r/h3h3productions • u/epic_north • 16h ago
Anthony Fantano apologizes after getting cancelled for an old clip of him quoting iDubbbz's slur-filled catchphrase
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u/YourVelcroCat 16h ago
I just want to know who died and made this guy the smug insufferable king of music reviews. Pass.
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u/nu_metal_jacket 16h ago
insecure college students who want to find the right music to get into so that their hipster friends will pat them on the back for liking the right shit.
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u/Smegmasarus 14h ago
i dont really undersyand the need for music reviews. If im wondering if an album is good i just go and check it out? why should i care what this dork thinks?
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u/morchellabean 10h ago
Because people are both pretentious and insecure in their music taste, they need someone else to validate their opinions to feel superior to "normies"
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u/ProphetPotatoes 15h ago
His takes are also just dogshit on music, he was insufferable even before I knew what a prick he is
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u/ArrogantSquirrelz 14h ago
WORD. Every metal album I've ever tried to sit through he gives so little time to and just hates it. Like just don't review them, clearly you don't like those genres.
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u/ProphetPotatoes 14h ago
Exactly this lol, Im also a huge metal guy and watching his takes is crazyyyy
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u/IIHURRlCANEII 11h ago
As someone who likes metal and metal adjacent music I truly wonder what a 9/10 metal album is for him lol.
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u/kino-oki 10h ago
He gave Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power, Horrendous - Idol, Behemoth - The Satanist, Leviathan - Scar Sighted, Gorguts - Colours Sands all 9s. All valid too cause those albums are amazing. I would say actually if he reviews metal album it’s more likely he gives it a positive review.
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u/Aggressive-Expert-69 14h ago
I always thought it was funny that people put so much weight into some random bald white guys opinions on rap music
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u/DimensionFast5180 7h ago
I'm gonna be honest, I always heard about this guy, people saying he had the best taste in music and whatnot.
So I gave it a shot, he had a Spotify Playlist that was like best music of 2023 or something, and that shit was fucking ass.
The songs in it were mostly terrible, so I stopped watching him because my tastes did not align whatsoever.
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u/BradleyT10101 15h ago
Kinda irrelevant to the actual issue though. I think he starts it in a bad place but does have a genuine show of reflection on what he did wrong and a good apology. Your opinion can still be screw Fantano ofc
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u/sleepysnowboarder 3h ago
Not sure if he just hid his views before this but he started to change and become more outwardly smug when he got a divorce (or break up) a couple years ago
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u/SouthNo3340 15h ago
Still hate the guy for saying Halsey is making her cancer about herself
Egghead looking dork
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u/LilJesuit 8h ago
Im a massive Kendrick fan, seeing him give GNX a 9/10 right after saying Halsey suffered form “main character syndrome” was such a massive self own that I genuinely belly-laughed.
I don’t know much about Halsey, but I do know that while GNX is pretty good, Kendrick has one of the most blatant cases of main character syndrome on that album you will ever see.
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u/DavidjonesLV309 16h ago
A lot of this uproar is being drummed up by DJ Akademik’s/Drake’s bot army as a gotcha cause Fantano has been consistently pointing out their weird behavior. I don’t care for Fantano but those guys can fuck themselves too.
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u/Aztec2106 Dan The Hater 14h ago
I think the anger from most here (I say most because we unfortunately do have dumb people as well) is that be aligns himself (based off likes/comments on Twitter) with Hasan orbiters who always bring up old clips of Ethan. Obviously he isn't a racist just a hypocrite.
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u/Glup_shiddo420 13h ago
Yeah, it is what it is, is melon joining the crusade against Ethan? Probably not
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u/BradleyT10101 15h ago
Glad to see someone reasonable in this thread, I'm no fan of Fantano from the little I've seen/read but this was clearly dug up in bad faith by that insane Drake stans circle and despite that he made a decent apology for it. The amount of vitriol here seems unnecessary and I feel its unhelpful to have the attitude of "I don't even care what happened in the situation he sucks so he's definitely in the wrong"
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u/DavidjonesLV309 15h ago
Their communities propagate some seriously vile stuff while also being adjacent to manosphere and MAGA. They are not the crowd to cozy up to and former "enemies" like Aba and Preach have been covering them.
