I wonder what the appeal is. To me it feels like people can go to a horse track to feel a little boujie, there is a taboo thrill from gambling, there's the appeal that it's tolerated or expected even that you'll drink some alcohol. It serves as an event and a place to be seen. I've been dragged along as a kid once or twice and never wanted to go as an adult, it is almost an activity where even passively disliking it marks you for a buzzkill, let alone positively stating that it is animal abuse.

yeah id much rather play online roulette while eating a bucket of KFC battery chicken

Last year in British horse racing for example 80% of all horse deaths were in jump racing. 156 total deaths were jumps

That's an order of magnitude more horse deaths than I would have guessed. That's fucked.

I'm not 'canceling' anybody, I'm refusing to materially support them in any way beyond the minimal amount I was doing prior and letting people know in case it's also a red line for them. I'm not going to be posting about him every day like freaks were doing with the dog thing. But his reaction to people asking him not to go was to tell them to fuck off because he's familiar with equestrian sports and knows they're 'treated well'. It's part of a pattern of behavior going back several years to when he had a vegan video editor, Ostonox, trying to convince him he was being stubborn with his refusal to acknowledge animal rights are something even worth considering or talking about.

EDIT: If he comes back and says he regrets it because he somehow genuinely didn't know, then whatever. But he's known for doubling down when criticized because he has a huge ego. Also, a streamer with his view count doing it and advertising it is different than a random person doing it.

but yes keep those thoughts to yourself

I can see how she might be called conventionally attractive but I only feel disgust when seeing that shit face. Some people find evil hot however.

Obviously I condemn eating meat in general too, but that's an almost universal practice that one can understandably adopt from the overwhelming support it has from average people and the propaganda pushed by that industry. Attending a horse race is frankly no different than attending a cock fight though, in that it's a more deliberate action that is only normalized among a smaller subset of the population and has significantly less practical justification for its existence (meaning feeding oneself). It's also a lot more upfront about its violence, because you can watch horses trip and get significantly injured in real time. I'm not necessarily fixated on the betting part, I think even attending is a pretty repugnant thing to do. Then amplify that by essentially advertising it to thousands of people as a cool and good thing to do. Convincing my grandma to stop eating meat is impossible, but convincing her not to attend a cock fight is a lot easier.

WARNING!!

ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT CRITICIZING A STREAMER?

HAVE YOU RECENTLY CHECKED TO MAKE SURE A COUNTRY OF 1.5 BILLION DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME THINGS GOING ON THERE THAT YOU'RE CRITICIZING THE STREAMER FOR????

China has One Country, Two Systems. They allow racing and gambling because they allow HK to be autonomous, for better or worse. It’s illegal on the mainland.

What is Hassan’s excuse?

Yeah, it's really up to his actual friend-group interactions - the people who know him as a person first. A smaller streamer might have a social relationship with their viewers and be meaningfully shaped by those interactions, but he has a vast and faceless audience. To an audience he's first and foremost a tool for their satisfaction, which here involves his political stance, and critique intended to make him change in this function is the critique of a machine that can simply be broken apart and reconstructed to cut sharper and woke harder.

Like you say, better to focus on the audience themselves (though I guess there doesn't need to be a difference in the style of presentation of it - I doubt Hasan is going to read any of this, so it's all for the audience already).

If only you could divorce the two. Instead you get Cygames and a bunch of uma cosplayers at Santa Anita betting on actual races