“Anyone who says a bunch of vile shit and tries to play it off as satire or shitposting can go straight to hell.”

Pewdiepie’s fans played it off like that. Pewdiepie himself actually apologised quite seriously and acknowledged that he was wrong and had no excuse for what he did.

Honestly, I don’t like this argument. The point is not that Fantano has a black wife, the fact is that he has a black wife and is also progressive on racial issues.

He’s really not that level of vile. This article and the Fader one are highly misleading. He’s personally always been very progressive, the worst thing you can say about him is that he is buddies with some bad hombrés.

that’s such a controlling thing to say. like abusive-boyfriend-level controlling.

that Fader article is a load of overreaching BS.

Go watch his reviews of DAMN., and To Pimp a Butterfly. It should be pretty clear that Fantano is nowhere near the alt-right. He’s pretty clearly just fucking around. I think he’s the kind of person who’s more interested in the art than the artist, which is why he can fawn over problematic figures. At most, he’s a…

If you’re going to say something stupid, at least watch one of his videos before. The man is a Bernie style progressive liberal who has recently posted videos explaining his reluctance to say the n-word, even though he has a huge rap following that “is cool” if he used the word. Even then, the video isn’t about people…

The whole point of satire is that, without context, it appears to be the real thing. Speaking of, this Fader article is lacking entirely in context. Do you propose that sarcasm be banned to avoid this type of confusion entirely, or will you continue to take hitpieces like this at face value?

Wow, this is hilarious. A hitpiece based off of another hitpiece intended only to get clicks and ad revenue. As if it wasn’t completely obvious given the authors giant reach of an argument taking footage from a satirical channel, they assume that because a meme uses the n-word in it that to be white and laugh at it is…

fantano had three channels - theneedledrop, which is, of course, his review channel; fantano, where he discusses topics relevant to the music world; and this third channel which i (and i assumed everyone else) viewed as a satirical send-up of internet meme culture.

Screw this article. Screw the Fader article.

I’ve been following Fantano for years. While he does flirt too much with some shitty people, I really doubt he himself is alt-right at all. His ‘meme channel’ rarely reflects his actual views. He talks about politics often on Twitter; he hates Trump, supports Bernie, and advocates for universal healthcare, higher…

I would recommend against taking sensationalist journalism at face value (aren’t we supposed to be past “fake news” by now?) but if out-of-context quotes are your jam then, go ahead, crucify the guy with a black wife for being a nazi.

Sorry but you got it all wrong this time. Seems like someone really couldn’t handle an album review of their favorite artist.

Really reaching for the low-hanging fruit here...

This is bad kinja.

if this hitpost was about his MBDTF review, then i fully support it.

That article was a farce, and anyone who actually looked at the channel in question will know it. They basically took a bunch of out-of-context quotes and published them as earnest endorsements, as is the popular method of journalism today, either not realizing or not caring that the entire thing was satire. Yes,…

As a follower of Fantano’s for years. I’m just going to have to point out how much of a reach this article is. To cite one video and two podcasts from a body of work including close to one thousand videos, it can be quite easy to cherry pick a few key problematic moments to build a reactionary article off of. The…

This article is a definite hitpiece, Fantano has never aligned with the alt-right, and the “meme reviews” were definitely just catering to the popular memes on Twitter of the week. Any stances he took that would be considered “alt-right”, in the context of the actual videos, are blatantly satirical, and the article…

Yyyeaahhh, Fantano isn’t alt-right.