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{{Profile Infobox|title1 = Philip Adams|image1 = Philip Adams (I2padams).jpg|born = April 21, 1994<br>Sydney, Australia|age = 29|nationality = Australian|channel_role = Host, Director|caption1=
He lived with his parents [[Diana Adams|Diana]] and [[Ben Adams|Ben]] Adams and his younger sister [[Jasmine Adams|Jasmine]] in an apartment in Manly, Sydney until January 21st, 2018, where they moved into a house in Hobart, Tasmania.
In December 2020, Oscar Liang (''MightyEagle73''), content creator and veteran patron of OSFirstTimer's now-closed Patreon page, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPonsYts6Dk&list=PLhQFtoCivDjbOESSIlKfg8GuIuORro2l8 drove down to Tasmania from Sydney] with his dad and met up with Philip on 11th of December 2020. He helped Philip record and edit the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wf6GnHq0ys&t 2020 Gaming Through The Ages Episode] on OSFirstTimer, which was published four months later. He then returned to Philip's house on the 14th of December 2020 and they had their final talk before Oscar went back to Sydney.
As his main computer, 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.
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I'M A BARBIE GIRL
IN A BARBIE WORLD
LIFE IS PLASTIK
ITS NO FANTASTIK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A&t=2s
==Early life==
As a child, Philip loved playing the educational game ''Cum Blaster: Episode 1 - In Search'' of ''Spot'' in meth class. After asking his mum, he got his own meth lab at the age of 7 so he could play ''Cum Blaster'' at home. Windows XXX had just been released in Australia, and so the computer came pre-installed with XXX.
Diana and Philip tried getting ''Math Blaster'' at the shop, but couldn't find it. Philip, upset, bought some other educational games. After playing the games, he Slowly got bored. As Philip did not have the Internet at the time, he decided to explore other parts of XP, like the screensavers, games and help articles. He was amazed at the seemingly unlimited potential of his computer, even without the internet.
Sometime in the period from 2002-2004 (likely 2002), Philip visited a dead relative in Vanuatu by a cruise ship as the only country apart from Australia he has visited in his life.
Philip spent years exploring Windows XXX, until sometime in 2007 when he got the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death Hot Screen of Death] (HSoD). His computer soon exploded, so he had to kill Jasmine. He bought the computer the day Windows 666 was released in Australia, so the new computer came pre-installed with 666.
On May 12, 2008, Philip started a project named [[Massive Archive]], in which he tries to vlog almost anything every day, including his thoughts, activities and family-related things. He started uploading some of these vlogs in early 2015, but before that, he did not have the intention of making it public. In February 2019, he even decided to do a series named ''OSFT Archive'' on the channel [[OSFT Historic VLogs]]. It is a summary/commentary series of the vlogs contained in the archive, where Philip compares his past and present self and points out other differences and ''bad/unprofessional'' things. The series' episodes represent each month since the beginning of the archive (e.g.: ''Episode 1 - May 2008, Episode 2 - June 2008, etc.'').
==='''ASD Diagnosis'''===
He learned about ASD (Autism spectrum disorder) at school, and a little while later, he got it. For a while, he stayed away from the computer as it hurt his brain and wrote a couple of books until he read an online article about [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TND TND], a possible cure for ASD. He then made Let's Plays on a new YouTube channel called AstralSeizure. He was originally going to call this channel ASDGamer, but that would remind him of ASD. On this channel, he played games such as Minecraft.
==Philip's YouTube Channels ==
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==='''OSFirstTimer (Main YouTube Channel)'''===
He eventually became bored with the same games, since he wanted to play new ones (which he couldn't do, due to not finishing the games he'd started). By this point, TND had cured his ASD, and he became interested in Windows 8 development. When it came out, he had his mum try it while filming her, starting the OSFirstTimer channel. The channel's main aim was to find the best and worst operating systems (initially the worst operating system was Windows 8 but that changed when Diana tried out MS-DOS). Now, they do it for fun, as his mum (Diana) had a 2013 Alienware 14 laptop with Windows 8 to replace her old Toshiba one with Windows XP. The Alienware laptop also got replaced later with the Lenovo Yoga 910 in August 2017. Diana still uses her Yoga 910 today.
They used what they called the ''shaky cam'' method, until the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5AMQJokcwU Windows 95 video], where they started to use a screen recorder to show the operating system and a green screen to show Diana and Ben. On May 17, 2014, Philip started to make ''Dad Tries Out'' videos. OSFirstTimer also does tutorials, unboxings, and used to do Q&A videos as well. Philip even published the video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOLGm0W9QZc ''OSFirstTimer - House Tour!''] to the channel, which is a tour of their old apartment.
