It’s Election Day in the U.S., and if you’re like me, you’ve probably been refreshing your social feeds all day waiting for some kind of news about whether the highly-anticipated blue wave is coming to fruition. Well, you’re not going to find out in the next hour—nor the hour after that—so I’m giving your brain a break with some decidedly lower stakes news about YouTube drama. (That being said, if you’re eligible to vote and haven’t cast your ballot yet, put this newsletter down right now and go do it.)
Now, let me wind the clock back to the morning of Friday, October 23. This was a big day for me, the start of my wedding weekend. I was sleeping soundly next to my soon-to-be wife. As my eyes fluttered opened, she leaned over and whispered the most karmic thing I had possibly ever heard: Ethan cheated on Hila and the H3 Podcast is over.
Depending on which demographic of my readership you fall into, you’re either smiling just thinking about that day or wondering who these people are and why you should care. Well, over the past three years, California-based YouTubers Ethan and Hila Klein have become two of the internet’s most notorious—and litigious—villains. They commanded such a vicious and cult-like fandom that many people were too intimidated to speak up. And on a personal level, they’ve directed harassment toward me many times over the past five years, despite my investigations into YouTuber misconduct becoming some of their most popular (and likely profitable) material ever.
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