I was on Twitch for many years, watching mostly travel or local streamers to places I wanted to see (Japan/South Korea at the time), long before he was so popular. He is just saying the things that most of his audience is thinking, a lot of these people talk all about him like he's a podcaster or something, but he's a streamer with an audience, and there is a LOT of audience participation. Most of the streams were just back and forth debates with chat about things. So they embrace him because he is them.
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I'll take the bait.
I am pretty vocal about being critical of Hassan in some aspects, which leads to lots of dumb ass slap fights with the 3 tankstances,
But from the clips of him that are shoved down my throat by the Internet, I can only pick a handful I was truly like "wtf" about.
While EVERYTHING Nick says and Charlie said, are pretty much straight evil.
This is like asking "why is everyone afraid of cassowaries but there's cute emu videos online?"
It's because one WILL lead to your demise, while the other might just draw blood while broody.
I assume you mean Charlie Kirk. I found a few things of his WTF, but most were OK.
The problem with the internet is that many of these people are just being extreme to get dollars. Nick is 100% a vile troll but no idea what his real views are.
I'm on the right, but was talking with my liberal friend a few weeks ago about how everything on your own side, including the extremism, will seem more normative than what's on the other side. So I get where you're coming from.
I think the way that Nick Fuentes and Hasan Piker are comparable are that they both would support a genocide of the Jews in Israel. I am not as familiar with Fuentes, but Piker has notably supported international terrorist organizations such as the Houthi Rebels and Hezbollah (including interviewing a Houthi Rebel on his stream once), and hinted at supporting or wishing for violence upon people on the right.
That's all pretty extreme, as is antisemitism, racism, and Nazism. Hasan Piker is the most notable extremist on the left, so I'll never fault anyone for comparing him to Nick Fuentes, the most notable extremist on the right, even if it's not a perfect 1:1 comparison.
I should probably add, though, that Charlie Kirk was by no means an extremist. That "evil" label is quite unwarranted. I'm not even sure why you brought up his name in the same breath as Nick Fuentes and Hasan Piker.
I brought his name because those are the only two right winged Internet talking heads I know.