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h3h3Productions

h3h3Productions is a YouTube channel hosted by Ethan Klein and Hila Klein, an Israeli-American husband-and-wife duo.[1] The majority of their content consists of reaction videos and sketch comedy in which they satirize internet culture. The H3 Podcast is their podcast channel that has been running since 2017.

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100,000 subscribers 2015
1,000,000 subscribers 2016

Last updated: February 16, 2023

History

 
Ethan Klein in 2017

h3h3Productions

h3h3Productions is a YouTube channel which was launched in 2011 by Ethan and Hila Klein, an American and Israeli husband and wife duo.[2] The primary format of videos uploaded to the channel involves the Kleins providing critique and commentary in reaction videos, consisting of clips of a source video intermixed with commentary and absurd sketches, a style which has been described as a cross between the works of comedy duo Tim & Eric and the comedic series Mystery Science Theater 3000.[3]

The channel has gained a reputation for critiquing internet trends and a range of online personalities[4] as well as several YouTube policies.[5][6][7] The pair have reacted to several online controversies, many of which concern poorly received prank videos posted to the site.[5] The Kleins have been noted for criticizing YouTube channels that entice young viewers to participate in online gambling related to the video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, mainly by trading skins for real-world currency.[8] The Kleins have not uploaded a video to their h3h3Productions YouTube channel since 2020 and have said on their podcasts that they are unlikely to regularly make h3h3Productions-style videos again.

H3 Podcast

The Kleins created a podcast titled H3 Podcast which was originally streamed on Twitch before being moved to YouTube in April 2017.[9] Its first episode was uploaded to the H3 Podcast YouTube channel on April 7, 2017, featuring Justin Roiland, co-creator of Rick and Morty.[10] Since the allegations[11] against Roiland in January 2023, Klein has since withdrawn any ties with Roiland.[12] The podcast began with conversational interviews with notable internet personalities such as PewDiePie, Post Malone and Jake Paul.[13][14] Also in 2017 the Kleins created the channel H3 Podcast Highlights which posts edited sections of podcast episodes.[15]

The channel has since launched several new podcasts called H3 After Dark, H3TV and Off The Rails, all of which currently have new episodes being uploaded on a weekly basis.[16] Furthermore, Ethan Klein has co-hosted Frenemies, Families and Leftovers - the first two of which have since ended. The current cast of the podcast consists of Ethan and Hila Klein and several crew members.[17]

Frenemies was a podcast discussing internet drama, co-hosted by YouTube personality, Trisha Paytas, before they quit.[18][19][20] On the set of Frenemies, Ethan and Paytas' relationship was initially rocky, marked by several large clashes, but they began reconciling their differences in episodes with Dr. Drew.[19] Several Frenemies episodes focused on sexual assault allegations surrounding David Dobrik and The Vlog Squad.[21] Totaling 42 episodes, Frenemies ended in June 2021 after Paytas voiced their disagreements with Ethan and the podcast's production.[22][23] While the podcast received praise for its openness regarding mental illness and was credited for helping break down the social stigma surrounding it,[24] Paytas' comments on Judaism and the Holocaust in particular have been criticized as ignorant and offensive.[25]

The Families podcast was created in response to Paytas unexpectedly quitting Frenemies.[26] Families, which also discussed internet drama as well as focused on Ethan's relationship with his parents, was co-hosted by his mother, Donna Klein and featured his father, Gary Klein.[27][28]

In September 2021, Leftovers, a left-leaning political podcast co-hosted by Hasan Piker and Ethan, was launched.[29] Tubefilter reported that the first episode reached 1 million views a day after being published.[30]

The H3 Podcast has been one of the United States' highest ranking podcasts since late 2020. Radio Online noted a surge in listenership in early 2021, presumably in large part due to attention the public disputes between Ethan and Paytas garnered surrounding Frenemies.[31] Media Monitors ranked the podcast 12th for the second quarter of 2021.[32] In the third quarter of 2021, the podcast was ranked 21st by audience size[33] and 27th by reach in the United States by Edison Research.[34]

