 I've had a few people ask me to comment on Ethan and Ela of H3H3 Productions and the H3 podcast because they've gone through some changes lately and in this video I'm going to take a look at it from a mental health perspective so make sure that you stay tuned. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health so I try to help you out with your mental health and I try to pull some topics from the YouTube community and other things in pop culture try to teach you how you can improve yourself mentally as well as emotionally so if you're into that kind of stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and speaking of H3H3 Productions they do their podcast over on Twitch. Did you know that I have a Twitch channel now? You need to head over there right now follow me on there. Pause this video go follow me on Twitch it's just twitch.tv slash the Rewired Soul real easy stuff but I've been editing videos on there playing video games and talking to all of you and we've had some great conversations so go follow me over there on there all right so those of you who don't know who Ethan and Ela are of H3H3 production so I guess I'll start out by saying like just you know me personally so you can kind of understand maybe biases and things like that like I'm not a huge fan like they have they they had some funny content and things I think I mainly heard about them when they were going through this lawsuit for the some copyright stuff or what is it fair use that's what it was that's when I first heard about them I watched some of their videos they're kind of funny I know he's friends with like iDubs and things like that but like it's he's not like a channel that I'll always watch I do watch some clips from his podcast if there's somebody on there that I kind of like like recently Bill Burr was on there Bill Burr is hilarious or like when he had Philip DeFranco on there or Ninja and things like that so I'll check that out sometimes but anyways so they they had a comedy YouTube channel they did a lot of commentary and things like that and people were into that well they've been getting a lot of backlash lately and a lot of people have been saying like you know their new stuff is awful and then there was the app that they just released and I'll touch on that in just a second all right but anyways so one thing that I really want to point out is that months ago I think it was earlier this year Ethan made a video about his depression and why he wasn't really making content and he was talking about how you know he was just depressed and it's something that I constantly talk to you guys about all the time like so many people so many youtubers so many celebrities they struggle with this because they reach the top of this mountain and they realize that they're still not happy you know and then all sorts of psychological things happen your brain tells you that you're supposed to be happy you have the following you have the money you have the house you're you're financially stable you get to travel all these things but you're still not happy and that really messes you up and I think I made a video a while back about how Ethan talked about how he's you know trying to focus on his mental health now but I don't really know what that means because he's talked about like oh I need to start eating better and exercising like no no no no like him and Philip DeFranco had a good talk like Philip DeFranco for those of you don't know he's supported by better help much like myself link down in the description and basically better help is online therapy you know what I mean and Philip DeFranco is very open and honest about how he takes how he does therapy talks about started meditating and things like that and I haven't seen Ethan really come forward and discuss that stuff so a lot of evens depression from what I've seen not only happened because of the whole fame thing and the money thing and just still not really being fulfilled or satisfied but also going through the whole lawsuit I think it lasted a year or longer and like he got a ton of support you know like Philip DeFranco helped raise money to cover their legal fees and they actually won but that's really really really draining okay like going through anything like that especially like legal battles like is very draining I've been fortunate where I don't have to go through that stuff but I've talked to a lot of people who deal with mental health issues like it's just draining all right so anyways what I want to talk about first is the H3H3 content okay so he hasn't really posted anything on the YouTube channel except for a video recently which I'll touch on in a minute but he's mainly been focusing on his podcast okay and here's the thing all right whether or not I like his content it's kind of the same way I look at Bobby Burns all right like when people are going through their mental health struggles they got to figure out what works for them and this is the same thing for all of you you got to find out what works for you if you're not happy doing what you're doing go find something else this could be your career it could be your hobby it could be whatever like the more people force this stuff the more depressed you get and I think that's that's what happened with Ethan he wasn't happy he wasn't satisfied doing this commentary stuff anymore in a kind of a humorous way so he's been putting a lot of effort into his podcast and like for me even though I'm personally not a huge fan it's like you go boy like do your thing like it's what's making him happy right now it's what's satisfying him so for any of his long-term fans I would say like give him some time maybe he'll return to more of the comedy commentary stuff but if not like this is where his new niche is like he enjoys the podcast he's liking to have conversations with people and discuss things in different topics like I I I've seen some other videos like talking about how like a3a3 sucks now and you know but they were talking down about his opinions on stuff and like he has these opinions but he's not well educated on it and it's like for me it's like who cares it's his podcast like he's not a political commentator like he's never trying to impose his thoughts onto somebody and saying you should think this way now there's a big difference because I was actually talking with my girlfriend about this over dinner because I feel like I'm contradicting myself because I talked about how like Tana Mojo has this young audience right and she does all these things so you got to be careful like you are going to influence people but like with a3a3 like I would guess that his audience is much older like not much older like 50 60 70 years old but I'm guessing like adults you see what I'm saying and and here's the thing too when it comes to commentary uh like on a podcast forum or whatever it is like you guys like you gotta form your own opinions you know what I mean like people are mad at him because he's not educated and stuff it's like uh we were so me my girlfriend my son and I were eating at Chipotle and I was saying like you have to take responsibility for that like what if I went to the person behind the Chipotle counter and they started giving me car advice you know what I mean like it's up to me as the person receiving this information to say okay maybe somebody working in a restaurant isn't the best person to get car advice from you see what I mean like that's our responsibility we're not designed to just be these mindless zombies and like who do I follow where do I get my thoughts and opinions from like no that's why I make these videos discussing the community like you guys gotta you know take this information and do something with it like same thing with me like I have my own thoughts opinions beliefs and things like that it's your job as the viewer as the consumer of