Maebul Show is on another level

Hankook Ilbo
Public opinion in 'Political YouTube' dominated by the top 1%... Shook Lee's approval rating [YouTube Deficiency]
Lee Dong-hyun 2026. 9. 24. 04:32 Editor's Note
When a political YouTube live stream turns on, tens of thousands of people connect simultaneously and begin to fill the chat window on the right side of the screen. A massive public opinion was being formed atop the chats accumulating second by second. Whose voice is this opinion, and how closely does it resemble actual election results? To answer this question, we analyzed approximately 14.09 million real-time chat data points collected over 8 months from 6 political YouTube channels.
After the local elections, support for Lee on Maebul Show and News Factory plummeted... Actual approval ratings also dropped sharply
After voices attacking President Lee surged in the real-time chat windows of progressive political YouTube broadcasts, the volume of related media reports increased, and a trend of declining approval ratings for President Lee was also partially confirmed in actual opinion polls.
Criticism of President Lee by progressive political YouTube channels grew during the controversy over the merger of the Democratic Party and the Rebuilding Korea Party in January and February, reaching its peak in March with former Chairman Rhyu Si-min's mention of the 'ABC Theory.' The exodus of pan-government supporters accelerated through self-fulfilling prophecies of "core supporter departure," the emergence of "traitor" discourse, and the reignition of the prosecution reform issue in May. After News Factory faltered first in June, Maebul Show followed, and President Lee's approval rating continued to plunge. While viewers of Lee Dong-hyung TV actively defended President Lee, they could not overcome the loud voices of the majority.
The voices supporting President Lee in the chat windows of progressive political YouTube channels averaged 19.0% for Maebul Show and 26.2% for News Factory in August, while Lee Dong-hyung TV stood at 88.5%, creating an extreme gap of 69.2 percentage points (p). In that time, President Lee's approval rating, which was 60% in January (based on Gallup Korea), fell to 42% in August, and recorded its lowest level since inauguration at 37% on September 18.
https://v.daum.net/v/20260924043259591
This is a Hankook Ilbo survey claiming that viewers of News Factory and Maebul Show are bashing the President.
Since they investigated 14.09 million real-time chats, it seems to have some basis.