Dramatic music plays. At the moment, Steve Kornacki is off the air, broadcasting on election night for MSNBC viewers. He's not in the air, hence the insane, repetitive elevator dirge. But those of us on YouTube — there are an impressive 171,947 as of this writing — watch him scroll through counties in Michigan, the index finger of his right hand gently touching the screen to zoom in on areas, and then percentages for them asks Kamala Harris and Donald Trump next to her.

Kornacki is dedicated and determined – you know, whatever you see on TV, Kornacki is still crunching numbers with a steely focus when the cameras aren't rolling.

We're watching via “Kornacki Cam,” an election night song invented by MSNBC to satisfy its fans' insatiable lust/hunger/devotion to MSNBC's Chinese-clad, white-shirted, hot nerd king of statistics. It's basically an MSNBC fanny account that has become downright respectable.

While on television the cameras are pointed directly at Steve, the Kornacki camera is placed far more mischievously at our hero's side and – at least for primetime television – proudly voyeuristic. On the right side of the TV screen you will see Steve poking around on the TV. He takes no notice of the Kornacki camera, which probably drives his fans even wilder. He has – what’s even hotter! – probably forgot it was there. He has a pen in his mouth. There is a laptop on the table. He maneuvers the mouse. He looks at the screen. He is engrossed in the number-crunching task ahead.

That's what his fans want. This is pure Kornacki porn.

Here's Steve leaning over a small desk looking at papers and a laptop!

Here's Steve with his producers (we're guessing!), one of whom is wearing a fashionable combination of pork pie hat and ponytail sticking out the back. They have a serious discussion with Steve.

Steve has come to the table to rummage through papers.

He has returned to the large plasma screen. He has two microphone packs attached to the back of his chinos

He's disappeared, the joke! Where? Presumably even the Kornacki camera draws a line at bathroom breaks.

The papers on the desk probably show some brilliant analytical scribbling. fainting.

The music stops. When the music stops, Kornacki fans know Steve is back on the air and Kornacki Cam viewers have to share him with the mainstream MSNBC audience who don't deserve it.

Steve talks about Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; We are approaching a critical moment.

He's already talked about what happened in North Carolina – at his usual minute-by-minute pace, we learned that Trump was exceeding his 2020 performance there. “If you get to 80 percent in a county, generally the only thing left is same-day voting.”

Later we'll be back on the air with Kornacki. The Kornacki Cam watches him address the nation, but from the side, the growing Kornacki Cam audience – now at 177,235 and still rising – looks at the back of his ruffled white shirt (coming out of his pants) and the back his blue chinos (not fitted, very normal). Guy). Shirt sleeves are carelessly rolled up. Forget about your tuxedos, Clooney. That's it.

The stress of watching Election Night isn't alleviated by Kornacki Cam, but it's fascinating to watch this master of numbers present his own internet sideshow and satisfy his many thousands of fans by never watching it once. Chinos, a white shirt, a pen in his mouth. An angry, single-minded focus. Pass the Doritos as the endgame approaches. For a Kornacki stan — 212,688 at 10:20 p.m. ET as Steve talks about the critical numbers Harris needs in Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania — it doesn't get any better.