Hasan ‘Hasanabi’ Piker got yeeted off the short-form video platform for ‘hateful behavior’

Hasanabi is making headlines for being permabanned on TikTok for “hateful behavior” after his editor reposted a clip from Hasanabi’s December 14 livestream on Black Lives Matter versus All Lives Matter.

Hasanabi is one of Twitch’s most popular broadcasters, garnering tens of thousands of viewers whenever he goes live on the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform. A left-leaning progressive socialist, Hasanabi has covered an innumerable amount of political events from the 2020 election to the January 6 insurrection and beyond.

As his editor Ostonox noted on Twitter, Hasanabi was banned on TikTok for “hate speech.” Ostonox explained that the clip, a small segment from Hasanabi’s December 14 livestream where he reacts to a video by The Cut, was about “how ‘Black Lives Matter’ means we need to end the systemic discrimination and police violence against Black people in the United States.” The worst part of this permaban is it happened on Martin Luther King Jr. day.

“Like, there you go,” Hasanabi said in the above clip. “That’s a great way to look at the extremes on both sides. One side is saying ‘Black lives matter and Black lives are a part of all lives, so all lives clearly don’t matter until Black lives matter because Black lives currently don’t matter.’ The other side is saying ‘Nah, fuck that, all lives matter actually. Black lives matter, too, you’re just fucking wrong for bringing that up.’ The extreme in that situation is one side saying, correctly, that Black people are disproportionately targeted by the criminal justice system and sometimes even killed as a consequence of that disproportionate targeting and systemic racism. The other side is denying that reality. On the extreme side on the other side, they’re also taking matters in their own fucking hands. So, how can you look at that situation and go, ‘Huh, both sides have some ideas here’?”

“Our latest video [was posted on January 16] and started doing really well because it satirized the current TikTok trend of pages that pair multiple colorful, engaging videos together to increase watch time,” Ostonox said. “I’m not sure which part constitutes ‘hateful behavior’ as the clip used is of him explaining why ‘Black Lives Matter’ is a phrase meant to highlight the systemic oppression of Black people in the US.”

Hasanabi tried appealing the permaban but, according to a screenshot he posted on Twitter, was denied and remains yeeted off the platform.

In a livestream on the same day, Hasanabi reacted to the TikTok permaban, shaking his head and saying he’s “so fucking mad” about it.

“Anytime a TikTok of mine goes viral, it gets automatically mass reported and I get fucking permabanned,” Hasanabi said. “Every single time, dude. How? How? I mean, it’s insane. It’s insane, dude, it’s fucking insane. Every single time. Like, without fail. I hate it so much.”