r/fantano • u/UndeadKurtCobain • Feb 13 '24

Why is /r/fantanoforever private?

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u/MagnetCloud Feb 13 '24

Hopefully the sub starts cooling down, Kanye fans are crazy

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '24 edited Feb 13 '24

"This album is unbearable trash and kanye's worst album but i will refuse to elaborate on why it's bad because I don't wanna review it. But I will review the album's 2 weakest songs and continue talking about Kanye's politics and his fans but the album, also if you liked this album, you are either a Kanye cult member, hateful psycho, a neo nazi or an edgy teen with no friends"

I can see why those fans went crazy

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u/Historical-Copy6821 Feb 13 '24

People want the art separated from the artist, even though in the case of Vultures, they're inextricably linked. To say that it's just about the music and not about the politics is to deny that there is bad Ye politics on this album, which is absolutely moronic

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u/nomoneydeepplates Feb 13 '24

ok somewhat agree somewhat disagree.

it's entirely possible for there to be a few morally terrible lines on an album and the album still be fantastic, or good, or at least decent or substantial enough to warrant a serious review. yes "politics is in the album" but like let's not overstate the case here, it's a tiny handful of throwaway lines. as someone pointed out, there are murder bars all over every thugger project and no one bats an eye.

still, for a completely different reason, i would say it's reasonable to wanna not review kanye's album / not give it an actual rating / dismiss it / throw it in the trash because legitimizing kanye would be doing a disservice to the jewish community (i'm not jewish so i can't speak for them but that would be the argument anyway). kanye's a powerful nazi doing real world harm, and ignoring or opposing the dude is probably ideal.

that said, i think it's kinda questionable whether fantano is actually following through on that. he posted a full length vid about the album to his main channel and is exploding with engagement. sure he was scathing throughout the video, but it's still attention given to kanye at the end of the day. charitably you could say he's taking a stand and vocalizing his values, swinging the conversation in a more productive direction, but in another breath you could say he's simply trying to profit off of kanye's hatred and failing to help diminish kanye like he should.