AOC To Stream Among Us On Twitch With Canadian Politician Jagmeet Singh

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US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is set to stream Among Us on Twitch again, this time at the invitation of Canadian politician Jagmeet Singh. Singh is the leader of Canada’s left-wing New Democratic Party.

This won’t be the first time that AOC has streamed Among Us on Twitch. The first time that she streamed the social deduction game - or any game at all - on her Twitch channel was back in October, when she was joined by Rep. Ilham Omar, streamers Pokimane, HasanAbi, and others. AOC organized the stream to raise voter awareness, and her initial tweet proposing the idea quickly gained traction, with plenty of streamers jumping at the chance to play Among Us with her. When the match-up happened the next day, AOC’s broadcast became one of the most watched live streams in Twitch history. Since then, the archived video has gained over 5.6 million views.

Now, AOC is going live in Among Us again along with NPD leader Singh and others. In the Twitter post announcing the stream, Singh also invited streamers HasanAbi and Northernlion to join, along with AOC. Both Northernlion and HasanAbi have confirmed that they will be joining the stream, and it’s likely that they won’t be the only guests, given the incredibly high profile of the people involved already. The packed Among Us stream is set to go live tomorrow, November 27, at 7 pm ET.

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If it’s anything like AOC’s first Among Us steam, the upcoming game with Singh will be more of a reprieve from politics than a stream of political commentary, despite being headlined by two important politicians. Twitch itself has been embroiled in some messy politics lately, though, specifically around the platform’s copyright protections. A massive wave of DMCA takedowns were issued recently, forcing streamers to delete old videos or face having their accounts banned. Twitch itself offered little more than promises to do better, leaving affected streamers to work out problems for themselves, with the laughable suggestion to turn off all in-game audio on streams to avoid copyright strikes.

Streamers like HasanAbi have found success by discussing politics on stream, but attempts by politicians to use the platform have been much more limited. President-elect Joe Biden joined Twitch during his campaign, but his channel was oddly used to host lo-fi music and a few other sparsely viewed events. Politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jagmeet Singh seem to have a much better handle on Twitch, using the platform the way it was intended, to play games like Among Us and grab the attention of users without turning their channels into campaign commercials.