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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

https://youtu.be/RSI-N-QHNTQ

Looks like he made a follow up and apology video. Hopefully he's serious and actually follows up since it sounds like he's taking the ban and his father reaching out to him as a wake up call.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

This is far from a one off. He does fucked up shit like this constantly, for years. He's made millions from the controversy.

I doubt hes done.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Happens a lot with streamers, they sit there rotting to an audience of yes men, if anyone doesn't agree they can just remove their opinion, while making money. So it just reinforces the behaviour.

I have no interest in his content, but I hope he does change. But maybe you are right that he will just slip back again after fostering that toxic environment for another year.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, I don't believe the apology for one second. Hes gonna have to prove hes changed over a looong period of time before I actually believe it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm.. not bad. I only watched 5ish min, but he seems genuine - that is to say, he realizes he fucked up, not that he'll actually change anything

More interesting, to me, as someone that had only heard about this from headlines, you can clearly see the mental illness pervasive in his community by looking at the comments and even moreso by looking at the guy's room. Dude is someone we should pity, not hate - granted I understand influencers having massive platforms, and well influence

Still, I wish we could be more like the Palestinians and Arabs he mentions, that checked on him to see if he was ok, instead of the knee-jerk, quick to react Americans we are, that are ready to pounce on a fallen ~~neighbor~~ enemy and eager to find ways we're different to further divide ourselves

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Oh he for sure has tons of mental issues and illnesses and so does a portion of his community. The thing is, he's been a major streamer for fucking ever, at this point it's sort of his fault he's like that. He's had loved ones and family try to help over the years but he just has the money to tell them to fuck off. Usually it's hitting rock bottom that gets people to change but it's very hard to do that when you have tons of money and don't do drugs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The comments on this are a shit show

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Lots of panicking that he's "gone woke" instead of being happy that he might improve as a person.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

His subreddit is in full cope mode and losing its collective shit right now. People acting like Hasan set him up or something. Like... no, Hasan tried to save Asmon's racist ass and give him a way out of the controversy, and instead of taking the help he decided to double-down on his bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

His entire audience is "anti-woke" weirdo conservative chuds. I made the mistake of clicking on a video of his on YouTube talking about a trailer or something, and half the comments were people yelling about how the game was gonna suck because of women or something.