Cringing with an Emo Boy

[@themaddestvillain-g4q]

I blame MGK for this

[@mostblunted_211]

😂

[@wulfleyn6498]

Same

[@koronteh807]

He will atone for his sins

[@humansadness23]

i blame MGK for everything

[@Guyster5]

Haven’t even watched the video yet and I agree

[@2002GrandPrix]

He sounds like a theater kid that listened to a couple blink-182 songs and decided to buy a Cure shirt at Hot Topic afterwards.

[@henveee]

I think you have it the wrong way around

[@2002GrandPrix]

@@henveee I think you're right.

[@tuckerallen1421]

​@@henveee you right, more like sounds like a Cure song that listened to a couple theater kids and decided to buy a Hot Topic at blink-182 shirt afterwards.

[@odobenus159]

@@tuckerallen1421 spot on m8 spot on

[@WiloPolis03]

@@henveee Imagine being into banger post-punk music but then deciding you have to go pop punk of all things

[@spookums5499]

To his credit he definitely captures the groomer vibes of emo pop punk, kudos for that

[@Jabbersac]

Getting some Dahvie Vanity vibes from this, he's really paying his respects to his forebears

[@chockabout]

Ew, now that you mention it...

[@nzingahendricks4128]

Goddamnit, you’re right 🫠someone in the comments said they blamed MGK for this and considering that MGK’s creepy and has had groomer tendencies I blame him for this too

[@ripztubig4457]

All of the comments on his Instagram posts are literal children.

[@FELCommentary]

Glad I'm not the only one that thought that lmao

[@SatanSupimpa]

This is the kind of stuff that makes me realize that as teens we identify with music made by people too old to be making music teens identify with.

[@xencois]

nah at least we could relate to their music, but this, this is straight tryharding

[@shmunked]

this video is the reason why i could never stand pop punk

[@andrei11dr]

I never identified with stuff like this as a kid, and I didn't even really like punk as a whole until I was like 17. Metal music and abrasive electronic music just seemed so much more cooler without being corny, which is pretty funny because in hindsight, a lot of that stuff was super cheese

[@oogatz1917]

I don’t think we should judge it based off of age. I mean there’s plenty of people that weren’t able to articulate the ideas and feelings they had then. But they grew and they can now. So it’s trying to convey past feelings.

[@lilyluhtwizzy]

@@andrei11dr KoRn babyy ❤❤❤❤

[@1paranjay.]

Fantano should do more "cringing with" ones. always bangers

[@nedisahonkey]

Couldn't agree more

[@1paranjay.]

@@nedisahonkey eksactly

[@dontpanic5278]

I mean these are pretty good but I don't think that he should be actively chasing down these types of videos. "Cringing with" kind of like the seedy, trashy, low effort version of his regular content. They're like junk food: pretty good when you're lazy and depressed, but you shouldn't eat it too often, so to speak.

[@nedisahonkey]

@@dontpanic5278 This is his second channel. These don't replace his main videos in the slightest?

[@danwg3368]

​@@dontpanic5278 I'm with you, the "cringing with" series would lose its punch if we got more of it. Cringe is best experienced fresh. It wouldn't evoke such a reaction if you did it twice a week

[@nedisahonkey]

Holy shit the lyrics DO sound like Weird Al, in the worst possible way. And I say that as someone who LOVED Weird Al growing up. I attribute a huge ammount of my eclectic taste to him being my favorite artist as a children.

[@Meleedroit]

I heard the first few seconds and thought it was a parody of some rock song, like smells like nirvana

[@mesquitaboys7863]

Same!

[@thetreeofclues]

It could've sounded like weird al in a good way, like how RHCP did with Tippa my Tongue, but this is just horrible

[@itsaUSBline]

@@thetreeofclues I don't know if I'd make that comparison...

[@LoverOfManyArts]

As a children

[@jarrahkron9]

Guy literally has the energy of Gideon/G-man from Scott Pilgrim vs the World but without the satire or comedy

[@deltacee9751]

2 HOURS TWOO

[@MarshmallowEclipse]

So basically he's just G-Man from Scott Pilgrim, full stop.

[@SuperSpeedRaven1]

Yeah, but only one of them has demon hipster chicks. Gideon - 1 TX2 - 0

[@lenonel3286]

​@@SuperSpeedRaven1 the one with the hipster chicks was Matthew Pattel, the first evil ex boyfriend. Gideon is the last one

[@SuperSpeedRaven1]

@@lenonel3286 oh that guy sucked. I prefer TX2.

