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Common L Twitch.
Ban was for 7 days, and Hasan appealed it to 3 days after taking a quiz.
In the meantime, he streamed on YouTube for the first time in like 7 years, had 140k viewers at the peak, and made a TON of money from super chats, all while being able to stream his regular news coverage AND attend the ICE Out of LA protest in solidarity.
Israel dick riders really got him good.
The only times Hasan has been banned from Twitch was for insulting racist white people. And they say he's doing hate speech. Pathetic.
My wife was watching that stream and just in shock. He made something like ~~7 million dollars~~ *$18,000 *from superchats on his first(?) YouTube stream. He started it bashing the platform and by the end he was talking about his plan for what he'll be posting/streaming to YouTube in the long term. The temp ban definitely backfired by pushing him to a platform where he immediately got 10x the viewers he'd normally expect
Edit: I had remembered a completely incorrect number for his superchat income
Is there a public source for where you got that super chats number?
Its just a number he mentioned during his stream. I don't have a timestamp but the VOD is here
Apparently it's $18,000 not $7,000,000, and Hasan donated it all to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA).
Well shit I wonder where that number came from. Either way that's a pretty dang good payout for the first stream on YouTube in 8 years
This guy is one the best grifters in the game. Right wing grifters hate him because he's beating them at their own game.
Hasan is a grifter. Right.
Success = Grifter
That's terminal capitalism brain for you
Yes he is by the very definition of the word
Grifters change what they say according to what's popular. They can say one thing one week according to the news cycle, then say the exact opposite thing the next.
Assmanmold for instance is a grifter because he's contradicts his beliefs as he follows what his audience believes the most. Most recent example of this was with Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Assman praised ICE in the former case and said they should do more of what they did to Renee. Then he condemned ICE in the latter case and demanded accountability.
Hasan has stayed true to his beliefs over the past 10-15 years he's been doing political commentary. He's believed certain things especially when it wasn't popular, and suffered the consequences. Good example of this was October 7th when HAMAS bombed that music festival in Israel. Hasan explained the event as blowback of an oppressed nation against the oppressor regime, Israel, that had been committing apartheid and ethnic cleansing for decades. Hasan lost a third of his community as a result of his beliefs on October 7th, but he's been clawing back a lot of those losses.
Hasan isn't a grifter. He's a left winger. And it just so happens that the right wing in America are fucking shit up so hard that the popular response in the American citizenry is to push left.
You're an idiot if you don't know the difference.
That's not necessarily true. You can be very consistent as a grifters, a la, Ben Shapiro. The thing that's a makes a grifter that is hypocrisy. They preach something for financial gain, but then use the money for something else. Hasan falls into this camp.
The fact that all his stans have resorted to insulting me right off the bat let's me know that I am indeed correct
Ben Shapiro is actually losing prominence in contemporary politics, or at least American Republican politics, precisely because he won't grift further to the right his other contemporaries like Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. Shapiro is seeing more spotlight from the American Liberal media these days because he is consistent in his views, yet Liberals are approaching his positions.
Ben Shapiro is a counter argument to your position.
Oh I didn't insult you right off the bat. I rejected your position.
Then you showed to the rest of us how much of a dumbass you were, to which I seized the moment.
Keep coping that you're right though
Oh really. Exactly what does he grift people out of, oh wise one?
Money, how is that even a question?
Don't you have to sell some junk supplements or something to be a grifter? Just cause you don't like the guy doesn't make him a grifter.
No, a grifter is a con artist who uses charm, deception, and manipulation to swindle people out of money or possession. Hasan fits this definition down to the letter.
It was people and comments like yours that made me discover, watch and like Hasan.
You are an imbecile for thinking that he is grifting. He is not. He is consistent with his core ideas. You must be one of those morons who think he should be broke because he calls himself a socialist/communist, no? Is that what it is? Because if so, you are so goddamn stupid if you still hold that argument in your hands. You will never defeat billionaires by being poor, dude. We need some people of our own with the same amount of power, do you understand that? I mean, Hasan likely has less than 100 million USD as a net worth, comparing him to Penguinz0's 46M he has made with all his YouTube videos alone, both very active content creators, but Penguinz0 has way more people watching him everyday, because he attracts normies, Hasan attracts those obsessed with politics, which are more rare and few, especially leftists. Even yet, if he donated it all like you want him to, then how the fuck is he going to spread his core ideas further?
