Hasan Piker is one of the biggest streamers on Twitch, which is quite the accomplishment because the platform was originally for gamers, but he does political commentary. With over 2.2 million followers on Twitch, 1.1 million on Twitter, and 1 million on YouTube, he has quite the influence. He’s a hardcore “eat the rich” type pro-socialist leftist, but he’s not who he appears to be.
Suspicious article incoherently trashing one of the few genuine radicalizing pipelines of the western left
You don't write an article like this about Hasan, you write it about the likes of Vaush, Destiny or all the other actual faux-"leftists" out there
One the positive signs going for Hasan is that he naturally earns the ire and hatred of these backbiting LA and Seattle clickbait pseudo-left types, the kind of people who think writing an article about streamers is a worthwhile political exercise, people who are quite obviously poisonous to any real left organizing
Suspicious article incoherently trashing one of the few genuine radicalizing pipelines of the western left
You don't write an article like this about Hasan, you write it about the likes of Vaush, Destiny or all the other actual faux-"leftists" out there
One the positive signs going for Hasan is that he naturally earns the ire and hatred of these backbiting LA and Seattle clickbait pseudo-left types, the kind of people who think writing an article about streamers is a worthwhile political exercise, people who are quite obviously poisonous to any real left organizing