Star-studded Among Us lobbies have been part of the game's massive popularity on Twitch. But no lobby has ever contained a US politician - that was, until last night.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made her Twitch debut last night alongside popular streamers such as Imane 'Pokimane' Anys, Hasan 'Hasan' Piker, Ali 'Myth' Kabbani, and Jeremy 'DisguisedToast' Wang. With her account having hundreds of thousands of followers before she even went live and getting partnered in less than an hour, it's safe to say that the stream was highly anticipated.
Well, the historic stream lived up to the hype and pulled in the viewers as Ocasio-Cortez set a Twitch record: the highest peak audience for a debut stream. While sites such as Twitch Tracker report a peak of 426,000, Rod 'Slasher' Breslau claims that the actual peak was 439,000. Either way, it's the largest number of people in a Twitch streamer's first broadcast ever. Combined with the streams of the other players in the lobby, viewership of the Among Us session would have sailed comfortably past half a million.
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