YouTuber, streamer and unapologetic New Yorker Fanum visits WIRED to answer his most searched for questions.
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00:00 What's up y'all, I'm Phantom,
00:01 and this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
00:04 (hip hop music)
00:06 I wanted to get a FaceTat,
00:07 but all my friends kept saying, "Don't do that."
00:09 Y'all let me know if I should, but I don't know.
00:10 Everybody keep saying don't do it, so whatever.
00:12 (hip hop music)
00:15 All right, what does Phantom mean?
00:18 It's my nickname.
00:19 Basically, you know, like a cast, like a ghost,
00:22 like Phantom, like he just, I'm in and out.
00:24 I'm just, I just show up.
00:25 (laughs)
00:26 What is Phantom's real name?
00:27 My real name is Roberto.
00:29 You gotta say it with a little accent though,
00:30 'cause if you don't say it with the accent,
00:31 you're not really saying it at all.
00:33 What is Phantom Tykes?
00:35 Phantom Tykes is basically,
00:36 let's say your friend having a meal,
00:38 he's having a good meal,
00:39 and you just want a piece of that meal,
00:41 like, you know what I'm saying?
00:41 You need to share, 'cause that's your friend,
00:42 and your friend's share, right?
00:43 Get you a little piece of the meal,
00:45 and it's the Phantom Tykes.
00:46 You just go ahead and just like,
00:46 "Let me get a little bit of 5%, 10% of the meal,
00:48 "maybe 20%," just depending on how you feel that day,
00:51 you know what I mean?
00:52 I know lately they got the new thing,
00:53 they got the, uh,
00:53 ♪ Stick it, not your cat for the Rizla ♪
00:56 ♪ You're so skibidy ♪
00:57 ♪ You're so fin ♪
00:58 I don't know what that is,
00:59 but shout out to the little bros that came up with that.
01:01 I don't know what that is,
01:02 but that's the Phantom Tykes.
01:03 What server does Phantom play on?
01:08 Oh, GTA V, District 10,
01:10 join up, you know what's going on.
01:11 We just have fun on there.
01:12 Everybody that's over there,
01:13 you know what's going on.
01:14 What's Phantom's favorite song?
01:17 I been bumping "Feel No Ways" by Drake,
01:19 DM'ing it every day.
01:20 I ain't gonna lie.
01:21 But, my favorite song,
01:22 I would, I feel like it changes every two, three months.
01:26 So, oh, matter of fact,
01:28 "Temps of Drop,"
01:29 I think it's me and you,
01:30 tough.
01:31 Right now, I'm playing that every day too.
01:32 Tough.
01:33 What car does Phantom have?
01:36 So, I'm gonna give you my favorite car.
01:38 My BMW M4 2018 Competition Edition.
01:42 I'm talking about,
01:43 we have fun with that,
01:44 you know what I'm saying?
01:45 My other car's just cool,
01:46 shout out to the Hondizi boys,
01:47 Honda Accord, you know what I mean?
01:48 2008 V6.
01:49 And then my most recent pickup,
01:51 I did like a wide body to it,
01:52 my last beginning years,
01:53 I did a wide body to it.
01:54 Stage two is fire.
01:56 But my favorite car,
01:57 my BMW M4.
01:58 All right, cool.
02:00 Moving on.
02:01 Phantom and K.
02:03 Shout out to K-Lynx.
02:04 That's the bro.
02:05 Oh, we used to do videos back in the Bronx.
02:06 But she's still the bro to this day.
02:08 You feel me?
02:09 Phantom and Duke.
02:10 Duke Dennis.
02:11 Duke is the A&P bro.
02:13 If you don't know about A&P,
02:14 you need to find out now.
02:15 A&P is a group,
02:16 a content creation group.
02:17 And me and Duke are a part of it,
02:19 along with Kostinat, Davis,
02:21 Agent, and Chris.
02:21 You know what I'm saying?
02:22 Shout out to Duke Dennis,
02:23 the broski.
02:24 We go way back.
02:25 We've been playing 2K and stuff on the game
02:27 since I was like 16.
02:29 So yeah.
02:30 Phantom deli order.
02:32 All right.
02:33 [laughs]
02:33 If you ask me today,
02:34 my deli order,
02:35 I might get a chopped cheese with everything on it.
02:36 Turkey, bacon on it.
02:37 You know what I'm saying?
02:38 I'm trying to get a little,
02:39 you know what I mean?
02:40 Lettuce, tomato.
02:40 I might do light mayo.
02:41 Depending on the day,
02:42 I might do a little bit of ketchup
02:43 just to get that twang in there.
