00:00it's even worse than that because the person he cheated on his wife with it was an employee yeah
00:04that's even bad that's like ethically wow what a piece of shit dude take a look at this photo
00:10two weeks ago it was just another piece of quirky internet lore inside a 10-year podcast empire
00:15can we pull up photos referencing what people are talking about that might help to give like
00:19visual aids today it's exhibit a in the most volatile creator collapse of the decade he's so
00:24cute i'm so in love with this guy he's so not in love with me it's so awful if you
00:29haven't been
00:29following the absolute earthquake hitting internet culture here is where it stands yeah bro that was
00:35definitely going on longer than six months ethan and gila klein have officially separated following
00:40allegation of a month-long affair with a podcast crew member who originally started out as a dedicated
00:46super fan she's not flirting tomorrow from what i saw i love that man so much probably the same
00:50amount i love ethan that's real funny ethan and who reportedly designed these exact costumes
00:56creators and viewers across the web are losing their minds infamous cheating on your wife ceo ned
01:02fulmer has some choice words for his successor ethan klein fans are rallying around gila calling her the
01:10ultimate survivor but the internet is also left asking a chilling question who would do that
01:16we are talking 20 years of marriage three kids a multi-million dollar empire built on absolute
01:22public transparency gone in a single day of what what's up that's your performance of what
01:30oh my god i would have died so loud when you scream
01:41never mind when gila posted her statement revealing she was quote living a nightmare
01:46it wasn't just a personal breakup it was the moment a 10-year digital back catalog
01:51officially transformed into an active forensic investigation for you and you're not even using
01:56it i just finished the half with the strawberry on it it was like i need chocolate bagels and
02:00strawberry ice cream cheese that says grow up their primary channel went dark on indefinite hiatus
02:05and the internet immediately went to war over the wreckage crew cuts ties with ethan klein after
02:10hyla klein says he's been having an affair it's giving try guys it is kind of giving try guys and
02:15obviously like i hate to see family suffering but i do love to see like a podcast fall just like
02:20further cementing our place in culture to understand why this is sending shockwaves far beyond standard
02:25internet drama you have to remember who ethan and hila actually were really you said the biggest
02:31thing you're seeing in my chart is that as someone from overseas is gonna come and make me rich as
02:37fuck long before the studio on the podcast they met in israel in 2007 hila served in the idf
02:44don't rewrite history i'm not gonna sit by and let people rewrite what i did and what is my life
02:49it was mandatory to service so i hated that and then i asked for like a change if i don't
02:55like the
02:55second one then i'll just find a way to get out of the army and they both launched h3 h3
03:01productions
03:01out of an apartment in 2011 the couple then became youtube royalty by pioneering reaction comedy and
03:07establishing fair use protections for every commentary creator on the web and over their 10-year run the h3
03:13podcast went on to become one of the most controversy driven institutions on the internet ethan built an empire
03:19media ecosystem out of navigating and weaponizing chaos from the family fracturing implosion of
03:25frenemies with trisha paytas who is mary dahila's brother you've been like married for 12 years i feel
03:30like you low-key wish that you could be single while you're famous and rich because i feel like you
03:35didn't
03:35get that out of your system like knowing that every girl wants you because you're famous and rich
03:38i mean yes you do it's fine it would be fun to date but like i'm not interested in that
03:44a wild content
03:45experiment instantly turned into a real life toxic fallout obviously it's very sensitive it's
03:50moses's family trisha's marriage to moses hackman sealed a permanent family estrangement transforming
03:56internet gossip into genuine collateral damage ethan to me is not part of the family anymore he is like
04:02this monster of a person and obviously needs help then we have the multi-year legal wars with ryan
04:08kavanaugh a single pay-per-view copyright dispute escalated into a relentless barrage of defamation
04:14suits ethan live streamed every court filing converting a terrifying legal threat into months
04:19of primetime entertainment and then there's the ideological fallout with hassan piker on leftovers
04:25sorry that you and ethan broke up me and ethan did not break up irreconcilable tension over the
04:30israel-palestine conflict ultimately shattered their political alliance people are saying ripped
04:35leftovers um yeah yeah probably it is probably over just i guess you know put it out there
04:43the quiet cancellation of the show then fractured their shared fan base and this has really contributed
04:48to a lot of extremism being normalized it's because young people are on twitch they go to they go to
04:51hassan and they think this is normal and pitted two of the internet's biggest commentators against
04:56each other yet none of it ever pulled the plug on h3 listen guys if i get canceled it's not
05:02going to
05:03be for infidelity or having sex with anyone okay ethan survived channel bans political firestorms and
05:09multi-week suspensions but none of those external wars prepared them for an implosion from within
05:15she came in this morning and she's like look what i send ethan stuff that i want him to buy
05:19me
05:20on instagram i'm like what are you including a handsaw
05:24i don't know man which brings us to the most fragile pillar of the entire empire
05:29the marriage there you go see happy smile we've seen the script play out before ethan himself
