AOC just delivered a live-stream of her playing a video game. Here's why this is a big deal

When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., live-streamed herself on Twitch playing the video game "Among Us" Tuesday night, she did more than simply blow off some steam while encouraging people to vote. Last month former Vice President Joe Biden, who is running against Trump in the upcoming election, launched online merchandise on the Nintendo Switch video game "Animal Crossing: New Horizons." Earlier this year, Biden told The New York Times about how, during a meeting with Silicon Valley business leaders, "one of the little creeps sitting around that table," whom the former vice president described as "close to a billionaire," characterized himself as "an artist because he was able to come up with games to teach you how to kill people." As Salon's Amanda Marcotte wrote in 2016, the 2014 controversy known as Gamergate — one in which feminists were widely harassed by video gamers — helped lay the groundwork for Trump's successful 2016 presidential campaign.