After Monday’s regularly scheduled episode of The Daily Show, Comedy Central aired a follow-up Jordan Klepper: Fingers the Pulse special where Klepper went around trying to figure out why young people, and especially young men, have drifted right. As part of his solution for liberals, he promoted Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and his love of anime boobs, but not the terrorists who did September 11 and October 7.
As part of Klepper’s anthropological dive into the MAGA youth, he highlighted various influencers ranging from relatively normal activists like Charlie Kirk to the politically hard-to-define Joe Rogan to UFC fighter and actual Hitler apologist Bryce Mitchell and how they have shaped young people. As a counter, Klepper highlighted, “One person who is in the ring is Hasan Piker. Piker has 2.8 million followers on the streaming platform,…
