Falling in Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke has revealed that he misplaced his defamation lawsuit in opposition to music critic Anthony Fantano, however insists he knew he had no likelihood to win from the beginning.
Fantano, who runs the favored YouTube channel The Needle Drop, was sued by Radke final 12 months after he posted a take-down video of the singer titled “This Man Sucks” in 2023. Within the video, Fantano gave a breakdown of Radke’s varied authorized points, identified the rocker’s controversial remarks, blasted his “shitty music,” and referred to as him “fairly presumably the most important dwelling piece of trash on the planet of rock music proper now.”
On Thursday (August seventh), Radke uploaded a video to his personal YouTube channel titled, “I LOST MY LAWSUIT WITH ANTHONY FANTANO,” which was edited like a response piece to Fantano’s unique clip. In his video, Radke admits he had no likelihood of profitable the lawsuit, however actually simply needed an apology, all whereas mentioning some accusations which were levied at Fantano.
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As transcribed by ThePRP, Radke provided the next commentary:
“I went into this lawsuit suing you due to this video and all these items… I went into this lawsuit, and my legal professionals like, ‘you’re not gonna win this.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t care.’ And it’s all for this, man. So Anthony, I do know you’re watching this. I do know you’re in all probability getting a whole lot of shit for being racist, or no matter they’re saying you’re. And I’m gonna let you know proper now, I don’t suppose Anthony‘s racist. I don’t. I believe Anthony Fantano stated a bunch of bizarre, silly shit, identical to me. And I don’t suppose Anthony is a gang rapist. I don’t suppose Anthony is a home violence individual. I don’t suppose Anthony is all these issues. You already know, what I do suppose Anthony is? I believe Anthony is a pretentious, insecure little child that makes use of folks for cash so he will pay his hire in a adverse means. That’s what I believe. And that’s what his YouTube has turn out to be. It’s a type of issues.”
The Falling in Reverse singer continued:
“The one means I can reply is to be humorous to those folks. The stuff that you simply don’t see me discuss, if I’m not responding, these are the issues which are making me mad. This video actually pissed me off as a result of — and it pissed off lots of people — It implies to the folks which are watching this, the NPCs that observe Anthony Fantano and anticipate him to offer them their opinion on what they like, they’re not going to go do their analysis. They’re simply going to go, ‘Wow, he actually gang raped someone.’ ‘Wow, he actually is transphobic.’ ‘Wow, he’s a racist.’
For this reason I sued him, and that is the purpose that I’m making. I knew I used to be going to lose the lawsuit. It’s not a giant deal. It’s only a defamation swimsuit. The explanation I did that is so I can put this out, so I can put one thing out and say my piece earlier than Anthony does. As a result of you understand, Anthony goes to place some video collectively so he can achieve views to pay his hire.
I needed to place this out and say my piece. So in the event you’re watching this and also you’re not a fan and also you hate my guts, I actually hope that even in the event you’re not a fan, you’ll be able to actually perceive the place I’m coming from, as a result of it’s actually fucked up, and I don’t suppose anyone ought to ever try this. I might by no means make a video about how Anthony Fantano was racist, allegedly, you understand what I imply I might by no means try this.”
Radke tying Fantano to racism stems from just lately resurfaced clips wherein the music critic is heard quoting the N-word and seemingly mocking the loss of life of Trayvon Martin. Fantano has addressed these accusations in a video titled “Taking Accountability,” which together with Radke’s video and the unique “This Man Sucks” video, may be seen under.
Taking accountability: pic.twitter.com/EaKFDHdfOL
— Anthony Fantano from TheNeedleDrop (@theneedledrop) August 1, 2025