[@ianternet9587]

he seems like the kind of guy to get exposed for having relationships with his underage fans

[@verifiedhandle9103]

Then blame it on his mental health and how he explicitly told his fans in his music he was bad and the victim should have known

[@doperat9630]

He reminds me of Sam pepper

[@ianternet9587]

@@verifiedhandle9103 literally lol

[@coleward4208]

Bold of you to assume he has fans

[@ianternet9587]

@@coleward4208 youd be surprised to hear the type of bullshit lil kids listen to given full range access to the web

[@HeisenbergFam]

Fantano is like a shield that takes the brunt of cringe and makes it watchable

[@chiarosuburekeni9325]

Right? I can’t watch cringe by itself. If done through a middle man like melon it’s doable 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@nedisahonkey]

​@@chiarosuburekeni9325 Too bad he only does music or he could do "Cringing with... Raiders fans"

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

Yeah like a cringe buffer

[@chiarosuburekeni9325]

@@nedisahonkey 🙄🙄

[@nedisahonkey]

@@chiarosuburekeni9325 Hey you took that joke pretty well for a Raiders fan! First of all you were capable of actually reading the joke and secondly you didn't even attempt to stab me! Congrats, you must be one of the rare "good ones" I've always heard of but never met 😝

[@morganwahlin5822]

My boyfriend worked on a music video with him and said he was a really nice guy

[@TX2FANOFFICIAL]

He is watch one of his streams

[@BumbaClo-bh8xp]

So? He still sucks

[@elio-21]

he's actually hella nice and helpful to a lot of people. If you don't like his music then do not listen to it, no one is forcing you to. But don't say someone sucks, he's a human just like you.@@BumbaClo-bh8xp

[@Blood_Shower]

​@@BumbaClo-bh8xp Bro why do you hate a dude who did nothing to you. 😑

[@sherman1476]

@@Blood_Shower Hitler didn't do anything to you either, still doesn't mean he isn't cringe

[@brutaljustin1349]

Emo has been co-opted with so many genres, good to see it finally collide with butt rock.

[@MikeyJBlakeJR]

"Butt rock" lol

[@joshraid1550]

Yeah most of his music sounds so unlike this. Like he’s never been so stiff and lacking in energy before. I don’t know where this even came from. Listen to “vampire by rumor” “two pills” or “heaven was full” to see how he normally sounds.

[@HonestDepression101]

​@@joshraid1550 NO

[@hunterwilliams8923]

Yeah it’s been blurred so bad ever since Fall Out Boy, P!ATD, and Paramore became the unfortunate poster bands for my generation’s wave of emo. The Used, MCR, Taking Back Sunday would be so much more accurate. Maybe throw Thursday, Underoath, and Thrice in there as honorable mentions.

[@oak3ns]

"I felt my organs sorta liquifying when listening" the way melon says it so calmly lol

[@connorlonergan4967]

This is dude is like if Billie Joe Armstrong and Ray William Johnson had a kid and they neglected him for his whole childhood

[@Beepboop6669]

OH MY GOD LMFAO yes!! I totally get the RWJ vibes! This has HUGE Doin Your Mom energy!

[@nzingahendricks4128]

How could they do this to their son?!?! 😭😭😭now we have to collectively suffer from this shit

[@mcrmakesmedance]

keep Billie out of this

[@legolokicars5820]

@@mcrmakesmedanceoh no, billie deserves it tbfh. Green Day is a garbage band that makes garbage music and i fucking love them for it.

[@kamsjams8677]

@@legolokicars5820they’re pretty good

[@-bielle2985]

"Punk Rock Loser" by Viagra Boys is a song with similar subjects, but actually a good song

[@dezeman8062]

Sebastian has also walked the walk while this dude clearly has not

[@NikS952]

Same goes for Toad off Welfare Jazz (and a handful of other VB songs). Mind went directly to them when trying to think of examples of this being done well.

[@d.h.foster8937]

punk rock loser is also listenable and exactly none of it is begging for pity, meanwhile TX2 is suicide baiting in the comments and in the lyrics ultimately 'i'm a very bad person who takes drugs and that's all you can really expect from me' is a lot more respectable than the song equivalent of having the fifth fakest bisexual at your high school constantly post that nobody would actually care if he did it

[@andrew69007]

that ac/dc riff had me dying

[@azalago]

The scariest part about this song is how botted the comment section of the actual video is. It's legitimately terrifying.

[@quentinbringthenumetalchil5125]

That is scary. 😬 I’m nervous to look at the comment section for songs like this.

[@azalago]

@Quentin “Bring the Nu Metal” Childs It's bad, but a few people clearly made it over there from this video. 🤣 There are just so many fake comments about how his music saved their lives and this song made them realize they aren't alone in feeling depressed and suicidal... it's so fucking repulsive and upsetting. Imagine using bots to make it seem like you are helping people cope with mental illness.

