Ethan Klein and Trisha Paytas swatted during live broadcast YouTube: H3 PodcastEthan Klein of comedy duo H3H3 and YouTube star Trisha Paytas were victims of a swatting attempt, which occurred live during a March 23 broadcast \u2014 but Klein didn\u2019t seem fazed by the incident, at all. In the age of social media, swatting is becoming all too common an occurrence for high-profile content creators, who are often targeted by disgruntled critics or internet trolls. Swatting refers to a very serious type of harassment, in which someone will deceive an emergency dispatcher to send a large amount of armed law enforcement officers to someone\u2019s home under the guise of immediate danger, claiming a murder, robbery, or other such crime is taking place. These types of calls have resulted in serious injury and even death to the intended target, and are even criminal offenses in the United States and Brazil \u2014 but that isn\u2019t stopping some angry critics from repeatedly swatting Ethan Klein. During a March 23 episode of their \u201cFrenemies\u201d podcast, H3H3\u2019s Ethan Klein and YouTuber Trisha Paytas were swatted, resulting in a surprisingly chill phone call between Klein and law enforcement that went down as fans were watching. \u201cYeah, we\u2019re okay,\u201d Klein said after answering the phone. \u201cI know we\u2019re just \u2014 I keep getting swatted, so\u2026 yeah, everything\u2019s just fine over here. Thanks for calling!\u201d \u201cWe just got swatted,\u201d he laughingly told Paytas after hanging up. \u201cIt\u2019s been happening so much now that they just call me and be like, \u2018Are you okay? We just got a call.\u2019 Because then, if I don\u2019t answer, they have to come.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m just trying to be calm about it,\u201d he continued. \u201cObviously, it\u2019s annoying. It\u2019s happening like, a lot. But at least now, it\u2019s like, cool. They call me immediately, but if I don\u2019t answer, they come.\u201d As Klein stated, this is far from the first time he\u2019s been swatted; the comedian has been the victim of such attempts numerous times in the past, the latest when his mother-in-law was visiting from Israel. Luckily, Klein has good rapport with his local authorities, although that doesn\u2019t make the situation any less grim for him and his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ethan Klein and Trisha Paytas swatted during live broadcast YouTube: H3 PodcastEthan Klein of comedy duo H3H3 and YouTube star Trisha Paytas were victims of a swatting attempt, which occurred live during a March 23 broadcast \u2014 but Klein didn\u2019t seem fazed by the incident, at all. In the age of social media, swatting is […]<\/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-48151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48151","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=48151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}