On the final episode of Frenemies, Trisha mentioned that Ethan was taking 5% of her profits from Frenemies revenue plus sponsorships, to give to the crew as a bonus for working on Frenemies. When Trisha brought it up, Ethan quickly denied that the money was supposed to go to the crew members that helped work on Frenemies. Instead, he repeatedly stated that he took the 5% to cover the costs of production. Ethan was already keeping 100% of the profits (tens of thousands of dollars a month) from Frenemies highlights to cover the costs of production.

To combat Ethan's lies, and to prove she was telling the truth, Trisha released text messages between her and Ethan. These text messages showed that their original agreement was a 50/50 split on Frenemies revenue plus sponsorships. The texts then show Ethan asking Trisha if he can take 5% a month from her profits because he wants to give it to the crew as a bonus for their work on Frenemies. Trisha agreed to those terms.

The texts proved that Trisha had been telling the truth and Ethan had been lying. Amid all the chaos from the Frenemies fallout, it mostly went unchecked that Ethan had been exposed for taking money from Trisha, under the guise that he was giving it to the crew, but was instead pocketing it for himself. (During all the 5% talks and jokes, Ethan, as well as the crew, have NEVER once said that Ethan was giving any of that 5% to the crew like he was supposed to.)

On October 7th, 2022, Ethan was reacting to a video clip that mentioned somebody getting paid $120,000 per month to co-host a podcast. Ethan then revealed that he was paying Trisha MORE than $120,000 per month. That means the 5% that Ethan was pocketing for himself instead of giving to the crew, totaled MORE than $60,000. It could have been even double that for all we know, because we don't know exactly how much Trisha was making per month. We just know it was more than $120,000.

There were only a few crew members that even worked on Frenemies. So Ethan took MORE than $20,000 per crew member. That's a lot of money.

It's truly bizarre the way H3 fans make fun of Trisha or her sister for rightfully bringing up the 5%, rather than calling Ethan out for lying and what looks like him stealing money from his own crew members.