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Can anyone help me understand why Hasan Piker is so popular in leftist political spaces despite his immense privilege? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This guy's dad is the former VP of a multibillion dollar Turkish conglomerate, as well as the secretary of a government department. Mom and Dad were able to fly to their other home in NJ to give birth so he'd get US citizenship. His uncle is the founder and owner of TYT Media and gave him his media career. He went to Rutgers. He lives in a multimillion dollar mansion in the Hollywood Hills. This is by definition not the kind of person who can be a voice of the People. Saying "I recognize my privilege" over and over, while living his lifestyle, doesn't negate his privilege and complete lack of real-life experience outside of the curated garden of the wealthy. He gets paid obscene amounts of cash to sit in his bedroom and word-vomit for 9 hours a day. Why are his unending opinions taken so seriously? He gives me strong controlled opposition vibes.

Edit: Thank you all for this discussion. I learned a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

That's not very much for a house in LA

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Okay let's do some introspection, why does Hasan Piker need to live in LA?

He could live in La Puente which has a median sale price of $700k, 20 miles from downtown LA, but for some reason he moved to LA.

It's kind-of odd you know? That basically once a streamer, podcaster, or one of these online personalities makes it big they often move to like LA or NYC. Why is that? Why don't they move to Nabraska or something? It's kind of weird that there's this seeming class of people (new media people making it big) that have an interest in moving to some of the most expensive areas of the country that seemingly have a conglomeration of other people who are part of their class.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

once a streamer, podcaster, or one of these online personalities makes it big they often move to like LA or NYC. Why is that?

That's not a streamer thing, that's an almost everyone thing. Tons of people move to cities as soon as they can afford it, tons of those who don't stay where they are in no small part because it's less expensive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hasan literally told Business Insider that he wanted to move to LA because of fucking Entourage.

Likewise yeah people in their 20s-30s move to cities to chill, but not everyone moves to LA or NY.

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