What year is it? 2004?
The median WoW player has to be at least 38.
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?
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
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
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.
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.
Walz
It’s not like they want to pander to 14 year olds, who historically have pretty low turnout
Children never show up to vote, that’s why they keep losing their rights.
It is.
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.
“Mr. Walz what is your position on student loan forgiveness?”
“Stop DOTs”
“Interesting. What do you think the escalating border issues?”
“Many whelps. Handle it.”
This is one of my top two episodes!!!
Well here’s some fun info for ya
Oh hey, it’s Pirate Software’s dad.
Twist: Tim Walz is Leeroy Jenkins
‘least I have a chicken in every pot’
As long as we got someone crunching the numbers, I’m cool with there being a Leroy Jenkins to ignore the stats.
Ngl, if a politician goes 5/9M on stream, I might just vote for them, 100% chance if they are the raid leader
What’s his build?
Demo-lock to trigger the weirdos.
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.
Lmao, then you should have went to Valorant or Overwatch.
He wants to reach out to people of voting age, not children.
WoW came out in 2004. If I wanted to reach younger voters I would not choose a 20 year old game.
Man i agree with you
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
Yes, but you dont go to Kongregate to play Kongregate. You feel? Roblox is just the new flash games.
Of course I fucking would if flash still worked?!
I have a pc program that has every flash game archived so I can play them all there.
I think theres an archival website too. Ugh I’m so fucken happy I was alive for that time. Truly a golden era of gaming for children with too much internet access.
God damn right.
Put er there 🫱
Also idk what Kongregate as a game is. But I would go to Armor Games to play Achievement Earned
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