120,000 people flocked to the inauguration meeting of Shen Boyang's campaign headquarters, and the popularity of the online live broadcast overwhelmed Li Sichuan's momentum

Taipei mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party Shen Boyang held a grand opening meeting of his campaign headquarters on Beiping East Road today (4th). He announced that 120,000 people had finally poured in. The momentum of the "ocean current" was astonishing. Some people shared on social media around 4 p.m. that the crowds reached the gas station more than hundreds of meters away, and the gas station simply "suspended service." In addition, today the Kuomintang is also in Banqiao to build momentum for its New Taipei City mayoral candidate Li Sichuan. Regardless of the number of on-site participants, the number of people following the live broadcast online alone is a huge difference, triggering discussion.

Shen Boyang's founding meeting was held at No. 30-1, Beiping East Road, Zhongzheng District, from 2 to 5 pm today. The venue opened at 1 o'clock, and the ocean current quickly poured in. From the official start of the event at 2 pm, the number exceeded 30,000, and by the middle of the event, it exceeded 60,000. At 5 o'clock, the event finally reached its climax, with more than 120,000 people chanting "Ocean Current Gathering", and the crowd overflowed to the Zhongshan North-South Road and Huashan Turf 700 meters away.

At around 4 p.m., a member of the public shared on Threads that the China Petroleum Linsen North Road Station, about 400 meters away from the main stage of the Shen Boyang Competition and about a 5 to 6-minute walk, was also "occupied" by the ocean current. The gas station and surrounding areas were full of people, and the station's self-service refueling system directly displayed a "service suspension" notice. People said that it was the first time they had seen this situation.

In addition, the Kuomintang also held a large-scale rally for Li Sichuan this afternoon, "We all support Li Sichuan", and once shouted that the number of people present exceeded 40,000. Political worker Zhou Xuan shared a comparison of Shen Boyang's and Li Sichuan's YT live broadcast on Facebook. Putting aside the difference in the number of supporters at the election events held by the blue and green camps, we can see that there is also a shocking gap in the number of people watching the live broadcast online. Shen Boyang's live broadcast had as many as 57,000 people online at the same time, while Li Sichuan's live broadcast only had 6 people, which was quite bleak.

Netizens said one after another, "This must be YT being destroyed by the Bluebird hacker. It should be 60,000 people", "6... people?" I don’t think there will be so few members of the same party if we all go up.”, “The numbers are almost the same, it’s just a difference of 10,000 words. Don’t worry about it so much.”, “Do the cyber troops in Vietnam or Indonesia not work on holidays?”, “No comparison is harmless”, “They all took the tour bus to the scene to eat lunch”, “Who wants to see a boring old gray guy?”, “Everyone has been mobilized to the scene, and there is no one at home.”