{"id":175929,"date":"2020-10-21T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/21\/we-are-definitely-in-the-political-weird-season\/"},"modified":"2020-10-21T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T23:45:00","slug":"we-are-definitely-in-the-political-weird-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/21\/we-are-definitely-in-the-political-weird-season\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Definitely in the Political Weird Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a part of the get out the vote efforts, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez headlined an Among Us<\/i> gaming session on Twitch to almost \u00bd a million viewers<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I’m not sure if this is brilliant, or just silly:<\/p>\n

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) drew more than 430,000 concurrent viewers to her first-ever Twitch stream Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez’s 3.5 hour Among Us session<\/a>\u2014which she used in part to encourage viewers to vote\u2014included fellow Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and popular streamers like Pokimane<\/a> and Disguised Toast<\/a>, who responded rapidly to an off-handed tweet invite on Monday<\/a>. And just in case you were wondering, Omar tweeted out the specs<\/a> of her (very nice) gaming rig. <\/p>\n

The debut instantly made Ocasio-Cortez\u2014who admitted to having little experience with Among Us beforehand\u2014one of the most popular streamers on the Amazon-owned video streaming service<\/a>. Her peak of 435,000 viewers put her in the top 20 most popular streams ever on the site, according to data gathered by TwitchTracker<\/a>, an echelon that’s dominated by major gaming brands with massive marketing departments. As of this writing, the AOC Twitch account<\/a> has over 571,000 followers, and her debut video clip has attracted over 4.73 million views. <\/p>\n

In between gasp-filled games<\/a> full of Among Us<\/i>‘ usual accusations and back-biting, Ocasio-Cortez directed viewers to “make a voting plan” via IwillVote.com<\/a>. She also found time to talk about universal health care<\/a> with her fellow players and share some thoughts on the world-building of Among Us<\/i> itself. “When it comes to video games, it’s the lore,” she said on the stream. “How did these people get here? What year are we in? Et cetera.” <\/p>\n

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My son watched some clips, and thought it was brilliant.<\/p>\n

Me, I’m dubious, but maybe I’m just an old fart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a part of the get out the vote efforts, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez headlined an Among Us gaming session on Twitch to almost \u00bd a million viewers. I’m not sure if this is brilliant, or just silly: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) drew more than 430,000 concurrent viewers to her first-ever Twitch stream Tuesday night. Ocasio-Cortez’s 3.5 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,561,367,374,421],"class_list":["post-175929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-gaming","tag-internet","tag-politics","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}