Anthony Fantano / TheNeedleDrop - "The Internet's Busiest Music Nerd"™, heelturned since 2017, slowly becoming smug SJW, threw Sam Hyde under the bus

[gettingthatgrooveback]

Shitting on his music tastes is kinda irrelevant and missing the point but whatever.

 

[I can't imagine]

Did he grow up poor? At least tell me he grew up working-class or something.

As far as I know, he grew up in the suburbs in Connecticut, then went to a nearby public university in New Haven. Based off that, I'd assume his family was pretty firmly in the middle class category, though I suppose they could be working-class types with a strong desire to see their kid exceed them.

 

[Big Luigi Fan]

Does anyone have any idea of his, like, professional background besides talking at a camera in his house and doing some editing? He went to some college or other, because I remember him saying he did shit with a college radio station (which is about as easy as walking in and asking for an unpopular time slot to get your foot in the door).

But this guy bangs on about the "working man" so fucking often and rails against them rich people and establishment and blah blah blah blah while making his livelihood from the goddamn internet. Has he flipped a burger or stocked a shelf in any capacity? His wife's college-educated much the same, iirc, so it's like.

A rich member of the upper 37% (4-year college degree) largely dropping "hot takes" against people in the other 63%. Maybe he volunteers with his local community or something, I'd hope so, because otherwise I'm really grasping at if the man can be said to have ever interacted with the people he's got his merry affluent savior complex over. He's whinging about the social parasitism of the elites... from the perspective of doing what they're doing on a smaller scale. Stunning and Brave ™

Did he grow up poor? At least tell me he grew up working-class or something.

I've heard of him working as a waiter in some pizza place around 2010.

 

[ScrappyLobsterchu]

As much as I like fantano it's becoming difficult not to be bothered by how fucking smug and dumb he is acting recently. Nice job OP.

 

[Rich Evans Apologist]

As far as I know, he grew up in the suburbs in Connecticut, then went to a nearby public university in New Haven. Based off that, I'd assume his family was pretty firmly in the middle class category, though I suppose they could be working-class types with a strong desire to see their kid exceed them.

CT has always had a pretty onerous tax scheme and generally pretty high property values given the big league colleges in the area (moreso, the people that attend them), so that'd make sense. It's also a pretty lily white state relative to most of the country, so that's less of a chance for him to have personally interfaced with the racism he sounds so intimately familiar with.

I've heard of him working as a waiter in some pizza place around 2010.

Well, at least that's something. It'd also throw a bit of a wrench in his personal idea that America's bereft of opportunity - some schlub in a greasy joint goes on to make a living making faces at a camera. If the guy weren't making dumb, sweeping generalizations to show off his biggu brainer, his odd position wouldn't come off as so obviously hypocritical.

But I think the vibe is that this guy's just cynically gaming the cultural tide. I can't hate a man for the hustle, even if he could be hustling better.

 

[The Cunting Death]

I agree the moment he stopped lurking /mu/ and his post-fader article stuff was when he went to shit
It sucks because I interacted with him on social media years before he went fucking crazy and he was a really nice guy, actually answering my questions and being helpful for a few recommendations.

Nothing lasts forever I guess.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

I have a hard time deciding if fantano or Ethan is the Harvey dent of youtube

 

[Shaka Brah]

I have a hard time deciding if fantano or Ethan is the Harvey dent of youtube

What about idubbz?

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

What about idubbz?

Idubzz’s simp saga was pretty gay but as far as I know Ian has not acted like a backstabbing cunt. Fantano’s a weasel and H3 goes out of his way to crap on values he once claimed to stand for at least once a week

 

[Shaka Brah]

Idubzz’s simp saga was pretty gay but as far as I know Ian has not acted like a backstabbing cunt. Fantano’s a weasel and H3 goes out of his way to crap on values he once claimed to stand for at least once a week

Yeah idubbz didn't really betray anyone, though he can be a little bitch. Going by that criteria Ethan is definitely the worst of all of them.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

I've always found curious how people like him are terrified of being labelled alt-right. If that happened to me, I'd be mad rather than afraid. I would probably just shrug it off and if I was a celebrity I'd probably sue a magazine calling me that for slander if that somehow affects my job or my life.

But these faggots are SCARED of being remotely related to the alt-right, even if indirectly. I can understand it from some nobody who's afraid they would lose their job, but it's not the case of these people. They are indeed scared of the assumption and act accordingly. All that bravado is just cope for the fact they're afraid to be coansidered even right wingers. Honestly, it's pathetic. This guy acts like he's some sort of nazi hunter, when he's just afraid of saying anything that could disturb the mob.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

What bothers me the most about Fantano is not his political views, his bald head or soy face it's his utter cowardice and kowtowing to the people he used to stand against. Fantano was always a liberal but he was a sensible, pre identity politics 90s-early 2000s liberal, kind of way. He was avid about free speech even for people he disagreed with, he had people on his show like Sam who he didn't agree with politically but admired as a comedian and he was generally very open minded. All it took was one really shitty article that not a single person in his audience believed for him to throw all that out of the window. But not only did he kowtow to a slanderous outright hitpiece he started to fucking bootlick the people who were eager to try and lynch mob him. He started pandering to people who would if given the chance happily paint him as a literaly white supremacist for saying the wrong word or having a "Yikes!" take on something. He not only threw away his common sense he also bended over and told the people who just tried to kill him "FUCK ME RAW YESSSSSSSSS"

I don't think he even believes in the twitter PC lynchmob either. Something that people don't talk about now is before the hitpiece he was following and hanging out with someblackguy, Chris ray gun and other various skeptic alt-lite Youtubers who call out the type of shit he does now. Are we to believe he suddenly had an awakening magically after his income was threatened and changed his world views? No, he got scared and cut all ties to bend over and take it in the ass

It doesn't matter how many times you tweet about BLM fantano, one day your past on /mu/ and all the other shit you did before you became PC will get dugup(again)by your new twitter friends and you will be over. They have no problem turning on their own and a bald, heterosexual white man is the biggest target out there.

