• Florencia (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      14 hours ago

      https://www.tmz.com/2025/10/16/hasan-piker-denies-dog-shock-collar-claims/

      A twitch streamer named Hasan used a shock collar to keep his dog in the same position during his live stream. Internet did it’s thing and matched the collar to a shock collar with a remote control. Despite him denying it internet pulled up multiple statements from the past such as him saying “shock collars are fine”.

      The memes have been awesome I concede:

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        13 hours ago

        I don’t follow this guy so this is news to be but the article is about people accusing him of using a shock collar and while the video does look suspicious, I don’t see anything about identifying the collar.

        You gotta provide a better source if you’re gonna claim that as fact.

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          yeah fully second this… The evidence for it are vague at best… and to quintuple it up… The dude apparently lives on live stream, just looking at his streaming stats it looks like he’s literally streaming 4-8 hours every single day, with his dog coming up in the background. Someone wants to say he’s abusing that dog because they found one 5 second clip of one event that seems hypothetically questionable, that’s kind of crazy to me. I can’t think of a person who’s interactions with his dog are more regularly visible to the public then him, and one incident of the dog yelping for half a second before laying down comfortably on a dog bed… being used as evidence that he’s a horrific animal abuser, seems like such an extreme stretch.

          as even if we gave the critics 100% trust, and even if we somehow conclude that it is in fact a shock collar, and we were to conclude that he used it this time in this situation… clearly he uses it pretty damn sparingly when over half of his waking hours around his dog, are visible for the whole world to watch.

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            11 hours ago

            I don’t really have an opinion either way, I just want to see evidence of what they’re claiming is true. The linked article doesn’t even hint at evidence.

            I also clicked on the link in the OP (which in turn linked me to the post on /r/livestreamfails - truly one of the most degenerate subreddits in existence). I scrolled down pretty far and saw couple screenshots of the collar and that’s it. If someone identified the model, it was buried too far down in the shit than I was willing to wade through.

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        15 hours ago

        Hasan Piker (HasanAbi on twitch) has a dog with a vibrating collar for training. Idiots on the internet assume it is a shock collar.

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          12 hours ago

          It is a shock collar bud. You could say they assume he’s doing something untwart with it but saying a shock collar isn’t a shock collar is real easy way to lose credibility for your argument.

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            10 hours ago

            Can you share some evidence to support that? Several other posts have asked for evidence, but so far no one has shared any.

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              10 hours ago

              Several years of experience selling pet supplies and the knowledge that a manufacturer i know of makes two versions that are near identical. One only vibrates and has no metal on the backplate, the version he showed has what appears to be a metal stud in the back which implies it’s a shock collar. He may only use it for vibration but the easiest way to prove it’s not a slick collar is to show the back and model number.

              He conveniently refuses to do either and keeps his hand over the backplate.

              It’s neither here nor there it’s nothing because they’re both negative reinforcement training and even peta says they aren’t cruel there are just better methods.

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                10 hours ago

                That’s not what I meant by evidence. I’m looking for proof that the collar you are describing was actually on the dogs neck. Something like a clear picture of the collar on the dog along with a link to the manufacturer’s website could work.

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                  10 hours ago

                  Then you don’t mean evidence you mean proof. The clear picture of the dog is at the top of the page, he’s provided a passing glimpse when he claimed is vibe only.

                  You need to get that from him but you likely won’t, ragebaiting is simply too profitable.

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    9 hours ago

    why do you use a different picture? the dog is in a completely different position, turning the opposite way, when you can see a completely different collar
    you literally link the video, anyone can see it

    perhaps you want to claim the “better gasligher” title?