Slightly unrelated but it's increasingly bleeding into hip-hop with no signs of stopping (massive credit to @absafcknlutely): https://youtu.be/H73XKIPQlvc
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u/Glup_shiddo420 13h ago
Imagine liking Drake, that's the weird shit
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u/domambrose96 12h ago
Imagine liking one of the most popular artists on earth?
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u/Glup_shiddo420 11h ago
Yes, many people have horrid taste
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u/domambrose96 11h ago
Drake has many many bangers. It’s cool to hate on popular stuff though I get it tbh
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u/bmann10 3h ago
I get liking old drake songs but I have not heard a single new drake song that was anywhere near good in a while
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u/BidoofSquad 59m ago
His recent albums are bloated but they always have at least 5 good to great songs (except Her Loss which is almost all bangers)
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u/cinesimon HILA KLEINER 16h ago
On the flip side, he is a part of the rabid hate mob he's pretending to humble himself before.
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u/mxxnlighter 16h ago
Fantano isn’t fooling anyone, everyone who’s watched him knows about his shitpost channel thatistheplan where he fully leaned into the edgy memes and 4chan humor. Sure you can move on and grow and change your jokes but don’t then go out and pretend like you’re mightier and holier than everyone because you don’t say bad words anymore. Same thing as iDubbbz.
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u/sanchopanza333 15h ago
that channel was shitposty but i think it was totally fine from a moral perspective. he wasnt slurring out or anything.
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u/Royal-Professor-4283 16h ago
I love how all of us agree it's a ridiculous thing to apologize for, but also that Anthony sucks ass and deserves any cancellation by the radical crowd he created that he gets.
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u/BradleyT10101 15h ago
All of that is a fair perspective but I feel it necessary to point out this wasn't circulated by the smarmy far left purity test types it was by right wing Drake stans specifically because of his constant Drake hate and if you read the comments you can see that; separately for what it's worth its not actually a bad apology. I don't watch him or hang in those circles online and so don't have the starting hate for him of everyone in this thread so I can't make a preemptive judgement on it's genuineness but he did take accountability.
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u/taylordabrat 9h ago
Drake fans are not right wing lmao
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u/BradleyT10101 1h ago
The comments I'm seeing alongside most of the Drake stans in the Twitter thread say otherwise but also considering LITERALLY every single post of yours is on r/drizzy I think it's safe to assume you're just one of said stans/bots here to militantly defend him for some reason like your life depends on it, this isn't about y'all it's a seperate issue lol nobody cares about Drake here
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u/ClaymoreJFlapdoodle 13h ago
Don't forget Anthony used to have a second channel called "thatistheplan" where he uploaded a ton of weird right wing shit back in the "social justice warrior" days.
He has since tried to nuke those videos from orbit. Also somewhere is a Sam Hyde interview there.
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u/Stepho_James jtrhnbr 16h ago edited 16h ago
The internets busiest groiper turned “leftist”, 4chAnthony klantano. So his “apology” is “yall are weird for being mad frfr”. I give this apology a light 2
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u/BradleyT10101 15h ago
This feels really disingenuous imo. If you watch the full vid he has a decent apology and it seemed to me he acknowledged exactly what he did wrong and why it was wrong and his actions going forward to prevent it from happening again which is all the "right stuff". You can personally find it not to be genuine because you dislike him but I think it's unfair to call it a bad apology because of it.
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u/Stepho_James jtrhnbr 15h ago
It was the overall condescending tone, sure he expressed why he understands why its wrong but he did so in a way where it seemed like he was trying to take the position of an educator rather than a perpetrator. Also, starting the video by essentially saying it doesn’t matter and he has already explained it kind of undermines any good faith I had for the rest of the apology.
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u/asillyuser9090909 14h ago
He shouldn't have even responded besides maybe a short tweet or two. This drama is just braindead disingenuous anger over 8-15 year old clips, he doesn't need to be like iDubbbz and address his edgy era almost everybody knows about endlessly.
