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.
Fucking asshole abusing animals. Absolutely disgusting.
Not just that, but trying to cover for it in the most insultingly stupid and lazy possible way.
It honestly wouldn't have been hard to do Amazon next-day delivery of an actual vibration version of the exact same model of collar, and then show it clearly on stream without all of these obvious shenanigans of holding it awkwardly and taking it out of view really quickly, and clearly and honestly illustrating that it's the same general shape and configuration so that it would have been honestly pretty compelling. But he's gotten accustomed to just being lord of his little streaming domain, feeding condescending forceful explanations to all his followers and having them lap it up eagerly, that he's started to think that's just how the world works and he doesn't have to put effort into convincing anybody of anything, and can just order them what to believe.
There have been a typhoon of his followers commenting things to me about this issue. Honestly the only reason I went to the trouble of doing little screenshots to so clearly show the issue is because they have been hounding me relentlessly insisting that it's all completely made up and obviously false and I must only be talking about it because I'm a stan for some other streamer that is a supervillian in the extended cinematic Hasanaverse. I was at least a little bit unsure, now I am absolutely convinced that he shocked that dog and is now lying about it on purpose.
Gosh that’s a lot to unpack.
Really frightening seeing the delusional shit people get invested in like this. That poor dog deserves better treatment and not this bullshit drama from the fandoms of make believe streamer conflicts.
Thank you for sharing and hopefully more people will show actual sympathy to mistreated animals like this dog.