{"id":250437,"date":"2026-04-03T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250437\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:16:08","slug":"internet-celebrity-spotted-at-san-francisco-corner-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250437\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet celebrity spotted at San Francisco corner store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Twitch streamer and left-wing political\u00a0commentator\u00a0Hasan Piker was spotted at the beloved Key Food Market <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/food\/article\/key-food-market-sf-corner-store-18327512.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">liquor store<\/a> in San Francisco, photos on social media show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an April 2 photo shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/handsomemajor\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corner Stories<\/a>, Hafeth \u201cOmar\u201d Mansouri\u2019s Instagram series that chronicles day-to-day life at his community liquor store, Piker can be seen posing with Mansouri and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/politics\/article\/tech-millionaire-saikat-chakrabarti-faces-pelosi-20298729.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saikat Chakrabarti<\/a> \u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s former chief of staff who\u2019s running for Congress to represent San Francisco.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Raised by a family of Indian immigrants in Fort Worth, Texas, Chakrabarti studied at Harvard University and worked on Wall Street before landing a job as the second engineer to ever join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/tech\/article\/bay-area-tech-startup-stripe-lays-off-300-workers-20047821.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stripe<\/a>, the multibillion-dollar financial technology company. As a result, he said he earned \u201can ungodly amount of money\u201d but left the industry to work for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/politics\/article\/bernie-sanders-aoc-folsom-rally-20279970.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>. According to his website, his campaign focuses on local and international issues ranging from saving Muni and BART to divesting taxpayer dollars from Israel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/monthly-bulletin-sep25\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">genocide campaign<\/a> in Palestine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Piker is one of the most powerful streamers online, with a following of 1.6 million on Instagram and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/hasanabi\/videos\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3.1 million on Twitch<\/a>. Footage posted on Instagram this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hasandpiker\/?hl=en\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">week<\/a> shows him endorsing the Oakland People\u2019s Arms\u00a0Embargo, which says it aims to end the city\u2019s shipment of military cargo and F-35 fighter jets to Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mansouri, who\u2019s Palestinian, manages Key Food Market with his cat, Gaza, and his dog, Major, who won the coveted title of SFGATE\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/best\/bestofbayarea2024\/#:~:text=Mr.,Assistant%20Manager%22\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">best corner store pet in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for stopping by and thank you for being on the right side of history,\u201d his photo caption reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prominent Twitch streamer and left-wing political\u00a0commentator\u00a0Hasan Piker was spotted at the beloved Key Food Market liquor store in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,1693],"class_list":{"0":"post-250437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news","14":"tag-sfglocal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}