High Schoolers Decide Who Gets $1000 (The Winner Called In!) 

Ethan: girl, you’re foaming at the mouth 😂

"I'm Buddhist" "I'mma be hella mean. I'mma be so mean." OK, sweetie...

"You can hate a child" LOL

‘I do this ten times a day’ “well she should have done it 11” LMAOOO

lmfao $1000 for your education... that might pay for the parking pass

Yeah, the comments weren't turned off because of the girl who won. People were going hard at the marine biology girl.

LOL Ethan went from “I used to starve at school” to basically he was just too lazy to pack his own lunch so he asked for his friends food 😂

When you’re older $1,000 feels like $20 dollars 😢

If you think this is bad, watch the ones with the millennials decide who get $1000. It's even worse

& the girl paying for Uber every day twice a day, has beautiful bleached hair with shadow roots. EXPENSIVE

I'm with Ethan. I really don't think working 30-40 hours a week on top of school is healthy. It's just the capitalist lie that you HAVE to work as much as possible, all the time, no matter what, or else you're worthless. On top of that, college tuition as well as poverty also force many kids to work ridiculous hours. Kids at that age should be learning, exploring lots of different topics, hobbies, and figuring out what they're passionate about. Instead, many teens end up graduating college with literally no idea what they really want to do. Greatest country on Earth my ass.

The NATIONAL ANTHEM playing as Ethan says “this shithole country” I am dead.

There's actually just one person who deserves this money: the one boy that needs to pay for medical bills

AB: “You should have done it 11.” 😭

“My mom fell down the stairs and she hasn’t moved in 10 years…” this bit fkn killed me 😂😂😂😂

Lmaoo AB hating the bahama girl was my favorite thing here

Man, I was growing up eating potatoes and onions in ketchup because we were so broke. We couldn't pay the water for a long time so I had to shit in a bucket and get water and shower at a friend's house so my hair wasn't greasy at school. Still got hated on for wearing the same dirty clothes days in a row . AC broke at the house two summers in a row so we only had fans. This was all before the decrepit house caught fire and legit made us homeless. Even though this is truth, looking back it sounds so dramatic and exaggerated. I don't wish a hard adolescence on anyone, but I hope when they're older, they understand perspective.

completely agree, high school kids should not have to work 30-40 hours a week. sad that many need to.

If they want teenagers with actual problems the production team need to venture out of LA

These people who claimed working 20-30 hours during the later years of high school was the norm really explains the intellectual landscape of modern day America.

“I worked at an auto body parts factory when I was 16, I don’t wanna hear from these little shits” AB 😂😂😂😂

I live in India and I feel so privileged after listening to everyone's stories, High school kids rarely work here(especially in cities) . To work and get a minimum wage, we need a basic degree which we only acquire after 18. So, it's highly unlikely for kids to work before that. Also our parents are expected to pay for our college fees and all dorm expenses and it's normal for us to stay with our parents even when we are 25. There's no pressure of moving out or anything at all.

Zach's soundbyte game is on point!!

25:08 Ethan is right. I live in a second world country and when I was in high school, none of my peers had a job. The curriculum was so intense that it would've been literally impossible to do good in school and have even a part time job at the same time. You just can't work and study at the same time, cause both things are very time consuming.

Nina was right, should have just had fun with a game.

schools in missouri go from 7 am to 3:10 pm and a lot of kids work at fast food 30+ hours a week, it is really sad. My little brother in law is 14 and he works 20-40 hours a week depending on the days, and they are still struggling. It is hard

27:16 Zach playing the national anthem when Ethan was talking about how kids shouldn’t have to work 30 hours a week I was cracking up! And then again LOUDER when love held up the Scandinavian flag ❤️ I need this moment highlighted on the best sound bites zach has done

11:27 “No, you hate her. You can hate a child 😌” BYE ETHAN 😭

watching AB absolutely crumble inside watching spoiled kids is so me lol

They should watch the 7 strangers one, that’s 100x worse

im very thankful that although my mom was struggling financially, she wouldn't let me get a job in high school. she wanted me to focus on my grades.

In Sweden we get paid to go to high-school, all you have to do is show up.

Of course kids shouldn't have to work like that, but it's a fact that the system makes it that way

i had a work permit to work at wendys in middle school at 14..... my mom was single and unemployed and my little sister and i had to eat so i worked 4-11 pm almost every night. honestly i dropped out ofhigh school and got the equivilent so i could work more because i absolutely had to to survive. now at 30 i wish i couldve focused more on education rather than being forced to survive on my own.

I was a waitress when I was 16 and I worked 30-40 hours per week. It was super rough and I was constantly exhausted. Sometimes I would work until 1 am with no breaks (even tho that’s illegal). I think it’s incredibly common in America and so unfortunate.

