Matt Gaetz Draws Pathetic Crowd Of SIX PEOPLE For His First Twitch Livestream

Congressman Matt Gaetz made a big deal recently about joining the streaming platform Twitch where he is going to run a simulcast of his podcast. But during the inaugural broadcast on the platform, he was only able to get SIX VIEWERS. This is extremely pathetic for someone that has more than 1.7 million followers on Twitter (where he has been promoting the stream) and it shows that Gaetz isn't as popular as he'd like to believe. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Congressman Matt Gaetz recently made a big deal out of the fact that he was taking his little podcast, live stream, whatever thing he's doing right now to Twitch the streaming platform that, uh, is typically a much younger audience than what YouTube has to offer. A lot of video games happening there, gaming strategy, things like that, which is what Twitch was kind of founded on. But there is lots of room on there, of course, for political speaking. So Matt Gates thought, Hey, here's an audience that I'm missing out on. I'm gonna go to Twitch. So last Thursday, Matt Gates does a 30 minute live stream, even brings on a guest. They cover an array of topics, and Matt Gates absolutely killed it by bringing in a staggering six viewers.

Six, that's, that's how many people, um, cared enough to watch what Matt Gates had to say. And based on the comments, most of those people were actually just there to troll the Republican congressman. So it's not like he actually had six fans, but six total people. I, I think we could probably assume at least 50% of them just there to mock him, probably for only having six viewers. So there may have been one or two human beings on Twitch during that 30 minute live stream that said, I like what this guy has to say. He's who's, who's got good guy. I like it. But that's it. So Matt Gates, it does appear that you have wasted your time trying to attract a younger audience. And to be honest, can you blame the younger audience? I mean, let's be real here, based on the accusations against you, um, you don't seem like the kind of person that young people should be hanging around.

Now, I know, I know there's reports saying the DOJ is probably not gonna prosecute you, but it's not because they, they, you're innocent. It's because they don't think that the witnesses they have would pass muster with a jury. So they may still think he did it. They may have evidence, but it's just not enough to guarantee a conviction against you. That's the thing a lot of people have to remember too, just because they don't bring charges against him if that even happens, doesn't mean that he didn't do it. It just means that they weren't able to get enough evidence to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. And of course, because he has not been indicted at all or and definitely not convicted, we have to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume, of course, that he didn't do it right. He gets that presumption of innocence. So we're not saying he did it, we presume he is innocent to proven otherwise, but public perception is a completely different thing. So it's gonna be hard to attract kids to your audience when they think you, you might be a sex offender for praying on

Teenagers. I I imagine there's not a big market for that on Twitch. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I'm not on Twitch, so I I couldn't tell you, but I can tell you that six viewers, for a guy with 1.7 million followers on Twitter, six viewers is very weak. Now, I will also point out that according to Twitch's own numbers, it is exceptionally hard. 99% of people on that platform get fewer than 20 concurrent viewers during a stream. It's only the, you know, 0.1% at the very, very top that get a couple thousand viewers. So it's very hard to break into Twitch. Matt, I'll give you that much. But again, you should have a built in audience. 1.7 million Twitter followers that you promoted this Twitch stream to.