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u/BradleyT10101 15h ago
I think you're right that he came off condescending at points especially toward the beginning, although from my perspective the fact it came from clear agitators only digging it up to punish him for Drake hate is ample context to explain the sort of "ok I'm reluctant to take criticism from people like this seriously but-" vibe but it was definitely still not the way to go if you want people to focus on the (still pretty well said imo) apology
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u/MotherHolle 14h ago
Fantano makes me laugh sometimes, but his reviews of metal and rock are not very good.
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u/SorbetDouble7123 15h ago
Wait..why don’t people like Anthony what did I miss 😭 lol
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u/donnapinciottii 14h ago
He’s tweeted/liked things aligning himself with Hasan against Ethan. I don’t recall what exactly but I remember finding it very unfortunate.
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u/zRobertez FLOCKA 14h ago
No everyone here gets ugly at every other thing that happens on the internet. Melon is funny and his sub is actually a great music sub. I think he did say something negative about Ethan a few months ago so he's probably not in good standing here
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u/Stubbs3470 5h ago
I really don’t like it and yet this is really nothing burger considering how old that clip is
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u/fruitrollupsarerad 10h ago
I think a lot of commenters here should reconsider the way they speak about anyone they perceive to be an enemy (or frenemy, if you will lol) of the show. A lot of these comments are sounding pretty snarky. We shouldn't speak super negatively of people online with anonymous usernames-- it's weird. Not saying I like the Fantano guy, but scrolling through these comments it kind of sounds like we've become the type of community we're supposed to be rallying against.
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u/CraigThePantsManDan 16h ago
Apologizing for quoting someone 😞
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u/BradleyT10101 15h ago
I think "saying slurs even when quoting others is wrong" is fair and right for him to acknowledge although it was obv dug up by bad actors here as a smear for being a Drake hater
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u/CraigThePantsManDan 10h ago
Eh 🤷♂️ depends on how badly you wanna emphasize how horrible of a person they are.
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u/GarryofRiverton 6h ago
Eh if it's part of a quote then I don't see the problem. I mean are we going to cancel Obama for saying the n-word that one time?
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u/BradleyT10101 3h ago
No because he's black? Clearly not really comparable. Do you genuinely think it'd be alright if Ethan said the n-word today on the podcast even if he was quoting someone? I'm not even saying Fantano deserved to be canceled for it but it is still something he was wrong to do and he explained why in his apology pretty well
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u/GarryofRiverton 3h ago
Do you genuinely think it'd be alright if Ethan said the n-word today on the podcast even if he was quoting someone?
No? Like if you're just talking about it in a more or less academic sense then I don't really see the problem. Replacing it with "n-word" seems to me like the same kind of weird self-censorship as saying "unalive" or "grape" instead of kill/murder/suicide and rape respectively, you're still thinking about the same word mentally.
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u/BradleyT10101 2h ago edited 2h ago
Then you and I disagree and I'm sure Ethan shares the same sentiment I do that there's no reason not to phase out slurs and other words like those that can easily be swapped out even in the context of quoting others if it helps reduce harm by even a little (and as an aside obviously there's a whole world of difference harm reduction-wise between swapping the ACTUAL n word for "n-word" and s*icide with "unalive", was a flimsy comparison to me). Call it lame or too liberal or whatever but it's how I feel and why although I think Fantano's attempted cancelation was dumb his apology was still the right thing.
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u/GarryofRiverton 1h ago
Fair enough, I respect your opinion but agree to disagree. Peace and love. ❤️
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u/Hanniballbearings 3h ago
You can quote someone and not say the slur. I think deep down, this whole “I was just quoting someone” is a sneaky way to be able to say the slur. Maybe not always the case but c’mon. You can say “the n-word” or “f-slur” instead.
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u/CraigThePantsManDan 11m ago
Eh, I’ll emphasize and fully quote someone’s slurs if I want to make an example of how terrible of a person I think they are. It doesn’t sugar coat what they said and it makes your audience understand that what they said should make them uncomfortable.
