YouTube Data Shows Dramatic Shift in Blue-Green Political Attention, Page Says

The Kuomintang has not lost public attention, but it may be losing control of the conversation about itself. In the past month, green-aligned YouTube livestreams discussing the party climbed above 12,000 views, reaching about 12,500 at their peak. That was roughly six to eight times the 1,500 to 1,800 views recorded by blue-aligned livestreams at the same time, according to the Facebook page Voice and Politics Watch.

The reversal followed a period when the Kuomintang had appeared to control the political agenda. About a month earlier, blue-aligned livestreams generally drew 3,000 to 5,000 views, while green-aligned broadcasts fell from more than 3,000 to several hundred. The page associated that earlier advantage with political battles after July 25 and continuing food-safety disputes, which created a pattern in which the Kuomintang set the questions and the Democratic Progressive Party responded.

The analysis identified internal tensions between Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu and Kuomintang lawmaker Fu Kun-chi as an important turning point. Once the conflict became a media focus, attention shifted from how the party was overseeing the DPP to what was going wrong inside the Kuomintang. Internal disputes can attract viewers across political camps, the page said, because blue supporters follow the infighting while green supporters also join the discussion. Repeated coverage may leave some people with the broader impression that the party is in disarray.

A dispute over the freezing and deletion of presidential office funds by Kuomintang legislator Weng Hsiao-ling also moved from an abstract budget fight to a more concrete issue involving sheltered workshops and workers with disabilities. The subsequent decision by Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen and Kuomintang Chair Cheng Li-wen to take over related gift-box orders was intended to reduce the damage, the analysis said, but each announcement also renewed questions about why the orders needed to be reassigned.

The page also cited the collapse of a blue-white alliance in Zhubei, nomination disputes in Changhua, party disciplinary cases and controversies involving Taipei’s city government, including a smoking area in the Gongguan shopping district, the placement of a 10-year-old girl and Chiang’s eldest son joining a city exchange-student program. The common frame, it said, could become whether government decisions were carefully made. The central warning was not that supporters had vanished, but that others were increasingly defining the Kuomintang for the public.

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