How the Twitch pundit triumphed

How the Twitch pundit triumphed

“The audience is moving in my direction, and away from legacy publishers,” proclaimed Hasan Piker in a recent interview, as he explained why he hasn’t made a permanent move from his online platform into traditional media. Piker, a native of New Jersey, is a leftist darling of Twitch, the livestreaming platform that has been a subsidiary of Amazon since 2014. Pretty much every day of the week, he logs on and discusses the news online to an audien…