Controversies and lawsuits

Allegations against The Wall Street Journal

h3h3Productions, alongside several other channels, supported YouTube personality PewDiePie amid a 2017 controversy over jokes about Nazis in one of his videos from January.[35] On February 14, The Wall Street Journal ran a story about PewDiePie's previous references to Adolf Hitler, which brought nine other videos into the debate and elicited frequent discussions on whether media took them out of context.[36] When YouTube subsequently released tools to allow advertisers to avoid offensive videos, Ethan claimed that the tools were overly broad and negatively affected unrelated content, including his own channel.[37]

One of the authors of the Wall Street Journal piece, Jack Nicas, wrote another article on March 24 claiming YouTube did not go far enough to prevent advertising from displaying on videos that might contain racist content. Ethan accused the report of being written selectively to maximize outrage. The article showed a Coca-Cola advert playing on a video of the white supremacist country song "Alabama Nigger" by American band Trashy White Band.[38] Upon seeing that the video was not contributing to the uploader's income, Ethan alleged that Nicas had used an altered screenshot. Hours later, he was informed that the video was indeed monetized, but on behalf of a copyright claim rather than at the choice or to the benefit of the uploader. He withdrew his accusation in response, and The Wall Street Journal released a statement that it stood by the authenticity of the screenshots.[39][40][28][41]

Hosseinzadeh v. Klein

In April 2016, Matt Hosseinzadeh, an American YouTube personality who goes by "MattHossZone" and "Bold Guy", filed a civil action against the Kleins for copyright infringement in a video on the h3h3Productions channel.[42][43] Hosseinzadeh claims that he initially contacted the Kleins "to politely ask them to remove [his] content from their video" but that they refused. His lawyer claimed that the video used more than 70% of his work "while contributing nothing substantive to it".[44][45]

After a video on this was released by h3h3Productions the following month, fellow YouTuber Philip DeFranco started a fundraiser on GoFundMe to help raise money for the Kleins' legal fees, citing the need to protect fair use on YouTube.[46] On May 26, 2016, the Kleins announced that the $130,000 raised will go into an escrow account called the "Fair Use Protection Account" (FUPA), overseen by law firm Morrison & Lee LLP and to be used to help people defend fair use.[47]

The Kleins won the lawsuit, with U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest ruling that their commentary video constituted "fair use as a matter of law" and describing it as "quintessential comment and criticism".[48][49] The case is the first of its kind to receive a judgment; while not legally binding across the United States, it provided a significant and persuasive argument to be cited in future cases relating to fair use on YouTube.[50]

Triller Fight Club II LLC v. The H3 Podcast

In May 2021, Triller's event company filed an updated lawsuit to the US District Court for the Central District of California against the H3 Podcast and the Kleins, seeking $50 million in damages. The lawsuit alleged copyright infringement in the now deleted podcast episode titled Jake Paul Fight Was a Disaster, which aired five days after the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren fight and featured knockout footage along with Ethan's commentary on the event.[51]

Triller has now filed four separate lawsuits against Klein for the Paul vs. Askren fight, as well as alleged defamation through the Klein's podcast. The first to be thrown out was the suit over a joke Klein made, stating that Triller advertised Kevin Hart, when he was nowhere to be found on the app. The court deemed that this was not in fact defamation, as it was clearly a parody.[52] Klein then filed an anti-SLAPP, which was granted, meaning that the case is thrown out for prejudice, and Kavanaugh is now responsible to pay Klein's attorney's fees, which Klein mentions to be upwards of $60,000 USD[citation needed].

The second suit to be thrown out was regarding Klein's website, 'Does Ryan Kavanaugh look like Harvey Weinstein?, which shows as the second result when Ryan Kavanaugh is typed into Google Search. Kavanaugh filed this suit for cybersquatting, meaning he believed that Klein registered this domain name in hopes of selling it for profit. This suit was thrown out for being improper in January 2022.[53]

Two lawsuits still remain for Klein, including copyright infringement regarding the streaming of the Paul vs. Askren fight on the H3 Podcast, and a personal defamation suit where Kavanaugh alleges that Klein used his podcast and SEO to harm Kavanaugh's reputation.

In one of Klein's recent livestreams[54] on the H3 Podcast, published on 8 February 2023, he mentions an update on Kavanaugh's defamation case against him. Klein mentions that he filed an anti-SLAPP, which was denied by the judge. Klein has since filed an appeal for the denial of the anti-SLAPP, which if approved, will be brought up to a higher appellate court and seen by a panel of three judges, all experts on the anti-SLAPP law.

