Hasan Piker

Whereas in the past, I think a decent percentage of men could just get a job at a factory and it was fine. You could raise your children, send them to college even, you got the GI Bill. All of that stuff is gone. And I think young men feel that. They feel that. Young women feel it too. But I think it's particularly damaging to the collective conscious of young men.

And young men, unfortunately, are also very susceptible to and very in that vulnerability, they're very susceptible to believing like just a guy that masquerades as a role model, but is a bad dude, you know, like Andrew Tate's of the world. And that is a real issue.

And young men, unfortunately, are also very susceptible to and very in that vulnerability, they're very susceptible to believing like just a guy that masquerades as a role model, but is a bad dude, you know, like Andrew Tate's of the world. And that is a real issue.

So they find a sense of comfort in a guy that they kinda wanna be like, that is just like signaling all of the things that they care about, money, power, women.

So they find a sense of comfort in a guy that they kinda wanna be like, that is just like signaling all of the things that they care about, money, power, women.

For sure. And I think it's a sense of entitlement that is unaddressed overall, broadly, for men. But as times worsen, as material conditions worsen, as people's hope for a better future becomes increasingly less likely, or you just can't even dream of a better tomorrow for yourself, you're never going to retire, you're never going to be able to own a home. I think that...

For sure. And I think it's a sense of entitlement that is unaddressed overall, broadly, for men. But as times worsen, as material conditions worsen, as people's hope for a better future becomes increasingly less likely, or you just can't even dream of a better tomorrow for yourself, you're never going to retire, you're never going to be able to own a home. I think that...

creates this downward pressure on a lot of men because society does not match their expectations from their development, from their upbringing and what they're supposed to be at. And it breaks them.

creates this downward pressure on a lot of men because society does not match their expectations from their development, from their upbringing and what they're supposed to be at. And it breaks them.

It breaks them and paired up with the with the lack of interest in self-examination and reevaluating where you are and how you got there, and instead just kind of holding it down and pushing it down to the best of your ability. What? I'm going to use a term here that's going to piss people off, toxic masculinity has, how toxic masculinity has harmed men in this way.

It breaks them and paired up with the with the lack of interest in self-examination and reevaluating where you are and how you got there, and instead just kind of holding it down and pushing it down to the best of your ability. What? I'm going to use a term here that's going to piss people off, toxic masculinity has, how toxic masculinity has harmed men in this way.

When you factor all of that together, it's an atom bomb.

When you factor all of that together, it's an atom bomb.

No, I understand it. It is scary. They are like that demographic. I wouldn't say that this is my audience, but that demographic does do a lot of harm online and maybe sometimes in the real world as well. So, I try to steer them away from that to the best of my ability.

No, I understand it. It is scary. They are like that demographic. I wouldn't say that this is my audience, but that demographic does do a lot of harm online and maybe sometimes in the real world as well. So, I try to steer them away from that to the best of my ability.

Yeah. Just, I mean, that demo isn't just young men, though. That demo is just men, white men especially, but men across the board. Yeah. I was in an Uber going to the Bernie Sanders AOC rally in Nevada, in Las Vegas. And my Uber driver was talking about how he loves Theo Vaughn and Joe Rogan. And lo and behold, he was like, I'm so glad that Doge is cutting Trans Sesame Street or something in Iraq.

Yeah. Just, I mean, that demo isn't just young men, though. That demo is just men, white men especially, but men across the board. Yeah. I was in an Uber going to the Bernie Sanders AOC rally in Nevada, in Las Vegas. And my Uber driver was talking about how he loves Theo Vaughn and Joe Rogan. And lo and behold, he was like, I'm so glad that Doge is cutting Trans Sesame Street or something in Iraq.

Like, that's what they're doing in Iraq, Trans Sesame Street. and this dude was like i think he was a teacher or no he was a he worked in uh a western pennsylvania in a oil field initially he was a fracker and i guess he their company used to work on federal land and biden stopped offering federal land contracts uh and he lost his job but instead of carrying that resentment towards his boss

Like, that's what they're doing in Iraq, Trans Sesame Street. and this dude was like i think he was a teacher or no he was a he worked in uh a western pennsylvania in a oil field initially he was a fracker and i guess he their company used to work on federal land and biden stopped offering federal land contracts uh and he lost his job but instead of carrying that resentment towards his boss

for not doing right by him he just hates joe brandon he's like i hate joe biden and i think in that process he just like found podcasts and became this guy who believes in nonsense believes in falses because he hears the podcast guy who he's parasocially connected to tell him like this is what's going on and he just regurgitates that to feel smart about himself and it slowly but surely becomes a mantra that he believes this is a dangerous cycle