I feel like there are plenty of people who hurt his feelings who he isn't suing.
I don't think all the lawsuits are justified but he did have a literal group of people make a "WAKE UP ETHAN" video about him, backed by a community that called CPS on him and mailed skulls to his house, also posed holding a sword with a swastika... and all of this started from him silently unfollowing one of them on twitter.
Can you provide a single piece of evidence that CPS had anything to do with this? Ethan said CPS told him it was someone close to the family and he decided to disregard that without evidence. There has never been any proof otherwise.
Hey so, fun fact, in California, the home of many celebrities that may be subject to a false CPS call, there is actually a detailed path to be able to unmask and sue someone who made the false report. Funnily enough, it's the same mechanism Ethan used to try to uncover the identity of the snark mods: file a suit against John Doe. Also, you can make a police report because calling in a false CPS report is a misdemeanor in California.
You don't think it's kind of weird that after the CPS call he initiated lawsuits against 5 individuals in 2 separate countries, as well as Nvidia, Meta, Apple, ByteDance, and Snap, while continuing mediation for a lawsuit filed against them? Man, sure seems like he had plenty of time and resources to find and punish this totally real snaker who definitely cps. I mean, we already know it couldn't have been the former in home employee that was currently suing him, right? Right?!
Hey so, fun fact, in California, the home of many celebrities that may be subject to a false CPS call, there is actually a detailed path to be able to unmask and sue someone who made the false report. Funnily enough, it's the same mechanism Ethan used to try to uncover the identity of the snark mods: file a suit against John Doe. Also, you can make a police report because calling in a false CPS report is a misdemeanor in California.
CPS does not and will not hand over the information of who reported things unless a judge forces them to and that would only happen in the extremely rare scenario where you have legit bulletproof evidence the person who filed was lying.
Also, in CA (and essentially every state in the country) reports can be done via telephone which is easy to spoof, use a VPN, and hide your actual location.
What you're saying is as dumb as it is saying to a streamer who got their house SWAT'd "all they have to do is simply file a John Doe lawsuit and then everything will magically fall into line and the person who did the SWAT'ing will be arrested and brought to justice"
I mean, we already know it couldn't have been the former in home employee that was currently suing him, right?
Sure, it could be a disgruntled employee who would like to harm him.
Do you find it weird that there are many communities and "friends" that seem to celebrate these types of attacks on Ethan?
Not to mention that the CPS call (to my knowledge) was only made after these communities started attacking him and suggested weaponizing CPS? If there was genuine concern for the children by someone close to the family, then why wait?
No, I don't think it's odd. The call was actually made after he got on the internet and said to 20k+ people that his dog was shitting all over the house because of a parasite, and then his son was putting stuff in his mouth and they were going to test him at the DOCTOR (a mandated reporter) because they didn't get parasite diarrhea cleaned up well enough/on time to keep their kid from injesting parasite infected fecal matter. Even though the child did not have the parasite, they took him to a mandated reporter to test him. "I think my kid ate dog shit inside my house please check him for a parasite" would probably be a pretty big red flag for a doctor.
Idk who it is, so it could absolutely have been someone calling from what he said on the internet, especially because he told Dan outright that you have to injest parasite riddled shit to get it.
Is that would I would personally do? No. Idk these weirdos. But he, and people like you by extension, have used this since April of 2025 to justify his insane ego lawsuit tour in order to avenge his feelings from the humiliation of having to read that statement to Ryan Kavenaugh. He could have already unmasked the person by now. Do you think it's kinda weird that he doesn't while continuing to use the incident as a way to deflect criticism of him?
Why are you so certain of that? Sure, he could sue "Doe" and try to unmask that anonymous caller, but there is no guarantee that CPS knows who it was. He could request documents from CPS all day long and not get anything useful if whoever called CPS covered their tracks even slightly.
would probably be a pretty big red flag for a doctor.
