Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke has officially lost his defamation lawsuit against music critic Anthony Fantano, and he’s not walking away quietly.
Radke filed the suit after Fantano’s 2024 YouTube upload ‘This Guy Sucks’, where the self-styled “internet’s busiest music nerd” tore into the singer’s controversial history, public behaviour, and music. Radke’s complaint accused Fantano of crossing the line from opinion into “unfounded rumourmongering and outright untruth.”
This week, in a video bluntly titled ‘I LOST MY LAWSUIT WITH ANTHONY FANTANO’, Radke admitted even his own lawyers told him the case was doomed. He says he pushed ahead anyway to make a public stand against what he sees as damaging, false insinuations, including allegations of gang rape, racism, and transphobia, which he denies and claims have been disproven in court.
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“I think Anthony is a pretentious, insecure little baby that utilises people for money so he can pay his rent in a negative way,” Radke said, accusing Fantano of running a channel that profits from tearing people down.
Radke claims his lawsuit was never about winning, but about countering a narrative before Fantano could monetise another response video. He framed his online spats as “being funny” to trolls, contrasting that with the allegations he refuses to ignore.
“This video really pissed me off because… the NPCs that follow Anthony Fantano… they’re not going to do their research,” he said. “They’re just going to go, ‘Wow, he really gang raped somebody.’”
Controversy
Fantano has recently faced his own controversy after an old clip resurfaced showing him using a racial slur while quoting a rapper. He’s since apologised and blamed misleading edits for fuelling the backlash.
For Radke, the loss isn’t the end, just another chapter in his long running feud with critics. “Even if you’re not a fan,” he said, “I hope you can understand where I’m coming from… I don’t think anybody should ever do that.”
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