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During last month’s presidential debate, Hasan Piker appeared in the corner of the screen on his Twitch channel. With the debate playing live behind him, he interjected sporadically.

“Boo, you suck,” he hollered when Vice President Kamala Harris answered a question about the war in Gaza. When former President Donald J. Trump began discussing the pets of Springfield, Ohio, Mr. Piker unleashed two high-pitched screams.

The viewer chat log, running alongside his stream, lit up with all-caps shock and awe when Mr. Trump said, “They’re eating the cats.”

“I just got up and started yelling — that was a real honest reaction,” Mr. Piker, 33, said in an interview. “That sort of thing, I think, ends up being entertaining for people that are watching.”

On Tuesday, when the vice-presidential candidates, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Senator JD Vance of Ohio, face each other in a debate, Mr. Piker will be back online.

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