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{{Profile Infobox|title1 = Philip Adams|image1 = Philip Adams.png|born = April 21, 1994<br>Sydney, Australia|age = 2930|nationality = Australian|channel_role = Host, Director}}'''Philip JosefJoseph Adams''' (born: April 21, 1994) is the hoosthost, director, and preparer of operating systems and software for the [[OSFirstTimer]] YouTube channel. He is also the creator of the time-travel indie hacking game ''Histacom'' and the make-your-own OS game ''ShiftOS''.

Philip also edits for a fitness company located in Sydney. Some elements he includes in the videos for the company are included in OSFirstTimer videos as well. One example would be the ''lower thirds'', which are the introduction slides/blocks with descriptive text, appearing mainly on the bottom of videos/documentaries.

As his very big main computadoracomputer, Phil currently uses an Mwave custom-built PC, which the specs are listed of in OSFirstTimer's ''[https://www.youtube.com/c/OSFirstTimer/about About]'' section. A Samsung Galaxy S10+ phone, with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage space, was used as his phone and camera, until he replaced it with a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 in December 2021. His previous computer, an Alienware Area 51 from 2014, was replaced by his current one due to failing hardware, and the PC before that, a Lenovo ThinkStation was used but replaced with the Alienware PC due to increasing slowdown as well as increasing hardware incompatibility with newer software. He also used to own a Microsoft Surface Pro 3, but he sold it in 2019, due to his phone being capable enough to replace a portable computer for him.

[https://www.youtube.com/user/I2padams/videos I2Padams] was one of Philip's first <span>YouTube</span> channels. This channel is a replacement for his first (now deleted) ''12padams'' channel and contains videos about ''Histacom'', videos on ''The Phase'', and also features some videos of an OS series he did, called ''Up To Date''. Other videos include Minecraft being played by his then two-year-old sister Jasmine, a video of her eating a ''yucky lunch'', and ''Codelink'' running on an iPad 2 with ''Splashtop''. Due to Phil using a new account, I2padams last uploaded on August 20, 2012.

As of AprilJuly 2023, 20222024, Philip has 12 channels:

Diana's channel mostly consists of vlog-type videos, but also contains a prank video where she and her children prank her husband Ben, and used to also have a commercial-like skit video for the vitamin tablets by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berocca Berocca], which, albeit having been quite popular within the OSFirstTimer fanbase, is now no longer on the channel. The activity of the channel is unknown.

Back in April 2013, Philip published a prank video called ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AhJ-fGQsfo OSFirstTimer - Talking About Operating Systems Prank]'' on the OSFirstTimer channel, which got a substantial amount of backlash. The backlash has its roots leading back to 4chan, where users shared that video and described it mockingly. The main pointsinsults they listedgave is that Phil is ''"miserably failing at being funny and relatable"'' and that he ''"is either ''"an attraction for autistic people"'' or'' "being autistic himself"'' himself. Other people would go for making fun ofinsulting his voice for being ''"too frog-like"'' in addition. Since then, OSFirstTimer was often associated with ''cringe'', but in more recent days, the backlash for that video has almost gone awaydwindled.

However, theThe general type of humour and delayed knowledge of internet memes, that Philip used to have, created controversy as well, so did his overconcern and/or misinformation about topics such as radiation, sunscreens or even geographical knowledge. Religious jokes and references were also made by him and his parents sometimesat times, especially about the ''devil's number'' 666 and god. The controversy has been built up for alleged reasons such as them'' "shoving their religion onto other people's faces"'','' "being too uneducated", ''and/or them ''"telling their audience things that were debunked before".'' Especially the radiation scenario has either been debunked or joked about a few times in the past, even by his viewers/subscribers. These controversies have dialed down significantly in recent years, and he, alongside Diana and Ben, have been openly mindful of how to word things correctly, like "''gender reassignment''" and "''flamboyant''" instead of "''sex change''" and "''gay''" respectively. They also are reminding others not to do things like discrimination and defamation of people that are immigrants, people of colour, indigenous people and/or part of the LGBTQ+ community, albeit that still came into question by some viewers, when Diana campaigned for the ''United Australia Party'', a controversial political party aligning with conservative ''right-wing'' ideology, in 2022.

Some viewers have mentioned in the past, that his videos are loosely prepared and that it still feels as if Diana/Ben ''and Phil'' are trying out operating systems and programs, and not ''just'' Diana or Ben themselves. This, meansremarking that there are a few things still being improvised and/or not fully researched upon. On the other hand, otherOther viewers find that Phil is restricting Diana too much, making her actions limited to the things that Philip finds ''"interesting or watchable"'' for their viewers/subscribers"''. However, Diana's purpose originally was to be portrayed to be a computer-illiterate person, trying out another operating system/program for the first time and in her ''own'' way. Several scenes were included in videos where even Diana herself questions Philip as to why he is restricting her to do her own actions. Examples are the episodes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Reh15duZMAg Mum Tries Out Solaris 11.1 (2012)] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdRzvw0HhlU Mum Tries Out Solus 1.1 (2016)].

Another controversy is his fanbase's action of doxxing Philip's current home address and/or phone number, although there is no report of Philip and his family having been unwantedlynonconsensually visited by OSFirstTimer viewers/subscribers so far. However, they do not condone to be doxxed, or to doxx in general, as privacy and welfare is still needed to be respected regardless of subscribers being long-time or recent fans.

Up to this day, Philip and his parents had to do several long-term tasks and/or jobs, leading to Philip having less andincreasingly less time to maintain his channels and produce, edit and upload videos. This was especially apparent in the years 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2023, with 2015 and 2019 being the most dormant years of the OSFirstTimer channel. When he did have time, it was most likely that his mother Diana didn't, leading to further delays of episodes. To avoid further dormancy, he started his Gaming Through The Ages series in December 2015 and the OSFT Archive series in February 2019, with the latter being due to the renovations in their house. According to Philip, these series are much easier to produce episodes of, as it doesn't require him to edit videos as professionally as he would normally do for OSFirstTimer episodes. However, with all that happening and being done, many of his subscribers still aren't happy about the continuous dormancy of OSFirstTimer, which has resulted in many hatenegative comments. soIn the video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-RjN9gF9g4 Mum Tries Out ChatGPT (Jan 9th 2023 Version)], it was directly stated by Philip in the end of the video that there is not going to be a frequent upload schedule anymore and that he is in fact starting off a hiatus for OSFirstTimer in general due to his new job being a carer for foster children and teenagers. This then went on for just over a year before having uploaded the next video after that, but with people still worried about the channel's activity after only a few months since the hiatus started. After the video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71_Xb4Yw4YU Mum Uses Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024) to Code Games In HTML5 & Javascript was published], Philip even stated in response to a viewer in the video's comment section, that OSFirstTimer videos are to be expected to be uploaded at random times without any indication of frequency for farnow.

**Instead, Jasmine is the main host, due to the channel beinghaving been created for her.