As soon as I turned 16 I got a job because my mom couldn’t afford to give me money, she was a single mom with 2 kids, so I worked 20-30 hours during high school so I could have money to go out with friends and I did most of my homework during school hours or right before work (I normally didn’t start work until a couple hours after I got home).

I felt so lonely at this age, when these kids were this naive. If I were in this I would just say the truth, "my mom just passed away." This guy needs $1k to start a clothing business? Come on. Sorry guys. Life's just not fair.

im glad the winner mentioned how edited down the video was & how that affected it, omg. if i were the octopus kid (jordan iirc?) i would be so pissed about how i was made to look…like it’s clear they were getting emotionally disregulated or triggered or smth during the filming and that in combo with the editing-down made for such a bizarre caricature to watch

Watching this back again the only one that had sense was Nina (the challenge girl). she was right, everyone DID get butthurt about their reasoning not being good enough. they should've done challenges. also crew is too mean to kids 😭

i worked 30 to 40 hours a week when i was a senior and went to college at night for economics and composition1 (it was offered by the high school). it’s definitely legal and possible for a high schooler to work full time (it’s was also so stressful). (btw this was Tx).

I worked 32-40 hours during high school. I started at 15. I think it was good for me because it taught me a lot. I could talk to anyone of any age, I had bills to pay because my mom was a single mom and so I paid my own way which taught me discipline and how to be responsible with money. It also taught me the value of money. My two sisters lived with my dad so they didn’t have to work and he bought them each 2 cars after they both crashed their first cars. It took them a very long time to understand the value of money because they didn’t have to work for it and they had their lives paid for. I’m now 37 and I had a bad accident a few years ago that has left me permanently disabled. Because I worked for almost 20 years I get a social security check every month if I hadn’t started working so early I wouldn’t get a thing.

I worked 40 hours a week when I was in high school. Sometimes night shift which was illegal af

It’s real nice how educational this actually was

Between the ages of 14 and 18, I worked 38-42 hours a week at a grocery store in Canada. I worked evenings, weekends, and all holidays including Boxing Day and New Years. I moved out on my own at 16 due to personal issues with family. Sometimes it is necessary.

5:05 the fact that she almost burst into tears, because of the stress of having to drive uber every day to school makes me lose trust in the future of humanity

Ethan I literally worked 40-50 hours per week in high school. I know it seems impossible but I worked at a Carwash in Long Island, NY and worked my entire life away. I made bank at such a young age but I genuinely wish I hadn’t had to do it. Edit: I currently work the same amount and attend college full time. I don’t qualify for financial aid (I haven’t reached age 25 yet) and haven’t had any help from my parents growing up but I feel extremely grateful to afford classes at the community college. So many of my friends do not have the opportunity to do so and are so so sad and depressed at the prospect of a bleak, uneducated, life still in poverty. You’re right that our country is fucked and there are so many of us who do not start out with any opportunity for improvement.

From Texas and I started working at 15 under the table, had two part time jobs and school, and help take care of my mom when she was sick until she got better, been working ever since bro, it was hard worked 40 hrs a week and worked when I got home. Praying the new generation doesn’t have to struggle as much!

Omg PLEASE keep reacting to these elimination videos! I didn't even know they existed and I am freaking OBSESSED!! Keep doing these!

It would’ve been hilarious if someone voted for the marine biology girl when she wasn’t on the set anymore

Yeah I know lots of people who worked 30-40 a week. Usually after school you’d work 4-10 maybe 3-4 days throughout the week. And 8 hours Saturday and Sunday. Some kids got a school credit for working and got to leave school at like 1:30pm and go to work. COVID made it worse too bc everyone did online school

I’m a high school teacher.... this is exactly how class is each day🤣

i remember working 40-70 hours a week in high school, full on knowing it was illegal but didn’t say anything cuz i was 16 and felt like i couldn’t stand up for myself. some of those shifts were open to close, 5am to 11pm with no lunch break. some shifts i’d close at 11 but be back to open at 5am, some days it ran late so i was just 16 sleeping in my car outside work cuz i was too tired to make it home & back for the next morning. i fully believe heather & my heart goes out to these high schoolers 💖👏🏼

That was a beautiful redemption arch at the end

I loved this segment they gotta keep doing reactions Ethan is so funny

It's incredibly rare in Australia to work full time in school, to be fair our minimum wage is double here because we believe in workers rights. Most people here who want to be successful at school will wokr 20 hours a week maximum

AB was right. Overalls was hella rude.

i felt so bad for the fish girl, because she got bullied real hard om the internet after this video came out, and she’s like a literal child lol

I worked full time in high school at a shop rite. Slept in class almost every day.

