He did the video with Chris Ray Gun when they were both in their anti sjw, skeptic community™ phases. At that point Anthony was still giving props to Sargon. He didn't fag out completely until the Fader article about him in late 2017.
Honestly, all he had to do is make a disclaimer that he isn't right-leaning and just not address politics. I think he'd garner more respect if he tried to appear apolitical instead of trying to pretend like he never found the right funny and always saw them as evil. I think it's a mistake a lot of these types of internet personalities make where they try to make up for their former content by being incredibly vocal about their current political stance at all times. No offense, Anthony, but I really don't give a shit about the political takes of a YouTube music critic.
Let’s not give Vaush too much credit here. Anthony hasn’t yet argued for pro-pedophilia in an unironic way.
Fantano is basically the average Reddit stereotype leftist, whereas Vaush is taking that to serious lolcow levels which stick out even from that crowd. I remember seeing people on /r/politicalcompassmemes laughing at Vaush, even the ones with left flairs.
He's pretty much the only major music reviewer on YouTube. There are other music reviewers on YouTube who talk about specific genres, particularly hip-hop and metal, as well as YouTubers who do more documentary style videos, but if you want reviews of mainstream new album releases, regardless of genre, Fantano's your guy.
In an age where the music itself is easily accessible, no one really needs to listen to people like Fantano. He has a strong existing fanbase, but no one else will ever really get big doing what he does.
He also releases content on a daily basis, which would be a monumental task for anyone to accomplish.
This is the way to go. Anthony is a good curator, but not an authority. I'll give him credit that he tends to articulate his own opinions well enough for me to get a general idea of something before I listen to it, but I'd never consider him the end all of music criticism.
Yeah as much as it's easy to snipe at where he is now and what he says, it's interesting to look back at what he did right and why it all worked at the time. It's ironic he grew into the anger
True, and while he acts like a spaz on Twitter now he deserved his success early on compared to speds like Doug Walker. I could at least watch his early reviews without cringing sometimes.
There's this guy I stumbled upon after a serious binge of Louis Rossmann videos, Rick Beato.
I used to avoid watching Rick Beato's stuff because he age, appearance, and shooting choices made me assume he'd somehow be like a musical version of Coach Red Pill. His stuff is pretty alright though and I think he deserves the popularity he's received. His sub count will soon overtake Anthony's and the guy has only been making videos regularly for like three years.
Not if he continues being a dick on livestreams. You're not a real musican until you drop $200 on my special ear training program, the same one I forced my son to do.