Days after AOCs Among Us stream, the game is hit with a pro-Trump hack – Dazed

This week, hundreds of thousands of viewers tuned in to watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez play the viral video game Among Us on Twitch, with an all-star cast brought together with the help of Chelsea Manning and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker.Just days after the wholesome footage aired though, Among Us has been targeted with a massive hack that spams players with messages in support of Donald Trump.

In case youre still catching up, Among Us is a murder mystery-style game set in space, which sees up to ten players join a lobby. One or two of these players are impostors, and try to murder the others without getting found out the innocent have to work together to complete tasks and vote to kick suspicious players off the ship.

When AOC joined a lobby earlier this week alongside Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her daughter, the climate activist Isra Hirsi it provided the perfect opportunity to garner support for the Democrats in the upcoming election with jokes about voting (namely: orange sus, vote him out).

First reported on Thursday evening, however, the hacker spammed pro-Trump messages in the in-game chat, through other players avatars. Besides political messages, they also promoted various online accounts under the same handle: subscribe to eris loris.

In response to hundreds of screenshots of the hack shared via Twitter, the Among Us developers InnerSloth have rolled out emergency maintenance. In a Twitter post, they advise users to remain careful for the time being, writing: Please play private games or with people that you trust!

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Days after AOCs Among Us stream, the game is hit with a pro-Trump hack - Dazed