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Overview

Ethan Klein vs. Hasan Piker Feud refers to the falling out between content creator Ethan Klein and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker over issues related to the Hamas-Israel Conflict and Piker's on-stream actions, with Klein believing that Piker promotes terrorist propaganda and extremist viewpoints to his audience and benefits from favoritism on Twitch. The two began co-hosting a podcast called Leftovers together in 2021, which ended on October 12th, 2023 in relation to the October 7th, 2023 attack on Israel and rising tensions between the hosts and their respective, individual audiences. One of Klein's main criticisms surrounds an increase in antisemitic remarks towards him since October 7th, 2023, claiming that some people are freely using the term "zionist" as a derogatory stand-in for "Jew" to spread antisemitism in a more outwardly accepted way. In January 2025, after receiving an increasing amount of online hate and accusations of being a zionist, many of which Klein claims are defamatory, Klein released a takedown video on Piker known as the "content nuke." The video looked to show evidence of Piker's

Background

Leftovers

Last Episode Of Leftovers

Hamas-Israel Debate Stream

Developments

H3 Show #67 – Addressing Hasan & His Community

Hasan Piker Content Nuke

On January 31st, 2025, the h3h3Productions YouTube^[1] channel uploaded a video titled "Content Nuke – Hasan Piker," which mirrored his earlier "Content Nuke" video against Keemstar set in a similar fashion to the Content Cop style that iDubbbz popularized.

The video is a critical takedown of Piker, which looks to highlight the ways Hasan allegedly promotes terrorism and extreme content on his stream by watching Houthi and Hamas propaganda videos, giving slanted takes on the conflict between Hamas and Israel, radicalizing his audience to become communists, denying that Hamas committed rape during the October 7th attack, once platforming and uncritically interviewing Timhouthi Chalamet, also known as Rashid, a man suspected of being a Houthi terrorist, and more. The video also criticizes other socialist and far-left streamers like Frogan and Denims, as well as Twitch's CEO Dan Clancy, who Klein believes favors Piker and acts antisemitically in the way he manages Twitch.

The video begins with Klein explaining why he grew to dislike Piker, pointing to the October 7th attacks and a debate he had with Piker over their differences in opinion on the topic of Hamas-Israel on Piker's channel, during which Piker's audience was saying things to Klein that he took as hateful and antisemitic and Piker and his moderators refusing to take the necessary actions to stop the chat from saying these things.

H3 Twitch Banned For Streaming Hasan Piker Content Nuke

H3 Twitch Banned For Streaming Hasan Piker Content Nuke refers to Twitch moderation's decision to suspend the h3h3productions Twitch account for 30 days for streaming the Hasan Piker "content nuke" on a loop, which is a takedown video on Piker by h3h3productions and Ethan Klein. The content nuke started streaming on the site on March 5th, 2025, and the suspension happened that day during a live broadcast of the H3 Podcast on YouTube. The account was suspended for streaming content that "encouraged or glorified extreme violence," which is a part of Twitch's guidelines. Klein attempted to appeal the ban, but it was denied, then reinstated later on, with Twitch support claiming the suspension was a mistake. The ban went viral and inspired discourse online about Twitch's allegedly unfair moderation practices, supporting the theory that Twitch displays favoritism towards creators like Hasan Piker, as the content shown in the content nuke that "glorifies extreme violence" largely comes from Piker and other Twitch streamers, including Frogan and Denims. The news of the ban also notably garnered a reaction from Elon Musk, who seemed to agree that Twitch's moderation team is biased. Notably, the ban came only a day after Piker had a 24-hour ban lifted for saying during a stream, “If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott."

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