| “ | Hey Internet! Ben Shapiro’s short and he’s a dumb bitch! | ” |
―Quinton Reviews in “Tobuscus | Fallen Titans #14” | ||
Quinton Kyle Hoover (born December 7, 1996) is the creator of the web series Quinton Reviews and its series of specials named Fallen Titans. An American YouTuber from Iowa, he makes commentary and reviews on various TV shows and movies and gained popularity for his videos on the rise and fall of various YouTubers, such as GradeAUnderA and LeafyIsHere.
About[]
When he began his channel, Quinton posted both reviews and the occasional parody or skit, although as of 2019, all but one of his videos before 2017 has been either privatized or removed. By 2016, Quinton's content had begun to deconstruct topics affecting YouTube itself in his opinion, such as his "review" of their Copyright School as he sought to challenge the copyright strike he received from Vídeo Brinquedo for his review of The Little Cars in The Great Race.
One of his most popular videos is a drama video discussing MattHoss's lawsuit against H3h3Productions. He has made repeated videos focusing on Logan Paul, speculating whether or not he might actually be mentally disturbed.
Quinton has started pivoting away from content that deconstructs all things YouTube, moving into an eclectic group of analysis videos. For example, his video on the rise and fall of the Garfield comic strip, has amassed over a million views. Similarly, he has made videos ranging from recounting the creation of Bee Movie from pre production to merchandising, to analyzing thematic connections between the Transformers fan-favorite character Bumblebee and the Herbie the Love Bug movies. His most popular video by far focuses on the Nickelodeon TV series Victorious, in which he discusses the series, its characters, the show's fan culture, and the real-world production history.
Fallen Titans[]
Starting in February 2018, Quinton began a series called Fallen Titans, where he documents the careers of various YouTubers or YouTube trends which were popular in the platform's early days, but have since either faded into obscurity or have vanished altogether. He seemed to make these videos as a natural extension of his previous "YouTube Drama" videos, while allowing him to express more of his personal relationship with channels that were significant to his childhood.
iBinged iCarly[]
In June 2021, Quinton discussed what he described as his quarantine project as well as his 400,000 subscriber special: a deep dive into the "Nickelodeon Sitcom Universe," taking a look at four different series: the Fred series (including YouTube content, the movies, and the TV series), iCarly, Victorious, and the iCarly/Victorious crossover, Sam & Cat. These videos are considered by many to be an example of the long form video essay format, running over 3 hours long at minimum, and are his most popular videos. Quinton's longest video is an 8-hour look into Victorious' second half, as well as the web content on the show's companion website, TheSlap.
Each video not only discusses the content of the series normal TV viewers would see, but also the real-world production details, web-exclusive content, video game content, and discussions on character dynamics and trends in sitcoms. There are also intermissions to discuss theories and non sequiturs, such as "iCrimes," a segment where Quinton lists off every crime committed by characters, intentional or otherwise.
As of March 2024, Quinton has covered the entirety of Fred, the original iCarly run, Victorious, and Sam & Cat. He has plans to continue with the iCarly reboot. He's also stated that if he can reach 1 million followers by the end of 2022, he will continue the series with looks at Drake and Josh and Zoey 101.
Controversy[]
In late 2018, Quinton was embroiled in a series of controversies surrounding his recent attempts to express his more polarizing political opinions on his channel, and his attempt to generate humor through his bold honesty, compared to other similarly mid-profile video makers.
In his video Logan Paul's Thinning Sequel is Terrible, he discussed his negative opinion on then President Donald Trump in around two thirds into the video, which several viewers claimed did not add or connect to the overall video (when he brought the topic up prior to focusing on the film's plot point of a corrupt, right-wing presidential nomination). This minor rant has become a running joke in subsequent videos, where he has paraphrased the speech with Donald Trump's name completely removed, in an attempt to stir rage in his more vocal detractors.
Another example of these political expressions can be found in his video Knockoff Channels | Fallen Titans, in which he says: "Saying that every angry gamer is trying to be James Rolfe is like saying that every racist gamer is trying to be JonTron.". While many of Quinton's defenders defended this as a snarky reference to JonTron's infamous political debate with Destiny in 2016 his words reflecting his racist views, critics pointed to his Sardonicast appearance as evidence to the contrary. Where he explained that his joke was a sincere expression of how he views content creators such as JonTron.
Quinton's Twitter was also the subject of scrutiny, with many of his tweets (some of which have been deleted), drawing criticism for his more explicitly leftwing political tweets, standing in solidarity with the LGBT communities on YouTube and his expressed admiration for "BreadTube"; a far left collaboration of YouTube channels that he has partially entered through his self-described "rivalry" with neoconservative Ben Shapiro.
He expressed strong disapproval of PewDiePie inviting Ben Shapiro onto an episode of his series Meme Review in a Tweet calling Shapiro a "transphobic and occasionally racist egg-head", and subsequently calling him "short and a dumb b*tch" in Episode 14 of his Fallen Titans series, expressly asking for people to "add that to my wiki".
Another controversy is that, near the end of 2018, Quinton made a tweet jokingly "celebrating" the deletion of the Mumkey Jones YouTube channel (Jones had previously appeared in a podcast and mocked Quinton, calling him a "fat cuck" and the f-slur, alongside various rape jokes). Quinton deleted the tweet after a short period of time, apologized firmly on Twitter, talked with EmpLemon (one of Mumkey Jones' friends) on Discord and finally got to clean his image.
In 2023, Quinton faced his most recent controversy, when Flowergothic (a former editor of his) alleged that Quinton was an abusive employer who was unreliable, demanding and emotionally unsupportive while working with her and also didn't pay her enough for her work. According to Quinton in his response to the controversy, the editor in question had been stalking and harassing him for turning down her romantic advances, and fabricating claims against him by taking conversations they had out of context to make him look abrasive and unreasonable.
Trivia[]
- Quinton Reviews' channel took off with the video "How GradeA Fell From Grace (Part 1)", where he documented the rise and fall of the previously beloved YouTuber GradeAUnderA.
- He appeared on the 13th episode of the podcast Sardonicast.
- Quinton has mentioned he uses Wikitubia, both to research subjects for his Fallen Titans videos, as well as to see if he made a comment about a subject which annoyed someone enough to edit his page.
- He does not pronounce "wiki" in a typically American way, pronouncing the first syllable as "Week/Weak" rather than "Wick".
- Quinton has implied via his Twitter that he is bisexual, having noted that he is open to having a relationship with either a man or a woman.
- He has an obsession and appreciation for the "Garfield" comic strip.
- He appears to be a fan of the YouTuber Izzzyzzz, as in his video "The End Of Victorious", he is seen wearing a piece of her merch.