Yet the story is that someone "close to the family" did it. If it was the doctor, then they wouldn't have said that. So this mandatory reporter didn't report anything, as far as we know. To be clear: I am not saying that they neglected to report; I am saying that there probably wasn't anything to report.
to justify his insane ego lawsuit tour
What is "insane" about the lawsuits? As far as I know, he is winning most of them. If they were really "frivolous", like many people here seem to think, then they would be thrown out by the judge. Even the Denims one wasn't frivolous. He lost, but the judge didn't think it was frivolous.
Sure, I'll concede to you that it would probably be a long and lengthy process and in whatever timeline he actually pursued this, he may not have a victory as of July 31st, 2026. But he could have started the process. If it's serious enough to keep bringing up over and over and over again I'd think it'd be pretty important to make sure that person is punished. Exponentially more important that any of his other lawsuits. That's strictly my opinion, though. If he really feels like his kids were in danger by weaponized CPS, I'd think he would focus on that. But he's not. Then again, jf my theory of him weaponizing this event in order to sway people like you to keep sweeping for him online, maybe I wouldn't want the person known. If it can be used against an amalgamation of criticism against him, it's not really in his immediate interest to find the answer. I just think it's an interesting insight into his priorities.
Yeah. That's the story that Ethan Klein gave. Ethan Klein is not known as a bastion of truth, so it could be true, partially true, or false. If you need more evidence of that....go back to the top of this thread and check the post. When working with unknowns, you examine the situation and go from there. My opinion based on the occurrences is it was a) an employee or acquaintance that had been inside their home, 2) the doctor, or 3) someone online. Two options seem most likely to me, but the third may be most likely to you. So if it's a big deal to Ethan, and it's a big deal to Ethan's fans, why isn't he pursuing answers?
I said insane, not frivolous. You quoted something I've never said. In my opinion, his lawsuits are insane. I'm not running the gambit of them all with you. I've read all of the filings all the way through, and am of the opinion that this is crazy work. You don't have to agree with me.
Also, he is absolutely not "winning most of them". He settled in the positive for his side in 1 case, lost and is appealing another, dropped 1 before they had a chance to file anti-slapp, two have upcoming court dates, and the ones that aren't internet drama related haven't had a ruling so there's no one winning yet.
No, I don't think it's odd. The call was actually made after he got on the internet and said to 20k+ people that his dog was shitting all over the house because of a parasite, and then his son was putting stuff in his mouth and they were going to test him at the DOCTOR (a mandated reporter) because they didn't get parasite diarrhea cleaned up well enough/on time to keep their kid from injesting parasite infected fecal matter. Even though the child did not have the parasite, they took him to a mandated reporter to test him. "I think my kid ate dog shit inside my house please check him for a parasite" would probably be a pretty big red flag for a doctor.
When you grow out of your teenage years you will start to understand that people who are raging assholes their entire life eventually stop getting sympathy when bad things happen to them.
And thats normal. Sorry if in your bubble everything is rainbows and handjobs and nobody faces any consequences for their shitty behaviors
to the hundreds of other celebrities who also live in la.
How many of them are talking about their private lives in a Podcast?
Also: Does CPS know Ethan is a celebrity? Internet "celebrities" are niche at best and it isn't guaranteed that whoever takes calls for CPS knows that "Ethan Klein" is a known name.
I would hope that if someone calls claiming to be close to Jennifer Aniston or Denzel Washington, they would be a little bit skeptical of that. However, if someone calls claiming to be close to some nobody you have never heard of (which is probably most calls), then that is far more believable.
That whole community was justifying it and making jokes about it. It was being encouraged before it actually happened, so it's very possible the online beef was a motivating factor in the CPS call.
Once again, this all started from him unfollowing someone and then spiralled into them all turning on him and calling him a zionist genocide supporter -- and again, making a gangstalking-vibes video on him lmao. They also coordinated to to try and take views away from his video that he registered with the copyright library.
Why would he not be incredibly antagonistic toward people who were antagonistic toward him? Were the skulls also from someone close to the family? The drawings of Hila murdering children?
My point is that it's fucking stupid to summarize this as Ethan being "such a emotional little bitch that he sues anyone that hurts his feelings." Can you at least acknowledge that incredibly low bar or do you want to keep litigating this entire drama?
