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Edit: "No alternative to shipping companies" but there's somehow an alternative to reaching millions of people all on a single platform that they're not leaving due to social inertia. Get on a bike loser, you can't carry a package?
You need to educate yourself or keep your mouth shut. There are plenty of people who put a lot of time and effort into optimizing political engagement and weighing the pros and cons of all avenues.
400k people tuned in live to watch a one-off stream of AOC playing Among Us on twitch. 4.8 MILLION people watched the vod and that was nowhere near "all of Twitch".
I want to see YOUR math on building a system that can do that with any consistency and then fit that into a mayor's budget. Show me your road map to even sniff that audience size; where is your marketing spend going? Then on top of that, show me that there's no better way to spend that money from the political war chest; explain how not generating a few pennies for Amazon is worth cutting N community outreach/charity events.
I'll even help you out: we have a great comparison and it's publicly traded so we know a bit about it. Truth social has about 6 million MAU, so we're almost reaching that AOC Among Us scale (assuming they all engage with your stream). It took something like $5-$10M to stand up and costs $60M to operate every year. They ate a $31M deficit in their first year.
If you want a mayor to shell out that kind of money as a political stunt.. I guess you must love millions of big-donor dollars that finance that kind of thing.