Hasan Piker

> "'why did you say retail workers hate their lives? That's fucked man, I may have worked retail but my life was worth living.' Okay, I'm just gonna ban you dude."
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> - Hasan, responding to a chat member, EFAP 147
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**Hasan** **Piker**, also known as **Hasanabi**, is a Korean veteran with brain damage and the secondary host of Hasan's Chair's Twitch channel, alongside Cardboard Bernie Sanders. Along with that, he is a major, overarching antagonist/villain across the EFAP community, as well as being a major threat to basic human intelligence. He makes hours-long streams responding to YouTube videos like those incels on EFAP, but unlike those incels on EFAP he just lets the video play and doesn't say much about it, which makes him good.

## History

### PreFAP

Hasan made a name for himself streaming on Twitch, reacting to videos and providing political commentary, though he is not a political streamer because you're not supposed to take his political commentary seriously.

Hasan got himself in hot water when he said that America deserved 9/11, requiring his uncle Cenk Uygur to step in as damage control and help him make an apology. He would later find his channel demonetized on none other than September 11th.

Hasan also mocked Navy Seal Dan Crenshaw, for having lost an eye in Afghanistan, calling the person who did it a hero.

Hasan also received backlash for only paying his editor in the form of buying him a computer to edit with, which in his mind counted as him "owning the means of production."

#### vs Jay

Absolute gigachad Jay Exci's video on the strange house that went viral got picked up by the algorithm a few months after it was uploaded, leading to it being covered by Cr1tikal. Jay took some issue with Cr1tikal's coverage since he mainly just thanked subscribers while he let the video play in the background without providing much commentary, but he decided to leave it be. After watching Dunkey's video on the same house, Hasan was recommended Jay's video by his chat, and so watched that as well. He left to go make himself food for a third of the video's runtime, then let it play mostly uninterrupted while providing very little transformative commentary, then stopped the video right before the part where it promoted Jay's content.

Since this was the second time something like this had happened with the same video, and it had gotten to the extreme of literally leaving the room while just playing someone else's content, Jay did a stream reacting to Hasan's reaction, and left to go take a shit before coming back and eating a piece of cardboard while letting Hasan's stream play in the background. Jay was fine with Hasan reacting to the video but simply asked that he actually add a substantial amount of commentary instead of just letting it play, and give credit to the original video.

#### Death

> "Dude what am I supposed to do, DIE?"
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> - Hasan, before dying
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Hasan responded to Jay's "drama" stream, and was baffled that Jay just left the room while his stream played until he had it explained to him that it was to mimic him having done the very same thing. Hasan agreed that Jay and anyone else who did not want him playing their content on his stream were entirely correct and that he doesn't play people's content after they've asked him to stop, not understanding that he shouldn't be acting under the assumption that they are okay with it until they say otherwise. Hasan and his chat accused Jay of only responding to him for clout, and argued that simply playing the video while he left the room was justified because Hasan streams for a very long time, comparing Jay's request to forcing an Amazon worker to pee in a bottle. Hasan spoke as though he was doing Jay a favor, citing that Jay had admitted his stream gave the video a huge spike in views, when said spike was 200 on a 400,000-view video. Jay's demands for Hasan's content were so extreme that they proved fatal, and Hasan died.

He's alive now though.

#### Jay's Rage

Jay did a stream responding to Hasan's response with MauLer and Fringy, articulating why they felt he didn't really understand the point behind Jay's original criticism. Several members of Hasan's chat came into Jay's chat urging him to calm down and stop shouting, with one chat member saying Jay should have been nicer and copyright struck Hasan's channel instead of starting drama.

### Murder of Snaffuu

"'... show their fucking channel name dude. It's not a big deal.' No shit... dumbass. What kind of a fuckin' baboon are you? Like, you think I disagree with that? WHY DO YOU- ugh, God I fuckin' despise these dipshits dude. Yo, I swear to God, dude, I swear to fucking God... like, you're such a fucking dingus, dude. 'HURR JUST SHOW THEIR CHANNEL NAME, DUMBASS! HOW IS THAT SO FUCKIN' HARD?' Like what is this attitude that you have, you stupid fuck? Yeah, I know. I agree... What- what kind of like... like you make it seem like I purposely was like fucking hiding it or something. It was literally on my screen for like a fucking hour, you idiot!"