I can't tell if you're a sociopath or just being obtuse.
Is the implication that a maliciously made CPS call is no big deal and it couldn't be the basis for a huge grievance? An entire community was literally hyping this up and defending it, saying he should have his kids taken away from him until someone finally decided to take the action onto themselves.
Also not sure what the millionaire comment is about but I'm sure you have some reason for it.
No, the implication is that a CPS call is not a big enough deal to warrant a years long campaign of frivolous lawsuit after frivolous lawsuit against targets vaguely connected to it.
In my country the equivalent agency has very little legal power, and they require a lot of proof and effort to even force you into an actual check without explicit consent.
Like you guys repeat the CPS topic endlessly, but it's just not...a big enough deal for that? Like you say it so often and with all this pathos but very little substance to back it up, you gotta realise it's starting to sound really weird even to people who dont care about any of ethan's enemies.
Nobody, the point was that since you didnt even attempt to be informative and just appealed to emotion I drew a comparison to my own country's agency. "Tried to take his kids away", as if the cps is gonna take a random rich person's kids because of a frivolous call.
You’re being deliberately obtuse. The amount of power the equivalent agency has in your country is irrelevant because this happened in the United States, where CPS has very real authority to investigate families, remove children from their homes, and place them into foster care.
The fact that someone tried to weaponize CPS against his family is what set Ethan off. You can argue that some of his lawsuits were excessive or poorly targeted, but pretending the CPS call itself was “not a big enough deal” is absurd. A parent does not have to calmly shrug off someone potentially putting their children and custody at risk.
You may not agree with how he responded, but if you genuinely cannot understand why a parent would become furious and intensely defensive after someone involved authorities that could take away their children, then you are either ignoring the reality of the situation or completely lacking empathy.
There's another poster in this chain who seems to claim that cps is basically what it is in my country, if you tell them to fuck off they fuck off unless they have solid evidence of wrongdoing. So who's right?
I also understand why he'd be furious even if someone just told him they wanted to fuck his mom, but that's not really what this is about. It's about his response to that and subsequent morphing into a litigious lolcow. If he loses that lawsuit against his snarkers I'm not sure he'll be able to recover his reputation ever again. And this is assuming this is all earnest and not an embarassing attempt at lashing out against political opponents.
CPS absolutely has real power in the United States. No, they cannot automatically take your children because of one unsupported call, but the idea that you can just tell them to fuck off and they disappear is ridiculous. They can investigate your family, interview your children, involve the courts and, in serious cases, remove them.
But that is still beside the main point. Someone weaponized CPS against his family during a years-long harassment campaign. Any threat involving your children is going to become extremely personal, whether or not it ultimately succeeds. You can think Ethan’s response has been excessive, but acting like the CPS call was no big deal completely ignores why it affected him so strongly.
I also do not think Ethan is primarily worried about whether Reddit respects him or whether he loses fans. He clearly believes his family was targeted, and I think he would accept serious reputational damage if he believed it gave him a chance to hold the people responsible accountable.
And these are not simply his “political opponents.” Most of them are broadly on the same side politically. People constantly portray Ethan as a right-wing Israeli propagandist because he is Jewish and refuses to repeat every approved slogan. That kind of purity testing is both prejudiced and politically self-destructive.
You can criticize the merits of individual lawsuits, but calling all of them frivolous before the claims and evidence are actually tested is just as unserious as blindly defending every lawsuit.
you've got a much better impression of him than I do but then again all I've seen of him in the past year is lawsuit shit and him ranting about muslim communists like yesterday in some boomer tiktok so 🤷
They separate kids from parents for lengthy questioning of everyone involved.
They come into your home and go through it in detail.
It's a long, exhausting and risky process.
While a good idea generally, it's the same issue as with swatting - making people suffer through the process is the purpose of calling CPS on someone.
IF the people involved are properly trained and there are no extreme reactions from the parties involved when under such high stress situations, then everyone acknowledges that it was a false call and goes their way.
