Falling In Reverse’s Ronnie Radke has added to the saga once more, hitting back at Anthony Fantano after he posted a video detailing his defamation case victory.
The slinging match continues: Anthony Fantano, also known as ‘The Needle Drop‘ on Youtube, shared a video on Friday discussing his defamation case, which was served by Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke. Now, Radke has hit back in a video posted to social media, alleging again that Fantano is racist and homophobic, yet has a “moral superiority complex.”
Radke also took aim at Fantano and music critics as a whole, suggesting that the notion of critics in 2025 isn’t necessary when listeners can form their own opinions. He then suggests that the case (and ongoing beef) against Fantano was in part for fans of the musicians that Fantano has railed against in reviews, including Falling In Reverse themselves, Sleep Token, and Muse.
Here’s the full rundown of what Ronnie Radke’s said in the video posted to social media:
“Anthony Fantano loves to respond but literally skates by the fact that you know what, I take everything I said back in my YouTube video about Anthony Fantano. You’re a racist, Anthony, and you’re a piece of sh*t.
Here’s a video that Anthony Fantano made of me two years ago calling me pretty much a racist, a transphobe, a homophobe and all these things. I just love that he touts this moral superiority that he has all of a sudden. But then all this uncovered footage comes out. So here’s the video of him calling me all these things. (Ronnie shows video)
See that? He also called me a rapist later in the video, pretty much implied that I doubled down by suing my accuser and being a piece of sh*t instead of going into hiding. That’s implying that I raped somebody.
Here’s a video of Anthony being straight up racist. (Shows video of Fantano using slurs and making fun of people) and a homophobe. And the reason I don’t like Anthony Fantano is because he does this. He has a moral superiority complex, he makes money off of musicians by negatively, biasedly(sic) critiquing them, when he himself isn’t really a f**king musician. He plays an out of tune bass on YouTube. He’s a terrible, like…we don’t need music critics in 2025 when the audience can just listen immediately instead of waiting for music critics to tell them what to like.”
“Imagine following what a music critic is saying what he likes and you literally go, ‘oh, well then I like it too.’ What kind of human does that? Think about that for a second. You yourself, the viewer, and listener can just listen and be like, ‘I hate this, I love this, I hate this.’ We don’t need this guy. The f**k? Like think about it.
Anyways man, love you guys, I know this motherf**ker has been sweating because my fans have literally been going the f**k off and riding for me and I really appreciate that, because I’m not gonna tell them to slow down. You know why? Because this motherf**ker does everything in his power to try to make money off the backs of musicians that really work hard. And he’s so biased about it.
…This is for all the Sleep Token fans. This is for all the f**king Muse fans. This is for all the f**king Falling In Reverse fans. This is for all the people that f**king literally love their favourite bands. And you know this guy’s coming in with some b*llshit. This is for those guys.
And 15,000 people last night pointed at Anthony Fantano on the big screen of him crying so pretentiously dude, so fake. Pointing at him and laughing, man so here’s that. (shows video)”
Ronnie Radke initially lodged the lawsuit after Fantano released a video in 2023 titled, ‘This Guy Sucks,’ which lobbed criticisms at Radke’s music and his character, while alluding to accusations made against him. Radke’s original complaint stated:
“Fantano‘s nearly eight-minute verbal tirade regarding Radke——whom the defendant does not know and has never even met——goes beyond the bounds of permissible commentary and extends into the realm of actionable innuendo, unfounded rumourmongering and outright untruth.”
Both Fantano and Radke were quiet throughout the lawsuit’s duration. However, earlier this month Radke shared an update announced that he had lost it in the video ‘I LOST MY LAWSUIT WITH ANTHONY FANTANO.‘ The Falling In Reverse singer denied several claims made against him, but also admitted that even his lawyers didn’t think he would win the case.
On Friday, Fantano has released his own video titled ‘He Sued Me (I WON)’, sharing his perspective on the lawsuit and detailing what had happened. The 16-minute video presented Fantano’s reasons for creating his original piece on Ronnie Radke, explaining why he chose to fight the defamation case and sharing that Radke’s legal team allegedly sued a different Anthony Fantano initially.
It was pretty obvious Radke was going to respond – and now here we have it. Whether Fantano plans to continue the very public back-and-forth with his own response isn’t clear, but we’d wager this dead horse has well and truly been beaten. Guess we’ll see if it gets another whack before this is over.
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