Tim Walz Rally Goes Live on World of Warcraft Twitch Stream | This is the latest chapter of the Kamala Harris campaign’s effort to reach young male voters
2 years ago by usernamesAreTricky to c/politics
38 year old adults are generally assumed to be of voting age, registered, and willing to vote. Do you think he'll get better voter turnout from something like Roblox or Fortnite?
The title says "young voters"
Have you ever voted? Like, gone to the voting booth and voted? How about attended a caucus or primary? Because I regularly do, I'm 45, and I'm typically the youngest person in the building.
The US voting base is old as fuck.
People don't realize just how enormous the Baby Boomers were, as a generation.
I first voted when I was 18. Younger people vote when you give them a candidate that actually speaks to their needs. If we had West and Stein on the national debate stage, I'm sure we'd have more young voters.
I was going to find the stream and see what types are in the audience. Can't find it.
I can glimpse 6:30PM before the paywall blocks it, though I can't see what timezone. Looks like EST or CST, so probably just ended and vod should be up soon somewhere?
It's twitch. Go on any channel with above 500-1000 viewers and it'll all be the same. Unless it's a super modded channel with sub-only and slow mode and shit. Even then you get quite a bit of spam
Yeah..
Great idea. But young voters ain't playing WOW
My bro is exactly 38 and plays WoW daily 😅 so from my perspective you can't be far off. Apropros for people saying wow players can vote, the attempt was to reach young voters.
I think there is a new Wow, or one coming.. There have been a bunch of ads about it in the last month
One just came out. It's pretty good, but that's easy to say because Shadowlands set the bar very, very low.
If not older. I'm older than 38 and my guild mates are older than me.
I feel seen.
I realized today that Trump also has a Twitch (because it was recommended to me???) that basically just (re)streams his rallies.
Reported that shit for Hateful Conduct.
Even "better", from what I recall he had what was listed as a permanent suspension after the whole "mildly incited a tiny bit of light insurrection (/s)" thing. They unbanned him specifically for this election season.
Yeah gotta give him a chance to do a major insurrection obviously, because that sounds like they banned him for failing the first time 🙄
It was pushed on my home page. I reported for inciting terrorism, and reported the twitch app on google store for political terrorism.
Do kids still do WoW? I assumed it'd be all parent aged folks by now
Article on Waltz's gaming history..
You know what just occurred to me, Waltz might actually be on the other tail of WoW players if he picked it up in the early 2000's. He might actually be decent at the game.
Yep. I have a relative his age or even a bit older who's been a WoW fanatic since release.
If I was going to pick a high profile stream, I'd sandbag for a game I'm good at.
I know all of these words, but in this particular order they are nearly meaningless to me.
Walz
Yeah well, they need to vote too. Hope it went well
Yeah, I'd guess the average age is probably ~30-35+ years old. There are probably some younger kids that play, but I'd be surprised if they represented more than a marginal amount of the overall playerbase.
Man I might be imagining things, but I'm pretty sure he played it back in the 00s. I remember him saying something about 40-man raids and leadership when he was talking to a group of high school seniors about voting.
This was right at the time he was campaigning for his first term in Congress, and I doubt it was recorded anywhere. It still makes me chuckle thinking this guy is running for VP.
Trump stands in the fire
"How do you propose we handle increasing aggression from Russia?"
"LEEEEROOOOOOOOY JEEEEEEENNNNKIIIIIIINNNSSS"
I thought you were great in it!
Zing.
"How do you kill... that which has no life?" Is one of the best lines.
"How can you kill that which has no life?"
Twist: Tim Walz is Leeroy Jenkins
Instant vote for him. That is some presidential behavior. I’d love to finally have a progressiveish president that just tries to get shit done.
If he can get 40 randos into the same instance in under 30 minutes and kill the boss, an entire country is nothing.
I saw that. For the first time, I saw that Kamala Harris was live in my recommended channels, instead of Donald Trump, who is live every other day.
They've a lot of time and some viewers to make up, but it's a good start.
I get what you're saying, but I also can't fault a political campaign for defaulting to the most "basic-bitch" MMO they can find for this sort of stunt. A VP who's opinionated enough about Blizzard v. BNETD to eschew WoW is, frankly, too much to hope for.
Drag would vote for a politician who streams Warframe
Cool. What policies are they going to talk about?
Tune in and find out? You could also just go to the Harris website and read them for yourself.
Durotar's right to defend itself against Kobold terrorists.
He wants to reach out to people of voting age, not children.
Tbh Overwatch is already 8 years old. If they picked up the game as a teenager when it was most popular, chances are they can vote. While there are a lot of teens who play the game, there's quite a large 20s demographic
Well reading through the article I actually dont agree with myself anymore if WoW is what he was good at and he was streaming. The headline made it sound like he just picked a game and launched it. Yeah, if you want people to see you play then pick something you are good at with the most players. I still believe WoW is too old for an actual "young" demographic. Once again that would be Apex Legends or something for 18-26 year olds. WoW is going to net you mid to late 30s at the youngest on average.
Roblox is also 20 years old, give or take
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Wtf nobody under 30 is going to vote for genocide. You lost them
Participate. Vote West or Stein.
You didn't finish the second sentence...
"Vote West or Stein in a primary, or a general election with Rank Choice voting, otherwise you are actively contributing to the end of your Republic."
Or De LA Cruz (PSL).
the choices are genocide vs worse genocide. the choices suck, but they also shouldn't be hard
Nah. I choose no genocide. Wtf is wrong with you.
I don't know about you, but I have candidates on my ballot who are opposed to the genocide
That's not something you vote for, for that you need to take to the streets. But if you can't even be bothered to go that the 10 minutes to prevent the 'worse genocide' candidate taking power, I doubt you'll do that.
You don't need to be enthusiastic about Harris, she'll still support Israel. But Trump literally told Israel to 'finish the job'. Don't pretend they're the same.
lol. Don't make such absurd assumptions. I've been Palestine to work for peace there. But, unlike you, I cast my vote to align with my values, activism, and work.
ok, how?
Boycott. Divestment. Sanctions.
Your abstinence has high potentially to lead to election of the person who will objectively make the genocide worse, immediately undermining any moral stance you think you're making.
Depends on where they live tbh.
You're right! Not sure why you're getting downvoted. No one is going to vote for Trump who wants to melt Palestein
as aoc said when arguing why you should vote for biden the first time: you're not just voting for the person who already gives you everything you want. you're voting for the person you will argue against, criticize, protest and try to convince to do what you want. out of the two, who do you think is less likely to respond to protests? who's more likely to be open to dialogue, even if it's an adversarial one?
vote for Harris, then protest the fuck out of her positions you don't like. maybe with enough pressure you can force some change. with mango mussolini you have no chance.
It does suck. And it's ok to still vote based on the other parts of their platforms while continuing to condemn genocide.
Engage with your elected officials, your local parties, and other grassroot efforts to bring more pressure to stopping war aid to Israel. The work to change politics and policy is done between elections.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Positive change takes time. It may take longer than you and I feel it should, but it happens.
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What year is it? 2004?
The median WoW player has to be at least 38.
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