I'm confused by your post then.Wasn't trying to say that! Nor do I agree with it.
thatistheplan is completely ironic. A lot of his online persona is really, aside from the music reviews.
And youtubers wonder why the money is drying up fast
He just had a video demolishing a Lil Dicky album, which he's done in the past, and he's a white "rapper".If you are going to make a case for this, your best arguments are going to be in appearing on that podcast or meeting with other YouTubers.
I believe at one point the article says that PewDiePie and Paul Joseph Watson are his colleagues despite him denouncing things they've done in the past, which is a bit strange. The videos about 'Is _ the best rapper?' pretty clearly seemed to be made about dumb comments his fans would make. As for why there would be no white artists made fun of in this segment, well, it's about rappers. Most of the popular ones aren't white, at least those popular with the crowd who'd watch music reviews.
As for the interviews they mentioned, I haven't seen them, but I did watch a few of the videos on thatistheplan. I don't know how I would describe those videos, and I don't think it's necessarily fair to say the channel was for 'alt-rights' when outside of a few videos it's just dumb comedy, and most of the more problematic areas occur outside of the thatistheplan channel.
Thats the hilarious irony about this. He's moaning on his twitter about not being able to monetise these videos but it's the audience he's catering to that has dried the well up.
He just had a video demolishing a Lil Dicky album, which he's done in the past, and he's a white "rapper".
The most honest answer I can give is that I don't know. Thatistheplan was not in some hidden bunker, it was a series of public videos, so it's not as though the journalist unearthed some dark secret. I would expect that Fantano will give some sort of explanation for why he did that beyond the few tweets that are apparently out there, at which point I can decide if his rationale is up to snuff. But, truly, any response at the moment beyond "I'm not sure" would be dishonest of me to say.
Thats the hilarious irony about this. He's moaning on his twitter about not being able to monetise these videos but it's the audience he's catering to that has dried the well up.
He's a music critic on the same level of fame as other critics. He was never close to the same status as the big YouTubers.stop celebritizing youtube people
This.And youtubers wonder why the money is drying up fast
stop celebritizing youtube people
I sense that this was a quick reason he drummed up because he's unwilling to acknowledge the real reason he quickly deleted the channel. He's a coward who knows he can't actually defend the content he's created because there's no way to extract it from "real" alt-right behavior.
"The Problem with Irony", indeed.
I'll admit that I'm probably just biased because I like him, when I've never been a fan of H3H3 and disavowed their channel because of the same things this article is getting at Fantano for.I bet the people surprised by this are the same that are 'surprised' when learning H3H3 strokes the same crowd.
Yeah, I always took it as a tongue-in-cheek channel used to troll members of the alt-right.
Had no idea this guy had redpilled so hard. To immerse himself so deep in black culture and then go super hardcore alt-right is quite the trajectory.
How long until "MSM is out to get me!!"
He's not alt-right, he just literally did a podcast with Sargon of Akkad.
You people must really love random music reviews if you prefer deceiving yourself to admitting this guy is clearly a Nazi.
How long until "MSM is out to get me!!"
Wait what? Death Grips ain't some alt right Nazi band.
Fantano's been cool with and promoted stuff from them for years, they won't care.This cant look good for the DEHH guys since theyve done stuff with him recently as well
Theyre a /mu/ meme but Death Grips is uh........pretty hard to describe actuallyI actually thought they were an alt right band...
😬 whoops.
I actually thought they were an alt right band...
😬 whoops.
Yuuuup. Not surprised.He's always been a piece of shit.
Yeah this about sums up my feelings on it. His non-response to this whole thing doesn't make it better either.Some Thatistheplan makes fun of meme culture and everything adjacent to it, and it seems the writer is being willfully obtuse about that at some points.
The "X is the Greatest Rapper Ever" videos make fun of listeners, not artists. The XXXTentacion vid, for example, didn't make light of his domestic abuse allegations; it made fun of the fans who swore he was this amazing rapper and decried any accusations of XXX being an absolute terrible person. Also, the writer acknowledges Fantano never saying the n-word, but admonishes him for finding memes that contain the n-word funny. If that is such an affront to hip-hop like the writer implies, why stop that rule at just memes? Is any white person who enjoys music that contains the n-word a supremacist? Is a white person complicit with the alt-right's agenda because they laughed during Dave Chappelle's stand-up special? Obviously not, and it's at these points where this epic takedown of Anthony Fantano falls flat.
But Fantano certainly did court alt-right members with Thatistheplan, with the pepe memes, criticism of SJWs and Hillary etc. During the channel's transformation into everything meme, I never saw that same fervor for the alt-right's sacred cows, namely Trump. I'm hesitant to jump to the that the alt-right represents Fantano's own political ideologies - his somewhat thoughtful statements over the years about social issues and our cultural divide via his music reviews and his other side channel "fantano" give me pause - but he strikes me as a moderate who will happily bend over backwards for alt-right money. That's reprehensible especially in today's political climate, and should rightfully be called out.
Theyre a /mu/ meme but Death Grips is uh........pretty hard to describe actually
I actually thought they were an alt right band...
😬 whoops.
This cant look good for the DEHH guys since theyve done stuff with him recently as well
A lot of the old regulars stopped but the newer ones keep posting his shit even though nobody tryna watch that shit.GAF hop stays giving this clown attention.
He's saying he's wary of people who say they're fans of Death Grips and Swans cause they could also be fans of The Needle Drop.I'm confused by your post then.
Really, are we sure it isn't The Needle Drop that's suppose to be the ironic joke channel?
That email is nonsense, the XXX video is clearly comedic, and Fantano took a strong stance against his domestic violence situation and came down hard on the Asap Bari situation.He posted this email on twitter and said a "spicy hitpiece" was coming for him soon.
And youtubers wonder why the money is drying up fast
I know him from when I used to frequent Prog Archives forum.
Dude's always been a jerk.
That email is nonsense, the XXX video is clearly comedic, and Fantano took a strong stance against his domestic violence situation and came down hard on the Asap Bari situation.
Ain't that the truthEasier to list who isn't questionable on youtube then who is