“If I want to work with another politician, I have to fully collaborate with them,” said one creator who was offered the contract but ultimately declined to take it and asked not to be named. “If I get Zohran and he wants to [do an] interview with me, I don’t want to give that to them.”

Creators in the program are not allowed to use any funds or resources that they receive as part of the program to make content that supports or opposes any political candidate or campaign without express authorization from Chorus in advance and in writing, per the contract.

The fact that anyone signed these contracts really shows that it’s not new media that’s game-changing on the left, it’s the politics themselves. Even if the line was more thought out than, “Pokémon go to the polls” it’d still be vapid coming from someone who doesn’t speak to the issues or wants to means test and austerity check the assistance to death.