Hasan reveals why he\u2019ll never leave Twitch to make mainstream media return Instagram: HasanHasan \u2018HasanAbi\u2019 Piker told fans the reason why he\u2019d never leave Twitch and return to doing political commentary on mainstream media, claiming it gives him the freedom to say what he wants. It\u2019s hard to believe that Hasan has gone from working as a host on a political talk show and a writer for the Huffington Post to a full-fledged Twitch streamer with 1.5 million followers on Twitch in the span of three years. However, he hasn\u2019t lost his roots and is still dedicated to discussing left-wing politics with his fans. And in an exclusive interview with Insider, he explained why he\u2019d never go back to mainstream media and believes Twitch is a better fit. \u201cAt The Young Turks, everything I did was prescripted,\u201d he said. \u201cI was terrible off the cuff. I could not keep up. I could not keep conversation for extended periods of time.\u201d Mainstream media has a tendency to do that. However, Twitch gave him the freedom to say whatever he wanted. \u201cOver time, I just stopped caring about choosing a particular type of language, and instead just did what felt normal and natural to me.\u201dAnd for that reason, he\u2019d never go back. He also claims he \u201calways had an interest\u201d in introducing left-wing politics to young gamers to show them its \u201ccool\u201d and believes Twitch is \u201clike an AM broadcast radio for Zomers,\u201d making it the perfect platform to do that. Hasan wrapped up the interview by stating that he doesn\u2019t see himself as a brand. \u201cI\u2019m just a dude. I\u2019m just a guy who likes to have fun and talk sh*t,\u201d he said. For that reason, he\u2019s adamant that Twitch is the most suitable place for him to do his thing, and it will take a lot to convince him otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hasan reveals why he\u2019ll never leave Twitch to make mainstream media return Instagram: HasanHasan \u2018HasanAbi\u2019 Piker told fans the reason why he\u2019d never leave Twitch and return to doing political commentary on mainstream media, claiming it gives him the freedom to say what he wants. It\u2019s hard to believe that Hasan has gone from working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}