YouTube suspensions

In May 2022, the H3 podcast channel was suspended when Ethan said "someone should bomb" an NRA convention.[55][56][57] In October 2022, the same channel received a strike and one week suspension following comments directed at Jewish conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro, in which Ethan stated he hoped Shapiro would be the first to be "gassed" in the event of a second Holocaust. In his podcast Ethan said, “If there’s another Holocaust and people start rounding up the Jews again I hope Ben gets gassed first. Or last”. In a statement, a YouTube spokesperson said that the channel was given a strike for "violating the platform’s harassment policy". Ethan responded later that "[a] few white supremacists successfully lobbied YouTube to suspend me, a Jewish dual citizen of Israel & USA, for antisemitism."[58][57][59][56]

Twitter suspension

In November 2022, Ethan Klein's Twitter account received a permanent suspension for violating Twitter Terms of Service after impersonating Elon Musk. Klein changed his username to "Elon Musk" and his profile picture to a depiction of him, although noted on his title and header it was a parody account.[60] Twitter's policy on parody, commentary, and fan accounts at the time stated that such accounts are required to clearly distinguish themselves both in the account name and the bio, and that the "account name should clearly indicate that the account is not affiliated with the subject portrayed in the profile."[61] Ethan's was one of several accounts impersonating Musk that received Twitter suspension at the time.[60] Following his suspension, Klein criticized Musk by tweeting from a second Twitter account.[62] The account was unbanned the following month.[63]

Personal lives

Ethan, an American, and Hila, an Israeli, first met at the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Israel in 2007; Ethan was on his Birthright Israel trip, while Hila was serving in the Israel Defense Forces.[64] They got married in 2012.[65] During the early years of their YouTube career, they lived together in Ramat Gan, Israel.[3] They have two sons, Theodore, who was born in June 2019, and Bruce, who was born in February 2022.[65][66][67]

In April 2020, the Kleins hosted a 100-day, $100,000 monetary giveaway, to help out during the pandemic.[68][69]

Nominations

Year Ceremony Category Work Result Refs
2017 Streamy Awards Comedy h3h3Productions Nominated [70]
2018 Best Podcast H3 Podcast Nominated [71]
2019 Nominated [72]
2020 Nominated [73]
2022 Nominated [74][75]
2022 The Steamies Awards Most Shameless Clickbait Ethan Klein Won [76]
Most Dramatic Creator Won [76]

