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On December 13, 2021, Piker was banned from Twitch for one week for using the racial epithet "cracker" repeatedly on stream. Piker argued the term should not be considered a slur against white people since a person using it is "powerless" and "doing it as someone who has been historically oppressed blowing off steam."
Piker was temporarily banned from Twitch three times between 2019 and 2022, including once for using the term "cracker." His first ban occurred after he claimed that "America deserved 9/11" during ...
Rep. Ritchie Torres is sounding the alarm about the “amplification of anti-semitism” since Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre on the online platform Twitch by the popular politics streamer Hasan Piker ...
[12] [13] In December 2021, Kochinski was again banned from Twitch indefinitely for using the racial epithet "cracker" on stream. He used the term while discussing whether it could be considered a racial slur and if saying it should be a bannable offense following the ban of fellow Twitch streamer Hasan Piker for saying the word on stream.
[7] [17] Fellow Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who had previously reached out to "to form an allegiance", distanced himself from Bonnell in-part because the controversy. [7] Bonnell was indefinitely banned from Twitch due to "hateful conduct" in March 2022.
Sean Wiggs, known as SeanDaBlack on Twitch, also credits Piker with being a major influence on his stream. Hasan Piker answers questions about daily politics for his Twitch stream on Aug. 14.
Niknam was the second most watched Twitch streamer during the 2020 United States Presidential Election, hitting 607,000 hours watched on election night (18.2% of total hours watched across Twitch). Fellow streamers Hasan Piker and Mizkif ranked at numbers one and three, respectively. [15] [16] In June 2021, Niknam moved to Canada.
Piker’s Twitch streams regularly hit more than a million views and often have as many as 30,000 viewers at a given time. Fox News Digital reached out to Flaherty for comment but did not receive ...