05:37routinely turned his lens outward to tear apart creators whose empires crumbled from within
05:42cheating is so despicable man especially when there's kids involved
05:49bro wasn't worth it just to get some strange ass calling out everyone from ned fulmer and the try
05:54guys to high profile family bloggers but when your own relationship is the bedrock of your brand
06:00the stakes couldn't be higher an affair isn't just a personal failure to an audience that invested
06:06years of emotional labor it feels like corporate fraud
06:10wow ethan did tell me privately that i could show up
06:12that really she did why did he tell you differently because
06:14ethan uh she's claiming that you told her privately that um that she can come in anytime she wants
06:17she doesn't she can do whatever she wants yeah yeah yeah oh that's accurate
06:22we know she doesn't lie oh okay well i'll probably start doing that too
06:25he didn't tell you that makes sense
06:26worse still was the internal workplace dynamic basically it's this girl by the name of tamara
06:31she started off as an ethan klein super fan and eventually made her way up to the podcast
06:37because when a production studio blurs the lines by hiring directly from its own super fan base
06:43the inner sanctum becomes a pressure cooker
06:47professional boundaries parasocial devotion and personal intimacy collide
06:52leaving behind an unfixable mess that's why people love you is that why you love me
06:58um and normally when a creator couple splits they milk the drama for views in real time
07:03but because the h3 crew publicly walked out in solidarity with gila and the channel went dead
07:08silent something unprecedented happened i think ethan klein's affair is much sicker than we thought
07:13and i have some evidence and if you know about his secret reddit account you know where this is
07:17going the audience took over within hours fans turned 10 years of podcast archives into an active
07:24frame-by-frame crime scene because i don't know you're excited i remember your family how close
07:28i got with them yeah oh you know even tomorrow came over to our house which was really nice yeah
07:33people come and play with the kids and they were happy picture but then i was like i don't want
07:37to
07:37post every old joke about marital tension getting it outside of the marriage then fine if it works
07:42for them but i don't think that's the case here because there's pregnancies involved three of them
07:49every awkward glance on set like that initial experience of wanting a guy or a person and then
07:56seeing somebody else get them who ever had a crush on someone ethan that uh who i didn't get never
08:04every frame of body language is now being time stamped and reanalyzed okay you know what honestly
08:09i'll do whatever i have to do okay you're down okay all right we'll talk after the show even ethan's
08:14tattoo of heila's face has turned into a dark internet meme which brings us to resurface clips
08:20like this one i mean yeah you guys clearly like one year of not having sex three times at least
08:25i'm sorry this woman had three of your children shut up watching ethan talk candidly on set about
08:32sexless marriages hits entirely different today it's like are you gonna have a divorce because of
08:36that when you have a family now the audience is left asking an uncomfortable haunting question
08:41was ethan playing an open book character so like should he just suck it up and just take it or
08:48should they talk about it and try to figure out about it i think it depends on the relationship
08:52or was he literally leaking real life marital stress under the guise of podcast content this
08:57whole time it's possible that is that what happened here i don't know i'm just i know no i'm
09:02separately separate you're separating it so because worse still did he seriously let his alleged
09:09mistress craft a halloween costume designed to parade the affair right in his wife's face all
09:13right enough about the cat in the hat and here lies the most ruthless mechanic of the modern platform
09:18economy i had hepatitis what happened to you i i told this story it was from drinking the frog water
09:25what does that mean i was like out of school for like a year oh my god i'm so sorry
09:28you were
09:28don't say okay good i thought you were gonna say like college age now it's 23 hundreds of thousands
09:34of viewers are flooding in simply to watch creators dissect old clips cheating is bad i will say
09:40cheating is bad nobody's dying though is this right cheating cheating legalized cheating no
09:49definitely no i think it's but it's not illegal i think it's a bad choice but my point is it's
09:53not
09:53illegal review crew statements yeah i think show is kind of going better yeah i don't think liars are
09:59really good to host and package public heartbreak into instant ad revenue how do you define older
10:05men i mean you're in that list i am yes of course you just you're about to turn 27 right
10:10so i mean
10:12and it all proves one cold undeniable reality attention is never destroyed it's simply redistributed
10:19to whoever dissects the body first oh he's feeling guilty oh maybe right he should feel guilty and this
10:25isn't just the end of a podcast it's the total unraveling of the family enterprise model on
10:30youtube because when ethan stripped his name and financial stake from teddy fresh and their joint
10:35ventures he wasn't just walking away from a microphone ethan was trying to untangle a 20-year
10:40life from a digital brand that completely devoured its creators which leaves the ultimate question
10:45i'm gonna try my best to not take it personally can hila and the crew rebuild an enterprise when its
10:50core
10:50product was the illusion of a happy home or does the algorithm permanently belong to the commentators
10:56breaking down the wreckage it looks like she could be actually my child i don't think so apparently
11:01people say we have the same laugh hila what oh my god how is this real dude let us know
11:06your
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