Dramatic music plays. Right now, Steve Kornacki is not on-air, broadcasting to MSNBC viewers on election night. He is off-air, hence the insane, repetitive elevator dirge.
But those of us on YouTube—at the time of writing, a stunning 171,947 of us— are watching him scrolling through districts in Michigan, the index finger of his right hand gently touching the screen to zoom in on areas, and then survey percentages for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump alongside it. Kornacki is dedicated, intent—know this, whatever you see on TV, Kornacki is still crunching numbers with a steely focus when the cameras are not rolling. We are watching via “Kornacki Cam,” an election night wheeze dreamt up by MSNBC to feed the insatiable lust/hunger/devotion that his fans have for MSNBC’s be-chino’d, white-shirted, hot-nerdy king of the stats.
It is, basically, an MSNBC OnlyFans account made just about respectable. ADVERTISEMENT Whereas on TV the cameras face Steve head-on, the Kornacki Cam is way more mischievously placed to the side of our hero, and—for primetime TV anyway—proudly voyeuristic. It is to the right of the TV screen you see Steve jabbing at on TV.
He takes no notice of the Kornacki Cam, which likely drives his fans even wilder. He has—even hotter!—likely forgotten that it is there. He has a pen in his mouth.
There’s a laptop on the table. He maneuvers the mouse. He looks at the screen.
He is immersed in the number-crunching task at hand. This is what his fans .
