Hasan snapped at a longtime subscriber during a recent Twitch stream and hit them with a permanent ban after they joked about his workout routine.
The subscriber had been paying to support Hasan’s channel for 33 months. That’s nearly three years of continuous financial backing. Their comment was a light tease about Hasan not working out as consistently as he might claim. Nothing harsh or personal. Just standard chat banter.
Hasan’s response was immediate and extreme. He told the viewer to “die” and added “perish” and vulgar insults. No “in a video game” qualifier. No joking tone. Just direct hostility toward someone who had given him roughly $165 minimum in subscription fees over the years.
Then he banned them from chat entirely.
Chat had been teasing him about the jackets and his current physique. He’d already removed some layers after earlier comments. The workout joke obviously hit a nerve.
Twitch’s Community Guidelines explicitly prohibit telling viewers to harm themselves or die. The platform has suspended other streamers for similar statements in the past. Telling someone to die without any context or qualifier falls squarely into that category.
Hasan has discussed being overweight as a child and has shown sensitivity to body image comments before. He’s currently traveling and likely not maintaining his usual gym routine. That context doesn’t excuse the reaction but might explain why a harmless joke triggered such an outburst.
The Twitch double standard question
As of now, Twitch has taken no public action against Hasan. No suspension. No strike. No statement.
The incident raises familiar questions about enforcement consistency. Smaller streamers have been suspended for less direct violations. Hasan remains one of Twitch’s biggest political commentators with tens of thousands of concurrent viewers daily. Whether his status affects moderation decisions is something viewers have questioned before.