[@jackster2352]

AMEN

[@lyleugleman3773]

I thought that was Danny Gonzalez at first...

[@mikef55]

This guy embodies everything that people who hate emo music think about when they think of emo music

[@Cursed_Jono]

I remember seeing a tiktok of someone who said they went to high school with him that was basically "Wow...yeah he hasn't changed. At least he's having fun!" 😂😂😂

[@silversoulken]

Dawg LMFAOOOOO 💀😂😂💀 EDIT: I just got to the end of the video and holy shit, 6:24 applies to your comment so much its crazy

[@CamiloCienfuegosStan]

I saw the same one lol

[@alexoakford6307]

Back then he was doing rap

[@WHOAM1894]

I went to highschool with him and was acquainted with him. He was actually a really nice guy, but is clearly just grifting. I'm not sure if he ever loved music or why he did it. He never gave me the impression that he geniunely loved music, but was in it to gain status to defeat his narcissistic victim narrative. It seems like it was all about the fame and business for him and never for the art. It never felt like what he was doing with his music was authentic or cool. To corroborate my opinion, he was never severely bullied, but he was made fun of a lot for obvious reasons. In reality, he was a super charismatic and popular person who didn't have any infamy; he was just kind of a clown to a lot of people. He probably could have been the homecoming king of he tried, even if people would have voted him in ironically. He never seemed to realize that he was responsible for being picked on because of his corny music, and he seems to have that same distorted victim narrative into his early 20s which is something you'd hope any adult would grow out of at that point. Frankly, I'm not even sure if the victim narrative is authentic because he never talked about getting bullied when I talked to him in person, and was actually a super confident and hyped-up guy. But, it's worth noting I wasnt that close to him as we never really clicked in a more intimate way, so maybe I just wasnt good enough friends for him to tell me about such a vulnerable subject -- even though he wrote about it almost exclusively in his songs, but songwriting is inherently vulnerable. I remember he had other people do most of the work for him musically, he just sung and "rapped". Once again, he seemed to be more of an entrepreneur than a real artist. That's fine, I guess, because so many rappers and artists just focus on their vocals and celebrity, being a star and all that, but given the context of his brand it showcases how disingenuous he was with music. He was doing rap music in highschool, if you can call it that. All of his stuff has always been some watered down empty simulacra of a more distinct genre. It never felt like it had much character. It was just empty commercial crap, to be frank. All of his stuff always seemed super out of touch with anything geniunely interesting or artistic in the music world. I remember one time, during his senior year and my junior year, we were both in a music production class together and he asked me to make a beat with a green day riff and I couldn't make one adequate to his standards lol. It makes perfect sense he adopted this watered down pop-punk aesthetic when he moved away for college when I think of that memory. Anyways, it's sad to see his music get shit on because he was always super kind to me and I do have respect for him as a person. But I knew once he cut into the mainstream people were going to bully him. I just never saw a bright future for him as a serious musical artist, but more like a corny D-level celebrity grifter in it for the money, fame, and status to defeat his spoiled-rich-kid victim narrative rather than any genuine talent. As someone who was relatively close to him, it's sad to see it come to this. Hopefully he realizes being a music artist isnt his purpose in the world and finds another avenue to invest in. It's a bad sign if most of your brand, style, and image is about being bullied and having a poor mental health when he's lived a very privileged upper middle class American life up until this point. That's probably a sign he has nothing really extraordinary to communicate as an artist and is just doing it for external validation and status. To give him credit where it's due, he was a super ambitious and hardworking kid and seemed to be grinding his music (grift) all of the time. It never seemed to leave his mind. If only he put that much energy into something else, he could be very successful in a much more honest and humble way.

[@wafipratama1526]

@@WHOAM1894 i aint reading allat

[@nedisahonkey]

I thought 1:44 was actually part of the song and thought "hmm that's kinda experimental, I like it" 💀

[@cinzio4615]

Fantano ruined our brain with this experimental shit

[@dantwon8757]

bro thought this was boutta be maria im drunk

[@jmicjr304]

Ikr I was like wow fantano made the song actually sound better without even trying.

[@ЯрославСапунов-ф3ф]

Hello, Anthony! Thank you so much for recommending "Black On Both Sides" by Mos Def. I started to listen to hip-hop recently, and you have no idea how hard this LP hit me. Sorry for, probably, poor grammar - not my native language. Again thank you and stay freshtano! From Russia with love)

[@denizendenizen]

fantastic comment

[@treyebillups8602]

People without english as their first language always seem to apologize for “bad english” then write masterpieces that the average native speaker couldn’t do in a million years

[@ffwlpe]

that album it's amazing. so many bangers and i also discovered via fantano on a video of his favorite hip-hop album years ago. mos def should be in the goat conversations more often

[@muz4704]

Black on both sides is awesome! Enjoy your journey into hip hop music.

