iirc he said that modern japanese games suck. here’s the video. i’ve always kinda thought that Phil Fish was more of an asshole than a racist but like certainly i would understand why one might think him to be a racist asshole.
then gamergate decided to target him for some reason and the Single notable shitty thing he did got massively lost amongst the mythos invented by the gamergaters, as per every GG target
e: thinking back, i believe he became a target because precisely the western vs japanese games thing was a big culture war point at the time. GG portrayed japanese games as full of sexy big tiddy women, with True Gamers (men) as the target audience, contrasted with western games that were increasingly cucked by blue haired liberals and sjws getting their hands on the development process and censoring all the hot women or whatever. phil fish got smeared as being virulently racist because he was on the opposing side of GG, not because he was doing some sort of novel racist overgeneralization – the whole games industry was having this discourse at the time.
also he vocally defended zoe quinn. that was probably the main thing.
“It’s not hope until you put your p in a hoe.” – Nagito Komaeda