DIDDY Verdict: Reaction From Twitch Streamers Hasanabi, Charlie and Asmongold
In case you haven't heard, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs or just call him Diddy, was just found guilty of 2 felony counts of the five he had been charged with. He was found guilty of "transportation to engage in prostitution" but was found not guilty on the more serious sex trafficking and racketeering charges. He's still in lockup in NY pending sentencing.
Reaction to the news of the verdict pinged it's online way to the ears (and eyes) of these three Twitch streamers who all have something to say about the Diddy verdict.
They all have sizeable Twitch audiences (and their names are linked to their Twitch home page). First will be Hasanabi (2.9M subs on Twitch), then Charlie aka moistcr1tikal (5.7M subs on Twitch) aka penguinz0 (17M subs on YouTube).
And then, batting third, will be Asmongold on his second channel, Zackrawrr (Where he has 2.1M subs). His main Twitch channel says he has 3.9M subs but Asmondgold says, "Last Live 2 Years Ago".
This is a video a Hasan Piker fan channel called Hasanabi Productions posted from a Hasanabi Twitch stream from earlier today.
This is a self-descibed "fan channel" mostly as it says in the channel description the channel is to be "Your home for transformed Hasanabi clips, memes and react videos". The channel has 319K subs and almost 250M channel views.
Hasan starts off low key and just states the facts of the case, adding maybe the feds "went a little heavy on the RICO" stuff, but then pointed out many people talking on the record, giving firsthand eyewitness testimony that Diddy did this and that to them but they still couldn't stick the RICO landing.
"The Feds took a big L in the RICO case"
Conviction under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act means 20 years in prison for each guilty racketeering charge and, as a further poke in the eye, they can be fined up to $25,000 per count.
But now Diddy doesn't have to worry about the RICO counts but it looks like he WILL be on the hook for a "maximum" of up to 10 years for both of the guilty felony verdicts (depending on the "severity").
How much you wanna bet he gets a nice deal? Time served? Sure. He may get something like 6 years with parole eligibility in three but he's out in less.
Let's come back here in 5 years and maybe I'll be the "Seer of Seers", the "Prognosticator of Prognosticators" or an idiot who thinks Diddy will see "much time" at all inside of a federal penitentiary.
Hasan talks about how the evidence seemed to show that Diddy was the head of an alleged criminal enterprise that coerced women to attend sex parties and that Diddy allegedly profited from this activity. He even points out the videotape of Diggy hitting his girlfriend and pulling hair, but the RICO part just didn't make the judicial cut.
In the video Hasan tries to get into the mind of a Diddy supporter (how and why you'd be one), and he said they'd probably say something like "They're gonna come after me too" because of some personal regret from how they themself treated someone in their past.
"There's still a sh*t-ton of dudes, that don't maybe even look back at their previous interactions and don't even look at this kind of a backlash that has taken place and instead of recognizing they should change the way they carry themselves they have basically created a backlash against this wave of women demanding justice. So that's why you see so much of this 'celebration' of this kind of thing."
He mentions "misogyny tourists" which basically means when a man gloms onto the dude in any guy versus girl legal scenario because 'You know. Bro Code' or other similar nonsense.
But his audience asked for a definition of his term, so he tries to explain misogyny tourist by recalling a recent criminal case (from almost 5 years ago almost to the day) when Tory Lanez shot Megan The Stallion in the foot while they were arguing as they left Kylie Jenner's Hollywood Hills home.
(Ah the bright lights, and sometimes gunfire, of Tinsel Town.) Lanez received 10 years for the shooting.
Hasan says "If you look at the details, without any sort of bias whatsoever, when you just look at the details of what took place, and what the criminal justice system decided to take on as an issue, given Megan The Stallion's initial lack of interest (I'd say a wary reluctance rather than a "lack of interest") in prosecuting Tory Lanez despite the fact he shot her. Shot in her direction. He shot AT her" he continued.
Next Hasan points out that many men seem to gravitate to a defensive posture, closing ranks because, as he said, a lot of guys get reflexively defensive when they feel "another man is in the cross-hairs" and they sense it's "not really justified" and its almost as if they feel accountability for your actions gets to skip a day in this case, because: "reasons".
He pointed to men aligning themselves with Lanez' position not because they knew Lanez or could vouch for his character. They felt Lanez should be let go because the victim was "just a woman" according to Piker. Which is a messed up way of seeing the world around you, in my opinion.
