Hasan Piker called ‘evil’ after singing ‘We Are Charlie Kirk’ meme song at live show

There's something almost admirable in how unbothered Hasan Piker is by the idea that people might find this ghoulish. He didn't stumble into it. He got on a stage, in front of a paying crowd, and led them in a singalong built around mocking a man who was murdered this year. That's not a slip of the tongue during a live show. That takes planning. Someone had to cue the track.

The defenders will say it's a meme, that it's satire, that Kirk's own rhetoric invited pushback and this is just the internet being the internet. Fine, argue that if you want. But there's a difference between criticizing a public figure's ideas and turning his death into a party bit for ticket buyers. Piker built a brand on being the guy who explains why the other side is dangerous and dishonest. Then he takes a stage and performs a death-mockery jingle for applause. Pick a lane.

What's actually revealing is the audience reaction, not just Piker's. People cheered. That's the part worth sitting with. It means this isn't one streamer's bad judgment, it's a scene that has decided cruelty toward a dead political opponent is a fun night out. That's a bigger problem than one guy's Twitch numbers.

Nobody on the right is asking for Piker to be banned or deplatformed over this. Just don't insult anyone's intelligence pretending it's harmless comedy. Call it what it is: gloating over a killing, dressed up as content.