> - Hasan to snaffuu, after putting Jay's channel name onscreen for 19 seconds
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On EFAP 147, MauLer, Rags, and Fringy, having previously spent EFAP 143 breaking down the history of transformative content and ending it with Cr1tikal's coverage of Jay's video, were joined by Sitch and Adam to take a look at the entire timeline of Hasan's coverage of Jay. They were amused by Hasan's reason for leaving Jay's video playing while he left the room being that his mom wasn't home to make him chicken nuggies, but were especially taken aback by his treatment of snaffuu, whom he banned for saying he should have put the channel name onscreen out of frustration for that being too obvious, despite Hasan himself not having actually done so. EFAP watched in horror as Hasan's chat celebrated the downfall of their former comrade, going so far as to revel in the fact that he had been banned after financially supporting Hasan for 11 months. F in the chat for Based Snaffuu.

Sargon of Akkad joined this stream for an hour while they were reading superchats, thus making the statement "Sargon of Akkad showed up" technically true.

### The Man of Steal

For EFAP 148, MauLer put together a selection of Hasan's best moments in regards to his takes on transformative content and responding to criticisms from his own audience for himself, Rags, Fringy, Metal, and Dev to respond to, with the help of Skeletor to stop them from getting a copyright strike. Hasan addressed who his chat described as "incel *Star* *Wars* YouTubers who are wrong about anything" by saying they are complete dogshit, though he doesn't know who they are and has never watched them. He then said they were correct, just like everyone else.

MauLer let Chat decide what the title of the VOD for Hasan's best moments should be, and Chat voted on "Man of Steal."

### On the Spookiness of the Ocean and the Socialistness of Ayn Rand

> "I do not understand, why the *fuck* you would ever go in the water, when there's like a 0.0000001% chance that that's in the water with you"
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On EFAP 161, MauLer, Rags, and Fringy took a look at fish biologist YouTuber AVNJ (not Angry Video Game Nerd) reacting to Hasan's commentary on a video on sea creatures. AVNJ was baffled by Hasan reading out a chat saying something in the video was wrong and just continuing on with the video without registering it, and also wondered why he kept leaving, concluding that he just gets away with doing so because of his large audience. MauLer found it comforting that someone in a completely different genre from them having the same takeaway about Hasan's conduct. AVNJ was confused by Hasan saying he won't go in the ocean so a blue whale won't eat him, since blue whales don't even have the capacity to do so. When a chat member brought up dangerous land animals, Hasan countered that you can see bears, but you can't see whales, to which Fringy added that if a bear is close enough for you to see it you're likely in more trouble rather than less. Chat compared this thinking to the army in *Dracula Untold* blindfolding themselves so they wouldn't be afraid of the enemy. When Hasan claimed that only 10% of the ocean has been mapped, AVNJ looked up examples of the various ways the entire ocean has been mapped. Hasan cited deep sea creatures as reasons to avoid the ocean, when they aren't even possible to encounter when swimming. EFAP argued that the dumbo octopus pictured was actually rather cute, and AVNJ ended up saying the same, pleasing them that the dumbo octopus was deemed objectively cute by a fish biologist. AVNJ was proud of Hasan for at least knowing that megalodons are extinct, but his joy was quickly deflated by him saying he was only "pretty sure."

On the same stream, the gang watched a clip of streamer AhRelevant reacting to a hotdiggedydemon cartoon of a rich socialist trying to justify his own vast wealth with the quote "Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?" then of Hasan saying the exact same Andrew Ryan quote but arguing that while it was meant to portray libertarianism it is actually socialist.

### Jay's Video #ReactGate

A few months after the initial Hasan stream, Jay released a full scripted video going over the topic of react content, which essentially acted as a more structured, more well-argued version of Jay's cardboard-eating stream, accompanied by more side examples in addition to Hasan. This video really got the ball rolling on the discussion of transformative react content, with other creators outside of Jay's usual sphere weighing in.

#### AhRelevant and Denims Enter the Ring

The two most prominent people to weigh in on #ReactGate were Twitch streamers AhRelevant and Denims, going up to bat for Hasan. Ahrelevant ended up seething and shouting at people who agreed with Jay to blow themselves, barely able to grasp the arguments being made and claiming that YouTube videos just exist for Twitch streamers to fill time with when they want to stop putting in effort. Denims would regularly try to rationalize Hasan's arguments to the point of making up entirely new arguments that Hasan never made, accusing Jay of being uncharitable towards Hasan for not doing the same, while also being as uncharitable as possible towards the arguments Jay was making.