 

[genericwhitemale]

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

What bothers me the most about Fantano is not his political views, his bald head or soy face it's his utter cowardice and kowtowing to the people he used to stand against. Fantano was always a liberal but he was a sensible, pre identity politics 90s-early 2000s liberal, kind of way. He was avid about free speech even for people he disagreed with, he had people on his show like Sam who he didn't agree with politically but admired as a comedian and he was generally very open minded. All it took was one really shitty article that not a single person in his audience believed for him to throw all that out of the window. But not only did he kowtow to a slanderous outright hitpiece he started to fucking bootlick the people who were eager to try and lynch mob him. He started pandering to people who would if given the chance happily paint him as a literaly white supremacist for saying the wrong word or having a "Yikes!" take on something. He not only threw away his common sense he also bended over and told the people who just tried to kill him "FUCK ME RAW YESSSSSSSSS"

I don't think he even believes in the twitter PC lynchmob either. Something that people don't talk about now is before the hitpiece he was following and hanging out with someblackguy, Chris ray gun and other various skeptic alt-lite Youtubers who call out the type of shit he does now. Are we to believe he suddenly had an awakening magically after his income was threatened and changed his world views? No, he got scared and cut all ties to bend over and take it in the ass

It doesn't matter how many times you tweet about BLM fantano, one day your past on /mu/ and all the other shit you did before you became PC will get dugup(again)by your new twitter friends and you will be over. They have no problem turning on their own and a bald, heterosexual white man is the biggest target out there.

I think what has become a trend is that so-called “skeptic” youtubers are turning into the “fence sitters” that they rail against on social media. Granted, it’s been happening for a while, but the people who can see through this is getting noticeable. Also, like Fantano, “skeptics” do love hearing the sound of their own voice, until they decide to get challenged on their beliefs.

 

[Slowpoke Sonic]

let's face it angelic 2 the core will always be an absolute banger. fantano can go screw himself.

 

[GearProject20]

Been waiting for a thread on this sellout for a while now.

 

[tehpope]

What bothers me the most about Fantano is not his political views, his bald head or soy face it's his utter cowardice and kowtowing to the people he used to stand against. Fantano was always a liberal but he was a sensible, pre identity politics 90s-early 2000s liberal, kind of way. He was avid about free speech even for people he disagreed with, he had people on his show like Sam who he didn't agree with politically but admired as a comedian and he was generally very open minded. All it took was one really shitty article that not a single person in his audience believed for him to throw all that out of the window. But not only did he kowtow to a slanderous outright hitpiece he started to fucking bootlick the people who were eager to try and lynch mob him. He started pandering to people who would if given the chance happily paint him as a literaly white supremacist for saying the wrong word or having a "Yikes!" take on something. He not only threw away his common sense he also bended over and told the people who just tried to kill him "FUCK ME RAW YESSSSSSSSS"

I don't think he even believes in the twitter PC lynchmob either. Something that people don't talk about now is before the hitpiece he was following and hanging out with someblackguy, Chris ray gun and other various skeptic alt-lite Youtubers who call out the type of shit he does now. Are we to believe he suddenly had an awakening magically after his income was threatened and changed his world views? No, he got scared and cut all ties to bend over and take it in the ass

It doesn't matter how many times you tweet about BLM fantano, one day your past on /mu/ and all the other shit you did before you became PC will get dugup(again)by your new twitter friends and you will be over. They have no problem turning on their own and a bald, heterosexual white man is the biggest target out there.

I'm surprised no one has called him out over being friends with Joji yet. I know Joji had an attempted cancellation by K-Pop twitter. But when his true cancellation comes, that might be the deathknel for Anthony. Joji was on TND podcast and Pink Guy had a guess verse on Cal's mixtape. Then again, Joji was friends with Ethan and other content creators. I assume once George is cancelled for real, Anthony and Ethan will throw him under the bus very hard.

Then again, what will probably do Anthony in with the SJWs is something so stupid we're not even thinking its something worth being cancelled by.

Edit: He's probably going to be cancelled for marrying a black woman. Regressives will say the races shouldn't mix because white people having any relationship with a non white person is rape or some bullshit.

 

[genericwhitemale]

Probably should've included this in the OP, but I didn't see it. He's celebrating Stefan Molyneux being kicked off YouTube.
It was the same fucking shit he was saying during the Carlos Maza thing. It's cowardly of YouTube not to remove wrongthink. Again, this is the same guy who 3/4 years ago defended people like Hyde and Sargon of Akkad because he believed in free speech.

https://archive.is/JlGIr
https://twitter.com/theneedledrop/status/1280629733764608001?s=20

 

[TokiBun]

Probably should've included this in the OP, but I didn't see it. He's celebrating Stefan Molyneux being kicked off YouTube.
It was the same fucking shit he was saying during the Carlos Maza thing. It's cowardly of YouTube not to remove wrongthink. Again, this is the same guy who 3/4 years ago defended people like Hyde and Sargon of Akkad because he believed in free speech.
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https://archive.md/JlGIr
https://twitter.com/theneedledrop/status/1280629733764608001?s=20

Can someone explain to me why the Twitter woke crowd speaks in this obnoxious baby talk?

 

[Ascendancy0]

Can someone explain to me why the Twitter woke crowd speaks in this obnoxious baby talk?

Superiority complex.