Snapchat star Audrey Spencer on how social media can take over this election

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Audrey Spencer made her debut on social media posting artistic renderings of her cats on Snapchat. By day she does product design, but in her free time she takes over the Snapchat world as Cakes1toDough1. It's even how she met her boyfriend. Although she is from Boston and he was from L.A. -- she calls it their "modern love story". Being a Snapchat influencer has brought her thousands of followers and has led her to cover the 2016 Republican National Convention for Cleveland.com.

While Audrey is still in shock that having two cats led to attending the 2016 RNC -- AOL.com editors caught up with her at the convention as she discussed her experience.

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What exactly are you doing at the RNC?
What I've been doing is walking around asking people, not getting my political views involved because I don't want to do that. I'm just sharing my experience and the experience of being here. I want to talk to people, interact with people and come up with a question that isn't off-putting or subjective in anyway. So I ask people what they think about cats.

With my background in Snapchat drawing funny pictures of my cats and a lot of people had the weirdest answers. People will respond, "cats, you mean like the animal." Others will respond, "No." One guy was selling a "Hillary Sucks" shirt and he was chanting for Trump, so I walked up to him. I said, "Sir can I ask you a question, what do you think about cats." He responded, "I love cats, I have 3 kittens at home." It was seeing an angry person then talking about something that they liked. It made me feel good. It was strange. It was a silly question but it's had an interesting effect that I didn't expect.

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What has your experience been like so far?
I think the most grandiose thing I saw was when covering the RNC the first night, I saw Trump come out to "We are the Champions," and there were crazy lights. The amount of people that are there is amazing. The amount of money that has gone into the town to put up fences and all the effort and police presence it just really unique. I'm glad I get to see it.

How do you feel about this election in general?
It's crazy. I think that everyone has very strong opinions. I don't think either candidate is super ideal. I definitely prefer Hillary. I resent the fact that people give her crap about her pant suits because what else is she going to wear, you know? The news has taken an interesting angle on the whole thing. Hyperbolizing a lot of stuff that isn't important to politics. It gets in the way of peoples actual views of what is actually going on for both candidates.

What is the biggest misconception millennials have on the election?
People don't really know how the Electoral College works. To be fairly honest I don't always know either. But the thing is, I've watched videos on it and read Wikipedia articles and done research on voting process and I'm still a little cloudy on how all of it works. A lot of people don't think their vote matters. Even if in a broader sense it doesn't sometimes, I think making the effort and going in and voting even on more local things does matter.

How do you think social media could impact this election?
Social media really gives access to a lot of different ideas and opinions, readily. It's very accessible for the younger generations and it's very consumable. I think it harbors a lot of misinformation because it's not actual media. There's no fact checking and a lot of it is hearsay. I think checking your sources and being knowledgeable about what people are saying is really important. But at the same time social media has a way of permeating young people news. Because you can see what is going on on the ground. My followers are able to see what it's like to be here and what's going on and different views and people might not normally have that from just the news. The news is more polished.

How has social media changed since previous elections?
It's in the hands of more people and more generations of people. It's more accepted. Whereas before Obama had a really good handle on social media and his team was great at that but now more people have a grasp of it and permeates beyond. For instances the news agency Cleveland.com, they hired me to come out here and cover the RNC. That might not have been a thing in 2008. They would have been, "What is Snapchat, why do we need that?". It's value has definitely changed.

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