02:44 But if I'm feeling healthy,
02:45 I might do honey turkey.
02:46 You know what I'm saying?
02:46 It depends.
02:47 You know what I'm saying?
02:48 Just different day,
02:49 Phantom straight face meme.
02:51 I don't know.
02:53 I don't know what that is.
02:54 - You have no idea what that is?
02:55 - I don't know.
02:55 Phantom straight face meme.
02:57 I'm not sure.
02:57 I ain't gonna lie.
02:58 Phantom Kylo Rich mod.
03:00 R.P. Kylo Rich mod.
03:02 It's my GTA 5 character.
03:03 He got shot.
03:04 Somebody shot him.
03:05 All right, cool.
03:08 Why does Phantom wear a mask?
03:11 Usually I wear a ski mask on stream.
03:13 As of recent,
03:15 only because I got this little weight loss challenge.
03:17 'Cause you know what I'm saying?
03:18 They been telling me like,
03:19 I gotta do something about it, bro.
03:20 So I've been working on me.
03:21 And if I get under 230 pounds,
03:23 which has been a little tough,
03:25 you know what I mean?
03:26 'Cause I like to eat good.
03:27 I got to take off the mask.
03:28 But so far I gotta keep the mask on
03:30 'cause I been going crazy.
03:31 Why does Phantom say,
03:33 God did?
03:34 'Cause you know,
03:35 'cause God did.
03:36 You know what I mean?
03:37 'Cause God still doing.
03:38 But you know,
03:39 'cause God did.
03:40 It's self explanatory.
03:41 Come on, bro.
03:42 Why does Phantom steal food?
03:45 I don't steal food.
03:46 I implement my own tax
03:50 'cause I have to.
03:51 Because as a functionist,
03:53 a society member,
03:54 whatever that's called.
03:55 Why are you buying food
03:56 and not trying to give it to nobody?
03:57 You should always offer your friend.
03:58 You want some of this?
03:59 Come on, bro.
04:00 Like, what are you talking about?
04:00 I bet.
04:02 When did Phantom join A&P?
04:05 I forgot the date.
04:06 But we started A&P.
04:07 I was there since day one.
04:08 Since day zero.
04:09 Since negative one, matter of fact.
04:10 And what it stands for,
04:11 A&P, Any Means Possible.
04:13 So we just feel like,
04:14 we go get to where we gotta get to
04:16 by any means.
04:17 So we wanna get 10 million subscribers on YouTube.
04:19 Maybe you should sub up.
04:20 You know what I'm saying?
04:21 Sub up to this channel too.
04:22 You know what I'm saying?
04:22 Like, y'all need to try to get up there.
04:23 When did Phantom grow up?
04:26 The Bronx, New York City.
04:27 You know what I'm saying?
04:28 So I grew up on 167.
04:30 Well, I've been all over the Bronx,
04:31 but that's like my final resting home.
04:33 You know what I'm saying?
04:34 I got there when I was like 12.
04:35 Before that, I was on 187.
04:36 Maranav, still the Bronx.
04:38 It's just always been the Bronx.
04:39 It's the big Yikes.
04:41 You know what I'm saying?
04:41 The boogie down.
04:42 When did Phantom start streaming?
04:45 I've been on and off since I was a kid.
04:47 Like, on it though, like consistent,
04:49 I would say in the past year and a half.
04:51 Just been like damn near almost every day.
04:54 But when I first started my first ever stream,
04:57 with the PlayStation camera,
04:58 if you know, you know.
04:59 You know what I'm saying?
05:00 That's like eight years ago, seven years ago.
05:02 That was a little while ago.
05:04 Where does Phantom get his clothes?
05:07 It just depend.
05:08 You know, if you a grail demon,
05:10 you know what I'm saying?
05:11 Or maybe the bros might have some you might wanna trade,
05:13 or you go thrift shopping.
05:15 I don't do too much thrift shopping,
05:16 'cause I be in there for too long,
05:17 and I start getting hungry,
05:18 and I can't find my size, and I gotta go home.
05:20 But you know, everybody different.
05:22 Online, far, I don't know.
05:23 It just, you know, wherever we find it at.
05:25 I could chuck it.
05:26 Does Phantom, does Phantom have tattoos?
05:33 Yeah, I do.
05:34 I got, damn near my whole back flooded out.
05:36 I wanted to get a face tat,
05:37 but all my friends kept saying don't do that.
05:39 Y'all let me know if I should, but I don't know.
05:40 Everybody keep saying don't do it, so whatever.
05:42 Can Phantom speak Spanish?
05:44 (speaking Spanish)
05:47 Phantom, it just makes sense, like,
06:01 'cause it just makes sense, bro.
