V Spehar offers “alternative to legacy media” with ‘Election Night Pizza Party’ [Video]

If the anxiety induced by tonight’s election results makes you want to hide under the desk for safety, then V Spehar has a show for you. Spehar, the creator and pundit who hosts Under the Desk News, is going live across multiple platforms with a November 5 special called Election Night Pizza Party.

Pizza Party‘s name is a misnomer, since there will be no pizza consumed on camera during the show. Instead, Spehar will appeal to their Millennial and Gen Z fans by offering “graphs without context,” “digestible explainers,” and “key updates,” according to a logline emailed to Tubefilter.

The synopsis describes Pizza Party as Spehar’s “alternative to legacy media.” Rather than delivering the staid election night special viewers might be used to, the Under the Desk host is invoking concepts like “brain rot media” and nostalgia, both of which are compatible with their target audience. The goal is to create a “high school civics class for the scroll generation.”

Though …