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As I begin to look at all of the data I have, I begin to notice some pretty cool similarities between a game walkthrough video, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Congress Camp’ 1 and 2. Instead of using a video from TheRadBrad, I noticed it would be hard to compare since he doesn’t have a face camera in his walkthroughs, just audio. I switched to PewDiePie, and he is playing Alien Isolation. One of the first things I noticed was the engagement with their audiences. Ocasio-Cortez does a very good job of acknowledging the audience watching her video and talking to them on a person level. Another similarity is the ability to joke around and act like yourself, not like your title. Once again, Ocasio-Cortez has several moments where she shares personal posts and seems to be transparent with her audience. She even includes some of her music of he day! The differences begin to show up when we look at how the information is conveyed. With PewDiePie, since he is playing the game, he is experiencing everything with the audience, which does line up to the premise of Ocasio-Cortez’s videos. Though Ocasio-Cortez has more freedom to share multiple points of information since she can pair text with her visual communication. These two examples are even similar to them being in separate parts. A videogame walk-through is something that people usually watch for the experience. Some could watch because they enjoy the personality, others may watch for the information, some even watch to see people’s reactions to things. I think Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram stories are doing a very good job of providing several things that attract people to videos. If you pair that with her subject, which so happens to be our government, she has eyes for all sorts of different reasons.

The other part of my data was to look at the feed of John Boehner, but then I realized he hasn’t posted since 2015. I decided to look at the feed of Tulsi Gabbard. She does a very good job of utilizing all of Instagram’s resources. Yet, she is sitting at 89.9K followers to Ocasio-Cortez’s 3.2 million. I in no way want to judge anyone on their number of followers, I am just looking at this to see what differences there are that could explain such a gap. Tulsi Gabbard has taken to posting Instagram’s new video watching format. Unlike Ocasio-Cortez, Gabbard’s Instagram feed contains a few of her topics, but it just seems to be lacking that intimate feel. To me, it just feels like a business Instagram account used to get across a message. Ocasio-Cortez’s feels a little more personal to me, like I am getting to know someone in the process. I think it is very interesting that there are so many similarities between a game walkthrough and Congress Camp 1 and 2. It really makes ones think about how certain tools or techniques could be transferred and applied for successful dealings.

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