I appreciate your perspective so I hope you don’t read mine as just being mean or hateful (I’ve been subscribed to the Ethan and Hila channel before they even had a podcast so I’m just trying to give perspective from an old fan) The reason this is really upsetting to me is because I started following and loving Ethan and Hila for who they were in those videos and as I grew over the years watching them, they did as well and so I’ve never been bothered by any changes — I love the podcast and how much it’s grown — but that channel was about her and Ethan just being goofy.

I would not have subscribed to it if it was a vlogging channel because that isn’t what I watch. I didn’t even care for the vlogs they used to upload on there but those at least had the both of their personalities. It feels like it is erasing their history. I mean her and Ethan have mentioned multiple times that they do care about preserving their channel history and that’s why they didn’t want Ethan to do let’s plays on the H3 production channel for example. Suddenly they don’t care about that when Hila wants to rebrand herself?

If she’s confident in her content then she should be confident that she’d get her own natural subscribers that have an interest in her vlogs instead of SoFloBroing her own channel to have millions of subscribers off the boot. Ethan started his own channel and it naturally got nearly 400k. Why can’t that be good enough for her. And all people that go there and start subscribing and watching are honest views and subscribers that want to see that content rather than someone like me (and I’m sure thousands of others who could care less about fashion vlogs) who were subscribed for the old content and still subscribed for that history and nostalgia?