Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, made history Tuesday night, making her Twitch debut to play the new viral video game “Among Us” while encouraging people to vote in the 2020 election.
- Her Twitch stream had around 435,000 concurrent viewers when her stream started, which later dipped down to 350,000 viewers, The Verge reports.
- She made history, becoming one of the top 20 biggest broadcasts ever on Twitch.
- Ninja currently holds the record with 600,000 viewers during a Fortnite match with Drake.
- Some data suggests AOC’s stream could be in the top 10 for peak viewers, according to The Verge.
How it happened
Ocasio-Cortez put together the Twitch stream seemingly at random. She tweeted Monday asking if anyone wanted to play “Among Us” on Twitch. Streamers signed up.
(9pm EST!)
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 20, 2020
- Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, Pokimane, HasanAbi, Disguised Toast, DrLupo and others joined her for the battle.
How did she do?
AOC played the game pretty well, too. She was deemed the imposter in the first game, knocking out several players before she was discovered.
Social media praised her for the stream:
this is the future liberals want pic.twitter.com/myShcukYCl
— aída chávez (@aidachavez) October 21, 2020
“I just found AOC’s body in reactuh” pic.twitter.com/wajPsDJnf8
— Jules (@Julian_Epp) October 21, 2020
what if aoc gets addicted to among us and starts streaming every night till 5am
— James (@CaucasianJames) October 21, 2020
Posting specs:
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 21, 2020
Intel Core i7-10700K
Zotac GeForce RTX 2060 Super
G.Skill TridentZ RGB 32GB
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 NVMe main
6TB SSD storage
Corsair iCUE H100i AIO
NZXT H510i case https://t.co/nSYcbJrgC2
today. i was killed by @AOC in among us within the first five minutes. pic.twitter.com/W1Uf17o34K
— maia (@mxmtoon) October 21, 2020