AOC now streaming live on Twitch
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https://www.twitch.tv/aocShe is talking about voting right now while playing Among Us - a social game where players try to find two murderous imposters among their group while they perform tasks on a space station.
ETA: If a streamer has over 5,000 or more concurrent viewers, it is a popular stream. Streams that exceed 20K viewers are massively popular and usually have a long history of streaming to build up a fan base. AOC is now over 350K viewers and climbing for her initial stream.
The stream seems to have peaked at 430K current viewers. For comparison, the most watched Twitch stream ever featured Ninja (quite possibly the most popular streamer in the world) and the singer Drake when they attracted 600K viewers while playing Fortnite. Rep. Ilhan Omar also participated in the stream with Rep. Ocasio-Cortez. By all accounts, this initial stream was enormously popular and successful.
ETA Again: During the stream, she commented at least twice how it was absurd that the space station used a gasoline combustion engine and there were candles and cobwebs in the place.
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You can be upset about it if you want to.
Surprise me.
thread where someone copied his mother’s text with her inappropriate LOL at someone’s demise. Her son explained to her that LOL means Laughing out Loud.
LOL also doesn’t mean Lots of Laundry or Lots of Lemons or Lots of Love. It means Lots of Laughter. Similarly, ROFL doesn’t mean Rolling on the Floor Loving. It means Rolling on the Floor Laughing.
Oh god 
Tell me, oh knowledgeable one, what does a “Russian troll” have to gain by watching AOC’s GOTV stream for 2 hours?
Next you’ll be arguing that they’re tuning into the debates en masse in order to... what? Add a couple tenths to the ratings?
Curious that when a logical, sensible discussion doesn't go the way some want it to, it becomes "lol", 
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Oh God!
I'm sure if we get really drunk and cut a few logical corners we can convince ourselves that an incredibly popular young Democratic politician engaging with half a million young people, while encouraging them to vote, is actually a bad thing.
I mean really, why would Americans watch an incredibly popular American politician play a game incredibly popular with American young people while discussing voting in the upcoming American elections?
It must be Chinese folks watching this stream by the hundreds of thousands. That makes sense.
All these hundreds of thousands of people aren't worth AOC's time. She's foolish for talking to them about healthcare and the environment. Why on earth is she encouraging young people to vote? They never do!
Heck, some of the nearly half a million viewers might not even be Americans. Some that are Americans might not even be registered Democrats yet! Why on earth would she try to engage with them by participating in an activity they can relate to? What could we possibly gain by trying to engage nearly half a million young people?
We ought not even try.
"Can you think of a better way to reach nearly half a million people on a Tuesday night at 10 PM? People of the exact demographic that we need to turn out? "
Lol... go AOC.
Or is that somehow different? Wait till the ones who fear time is being wasted on non-Americans being communicated with learn about this one! And when they finally understand that anything any candidate does on the internet and social media reaches an audience that isn't solely US citizens who are registered to vote!!
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Al Gross needs the votes. Why does she even bother sleeping?
Man I feel old. 
Every little bit helps. Kudos to AOC for doing this. 
She was talking to someone with National Health Care and was speaking on how difficult it was to conceive of going to the doctor without concern for payment.
Her closing message was vote, vote, vote. And, if you can't vote ask someone else what their plan was to vote. Don't just ask them if they are going to vote, but ask them what their plan was.
Well done, and fun.
and got them to talk to their parents about voting.
How cool is that?
This is the most hilariously absurd thread that I've seen here in a really long time, and that's saying something.
Are people just grasping for pearls to clutch at right now? Do some people simply not have enough to worry about as it is?
Baffled, but amused.
I am not the biggest AOC fan in the world. She is so energetic and her heart is obviously in the right place, but there are times when I just :cringe:
and think, "oo, you really do need a little more time, experience, and seasoning there." Then there are other times she just crushes it. She is obviously intelligent and highly motivated; it's amazing what she can get done. In other words, nobody's perfect and nobody can please everyone all the time, but you can tell when someone is trying hard and usually doing a pretty good job.