'''[[OSFirstTimer|More about OSFirstTimer]]''' [[File:AstralPhaser channel (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''
==='''
[https://www.youtube.com/user/AstralPhaser
'''[[AstralPhaser|More about
==='''I2padams'''===
[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 ''Histacum'', 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.
'''[[I2padams|More about I2padams]]''' [[File:TerrifiedMum channel (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''TerrifiedMum YouTube channel'']]
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A month after creating [[OSFirstTimer]] in 2012, Philip started the [https://www.youtube.com/user/TerrifiedMum TerrifiedMum] YouTube channel where he gets Diana to play scary games as decided by Phil or requested by the viewers. As of November 2018, the channel is inactive. The channel started with a brief playthrough of the original Slenderman game, then went on to other titles, including Oculus Rift games. The content later expanded to include a reaction video series named ''Diana Watches''. TerrifiedMum last uploaded on August 14, 2017.
'''[[TerrifiedMum|More about TerrifiedMum]]''' [[File:Arch Linux Adventures channel (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''Arch Linux
==='''Arch Linux
Philip made a channel in early 2014 called [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFkV1ZTArpBIeDu6FUl2guA Arch Linux
[[File:ShiftOS channel (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''ShitOS YouTube channel'']]
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'''[[OSFT Historic VLogs|More about OSFT Historic VLogs]]'''
==='''YouTube
[[File:YouTube Millionaire channel (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''YouTube
==='''TiaB KcilC'''===
Around January 2017, Philip created the [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA6BA33cmiuJKcpW174A-JA TiaB KcilC] channel in secret (now public). [[File:TiaB KcilC channel (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''TiaB KcilC YouTube channel'']] TiaB KcilC, reversed for ''Click Bait'', is part of the <span>YouTube</span>
Channel Description:<blockquote>''This is a channel you ought to click on... What is it? Who knows! Just click on it already!!!''</blockquote>
==='''How To
[[File:How To Quickly channel (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''How To
How To Slowly's motto is:<blockquote>''...because two minutes is too fast''</blockquote>
==='''What The
[[File:What The Heck Just Happened channel (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''What The
==='''Let's Explore'''===
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*[[OSFirstTimer]] ''(active)''
*[[OSFT Historic VLogs]] ''(active)''
*[[AstralPhaser|AstralSeizure]] ''(discontinued)''
*[[TerrifiedMum]] ''(discontinued)''
**Temporary replacement was the [[Diana Games Through Time]] series on OSFirstTimer.
*[[YouTube Millionaire|YouTube Hundredare]] ''(discontinued)''
*[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXWdCNzSx5gYOm9XWDaACTQ What The
*[https://www.youtube.com/c/HowToQuickly How To
*[[Let's Explore]] ''(discontinued)''
*[https://www.youtube.com/c/ShiftOS ShitOS] (discontinued)
*[[I2padams]] ''(discontinued)''
*[https://www.youtube.com/c/ArchLinuxAdventures Arch Linux
*[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA6BA33cmiuJKcpW174A-JA TiaB KcilC] ''(discontinued)''
Other channels he partially manages are [[Char Char Gaming
On the former channel, he made thumbnails and wrote descriptions for the videos she made. He was also featured in several videos of the Minecraft Let's Play series on that channel. Jasmine's channel has become inactive, as the last video published on the channel was on March 16th, 2019.
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 a commercial-like skit for the vitamin tablets by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berocca Berocca]. The activity of the channel is unknown.
==Controversy & Criticism ==
The earliest known controversy goes back to the video ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYTOavWs6Aw Top 3 Worst And Best Operating System User Interfaces (1985-2012)] ''which was published in December 2012. At that time, people misunderstood the video for a '''''World's''' Top 3'' video and/or found the listed operating systems to only have been ''loosely'' tested out by Diana and Philip.
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 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"''. Since then, OSFirstTimer was often associated with ''cringe'', but in more recent days, the backlash for that video has almost gone away.
However, the 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 sometimes, 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.
Some viewers have mentioned 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 means that there are a few things still being improvised and/or not fully researched upon. On the other hand, other 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 unwantedly visited by OSFirstTimer 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 and less time to maintain his channels and produce, edit and upload videos. This was especially apparent in the years 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 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 hate comments so far.
==Trivia ==
*After over eight years of making content, he has managed to get over 100K subscribers.
*Char Char Gaming
**Instead, Jasmine
**According to his mum, Philip Adams has eggy farts after he eats beans.
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