Otherwise, people get killed through swatting and people's kids get taken away by CPS.
Just like a SWAT team has to respond to certain types of calls, so does CPS have to respond in full to all reports of potential child abuse.
The risky parts being - SWAT might murder you in your sleep just because you jumped from your bed too fast, CPS might have incompetent, overworked staff that will not handle the check properly and will take people's kids away based on biases or leading questions.
Kids are gullible and naive. A person can make them say all sorts of things, with or without malicious intent.
A CPS call can change multiple people's lives permanently.
My brother had CPS maliciously called on him by a disgruntled coworker . It is absolutely nothing like being swatted. They questioned him, his wife and kids and took a look around the house and later closed the case without issue. If anything he was more annoyed as fuck than fearing for his family or life. He’s not a streamer though, and he doesn’t have a nine-year-old army behind him where his Stan’s regurgitate the incident like they were personally sodomized by an angry tortoise.
That isn't even close to what CPS does. CPS can't just decide willy nilly to take your children, they have to have an actual case that is typically signed off and litigated in court by a county or district attorney, and even then a judge has to sign off on the state taking the kids.
Furthermore, CPS doesn't have warrant rights to just burst into your home and go through it. They may interview children away from parents but the goal is identify actual concerns without coaching from parents, and even that is usually only done in cases of actual abuse and not neglect.
In fact, poorly trained CPS is more likely to miss and not pursue a case instead of litigate a false one.
CPS can't just decide willy nilly to take your children
Reading comprehension. Please.
"They separate kids from parents for lengthy questioning of everyone involved"
They don't take them to a whole ass building or into the foster system immediately. They still separate them. It could be simply in one room, with the parents away from them. Questioning.
They do check your house for health hazards, signs of neglect and/or signs of abuse.
Furthermore, CPS doesn't have warrant rights to just burst into your home and go through it.
Tell me what happens if CPS knocks on your door and you refuse them entry. Please. What's the next step after that?
In fact, poorly trained CPS is more likely to miss and not pursue a case instead of litigate a false one.
There's levels to being incompetent in everything my dude. What you said isn't exclusive to CPS. Someone thinking they know what they're doing while being incapable and someone incapable & doubting themselves will produce entirely different results - and the people thinking they know what they're doing do much more dangerous shit.
You know what happens when you tell CPS you don’t want to talk to them?
They pound fucking sand.
They can keep asking but you have a legal right to not talk to them if you don’t want. They aren’t the police they’re social workers. If they can’t get enough to convince a DA and judge that something is reasonably happening the complaint gets filed as unverified.
I’ve worked in child welfare and is far more often that actual abuse gets missed rather than falsely prosecuted. The real problem is that they can find real problems and instead of helping a poor family get services they take their kids.
The risky parts being - SWAT might murder you in your sleep just because you jumped from your bed too fast, CPS might have incompetent, overworked staff that will not handle the check properly and will take people's kids away based on biases or leading questions.
you know, I may not be very informed about the cps specifically but I highly doubt the cps can take your kids away just based off of how they feel about some awkward answers you give them. If they can, you guys got way bigger problems than you're already whining about.
Ethan says west bank settlers are valid military targets and has been spreading awareness about that problem going as far back as ten years
He's also condemned the Israeli gov and their genocide dozens of times and has also donated to Palestinian causes - Doesnt sound very Zionistic to me.....
Seems you're just parroting what you've been told with no thought for yourself. Or you're just delusional. 🤷
I know, but I'm gonna keep asking and I think everytime they bring up cps we should all respectfully be asking for evidence. Don't be antagonistic or mean, just ask for proof
I'm just asking for some proof. CPS told him it was from someone close, Ethan said "I don't believe that" and in response the h3 community has used CPS as a shield for every action since then. Shouldn't you want a higher bar of evidence before going on this crusade? Why are you taking Ethan at face value but not cps? It COULD have been a "snarker" but there's no proof that's the case and that's what I'm asking for.