People who want him to self-host, to abandon Twitch because it belongs to Amazon, are also some of the dumbest people I have come across in my god damn life. I can go on and on about why that'd be incredibly unfeasible, incredibly outside Hasan's or any other content creator's hands. The amount of money you need to build the infrastructure is immense. If he cannot use AWS, he'd need to use CDN (which hold and behold, also have evil rich people owning the services), which is incredibly expensive to hold the bandwidth of 40,000 regular viewers everyday for 8 hours everyday. Then the marketing or means to gain traffic, it's an incredibly absurd suggestion, I seriously hope you are not another one of those.
I have never given him a cent, yet I have enjoyed countless hours of his content, learning about how evil the Trump administration is, how evil Israel is, and which products, from popular brands owned by evil people I should avoid and convince my family of 100+ people to do the same.
You complain that he donates money for "PR", which is also fucking stupid. The amount Hasan has donated, if measured by proportion of his total wealth, is higher than all the other millionaires and billionaires. At this point, if we are constantly surrounded by children like you, nobody is ever going to donate anymore, because people will ALWAYS call it fake. Congratulations, bub. You made donating a much less common practice. It was people like you that convinced rich people to hate us even more than they already do, and pushed them to do us more harm. We could've at least made it a little easier if it wasn't for morons like you. Fuck donating, right? It will never be sincere, it will always be a waste of time and resources you could instead use to further damage the rich.
You criticized someone by saying "you’re literally incapable of producing a coherent, logical response" yet your response to this: "When has Hasan manipulated people?" was "All the time. How can you not see it?" You literally talk and sound like a MAGA, dude. You both use the same style of arguing: substance-less, empty, hollow, repeated NPC one-liners, insults, "do your own research" type of answer. It's so fucking gross.
I am glad people like you leave these comments, though. They are great opportunities to display how fucking stupid Hasan's haters are to the silent readers like me. No one does a better job at convincing people to listen to him than stupid morons like you. So, seriously, thank you so much for that. Every idiot you see repeating the "he shocks his dog" bullshit, is not that different from seeing Ethan Klein's community constantly calling others a "pedophile, pedophile, pedophile" to ruin their lives and careers. You are disgusting and stupid as fuck if you really think talking like that is convincing anybody to like you or your favorite content creator / news anchor / politician / celebrity / ideology. You are only scaring people away, especially when you don't offer anything convincing or logical, Mr. "All the time. How can you not see it?"
By the way, no one has asked you this, but why don't you recommend us who to listen to? After all, you claimed this: "I like you unironically think that these 3 shithead grifters are the only role models out there for young men."
What other content creators are you encouraging us to watch instead? Come on, tell us. It's going to be so funny to see your own hypocrisy at full display.
When has Hasan conned people?
When has Hasan deceived people?
When has Hasan manipulated people?
You say Hasan swindles people of their money. How come he donates so much of what he makes then?
You are a shit-lib libtard that has no working brain. Either that, or you're a troll or bot paid by foreign actors. Either way, your propaganda isn't working as can be clearly seen in this comment section.
Hasan is a beacon of hope for young men that don't have many other high profile male role models to look to, in a sea of Andrew Tate's and Nick Fuentes's. He believes in an alternative to the destructive system of capitalism that most of the world lives under. He is the answer for progressive politics in at least the US and really the whole world.
As soon as the winds shift his direction, you won't be calling him out. You'll be supporting him. And then you'll be the mindless, grifting minion you hope no one will notice that you are now.
All the time. How can you not see it?
Why do billionaires donate money? It's for PR.
I like how you're so mentally inept that you're literally incapable of producing a coherent, logical response. I guess your brain collapsed at the thought of doing something like that and this verbal vomit of a response is what it produced instead.
I like you unironically think that these 3 shithead grifters are the only role models out there for young men. I was just trying to insult you before, but you might actually be mentally inept.
He's not going to let you tap lil bro
Please leave me out of your weird fanfics. I'm merely calling out grifters as they for what they are. If that ruffled your feathers then that's on you.
Feel free to drop evidence that supports your claims. Shouldn't be hard to find since you say he does this quite regularly. Almost all of Hasan's life is on camera, so again you should have plenty of clips.
In the meantime, Hitchen's Razor bitch.
Go back to reddit bro.
Nah