On Sunday, the left-wing streamer and activist Hasan Piker tweeted the above photo of himself with "the legend damon albarn," at a Los Angeles Gorillaz show. Apparently, some Gorillaz fans were surprised and/or upset at the connection. (The Democratic Party has invested tons of resources into depicting the pro-Palestine Piker as a kind of demonic antisemitic figure.) As it turns out, though, Albarn first met Piker almost two years ago, when he and his daughter Missy attended a Piker lecture in Oxford.

Albarn's daughter is apparently a Piker fan, and an Albarn fan Instagram has a clip of Piker talking about meeting Albarn after his Oxford speech.…