This isn’t my effort post so it might be against the rules. I’m just linking and copying two posts from subreddits that have compiled all that has happened over the past week.
First, here’s a thread of all recent H3 controversies, sorted by date. There is a lot in there, so I’ll be copying the ones related to this topic.
October 15th
Ethan says 100% of the Jews he knows are struggling after Oct 7th and says Zionist is a slur
Ethan posts about defending “antisemitic terrorists”
October 16th
Ethan makes a video dedicated to canceling and de-platforming Hasan Piker, admits he wants to deplatform Hasan on Twitch for “interviewing a terrorist”, and shows an unlisted clip of Hasan titled “HamasAbi”
October 17th
Hasan says Ethan is too focused on his personal feelings and calls him self-centered
Ethan calls Hasan’s stream “vile embarrassing trash”
October 19th
Ethan posts video titled, “Twitch has a major problem”
Frogan provides context for the “Habbibi pass” tier list - A bunch of Arab streamers made a tier list on who had the Habbibi pass, the controversy was around the lowest tier which was titled ’ Loves Sabra’ i.e. likes Sabra hummus. Ethan claims this is antisemitic and a dog-whistle about Jewish people.
Ethan posts about Yahya Sinwar
October 20th
Frogan responds to Ethan’s claims around hummus/“Loves Sabra”
Hasan debunks the Hummus/Sabra debate, says it’s NOT antisemitism
October 21st
H3 Podcast covers Twitch, Frogan and antisemitism, says Twitch CEO Dan Clancy must resign and puts Nazi Symbols on Twitch CEO in his YouTube thumbnail
He successfully gets the Arab streamers banned off Twitch.
October 22nd
Ethan posts video titled 'I Won’t Let Hasan Piker Lie About Me To His Audience, then lies about not knowing Destiny, says the Left is eating itself
Ethan claims he “conceded” on far-left ideals such as letting the Palestinians have a state
October 23rd
Hasan calls Ethan Islamophobic
Ethan makes an instagram story about nmplol
Hasan says Rashid is not a terrorist, just like Hila is not a terrorist
Hila admitted to raiding homes in Ramallah and move from her assigned desk job into combat roles because she was “bored”. BadEmpanada HAS MADE a video titled ‘Hila Klein is a Terrorist’ due to her time in the IDF where she asked to be transferred to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, performed logistical duties for the IDF terrorist organization, and volunteered to tag along during an IDF terrorist attack against a Palestinian house in Ramallah.
Ethan targets Emma from Majority Report - LINK 1, LINK 2, LINK 3, LINK 4
Second, here is a thread correcting the misinformation Ethan spread about Hasan
I’ll never get why people are so personally invested in these streamers. I remember there was some massive struggle session here over BadEmpanada vs another streamer (Hasan? Vaush? or some other rando) as the stans of their respective streamers duke it out in some terminally online parody of a turf war. These stans are very cringey and very transparent about their parasocial relationship.
At the end of the day, Hasan, Contra, Vaush, BadEmpanada, et al are just entertainers. They’re not organizers. They’re not theorists. At best, they’ll occasionally release decent video essays and occasionally get their stans to donate to some worthy cause through some charity stream. We should always be open to getting people on our side, but the stans trying to compare Hasan to Engels or Che or Hampton need to get a fucking grip. Hasan’s not even on Parenti’s level, who himself is nowhere close to a Hampton or a Newton or a Che. Hasan is more like a George Carlin, an entertainer with progressive values who’s able to plant seeds that will occasionally bear fruit but still just an entertainer in the end.
you’re right, but i have a box labelled Good E-Celebs and another labelled Bad E-Celebs, and I know which one each of those people goes in, and this is very important
People idolise random famous people all the time. If you watch hasan’s streams everyday you will develop some sort of parasocial relationship with him and get defensive when people criticise him unfairly. That’s why people get personally invested. I haven’t seen anyone claim he’s some kind of revolutionary, he’s just an entertainer who has some good takes and who radicalises some libs.