Denims ended up having a livestreamed debate with Jay, moderated by a streamer named ChudLogic. In her stream leading up to the debate, she once again played an episode of *Hell's Kitchen* while barely making any commentary and even periodically leaving her chair, mocking the idea that Jay might criticize this for being non-transformative... because it was. Once in the debate with Jay, Denims more or less agreed with every point Jay had made with barely any pushback, in stark contrast with her demeanor in her original stream. This led to the debate being fairly short, and Jay coming away from it thinking everything had been settled. After watching this on EFAP 180, MauLer and the gang concluded that this must have been her good counterpart from a Mirror Universe

### Hasan's Response

Upon being told by Jay that he hadn't understood Jay's original point against his react content, Hasan blocked Jay on Twitter. Hasan then posted a "the myth of consensual sex" format meme, portraying himself and the people whose content he reacts to as the consenting parties despite the fact that the people he responds to did not, in fact, consent to it, and people like Jay as the outsider butting in, even though Jay was in fact one of the people whose content Hasan played on his stream.

Hasan addressed the topic once again on stream, saying it was absurd it was still going on since he'd already apologized a year ago (it was 5 months), still not understanding that the thing he apologized for and promised not to do anymore was not the thing Jay took issue with in the first place. He accused Jay of assembling a team of Nazis from the Killstream (a stream Jay has never been on and did not even know existed until Hasan accused him of collaborating with them) to react to his stream for 8 hours (when he had previously conceded that the 8-hour runtime was likely devoted to more topics than just him), presumably in reference to the EFAP stream that Jay had no part in. He accused Jay of holding onto a grudge for making "another video" a year (5 months) later, when Jay had always planned to turn the stream into a scripted video and only took as long as he did because he had other videos he wanted to make first. He bolstered the Killstream Nazis point by mentioning that Sargon (a man whose made enemies of both the Killstream and white nationalists alike) joined (he joined the stream for an hour after the Hasan section of the stream was already over). He called anyone who thinks Jay is good faith a psycho, since all of this came from a 5-minute video (it was 14 minutes, and not even the only video Hasan has done this with).

Many of Hasan's fans questioned why Jay was so bothered by being falsely accused of having ties to Neo-Nazism

### Hasan Tells Drinker to Commit Suicide Because He Disliked a Movie

> "Is this guy an alt right guy? I mean I don't even disagree with this"
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Hasan crossed paths by chance with none other than Critical Drinker, when he took a stab at debunking Drinker's review of the *Barbie* movie. MauLer joined Sitch and Adam on their 285th episode to take a look at the reupload of that segment of Hasan's stream, which began full speed ahead with Hasan accusing Drinker of being alt right, being vitriolically mad, and of blaming the movie for the downfall of western civilization before Drinker even finished the intro of his review. When Drinker likened Barbie to *Captain Marvel*, *Ghostbusters* (2016), and *She-Hulk*, Hasan accused him of poisoning the well by conflating it with bad, unsuccesful movies, differentiating them from *Barbie* because *Barbie* grossed over a billion dollars, apparently unaware that Captain Marvel also made over a billion and apparently also unaware that he is an anti-capitalist and should not be using profit as a marker of quality. Hasan repeatedly referred to *Barbie* as not simply a movie for children, but for children *and* adults, as a reason why it should not be taken seriously, and bizarrely enough described at length why Drinker should kill himself for taking the movie too seriously, though being careful not to say those exact words onstream.

