Hasan Piker

Hasan Doğan Piker (born July 25, 1991), also known as HasanAbi, is an American online streamer, influencer, and left-wing political commentator. His streams typically consist of political and social commentary, gaming, and media consumption. As of 2025, Piker is the twenty-first most subscribed channel on the streaming platform Twitch.

Piker started streaming on Twitch in March 2018 while working at The Young Turks. In January 2020, he left TYT to focus on his career as a Twitch streamer. Piker has been described as Twitch's "de facto political commentator" who uses an unabashedly ideological framing.

Hasan Doğan Piker was born to Turkish parents in New Brunswick, New Jersey, but grew up in Istanbul and was raised as a Muslim. 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 conservative Future Party in Turkey. His mother, Ülker Sedef Piker (née Uygur), 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, a progressive and left-wing populist news network.

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. In 2013, Piker moved to Los Angeles, California, after graduating from Rutgers University. In 2021, Piker purchased a $2.7 million 3,800-square-foot two-story house in West Hollywood, California. Most of Piker’s streams have been filmed in his house.

During his senior year of college in 2013, Piker interned for The Young Turks (TYT), a progressive news show and network co-founded by his uncle, Cenk Uygur. After graduating, Piker was hired by the network's ad sales and business department. He asked to host the show when a fill-in was needed and later became a host and producer.

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. In January 2020, he left TYT to focus on his career as a Twitch streamer. Piker said that 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 in August 2019, Piker criticized American foreign policy and made controversial comments relating to the September 11, 2001, attacks, including "America deserved 9/11." 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. Piker received a short-term ban for his comments.