Behind the scenes with Twitch streamer HasanAbi

Hasan Piker is not your traditional political commentator. Using Twitch as his platform, Hasan has gained a massive following by offering his political views to a younger audience. While Twitch’s audience is largely young men, a demographic trending more conservative, Hasan offers a voice for those on the left or right in the middle. In this week’s Stay Tuned, we’ll spend an entire day with Hasan, reveal his sudden rise to Twitch stardom, and how he responds to some of the backlash he gets online.
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[@TrueVoyager1]

Hasan radicalized me in the best of ways

[@rascal_rae]

love to see the mainstream media highlight Hasan in a very normal way, awesome

[@asaadlewis328]

So happy to see Hasan breaking into MSM

[@itsgarrettftw]

Using rainbow subtitles for austin is WILD

[@God_Is_An_Atheist]

That's from Austin's own shorts/TikToks 😅.

[@tractorKing]

"JD Vance" "Couch" LMAO

[@TheAlchemic1]

No way they included a top of the hour ad break jebait

[@literallyjustisaac3521]

No way they put Austin’s tiktok in here

[@justRedX]

Yk this Hasan Abi guy seems pretty alright

[@SizzleCorndog]

He's got pretty solid politics and unlike a lot of people, will actually admit when he's wrong. There's a lot of clip channels on youtube that turn out videos from his streams daily to keep ppl up to date.

[@peytonbrennan614]

I got radicalized by a friend who showed me Hasan and started me on my political journey. I continue that journey because he’s hot.

[@YodamanOb704]

This man motivated me to lose over 150lbs, and regain my faith in a brighter political future.

[@Alice-cp9sy]

This was great! Hasan plays such an important role in the news space. He often brings on important journalists who’s work can’t make it to MSM and he champions a lot of important work whilst keeping things entertaining.

[@JeremyMendoza-zx9dr]

Ain't no way you believe this

[@spicymajsy]

He was ranked as reliable as Infowars lmao

[@bhaalboy]

@@spicymajsy By who?

[@eloso080]

@@spicymajsyby who?

[@eggymens]

@@JeremyMendoza-zx9dr i saw another comment exactly like this by a separate account. definitely a bot

[@henryandorhank]

HASAN PIKER BTS LETSGO

[@Caliboyk]

If all you’re doing is voting 🗳️ for president and nothing else. Then yeah nothing is going to happen. Basic civics because there are branches of government. Something folks fail to have basic knowledge of to vote every election cycle. Not just the presidential elections.

[@kmehta612]

Huh, never watched this Hasan guy's content before, but this was really funny. I'll have to check out his KZbin channel or something

[@hmark03]

Please do and look at his content FIRSTHAND without telling anyone else what to think. Don't let others sway your opinion. I used to be a hater but after a year or so, I respect him.

[@Al-ji4gd]

@@hmark03 No way you believe this haha.

[@eggymens]

@@Al-ji4gdhe’s not reciting a belief. he’s recounting his experience.

[@SizzleCorndog]

To be fair, you gotta get used to his style and look at a range of videos. There's a lot of fan channels that will generate clips as he's streaming so the youtube space stays pretty up to date

[@Al-ji4gd]

@@eggymens No way you believe this haha.

[@eloso080]

Top of the hour ad took me out 😅

[@otakugamer616]

My internet Dad is moving up W motion

[@PaulPaul0]

Husan is great voice of reason when it comes to the hyper right wing push a lot of the younger generation has been pushed into by all the RED PILL movement. It's awesome to see him get this coverage

[@jude666]

Thank you for visiting the stream!

[@litupemma]

beautifully shot and super funny piece, loved this video, perfectly showcased the great work Hasan does

[@muttwithabutt]

This man is unironically a national Treasure.

[@jamalcalypse]

ngl Hasan has inspired me to try my hand at streaming soon. he does a great job humanizing the left because it's as he said, there aren't enough regular people to represent it

[@Raxin5]

dread it, run from it, the top of the hour ad break arrives all the same

[@shye.notshy]

so proud of you hassy!!!

[@ScumAnt]

Hasan is very informed and does a lot of genuine good charity work. Great to see him only grow in popularity.

[@sashaa200666]

Top of the hour ad break.

[@vspence2]

Currently watching Hasan react to the video after watching the video. Hi Chat

[@enntha7824]

love this dude

[@shawpascua2177]

GOAT

[@FrankETaylor]

That Corn Pop shirt is 🔥

[@VideoJames1019]

Great segment! An interesting, BTS look of a streamer I hear a lot about!

[@rice4550]

THE HIMBO IS ON NBC!!!!!

[@Ichigochii]

Never heard of this hasan guy before. Seems like a cool guy! I’ll have to check him out sometime

[@absolutehabibi2194]

He's Awesome !

[@DefinitelyTato]

our news GOAT getting coverage! Love to see it.

[@whiskeywayne91]

This was when he was streaming earlier howd they post this already 😭

[@m4hk4h]

good video, thank you maya

[@DaftFrik]

Hasan Piker mention!

[@beaniebaebie]

Big Unc

[@shymecha]

Hasan is cool asf!! Im glad hes getting more attention from msm ❤

[@Rethyus]

W motion

[@mingle27]

Great piece❤

[@twoglasshands]

I love this, great video, Hasan changed my views in such a positive way glad he's getting some love

[@KeyGray]

Nice.

[@positronicbeats7496]

Azan?

[@eggymens]

goat

[@HKishin]

comment for the almighty algorithm

[@notjfkjr]

w streamer

[@HasnaaAlaa]

Love Hasan, he's awesome ❤

[@joevero4568]

hi chat

[@meenarayann1010]

Hi Chat!❤

[@DK-ip6ne]

Hi chat

[@ladybug6198]

This is awesome

[@highdeaf5409]

w Unc

[@JesusHammer]

Bro really wore the One Piece shirt on the major news interview

[@GingerCaddy]

Hasan does such a great job parsing through the news and promoting media literacy. His honesty about his biases are a good thing. “Unbiased” news is biased towards the status quo of corporate right wing capitalist interests.

[@Jobbercho]

I'm banned from his chat for saying that nobody should be racist.

[@kaem2018]

sure thing bud

[@adeezzee8892]

Let me guess, you think cracker is the n word

[@IntrovertedPrincess]

Let me guess, you said that saying "cracker" is anti-white racism?

[@imbarneyvargas]

How does Elon Musk show that meritocracy is a "complete falsehood"?

[@God_Is_An_Atheist]

Because his success is not based on merit. He was born rich, didn't create anything and mismanages everything he touches. He got ousted from PayPal because of his incompetence, Tesla and SpaceX are only surviving on government subsidies and Twitter is worse than it ever was. The only thing he's really good at is self-promotion.

[@faster6438]

because elon musk has no talent and ended up as one of the richest people in the world

[@Elf0911]

Do you think that Elon is the greatest hardest working man in the world?

[@imbarneyvargas]

@@faster6438 That's factually incorrect.

[@isaiahwfb]

Look what he did to twitter. Meritocracy is bs.

[@Rachelisdumb]

that's my streamer 🥹

[@badicusvibesimus182]

1:02 he paved it on his own?

[@Rnzlqr]

[@G...a-n3e]

3:08 Well you failed at that.

[@KyleCowart]

hi chat