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Rolling Stone used to be a music magazine, but since the Obama era has dedicated itself to radical, left wing politics.

They have just included communist influencer Hasan Piker as an ‘influential creator’ in their latest issue.

It’s kind of funny that this is happening now, just as Democrats are going out of their way to distance themselves from him.

Rolling Stone Presents: The 25 Most Influential Creators of 2026 🤳

Full list: https://t.co/AgCMVt4Zk0 pic.twitter.com/smonzaalTg

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) August 27, 2026

Rolling Stone names Hasan Piker as one of the most influential creators of 2026 🏅

The self-declared Marxist has found himself at the center of endless controversies, thanks to his criticism of Israel on his daily streams but also because he’s become the face of a movement to… https://t.co/vfSmCe8oQx pic.twitter.com/oM4c62BWyG

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) August 28, 2026

NewsBusters reports:

Conservatives haven’t forgotten Rolling Stone’s glamour-selfie cover for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tzarnaev in 2013. There was a tinny echo this week when the music magazine touted radical America-hating leftist Hasan Piker as #3 on its list of the Top 25 most influential content creators and social-media influencers of 2026.

“Don’t be surprised if you don’t recognize 90 percent of these names,” joked Grateful Calvin at Twitchy. “This is the magazine’s attempt to assert itself as cooler than everyone else.” For example, “There’s virtually no one outside of New York City who even knows who Pooja Tripathi is (not to mention most of the people IN the city)”…

Handle: @hasanabi
Genre: Political streamer
Followers: 11 million

“There’s always been friction,” Hasan Piker says. “I just never thought it would get to this degree.” The self-declared Marxist, 35, has found himself at the center of endless controversies, thanks to his inflammatory criticism of Israel on his daily streams — eagerly clipped by both Fox News and MS NOW — but also, he says, because he has become the chiseled face of a movement to push the Democratic Party to the left. “If you were to ask me, ‘What was the turning point?’ It was certainly Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign,” he says. There, he saw centrists “burn their credibility” by backing Andrew Cuomo. “They started recognizing that there was a real threat [in] these insurgent movements,” he says. “And they weren’t wrong.”

Piker streams upward of seven hours a day, reacting to news, interviewing guests, and interacting with his chat. Though he’s stumped for AOC and Bernie Sanders, he’s recently started campaigning for lesser-known candidates, including Abdul El-Sayed and Melat Kiros.

Some conservatives are having flashbacks to this:

Same magazine. pic.twitter.com/AHWvt7Eh3X

— Mariana (@mariana_x) August 28, 2026

The liberal media will never change.

FYI – Here is Piker on hating America.

Piker: "It’s laughable to say guys like myself, guys like Abdul El-Sayed, we hate America."

Also Piker: "I hate America." pic.twitter.com/AuK8FV1leX

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 30, 2026