November: Hasan gets a “Cracker Pass” from Wheat Thins
In December 2021, Hasan was temporarily banned from Twitch for calling white people “cracker.” Twitch flagged it as hate speech (lol), and a few other streamers subsequently got the ban hammer for talking about Hasan’s ban and saying cracker on stream. It highlighted the absurdity of Twitch’s ability to protect PoC from actual hate speech, hate raids, follow-botting, and other harassment campaigns and it, of course, pissed Hasan off (he was banned for over a week).
Fast forward to nearly a year later, and Hasan gets a plaque in the mail from cracker company Wheat Thins that read “The Pass” with a picture of a few crackers emblazoned on it. “This is legit. I can say it,” Piker said on stream. “Twitch, I can fucking say it. I can call someone the C-word and you cannot ban me. Do you understand? I have the cracker pass.”
