I first met Phil when he was Manager at Baby Dolls. Secrets Bar and Forum were powering on with Soi7 at the helm.
Well a lot of sewerage has flowed under the bridge since then as most of us know and plenty has been alluded to in this thread.
Anyway, first time back in Thailand after the lockdowns was August 2022 for me. Phil had been posting the odd update on here and I wanted to pay him a visit at Le Pub,which I did. So in I went and ordered a beer, Phil was there having his dinner and there was one other bloke there. Anyway I started chatting and all seemed to be reasonable with LePub business wise. All good. Phil asked me if I had seen his YT channel and I said that I only did when someone posted a link to it on this forum, "well youtube is not for everyone" Phil said. I told him that I watched a lot of YT just not Thai vloggers. He stated again that his was a channel and not a vlog, he did ask me what I did watch on YT which I replied documentaries and history stuff, also technical stuff. At that point two guys walked in who it seemed Phil was waiting for but not previously met. I heard them talking and mentioning FORUM, I butted in and asked which forum and got the reply "Addicts". Didnt bother introducing myself as I have not posted on PA for years. Oh well, they were all ignoring me now so I paid my bill and left.
Fair enough, Phil makes more money from PA members than 24/7 members, wish him the best of luck.
I also note that there were increasing numbers of Thai related YT posts as the pandemic went on. Most of us would be aware that YT will pay people who get a certain number views, And there was not much else to do during the lock downs so creating and consuming of YT was going strong and some folk found another way to make some money and best of luck to them.
Ling