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External links

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Hila 872 million H3 Podcast Highlights 25 9 million Ethan Klein NetworkIndependentCreator Awards100 000 subscribers 20151 000 000 subscribers 2016Last updated February 16 2023 Contents 1 History 1 1 h3h3Productions 1 2 H3 Podcast 2 Controversies and lawsuits 2 1 Allegations against The Wall Street Journal 2 2 Hosseinzadeh v Klein 2 3 Triller Fight Club II LLC v The H3 Podcast 2 4 YouTube suspensions 2 5 Twitter suspension 3 Personal lives 4 Nominations 5 References 6 External linksHistory Edit Ethan Klein in 2017 h3h3Productions Edit h3h3Productions is a YouTube channel which was launched in 2011 by Ethan and Hila Klein an American and Israeli husband and wife duo 2 The primary format of videos uploaded to the channel involves the Kleins providing critique and commentary in reaction videos consisting of clips of a source video intermixed with commentary and absurd sketches a style which has been described as a cross between the works of comedy duo Tim amp Eric and the comedic series Mystery Science Theater 3000 3 The channel has gained a reputation for critiquing internet trends and a range of online personalities 4 as well as several YouTube policies 5 6 7 The pair have reacted to several online controversies many of which concern poorly received prank videos posted to the site 5 The Kleins have been noted for criticizing YouTube channels that entice young viewers to participate in online gambling related to the video game Counter Strike Global Offensive mainly by trading skins for real world currency 8 The Kleins have not uploaded a video to their h3h3Productions YouTube channel since 2020 and have said on their podcasts that they are unlikely to regularly make h3h3Productions style videos again H3 Podcast Edit The Kleins created a podcast titled H3 Podcast which was originally streamed on Twitch before being moved to YouTube in April 2017 9 Its first episode was uploaded to the H3 Podcast YouTube channel on April 7 2017 featuring Justin Roiland co creator of Rick and Morty 10 Since the allegations 11 against Roiland in January 2023 Klein has since withdrawn any ties with Roiland 12 The podcast began with conversational interviews with notable internet personalities such as PewDiePie Post Malone and Jake Paul 13 14 Also in 2017 the Kleins created the channel H3 Podcast Highlights which posts edited sections of podcast episodes 15 The channel has since launched several new podcasts called H3 After Dark H3TV and Off The Rails all of which currently have new episodes being uploaded on a weekly basis 16 Furthermore Ethan Klein has co hosted Frenemies Families and Leftovers the first two of which have since ended The current cast of the podcast consists of Ethan and Hila Klein and several crew members 17 Frenemies was a podcast discussing internet drama co hosted by YouTube personality Trisha Paytas before they quit 18 19 20 On the set of Frenemies Ethan and Paytas relationship was initially rocky marked by several large clashes but they began reconciling their differences in episodes with Dr Drew 19 Several Frenemies episodes focused on sexual assault allegations surrounding David Dobrik and The Vlog Squad 21 Totaling 42 episodes Frenemies ended in June 2021 after Paytas voiced their disagreements with Ethan and the podcast s production 22 23 While the podcast received praise for its openness regarding mental illness and was credited for helping break down the social stigma surrounding it 24 Paytas comments on Judaism and the Holocaust in particular have been criticized as ignorant and offensive 25 The Families podcast was created in response to Paytas unexpectedly quitting Frenemies 26 Families which also discussed internet drama as well as focused on Ethan s relationship with his parents was co hosted by his mother Donna Klein and featured his father Gary Klein 27 28 In September 2021 Leftovers a left leaning political podcast co hosted by Hasan Piker and Ethan was launched 29 Tubefilter reported that the first episode reached 1 million views a day after being published 30 The H3 Podcast has been one of the United States highest ranking podcasts since late 2020 Radio Online noted a surge in listenership in early 2021 presumably in large part due to attention the public disputes between Ethan and Paytas garnered surrounding Frenemies 31 Media Monitors ranked the podcast 12th for the second quarter of 2021 32 In the third quarter of 2021 the podcast was ranked 21st by audience size 33 and 27th by reach in the United States by Edison Research 34 Controversies and lawsuits EditAllegations against The Wall Street Journal Edit h3h3Productions alongside several other channels supported YouTube personality PewDiePie amid a 2017 controversy over jokes about Nazis in one of his videos from January 35 On February 14 The Wall Street Journal ran a story about PewDiePie s previous references to Adolf Hitler which brought nine other videos into the debate and elicited frequent discussions on whether media took them out of context 36 When YouTube subsequently released tools to allow advertisers to avoid offensive videos Ethan claimed that the tools were overly broad and negatively affected unrelated content including his own channel 37 One of the authors of the Wall Street Journal piece Jack Nicas wrote another article on March 24 claiming YouTube did not go far enough to prevent advertising from displaying on videos that might contain racist content Ethan accused the report of being written selectively to maximize outrage The article showed a Coca Cola advert playing on a video of the white supremacist country song Alabama Nigger by American band Trashy White Band 38 Upon seeing that the video was not contributing to the uploader s income Ethan alleged that Nicas had used an altered screenshot Hours later he was informed that the video was indeed monetized but on behalf of a copyright claim rather than at the choice or to the benefit of the uploader He withdrew his accusation