
Liberals are drooling over ‘very handsome' terror-cheering leftist Hasan Piker after fawning NY Times profile
Hasan Piker, 33, boasts 2.8 million followers on lives-treaming platform Twitch, many of them under 30 and male, the Times writes in its hagiography, which props him up as the left's answer to podcasting megastar Joe Rogan.
The Grey Lady also breathlessly touted Piker's 'bro' bona fides like weightlifting and playing basketball, with writer Jack Crosbie calling him 'very handsome.'
3 Hasan Piker, 33, a popular leftist livestreamer who was recently the subject of a New York Times paean gushing over his physique, sartorial choices and workout routine.
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'Mr. Piker's success on camera, in some part, has been aided by the fact that he is, by conventional standards, a very handsome man. He is 6 feet 4 inches tall and built like a professional athlete, with a square jaw, a beard and a head of thick dark hair,' the outlet's besotted profile gushes.
Piker, a self-described socialist, drives a $200,000 Porsche Taycan, makes millions of dollars per year streaming and owns a multimillion-dollar home in West Hollywood, all while unironically posting pouty photos of himself wearing t-shirts emblazoned with 'make the rich pay.'
The Times profile lauds Piker for his use of Zyn nicotine pouches, his basketball fandom and his 'intense' workout routine ('repeated sets of squats with a 275-pound barbell, Romanian dead lifts and walking lunges.')
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The 'paper of record' also delves into Piker's stringent dietary habits ('[he] usually consumes only coffee until around 2 p.m., when he has his first meal of precisely 1.1 pounds of roasted chicken breast with low-carb pita, mezze and sauces.')
The headline originally anointed Piker 'A Progressive Mind in a MAGA body,' but was later swapped out for the less Trump-coded 'A Progressive Mind in a Body Made for the 'Manosphere''
The article acknowledges some of Piker's controversial takes are 'extreme' — including his galling 2019 statement that America 'deserved' the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and repeat assertions that Israel is committing 'genocide' in its war against Hamas.
3 The Times profile addressed some of Piker's hottest takes, like that America 'deserved' 9/11, but soft-pedaled or omitted many others
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But it leaves plenty of space for Piker to muddy the waters ('I find antisemitism to be completely unacceptable,') and studiously avoids including many of his other unhinged takes espoused during his daily 10-hour streams.
'It doesn't matter if rapes happened on Oct. 7,' Piker said on a broadcast last spring, referring to Hamas' terror attack against Israel that killed more than 1,200 people, adding, 'It doesn't change the dynamic for me.'
3 Piker streams for around 10 hours almost every day from his West Hollywood home, espousing socialist rhetoric for a massive audience of mostly young men, prompting the Times to anoint him the left's answer to Joe Rogan.
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Also not mentioned was Piker carrying water for Iran-backed terror orgs like Hamas and the Houthis — whose propaganda videos he's streamed, once saying, 'When the beat drops, it's like jihad drops in your heart,' after showing a 'music video' put out by the Yemen-based terror group, whom he labeled 'a very musical people.'
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He also once compared interviewing Rashid al-Haddad, a 19-year-old Houthi pirate who helped seize a commercial ship in the Red Sea in 2024, to 'talking to f–king Anne Frank, basically.'
Piker's streams on occasion introduce new insults to the lexicon of his largely Gen-Z audience, who then use them against people they disagree with.
One of Piker's favorite insults is to call Israelis 'inbred' — a barb that has since been parroted at anti-Israel college protests. The Free Press highlighted a video from last April of a Columbia University protest crowd telling a group of Jewish students 'you guys are all inbred,' a month after Piker first used the insult.
The streamer later laughed hysterically after showing a news clip during his broadcast of two Jewish students telling reporters about the incident.
Last November, Piker shared a news article that said one-third of Jewish-American teenagers sympathize with Hamas, which he gleefully captioned 'i did this.'
His apparent influence on the anti-Israel movement that has surged since the Oct. 7 terror attacks and war in Gaza even caught the attention of pro-Israel Democratic US Rep. Ritchie Torres, who wrote a letter to Twitch CEO Dan Clancy calling Piker 'the poster child for the post-October 7th outbreak of antisemitism in America.'
Clancy issued a pro-forma statement days later saying the Amazon-owned platform doesn't allow 'racism, hatred, or harassment of any kind, including antisemitism,' but took no action against Piker's account.
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