13dGGgeWTF- The Recount October 21, 2020 The best moments from Among Us stream on last night. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), whose daughter joined the game later in the stream. Also in the mix was another politician: Rep. They had millions of fans and followers between them for example, two of Ocasio-Cortez’s teammates, the Twitch stars DrLupo and Pokimane, average 5 million followers each. Ocasio-Cortez’s ultimate crew ran deep, with 12 streamers rotating in and out to play with her.
(The game is strikingly similar to the playground classic Manhunt.) The way to win is to correctly identify all the Impostors or end up with only Impostors left alive. As many as three of those people are assigned the role of the “Impostor,” which means they’re secretly bent on killing everyone else on the crew and sabotaging the mission at hand. She then added that she had never played the hugely popular game before, “but it looks like a lot of fun.” There were several Twitch celebs among the nearly 44,000 fans and potential players who responded - and 24 hours later, there she was, keyboard on deck and headphones on.Īmong Us lets up to 10 people work together to solve tasks on a spaceship. “Anyone want to play Among Us with me on Twitch to get out the vote?” she tweeted. It was Ocasio-Cortez’s first time playing a game live on Twitch she’d launched her channel just one day earlier, on October 19, after casually asking her Twitter followers if they would like to play the multiplayer favorite with her. That makes her stream one of the 20 most-watched streams in Twitch history. AOC, as the 31-year-old Congress member from the Bronx is commonly known, played the hit video game Among Us Tuesday night on the video game livestreaming platform Twitch, drawing more than 400,000 concurrent viewers. Bernie Sanders, has roughly 159,000 followers of the Twitch account he launched in 2019, while President Donald Trump's Twitch account (which mostly live-streams his speeches and rallies) has 143,000 followers.ĭon't miss: Chase Sapphire Preferred is offering a massive 80,000-point bonus for a limited timeĪlexandria Ocasio-Cortez's response to Rep.The internet has crowned an unlikely new video game streaming superstar: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez also already has nearly 600,000 followers on the platform a day after launching her official account, which easily outpaces the accounts of other prominent politicians on Twitch.įor instance, fellow Democrat, Sen. Meanwhile, Ocasio-Cortez's event continues to gain steam a day later, with nearly 5 million people having viewed her debut video on her official Twitch channel as of Wednesday afternoon. Roughly 3.3 million people follow the game's account on Twitch, as "Among Us" has proven a popular way for online gamers to socialize while remaining socially-distant during the coronavirus pandemic, CNBC previously reported. Described as a "social deduction game," the game allows between four and 10 players at a time to play as crewmates on a spaceship where they're given tasks to complete, and they must deduce which of their fellow players are actually "imposters" bent on sabotaging their work and killing their crewmates. While Ocasio-Cortez said she had never played "Among Us" before Tuesday night, the mobile game made by developer InnerSloth has seen its popularity take off in 2020, having been installed on nearly 160 million devices worldwide, according to SensorTower. "That's really what tonight's all about, and of course we are here to vote blue," she said during the live-stream, referring to the Democratic Party. Ilhan Omar as well as popular Twitch streamers like "Pokimane," "DrLupo" and "Myth." Planning for the stream also seemed fairly impromptu, as Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Monday afternoon to ask if anyone wanted to play "Among Us" with her on Twitch to help "get out the vote."ĭuring the streaming event, Ocasio-Cortez encouraged viewers to visit the website, a site backed by the Democratic National Committee that helps visitors register to vote. Twitch members tuned into the stream to watch Ocasio-Cortez playing the popular multiplayer social game with the likes of fellow congresswoman and "Squad" member Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's event ended up as the fifth most-watched individual Twitch stream ever, according to gaming site Dexerto, with past events like gamer Michael "Shroud" Grzesiek's return to Twitch in August (after a stint with Microsoft's now-defunct streaming platform, Mixer) also outpacing the congresswoman's debut. Blevins still holds the record for the most-watched Twitch stream by an individual streamer after more than 600,000 viewers tuned in to watch his 2018 "Fortnite" battle with the rapper Drake.
That peak in viewership would make the congresswoman's Twitch debut one of the most-watched events in the platform's nine-year history, according to the website TwitchTracker, putting Ocasio-Cortez in a similar league as gamer streaming stars like Tyler "Ninja" Blevins.
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