Behzinga apologizes to fans after calling Sidemen his \u201ccolleagues\u201d before friends Instagram: sidemenEthan \u2018Behzinga\u2019 Payne has apologized to fans online after calling his fellow YouTube superstars in the Sidemen his \u201ccolleagues,\u201d rather than addressing them as his friends first and foremost. Sidemen has been one of YouTube\u2019s most popular content creator groups for the better part of a decade now. Almost always together for their weekly Sidemen Sunday videos or various other forms of entertainment, be it GTA gameplay or simply just reaction clips, the crew of seven have been all but inseparable through their meteoric rise to internet fame. With this growth, however, the initial friendship they all shared may have been strained somewhat as their online empire grew. At least, that\u2019s according to Behzinga who, on a recent Sidemen podcast, explained why he views the other Sidemen members as colleagues first and friends second. \u201cYou lot are my colleagues,\u201d he put bluntly in conversation with Josh, Tobi, and Harry. \u201cI said in the chat the other day, they\u2019re not my friends anymore, they\u2019re my colleagues.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s a horrible thing to say,\u201d Harry responded right away as both Josh and Tobi disagreed with Ethan\u2019s statement as well. \u201cThat\u2019s sad,\u201d Tobi added. \u201cIn the capacity I see you lot now, it\u2019s way more of a work colleague than it is a friend,\u201d Ethan continued. \u201cEvery time I speak to you it\u2019s about work.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s one or the other, I think you\u2019re both,\u201d Ethan countered, with Josh then adding, \u201cWe\u2019re friends who work together, it\u2019s very different I think.\u201d Before long, Ethan\u2019s argument had caught traction across social media, with many avid Sidemen fans unhappy with his outlook on the group today. Having effectively grown up on the internet together, the content creators have all shared a bond over the past decade. Beyond the content itself, Sidemen run multiple business ventures together, including everything from XIX Vodka to their wildly successful Charity Match event, and are often supportive of one another on personal matters too, be it weddings, appearing at KSI\u2019s fights, or anything in-between. Addressing the backlash head-on, Ethan soon took to social media to further expand on his comments while apologizing to those who may have been upset by his \u2018colleague\u2019 discussion earlier. \u201cApologies to everyone so pressed over the \u2018colleagues\u2019 comment. I would simply enjoy seeing my friends outside of a work setting more often. \u201cBusinesses grow, lines become more blurred, and sometimes [I] miss the simple days of just laughing with the boys. [It] ain\u2019t that deep, just miscommunicated my feelings.\u201d Thus, all appears to be just fine for the Sidemen moving forward. Behzinga admitted it was nothing too \u201cdeep,\u201d and that fans shouldn\u2019t be all too concerned with his current mindset on the group. We\u2019re sure to still see plenty of laughs and iconic moments in the Sidemen Sunday\u2019s left to come in 2023, especially in the lead-up to this year\u2019s historic Sidemen Charity Match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Behzinga apologizes to fans after calling Sidemen his \u201ccolleagues\u201d before friends Instagram: sidemenEthan \u2018Behzinga\u2019 Payne has apologized to fans online after calling his fellow YouTube superstars in the Sidemen his \u201ccolleagues,\u201d rather than addressing them as his friends first and foremost. Sidemen has been one of YouTube\u2019s most popular content creator groups for the better […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}