in response and The Wall Street Journal released a statement that it stood by the authenticity of the screenshots 39 40 28 41 Hosseinzadeh v Klein Edit In April 2016 Matt Hosseinzadeh an American YouTube personality who goes by MattHossZone and Bold Guy filed a civil action against the Kleins for copyright infringement in a video on the h3h3Productions channel 42 43 Hosseinzadeh claims that he initially contacted the Kleins to politely ask them to remove his content from their video but that they refused His lawyer claimed that the video used more than 70 of his work while contributing nothing substantive to it 44 45 After a video on this was released by h3h3Productions the following month fellow YouTuber Philip DeFranco started a fundraiser on GoFundMe to help raise money for the Kleins legal fees citing the need to protect fair use on YouTube 46 On May 26 2016 the Kleins announced that the 130 000 raised will go into an escrow account called the Fair Use Protection Account FUPA overseen by law firm Morrison amp Lee LLP and to be used to help people defend fair use 47 The Kleins won the lawsuit with U S District Judge Katherine B Forrest ruling that their commentary video constituted fair use as a matter of law and describing it as quintessential comment and criticism 48 49 The case is the first of its kind to receive a judgment while not legally binding across the United States it provided a significant and persuasive argument to be cited in future cases relating to fair use on YouTube 50 Triller Fight Club II LLC v The H3 Podcast Edit In May 2021 Triller s event company filed an updated lawsuit to the US District Court for the Central District of California against the H3 Podcast and the Kleins seeking 50 million in damages The lawsuit alleged copyright infringement in the now deleted podcast episode titled Jake Paul Fight Was a Disaster which aired five days after the Jake Paul vs Ben Askren fight and featured knockout footage along with Ethan s commentary on the event 51 Triller has now filed four separate lawsuits against Klein for the Paul vs Askren fight as well as alleged defamation through the Klein s podcast The first to be thrown out was the suit over a joke Klein made stating that Triller advertised Kevin Hart when he was nowhere to be found on the app The court deemed that this was not in fact defamation as it was clearly a parody 52 Klein then filed an anti SLAPP which was granted meaning that the case is thrown out for prejudice and Kavanaugh is now responsible to pay Klein s attorney s fees which Klein mentions to be upwards of 60 000 USD citation needed The second suit to be thrown out was regarding Klein s website Does Ryan Kavanaugh look like Harvey Weinstein which shows as the second result when Ryan Kavanaugh is typed into Google Search Kavanaugh filed this suit for cybersquatting meaning he believed that Klein registered this domain name in hopes of selling it for profit This suit was thrown out for being improper in January 2022 53 Two lawsuits still remain for Klein including copyright infringement regarding the streaming of the Paul vs Askren fight on the H3 Podcast and a personal defamation suit where Kavanaugh alleges that Klein used his podcast and SEO to harm Kavanaugh s reputation In one of Klein s recent livestreams 54 on the H3 Podcast published on 8 February 2023 he mentions an update on Kavanaugh s defamation case against him Klein mentions that he filed an anti SLAPP which was denied by the judge Klein has since filed an appeal for the denial of the anti SLAPP which if approved will be brought up to a higher appellate court and seen by a panel of three judges all experts on the anti SLAPP law YouTube suspensions Edit In May 2022 the H3 podcast channel was suspended when Ethan said someone should bomb an NRA convention 55 56 57 In October 2022 the same channel received a strike and one week suspension following comments directed at Jewish conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro in which Ethan stated he hoped Shapiro would be the first to be gassed in the event of a second Holocaust In his podcast Ethan said If there s another Holocaust and people start rounding up the Jews again I hope Ben gets gassed first Or last In a statement a YouTube spokesperson said that the channel was given a strike for violating the platform s harassment policy Ethan responded later that a few white supremacists successfully lobbied YouTube to suspend me a Jewish dual citizen of Israel amp USA for antisemitism 58 57 59 56 Twitter suspension Edit In November 2022 Ethan Klein s Twitter account received a permanent suspension for violating Twitter Terms of Service after impersonating Elon Musk Klein changed his username to Elon Musk and his profile picture to a depiction of him although noted on his title and header it was a parody account 60 Twitter s policy on parody commentary and fan accounts at the time stated that such accounts are required to clearly distinguish themselves both in the account name and the bio and that the account name should clearly indicate that the account is not affiliated with the subject portrayed in the profile 61 Ethan s was one of several accounts impersonating Musk that received Twitter suspension at the time 60 Following his suspension Klein criticized Musk by tweeting from a second Twitter account 62 The account was unbanned the following month 63 Personal lives EditEthan an American and Hila an Israeli first met at the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Israel in 2007 Ethan was on his Birthright Israel trip while Hila was serving in the Israel Defense Forces 64 They got married in 2012 65 During the early years of their YouTube career they lived together in Ramat Gan Israel 3 They have two sons Theodore who was born in June 2019 and Bruce who was born in February 2022 65 66 67 In April 2020 the Kleins hosted a 100 day 100 000 monetary giveaway to help out during the pandemic 68 69 Nominations EditYear Ceremony Category Work Result Refs2017 Streamy 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