When Drinker called the scene of Barbie being smacked on the ass in public overexaggerated to the point of unrealism, Hasan retorted that the point was to be overexaggerated, but then also retorted that it was actually true to real life, then when Drinker praised the film *Enchanted* for better handling the contrast between fiction and harsh reality, Hasan got upset at him for comparing things. Hasan did have his own criticism of the film, arguing that the film's climax was too liberal as opposed to portraying historical materialism, as well as having an incel mindset that takes away from a woman's role in society, raising the question of why he was criticizing toy movie for children and adults. When Drinker expressed a desire for an ending that highlighted that both men and women have their own strengths and should be given equal opportunities, Hasan mocked him for sounding like a feminist, which he apparently considered to be a bad thing. Despite that, however, he also concluded that Drinker's issue with the film was that he wanted women to have their civil rights suppressed and for men to have control over women's autonomy, contrasting Drinker against the superior alpha males of yesteryear who died in wars, which he apparently considered a good thing. He speculated that Drinker would also hate *The Powerpuff Girls* because Mojo Jojo was a male villain, then apparently remembered the Powerpuff Girls actually did have a positive and competent male loved one in their lives in the form of their father, and so switched gears to arguing Drinker would want him to be the main character, then called his own hypothetical that he just made up "very odd." Sitch found the claim that *Powerpuff* *Girls* would be deemed too feminist especially ironic given the show had an episode where a female criminal uses feminist talking points to justify her own immoral behavior only to be shown to be wrong. Hasan put forth that Drinker should have criticized the movie for being unambitious in portraying the darker side of the Barbie society, once again raising the question of why Hasan was taking a toy movie for kids and adults this seriously. He also argued that the society where half its citizens cannot participate in government or style their hair certain ways was an ideal one because no one was being mistreated, then concluded by agreeing with a message in chat that said the point of the movie was that the Kens were being mistreated

## Powers and Abilities

* **Just Gonna Ban You Dude** - No matter how devoted the person is, Hasan can ban them for a week if they slightly annoy him or disagree with him.
* **Paid in Exposure**- His thousands-viewer streams can give you 200 views on your YouTube video, or 36 likes on Twitter.
* **Cohost** - When Hasan needs to go do something, his chair can take over doing the reacting for him. His chair shares as much insight as he does, if not more, and won't leave the room,
* **Nuggie Refueling**- Nuggies prevent Hasan from dying. He had to learn how to make them when his mother is not around.
* **Pikemen**- His followers are ready to mock and skewer everyone that Hasan doesn't like, even be it one of their own group. Hasan has conditioned them so well that they enjoy and believe whatever the man says.
* **Dismissive Leap**- He can ignore any criticism thrown at him and deflect it back at the other party with the most extreme interpretation of critique. Like if someone asks him to stop eating on Stream, he responds by asking if that person wants him to starve and die.
* **Hearsay and Conjecture** - If he doesn't watch videos then he asks his chat (conditioned to support him no matter what) to inform him about things in the video. With their "information," and his own guess work, Hasan can form a picture of a video and people in it, making him able to label people Nazis and deranged without a shred of proof

## Trivia

* Hasan is worse than Jinx, since at least Jinx stays to watches videos and won't leave video running when he has bathroom break.
* Temp-banned from twitch for saying the C-word (the one with the hard R).
* Pronounces "gnome" as "guh-nome".
* Hasan stops at 99% of red lights
* Like Quinton, Hasan fights Jellymen instead of Strawmen.
* He calls himself a member of working class, when he is millionaire living in a mansion.