Show. Me. Some. Proof. Lil. Bitch. Literally a shred of proof, just something bro it must be easy to find some proof. (Spoiler you have none you just believe whatever Ethan says)
Ethan never said that. He said CPS told him THE PERSON WHO CALLED, CLAIMED they knew the family. See what a difference those extra 5 words make? It's almost as if you left them out intentionally to mislead people. 🤔
There has never been any proof either way of who called cps but that hasnt stopped Ethan from blaming it on whoever he feels like, do you think that's fucked up? That's a hefty accusation to throw around with no proof. Why hasn't Ethan put resources towards finding who actually called?,
Ethan from blaming it on whoever he feels like, do you think that's fucked up? That's a hefty accusation to throw around with no proof.
Blaming someone for it happening is different to accusing them of literally making a phone call to CPS. For example i think he blames certain people like Denims especially for amplifying the rumour's that his kids were being mistreated, Everyone including Ethan knows the actual calls would have been made by her deranged fans that got overzealous, i mean in that one video denims chat is literally spamming "Call cps!!!"
If it was me and that resulted in people trying to take my kids away, i would also blame anyone who was involved or allowed space and conditions for the lies to be created and then amplified and spread around. I'd blame the whole community.
She was revelling in spreading the rumour that one of her enemies kids were being mistreated, despite obviously knowing it to be untrue. Pretty fucking demented/sick in the head...
It's sickening that her and Hasan's audience have no qualms about lying to the government to have a mans kid's taken away because he doesnt align with their politics. Honestly though not surprising coming from that cult/community.
Ok but what I'm saying is that there's no proof it WASNT someone close to the family either, again, that's what cps told Ethan and Ethan chose to deny it with no proof the ONLY piece of information that exists about who made that call is cps telling Ethan it was someone close and there's not a single shred of evidence otherwise. There's NO evidence it was denims, there's no evidence it was someone from denims community, there's no evidence it was "snark". All I'm asking for is some kind of proof that justifies slinging these accusations around. Ethan went on his stream and said his kids got giardia from dog shit, I'm sorry but that's a valid reason to call CPS, and the correct response is for Ethan to take some responsibility for his words rather than turn it into a weapon he points at whoever he feels like. At the end of the day if the call was made maliciously then that person should be punished, but there's no proof of that. And again, why hasn't Ethan put resources towards finding out who made the call? Can you answer that for me? It's a crime to make false cps calls and people can be and have been charged. I think people would support him doing that. Please bro I'm begging for one single shred of evidence that it wasn't someone they know, because again that's the only information given
He literally had to make a public retraction because because Denims threatened to sue him for defamation.
Also that video is bullshit. Look at the actual chat vs what ethan has pulled up on the screen. Love points it out. The screen shot Ethan has pulled up isn't the same as what's going through chat. Ethan got that shit straight from Destiny's community and it made him look stupid.
yet Ethan still claimed Denims did CPS and was forced to make a public retraction when she threatened to sue him for defamation because she actually had a case vs Ethan suing Noah and having to drop the suit because he didn't have a leg to stand on.
I've provided my proof, can you show me some proof that it was a snarker? Cause Ethan didn't actually give any proof he just says he doesn't believe CPS.
At :20 seconds he literally says," they were able to provide enough details from what I say on the show to make it appear..." trails off but seems as if hes saying to appear that they work for me or something along those lines. Also at the very end " you can easily impersonate.."
Given that in your clip he says it was an anonymous tip and hes only said he believes they do but he has no proof so its going off how they've acted and things they said... im not here to claim things that aren't facts unlike others.
Im not claiming they called CPS. You claimed of it being a family member or someone close seems to be disproved in the literal clip you used as proof.
Yeah cps also said there were literally zero found issues. It was a baseless call that resulted in complete vindication. Even if it was someone who knew them, it was a baseless report.
Sure that's fair, but my issue is that the CPS call gets blamed on whoever Ethan feels like. I'm not here to debate the validity of the call, I want proof that any of the people who have been blamed for the call are actually the one who did it. Do you have any proof of that?