[@muz4704]

Also check out The Ecstatic another great Mos Def album

[@dollyfarton666]

this seems like a dude finn mckenty would say is gona be the “future of music as we know it”

[@death2live779]

Lol true

[@zdoggzero6595]

That kind of take is why I stopped taking his opinion at heart

[@connarish]

im always surprised how painfully on the nose and blunt lyrics can become

[@icecube7685]

Wow... this is deep. Life truly is like a video game.

[@mcride1242]

he's just trying to beat the stage.....

[@philly_sports1558]

@@mcride1242 Meanwhile he is still collecting COOOIIIIIIIIIINSSSSS

[@michaelmusic2133]

Brad universe crossover wow amazing

[@D_McGeezacks]

​@@michaelmusic2133 Detroit till I die, mothafcka

[@Hypnopath]

GROWING UP TO BE A BIG BOIIII

[@thechicken5147]

“teenagers scare the living shit out of me..” like so blatantly copying a mcr rhythm. emo music can be good… but like the track it’s going down is soooo bad 😭

[@SoDamnGangsta]

I was not expecting to be slapped in the face with pure butt rock energy right off the bat

[@chatnoir9038]

Butt rock??

[@omgkthxbi]

@@chatnoir9038 saliva, creed, aka the soundtrack to gulf war II

[@CatmanJimbo]

@@chatnoir9038 'You're listening to 94.7 THE ZONE, the only station where we play NOTHING BUT ROCK. Pure hard Rock, all the time."

[@TheAndyk123]

@@CatmanJimbo "This ain't your GRANNY'S rock station!"

[@alexanderblack5626]

@@TheAndyk123 *Radioactive starts playing*

[@brick3776]

Not the fact he pinned a comment saying "I wrote this song while in a dark place in my life" in a attempt to deflect hate 💀💀💀

[@gregsmith8977]

he did though. it wasn't an attempt to deflect hate, it was an explanation of some of the lyrics

[@cdizzy42069]

If I were 11, this would be one of the greatest songs I've ever heard in my life.

[@juanvelez4246]

Not even man, even the cringiest shit I’ve listened to back then shits all over this. This Friday level shit

[@tuckerallen1421]

I'd bump this while playing tony hawk proskater 4

[@mercutiomurphy2743]

it legit sounds like kidz bop for young adults with no musical taste

[@CamEron-nj5qy]

@@tuckerallen1421 W vibes

[@manboy4720]

if i was in 2009, this would be amazing.

[@reymen1313]

when a falling in reverse fan tries to make runaway

[@fidelrodriguez4000]

That Flower Boy t-shirt is really cool

[@basedjenny7362]

Cringing with my favorite Fantano series by far whenever there is a cringing I get so excited and I’ve been getting this song shown to me all over instagram!

[@kasaioni7680]

1:43 hey that's a great vaporwave hook right there

[@Frdnnd]

Real

[@tuckerallen1421]

I was disappointed the song didn't actually shift down in pitch - would've been a creative addition

[@jaysven6153]

Real how unreal it’s become to be real

[@daikiraihatesu]

Best comment

[@AlgonSoft]

Fr

[@georget4141]

real eyes realize real lies

[@Catbattle]

this is definitely something i would have rocked out to when i was walking home from middle school. i blame the divorce.

[@longlivebeans]

We should’ve never resurrected pop punk.

[@tuckerallen1421]

Damn deep state

[@MarshmallowEclipse]

Pop punk was at best a tepidly accepted addition to the music landscape that was fun at times but should never be fully embraced.

[@misorodzinak8829]

@@MarshmallowEclipse well said.

[@xbrandon2252]

@@MarshmallowEclipse You need to touch grass

[@kalicasts]

Pop Punk should've never existed. It's one of the laziest, shallowest music genre with 90% of its artists being terrible, whiny White boys from the suburbia complaining about minor inconveniences. At least Punk Rock, Hardcore Punk, and Metalcore (especially Mathcore) can get exciting and its lyrics can get serious.

[@thatpyrope]

I loved your take on this; I feel that many people resonate with this cynical approach to mental health but there's no way to present the lyrics "I slit my wrists, but 100K kids still think I'm the shit" without coming across like you're not seriously discussing mental health and kind of taking the piss out of self-harm. Songs like this (because this isn't the first to treat mental health like this) ride the line of coping with mental health issues through the venue of humor, but in reality, this cynical of an approach really just reinforces the idea that issues like this are meant to be joked about. The issue that I have with this kind of music is that it panders to a young kid audience, considering this is the shit I would listen to when I was in middle school, and the themes it presents are harmful and redundant. It doesn't really matter if the artist retrospectively comments that this was never their intention and that they are actually struggling, this is still an overall harmful and redundant approach to the journey of self-repair.

