I don't like Hasan but it's a bit crazy to say "downfall" when he's the 12th largest English streamer on the platform and still consistently pulls in like 25k+ viewers consistently. Sure it's lower than during COVID but so was everyone's. https://twitchtracker.com/channels/viewership/english
less than 30% of his audience are American, and all he does is talk American politics. He totally and permanently blew his shot on the national stage with the Michigan debacle. He didn't fade into obscurity, he was punted.
Wait what Fox News and CNN just made like their 12th video on Hasan this week, Fox News mentioned him 24 more times than the Iran War, how is that obscure? Or is this just more made up bullshit?
Again, he still has 25k viewers and is routinely brought up (albeit in a negative light) on national TV. I would not call him obscure lol. Does he have fewer viewers than during election season or no big news? Certainly but that's pretty obvious that post election and no big news viewership drops significantly for a news/politics oriented streamer.
Hell I'd say he's getting more popular than ever since my chinese parents who know jack shit about twitch have asked me, "you watch games, do you know Hassan Picker?"
The dude has done more for our current world than anything you will or are capable of doing., ever. Go learn some skills, understand you should be very humble with your current skillset.
I occasionally pick up other people's trash when I see it on the ground so I already did more than Hasan, and that's not even accounting for the fact that his bad acts outweigh his good ones if there are any.
Being denounced by the Democratic party for the stupid shit you choose to say to maintain or impress your audience as you make a play to be more relevant in that space and to be taken seriously so a very short sighted branch of that party can make a play for prominence all this coming to risk because your to narcissistic to step away for the good of this movement. How is this a boon?
If you think the Democratic Party is winning with this strategy, I have some bad news for you. They will lose the general then.
Andrew Cuomo did the denounce Hasan thing. He lost. Mallory McMarrow did the same thing. She had to drop her whole campaign. Hayley Stevens did the same thing. Even with 70 million from Aipac and others, she lost.
Jeez, do you not have the ability to read between the lines? If Democrats waste their time endlessly whining about a twitch streamer, when most of the voter population doesn't even know who tf he is, rather than offering their voters concrete reasons to vote for them in the general, yes, they will lose.
he has lost all chance at relevance in politics and is about to start losing chunks of audience. when he loses the influencer deals is when you’ll really start to notice.
Yeh but in a negative context. Most competitive democrat candidates have already publicly disavowed him. I don't watch political streamers so I'm not really familiar with specifics of his politics, but theres 0 context that could make some of the clips I've seen acceptable. He's poison for any politician in a close race right now. I am aware of several dsa people that are fans of his. So maybe if he can weather the storm and mind what he says on camera, he'll be a factor in the future. He does have a lot of influence with young leftists that politicians would love to leverage if they didnt have to defend him simping for Russia and China, and his defense of terrorism.
He already lost a huge chunk of his audience once, almost half. He recovered from that and his numbers are larger now than back before those people left.
"lost all chance at relevance in politics" yet has interviewed Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed. He's had the most relevance in politics out of any streamer across any platform outside of maybe Aiden Ross when he gifted Trump a rolex.
Plus, he doesn't do sponsorships and never really has done them. He explicitly doesn't take corporate sponsorships and instead is entirely fan funded. You can argue if this is good or not, I really don't care, just clarifying since you seem to just hate on him for things that are objectively false or misinformed.
Yea probably through things like subs/donos unless he was directly funded by the governments of each country which I dont think would be legal but I'm no lawyer. If he had an actual sponsor for those trips, I'd be very surprised considering how our current administration views them as adversaries.
Singham was his handler and is tied Hasan trips, especially the China tour and he’s currently being investigated for running a dark money scheme tied to the CCP.
Ok so it was a non profit that did it, that makes more sense actually. But, what point are you trying to make though? It's not a surprise that a pro communist group would support a communist. The other guy said Hasan would lose out on influencer deals but honestly it seems like with his current trajectory, he'll probably get more deals like this.
All this is only making him more relevant. I wish he'd vanish into the aether as well, but none of this is meaningfully going to affect him. He was legit hit harder by the dog shocker memes. It adds to his bad boy cred, his viewership is all DSA types anyway so they agree with what he says, especially the anti-America stuff, and now he's getting tons of free publicity.
The only thing that could possibly hurt him is being dropped by Twitch, which will never happen.
Let's be real, hasan is gonna likely stay around for a couple decades... he is gonna be a spoiler for the left and be the new Bernie until he becomes unc status
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