i also had to pay for my own ubers for school everyday

In my program (after the mandatory part of schooling) in Sweden an internship is included in the education where we work like 16 hrs a week. We get an extra 100 bucks (in usd) for doing that, getting a total of like 230 bucks a month. It’s not awesome pay but it makes a huge difference

I’m Canadian and nearly all my friends worked 20-30 hours a week in high school not necessarily out of necessity but to have your own money and it’s seen as important to be well rounded here I feel idk if any other Canadians agree but that was definitely how it felt when I was in hs

My fiancé was one of those unfortunate teens that worked excessively during high school and helped with bills. I never knew this problem was so normal to everyone 🙁

Respect to Ethan for the great gesture and apology

I just graduated from high school (class of 2021) and I feel like I was very privileged, I had a stay at home mom who supported me and did everything for me, my dad is one of the most hard working people I know and he took care of everything for us too. I’m not saying I was spoiled by any means but I’m just glad to come from a family of immigrant parents who could support us and give us a better life than what was available in their country. And for that reason, I would definitely use the money to buy a whole bunch of random material things and I find these kids to be very annoying cause I feel like they really want the same thing, not to fund their future or to use it for any sort of “good” cause, but they wanted to come off like they “needed” the money.

me with 6 open recalls on my ford fusion listening to AB saying there's probably a bunch of fucked up parts cause of him: 🧐 no such thing as a coincidence

In the UK it is common for working class secondary school students (16-18 yrs) to work part-time. School recommends no more than like 10 hours a week. I used to work 24 hours a week and my grades (for the most part) and mental health suffered a bit ngl. I'd work Friday sat and Sunday (8 hour shifts) but I was young and be too exhausted to study afterwards.

"I understand working a summer job." *Laughs in the 40+ hours I worked my last year and a half of high school to survive* I enjoyed my job, but it was still really hard and I barely got any sleep.

I always find it so crazy how kids in the US have to work and move out when they turn 18. I'm from the Philippines, and we go to school for like 9 hrs and do some extracurricular activities after school. Some kids go straight home, some hang out with friends. Parents usually pay for college/uni and other expenses. Some kids go to work part-time but not everyone. I feel like in America, you're just forced to grow up too fast. I went to college at 16 and I felt like I was too young to study for college and kids in America go to work at 16. I wish y'all are just allowed to be kids. :(

Dogs: *barking at intruders* Ethan: can you just turn the volume up

videos like this need to be its own thing more often

I’ve watched a lot of h3 videos especially clips but omg this was the best 40 minutes yet (excluding the prime frenemies era)and what a perfect ending omg

27:20 the music slowly fading in is so funny😂😂😂

Why is H3 always like 6 months late on these types of videos everyone else has seen/reacted to lmao

I worked at dominos and also worked 30+ earning 12 an hour. I stopped using Uber and just started biking it everywhere. It saved me money, but I just had to get up early all the time to go everywhere

Im with AB 100000% with Disliking spoiled brats

To be fair they really did edit it to make the kids seem worse than they were. I think it was really cool of Ethan to send her another 1000

Honestly I can kinda see how high schoolers can work that many hours a week; once they get the credits done required to graduate the students have more free time during the day to either work or just chill and do homework. As much as I would've loved the extra time sleeping in I had no way to get to school so I just ended up being TA's for some teachers

I love how every time they vote, Ethan is like "What's going on?" lol 😆 He just doesn't seem to get the concept of it being a series of rounds of elimination

I started to work full time and did school full time in high school. I went to school from 8am-3:30pm Monday - Friday and worked from 5pm - 2am Wednesday through Friday and Saturday and Sunday 8am - 8pm. I lived in Arizona, started at the age of 16. Made 7.50 an hour. Had to pay for all fees, clothes, food, outings, medical expenses, and transportation myself. My parents could only afford to pay rent,utilities car insurance and their debts. I was a B average student. No extra curricular after school, no clubs, no group of friends. Didn’t have the time. Definitely slamming and grinding for years. Taught me the value of money, hard work and determination early in life.

Maaan this had a super humble ending. Good shit

the fact she said it wasnt fair and got butthurt she got out when she was literally the person that suggested standing on one foot lmao

I used to work with someone who ran into troubles with their car so they had to Uber to work every day. It would cost 30-50$ a trip and they would never be able to make enough money to pay off their car repair. I would offer rides but they would decline most of the time until one night was over 60$. I'm hoping he's doing ok now but hearing this girl today, I could definitely see where she's struggling.

A lot of high school students would come to their shift right after school when I worked at Denny’s. You usually don’t get out until 11pm if you have an afternoon shift. I don’t know how they managed school and their server job, but I know a good amount of them were supporting their families or preparing for college because their parents were not going to help them. So I’m not surprised when Heather said she works 30 hours a week in high school…not uncommon in Texas😅

This was the best content you guys have done in awhile. I LOST it when she called in!!

