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're welcome to, if you would like to. I would actually really like for someone from Hasan's followers to try to explain why this post is not factually solid.
I wasn't specifically talking about you. I just noticed that the initial narrative was dew claws and airtags, and then it was vibrating collars, and now it's shifted over to 100% attacking the messenger and they're not at all interested in talking about how it's obviously an airtag collar and anyone who can't see that is stupid.
To what end? Honestly - setting aside the forensic analysis you've compiled for a second - what's the point of spending so much time on litigating the details of this interaction?
Anyone who watches this person regularly aren't going to judge his character on the one clip - that's probably why you feel so frustrated by their ambivalence. Let alone the spurious conclusions you're so eager to draw from it.
Okay, so I'm going to take that as you're not going to try to argue with the idea that there's strong evidence that he shocked his dog and then lied about it.
I have no idea why that would not be pertinent information for you to know about this man you seem to take seriously, but it's up to you of course.
If I hang out with a friend every day, and then one day I see him punch a baby, then yes I'm going to judge his character based on that one interaction.
That's separate from the issue that literally every clip I have seen of this guy makes him look like a piece of shit in some way or another. Like I say, I actually look more at the totality of what I've seen him do while interacting with Kaya in these clips and the overall emotional interplay at work, than I do indict him specifically for shocking her and lying about it. But yes, shocking her and then lying about it (which you suddenly don't want to litigate... wonder why...) is very significant to me.
I fully acknowledged that it's probably a one-sided picture created by his enemies, and invited you to send me a clip showing the other side of his character where he's providing something insightful or valuable that I should be able to take on and make some use of, and you keep not doing it. So yeah that also makes me feel pretty settled in the conclusion about him.