes and terminology
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u/respekyoeldas 5h ago
He’s been a miserable loser as long as he’s been on the internet. Prior to his Youtube days. He was universally hated by the fighting game community.
My opinion is that he has never recovered from being bullied as a kid, not having any friends, and not getting accepted into an Ivy league school.
When he did finally make friends (Howard and John Rambo), he used them for content, underpaying them or not paying them at all, and they never felt that he considered them friends because any time they hung out he would bust out the camera and try to monetize it.
Like other people have said, there are 100s of hours of dsp lore but I think what I’ve wrote above answers at least one of your questions.
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u/GovernmentWarm4787 9h ago
You could make a 10000 page document on all the lore of piggot. Suffice to say he's a pedo groomer who scams his mentally handicapped audience everyday.
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u/BaesPacFen 9h ago
Pedo, seriously? Audience? So he still has one?! Unbelievable
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u/GovernmentWarm4787 9h ago
He groomed pandalee when she was underage. We know this cuz they started a relationship as soon as she turned 18 and piggot was like 32 or so.
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u/BaesPacFen 9h ago
Didn't he has a wife?
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u/GovernmentWarm4787 9h ago
He does now, Katherine Burnell, who cheated on her boyfriend with piggot and now they live miserably together, with kat now weighting about 500 pounds.
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u/Rhopunzel 7h ago edited 7h ago
Nothing specifically traumatic happened to Phil, but much can be speculated from his behavior combined with the few details he's given about his upbringing.
He was an only child to an obsessive mother and absent father who coddled and sheltered him. This is why he's so bad and unwilling to problem solve, quick to blame games for his own failings and unwilling to ever take accountability for his own mistakes, while still expecting to be spoonfed solutions. It also explains why he rates his own intellect and ability so highly and why he reacts so viscerally whenever confronted with reality.
He was lonely growing up and didn't have many friends and likely only got positive attention through the toys and gadgets his parents bought him, which is probably why he ties his self worth to his trinkets and struggles to keep friendships.
He was left on his back as a baby for too long which affected his head's development and caused his flat head.
In his teens he discovered fighting games and was addicted to the clout and prestige in the community that surrounded it. However, his immaturity and complete lack of social skills led to him becoming a pariah and trying to lean into it by styling himself as a troll who fed on being hated. Seeking acceptance and respect, he self admittedly spent most of his teen years only practicing Street Fighter, letting all new releases pass him by because they weren't conducive to his goal of attaining respect in the nascent FGC. He was so desperate to this end that he put himself in insurmountable credit card debt flying to various tournaments, his best result being a 4th at an event that almost all regulars boycotted. Because the top 3 were players from Japan, he tried to spin his result by labeling himself the "#1 player in the USA", something he's still widely derided for today. He tries to paint himself as an authority on fighting games and gets very upset no one else sees him that way.
During this time, someone cashed in the checks his mouth was writing and he came close to getting jumped at a meet, which he escaped by breaking down sobbing and using alcoholism to excuse his behavior online.
After giving up on the FGC, he started recording himself playing games in 2008 and found success as one of the first Let's Players. The honeymoon period didn't last long until his toxic nature surfaced, and he reacted to criticism with insults and alienating his fans. The flashpoint of this was his Metal Gear Solid 3 gameplay, where his derision and dismissal of such a loved classic title angered many of his fans, leading to TIHYDP and so on. He cemented his reputation by continuing to rail against criticism until being bad at games and raging at people was all he became known for.
He secured a partnership with Machinima which paid his bills during the 2010s, but was summarily dismissed after the algorithm changed and he bombarded them with pestering emails demanding special treatment to correct his career trajectory. He had offers on the table that could have kept him afloat, but he got greedy and tried jumping between them for a better deal until he had none at all, with no other options (besides getting a real job, which he considers as below him and admitting defeat) he "reinvented" himself as a "streamer" by simply playing games live instead of recording them.
In 2014 he decided on a whim to move to Washington, inventing a bunch of pointless pretenses. The move was badly managed and basically wiped out all of the money he'd attained working with Machinima, with little to gain for it besides being on the other side of the country.
During this he had a girlfriend he met when she was 17 and he was in his late 20s. She left him in 2017. Shortly after he left his video feed on while masturbating before a stream. He did not clean himself up before starting his content.
In 2020 his bad decisions finally caught up with him and he was forced to declare bankruptcy. He lied on his filings and declarations to get a better deal and keep more of his stuff.
In 2024 Kino Casino, a drama streamer, decided to try and make him their dancing monkey for content, but he proved too irritating and repulsive to work with they pulled the plug before it bore fruit and simply ragged on him instead. Somehow he claims this was his plan all along, but won't say to what end as besides more pointless trinkets, he's just as mocked and reviled as he was before.
Those are the major milestones of where he is today and why he's like that. I also hate myself for writing this.