Is he kidding? CBS News reporter says Joe Biden’s ‘virtual happy hour’ for young people was ‘lit’ — with 2,800 viewers

.@JoeBiden wrapping up his first virtual happy hour w/young Americans. There were about 2800 simultaneous viewers throughout the chat. #lit

— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) March 25, 2020

Was it lit?

2800 is bupkis. Very much not #lit, Mr. Totally Objective Journalist. https://t.co/PTVgYQAbsI

— Kersnuffle Actual? (@shoshido) March 26, 2020

that's extremely low

— victim of capitalism (@joshieecs) March 25, 2020

2800? Are you missing a couple zeros?

— citizen uprising (@cit_uprising) March 25, 2020

There is a guy living on the beach that streams himself catching dirt crabs that gets 3k

— In the time of corona (@SeePvnk) March 25, 2020

sounds so much better than happy hour with creepy Joe

— elsa starr (@ms_estarr) March 26, 2020

Fortnite streamers get more viewers than Biden

— Elle! Bae! ? (@elle_bae) March 25, 2020

I could Twitch stream my kid playing Mario Kart and do better numbers. https://t.co/htS76AUliE

— wesinjapan (@wesinjapan) March 26, 2020

I'm basically nobody and I'm like ninety percent sure I could pull better numbers than that if I tried. https://t.co/wq6gPEe4I7

— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) March 25, 2020

We only watch for the bloopers sorry

— lefty lucie ? (@venti_depresso) March 25, 2020

At the same time I was streaming the President on Youtube.
187k viewers. On one Youtube channel. There were several channels showing it, each with similar numbers.

— Birch Sterling (@birchsterling) March 25, 2020

I actually watched most of it, less tech issues than previous stuff. But man he goes off in the weeds on nonsense.

— ?The Witty Wombat ? (@DaWittyWombat) March 25, 2020

It was like watching someone play jenga with their mouth.

— Gideon? (@meremaids) March 25, 2020

I watched. A lot of the comments were fairly critical.

— Bread N’ Roses ?☮️ (@yeahgood_okay) March 26, 2020

How many of those 2,800 were Bernie Sanders supporters who just showed up to troll him in the comments?

They had to disable the comments because most people were not in fact ridin with Biden pic.twitter.com/kLgbNte3er

— Lorraine (@CrimsonGash) March 26, 2020

As of this writing, the YouTube archive of Biden’s “lit” happy hour has 555 thumbs up and 1,400 thumbs down.

I was hate watching it, and I'm far from the only one.

— Ichi (@fuzzy_justice) March 25, 2020

like 20 of them were a chat I was in and we were making fun of the whole thing

— the tiger woods of gamers (@Fire_Badger) March 26, 2020

That. Is. Pathetic.

I've done periscopes with 10X those numbers! https://t.co/uXdYzmjGVw

— Jack Murphy (@jackmurphylive) March 25, 2020

that is genuinely sad as heck

also note that this "chat" did not allow user comments/actual chat

— Pure Malarkey (@puremalarkey) March 26, 2020

Over at Biden HQ right now pic.twitter.com/C4M1d9yNzs

— The British History Podcast (@BritishPodcast) March 25, 2020

Imagine having the promotional force of the largest politician party in the country behind you and not even managing to hit the viewership of a small local news station. https://t.co/KhIDEPo5G0

— Bernard Lomax (@BernieLomaxCEO) March 26, 2020

And this is with a lot of college-age kids stuck at home because their semesters have been canceled or moved to streaming services.

That's embarssingly low.

— Eric Wallace (@EricWallace117) March 25, 2020

Really?

4.5 million followers gets you that low of a number?

411k followers for @ScottAdamsSays and he doubles that every day just using his iPad.

And @JoeBiden is literally the presidential front runner for the Democrats.

2020 is going to be a #TrumpLandslide

— Mark Schneider (@subschneider) March 25, 2020

I thought this tweet was intended to be sarcastic until I started reading the responses. That’s just over 50 or so young people per state. That’s not lit that’s pitiful.

— Bernie Babe ? (@caltron01) March 26, 2020

Never ever do #lit again

— Shane Ram – #NotMeUs will win ? (@Smoove_1090) March 26, 2020

Pretty sure the words Joe Biden and Lit have never been used before in the history of mankind.

Did the robot voice of Joe sound realistic enough?

— Brian Schmidt (@BrianSchmidt9) March 26, 2020

You could see for yourself over on YouTube, or just wait an hour or so for the blooper reel to hit social media.

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'Something is wrong': Evidence mounts that Joe Biden is not even remotely equipped to run for president [videos] https://t.co/CzQ8VBq79X

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 25, 2020