Found this post on Reddit, pretty good and defines what separates Fantano from people like H3H3:
"Keep in mind, I am very well aligned with "leftist" view points and the like. And also keep in mind that I have never supported Fantano for giving Sam Hyde and Sargon platforms to spew their bullshit.
That said however, I think both you and this article's writer has taken the channel at face value on purpose. Because looking at the surface level appearance (or looking too deep into it, if the analysis of his "greatest rappers" videos are anything to go off of) of the channel, it is just very edgy humor. However, actually looking at the videos with the consideration of Fantano's vocal views on his other channels in mind, it's pretty clear that this channel was a clear cut case of satire, and not some attempt to cultivate an "alt right" audience nor borrowing edgy humor just for the sake of it such as the one the article suggests.
As the article admits, the channel exists in a bubble far removed from Fantano's critical thinkpieces and his music reviews, one that is filled with the 4chan edgelords that boosted his popularity back in 2012 (the kind who could actually claim irony and jest, and not the alt right heavy ones of today) and with viewers who have stumbled across it by accident while watching regular Needle Drop content. Its a channel and fanbase that is drenched in so many layers of irony that there isn't room for "alt right" figures to move in and push talking points because there isn't any actual reactionary hate towards the leftist and SJW crowds like you'd expect from an H3H3 video - where such an audience now exists because Ethan failed to make his videos different from actual alt-right speakers and thus impressionable kids took on the same hatred towards the notion of progress in cases where you shouldn't be expressing hate.
This article also seems to prop up an individual like X, who is without a shadow of a doubt a piece of shit who used his music as a way to prop up a narrative of being misunderstood and depressed to get cut slack for the horrible shit he did to his ex (a point brought up better by Eric Andre on Twitter), as a victim being bullied for his mental problems (as valid or invalid as they may be to his criminal situation) when in reality Fantano was clearly making jest of his fans who have and are still defending his actions to this day now that we know the extent of X's domestic crimes. It's a dishonest character assassination that can't tell the difference between actual alt right presence (hey did you know they actually hate Fantano, because he made a 20 minute video about why Paul Joseph Watson is a piece of shit) and people buying into edgy humor, regardless of how shitty and problematic it is. That said humor is so self contained in this bubble that to claim that an alt right audience has been grown and that Fantano is doing is on purpose is wrong and idiotic. This is an article that assumes if you aren't to the most extreme left of the political compass, then you are clearly just alt right and hate SJWs.
It's only valid talking points are his affiliation with Sam Hyde and and Sargon - because he was absolutely in the wrong to give them a platform and his views that their removal from sites like Twitter is a big problem is also a slippery slope that eventually grows into alt right ideas. Everything else is stupid as fuck, incorrect, and a very off colored attempt to paint Fantano as a bad guy when he's got more of a spine politically and socially than a lot of writers on other music sites."
Now to sleep, gn.
Edit: also, not sure how he feels now, and associating with Sam Hyde is bad in general, but the podcast was like over a year before Sam Hyde donated to daily stormer, and he always clarified his ideological differences with Hyde (still terrible)
