Chapter 58: Xiao Sao's Bullshit Has Gotten Bigger

  PS: The third update is here today. I want to write a different kind of entertaining article, so I've been thinking a lot and will speed up the pace soon! Continue to vote and collect!!

  As mentioned earlier (see Chapter 35), due to the "Successful System"'s heaven-defying methods, Xiao Xiong's first MV caused the server of China's first video sharing website "Potato" to crash in less than three minutes after uploading.

  This message was taken seriously by the company's boss Wang Wei, who immediately decided to conduct an accident investigation and turn a bad thing into a good one. He quickly invited journalists from major print media, television institutions, and portal websites to hold a press conference in a large conference room at a cooperative hotel in Shanghai.

  Just as Xiao Shuai Ge was nervously preparing for his first large-scale performance, the staff at Modu Potato Website quickly figured out the cause of the "accident", which was actually very simple: it was caused by the upload of a certain MV, resulting in tens of millions of people instantly clicking to visit the website.

  Everyone was shocked by this result and didn't dare to slack off. They immediately reported it to the company's president, Wang Wei, who was in the middle of drafting a speech.

  "Another video? Whose video?" Wang Wei almost popped his eyes out when he heard this news.

  This morning, the website's traffic exceeded its all-time high due to a video, which is already worth celebrating, and preparations are underway for a press conference.

  As a result, the culprit of the website crash turned out to be another video? Who is so powerful? Just uploaded and it attracted tens of millions of people to "flood attack" this site together?

  "It's still that vagabond singer Xiao Tang, reportedly his first MV single." The secretary who made the report also seemed to find it hard to believe, so spoke in a very small voice, "The website has been back to normal for an hour now, but the heat of this video hasn't dropped at all, with at least thousands of people clicking and watching every minute on average."

  "Come on, let's go take a look!" Wang Wei said in a low voice.

  Although he had a million reasons not to believe it, this "Little Tang" was just a wandering singer after all, and wasn't some big shot like Jay Chou or Liu Dehua who would cause a stir with every move. But since the investigation results were already out, whether you believed it or not, seeing it with your own eyes couldn't be wrong, right?

  He then returned to his office with his secretary and immediately opened the video that was ranked first on the homepage, titled "This is God's performance, Xiao Ge's debut single MV dazzles your dog eyes".

  "The title is quite impressive!" Wang Wei, now a media person, couldn't help but chuckle and shake his head at the title. Then, he focused on watching the MV with fast buffering speed.

  "Hmm, the filming is really good, just like a movie. Looks like they spared no expense! Wang Wei nodded as he watched, and the smooth, rich voice of Xiao Hu Ge also made him nod repeatedly, looking very pleased."

  The MV was only about 4 minutes long, and Wang Wei quickly finished watching it. Then he thought for a moment and furrowed his brow, asking: "Even if the song's MV is great and the song sounds good, it can't possibly attract hundreds of millions of people all at once, right? Zhou Jielun probably can't do that."

  That's right, this is the biggest question mark. Why can a debut album by a wandering singer suddenly attract so much attention?

  "I also curiously asked, and a member of the maintenance group told me that at that time he was using the computer to copy discs in order to upload them to the website to enrich the content library. As a result, just as he was working, a video webpage suddenly popped up on the entire computer...". The secretary still looked shocked as she mentioned the reason: "And this webpage was our website's webpage..."

  "Oh? Such formidable hacking skills?"

  Wang Wei suddenly jumped up, the secretary's sudden pop-up webpage technique was actually a kind of hacker attack method, and it was the kind that only very skilled and cunning hackers could accomplish.

  "Are all those who clicked on our website attracted in this way?" Wang Wei said as he scrolled down the webpage, then...

  "My god, over 1.8 million comments?" Wang Wei was truly shocked this time, and he hadn't even looked at the content yet, but was already intimidated by the number of comments. To put it into perspective, their website's most commented video prior to this was "A Mantou-Induced Bloodbath" ( unable to find the original post, so just assume that), which due to its lawsuit with "The Promise" became well-known nationwide, and had a click count in the hundreds of millions, but only around 1 million comments.

  But what about now? An MV of just one single has such a high number of comments? Wang Wei calmed down slightly, then looked at the latest page of comments:

  "Dad's getting angry, who did this? I was in the middle of chopping down 'Red Moon' and got kicked out!" (Tourist)

  "What's going on? How can a single be advertised like this? I don't even want to click on it." (Tourist)

  "I just want to say that this MV is well-made, the singing is good too, and the female lead is especially pretty, while the male lead is so-so!" (Big Brother)

  "Great shot! It feels very flavorful. The singer Xiao Tang also sang well. Do you know where to download the MP3?" (smiling sweetly)

  ……

  After reading several pages of comments, Wang Wei's face looked very good. He closed the page and asked his secretary standing beside him: "Do you think this promotion plan was done by a formidable hacker? Otherwise, how could such a powerful pop-up ad come out?"

  "I think it's very likely, otherwise it can't be explained!" The secretary was in full agreement with her boss.

  "Haha, no matter what he did, anyway now it's our website that benefits." Wang Wei stopped worrying about this issue and instructed: "Modify my speech draft, add this major news to it. At the press conference later, there will definitely be reporters who care about why our website crashed this afternoon."

  He paused for a moment and then said: "You go out and call Little Lin over, I want to talk to him about setting up a special video column for this 'Vagabond Singer' Xiao Tang!"

  The secretary left with a mission, and "Little Lin" also rushed over immediately at the boss's summons.

  Wang Wei first asked him to sit down, then said: "This young man is really not ordinary! Now what's not even hot can be so explosive, the entire network of video-loving netizens, at least half of them know him now."

  "So, what Mr. Wang means is..."

  "Since he has such a high attention, we need to arrange a special column for him." Wang Wei nodded: "The purpose of calling you is this. At the same time, I also want to trouble you to ask your classmates to help find this little Tang in Yuzhou and get his written authorization. If the effect is good, we can even send a dedicated staff to follow him and record videos!"

  "Huh? Follow and take pictures?"

  Kobayashi was confused by what Wang Wei said afterwards. What a big shot is this? Is he more awesome than Jay Chou?

  Of course, if Jay Chou wants to release a video, at the very least, the potato website should send a deputy general manager to personally negotiate with his agent.

  "Yes, he will be the first star on our website to have his own video column!" Wang Wei nodded in agreement, but thought to himself: "Not to mention anything else, just based on the fact that one of his street videos refreshed the highest traffic on our website, and one MV can bring in tens of millions of instant clicks and hundreds of thousands of comments, he is already qualified."

  "Alright, I'll contact my friend right away and get the column set up as soon as possible." Since it was something the boss had personally arranged, Xiao Lin wouldn't dare to slack off and immediately nodded and withdrew.

  "Haha, Xiao Tang, Xiaosha Ge, you're really awesome now! " Wang Wei lit a cigarette and took a satisfying drag before muttering to himself: "The first celebrity in all of China to have his own video column, haha, if I can't keep being this amazing in the future, then I'll just become history!"

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