Several prominent indies retweeted the video including @tha_rami (Nuclear Throne) and @mikeBithell (Volume) among others. Game journalists circulated the video as well Patrick Klepeck (Giant Bomb) tweeted the video and Ben Kuchera (Polygon) posted this article on Polygon. After the video got enough circulation, Phil Fish himself came out of twitter hiatus and tweeted roughly that he felt youtube streaming was a bad practice explaining that there are systems in place to stop you from streaming movies in their entirety, such systems should apply to games as well.

Phill’s return caused a brief twitter explosion in which everyone tweeted about a number of things from Phil’s fame to if he was right about youtubers. One streamer, @RockLeeSmile (Indie Impressions, and the Northern Lion Super Show) tweeted to Phil a short message to the effect of: hey man, lets be friends. In short, everyone didn’t know what to do in reaction to the shocker of Phil’s return. Within the hour, Phil removed his tweets about streaming and expressed some interest in being on twitter but that he really couldn’t. His account, @PHIL_FISH, no longer seems to exist.