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- 28 de Feb, 2021
There could be some legitimate concern there (although I think misplaced - it's more people like Hasan who are political streamers that do IRL streams that should be worried; Ethan's increasingly an irrelevant troll and isn't likely to be a target). Mostly though, he clearly has the mindset of "don't let a good crisis go to waste". He's leapfrogging from the Charlie Kirk stuff to "I'm scared for me and my family's safety" to "we're going to be targeted by Snarkers" in the hopes it's another angle to stop people saying mean things about him on the internet.
There's been a very dramatic development this week. AB, who's the Lebanese guy on the crew, claimed Anisa and her husband were threatening to blackmail him. This was apparently prompted by Anisa and her husband saying "fuck AB" on one of their streams. AB claimed he was getting blackmailed by iDubbz because he'd mentioned he was considering quitting H3 (there's been no public mention of this before AB said it) and they'd been DM'ing every day for at least a year. iDubbz announced he had no intention of releasing their DMs. AB then doubled down, stating there'd be more iDubbz revelations and claiming that Anisa was a "fucking monster" who was horribly bullying Olivia over text. Specifically, that Anisa had recently sent an incredibly nasty message to Olivia (which is why Olivia was taking a mental health break), so in response Anisa tweeted this out, explaining these were the last messages she'd sent:
So the sort of over-therapised condescending performative feminist message you'd expect from Anisa, but really nothing bad.
This caused AB to completely freak out on his stream (he was streaming when she tweeted this) visibly shaking, and he then announced to his stream that Olivia had messaged to say she was going to kill herself. His chat (followers only) was very displeased with him broadcasting that about Olivia and he ended the stream temporarily
He later came back on to say that Olivia was fine and he "overreacted". Ethan screenshotted Anisa's tweet and lambasted her; Anisa took down the tweet out of respect for Olivia (Ethan did not take down his screenshot of the tweet) and responded that she wasn't dragging Olivia into this, AB was, and she was merely defending herself from accusations.
When quizzed by Ethan on how iDubbz could blackmail him, AB basically said something along the lines of "not blackmail, but they said they wouldn't be friends with me any more if I didn't quit the show". However there's clearly something in these messages that both AB and Olivia are very scared of being revealed. This might just be continual complaints about Ethan or it might be that they've broken their NDA. The more terminally online snarkers are speculating that AB and Olivia helped iDubbz make his Ethan Klein Content Cop by sharing insider information (plausible but unlikely) or even that AB/Olivia were actually the ones who called CPS (insane).
from that time. It's a bit surprising Ethan hasn't gone full night of the long knives on his crew, but he predominately believes all the backlash he's getting is the result of a planned snark conspiracy coordinated by Hasan, so he's probably overlooking the fact his crew like these people (since they can't be part of the snarker conspiracy). 
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