Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lures more than 400,000 viewers for …

Anyone want to play Among Us with me on Twitch to get out the vote? (I’ve never played but it looks like a lot of fun)

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 19, 2020

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During the first minutes of the stream, AOC called on viewers to vote. Then the game started. In Among us you play as a crew member or as a saboteur, and you must unmask the saboteur or just go unnoticed and eliminate the other players. In the first round, AOC was one of the two saboteurs. She lasted about half a game. Her colleague Omar was later also referred to as a saboteur, she managed to get into the top 3 unnoticed. The broadcast lasted three and a half hours in total.

The stream is the third most watched individual stream in Twitch history. The absolute record still stands in the name of gamer Ninja. 600,000 people watched his Fortnitematch with rapper and actor Drake. But AOC has managed to get its message to the general public. Plenty of fragments are still being shared on Youtube, and videos are distributed on Tiktok that have been viewed at least a million times.

Last year, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was also on Twitch to reach people he would miss through other channels. With Among us, just about the trendiest game of the moment, AOC does exactly the same. Earlier, Joe Biden’s team already made an island in the game Animal crossing.

On the same night, Republican Jeb Bush, George W. Bush’s younger brother, also debuted on Twitch with Among us. That turned out to be a flop: he ended with three viewers in the end.

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