New Delhi: US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez live-streamed popular online game ‘Among Us’ with fellow Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and YouTube personalities to encourage young Americans to vote in the upcoming US elections.
Cortez was joined by Omar and YouTubers like Pokimane, Hasanabi and Jack Septic for the game Wednesday, which was live-streamed on Twitch — a streaming platform primarily used by gamers.
.@AOC is playing Among Us with @pokimanelol, @hasanthehun, @DrLupo and @IlhanMN to help people make voting plans. pic.twitter.com/SJq9TZzv7B
— B/R Gaming (@BRGaming) October 21, 2020
The stream was watched by over 4,39,000 viewers, making it the third-highest individual stream by viewership in the history of Twitch. Snippets of the live-stream have also gone viral on social media sites like Twitter.
Cortez’s stream lasted three-and-a-half hours and she also amassed over 5,50,000 followers on Twitch after it, more than any other US political leader on the platform including President Donald Trump.
Among Us is a popular online multiplayer game developed and published by American game studio InnerSloth.
In the game, which can be played with 4-10 players, participants have to restore a spaceship through ‘tasks’. Among them, one or two players are imposters who attempt to sabotage all tasks and kill other ‘crewmates’.
Crewmates can win by completing all tasks or discovering and voting the impostor off the ship.
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Video of stream goes viral on social media
Cortez Tuesday had tweeted about her plans to play the game to encourage people to vote in the US elections, scheduled for 4 November.
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
Many joined in to see Cortez play the popular game and social media was abuzz with snippets from it.
AOC just did the most amateur kill ever and im howling laughing at the fact she got away with it pic.twitter.com/NV01ZJf5Bt
— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) October 21, 2020
highlights from the @AOC among us stream – my love for this woman knows no bounds ? https://t.co/aZErKVAlVw pic.twitter.com/OCa06KMuob
— lindsay (@levlinds) October 21, 2020
AOC: "I can't kill Poki, Poki's so nice"
Seconds later: pic.twitter.com/SzCOqRRKFn
— Tim Young (@shindags) October 21, 2020
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib also tweeted a photograph of her sons watching the stream.
My two boys watching @AOC & @IlhanMN on Twitch playing Among Us. They think this is the coolest thing ever & are trying to convince me to get with the program. https://t.co/4MssdBltWg pic.twitter.com/JOgBiur6P3
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) October 21, 2020
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