[@gregsmith8977]

(TW) I sh, and I find his music very validating. he has most definitely been though some form of sh before, based on how accurate his lyrics are. also, his music isn't targeted towards a young audience. that's like saying "Eminem is making songs about murder and violence and targeting them towards kids!!!". no, he isn't. his music, like Evan's is made for a different audience, but you cannot completely filter out a younger audience, so some of them end up listening to the music

[@sunnydartz8697]

This song is supposed to be about a past version of himself rather than his current self and is SUPPOSED to be singing about how that version of himself sucked and he sees why people didn’t like him but I can agree that the song doesn’t do a great job at communicating that. I personally like TX2 and would recommend checking out some of their other stuff since most of it is better. I’d recommend the song Randy McNally (No Love Like Christain Hate) and Heaven was Full.

[@jodikirsh]

Link really fell off. Only Rhett can save him now.

[@SaabSurpemacy]

I am awarding you “best comment” congratulations!

[@aidendeir4130]

​@@SaabSurpemacy i second this

[@canadoa]

I hate how- as an aging culture observer, the internet algorithm perpetually nudges us into an unnatural proximity of every new middle schoolers' awkward middle school phases. I noticed this when I saw the toilet cleaner bombs my friends and I used to do, rebranded as a new Tik Tok challenge. When I see that I want to comment "been there done that" or basically, "stupid then, stupid now". But then I would just be feeding the spectacle snowball of whatever "trend" I'm painfully watching (or, too often, rewatching). No one's forcing me to look at my phone, but when I do, seeing the most basic garbage and unoriginal phenomenons over and over again feels very Clockwork Orange.

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

Industry plant type beat

[@mofynn]

To be honest this could be camp if it wasn't that bad. And more obliviously aware

[@affenkunst]

Didnt know that Link from Good Mythical Morning makes Music. Keep it up man

[@WHOAM1894]

I went to highschool with him and was acquainted with him. He was actually a really nice guy, but is clearly just grifting. I'm not sure if he ever loved music or why he did it. He never gave me the impression that he geniunely loved music, but was in it to gain status to defeat his narcissistic victim narrative. It seems like it was all about the fame and business for him and never for the art. It never felt like what he was doing with his music was authentic or cool. To corroborate my opinion, he was never severely bullied, but he was made fun of a lot for obvious reasons. In reality, he was a super charismatic and popular person who didn't have any infamy; he was just kind of a clown to a lot of people. He probably could have been the homecoming king of he tried, even if people would have voted him in ironically. He never seemed to realize that he was responsible for being picked on because of his corny music, and he seems to have that same distorted victim narrative into his early 20s which is something you'd hope any adult would grow out of at that point. Frankly, I'm not even sure if the victim narrative is authentic because he never talked about getting bullied when I talked to him in person, and was actually a super confident and hyped-up guy. But, it's worth noting I wasnt that close to him as we never really clicked in a more intimate way, so maybe I just wasnt good enough friends for him to tell me about such a vulnerable subject -- even though he wrote about it almost exclusively in his songs, but songwriting is inherently vulnerable. I remember he had other people do most of the work for him musically, he just sung and "rapped". Once again, he seemed to be more of an entrepreneur than a real artist. That's fine, I guess, because so many rappers and artists just focus on their vocals and celebrity, being a star and all that, but given the context of his brand it showcases how disingenuous he was with music. He was doing rap music in highschool, if you can call it that. All of his stuff has always been some watered down empty simulacra of a more distinct genre. It never felt like it had much character. It was just empty commercial crap, to be frank. All of his stuff always seemed super out of touch with anything geniunely interesting or artistic in the music world. I remember one time, during his senior year and my junior year, we were both in a music production class together and he asked me to make a beat with a green day riff and I couldn't make one adequate to his standards lol. It makes perfect sense he adopted this watered down pop-punk aesthetic when he moved away for college when I think of that memory. Anyways, it's sad to see his music get shit on because he was always super kind to me and I do have respect for him as a person. But I knew once he cut into the mainstream people were going to bully him. I just never saw a bright future for him as a serious musical artist, but more like a corny D-level celebrity grifter in it for the money, fame, and status to defeat his spoiled-rich-kid victim narrative rather than any genuine talent. As someone who was relatively close to him, it's sad to see it come to this. Hopefully he realizes being a music artist isnt his purpose in the world and finds another avenue to invest in. It's a bad sign if most of your brand, style, and image is about being bullied and having a poor mental health when he's lived a very privileged upper middle class American life up until this point. That's probably a sign he has nothing really extraordinary to communicate as an artist and is just doing it for external validation and status. To give him credit where it's due, he was a super ambitious and hardworking kid and seemed to be grinding his music (grift) all of the time. It never seemed to leave his mind. If only he put that much energy into something else, he could be very successful in a much more honest and humble way. Evan, if you're reading this, much love.

