We Have To Talk About The Pokimane Cookie Situation... 

It’s not really that interesting when the person being discussed is in chat and everyone’s take is to make her happy

You can be her friend still, while holding her accountable respectfully

Imagine if Mr. Beast charged $30 for a bar of chocolate and then said “you’re just a broke boy if you don’t buy it”, H3 would go on a 30 minute rant, hyper analysing it and calling Mr. Beast a classist, privileged scumbag who hates the poor regardless of if he apologised. Keep that same energy for Pokimane and stop being a hypocrite 💀

another case of a celebrity losing touch with reality, imagine giving your hard earned money to these condescending people.

There’s no way to give an objective take while poki was in chat lol. Also, even if she did apologize and was only talking to that one person it leaves an icky taste in my commoner mouth that she would even say that. Even if she regrets saying it, it shows that she has an underlying sense of superiority over those less financially affluent. ALSO let’s stop excusing healthy items for being more expensive, health items shouldn’t be only for those with extra money because obesity disproportionately targets those in poverty. I’m happy h3 doesn’t need to worry about finances like those in my family/community but they’re clearly out of touch with the root problem here.

They would tear her apart if she wasn’t a part of and a fan of the show, sad to see the hypocrisy

Defending her calling people broke is so weird and upsetting honestly. Very obvious bias here against valid criticism and upset fans

Wait so she bought the recipe... so she didn't organically come up with the cookie, meaning the cookie existed before she bought the rights to it and then she decided to sell it for double than what it was originally selling for. These are the actual facts that you presented. So the criticism is correct. Glad Poki is a friend of the show, and maybe she's just working with inflation, but the criticism is correct objectively. People do cash grabs all the time, she should just own it instead of calling people poor. LOL

I think it was so wrong of Poki to join chat and give input. Way to make it impartial and not have a heavy bias. Didn’t have a problem with her till this podcast smh.

I honestly don't give a shit about the cookies, it's her reaction to her fans saying the price was too much that really bothers me.

He’s usually honest. Would have liked to hear him have an honest take on this one.

If it was anyone else you would have ripped on them so much. This is an L take, I know its not that serious but its so obvious Poki was trying to save face

Ofc Ethan will defend poki cos it’s his friend, classic shit

The Costco cookies which are the same thing, were $10 for 14oz, Poki cookies are $7 a bag for 4oz and they come in a 4 pack. This is a pure money grab. If Ethan and Poki wren't friends, he would've sht on her.

Something about poki conveniently being in chat while they talk about it made me iffy

I hope they read the comments and realize how out of touch they are

I’m sorry but Poki is wrong in many many ways

Pokimane is objectively in the wrong here

Love you guys, but this ain't it... just siding with her cause she's a friend of the show but if it was anyone else they'd be called out in an instant..

You can still be her friend but still hold her accountable for her bullshit.

Y’all are way to out of touch to even understand why that comment was extremely off putting and make ppl see how out of touch they there was no joke at all she was just being condescending and laughing at ppl who think $30 for cookies is expensive, def don’t like how y’all ignored valid criticism and tried to use the sexism argument

If anyone else called their fans broke bois Ethan would be all on their ass. Really don’t like how he was protecting Poki here.

I want to say it's baffling they didn't call her out on her bullshit but then again I'm not surprised. Big fat L from the H3 crew on this one.

This is bad, an entire perception has changed, she was not joking, she can’t even admit that she was just being an a-hole

What's funny is that Mynas (what her brand is named after) are one of the most invasive birds in the world and are considered to be a pest in a lot of places

Nah how are you gonna sit in the gaming throne and call everyone broke during an actual resession. Its gross . You can be friends with someone and call them out, in fact id argue that a bad friend dosent ever call out their buddy when they fuck up

She’s “friend of the show” so I guess they can turn a blind eye

She didn’t even really apologize she just justified what she said by saying it’s clearly a joke but like we don’t think she hates poor ppl lmao but it doesn’t make the “joke” any more funny or any less out of touch or offensive to the ppl who bust their ass and work 2 hours to make $30 while y’all make millions like yeah sorry if I’m not really finding the so called joke funny

I been a fan for years and years but nah I can't side with y'all on this one Ethan. She is your FRIEND and you need to hold her ass ACCOUNTABLE

“I know what she said was wrong but have you guys thought about the fact that shes my friend? So it’s fine.” - Ethan, probably

L take. You can’t take such hard stances on certain topics but then move the goal posts when your friends are involved in “scandals”, whether it’s cookies or SA allegations🤷‍♀️

We're just peasants to the elite streamer class. Pokimane, Hasan, XQC, etc, they're all the same. You're just a wallet to them.

