Spokane Convention Interviews; How Removed YT Dislike Bar Salts the Earth for online hobby/business

At the beginnings of the Spokane Delegate Convention for the Republican Party of Washington State, attendees poured from all across the West Coast and Washington to bolster the presence of conservative candidates.Show more

More interviews following this series of interviews: (Day 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag0xG_EOFlc&t=3s
(Day 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azkPkN9Q3oY&t=2s

Many come from local engineering or mechanical work backgrounds and have and were reached out to about the innocuous function as the Dislike Ratio bar on Youtube, as many outside of politics have reported the deletion of the function had impacts outside the limits of political channels and into many other sectors of online discourse when exploring the decision made after ratioing of 2021 Biden videos on youtube.

Prior to 2021, the Dislike button featured acted as a color coordinated ratio bar that helped adjust and informed many about videos and informative clips they used that helped elect upset candidates like Trump. Many were asked about the broader scope of the impact of removing it as this also intersects into aspects of voters lives beyond just looking to inform people on politics.

Already demonstrating a campaign promotion for the Grassroots candidate Semi Bird for governor, sign and flag wavers began from early in the morning as 9 am to wave both attendees in as well as to oncoming vehicles to spread messaging to those in the largely GOP friendly large city hub of Spokane.

Many coming into the convention come as delegates and guests to the delegate process for both party platform of Washington State as well as party endorsements for candidates including local and state positions as Governor, Secretary of State, etc.

This was covered at the Spokane Convention building downtown on April 18th, and was 1 of several coming out from the events duration from April 18th to the 20th.