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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 146 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

What year is it? 2004?

The median WoW player has to be at least 38.

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 139 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The title says "young voters"

[–] throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

People don't realize just how enormous the Baby Boomers were, as a generation.

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

When I lived in FL, I swear I was the only one voting that wasn't retired.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I first voted when I was 18. Younger people vote when you give them a candidate that actually speaks to their needs. If we had West and Stein on the national debate stage, I'm sure we'd have more young voters.

[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What are the needs that young people have that are not being addressed by the Harris campaign?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I mean the greatest threat to the future is the climate crisis and nuclear arsenals. Both of those require dismantling the military industrial complex.

Harris has doubled down on continuing to extract carbon and spending on the military.

But those are just the existential threats

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I hear you, but please still get out and vote for Harris/Walz this November. This is about keeping the infrastructure of representative democracy in place so we will be able to work towards those needed changes. If Trump wins, all that is going away, and those of us guilty of thought crimes such as believing in global warming will end up in prison at best.

[–] DangedIfYouDid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nobody wants West or Stein except for Putin lol

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I was going to find the stream and see what types are in the audience. Can't find it.

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

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?

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah..

Great idea. But young voters ain't playing WOW

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

They are watching Twitch though. And what game is playing? Doesn't seem to matter.

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] Naura@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I waited in line at the fountain valley fry’s.

43 here lol

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

We could tell from frys

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

If not older. I'm older than 38 and my guild mates are older than me.

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think there is a new Wow, or one coming.. There have been a bunch of ads about it in the last month

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

One just came out. It's pretty good, but that's easy to say because Shadowlands set the bar very, very low.