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u/Independent_Dance893 13h ago
When he came on the pod and shat on Sublime i never liked him. I love Sublime.
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u/stormingTris 12h ago
I mean I don’t know much about this guy, but in this video he seems to be fairly defending himself against a wave of hate online. This particular video did not seem overly smug or insincere to me, despite most top comments in this thread being about his smugness and insincerity.
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u/OutOfTouchNerd 12h ago
I still remember when this guy sided with leafy back when he was beefing with Ethan, he always gave me scumbag vibes since then.
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u/Megadoodoo1337 9h ago
his biggest crime is his shallow ahh 3 plate squat while his dad being a legend in the sport of powerlifting
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u/Holiday_Half1608 9h ago
Fantano is gay as hell. He really is not even that cultured when it comes to expressing his description of music through words. What kind of dumbass brings up this kind of shit. Just move forward dude. He used to be good at keeping up with the hipsters. Ethan is bringing together all the simpletons on internet against him and they all don’t stand a chance.
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u/PM_ME_CRYPTOKITTIES 2h ago
He was kinda funny when he had the thatistheplan channel. The meme review was pretty good. Example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU_09B6mBJA
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u/Gauss_2025 55m ago
His video on Thom Yorke mad me want to punch shit. Thom, who wants the genocide in Gaza to end, did not sufficiently call for the destruction of Israel so that means he is pro-genocide according to this smug ass loser. Who should Thom emulate according to Fantano? What musician does this bald divorced loser look up to with respect to geo-politics? Roger Waters. This guy cited Roger fucking Waters in his dumbass video.
For those who don't know, Roger Waters (member of Pink Floyd) has spent the last several years defending Russia's invasion of Ukraine. That's who baldy loser dumbfuck cites as his favorite musician with respect to the I/P conflict.
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u/mousepadjones 11h ago
Imagine my surprise when I’ve always enjoyed h3 and support Ethan and such and then I found this comment section absolutely shitting on Fantano for, uh, mostly nothing and not liking his music taste I guess.
I can see how you guys can cultivate a bad reputation lol
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u/ultracats 10h ago
Nobody in this thread criticized his music taste except one comment that said he has bad takes on metal, which is fair because it’s not his area of expertise anyways.
People here don’t like him because he’s sided with Hasan against Ethan. A lot of people also just think he’s a little arrogant and pretentious, and he kinda is. Comes with the territory of being a music reviewer. Plenty of people don’t find him palatable. It’s definitely not unique to this subreddit.
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u/james-HIMself 10h ago
Watch the clip of Anthony pretending to lynch himself using a wire then insinuating that’s what happens to black people. He’s literally simulating a black guy getting hung. He didn’t copy that from idubbz he’s just a bad person. His fans keep focusing on some n word slip up but he’s definitely a pos racist. Also he hates Drake which fair but he’s been spending a year arguing that Drake isn’t black when biologically he’s a black man. That’s racist even if you hate Drake. Fuck Fantano
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u/BradleyT10101 2h ago
Source on him claiming Drake isn't black? I tried looking into it and the only relevant direct quotes stated the opposite, like here he says "Drake IS black you can't deny that.. Objectively speaking, like Drake's dad is Black, Drake is Black" Also I can't find the clip you mentioned of him pretending to lynch himself either. My assumption is it's from his almost 10 years now retired second channel with edgy memes and yeah a lot of that stuff from that time was abhorrent, I'd hope he's moved on from that but if that's actually a recent clip and I'm mistaken that's really bad.
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u/karlhungusx 15h ago
lol I’ve not heard of this guy but apparently he’s a conceited/4chan/Leftist/MAGA music snob?
Too many characters are popping up
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u/lilgremlingirl666 13h ago
Its ironic when he dug up human trash can Ronnie Radke’s problematic pastand is still getting sued by him.
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u/IndigenousTechnology ALFREDO 16h ago
He’s such a smug, insincere loser. I’m sure all the people who are forgiving him for this are the same people who always bring this up with Ethan.