He sings PSl's praises every time it's brought up and had them on stream during the May Day marches

Except PSL doesn't seem to be willing to take advantage of his open door policy, and they weren't particularly assertive or noticeable during the May Day Stream

Yes he has been invited to speak at PSL organized protests, and will name drop them on stream somewhat often. He could do more, and if PSL can get a shot a real win, I feel pretty confident that he will throw his full weight behind them. That will be the true test, becuase he does talk about how he doesn't feel like he can support a third party unless and until it is viable to win something. He does a lot more for DSA right at the moment, more than he does for the Democratic party (ofc there is quite a bit of overlap there), because they have been gaining ground and actually pulling wins and strong challenges.

The essence of my comment is that is not up to Hasan to build PSL/the vanguard/whatever third party, he is just a commentator. That is up to us. If the legitiamcy of such a movement actually depends on the support of media commentator Hasan Piker, then I don't expect it to get very far. It needs to have a robust amount of grassroots political support in the first place before he comes into the conversation.

Right, I guess my understanding is that he makes around $1m/year (very likely less) through his streaming co-op. He has to pay himself ($250k?) his producer ($200k?) and an editor ($80k?). Travel and production costs are probably around $100k, probably a bit more.

That leaves around $400k available for political donations. People in the left-media space attest that he does make donations to various orgs without announcing it all the time. Since this is under the table, we dont really know where this funding goes, but I an willing assume he is generous toward Palestinian liberationary causes at a minimum. It's not exactly building a vanguard, but I don't have an issue with directing funds toward staff or resources for those orgs at all. I guess I could speculate further, but we are talking about a couple hundred thousand year at this point. It's not enough to make-or-break the success of the left, if the vanguard depends on a couple hundred thousand a year from a single streamer, it is not robust enough to take and wield power anyway.

oh yeah I am on board with the pipeline concept, I don't really care if people are streaming or enjoying streamers or anything tbh I just also don't expect anything out of anyone involved. people get radicalized in all kinds of ways, either way it won't be enough before the empire collapses and either way we'll have to figure out how to survive in the aftermath. and I do believe that if something actually viable cropped up Hasan would be one of the few people with as much influence as him who would probably support it in the end

One person with influence can't build the vanguard right? You need multiple dedicated and disciplined hands. You can only buy so much discipline