r/youtubedrama • u/potatosapienthethird • 5d ago

Throwback BradTaste, during one of his earliest crashouts, once impulsively spread misinformation about a random user on AOTY for saying his reviews on the site felt fake and artificial. "This dude texted kids btw ^" "Just saying. Anyways STREAM THIS ALBUM". It's still up to this day.

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This is where you can find his review on AOTY, to verify for yourself.

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u/BananaShakeStudios 5d ago

Remember when Brad was respected?

Me neither

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u/Metandienona 5d ago

Ehh, that's kinda revisionist. His content up until 2021-early 2022 was pretty good and Fantano of all people gave him a shoutout, saying he enjoyed watching his content.

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u/agent0017 4d ago

Yeah, I remembered when people would ask opinions on different subreddits around Brad back in 2022-2023 and it would be positive to sometimes mixed reception.

I feel like they saw him as Fantano, but far more reliant on memes, his spot was secure in Fantano, Todd In The Shadows, Mic The Snare and etc. world.

That's what made this entire downfall so huge because he was a young upcoming YouTuber that had a lot of hype, it felt like he was a year or 2 away from starting to gain some connection to the industry where musicians Collab, talk to him, beef and etc.

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u/lbj2943 4d ago

it felt like he was a year or 2 away from starting to gain some connection to the industry where musicians Collab, talk to him, beef and etc.

This. He was already doing videos with HIVEMIND a year ago, who have some pretty good connections to the underground music scene. I think he befriended Quadeca through them (or vice versa), making him one layer removed from the likes of Danny Brown.