HasanAbi Says Asmongold, Destiny, Ethan Klein, and WillyMacShow Have Been Running a Three-Year Smear Campaign Against Him

On October 23, 2026, a post submitted by user /u/DenseLeopard4436 to r/LivestreamFail described HasanAbi as accusing Asmongold, Destiny, WillyMacShow, and Ethan Klein of conducting a coordinated smear campaign against him spanning approximately three years. No further clip timestamp or stream date was attached to the submission at time of publication.

The accusation lands during an already documented stretch of public conflict between HasanAbi and Asmongold. For the record, the two have traded accusations publicly at least four times in the past week alone, across subjects ranging from NPR interview accuracy to Russian bot farms to the propriety of livestreaming a firing squad.

The Allegations

According to the r/LivestreamFail submission, HasanAbi's claim encompasses four named parties and a broader category he reportedly called "Political SlopTubers." The specific conduct alleged under the term "smear campaign" was not detailed in the available signal. The thread title attributes the accusation directly to HasanAbi but no VOD timestamp has been confirmed independently by this outlet.

What's Documented

The concrete items the record currently supports, drawn from the r/LivestreamFail post and the broader documented timeline:

1. A post submitted October 23 to r/LivestreamFail, by /u/DenseLeopard4436, states that HasanAbi named Asmongold, Destiny, WillyMacShow, and Ethan Klein as participants in the alleged campaign.
2. The duration cited in the post title is three years, which, if accurate, would place the alleged campaign's start around late 2023.
3. Asmongold is the only one of the four named parties with a documented public comment on HasanAbi in the current news cycle. On October 19, he accused HasanAbi of lying to NPR about his Russia-Ukraine war stance, according to the known timeline.
4. No response from Asmongold, Destiny, WillyMacShow, or Ethan Klein to this specific accusation had been published or clipped as of October 23.

Elsewhere on October 23

Separately, EGW News published a piece dated October 23 reporting that Asmongold and writer Chris Avellone both reacted to the closure of BioWare and attributed blame to Electronic Arts. The nature and platform of Asmongold's comments were not specified in the available signal beyond the article headline.

Also circulating from October 22, Asmongold uploaded a video titled "Blizzard asked to break their servers.. So we did." to YouTube, the contents of which were not detailed in available signal but appear connected to the ongoing WoW tournament activity documented in the known timeline.

What Happens Next

Outstanding questions as of October 23: whether a VOD clip of HasanAbi's smear campaign accusation surfaces with a verifiable timestamp; whether Asmongold, Destiny, Klein, or WillyMacShow respond on stream or in writing; and whether the EGW News BioWare piece contains an extended on-record comment from Asmongold that warrants separate coverage.