I Spent A Day With HASAN PIKER: "Unraveling the Controversy"

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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I spent a day with Hasan Piker to learn the truth about his beginnings at The Young Turks to his rise becoming an influential political commentator on twitch. Sponsors ▸Go to http://betterhelp.com/padilla to get 10% off your first month! ▸Visithttp://joinhoney.com/PADILLA to get Honey for FREE 💥NEW YOUTOOZ FIGURE: https://youtooz.com/products/anthony-padilla 🧨HUGE thank you to Hasan Piker: ▸ TWITCH - https://www.twitch.tv/hasanabi ▸ YOU TUBE - https://www.youtube.com/hasanabi ▸ INSTAGRAM - https://instagram.com/hasandpiker/?hl=en ▸ TWITTER - https://twitter.com/hasanthehun 🎥Crew ▸ Creator, Director, Writer, etc. - Anthony Padilla ▸ Executive Producer - Alessandra Catanese ▸ Producer, Co-writer & Research - Elise Felber ▸ Director of Photography/Gaffer - Kathy Sue Holtorf ▸ Camera Operator - Amber Steele ▸ Social Media Manager - Mallory Myers ▸ Editor - Mike Criscimagna AKA Mork Crispy ▸ Assistant Editor - Patrick Horba ▸ Assistant Editor - Ash Duckworth ▸ Sound Editor - Gareth Hird ▸ Post PA - Levi Villalpando ▸ PA - Joshua Dozier 🎵Theme Music Composer - Matt Good AKA The King of Emo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This show is sponsored by BetterHelp Online Therapy.
0:02.3	Visit Better Help.
0:03.3	C.
0:04.3	Because sometimes existing is exhausting.
0:05.8	What do you got?
0:06.8	That's wild.
0:07.8	You won't even fit.
0:08.8	You got a little sauce.
0:09.8	Oh damn, that went on my biggest finger. My name's Anthony Padilla, and I spent today with Hassan Piker to uncover the truth about how amassing over 2 million followers on
0:19.0	Twitch and becoming the top political pundit of our generation has changed the trajectory of his life.
0:23.6	And how nearly everything he does is considered so controversial that entire hate campaigns have
0:28.6	been constructed against him.
0:30.7	Hello Hassan!
0:32.3	What's going on? You are gaining an average of 1 million followers a
0:40.1	year on Twitch. Okay. I don't know.
0:43.0	Now over the past two years each year you've had a high of almost a quarter of a million
0:47.8	concurrent viewers.
0:49.2	Why do you think so many people are drawn to watch you?
0:51.3	People are not very honest about why things are terrible.
0:54.4	Everybody, for the most part, feels a little worse overall year over year.
0:58.4	I think a lot of people feel angry.
0:59.9	I try to direct their anger at the system rather than individuals and explain to them why they feel the way that they do.
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