If someone ethan didnt like said the same thing he would try cancelling them

They were way too biased towards Poki, they should have been honest here

I wish we could have used this moment to teach Pokimane how to properly deal with negative comments about her business. All her friends wanna defend her, and it’s not helping her become a better businesswoman.

Didn't expect to see H3 defending her so hard lol

It’s definitely “Healtheir” than chips ahoy or oreos or whatever but that does by no means imply that they are healthy. In fact if you look at the amount of vitamin D in each cookie you’d realize you need quite a lot of bags to reach your daily recommended intake 🤣 but at least they are $7 a bag yes slay, only a “broke boi” wouldn’t support this healthy choice

The first thing to learn is not to defend the indefensible. she scams her fans with costco, calls them idiots and broke, lies saying it was a joke, sends streamer idiots to defend her and shows her true face even more. She wanted to play but lost, and this is only the beginning. her fall is inevitable.

All of the crew in this were neglecting to be objective not only about what she said, but about the price as well. If Ethan takes one side, at least one other person will play devil's advocate and give the inverse, but no one seemed to do that here. As everyone saying it's beyond hypocritical really, and kind of a slap in the face that they are all so dismissive of normal people's views and takes on the sitch. The fact that they were all so staunchly on her side kinda annoyed me a bit, no one spoke up at all. Yeah in the grand scheme of things it's probs not that big of a deal, but it was a crappy comment for her to make, and she should have been examined more objectively by everyone in the crew. The way that she immediately jumped into chat and tried to diffuse the situation by making an apology should have been thought about more too. Just disappointing from you guys honestly

her being in the chat 💀

It's the way she said it that rubbed me the wrong way. Yeah I get that the "healthier" stuff is really pricey but $7 is $7 and that's a lot of money for some people I've gotten so fed up with store prices on things and the fact you get less for more that I just started making my own snacks and cookies. Plus I feel like you are all making excuses for bad behavior from her and it's hard to be non biased when she's a friend of the show and in the chat. I won't be purchasing her products but I won't hate on others for purchasing it.

keep in mind they have to defend this kind of stuff because they sell their own overpriced products as well. This position should be obvious.

You’d think Pokimane paid him for a take this delusional

Ethan would be pissing and shitting on this so hard if Keemstar did the exact same thing you just know it 💀💀💀

50 minutes of pure deflection 🔥🔥🔥🔥 quality content

He's trying to be impartial... while she's in the chat. Look man, not everything is about people blindly hating on Poki. People can be victims of internet assholes AND still pull some stupid shit that they deserve to get roasted on.

They are just rebranded Costco cookies, but the whole marketing of the cookies having a good source of vitamin D is false advertising. Pokimane's cookies have 3mcg of vitamin D which is minuscule with regard to the required daily intake of 20mcg. Also, the price point of the cookies sucks.

These are not vegan if they contain palm oil.

Its so obvious when they crunch the numbers on calories per gram on oreos, how They, especially Dan, deflect. It was disengenuis. There's being logical, theres playing sevils advocate, and there's just making things up to defend your friend. This is legit the only time ive had an issue with pokimane. Smug entitlement is really toxic, and im not sure what Pokimane said was just a moment of weakness, those kinds of words come from within you.

How do they not realize pokimane is selling MINI cookies way smaller than the chips ahoy

The reason Pokimane gets shit while someone like XQC doesn’t is due to the way they present themselves online so when Pokinane does something it’ll comeback and bite her while if someone like XQC does it it’s kinda expected

You know damn well if this was Keem or any other person Ethan dislikes, he’d bash them endlessly but because it’s Poki who is a friend, he goes easy on her. So hard to support H3 nowadays.

The chipsahoy bag from wallmart he was comparing prices with for $5 was 18.2 oz of cookies. So over 4 times more cookies in it than a $7 4oz bag of poki cookies. So it's $2 dollars cheaper and you get 4 times more product. That one $5 chipsahoy pack still had more cookies in it by weight than the $28 4 pack of her cookies. And Poki 100% wasn't just joking, I've seen her talk down to her fans tons of times. Even now she's not really sorry, she's just saying it was a joke and no one else got it. I love H3 but this was an L.

Just cause she’s your friend doesn’t mean that she isn’t in the wrong. Charlie’s take is reasonable as she was way out of line to insult her fans like that. Additionally she is a hypocrite as she has criticized other people in the past for the same kind of behavior. I support you guys but you gotta realize how you sound rn.

