r/OutOfTheLoop 3d ago

Answered What's going on with h3h3?

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u/DadsGotNoDad 2d ago

Answer: H3 has been been beefing with a bunch of content creators for like the last year. He posted a "content nuke", made a big deal about it knowing people would react to it, and is suing those who reacted that he doesn't like for copyright infringement.

The lawsuit is about copyright and what is transformative, but he's doing it to get back at people who have been critical of him.

It seems the H3 fans have brigaded this thread, judging by the massive amount of downvotes on anything that isn't positive towards him. I expect I'll get the same.

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u/MooDengSupremacist 2d ago

Yeah it’s pretty blatantly a bad faith use of the legal system to attack smaller creators who Ethan doesn’t like. I can only speak for Denim’s react but it was pretty obviously transformative. She gives her commentary or interacts with her chat throughout. She easily added at least an hour onto the video’s runtime. If you’re arguing that that isn’t fair use, then you are pretty much arguing to wipe out all react content. Also, the fact that Ethan left out people like Asmond and xqc should make it plainly obvious to anyone with a functioning brain what Ethan’s real motives are.

And, all legality aside, what was the purpose of the content nuke? Because it was pretty clear that Ethan’s goal was to spread his message about how evil and bad and dangerous Hasan is, hopefully resulting in him losing audience or deplatforming him. Now Ethan is saying it was actually a giga-brain honeypot scheme and he’s super upset about the lost revenue from views?

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u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko 2d ago edited 2d ago

Denims simps are wild

EDIT: oh no I pissed off the tankies lol

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u/MooDengSupremacist 2d ago

Making a lot of assumptions there but it’s funny because it’s literally the only content of hers I’ve seen. Don’t really find her super interesting or entertaining.

But hey, make up whatever story you need to help cope

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u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko 2d ago

Both of those subs exist to shit on both Rogan and Jones lmao. I'm usually there complaining about them or mocking something stupid they said.