Democrats spent the last year asking where their Joe Rogan was. Hasan Piker is one of the few left-wing figures with the audience they covet — but the party is deeply hostile to the spontaneity and independence that make figures like him appealing.
Democrats spent the last year asking where their Joe Rogan was. Hasan Piker is one of the few left-wing figures with the audience they covet — but the party is deeply hostile to the spontaneity and independence that make figures like him appealing.
I think this is a good take from the Sam Seder crew regarding how new media operates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BACFyzIjehQ
Because of media fragmentation, two things. First, the vast majority of people do not know who Hasan Piker is. It’s a big fragmented media landscape, so most people don’t know who “everyone” else is in the media landscape. If you listen to Meidas Touch or Don Lemon, you probably have no clue who Hassan is.
Second… People get whatever content they are going to get from whichever podcasts or news programs they like, and in general, they like the personality of the people they’ve developed trust in to give them the news or media analysis. People who know who Hassan is, they like him.
It’s a form of positive selection bias. People like who they know and they know who they are because they like them. It’s why they’ve come to know them.
The Hassan derangement syndrome thing is real and it brings no one to the table. It only serves to appease a small group of donors and only hurts the Democrats.
The important part, though, is that establishment democrats and the consultant class over-value the type of media that participates in this derangement.
So we’ll (again) end up with a democratic establishment that turns their shoulder to leftist independent creators and they will (again) lose and blame those same people
Amanda Litman (who runs the Run For Something organization) just wrote a nice piece about the Hassan vs Democrat Party conundrum:
(substack, I know, I know)
https://amandalitman.substack.com/p/build-a-bigger-tent-wait-no-not-like
This was a great read, thanks for sharing.
Oh that will be fun. Thanks .
I know who Cenk’s nephew is. Not a fan of either one. Though Hasan is definitely better than his uncle. That’s a low bar.
Hasan gets some pretty stupid ideas in his head. However more often than not he has absolutely found himself on the right side. And I will absolutely commend him and others for going to Cuba to deliver aid. Amid our fascist’s manufactured fuel shortage.
He’s certainly a character. I find him somewhat insufferable, at least in mannerisms, but it’s probably because I’m older. Chewing into the microphone, eating on camera, China glazing, arguing with chat. But clearly as media and taste’s have changed, enough people like Hasan enough to build him up as the bugfest leftwing content creator.
But if you want to know where things are going and what people believe, how they get to those beliefs, you gotta at least recognize them as a political agent. And I do like their focus on media analysis (similar to Majority Report in this regard). They aren’t covering the news if the day, they are covering how the news if the day is presented. Same as watching Meidas Touch to get an idea for what that audience is thinking, or Jim Acosta for understanding that crowd, or Don Lemon or Sabby Sabs, or TYT or dropsite or zeteo and on and on. If you want to know what audiences are being exposed to you gotta go to where that exposure is happening and watch and listen.
And in that landscape, well, Hasan is kinda a gorilla. Just, no left of center anyone is putting up numbers like Hasan does; not even by 10x. Outside of billionaire funded astroturfed RW channels, no one else has the numbers.
Like it’s not about if I like Hasan or not, like, if they are to my taste. It’s about whose got the numbers then trying to understand why. And Hasan speaks to a pretty unrepresented coalition of people who are far from rightwing, and also, far from naively supportive of Democrats. And I think it’s because they are willing to be say the quiet parts out loud, like “US deserved 9/11”.
He also taps into a demographic that the Dems have lost in the past - disillusioned young men.
Bad dog. No barking.
Put your shock collar back on and sit in place quietly like a good Hasan fan, @[email protected].
Oh Jesus, this bullshit from Destiny and Saltman has permeated here as well? Gross.
I have no idea who those other streamers are. But I’ve watched several hours of Hasan on his own merit, and that fella is a trog all the way through: The Rogan/Asmongold comparisons are right on the money.
Now sit in your place.
Haha IKR how could you have seen hasan even briefly and not know who destiny is?
All they talk about is eachother lol
Its insufferable. There is no thing I could possibly care less about than the navel gazing drama internal to a particular social media platform.
Oh I’m sure there’s plenty of people who know Hasan exists without ever realizing who Destiny is and I love that for him.
I’m sure it chaps little Stevie’s ass every time.
Just wanted to note that I’ve been enjoying your contributions lately. I perk up when I see TropicalDingDong has entered the conversation :)
same here! Theres a couple commenters on here that consistently make the points I wish I could make as effectively.
You’ve completely lapped up their disinformation campaign while remaining ignorant of their existence then. Almost impressive.
I just refreshed my memory from the KYM dogtober page and both those people are mentioned once, offhand. What else would I know them from?
I did see a video of Hasan dragging his other dog by the tail and yanking it around. Did those other streamers make him do that?
Ethan Klein, Destiny, and Dan Saltman all have a hard on to take Hasan down and collaborate on how to do so frequently. They’re obsessed.
You have fallen for a disinformation campaign.
My dude, you’ve fallen for a cult of personality.
Being knowledgeable about who Hasan is is not the same as falling for a cult of personality, but nice try lol