Election Night Coverage of HasanAbi

Twitch Streamer Hasan Dogan Pike, also known as HasanAbi, is an American Twitch streamer and political commentator. He is the former host and producer of The Young Turks and a former columnist for The Huffington Post. He also has more than 700,000 followers on the Twitch platform. However, during yesterday’s stream, Hasan made a 16 hour marathon Twitch stream about politics because of the election results.

He quickly gained over 230,000 viewers yesterday on his live broadcast. He is a traditional broadcast journalist turned video game streamer. He also recently joined with U.S. representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez aka AOC to an Among Us stream, together with some notable streamers in order to promote voting among young viewers. Their streams have become viral and have peaked as the third most viewed stream of Twitch from all time. Yesterday, Hasan hopped on Twitch for a casual sixteen hour election stream with rotating guests.

Some of his viewers were amazed by Hasan’s analysis being so watchable and his modernity. Hasan hasn’t simply adopted streaming as a gimmick but he is clearly where he feels most natural and comfortable. He has amazed many viewers on how he presents information.

HasanAbi is able to identify and discuss what politicians tweet and what they present on social media in the same way that reporters analyze the news and use raw polling data to explain our current moment.