[@bloodwolf3943]

Hey have you every tried contacting him? He might remember you and it could be cool for you two to catch up with each other. I have his instagram if you want it even though it’s easy to find.🙂

[@beanholder3634]

Love? This was the most judgemental thing I've read in a long time 😅 get a grip buddy

[@spinglasshydra]

Yet another ill-informed opinion ....!!!! I'm vastly different from when I was in high school, because people change over time and so do their perspectives about the world around them. You might have had an acquaintance with Evan; however, it would've been much more credible, if you had, had a sincere friendship and really known him for who he truly is now. Whether you like his music or not, it makes no difference to him, since he's actually getting recognized for his defiant lyrics and sound. He's played on the radio (with lesser profanity in his lyrics), it's played at protests, as well at certain rallies that promote equality and justice for everyone. So if people think Evan's music is "cringe" or viewed as "inspirational" for different causes, he's actually doing it.....!!!! What have you done lately.....???

[@ashleygibson2342]

Dude, thanks so much for your input. I’m an elder emo and can’t tell if I love or hate the guys music. I think I like where it’s leaning but it’s just looking that direction while traveling down another road. Lyrically it’s just not there, lyrics don’t say things outright for a reason, and I kinda feels like he just thinks that’s punk. Lol. I feel if he were to work on that a little bit people would be more receptive. Although, I think part of my personal appeal is it’s so bad, it’s almost good? I’m not sure, but I remember being young and having my Misfits and Ramones listening father dismiss MCR and FOB on merit. Perhaps that’s just my inner desire not to gate-keep? My unsolicited armchair opinion (which I know you don’t what but I’m giving it anyways) he’s a nice guy, who is genuinely surprised and thankful for how far he’s made it. He’s gotta watch out because fame is definitely going to go to his head. Lol, I’ve looked back in his channel, seen his some old stuff (tbh some of its much better than this) and worry about him being in the public image, cause they are going to chew him up and spit him out. I knew he lived a much more privileged life than he lead on for a few reasons. The subject matter of the songs comes off “I stole my sisters mascara and I’m grounded for a week.” (IYKYK) Pity me, victim, mom it’s not a phase type stuff. Physically he looks healthy, he has great teeth. Depressed people don’t have the best self-care. You can tell I was an emo teen and an unstable adult, not just because of the scars by my $9,000 dental bill and destroyed metabolism for using coffee and cigs and meal replacements. 💀 But tbh rock has been struggling with its identity for a while and a 5’4 man-whore may be able to fill that hole. There is potential but he’s got a lot to learn if he wants to stay in this business. I just worry he’s going to lose too much of himself in the process. I don’t think he know how bad shit can be.

[@alexpatterson1101]

This comment is amazing, it's rare to see such a beautiful balance of empathizing with and shitting on someone like this. Well done.

[@Zegeebwah]

The way we make people like this go away (legally) is to ignore them entirely

[@jackster2352]

Liked this

[@PhngluiMglwnafh]

I lost it at the call-and-response "ay-yay oh-woah"

[@mother_destroyer]

One of my friends is actually obsessed with this man and his music and I’ve gotta support her but omfg I really really hope she grows out of this and discovers that there is much better music out there 😭

[@oo7799]

This song would have been huge for him in 2005

[@grandlarsonie1152]

This guy is not a piece of shit. His hair was not slicked back, and he definitely has never had sloppy steaks.

[@619Gotenks]

This is just the 'Emo's Not Dead' bit but not fun at all.

[@copycatcentral1696]

and u were talkin about goofy glasses u got plane goggles

[@rileyp1506]

Everyday Melon sounds more and more like Logic

[@tuckerallen1421]

I'm diagnosing melon with stage iv Logic

[@mathewmaccenzie5006]

can you elaborate or is this a joke

[@carstenmohler629]

5:29 - 5:36 Fantano's car crash has caused him to lose most of his verbal skills, but he still manages to express his emotional state after the accident clearly. It is okay Anthony, it is not your fault.

[@joshDsho]

Teenage Dirtbag walked so this song could Run!

[@dylanlavillain7173]

This is more...crippled guy without his crutches. But I get what you mean.

