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Anthony Fantano is one of the richest Youtube Star from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anthony Fantano's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was interested in becoming cartoonist at an early age. He was first exposed to indie music around the beginning of the 2000s. He started work for Connecticut Public Radio, where he was host of the on-air edition of The Needle Drop. He started the blog in 2007 and then decided to make a video on YouTube in 2009.
The first meme featuring himself was posted on 4chan in 2004, he started to gain an affluent following. After taking about GamerGate, After the first meme of himself was created on 4chan, he began accumulating a cult following. After weighing in on GamerGate, Anita Sarkeesian, and other controversial topics, 4chan began making memes out of his photos, often to his detriment. and other controversial subjects, 4chan began making memes using his images and often at his expense.
Fantano was born in Connecticut, on October 28, 1985. He spent his teenage years in Wolcott. He is of French-Canadian and Italian (Sicilian) descent. As a child, he had a desire to become a cartoonist because of The Simpsons.
In order to earn enough money to pay his editor Austin Walsh, by November 2016, Fantano had recorded more regularly on a secondary YouTube channel, “thatistheplan”, on which he reviewed memes and recorded “often irreverent videos that don’t fall into the record review format,” according to SPIN. In October 2017, Fantano was accused of promoting alt-right and racist sentiments in videos on “thatistheplan” in an article by music magazine The Fader, which criticized Fantano for the use of Pepe the Frog memes (which had recently been labeled for being an alt-right symbol), targeting feminists, and belittling the work of black musicians. Fantano uploaded a video to The Needle Drop YouTube channel in response, claiming that the article was a “hit job” and that the videos in question were “satirical”. He disputed the idea that he had aligned himself with the far right, claiming that his videos actually have a “pretty obvious liberal slant” and responded to accusations of racism stating that he had “harshly critiqued and clowned on white artists and rock musicians in the past”. He also posted on social media his displeasure with future edits of the article, including one claiming he laughed at a description of the murder and rape of a woman being changed to “violence towards a woman,” after the video was posted. The article was later deleted by The Fader, with both parties saying that the claims were settled.
