Hasan Piker Biography
Hasan Piker is a Turkish-American Twitch streamer and political commentator on the left. He previously worked at The Young Turks as a broadcast journalist and producer, as well as a columnist for HuffPost. He is currently one of Twitch’s most-watched and subscribed-to streamers, where he covers news, plays video games, and discusses politics from a socialist perspective.
How old is Hasan Piker? – Age
He is 31 years old as of 25 July 2022. He was born in 1991 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. His real name Hasan Doğan Piker.
Where did Hasan Piker go to college? – Family – Education
Piker was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey to Turkish parents and raised in Istanbul. He is Cenk Uygur’s nephew and the creator of The Young Turks. He describes being bullied in a public school in Turkey for his lack of physical fitness and questioning attitude. Piker returned to the United States and enrolled at the University of Miami before transferring to Rutgers University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and communication studies in 2013.
What is Hassan Piker’s Net Worth?
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
How tall is Hassan Piker? – Height
He stands at a height of 6 feet 3 inches.
How much did Hasan Piker pay for his house? – House
He owns a $2.74 million 6,607 square feet home in West Hollywood, California. The roughly 3,800-square-foot pan-Mediterranean style residence, built in 2014 with white stucco walls and a red tile roof, is fronted by a secure and tightly hedged if otherwise bland, and featureless courtyard. Only the exposed wooden eaves, according to some, give the five-bedroom, 5.5-bath home a hint of authentic architectural character.
With molding-free cotton-white walls, honey-toned hardwood floors, and an in-ceiling speaker system, the interiors abandon any pretense of Mediterranean-ism in favor of clean-lined and modern. The adjoining formal living and dining rooms have lackluster views into slender side yards just through the wrought iron embellished glass front door, while the sleekly appointed eat-in kitchen at the back of the house is arranged around a doublewide island with high-end appliances and an integrated snack bar. The kitchen’s gleaming white laminate cabinets are balanced with wood accents and extend into the cozily petite family room, where a wall of glass slips into the walls to expose the room to the backyard.
Hasan Piker Twitch
Piker began streaming on Twitch in March 2018, while still employed at TYT. Piker has stated that he switched from Facebook to Twitch in order to reach a younger audience, as well as to address what he perceived to be a preponderance of right-wing commentators on YouTube and a lack of leftist representation among streamers. He rose to prominence as a left-wing political commentator, appearing on Fox News’ The Issue Is and the political podcast Chapo Trap House. Piker’s Twitch channel also features video game gameplay and commentary. His YouTube channel features highlights from his streams and has over 1,000,000 subscribers as of 2022.
Piker had over 125,000 viewers watching his commentary of the first 2020 United States presidential debate on September 29, the highest viewership of the debate on Twitch. On October 19, 2020, U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez worked with Piker and fellow Twitch streamer Pokimane to organize a live stream of the Representative playing the popular multiplayer game Among Us for the “Get Out the Vote” initiative. The stream aired the next day, with Ocasio-Cortez and U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar playing the game with Piker and many other popular Twitch streamers, reaching nearly 700,000 concurrent viewers.
Piker’s stream covering the 2020 US presidential election results peaked at 230,000 concurrent viewers and was the sixth most-watched source of election coverage on YouTube and Twitch, accounting for 4.9% of the market share. During election week, he was the most watched Twitch streamer, with an average of 75,000 concurrent viewers watching his 80 hours of streams. During the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol, Piker’s stream reached a new high of 231,000 viewers.
Hasan Piker Car
He owns a brand new 2022 Porsche Taycan Turbo S sports car, which is worth at least USD$200,000 before extra packages, kits, and rims.
Hasan Piker Political Stance
Piker is known as a progressive, leftist, Marxist, and democratic socialist. He has advocated for workplace democracy, universal health care, intersectional feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, and gun control while opposing war, American imperialism, Islamophobia, white supremacy, and capitalism.
Piker has stated that his upbringing in Turkey during the reign of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan influenced both his left-wing views and willingness to speak out about them. Piker supported Bernie Sanders’ presidential primary campaigns in 2016 and 2020 and has been a vocal critic of both the Democratic and Republican parties.