Hasan also talked about how this was a criminal case and that Megan wasn't the one who brought the charges against Lanez. It was the State. But he's "seen this dynamic play itself out before."
He mentions "This isn't to say, there's no instance like, where a man has been falsely maligned. I'm sure it happens. But in the overwhelming majority of times, of cases men have NOT been prosecuted for things they've done that is prosecutable (can be defined according to my online dictionary as referring to something that can be taken to court and tried as a crime).
"Or men getting away with doing heinous sh*t to women," he continued. "It is entirely slanted in one direction, and I think that the reason a lot of people basically unconditionally always support men in every single one of these cases is because they fear they've found themselves in this 'tricky space' of navigating interpersonal relations with women and they fear they have done something similar, and possibly some have done things that are similar.
He also says that just because some dudes are defending Diddy, you can't paint them all with the same brush as if they too must be guilty of racketeering or other heinous crimes.
Hasan says the some of any remaining Diddy supporters might be thinkinhg "I've been in a similar situation where I wanted to have sex with a woman. She said no to me and maybe I was a little pushy, maybe I was a little rude, a little creepy. What if I go to jail for that similar thing?"
He sees this attitude driving a portion of some of the men out there. And that's their "starting point" when reacting to these controversial issues.
I could go on further about what Hasanabi spoke about in the video but you should take the time to listen to what he has to say. There's still the sentencing portion of this case to come and I'm sure Hasan will speak on that too.
But let's move on to Charlie's thoughts about the news of Diddy's mixed verdict.
Charlie expresses the same sour taste left that many experienced when hearing how Diddy sidstepped that legal train that many though could put his away for the rest of his life. But Diddy proven himself elusive "because of his baby oil" that allowed him to slip out of the grasp of the people charged with holding him accountable.
He's astonished that "The Lord of Lube" has wiggled out, somehow "despite overwhelming evidence of the decades' worth of evil, criminal activities he has done, terrorizing the music industry and so many individuals, the 'Don of Dildos' will get a slap on the wrist. And maybe not even that much!"
He reviews that Diddy somehow got away with the more serious allegations (with potentially lengthy sentences) but the two lesser charges that Diddy was found guilty of could result in 10 year sentences but Charlie fully expects the oily one to get simply only a slight, inconvenient punishment.
A sentence you or I, poor sods that we are, could never expect to have handed down to us and we'd be locked up until we left jail feet first. He forsees Diddy getting a mere six months probation or something similarly ludicrous.
When the verdict was announced and Diddy skated on the more serious charges, Diddy stood up clapping at the result prompting the spectators to join in like a cheesy after-school movie feel-good moment.
You can almost picture Diddy doing a slow clap and bringing any remaining hangers-on in on his moment when he "sorta", "kinda", beat the system.
Except for those two pesky felony convictions with up to 10 year prison sentences each. We still have to see how those get resolved.
Charlie said he wouldn't be surprised if Diddy received some weak sauce "Home Detention" sentence where he was "forced to play League of Legends for a couple of months" while he whined about his "itchy" ankle monitoring device as he loaded up on restocked cases of baby oil for the weekend.
I guess we can safely call Charlie a bit disillusioned as he turns away from this story in disgust. He says "I don't get it. Did the defense offer free freakoff invitations to the jury? There was overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing" but it looks like the prosecution couldn't prove the coercion aspect of the RICO allegations because of some texts from the women involved.
I liked the "I'm no lawyer, I'm just doing some neanderthal-spitballing here" part with it's Charlie-speak, like the 'neanderthal-spitballing' thing. I enjoy how he puts together an argument, but flavors in an the odd turn of phrase or humorous aside.
Almost expected him to say something like 'Before the verdict was announced, Diddy was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs', but he went on a mini-rant predicting there will be a "freakoff to beat all freakoffs" and "baby oil will go extinct."
"There'll be a freakoff the likes of which the cosmos has never seen. It will be filled with so much degeneracy it will give birth to Slaanesh in the Warp" (This is a Warhammer gaming reference with Slaanesh being the god of lust, greed, etc and his "birth in the Warp" being a harbinger of Doom.) "Its going to be a Warhammer 40 event. Its really despicable. It really is." summarizing Charlie's take quite nicely on the whole Diddy scandal.
