



The Republican Convention streamed on the platform a couple of months ago, and President Donald Trump has an account, mostly used to stream favorable news segments or air campaign videos.īut the Republican Party has scoffed at the Democrats’ activities. Biden HQ’s launch was streamed to hundreds of thousands live on Twitch. Just last week, in Animal Crossing, the Biden campaign launched its own island, Biden HQ, featuring a Biden avatar in aviators who only says “No malarkey!” along with a shop and voting area-with text codes for players to sign up to vote and buy in-game merchandise benefiting the campaign. That game-you cultivate a deserted island populated by cute animals, build a house, and till the land to create a home-also had a fan in Ocasio-Cortez, who took to Twitter to open her DMs and offer codes to a lucky few who could then visit her virtual island. Among Us’s simplicity is reminiscent of Animal Crossing, which similarly has a fervent fan base dating back to the early days of the pandemic, when its explosion in popularity led to a worldwide shortage of Nintendo Switches.
