What year is it? 2004?
The median WoW player has to be at least 38.
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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?
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.
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 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 🙄
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.
It’s not like they want to pander to 14 year olds, who historically have pretty low turnout
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!!!
I thought you were great in it!
Zing.
"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.
As long as we got someone crunching the numbers, I'm cool with there being a Leroy Jenkins to ignore the stats.
‘least I have a chicken in every pot’
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.
As someone who swore off WoW not for gameplay reasons, but due to appalling behavior by Blizzard management, I'm not sure I think associating your political campaign with the game is a good idea.
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.