“Alas the brigade has begun.”

Hasan Piker is denying allegations that he used a shock collar on his canine throughout a current livestream, and viewers are cut up.

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A clip from the livestream reveals Piker speaking about politics as his canine, Kaya, stands up and appears round on her mattress within the background.

“Kaya, please, just fucking go— just stop,” he says. In the center of his feedback to his canine, she yelps abruptly after which settles down on her mattress.

Did Hasan use a shock collar on his canine?

Some folks assume the best way Kaya yelped so abruptly after which instantly lay again down signified that Piker had triggered her misery by activating a shock collar. This concern was exacerbated as a result of his shifting his arm in a method that might have indicated he was reaching for one thing off-screen proper across the time this occurred.

Others have disagreed with the accusations, with one individual slowing down the footage and saying that it seemed as if Kaya simply occurred to catch her nail on the material of her mattress, prompting her to yelp and stumble.

Another seemed extra carefully into the collar some folks imagine to be a shock collar and insisted it’s extra seemingly a preferred Air Tag collar.

For his half, Piker has denied the accusations.

“It’s going viral that they’re claiming that the most well-trained and the most spoiled, best kept after dog on the planet is actually being abused by me, apparently, because I gave her the place command while she was getting off, and then she yelped,” he stated. 

He additionally steered his canine could have “either stepped funny or clipped her f**king foot on something,” and that the backlash is “coming from crazy haters.”

The debate over Kaya the canine rages on

Although there are undoubtedly respectable issues for the canine’s security amidst the backlash, Piker will not be absolutely off base in regards to the “crazy haters.” As Newsweek identified, numerous adverse feedback are blatantly Islamophobic, which raises issues as to whether or not they’re real issues or simply greedy at the potential of swaying public opinion towards the streamer.

Regardless, the controversy over whether or not he did or didn’t use a shock collar continues to rage on between viewers.

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