Last night, AOC really hit it out of the park. What started as an offhand tweet conversation swiftly got her set up with streaming equipment and training, a Twitch channel and lobby complete with custom graphics, a group of well known gamers and a fellow congress critter (Ilhan Omar) willing to play, and some practice games the night before so she could competently play this particular game. That happened in 24 hours, and she still took care of her day job.
Think about it: with all the teleworking and home schooling going on right now, getting the equipment at all was the first hurdle. Gamers helped her get it done, set it up, and learn to use it. Now, it's obvious she is already a gamer and has likely played online, but playing online and streaming online are two entirely different things, and after a little hesitance getting going (no more than I've seen from people who game/stream for a living - stuff happens) she was just pro. You would never know she hadn't streamed before. That alone was impressive. She was sitting in a room by herself. There was no one in the background helping her; it was all AOC. She maintained excellent composure while using a somewhat unfamiliar tech setup, playing a game she barely knew, with people she barely knew, and made it look easy.
Before the game started, she spent a good twenty minutes or so with chat and lurkers (raises hand) alike about making sure to vote, and to do that by having a plan to vote. In between games, players often end up hanging around in the game 'lobby' with some down time, and while it didn't come up every time, AOC used many of those moments to talk about voting. The chat was well moderated, and messages about voting (whether spontaneous or planned was unclear, probably both) constantly scrolled through all night.
The point is, it wasn't just game night with a 'vote!' tagline. Someone with weeks of lead time couldn't have done a better job. Her staff (and/or the gamers who helped her) must be so detail-oriented. The home page was spiffed with graphics links for all of AOC's social media sites, main web site, as well as voting info sites, and a post of the all important rules -- something that a less than net savvy staff might have forgotten. They remembered to get moderators for chat and found people who did a great job. At one point there was a bit of MAGA agitation and spamming, but no truly rude stuff made it through as far as I could tell. I hid chat during game play anyway.
The people playing with her came prepared to talk about voting as well, and it was obvious she found gamers (hasanabi in particular) who are politically aware and prepared to talk about politics and voting without it sounding forced or contrived. In fact, my only complaint about the whole night was that it was difficult to track down some of the other players, players well known to many but not to me until now. I did find pokimane and hasanabi, and loaded three tabs with their channels as well as AOC's so I could flip among them and watch the game from different perspectives. That only lasted about half an hour and then I couldn't keep them synched any more, even with two channels muted, but it was fun to do it that way for a while. I need to learn to pop out mini-windows to do that better next time, but whatever.
Kudos to Twitch. It was amazing that, with very little notice, they handled a crowd of over half a million people showing up to watch spread over the various channels. I though we'd crash at least once, and I did get a little lag at the peak of over 400,000 in AOC's channel. At one point I swapped from another channel back to AOC and found I'd lost her, but a tab reload quickly fixed it.
I'm not a millennial. I'm a boomer gamer. We're out there. I'm in my late fifties, female, and I've been video gaming since arcades were a thing and since computers became and stayed a thing. :waves cane: I love playing video games, I love watching other people playing them, and I cannot remember the last time I had that much fun watching online gaming. It was superb, went off without a hitch, and I stayed up way too late watching the gang continue playing after AOC and Ilhan Omar left. I found some new gamers to follow, whee!
Videos are available on her channel as well as Ilhan Omar's if you missed and want to watch it, and I highly recommend wandering over to take a look.
https://www.twitch.tv/aoc
https://www.twitch.tv/ilhan
Regardless of what you may think about AOC, regardless of what you may think about gaming, this event was a big deal, and I have no doubt that it made an important impact. Just the buzz about the event has made an impact. I'm convinced it not only worked to get out the vote, it opened up a whole new arena for reaching voters, younger voters in particular, in their own space and without talking down to them. Remember, "there are other times she just crushes it." This was one of those times.
Outstanding!