[@michaelburley6852]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@duncanwright301]

Teenage dirtbag ran so this song could trip on the curb and face plant onto the pavement

[@dylanmiller1140]

Really happy to see the return of the “cringing with” series

[@JasonEfstathiou]

That transition at 3:20 killed me

[@dyldragon1]

2:45 new DJ Sorrow producer tag

[@chugchugburtreynolds6963]

I like the flower boy shirt

[@matthewroberts3125]

You either die a Weird Al, or you live long enough to see yourself become an Emo Boy

[@Austin_schurer]

Nah Evan talked about how this was a cry for help at his lowest time and that past relationship he was treated like shit for being 5’4

[@FACEL1FT]

He should’ve just ended it instead of making soulless basic boring bullshit

[@Ace_Sixxty]

@@FACEL1FTNAH YOU AINT DISSING ON MY BOY EVAN WE AINT NEVER GONNA TREAT OUT EMO LORD LIKE THAT

[@Austin_schurer]

@@FACEL1FT ok then just don’t listen to his music it’s that easy or get a life and listen to other music no one is forcing you to listen to his music

[@jan_vennegoor_of_hesselink_69]

Honestly I’m yet to actually hear any of this new wave of pop punk and emo music that I don’t just find pretty jarring and far too poor instrumentally/songwriting wise. Which wasn’t exactly uncommon in 00s emo either. Guess I’m just far too old for general angst that isn’t directed at actual shitty things now? 😂

[@breejordon6042]

Thats so funny bro. I clicked on this video without knowing exactly what it was about, trusting you wont disappoint, and upon watching it I realized I had already clicked on this on TikTok and gotten so frustrated with how cringe it was that I immediately shut it off and skipped. Small world lol

[@ClassifiedDocz]

The comment sections bots is the craziest thing about this whole emo character

[@gregsmith8977]

what bots?

[@thel0gcabinYT]

A rich kid putting on the mask of a tortured adolescent trying to profit off a genre that was popular in 2014 while also promoting being edgy & self harm…cool!

[@ignorethismessage3424]

i’m sure that absolutely nothing creepy and predatory will be uncovered about this guy’s past

[@gregsmith8977]

same. he is a perfectly normal human.

[@RN-fx3zl]

It’s the most try hard garbage I’ve ever heard.

[@Veingod999]

MGK's influence will go down in history as the worst thing ever to happen

[@Christian-nj8di]

Yup

[@Xenlavian]

Man the new Green Day single goes hard

[@direcircumstances]

I have very limited patience or sympathy for people who write over-the-top self-deprecating songs about how much their behavior hurts other people. I've met way too many people in real life who treat their friends and family like garbage, then turn around and yell about their own bad choices and personality defects. If you actually feel bad about the ways you've hurt people, you'd be trying to make things right with them instead of languishing in self hatred.

[@gregsmith8977]

that's not what the song is about

[@jadaloftin3284]

I love tx2 this song was made to be a cry for help you are a bad person fantano cause this song is a cry for help

[@MarillSweatshirt]

Hobo Johnson finding new ways to reinvent himself.🤟🏿🤟🏿🤟🏿

[@rhiannondsouza3286]

Honestly i dont really mind him in fact i really love his music =)

[@angry12329]

Same, people are allowed to dislike his music but a lot of people present it as if his music is objectively bad which no music is

[@rhiannondsouza3286]

@@angry12329 ikr

[@geomaniac171]

Black wedding was a banger tho

[@rhiannondsouza3286]

@@geomaniac171 ikr

[@hanaribooru]

This is like weezer on cocaine but bad

[@philly_sports1558]

If I were to rank this on the emo tolerableness scale between MCR (most tolerable) to Simple Plan (least tolerable), this is a solid Falling in Reverse out of 10.

[@jasper3706]

No matter how goofy his delivery, nobody deserves to be compared to Ronnie Radke

[@DemBlox]

did u watch the union rematch?

[@gregsmith8977]

@@jasper3706 what's wrong with Ronnie? some of his music is really good

[@ellasarax]

2 seconds into the “song” and j choked on my drink.

[@Jeh2032]

I love the “cringing with” series.

[@WiloPolis03]

Beck did this actually successfully with Loser

[@timzimlich1301]

I bet he's 5'2" and a half

[@nedisahonkey]

Oof I was gonna write a comment defending short kings before I heard "I'm a 5'4" manwbore who slits his wrists" christ as if short guys didn't have it rough enough without clowns like this making it even harder for them. Quite possibly the cringiest lyrics I've ever heard. Totally understand why Fantano made the video now 🤮

[@johnwerner69]

​@@nedisahonkey Why would short guys have it rough?

