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Saltman really out here breaking down why half the streaming space acts like Hasan Piker has a contagious disease. His read on the whole thing starts with PrimatePaige, who reportedly lost it when Morgpie slotted him into the Mount Rushmore spot on her Best Parent Tier List, and responded by yanking him out of the top grouping altogether. Hasan's explanation for that panic isn't personal. He says they collabed once before and she caught hell for it, with people screaming about how she could possibly associate with him and throwing the terrorist label around, so now she's just bracing for the same backlash. Freaking out that hard over a tier list placement, in his view, is audience capture with a bow on it. The broader diagnosis is peer pressure, plain and simple. Creators in this space, he says, basically have to ice him out and treat him like persona non grata, and he thinks that shifts once progressive politics stop being a wedge and start being the baseline. He's also clear about where the aggression comes from. It isn't his own community going feral, it's the haters who go crazy mode. Brand deals factor in, sure, but so do vibes, and vibes are doing a lot of heavy lifting. Which loops into his bigger theory: most people aren't sitting around doing political homework. They read the room, assume the room is right wing, and operate off a permission structure. That's why someone like Asmongold can run his mouth constantly and nobody responds to him or calls him out either. Twitter and Trump's victory dragged the internet rightward over the past couple years, a lot of normies drifted into socially conservative territory where saying whatever you want, including the R word, became the move, and plenty of others just checked out of politics entirely. Hasan's bet is that the pendulum is already swinging back. #HasanPiker

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Silvestre@silvestre

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Saltman really out here breaking down why half the streaming space acts like Hasan Piker has a contagious disease. His read on the whole thing starts with PrimatePaige, who reportedly lost it when Morgpie slotted him into the Mount Rushmore spot on her Best Parent Tier List, and responded by yanking him out of the top grouping altogether. Hasan's explanation for that panic isn't personal. He says they collabed once before and she caught hell for it, with people screaming about how she could possibly associate with him and throwing the terrorist label around, so now she's just bracing for the same backlash. Freaking out that hard over a tier list placement, in his view, is audience capture with a bow on it. The broader diagnosis is peer pressure, plain and simple. Creators in this space, he says, basically have to ice him out and treat him like persona non grata, and he thinks that shifts once progressive politics stop being a wedge and start being the baseline. He's also clear about where the aggression comes from. It isn't his own community going feral, it's the haters who go crazy mode. Brand deals factor in, sure, but so do vibes, and vibes are doing a lot of heavy lifting. Which loops into his bigger theory: most people aren't sitting around doing political homework. They read the room, assume the room is right wing, and operate off a permission structure. That's why someone like Asmongold can run his mouth constantly and nobody responds to him or calls him out either. Twitter and Trump's victory dragged the internet rightward over the past couple years, a lot of normies drifted into socially conservative territory where saying whatever you want, including the R word, became the move, and plenty of others just checked out of politics entirely. Hasan's bet is that the pendulum is already swinging back. #HasanPiker

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