This came to an absolute boiling point when one of the lefts own, Ethan Klein, turned on former friend and podcast co-host Hasan Piker after Piker kept giving Hamas an easy pass after October 7. Klein, a popular YouTuber, made a nearly 2-hour long video detailing Piker's radicalism, and the antisemitic, pro-communism community he'd created around it. 

(READ: Hasan Piker v Ethan Klein: The Left's Gen Z Radicalization Pipeline Is Collapsing From Within)

The focus was mainly on Piker, and his equally radical mods like "Frogen," who brainwash their Gen-Z and younger millennial audience into truly believing America is an evil country and that terrorists are just "freedom fighters." As I wrote it, however, I started to wonder if people like Piker are actually as radical to the left as they say. 

Piker, for instance, consistently sings the praises of socialism while elbow-nudging his audience about the virtues of communism, yet he lives large in expensive houses and drives nice cars. "The Young Turks" co-hostess, Ana Kasparian, let loose with a barrage of posts on X detailing her disdain for Piker — who is the nephew of her co-host and good friend Cenk Ugyur — and revealed that he is "placating an audience I know for a fact he hates" and that Piker is actually terrified of his own audience. 

I believe her. Piker radicalized his own audience, and if he were to say the wrong thing about certain subjects, they would likely make him pay for it, and I don't just mean financially by unsubscribing and leaving his stream. These people aren't above finding you in person. 

But the issue is that Piker, nor his audience, should have ever been allowed to get this far. It's easy to blame people like Piker because they're the face of the radicalism, but ultimately, the blame for this rot is on Twitch. 

In Klein's video, he dedicates a portion of it to talking about how Twitch not only allows for horrible things to be said on its platform, it actually promotes it by putting radicals on its front page such as Piker's mod, Frogan. Frogan herself is a radical antisemite who likes to laugh at the idea of American soldiers getting PTSD and believes wholeheartedly in the "Palestinian" cause. 

Twitch not only features her on the front page of the site from time to time, they put her on stage at Twitch Con where she spewed even more hateful, antisemitic sentiment... with corporate sponsor logos right behind her. 

Here is a clip of that event. You'll notice they're rating streamers with a tier list based on how "Arab" they are with "loves Sabra" at the bottom. Sabra is a Jewish hummus company. When Klein, a Jewish man, is brought up, you can hear boos from Frogan's fans and the panelists say they love the reaction. 

One of the panelists says "you're missing a category for Zionist."

As you can see, this is a Twitch event with Chevron, Samsung, and Capcom on the walls behind them as they openly spew antisemitic nonsense on stage. 

Corporations are definitely learning. According to ynetnews.com, various corporations have pulled out of Twitch until it cleans up its act: 

Despite measures to balance free speech and ad safety, several major advertisers have taken action. AT&T and Dunkin’ Donuts have removed their ads entirely, while energy giant Chevron, which operates in Israel, announced it is reconsidering sponsorship of the platform’s TwitchCon event following a controversial panel where participants ranked streamers on their “love for Arabs.” 

The lowest ranking was nicknamed “Sabra lover,” referencing a hummus brand formerly owned by Israel’s Strauss Group. Twitch suspended the panelists, calling their remarks “offensive and inconsistent with company values,” but the reputational damage lingered.

For Piker's part, an official complaint was filed by the ADL for Piker's content, but Twitch only issued a warning to Piker for his radicalism. 

As of right now, Piker, Frogan, and other radicals like him, are still operating on Twitch and even being celebrated by Twitch itself. I can't help but think that, like Piker, Twitch is terrified of the audience it played a hand in creating, and knows that if they actually do crack down on what's happening on their own site, they very well could find themselves in some serious trouble. 

But it has to stop. What's happening on Twitch isn't the "suggestion" that radical terrorism is good, it's outright being promoted. That the federal government hasn't gotten involved shows that Twitch is honestly surprising. 

Moreover, as I mentioned earlier, the people hanging out at Twitch are younger people who are actively being guided to watch people like Piker and Frogan. They aren't just anti-Israel, they're anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-Christian, and anti-Western. Their radicalized chats spur them on and turns, pressures the platform, and turns it into a radicalism pipeline. 

Something needs to be done, and it starts with forcing Twitch to abide by its own guidelines that include not promoting terrorism or terrorist content.