Popular YouTuber Ethan Klein of H3H3 responds to widespread criticism YouTube duo Ethan and Hila \u2018H3H3\u2019 Klein have seen massive amounts of criticism following their hiatus from their main channel \u2013 and Ethan has finally responded to the backlash in a recent episode of the H3 Podcast on November 16. Ethan began by admitting that he had \u201cslipped into a very unhealthy place\u201d regarding his mental health, claiming that his wide acceptance on YouTube early in his career had caused him to feel \u201coverconfident.\u201d \u201cPeople had me on a very high pedestal back then,\u201d he recalled. \u201c\u2026there\u2019s no doubt, at the time, that it started to go to my head. I\u2019m pretty sure that I started to become more arrogant and overconfident.\u201d He claimed that this overconfidence and a feeling of \u201cinfallibility\u201d led him to make \u201ca lot of mistakes,\u201d to which he reacted defensively when he was called out \u2013 even so far as having what he called a \u201cpsychological shutdown.\u201d He then stated that his reaction to this criticism had forced him into a depression, claiming that his \u201cego was shattered,\u201d which then affected his ability to create content. In addition, Ethan cited the H3 Podcast\u2019s live format as a struggle for him, noting the differences between editing a video as opposed to hosting a live show. The H3 Podcast has been criticized for misinformation, to which Ethan admitted his guilt, along with claims of \u201cthrowing friends under the bus,\u201d among other allegations. While not directly addressed in Ethan\u2019s statement, censorship on the H3H3 channel has also been an issue with fans, as pointed out by YouTuber Memology 101 on November 16. They discovered that the name of YouTuber Gokanaru was being censored in comments on H3H3\u2019s videos after Gokanaru uploaded an hour-long video criticizing Klein in late October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Popular YouTuber Ethan Klein of H3H3 responds to widespread criticism YouTube duo Ethan and Hila \u2018H3H3\u2019 Klein have seen massive amounts of criticism following their hiatus from their main channel \u2013 and Ethan has finally responded to the backlash in a recent episode of the H3 Podcast on November 16. Ethan began by admitting that […]<\/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-58188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58188","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=58188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}