Dude...dude....I just can’t. You calling someone racist with admittedly no hard evidence of it...how does that help anyone. You are not going to like everyone or agree with everyone. That does make them evil. It makes you no different then a trump supporter.

As a black person, it’s disgusting what passes for social…

Honestly this article is a hit piece. Fader is cherry picking and in some cases outright lying. His response video demolishes the piece. Honestly I’m ashamed the AVClub ran this. It’s this kind of journalism that makes the left look bad to centrists or any rational human being who has investigated both sides of the…

He literally NEVER said anything dismissive of ANOHNI’s identity as a transwomen you disgusting piece of shit. How would you feel if people wrote blatant lies about you on the internet saying you were queerphobic when it simply wasn’t true? You’re a pure piece of shit like most SJWs, shooting first and looking at the…

How is Fantano queerphobic exactly? That’s not an attack, just a question. I’m gay and have watched his videos pretty frequently (I unsubscribed from thatistheplan after it started to get bad, though). He always came across as supportive of the gay community, as was evident to me from his Perfume Genius and ANOHNI. As…

This reminds me of that fraudulent article about William Hughes putting on blackface.

Not for a while now. Especially since they became part of the Gawker compost heap. Sensationalist garbage hitpieces are the new normal.

I’ve been posting on this site for years and years and years. This is not what’s happening here. I’d be one to jump on defense of the av club. Not in this case. We’re not talking about some PewDiePie type. Fantano is a leftist, if you follow his work for any period of time that becomes pretty clear. He might have put…

I think Fantano is more a Bernie progressive than a centrist. During the 2016 election he definitely kept bringing up the “both sides are bad” argument but his criticisms of Hillary were always the same kind that Sanders supporters were making. At the same time, he is very accommodating of far right-wing…

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

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…

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…

Well, I hope it’s just that and not former AV club comment section peeps with new names, revealing new, worse beliefs.

Yea, I hated his Thatistheplan stuff and his centralist stances are definitely not something I stand by, but the Fader article came pretty clear with an agenda and most of it was either reaches or just straight up taking things out of context. And Hughes seems to have never heard of Fantano before and is so ready to…

Screw this article. Screw the Fader article.

Man. I will tell you what.

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.

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…

I don’t know... thisistheplan was terrible, but that article, and specially this headline, feels like an overreach.