Hard to be objective with poki in chat

I mean….. Mr Beast has some pretty good cookies. This immediately reminded me of that. Not sure how well it compares. Also, poki was literally responding to points before Ethan could even get to it. Jumping the gun on controversial issues surrounding her snacks seemed a little overbearing. Hard to have a fair and balanced opinion when she is sending message after message.

“Tastes like it’s healthy” what the fuck Something that is lacking in flavor isn’t a sign of health lmao

Honestly i think im done with H3 they are just out of touch with reality and completly fucking biased! This was hard to watch as i liked them for a long time. But Ila saying why do you care if minors change gender and Ethan acting like this pokimane stuff is completly okay just shows you how money and Hollywood can fuck up Peoples common sense

How can you be non biased with poki literally steering the conversation from chat though? You can still be friends with her while also holding her accountable

Pokeman trying to do damage control in the chat is hilarious 😂

I was hoping they would be unbiased. I'm disappointed.

I get poki has been on the show before, so I figured they'd be biased, but god damn why keep digging into charlie when his criticism wasn't particularly scathing. He basically just has the same criticisms you do. I don't like how you're bad faith implying he hates poki just for being a woman, and not critiquing anyone else. You TRY to give yourself a cushion by saying "maybe he did make a video, maybe he didn't" but it definitely feels like you've made up your mind that Charlie is bad and unfair.

Jesus Christ Ethan keeps giving L takes over and over again. If he didn’t want to criticize his friend he should’ve just ignored it.

They’re over priced but so are all “health” snacks

why was the first part of this video basically an ad?

Imagine if every criticism of men was immediately countered with calling women femcel… it’s ridiculous how anyone criticizing will immediately be called a incel.

28:15 but it wasn’t meant to be a joke 🤣🤣

if she wasnt in the chat or a fan of the show it would be a whole different story. L

If I'm eating oreos and I grab a cup of milk I'm taking at least one sleeve LOL.

Ab sounding like he's on zoom lately 🤣🤣

So hypocritical, in the same episode Ethan criticizes haters for acting like you can't care about 2 things at once, but can't acknowledge you can think Poki gets a lot of hate for no reason AND think that this is a reasonable thing to criticize her for 🤨 and even if her comment was meant to be directed at a particular chatter that made her frustrated, it was still a comment that could be directed at any person that couldn't afford her product, she said "i hate when people say '$27 for cookies?' It's 4 bags, that's $7 a bag"...calls "people" not "person" an idiot and broke etc. It feels like conditional respect for the average earning person, and even more so after her apology, her apology felt like she was just saying "sorry guys, i didn't mean all you other poor people are idiots and broke! just this guy! don't worry, you're not an idiot for not being able to afford my cookies, just THIS guy, this was a BAD poor guy"

All the Oreos disappear like Pringles

Y'all wanna take this as an L take when he treated it with the seriousness that it deserved because it was FUCKING COOKIES

Please stay hydrated

SAVAGE of Ethan to troll by showing the labels back to back and being like “…well” all while SHES IN CHAT😂lol, is Ethan getting influenced by Redbar lately?!?!?

Everyone pearl clutching over poki making a out of touch comment and selling cookies no ones buying. Theres so much better things to get mad about than a twitch streamer selling rebranded cookies.

ethan must really want free cookie PR

Omg all the pearl clutchers in these comments over one off-handed sarcastic joke during a live stream. Relax, people. They’re just cookies. She didn’t go on some tirade against poor people. She called out one obnoxious chatter and jokingly said “I know math is hard when you’re an idiot… but if you’re a broke boy just say so!” OMG THE WORLD IS OVER 😂😂😂

If they are not going to give honest take to this, they should have never mentioned the Pokimane situation at all, better stay ignorant than dishonest to your fans.. Poki is clearly in the wrong here, if you cant hold your friends accountable, you are literary just a hypocrite.

Damn, there goes Ethan’s credibility

Yo wut lol you guys actually uploaded this as a clip? A 50 minute clip at that?