06:02 You feel me?
06:03 It's like another saying that I say,
06:04 'cause it definitely just makes sense,
06:05 you know what I'm saying, for sure.
06:06 You know what I mean?
06:08 All right, Phantom VR chat.
06:11 VR chat is funny, but it can get weird fast.
06:15 You know, that's like a, you put the little,
06:17 you know, we in 2023 now.
06:19 You got different stuff going on, you know?
06:21 You can do cool stuff.
06:23 Phantom kick.
06:24 I don't know what that means,
06:25 but I think this is like the streaming platform.
06:27 You know, it's been an ongoing battle
06:29 with where streamers are signing to.
06:31 So far, I'm rocking with Twitch, you know what I'm saying?
06:33 But you never know, you know what I'm saying?
06:34 You just never know.
06:35 I can't speak too much on that, but you never know.
06:38 Phantom quotes.
06:39 Damn.
06:40 Whole bunch of motivational stuff.
06:41 I'm always saying some motivational, cool stuff on stream.
06:44 You know what I'm saying?
06:45 Out of nowhere, at random.
06:45 It's never planned, I just get in that bag.
06:47 You got God dead, you know what I'm saying?
06:48 You can shout to DJ Khaled, okay, you feel me?
06:51 But word went crazy with that one.
06:53 It just makes sense.
06:54 A whole bunch of stuff, you know what I'm saying?
06:55 We just, I can't even name them off the top of my head.
06:57 You gotta tap in.
06:58 You gotta tap in.
06:59 Matter of fact, tap in.
07:00 Tap in means get in tune.
07:01 That means you need to come, yeah, tap in.
07:03 How about that one?
07:04 Everybody spam tap in.
07:06 Phantom in brown jacket.
07:07 Remember I was just saying the brown jacket.
07:09 That's the only meme that I can say that's a Phantom meme.
07:11 I ain't gonna lie.
07:12 They put it always like, if someone has food,
07:14 Phantom just arrive.
07:16 They put that picture.
07:17 But that picture's a funny picture.
07:18 I went to Walmart and I got me a nice fit.
07:20 And I walked into the crib with the fit
07:22 and it was like, what you got on?
07:23 But it look fly to me.
07:24 It ain't about the brand, bro.
07:25 It's how you put it on, bro.
07:26 Like, bro, I be trying to say that.
07:28 Phantom merch.
07:31 We got some merch dropping.
07:32 You know, shout out to the True Flair.
07:34 You know what I'm saying?
07:35 We got some merch.
07:36 Right now we don't got no merch out.
07:36 We got some merch dropping.
07:37 So, word.
07:38 You know what I'm saying?
07:39 A&P out though.
07:40 A&P.shop.
07:41 Man, you never know, man.
07:41 Go tap in, man.
07:42 Facts.
07:43 But yeah.
07:44 This the last one?
07:45 Aw, man.
07:46 All right.
07:47 Phantom.
07:48 Phantom as a kid.
07:50 Like a picture or something?
07:51 - What were you like as a kid?
07:53 - I was just doing something.
07:54 Some random stuff.
07:55 I'm just like, off the wall.
07:57 Phantom GTA.
07:58 Told y'all, District 10.
07:59 Look it up, y'all.
08:00 District 10, man.
08:01 So, come on, bro.
08:02 Come have fun with us, bro.
08:03 You know where we live.
08:05 Phantom in Japan.
08:06 Me and Kai went to Japan.
08:07 We went to, where we went to?
08:09 We went everywhere.
08:09 Japan was super dope.
08:10 We did IRL streaming.
08:12 If you don't know what IRL streaming is,
08:14 some people stream from the house.
08:15 Others stream outside in the world.
08:17 They just put the camera on and it's like,
08:19 you know my location 24/7 is a little creepy,
08:20 but it's cool though.
08:22 So, you know what I'm saying?
08:23 It might catch us on Twitch and stuff like that.
08:24 Phantom drip.
08:26 I don't know.
08:27 Garments in pieces.
08:28 Outfits.
08:29 Stuff like that.
08:30 Yeah.
08:32 Oh, that's all Google searches, right?
08:33 - Yeah, yeah.
08:34 - Damn.
08:35 - I'm trying to find out about all that stuff, bro.
08:36 What's up with y'all?
08:38 - Well, I hope I answered your questions that you had
08:40 directly from the source.
08:42 You know what I'm saying?
08:42 But yeah.
08:43 Phantom texts.
08:44 Stop Googling that, bro.
08:46 Like, leave it alone.
08:47 (upbeat music)
08:49 [BIRDS CHIRPING]