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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 substantial amounts of backlash. The backlash has its roots leading back to 4chan, where users shared that video and described it in a mocking way. The main points they listed 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''. Other people would go for making fun of his voice being ''too frog-like''. The backlash eventually grew to the point where the video is having a like-to-dislike ratio of about 1.34 likes for every dislike. Since then, OSFirstTimer was often associated with ''cringe''; in more recent days, the backlash for that video has almost gone away.
However, Phil's general type of humour and his delayed knowledge of internet memes creates controversy as well, so does his overconcern and/or misinformation about topics such as radiation, sunscreens or even geographical knowledge. Religious jokes and references are also made by him and his parents sometimes, especially about the ''devil's number'' 666 and god. These jokes have also built up minimal controversy for the alleged reason of ''
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