You can definitely work 30 hours a week while going to high school, that's either 6 hours every weekday, full weekend and a couple days on weekdays, even some 8 hour shifts after school (not saying its easy btw, just that it happens all the time)

AB is like upset 😂 omg

My last two years of HS I would get up at 5:30am, walk 20 minutes to get to the bus stop at 6:45am, school started at 7:15am, then when everyone else went to lunch I would take a bus to the community college 15 miles away for two hours of head start classes, then walk almost a mile to work a 4 hour shift. Add the bus ride home and I wouldn’t get home until around 7pm. Then I would work full 8 hour shifts on Sat and Sun. It was a nightmare.

$1000 isn't worth how shitty this made all of them look and it's on the internet forever

Ethan really missed the point with Heather. She said she’s on her own financially so she has to buy her own ubers. So if she worked and had school the same day, she spent $40 minimum that day. Part time jobs dont pay well so it takes hours to earn that back on your check and then you have to work even more to make a profit. That shit adds up and it’s honestly annoying that no one in the crew or ethan himself realized that. I’ve had a job since I was sixteen. Full time school and 30-40 hrs of work always. It sucks and I feel for Heather.

The ending of this video was so nice!

love how you turned it around at the end tho

Can’t believe Ethan doesn’t think you can work full time in HS. It’s called you clock in after you get out of school. Two jobs? Under the table? If that’s what you have to do to survive you’ll 100% make it happen. My doubt would have stemmed much more from the fact that her hair and eyelashes look professionally done. But i could easily be wrong about that

Lol kids shouldn’t have to work but it is normal now and they do. Part of the problem is how low minimum wage is. If these kids are trying to compensate at home or save up even a little bit, it’s going to take a lot of hours at 7.25/hr minus the cost of getting to work/food and the spending a kid might do. Even a responsible kid will spend a little money and that would eat up whole checks most likely. I worked part time, for fun, for one semester. My mom let me for the experience. We were definitely not above the poverty line but my mom was able to take care of me like “normal” where I don’t have to make money or feel the need to necessarily in a survival way. My cousin, whose 10 years younger than me, just started working at 16. Her moms a mess and has always been. My cousin had to start paying for her own phone, rent and some bills when she started working. I think that’s ridiculous because she barely makes any money, so I’m pretty sure they’re taking it all, and she’s not really even able to save or benefit from it. I just think that’s insane to put on your child. So sad. I’m planning to move her in with us asap but it might not be until next school year. I feel bad that she feels the need to work so much and then can’t even reap the benefits. I’m hoping to move her in with me and get her a really great paying job. But I’m going to be letting her know in the mean time that her mom will be foaming at the mouth once she actually has real money coming in. And idk that she’ll be strong enough to say no to her mom. He mom doesnt need the money like that, she’s just irresponsible, not actually desperate. Anyway. There are alot of parent like that. It’s disturbing. #murica

I think I missed the episode where Olivia was introduced! Could someone explain how she became part of the show? Thanks!

I was 17 and a floor manager of a restaurant. I lived so far out of town, there was no busses. and taxis were so unreliable because it was a small town and only one service. I walked 30/40 mins a day to work and school lol. eventually I started taking a $30 cab ride to work or school.. everyday. I was at school 6 hours a day. then worked 9 hours a day. and often picked up shifts and worked 6/7 days a week because I knew I needed it. then walked or cabbed home at midnight everyday.. I just brought everything for work with me to school and went straight to work. my school was great. they allowed me to do all my work at my own pace and time and leave early to go to work occasionally. I paid rent and everything by myself. so, they understood. thankfully. it happens. it sucks. the world we live in

I worked full time at a restaurant in high school starting the week I turned 16, my coworkers and I were always bringing our homework to work on when it was slow. Most of my friends worked a lot as well. It’s def allowed in California.

When the full videos will be available. Have to watch this episode in bits and pieces 😭

THIS IS THE BEST CONTENT IVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE PLEASE ETHAN INNEED THIS IN MY LIFE THIS IS THE BEST PODCAST EVER

I work at a McDonald's and a huge majority of the kids are 16/17 and they are some of the hardest workers ever. You can't tell that they're kids and they are just amazing. A lot of work out of necessity, because of their families or something else. I'm 24, so in no way in school but I know that I could never do school and work at that age. Yes, they do work 40 hour weeks, some of them, but school started a day ago, so I think here it's like 30.

I worked as a bobarista from 14 to 18 while taking multiple AP classes and to say the least…I regret it. Although I kept up with my grades, I wish I had the regular teenage experience.