Hasan Piker
American political commentator
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| March 2025 | The Jewish Algemeiner Journal criticized Piker for defending Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis as 'resistance' against Israel, and for allegedly minimizing sexual violence from the October 7th Hamas attacks. |
| March 2025 | Piker received a one-day ban from Twitch after making controversial comments about Rick Scott during a stream, suggesting potential action against the politician due to Medicare fraud allegations. |
| March 2025 | Temporarily banned from Twitch for comments made during a stream about potential Medicaid fraud, which led to a public apology. |
| 2024 | Election night coverage stream attracted 7.5 million total viewers. |
| 2024 | Hasan Piker's coverage stream on election night for the 2024 United States presidential election had a total of 7.5 million viewers. |
| December 2024 | Hasan Piker was nominated for Best Just Chatting Streamer at The Streamer Awards. |
| November 2024 | Piker defended himself against antisemitism allegations, arguing he was anti-Zionist rather than critical of Jewish people. A pressure campaign by pro-Israeli advocates, including streamer Destiny, sought to persuade advertisers to leave Twitch due to his political commentary. |
| November 2024 | Congressman Ritchie Torres criticized Twitch for allegedly amplifying antisemitism and specifically called for an investigation into Piker's content as part of a broader controversy regarding his political commentary. |
| September 2024 | An article in the academic journal Digital Journalism discussed Hasan Piker as emblematic of the emerging 'Newsfluencers' class, highlighting their tendency towards 'problematic behavior' related to journalistic objectivity. |
| July 2024 | Alex Mahadevan of the Poynter Institute cited Hasan Piker as an example of the 'online chattering class' who do not adhere to journalistic ethics, contrasting them with traditional media peers. |
| April 2024 | Piker publicly acknowledged and apologized for his incorrect pre-invasion prediction about Russia's actions in Ukraine, stating 'I didn't think a regional power would act so irrationally. I've admitted my mistakes. I got things wrong.' |
| April 2024 | In an article from Digital Journalism, Hasan Piker was noted for his knowledge of journalistic mechanics such as sourcing and framing but rejecting these methods as tools for 'manufacturing consent for elites'. |
| February 2024 | Hasan Piker was nominated for Best Just Chatting Streamer at The Streamer Awards. |
| January 2024 | Piker conducted an interview with a Yemeni self-proclaimed 'pirate' who had filmed himself on board the Galaxy Leader, a ship held captive by Houthi militants since November 2023. |
| 2023 | Streamers QTCinderella and AustinShow joined Hasan Piker and Will Neff as co-hosts of the podcast Fear&. |
| 2023 | At the 2023 Streamer Awards, Piker won the Best Just Chatting Streamer award and was also nominated for Streamer of the Year. |
| 2023 | Hasan Piker won a Streamy Award in the News category and was nominated in the categories of Streamer of the Year and Just Chatting. |
| 2023 | During the Israel–Hamas war, Hasan Piker's charity drive raised over $1,000,000 for multiple organizations, including the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. |
| November 2023 | Piker began regularly discussing the Israel–Hamas war, advocating for Palestinian rights and criticizing the Israeli government. |
| October 12 2023 | Hasan Piker concluded his co-hosting role on the podcast Leftovers with Ethan Klein. |
| August 2023 | A paper published in New Media & Society criticized Twitch for its decision to ban Piker, highlighting issues of racial epithets on the platform. |
| February 6 2023 | In response to the Turkey–Syria earthquake, Hasan Piker organized a fundraiser that raised over $1,200,000 for various charities, supported by other content creators. |
| 2022 | During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hasan Piker raised over $200,000 for Ukrainian relief funds while playing Elden Ring, which attracted an average of over 70,000 viewers. |
| 2022 | Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hasan Piker publicly apologized for incorrectly asserting that Russia would not attack, acknowledging he got things wrong. |
| 2022 | Piker won the News award for the second time at the Streamy Awards and was nominated in multiple categories: News, Just Chatting, and Streamer of the Year. |
| 2022 | At the Streamy Awards, Piker presented the Creator of the Year award alongside Avani Gregg, which was won by MrBeast. |
| 2022 | Piker's YouTube channel reached over 1,000,000 subscribers, featuring highlights from his Twitch streams. |
| 2022 | Bella Poarch released the song 'Dolls' in 2022. |
| October 2022 | Piker streamed a political commentary segment criticizing Republican Senator Rick Scott, which resulted in a temporary ban from Twitch for comments deemed inappropriate by the platform. |
| 2021 | Piker was nominated again in the News category at the Streamy Awards. |
| 2021 | Hasan Piker purchased a $2.7 million house in West Hollywood, California. |
| December 13 2021 | Hasan Piker was banned from Twitch for one week after using the racial epithet 'cracker' repeatedly on his stream, sparking a debate about the term's classification as a slur. |
| November 8 2021 | Piker released a line of union-made merchandise called Ideologie and donated a portion of the proceeds to strike funds, raising over $180,000. |
| September 26 2021 | Hasan Piker began co-hosting the left-leaning political podcast Leftovers with co-host Ethan Klein. |
| January 6 2021 | During the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Hasan Piker's stream reached a new high of 231,000 viewers. |
| 2020 | Hasan Piker won the theScore esports Award for 'Like & Subscribe'. |
| 2020 | Hasan Piker supported the presidential primary campaign of Bernie Sanders again. |
| 2020 | Hasan Piker was selected as one of Kotaku's 'Gamers of the Year' for 2020, recognized for his significant role in bringing political commentary to Twitch. |
| 2020 | Piker was the most watched Twitch streamer during the election week, accumulating 80 hours of streams that garnered a total of 6.8 million hours of viewing, with an average of 75,000 concurrent viewers. |
| 2020 | Hasan Piker's stream covering the results of the 2020 United States presidential election peaked at 230,000 concurrent viewers, ranking as the sixth most-watched source of election coverage across YouTube and Twitch. |
| 2020 | Piker won a Streamy award in the News category at the 10th annual Streamy Awards. |
| October 19 2020 | U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez collaborated with Hasan Piker and fellow Twitch streamer Pokimane to organize a stream aimed at promoting voter turnout for the upcoming presidential election. The stream featured gameplay of Among Us and aired the following day, achieving almost 700,000 total concurrent viewers. |
| September 29 2020 | During the first 2020 United States presidential debate, Hasan Piker attracted over 125,000 viewers for his live commentary, marking the highest viewership for the debate on Twitch. |
| January 2020 | In January, Hasan Piker announced his departure from TYT to focus on his career as a Twitch streamer. |
| 2019 | Piker created and hosted another TYT series titled 'Agitprop with Hasan Piker.' |
| August 20 2019 | During a Twitch stream, Hasan Piker criticized U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw for his support of American military interventionism and made controversial comments about the September 11 attacks, which led to widespread outrage and a temporary one-week ban from Twitch. |
| 2018 | 'The Breakdown' was nominated for 'Best Web Series' at the 10th Shorty Awards. |
| March 2018 | Hasan Piker started streaming on Twitch while working at TYT, aiming to reach a younger audience and provide leftist representation in contrast to the predominance of right-wing commentators on platforms like YouTube. |
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