[@timzimlich1301]

@@johnwerner69 Because they can't reach shelves, ride roller coasters, or make eye-level contact with a woman, obviously.

[@nedisahonkey]

@@johnwerner69A lot of women (and society in general) don't treat short men as well as tall me. For instance it's been statistically proven tall men are more likely to have more sexcual partners and be paid more. As a tall guy I think it's complete bullshit, but us humans are very primitive biased creatures.

[@chatnoir9038]

​@@johnwerner69 being tall is one of the main ideals of hegemonic masculinity bffr 💀

[@alexpatterson1101]

Fantano was on one this video. Multiple laugh out loud moments here. "Take that, naughty version of me! URRRRR!"

[@TX2OFFICIAL]

A year ago I would’ve done anything to get fantano’d and today I got a 6 minute video, it’s a good day

[@NerfedIQ]

wow it's the real nirvana

[@daltonbedore8396]

seek therapy 👍

[@Grillhouse36]

no way

[@d.h.foster8937]

suicide baiting people because they don't like your tik tok emo music is actually disgusting, please find something better to do with your time

[@dandeluxe8731]

Will you at least take his advice into consideration?

[@realevilcorgi]

🎵’Cause I’m a quirked! Up! White boy with a bit of swaaaaag🎵

[@YokaiNoOji]

Ppl tryna hate on him, youre just making him more popular🤷‍♂️

[@gregsmith8977]

exactly

[@ORiOh4582]

I think everyone that saw this video immediately forgot once it ended 🤷‍♂️

[@Jasper_casper11]

I love tx2 and love this song but I’m still watching this video for some reason-

[@tommym7321]

This is a gold mine for making Soyjaks. You could literally have a new one for almost every frame of this video.

[@hubydubn900]

this feels like a Hinder AC/DC love child

[@jasper3706]

Gonna be honest, I think the lyrics would be pretty decent if they were performed better, and maybe had a couple revisions. "5'4 manwhore piece of shit" made me laugh. I think maybe he'd do better as a songwriter here and hand off the vocals to somebody who can pull it off. He probably thought his overwrought emo vocals would make it more obvious it was a joke, but really it just makes it feel less self aware, as if this is actually who he wants to present as.

[@yoloers]

lmaoooo fantano upload at 1am lez gooooo

[@GoblinsDev]

Tx2 aint cringe

[@Zia_the_zebra]

EXACTLY.

[@mr.monkeyman702]

Holy guac 🥑

[@SethIsDavid]

Never thought I'd hear Penderecki in a Fantano vid...10/10

[@budakiarcher]

This song sounds like something Oliver Tree would drop as a meme.

[@richardwattersonhaterclub]

pocket pistol kelly

[@MrZip420]

5:30 you just singlehandedly described the whole tiktok aesthetic

[@NKOWZeroRenegade]

This has the same energy as Tramp Stamp and Leah Kate

[@dw.dunphy]

I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby.

[@smugwendigo5123]

And she dosent give a damn about me

[@Fanedits406]

I love that song he was trying to show how he feels that’s the song that got him a record label 🥺 I feel bad for him

[@Natorbacon]

NGL it ain’t that bad

[@sean..L]

Shuddering to imagine the type of person who would genuinely enjoy this

[@pepperypeppers2755]

Finally, a banger for the toxic high school alt boys

[@MrJKMerriweather]

AC/VC is a nice touch.

[@WorldsNotFound]

like the neil cicierega song?

[@MrJKMerriweather]

@@WorldsNotFound Correct.

[@allpowerfulmitochondria759]

Say whatever you want about TX2 because music is subjective and you can have an opinion, but in my opinion this particular song pales in comparison to his other works. Two pills is a true story about his ex terminating their pregnancy and the crushing guilt he felt about the situation. Despite me having never dealt with anything like that their was such a strong emotion in the lyrics, I felt genuine sorrow for him. His song Randy McNally (No love like Christian Hate) truly deserves an award, but it’s way ahead of it’s time and I highly doubt he would get an award for calling out radical Christian supremacists because we live in a place where imposing your religious views on other people is not only perfectly okay and legal, but normal and even encouraged so as long as you are Christian. He calls out transphobic and homophobic legislators of Tennessee by name Randy McNally, Bill Lee, and Gary Lake. For anyone who lives under a rock, it was just meant to take away gender affirming hormone therapy from kids is what everyone said, but actually, they made drag illegal in any public venue, but their legal definition is rather vague about what constitutes drag or a performance so in reality if you have a penis, you can’t wear a dress or a skirt there. There are also several laws prohibiting people from using the appropriate bathroom, trans kids can’t play sports , there are no protections in place to stop any sort of discrimination, etc.

[@winterkill1764]

Peak emo poser music right here