this information to filter it right some things I say you might agree with or you say oh some mental health tips that I can try out and stuff other things you're like no that wouldn't really work for me you see what I'm saying like that's cool like but you need to form your own opinions on this stuff so like as far as Ethan doing his podcast like good for him I think he's only been doing it for like a year maybe less like he's gonna get his groove and things like that and it's just a place where he can talk about his opinions and viewpoints on the world and you know different stories and the news and stuff you know like whatever he he's not branding himself as a political commentator so on that sense of the content he's creating like I truly believe you know his depression was really getting to him and he needed to make some stuff that really fulfilled him and that is his podcast well now let's talk about his app okay so a lot of people are upset you know they wanted more uh like uh content on his actual youtube channel where he did comedy and all that kind of stuff so it's been a long time it's been a long time I've watched some videos on this it's been a long time people have been waiting people and asking them for content and he finally makes content and it's for a new app okay so he made an app him and uh Eli like they're the stars of this app and you know people are upset by it because now he's trying to sell you something now I have seen some people who say like he's being very hypocritical because there's a lot there's a lot of stuff you could buy there's in-app purchases and stuff and they said that it's hypocritical because this is stuff that he always talks crap about about other people like Jake Paul and Logan Paul and things like that all right now yesterday my girlfriend tagged me in this tweet from James Charles all right and it's actually just something I was just thinking about is is this like it's just so weird to me that people don't they don't understand like everybody has bills to pay you know what I mean like we all have bills to pay like I was telling my girlfriend like like imagine if I didn't do anything like if I didn't have any kind of income stream like and you like my content what if I couldn't pay my internet bill well then I couldn't upload any content that you as a viewer like to watch like there's this real I don't know it's just really interesting to me about human nature where we don't want people to make money now my girlfriend was explaining things were a lot different you know pre adpocalypse where it was just youtube ad money and stuff like that but things have changed she things have shifted you know what I'm saying and like I'm just you know maybe it's because I'm a creator but just like support the people that you like and like whether it's you know buying an app or an in-game purchase or like one of their shirts or you know supporting them on patreon whatever it is like that helps them do what they love which is something that you love too but if they don't make any income they can't do that thing now and and this this second half of the video I'm kind of just getting a little bit more I don't know philosophical and things and you know they're just interesting subjects because what we were talking about and discussing was the standard of living like that's where like for example I just showed you that James Charles tweet right and that's interesting to me because I look at James Charles this dude's a millionaire you know and it's like okay well his standard of living is much higher so when he's trying to get money he needs a lot of money to support his standard of living but as you begin to become successful your standard of living goes up so you might start selling more expensive products you might do any things to uphold your standard of living but for me personally that's why I try to do as many things that are as inexpensive as possible because something I preach to all of you is I know things won't make me happy I know that having like a gigantic mansion and a car and things like that those things don't make me happy like I like to travel and stuff like that you know that costs money but like my standard of living no matter how much I succeed in life when it comes to money like I don't picture myself like needing this very lavish lifestyle like a Jeffree star or James Charles or anything like that like I've often thought about I'm like what would I even do with like a 10 bedroom house like you know like maybe like maybe I could see like a four or five bedroom house but this is up to you guys like it's just I really think it's important for the community to really sit back and just like see where your like thoughts and being upset and your anger is coming from like these are creators that you love don't you want to support them to keep doing the thing that they love which then entertains you or informs you or educates you you know what I mean because if they can't do that like the last thing I'll say about this is I was working at a rehab center for the last three years and you know we were a private company so we took and we took health insurance and if you didn't have health insurance it was insanely expensive and sometimes somebody's like insurance would run out and they'd have to leave treatment because they couldn't pay for it but the facility I worked at was pretty cool about like giving people like partial scholarships and stuff like that but anyways you'd have the clients yelling at you and I'm just like listen I'm an addict in recovery I wish that we can let everybody in here for free but if we did that we couldn't keep the lights on you know what I'm saying and like when people get so upset about businesses or companies or brands or people making money it's just it's really a balance between are you trying to take advantage of people or are you trying to sustain this thing that is helping people let's put it that way so it's just something I want you to think about and if nothing else like go out and support a creator that you like I don't even care if it's me like support somebody out there whether it's through patreon or buying some of their merch or whatever it is it helps them do the thing that they love all right but like as far as Ethan and Ila go like I haven't like fully gone through their app if I'm being honest I haven't even downloaded it but it's like I heard somebody say there's like a hundred dollar in-app purchase it's like okay that's cool my son placed fortnight 24-7 he used to be in late into Legos that was costing us a ton of money every year now he uses all that money in fortnight in fortnight they have an option for a hundred dollars worth of in-game currency if somebody can afford that good for them but like if you're a business owner are you just not going to give somebody that option some people want that option if you can't afford that option that's cool there's a reason why I drive a scion and not a Lamborghini because I can't afford the Lamborghini option but anyways like a lot of you wanted to know my thoughts on h3h3 and I would love to know your thoughts down in the comments below and and let me know like did it did it kind of explain things for you like with their depression and just kind of changing their creativity and things like that let me know your thoughts down in the comments below but that's all I got for you if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and if you are new here I'm always making videos to help you out with your mental and emotional well-being make sure you click that little round subscribe button and ring that notification bell and a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon and there's also a link to the rewired soul merch shop so if you would like to support me sign up on 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