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Hexbears' obsession with Hasan continues to baffle me. He's just a vaguely center-left streamer, that's it really. Doesn't do anything controversial or exciting in any direction. I've seen him say and do some pretty good stuff and bad stuff, and I'm left very ambivalent.
I really don't know how other people here have built up such strong feeling about him that they must 'criticise and call psyop' or 'laud him and all entryism' with every action he does.
i dont think he gets posted that much, but honestly he's kinda getting to the point where calling him "just a streamer" is way understating his impact, the media is obsessed with him for months now and he's actively trying to get involved with politics to a significant level. Like, the dems in control of the party genuinely see him as a threat, i really dont think we should be downplaying him as a little smoll bean streamer anymore
Many people on hexbear are not based in the US thus don’t see him mentioned every day in media.
fair enough
Yeah this basically. Maybe I should post every day about my local politicians and how everyone should really know about them and care deeply. Then berate USAians for not knowing them.
It would be really funny, but don’t dox yourself while doing it
This mostly just points to your own ignorance about what is going on in the mainstream media. Hasan comes up around here once, maybe twice a week, but he is non-stop in the news cycle for mainstream Dems. The fact that my mother knows who he is means that he has reached the average politics watcher (which is still a minority entertainment product).
Okay? So why do we care so much about him that there are more posts about him than those with actual power?
I would rather hear more about local state and county level politics than some streamer.
Because doxxing? I am already way too flagrant with my shit, but like, I am pretty secure.
It doesn't have to be local to you. Highlight novel actual reporting.
Does it point to my ignorance? Or does it point to the fact that I'm just not a USAian?