Twitter has figured out why Hasan Piker showed his dog's definitely-not-a-shock-collar so quickly, and held it so awkwardly when he did
Twitter has figured out why Hasan Piker showed his dog's definitely-not-a-shock-collar so quickly, and held it so awkwardly when he did
For context: People are claiming that Hasan Piker shocked his dog with a shock collar on stream for basically no reason and got very mad at him. He put out a video showing her collar for 0.001 seconds in the world's most awkward hand grip and saying it was clearly a vibration collar and his enemies are trying to ruin his life as they always do. People including myself are still suspicious.
I looked at the allegations in this video myself a little, and I won't swear to the model numbers or anything but it all sounds right to me. You may need to pause the video to look at his images, he scrolls past them irritatingly quickly. There does however definitely look to me to be tape on the back of that thing. This is from Hasan's explanation stream where he showed the collar:
Click to see the raw image and zoom it, and you'll see pretty clearly that most of the box is shiny dark black plastic with bright white highlights, and then there's a clear off-kilter rectangle of something that's matte dark grey instead, without much in the way of highlights. You can also see vague shadows of two little circular things that could be prong sockets covered by tape or could just be weird compression artifacts or something.
Here it is with contrast adjusted:
You can see the rectangle of the tape, and then some kind of distortion at the top that might be a prong socket, and a pretty clear circular shape at the bottom that definitely looks like it could be one.
In another part of the video you can see that circular part under the tape even more clearly. Look between his fingers to see the clear circular shape, you can even see wrinkles in the tape around the circular protrusion:
Yes, I'm already aware that the Hasan stans will say I'm making all this up and it's not there and they don't see anything. Anyway, that's what it is. If I did my math right, those frames are from https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2586575954 and the timestamps are, respectively for the three images:
- 43:58.396
- 44:09.292
- 44:09.333
Somebody inform reddit, the drama must flow.
You should know that this guy is a Palestinian genocide denier.
Do you mean Ethan Klein? Because yeah, he is a genocide-denying piece of shit. That doesn't make shock collars okay to use.
The rape allegations against Neil Gaiman were first publicized by a TERF; he doesn't get a pass either.
No, I mean the guy in this video.
I am not at all, but you all should know that this guy is willing to excuse and deflect away from animal abuse when it's being done by his favorite streamer.
Honestly, one guy on Twitch who inflicts pain on his dog sometimes when he's angry about his tech not working right isn't the end of the world in the nonstop circus of horrors that is geopolitics. But this whole mentality "but he's my guy, so he didn't do anything wrong" is a dangerous enough pattern to be worth pushing back hard against, when it happens, I think. That's part of why I am even taking all this streamer drama seriously in any respect in the first place. And, of course, someone who's willing to lie to everyone's face about what they literally watched happen on stream with their own two eyes probably isn't a good person to put in your close and trusted circle of "influencers."
Nono, I mean the guy presenting you this evidence in the video. Lonerbox is a genocide denying zionist and has had a two-year-long feud against piker.
It should be a red flag that all the creators dedicating resources to covering this slop are outspoken zionists.