December: Hasan gets banned for doing what he always does

Hasan’s bread and butter is reactions. The majority of his stream is Hasan cuing up a ton of news clips, TikToks, Tweet threads, and the like and going through them one by one, adding context or explaining the more high-falutin concepts to his audience that is mostly dudes in their early twenties. So when he was banned in December 2022 after rebroadcasting an unhinged Kanye interview, it seemed particularly absurd. And it’s somehow even more absurd when you realize just how Hasan was banned: The CTO of Censored.TV, a company whose videos scream and squawk about free speech, took down Hasan’s video for copyright infringement.

Did they take it down because of copyright infringement, or because the video is pretty damning evidence of Proud Boys founder and notable stupid facial hair haver Gavin McInnes failing to stop Ye from “becoming an antisemetic [and] a Nazi,” which was supposedly McInnes’ goal? Woof.

Happily, Hasan was back from his ban early.

So that’s that, kids. The year in Hasan Piker, from expensive cars and Gucci shirts to jebaits and Twitch bans. It’s been a real one. But the real question is, will Hasan notice me now? 2023 awaits.