The reason it became a big topic is because it comes across as her breaking character, everyone already knows Adin, xQc etc. are shamelessly disrespectful so if they make comments like this it's already been covered 100 times

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All of these comments are annoying man. the amount of overpriced products on the market influencer or not is infinite and people seem to be taking specific issue with it because it’s Poki. I also guess women aren’t allowed to make jokes because anyone who watched her entire stream could tell her comments delivery was a joke. People seem to have no issue with tuning out to overpriced items any other time. This is a treat guys, don’t buy it if you don’t like anything about it, cookies are not a necessity, literally who cares

first of all i do. also whos only gonna eat 7 cookies ? theyre smaller. youre gonna end up eating double the amount. unless the cookies are so damn dry and not that good that you have to only eat 7 at a time. ethan was correct. ITS THE CALORIES/WEIGHT THAT MATTERS. saying the weight doesnt matter makes zero sense. zero. nada. the weight is the one thing you look at to determine which cookies are lower prices. people get so often by misleading packagings. thats like how companies price star anis at 12$ for a tiny aluminum package and like 4 star anis in full and tiny pieces. compare that with a HUGE plastic box of anis with like 20 anises in it for like 6.24. and they legit were hiding the cheaper boxes of anis wayyyy in the corner of the alley. tbh thats at least one good reason to learn math: so you dont get scammed with food and my opinion on it is just. theyre expansive and they dont look that good. i know i cant eat those cookies it rips my gums apart. thats my issue with those cookies. its painful af man. for real like im tryinmg to eat sweet relaxing cookies not get stabbed in the darn gums but also im not buyign them so it doesnt effink matter lmao. i dont think i could get along withj pokieman, she likes hard cookies and i hate hard cookies. cant happen. btw im being jokingly dramatic.its funny tbh. in case thats not clear cause tbh these days you never know lmao but also you have to admit those cookies with that logo DOES make the cookies look like that bird did poos on them. i can see how it mightve been accidental but wow . thats really unfortunate LOL T_T like you can disagree if you want but. personally speaking. i cant unsee it. im sorry i just cant. i thought the cookies looked normal at first too until i realised

I'm team 6 oreos in a sitting as a snack. For "dessert" after eating 3 is good.

The outrage over Pokemaine proves Incel Culture is strong online

I think one issue is how many people use free market 101 as a excuse to jack up prices or manipulate said market. Pokimane is not unique in this, she is one of many and corporations that do it are rarely talked about. Presenting their product as a affordable healthy option while being more expensive or less healthy than other options. All while buying out a decent option and preventing people from buying the original.

Rare H3H3 L, she def needed criticism for that

My dad used to say he hated squirrels because he worked for Southwestern Bell and they’d chew up the phone lines. So there you go. Some people hate squirrels.

I couldn't have cared less about the expensive cookies, that's fine, white labeling expensive cookies is perfectly OK. But you have to be really naive to actually believe that the "broke boys" comment was a joke. You can see it from her demeanor before and after the clip. It was said out of frustration, and it's pretty irritating for those of us who can't really justify paying $1.75/ounce for cookies. She's a multi-millionaire, she never has to think about the price of the food she buys, unlike most of us. Also, "bag" is not a unit of measurement. These are tiny bags, 4 ounces for $7 each, with a minimum order of 4 bags. It is objectively a lot of money and you can be really well off and still not want to pay that kind of money for cookies. So I wouldn't mock "broke boys" in this context.

Those burps Ethan is complaining of are a common ozempic side effect. I don’t know if he’s telling the whole truth about his recent weight loss

This whole pokemane incident is just peak boredom in society. They are cookies and realistically the price is high sure, but so is gas. One is something you can buy and dont need and one you buy and kinda do need unless you walk everywhere, ride a horse to work, use a bike, ect. We complain about the things that will have the fastest change and dont complain about things that takes time to change or is hard to solve. How about we complain about things that if solved will make life easier for us all instead of complaining about the price of cookies? It becomes extremely hard to stand up for things that matter when the only thing the vast majority of people seem to worry about is cookies now a days.

H3 picks and chooses who they should hold accountable.

Is it possible Adin was defending her on purpose and making a point, why do you assume it's unintentional? that just seems like group mentality where he's 'not on our side' so how could he possibly have a take that aligns with you on something.

The additional difference between plant-based and vegan, is that plant-based is just referring to dietary things and vegan is an ethics based lifestyle which also includes a plant-based diet.

Any argument that doesn’t 100% comply with the beliefs of this audience is considered by them to be dishonest. Paragons of critical thinking 👑

So as long as you’re friends with Ethan you can get a free pass got it 👌🏽

Man, every time i come back to his channel, he's looking more and more sickly than the last.

Ethan, you stopped being honest and critical when you found out Pokimane was in chat. What’s a bigger priority to you, your “friends” or ethics? The fact you acknowledge that there is a situation in the title, and refuse to acknowledge it in the video, makes me want to unsub. It’s so dishonest it comes across as grifty asf