Roll up, roll up, let’s find out what people are mad about on the internet today. If you guessed ‘some guy buying a car’, you’d be right. Somehow. Sigh.
Well, it’s not exactly just some guy. Hasan Piker, better known as HasanAbi on Twitch, is a streamer who, as well as your usual gaming stuff, has grown a bit of a reputation for being a socialist, and promoting socialist views in his stream chats. So, a few days ago, when he streamed himself driving to a car dealership to pick up a shiny new Porsche, specifically one with a $200,000 price tag, fans were left feeling a bit confused, and quite upset.
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Basically, people thought that buying such an expensive car contradicted the socialist views that Piker supposedly stands for: “Even socialists need housing and transportation but Hasan Piker is doing his socialist fans a disservice by spending their money on a Hollywood mansion [and] a Porsche,” tweeted @FreeDaveSchwab. “That money could be used to build socialist organisations or feed hungry people, instead it’s enriching capitalists.”
What’s that about a Hollywood mansion, you say? Yeah, so this isn’t the first time that Piker has found himself facing controversy for buying things. Last year, he faced backlash after buying a $2.7 million dollar house, with fans criticising him for the hypocrisy of disagreeing with the existence of billionaires, while still going on to buy a very expensive house in a very fancy neighbourhood.
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As you can imagine, Piker is getting quite sick of it all, tweeting out that he’s not some powerful political figure, but at the end of the day, just a streamer: “Nobody thinks I’m some socialist Jesus. I’m a Twitch streamer telling you why you’re probably angry,” he wrote. “All my content is free everywhere. I let [people] make money off their fan channels. Yet some still choose to give me money. At a certain point I’m sure people will stop being mad this.”
And he’s right, of course - all this will undoubtedly pass and people will find something else to get mad about. Until the next time he buys something expensive, of course. See you again in a few months?
Featured Image Credit: MAZOUZI ABDELADIM via Unsplash, Max Pixel, HasanAbi via TwitchTopics: Twitch