We listen to the reporter exclaim they escaped the one charge that carried a 15 year MINIMUM sentence leaving the listener thinking 'What might have happened if he had been found guilty of all charges?'
But then Charlie raised that big old bugaboo "Money". Yes, it makes the world go around but being Rich With A Capital 'R' and having money seems, according to Charlie, "to help make these problems, (sometimes, felony problems) go away".
"Its weird how that works, well-documented things never really seems to stick in court for some reason. It's odd that we see this happens so many times. It all looks a bit 'fishy' to me" said Charlie with an air of skepticism a mile wide.
He also references the "uphill battle" the RICO charges represented, saying maybe they were an "overreach" but the prosecution were frankly surprised about the Not Guilty on the coercion charge. They seemed to feel it was a slam dunk. They were wrong.
Charlie mentions seeing many online that appeared to be "elated" that Diddy was aquitted on the more serious charges and that Diddy should now SUE the government.
"I don't know how so many people have been poisoned by stupidity. There must be some hole in the ozone layer that's letting pure concentrated stupid to come through and it's destroying neurons at an alarming rate."
He reels in the mini-rant and talks about how one bodyguard will likely "have to go into hiding if P. Diddy walks" and implies this a story illustrates that he's an dangerous man, now with a long, well-documented history, getting let off. Again.
And with that, we trot out Asmondgold, who has been waiting patiently for this longwinded blog to finally let him take the mic. He usually streams on Twitch to big audiences, and more recently he's done some testing on Kick (where they will likely pay him a princely sum for his streams). The AsmonGoldTV channel is his "official" channel on YouTube where he has 3.9M subs for stream clips.
Here's his video called "P Diddy verdict is a DISGRACE".
And we start with the musical question: "Diddy do it?"
And the answer seems to be... no?
"Whoever his lawyer was can now quadruple their rate and that would still be on sale." Yeah, that guy is going to make bank as he becomes known as the guy who got Diddy off... of the legal matters, not the weird freakoff stuff. Hopefully he doesn't have a brood of younguns at home that want to use this as a springboard to online fame like the Kardashians.
While watching, I noticed a couple of Diddy's voracious fans pushed their way to the front of the smaller crowd of curious onlookers, they tried to plant themselves right in front of the camera, to maybe make it look like a more pro-Diddy gathering. Which it wasn't. This group probably expected guilty convictions on all courts and Diddy being led away forever.
He still can see the inside of a penitentiary but to a flabbergasted Asmondgold it looks like Diddy might be getting off scott free or a slight slap on the wrists at worst.
I noticed the first comment on Asmondgold's video was lamenting "We're never getting the Epstein Files." Twenty bucks says they're never releasing those files during this presidency would be my bet on the matter.
He was mostly listening intently at this point in the video while the news reporter explained how the jury didn't find the coercion argument persuasive enough for Cassie's testimony to meet the requirements of the felony count and how Cassie was "under a cloud of coercion" or veiled threats.
Asmondgold summarizes say he was "disappointed too." Diddy was, in his eyes, "a bad actor, BUT he got off".
When talking about how well Diddy's lawyer did in this case, Asmondgold pulled out an old school D and D reference with "he rolled a 20. And the prosecution rolled a one". That's weak sauce on the prosecution's part. The result was not what was expected.
He had something like an aneurism when trying to figure out who is the sex worker vs who is the prostitute question raised by the reporter and why some of those charges fell through.
Asmondgold got back on track talking about how things just seem to go your way when you have oodles of dollars and it seems you can get away with anything when you're rich.
He read something from his chat about people taking justice into their own hands more often and replied "If people start killing other people randomly, the only thing you're going to lose is your own rights."
Continuing, he stated "What do you think? All the people in power will say 'OMG, we're all afraid we'll have to do what you want?'"
"No, they're just going to add in more Patriot Act, mass surveillance bullsh*t until you don't have any more privacy. That's not going to happen. You're so naive. Do you really think that these massively powerful machavellian psychopath murderer rapists are saying 'Oh no, they're killing us! Let's stop what we're doing!'
He finishes by saying he doesn't think Diddy career's "over" and that he'll likely continue on doing what he's been doing. And we close with shots of Diddy supporters showering themselves with baby oil.
Whole lot of yuck in that story.
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