A charity stream hosted byTwitchpersonality Hasan crashed a donation website after an influx of viewers raised nearly $200,000 dollars in a short span of time. As a way to aid relief efforts after a massive earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, Hasan’s community onTwitchbrought more traffic to the donation site than it could handle.
This is not the first timeHasan has hosted a lucrative charity streamfor specific causes. Formerly working for various well-known news outlets like The Young Turks and Huffington Post, Hasan eventually made the choice to become a full-time streamer and has since done various charity streams while also sometimes being seen as a controversial figure to some. However, in his most recent charity stream, viewers of Hasan’s broadcast brought on more enthusiasm than was anticipated.
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In a short clip from the charity stream to aid relief efforts, a massive surge of donors flooded the donation site and completely crashed it, rendering the site useless. In a short span of twenty minutes, viewers had raised nearly a whopping $200,000 dollars to the organization Hasan was supporting. Unfortunately, the site just couldn’t handle such a massive amount of traffic. Even though Hasan isone of Twitch’s biggest streamers, there is no way that he could’ve predicted so many generous people wanting to help for such an important cause.
In the pastHasan has done some pretty high profile streams, but none have crashed an entire website, especially so quickly. The short clip taken from Hasan’s broadcast shows him questioning viewers about why they keep messaging in the chat that the site has crashed. He takes it upon himself to investigate and is confronted face-to-face with an error message, proving the site had indeed crashed, leaving Hasan to react in utter shock and disbelief. The sheer number of donations in such a short amount of time is truly impressive to see.
Despite previous controversies that have sometimes landed him in hot water andbanned from Twitch, Hasan is at least using his platform for good causes when it comes to charity streams. With many high-profile streamers gaining large followings, it is important to use one’s platform for something positive, even though that’s definitely not always the case with some streamers. There’s a responsibility that comes with any type of fame, and even though it’s a shame the site crashed, it also serves as an inspiring reminder about what can happen when someone uses their popularity as a means to do something good.
