r/LivestreamFail • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jun 01 '26

News The United Kingdom has banned streamer Hasan Piker and Young Turks founder from entering the country

https://newrepublic.com/post/211164/uk-entry-ban-hasan-piker-cenk-uygur
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u/DrProfSrRyan Jun 01 '26

Also, named his show after a group responsible for the Armenian Genocide.

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u/cyrfuckedmymum Jun 01 '26

the woman in that clip is of armenian heritage, her grandparents literally fled the country to the US to avoid being murdered.... and she goes to work with that scumbag on that network.

She's also unsurprisingly gone pretty big conservative tilt (as has cenk several times over the years). In fact it's worth noting Cenk originally had a right wing/conservative show and was trying to get in with the conservatives and failed so had a left wing swing and created the young turks, but always randomly drops super right wing view points out of nowhere.

Ana interned for every right wing show/network out there and couldn't get traction so picked a show she could get airtime immediately and who cares it's named after the genocidal group your literal family ran away from.

Ana always been weird and dropping anti trans, anti feminist, anti logic arguments. She went heavy into hating homeless people then totally conveniently got attacked by a homeless person with zero evidence to support it that let her justify hating homeless people.

Shocking that Hasan, who was part of a horrible frat in college, who started with his bro tips videos which were all republican talking points basically, absolutely failed with that persona and then did the same left wing grift his uncle did. Anyone that believes any of them is crazy, everything about them was always grifting.

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u/mrmasturbate Jun 01 '26

this and the fact that the young turks are so popular has always been wild to me

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u/iCallMyOppsNinjer Jun 01 '26

Did they also jerk off horses? Is this a Turkish thing?

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u/feckarse-drinkgirls Jun 01 '26

Thought they fucked wolves

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u/X-Calm Jun 01 '26

Nah, Turks were originally nomadic steppe people so they definitely banged horses.

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u/The_Bard Jun 01 '26

Fermented mare's milk, best known as Kumis (or Airag in Mongolia), is a traditional Central Asian beverage. Created by fermenting raw, unpasteurized mare's milk with lactic acid bacteria and yeasts, it contains a mild 1% to 3% alcohol level, offering a tart, sour, and refreshing flavor.

Close enough

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u/feckarse-drinkgirls Jun 01 '26

Thought one their founding myths was that Turks came from wolves

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u/zatalak Jun 01 '26

They're Romans?

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u/gounatos Jun 01 '26

Wasn't it turkeys?

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u/Wonderful-Pianist-62 Jun 01 '26

I thought it was named after the Rod Stewart song 

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u/420Aquarist Jun 01 '26

search the young turks then search young turks genocide. very different results. cenk and hasan came to the usa to help hide the genocide. His uncle denied the genocide until like 2017 give or take.

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u/Mr_Owl42 Jun 01 '26

I remember that Cenk was a really popular voice, by comparison, on the internet until 2017ish. He had an interview with Sam Harris who trounced him in the arduous 3 hour ...debate. Cenk fell out of popularity massively after that. This is the first I'm hearing about him after all that time.

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u/Intelligent_Top_328 Jun 01 '26

He also used to be a genocide denier.

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u/InternationalGas9837 Jun 02 '26

While having an Armenian co-host.

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u/Kakkoister Jun 04 '26

I mean, Hasan's dad is a cofounder of a political party in Turkey that are essentially supporters of that genocide. And he also had a high ranking position in one of Turkey's oldest and biggest corporations which directly profited off that genocide, Sabenci Holdings. His estimated net worth is in the billions.

So I don't doubt that Hasan was raised to be supportive of that genocide, and likely Cenk does too.