Taiwan's opposition KMT is being drowned out online by its critics, a bad sign for the party heading into local election season.

• Livestreams from the pro-green side talking about the KMT have jumped to over 12,000 viewers, six to eight times what pro-blue streams are pulling.
• A month ago the picture was reversed, with the KMT setting the agenda on food safety and attacks on the ruling DPP.
• The turn came when infighting between Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu and lawmaker Fu Kun-chi became the story instead.
• A budget fight over the presidential office fund hit sheltered workshops making Mid-Autumn gift boxes, turning an abstract dispute into a story about disabled workers.
• Local messes in Hsinchu and Changhua, plus Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an's string of city controversies, feed one impression: the KMT is in disarray.

Outlook: The party still has plenty of attention, but unless it changes the subject soon, its opponents will keep defining what the KMT stands for.