All you need to know about Hasan Abi

Hasan Abi is an American Twitch streamer, podcaster, and left-wing political commentator, with a net worth of $8 million. HasanAbi has previously worked as a producer for “The Young Turks,” a “HuffPost” columnist, and a broadcast journalist. He has 2.5 million Twitch followers, and 1.28 million YouTube subscribers, and his YouTube videos have received over 424 million views.

HasanAbi’s YouTube channel received Creator Awards after reaching 100,000 subscribers in 2020 and one million in 2022. His Twitch channel bio defines him as a “political commentator irl trying to avoid heated gaming moments.”

Who is Hasan Abi?

Hasan Abi

was born Hasan Doğan Piker on July 25, 1991, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. HasanAbi’s parents are Turkish, and he grew up in Istanbul, where he was tormented at school for questioning Islam and being physically unfit. He returned to the United States for education, enrolling at the University of Miami.

He later transferred to Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he double-majored in communication studies and political science and graduated with honors in 2013. HasanAbi’s uncle is Cenk Uygur, a progressive political journalist who founded the popular TV show “The Young Turks.”

HasanAbi has participated in two music videos: “Slander Feat. Dylan Matthew: Love Is Gone” (2019) and “Bella Poarch: Dolls” (2022), and he co-hosted the YouTube discussion show “Pop Trigger” from 2016 to 2017. He has also co-hosted two podcasts: “Fear&” and “Leftovers.”

How old is Hasan Abi?

He is currently 32 years old.

What is Hasan Abi’s net worth?

He is estimated to be worth $8 Million.

What is Hasan Abi’s career?

As a senior in college, HasanAbi interned with “The Young Turks” (“TYT”). After graduation, he was hired to work in the advertising sales and business departments. He asked if he might host “T he Young Turks” anytime someone needed to fill in, and he eventually became both a host and a producer for the show. In 2016, HasanAbi hosted the “TYT” Network series “The Breakdown” on Facebook, which he also produced. The show was aimed at millennials who backed Bernie Sanders and received a Best Web Series nomination at the 2018 Shorty Awards. From 2016 to 2018, HasanAbi contributed political content to the progressive news website “HuffPost.”

In 2019, he created and hosted “Agitprop with Hasan Piker,” another “TYT” series, and the following year he announced his departure from the network to focus on his Twitch channel. HasanAbi started his Twitch channel in 2018, and after becoming a popular left-wing political pundit on the platform, he was invited to speak on Fox News’ “The Issue Is” and the “Chapo Trap House” program. He uploads highlights from his Twitch streams to YouTube, and his channel surpassed one million subscribers in 2022. On Twitch, he also broadcasts gameplay and comments.

HasanAbi broadcast commentary from the first 2020 presidential debate, which drew over 125,000 people. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez collaborated with HasanAbi and Twitch broadcaster Pokimane to create a “Get Out the Vote” live featuring AOC playing the game “Among Us.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar also took part, and the video of the event has been viewed over 2.3 million times. HasanAbi’s stream in which he covered the results of the 2020 presidential election was the sixth most-watched election news source across YouTube and Twitch, at one time exceeding 230,000 concurrent viewers. During election week, he was Twitch’s most-watched streamer, with an average of 75,000 concurrent viewers watching his 80 hours of coverage, totaling 6.8 million hours.

During the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, HasanAbi’s Twitch stream peaked at 231,000 views. In November 2021, he released Ideologie, a collection of union-made items, and donated a portion of the proceeds to striking money.

After Russia invaded Ukraine, HasanAbi donated over $200,000 for Ukrainian relief funding in collaboration with the humanitarian organization CARE. He raised funds by playing the role-playing game “Elden Ring.” Following the February 2023 earthquake in Turkey and Syria, he arranged a gala that earned more than $1.2 million for charities committed to assisting earthquake victims.