PHOTOS: Americans react after socialist, Hasan Piker, ordered $500 pizza from Joe's pizza for writers during WGA strike

Americans react after socialist, Hasan Piker, bought $500 pizza from Joe’s pizza for WGA strike. (Read More Here).

He ordered Joe’s pizza for the writers on strike. 

At 12.01am PT on Tuesday morning, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) called on its 11,500 members to go on strike. By Tuesday afternoon, many were on picket lines outside major studios in New York and Los Angeles, and the impact of a work stoppage over compensation, streaming-based residuals, minimum staffing guidelines and other concerns cascaded through Hollywood – though, given the timing, the proliferation of streaming, and the ability of studios to bank episodes ahead of time, it’s unclear how many people will notice.

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, in the middle of a guest-host run by longtime contributor Dulcé Sloan as part of a rotating audition to replace Trevor Noah, also switched to reruns. And NBC’s Saturday Night Live, which had three episodes left in its 48th season, announced a production shutdown on Tuesday afternoon, beginning with former cast member Pete Davidson’s hosting debut this Saturday.

It’s not unfamiliar terrain for many of the late-night brethren, who have developed a friendlier camaraderie compared to the more cutthroat ratings wars of the 90s and 2000s, particularly after the mutual upheaval and uncharted terrain of the pandemic. (Several filmed a farewell segment for the Late Late Show’s James Corden, who conveniently ended his eight-year run last week.) In recent weeks, late-night hosts and top producers have been on group calls developing a coordinated response in anticipation of a strike, which several hosts have experienced before.

Hasan Doğan Piker (/ˈpaɪkər/ PY-kur, Turkish: [haˈsan doˈan piˈcæɾ]; born July 25, 1991), also known as HasanAbi (abi meaning big brother in Turkish), is an American Twitch streamer and left-wing political commentator. He has previously worked as a broadcast journalist and producer at The Young Turks and as a columnist at HuffPost. He is currently one of the most-viewed and most-subscribed-to streamers on Twitch, where he covers news, plays a variety of video games, and discusses politics from a socialist perspective.