## Quotes

* "I mean, how many Pepes did Jay's video originally have?"
"Like zero"
- Sitch and MauLer, on Hasan's transformative content, EFAP 147
* "There were mad Roman emperors who were more compassionate and merciful than Hasan Piker is" - Sargon, EFAP 147
* "Yeah, fuck that (leaves)" - Hasan, upon seeing coral, EFAP 161
* "Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?" - Hasan, quoting Andrew Ryan, quoting Ayn Rand, advocating for libertarianism, but actually advocating for socialism, EFAP 161
* "Can we also just point out, Tweedle Dum just said Tweedle Dee doesn't know how to make arguments" - MauLer, EFAP 180
* "[slams fist on desk] What a fucking liar dude! What a fucking, weaselly little... liar dude! What a fucking weaselly little liar dude! Holy shit dude! Holy fucking shit dude! Literally lying! Still lying, to his audience!" - EFAP 181
* "This is like actually one of the most infuriating, frustrating things I think I've ever seen on this show. Like, this is insane. I cannot believe that someone could have such a large audience, yet just spout so much stupid, false shit, and do so so smugly and confidently. And then we see the montage of like all of the times he's been incredibly like fucking cruel to people in his own chat, just banning people because they give him light criticism. Meanwhile he turns around and talks about how he "runs towards the criticism", and what an awesome guy and how receptive he is. "Look at how much I apologize. I apologized for this thing that was about a year ago that was five minutes", even though it was fifteen minutes and it was less than a year ago and it doesn't even matter. And you didn't even address the criticism that Jay levied toward you, and you didn't even watch the video. And despite not watching the video, you say that the video sucks and that it's clearly uncharitable based on this fictitious reality that you've invented on like two things that you saw in chat. Get out of here, come on! It's insane. I can't believe that you would be like one of the largest Twitch streamers in the political space. That's insane! I can't believe that." - Fringy, EFAP 181
* "Is this guy an alt right guy? I mean I don't even disagree with this" - on Drinker, Sitch & Adam 285
* "Oh god, these guys are- oh, you're a fucking freak" - after hearing Drinker say half a sentence, Sitch & Adam 285
* "It's not ruining western civilization, you're a fucking idiot if you think that goddammit I hate these fucking snowflakes just enjoy the goddamn toy movie you fuckin dumbass, holy moly Jesus Christ" - Hasan, responding to something Drinker did not say
* "If you watched the fucking *Barbie* movie, if you watched the *Barbie* movie and it makes you feel this sad, like you should- you should follow through on that desire, that sense of despair, you know what I mean? If you can't fuckin deal, with a toy movie for both children and adults, you're not built for this world, you know? Just- just, shut it off, you know what I mean? Just-just quit movies, maybe quit everything altogether, you know what I mean? Just... it's not for you, it's not happening. Just- just, turn it off"
* "It's like very clearly an homage, you fucking idiot" - in response to Drinker joking about it being an homage
* "It's a fucking movie for children and adults! Oh my god!"
* "It's additionally funny, because the movie was like, objectively a success. So... y'know... maybe, maybe let the- maybe let the- the professionals handle it, y'know what I mean? They clearly have a better grasp on this than you do, y'know what I mean?" - Hasan, a socialist, to Drinker, a published author
* "One thing that I did not like was uh, defeating like uh patriarchy... by using your uh feminine powers of like pitting men against one another, um, which ultimately devolves into like, men and their interest of competition, leading into war, which is like a very classic, like, liberal-ass... it's like a very... it's a very classic liberal take on- on obviously, uh how, uh, history has occurred, it's like, the exact opposite of- of historical materialism, which I was not really expecting anyway but, just y'know a subtle note there, that it's like, 'oh yeah, men are cum-brained and violent because, women uh pin them against one another, and it also kinda takes away from like women's, uh- it takes away from women's role in society as well, uh, cuz it's not just like, women are not only weaponizing their sexuality to dominate and manipulate men. That is like kind of a very incel take" - Hasan, on the toy movie for children and adults
* "And you're like, 'but why didn't-' heh, 'why was there no equality?' You sound like a feminist" - Hasan after Drinker said men and women both have their strengths and should have equal rights
* "Brother, men used to die in war, okay? Men used to do things, they used to build things, they used to die in fucking war. Now, the most masculine alpha dogs that fancy themselves to be these fucking barbarians and these vikings are, online, unable to get through a goddamn fuckin toy movie for like, y'know, adults, and primarily little girls to go and purchase toys, without losing their minds"
* "He's literally begging for equality, like a- like a chirping radfem"
* "That's the ONLY way that you would get mad at this movie... which is probably what's going on, I think"
* "This dude is like, watching the Powerpuff Girls and getting mad about how feminist it is, and how Mojo Jojo isn't the good guy in the movie, it's like, weird... or the scientist dad is not the good guy and not more prominently featured... very odd"
* "You could've made, a criticism about, the lack of imagination, about a matriarchial structure not actually having any serious societal ills upon the men, beyond just simply looking for validation and seeking validation and existing only to, y'know have Barbies pay attention to them. But, that would require you to have like uh, at least 3 and a half braincells and it seems like you lost it, while you were watching this movie. Like, you could've literally said, you could've straightup looked at the situation and gone, 'y'know, ultimately it could've been more interesting to see like how the Barbies would dominate the men, in a matriarchial society... y'know what I mean, and we didn't get any of that and I feel like that was a bit... it lacked inagination'" - Hasan, on the toy movie for children and adults >him reading chat saying Ken was supposed to be suppressed actually