Do you acknowledge this delivery rider who went viral when the remnants of Hurricane Ida lashed New York on Wednesday, inflicting historic flash floods that killed no less than 28 individuals within the northeast? There’s $1,700 ready for that waterlogged rider, whoever they’re.

The video has been watched over 10 million occasions on Twitter alone, and the one who captured the footage has acquired roughly $1,700 from media shops that needed to license the footage for broadcast, based on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

AOC is attempting to attach the unnamed one that took the video with the supply rider, one thing the congresswoman acknowledges could be robust.

“This is a huge long shot, but the person who filmed this deliverista last night received $1,700+ from media outlets who wanted to license the footage. They want to give all of it to the worker, but need finding him. Any tips?” Ocasio-Cortez requested in a tweet late Thursday.

“This was ~10:10pm near Roebling/11th st in BK,” AOC continued, narrowing down the world and time the video was taken.

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News shops typically pay individuals on social media for images and movies, and whereas the videographer on this case recognized the supply particular person as working for GrubHub, that hasn’t been confirmed.

It’d be nice to get this particular person their cash, but it surely’s extraordinarily miserable studying the tales of people that needed to work for firms like GrubHub, DoorDash, and Relay on Wednesday night time through the historic floods within the northeast.

As Vice explains in a new article, supply riders are sometimes incentivized with bonuses throughout rain and snow storms, giving gig staff an enormous push to exit throughout probably harmful conditions:

In New York City, supply couriers who survive on meager wages typically are incentivized to work throughout rain and snow storms as a result of gig firms provide the profitable bonuses and incentives, an organizer at Los Deliverstas Unidos, a grassroots community of immigrant meals supply staff in New York City, instructed Motherboard. While the situations throughout Wednesday night’s tropical storm had been distinctive, the explanations supply staff braved life-threatening situations continued to be the promise of upper than normal earnings.

Vice experiences that GrubHub didn’t provide any monetary incentives on Wednesday night time through the horrible storm, however DoorDash apparently supplied $3.50 for every supply and Relay reportedly supplied $2 per supply.

If you acknowledge the rider, get in contact with AOC, presumably over Twitter. It’d be nice to see this particular person get some actual cash after such a tough night time’s work.