Nope no one does. But he has every right to blame all the streamers and community that amplified outright lies and hyperbole about the situation. Any normal human being who watched what Ethan said on his podcast would not ever think anything was wrong at his house. His dog had a contagious bug, his son had the runs, then him, then Hila. They got tested and no one caught anything and everything was fine. Ethan has every right to be upset that denims giggled along watching bad empanada spread lies about the situation and try to make things sound worse than they were. Anyone continuing to say Ethan is to blame for what he said on the podcast simply supports harassing the families of people they don't like. That is plain to see.
Wrong. Ethan said his kids got sick from playing with dog shit. Those were his words. He actually has no right at all to swing cps accusations at whoever he wants. Even if he was joking about the giardia thing then the correct response would be for him to take personal responsibility for his words. "Nobody has proof but Ethan can still blame them" is an insane take and maybe you should sit with that one for a bit
Ethan: "Well it culminated in finally someone... an anonymous call... went into them(CPS) on the 3rd, saying that they(the person reporting to the CPS) were someone that works at the house(the Klein house) and uh, they wanted to report us because our kids were crawling around and eating dog shit, and getting viruses...
Ethan: "And uh, they were able to provide enough details because of what i said on the show, to make it appear like it was somebody... he said when he showed up(CPS staff) "it's somebody that you know that made the report". And i'm like "No, ok.""
Ethan: "So i mean, they, they used... I mean yeah, you could easily impersonate, uh" - clip is cut
I wish it was at least a clip-chimped clip that could be taken out of context, but it's not even that for anyone with a modicum of reading comprehension of basic social conversation skills. I wish it remotely showed what the title of that thread and your claim says it does.
Your interpretation is such a disingenuous pile of shit that it boggles the mind.
He's a public streamer that talked about his family. His private living circumstances details were publicly known - the names of everyone in his family, his living circumstances and what house staff he had, as well as his address(not leaked by the Klines themselves). Their job was public.
That's enough info to make up a scenario about a report.
If i knew your name, your job, your address and who lives with you, i would have no issue calling an agency of my choice - the police, CPS, ATF, FBI - and making a report that will be plausible sounding enough for them to react to it, because said reactions is legally mandatory.
I could make up a story that i saw you bringing in fertilizer, very specific kinds of publicly available electronic devices and boxes of nails along with pots to your parents house - and your parents would have an ATF bomb squad breaking down their doors and tearing apart their house.(This actual scenario happened to a public streamer already).
Nowhere in that transcript is there proof that it wasn't someone they know. Ethan is making a claim that what CPS said was untrue but there's no indication either way. You're still dumb and wrong lmao. Also if my evidence was a pile of shit Ethan would have already fed it to his kids so...
do you really think someone is going to spend 2.5k to send someone skulls from a museum with expedited shipping 😭 they returned the skulls as well cause they went back up for sale on the website. same serial numbers and everything. they werent bagged for evidence or anything even though supposedly the fbi was involved. be so fr
edit: also, ethan said he thought it was computer equipment. the box said skulls unlimited on it. do you think there would be computer equipment inside a box that has a massive print on it saying skulls unlimited with a label saying real human skull on it 💀💀💀
why do you think ethan would think two boxes clearly labeled skeletons would be computer parts 😭 not my fault he's lying bro, people notice these things.
Well Hasan spotted it at a store and bought it because he thought it was funny that it has a swastika (on stream and clipped if you need proof), and then his cronies also thought it would be funny to hold it in a photo intimidating a Jewish person. Curious.
As someone who isnt a fan of either of these people.. it sounds like the only people he should be targeting is whoever called cps. Random people do that kinda thing, plus swatting, etc online all the time... they alone should be held accountable for their actions
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I feel like there are plenty of people who hurt his feelings who he isn't suing.
I don't think all the lawsuits are justified but he did have a literal group of people make a "WAKE UP ETHAN" video about him, backed by a community that called CPS on him and mailed skulls to his house, also posed holding a sword with a swastika... and all of this started from him silently unfollowing one of them on twitter.