Age, Biography, and Wiki
Hasan Doğan Piker, known professionally as HasanAbi, was born on July 25, 1991, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. He is an American political commentator and Twitch streamer, known for his activism on LGBTQ+ rights, Muslim rights, and pro-peace initiatives. Piker is of Turkish descent and identifies as Muslim. He is also a prominent figure in online communities, particularly on Twitch, where he engages in political discussions and hosts streams.
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| Date of Birth | 25 July 1991 |
| Age | 34 Years |
| Birth Place | New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Horoscope | Leo |
| Country | Jersey |
Height, Weight & Measurements
Piker's height is reported differently in various sources. He is listed as 6 feet 3 inches (191 cm) in some reports, while others state his height as 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 meters). His weight has fluctuated over the years; he was once around 285 pounds during the COVID-19 pandemic but has since lost significant weight, reportedly losing about 70 pounds in a year. Currently, he weighs around 88 kg (194 pounds) as per earlier reports, though this may have changed following his weight loss journey.
| Height | 6 feet 3 inches |
| Weight | 88 kg |
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Dating & Relationship Status
There is limited public information available about Hasan Piker's dating or relationship status. His personal life is not extensively covered in media, and he appears to focus more on his career and activism.
His father's family emigrated to Turkey from Thessaloniki and Crete, Greece. His father, Mehmet Behçet Piker, is a political scientist and economist who served on the Board of Directors (and as Vice President) of Sabancı Holding, and who is a founding member of the Future Party in Turkey. His mother, Ülker Sedef Piker, is an art and architectural historian teaching at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His uncle Cenk Uygur is a political commentator and co-founder of The Young Turks news network.
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Net Worth
Hasan Piker's net worth is not publicly disclosed in the search results, but as a prominent Twitch streamer and commentator, his income likely comes from his streaming activities, sponsorships, and possibly from his work in media such as writing for TV series like TYT Sports.
Social Network
Piker is highly active on social media platforms, including Twitch and Instagram. He uses these platforms to engage with his audience, share updates about his life, and promote his work. His social media presence is a significant part of his career, allowing him to connect with fans and share his perspectives on various issues.
In 2016, Piker created and hosted The Breakdown, a TYT Network video series which aired on Facebook and presented left-leaning political analyses targeted, at the time, at millennial supporters of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Piker also contributed political content to HuffPost from 2016 to 2018.
Piker started streaming on Twitch in March 2018 while working at TYT. Piker has said he shifted his attention from Facebook to Twitch in order to reach a younger audience and because of what he felt was a preponderance of right-wing commentators on YouTube and a lack of leftist representation among streamers. He became a popular left-wing political commentator, and was invited to appear on KTTV's The Issue Is and the political podcast Chapo Trap House. His YouTube channel features highlights of his streams, and in 2022 reached over 1,000,000 subscribers. Piker also streams gameplay and commentary of video games on his Twitch channel. Sometimes Piker will role-play as "Hank Pecker", an ethno-political caricature of a right-wing redneck.
During a Twitch stream on August 20, 2019, Piker mocked U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw, a SEAL Team 3 veteran who served in Afghanistan, for his support of American military interventionism overseas. Piker said of Crenshaw, "What the fuck is wrong with this dude? Didn't he go to war and like, literally lose his eye because some mujahideen, a brave fucking soldier, fucked his eye-hole with their dick?", adding that Crenshaw "deserved" his fate.
In the same stream, Piker criticized American foreign policy and made controversial comments relating to the September 11, 2001, attacks, including "America deserved 9/11." His statements caused outrage on social media and were covered by Fox News and various other media outlets. Crenshaw said that Piker's comments were a "disgusting defense of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against Americans." In response, Piker described his comments as satirical and cited American foreign policy as promoting conditions to make an event like 9/11 possible, but acknowledged that he should have used "more precise" language. Twitch banned Piker for one week due to the comments.
During the first 2020 United States presidential debate on September 29, Piker had over 125,000 viewers watching his commentary of the broadcast, the highest viewership of the debate on Twitch. Piker's stream covering the results of the 2020 United States presidential election peaked at 230,000 concurrent viewers and was the sixth most-watched source of election coverage across YouTube and Twitch, comprising 4.9% of the market share. He was the most watched Twitch streamer during the election week; his 80 hours of streams were viewed for a cumulative 6.8 million hours by an average of 75,000 concurrent viewers. Piker's stream reached a new high of 231,000 viewers during the January 6 United States Capitol attack. Piker's 2024 election night coverage stream had 7.5 million total viewers.
On December 13, 2021, Piker was banned from Twitch for one week for using the racial epithet "cracker" repeatedly on stream. Piker argued the term should not be considered a slur against white people since a person using it is "powerless" and "doing it as someone who has been historically oppressed blowing off steam." He further contended "cracker" is not a slur in the same way as other terms, stating that "It's something I've talked about so many times because it's like white boys love fucking saying, 'Cracker is the same as the n-word,' It's really stupid. The etymology of the word is different. ... It comes from 'whip cracker.' So the power is still in the hands of the white person in that situation, whereas the n-word is dehumanizing." An August 2023 paper in New Media & Society criticized Twitch for punishing Piker while epithets aimed minority groups were prevalent on the platform. The paper also criticized the subsequent commentary defending Twitch's decision as falsely equating "cracker" with other racial epithets.
During February 28, 2025 stream, Piker stated that if Republicans "cared about Medicare fraud, or Medicaid fraud, [they] would kill Rick Scott", in a reference to Scott's involvement in Medicare and Medicaid fraud when he was the CEO of Columbia/HCA. Piker was banned for 24 hours by Twitch on March 3 in relation to the comment.
In July 2024, Alex Mahadevan of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, cited Piker as an example of the "online chattering class" who do not hold themselves to journalistic ethics, in contrast to their peers in traditional media. A September 2024 article in the academic journal Digital Journalism discussed a similar theme, characterizing Piker as emblematic of an emerging "Newsfluencers" class (influencers who mainly cover news) with a tendency towards "problematic behavior" that conflicted with journalistic objectivity. In April 2024, the same journal noted that Piker is familiar with journalistic mechanics such as sourcing, framing, and objectivity, but rejects these as methods used for "manufacturing consent for elites". Instead, Piker mainly sources his information from social media, often supplied to him by his audience.
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Piker apologized for insisting in the prelude that Russia would not attack. "[I] didn't think a regional power would act so irrationally. I've admitted my mistakes. I got things wrong," stated Piker. The Washington Post has also categorized Piker as a news-based influencer who does not feel bound to journalistic objectivity.
Education
Details about Hasan Piker's educational background are not widely available. While he is known for his political commentary and activism, specific information about his formal education is not mentioned in the provided sources.
Piker returned to the United States and attended the University of Miami, then transferred to Rutgers University, where he graduated cum laude with a double major in political science and communication studies in 2013.
Andrew Marantz of The New Yorker described Piker as anti-Trump but "hardly a loyal Democrat". Instead, Marantz classified Piker as an "old-school leftist", critical of the "American empire".
Additional Facts
- Family Connection: Hasan Piker is related to Cenk Uygur, the co-founder of The Young Turks, who is often referred to as his uncle or aunt.
- Awards and Recognition: Piker has won three awards for his work, though the specific details of these awards are not provided in the search results.
- Career Highlights: Piker has been involved in directing and writing projects, including a TV special called "Creators for Palestine" in 2024. He is also known for his work on "TYT Sports" as a writer.
