Starting from a Bar to Sign Internet Celebrities-Chapter 105 - 103: Quite the Slick Play

"Tiao Yin has already approved it. I’ll find a chance to upload the video. I just don’t know when this wedding-crashing trend will pass."

Sister Feiye relayed the news to Chen Jincheng the moment she got confirmation of the approval from Tiao Yin.

She was, in a way, reporting in advance.

Having been on the internet for so long, she was certain this ad would go viral.

That was why she already considered herself a member of Second-Life Star.

Chen Jincheng nodded. "It should be about over by tonight."

According to the trends in the other world, the wedding-crashing hype dominated for a day. For the next two days, the hype was all about the wedding-crashing anthem, "Move Your BODY." Many videos went viral just by using it as their background music.

Videos—like the one of two foreigners on a bullet train frantically taking pictures, stunned by its speed; a strange-looking man lip-syncing; and a girl doing a leg-shaking dance in front of a shop—all surpassed a million likes.

However, the hype had already died down by more than half compared to the beginning, so it wouldn’t have much of an impact on videos with real viral potential.

His socket ad was the real pity. It was released right at the peak of the trend; otherwise, it might have hit 6 million likes, and he could have squeezed another million in advertising fees out of Rice Sockets.

But you can’t have everything. It still got over 5 million likes and a 4 million advertising fee.

’One must know when to be content.’

"Mm!" Sister Feiye nodded. She now had absolute faith in Chen Jincheng’s suggestions.

Sister Hong came over soon after and reported to him, "Two things. First, President Hu has booked a restaurant. She wants to treat our entire filming crew to a meal. It shows she’s very satisfied with the ad we shot."

"That saves us the money for a team-building dinner," Chen Jincheng said with a smile. "What’s the other thing?"

Sister Hong explained, "It’s from President Jiang at Rice Sockets. Orders for their ’All-Purpose Magic Cube Socket’ have surpassed 5 million in a short time, so they plan to take our ad and broadcast it on television to ramp up their marketing."

"Also, remember how President Lei said this ad could be submitted for an award? It seems it really might have a chance. However, for a more formal setting, some of the jokes won’t fly, so they need to cut the part about you at the end."

"So I’m not presentable enough, huh?" Chen Jincheng said with a self-deprecating laugh. "Tell President Jiang I have no objections!"

There was no need for him to get angry over something like this.

After all, if it was really going to be broadcast on TV, it would have to be reviewed and supervised by the broadcast authorities. Even if there was nothing wrong with the memes used by internet celebrities, they would still offer their ’guidance’.

They just loved to ’guide’ things. And after all their ’guidance’, the domestic television industry ended up in the sorry state it was in by 2024.

So, rather than being forced to cut it after being ’guided’ by the authorities, it was better to cut it themselves and save the trouble.

Once he thought it through, he naturally wasn’t unhappy about it anymore.

However, there was one thing Chen Jincheng was very happy about. The Rice Sockets had received 5 million orders in such a short time, which was definitely more than the order volume in the other world during the same period.

In the other world, the socket sold over ten million units in its first month. Now, it had hit 5 million orders in just two days. A full month would definitely bring in more than ten million.

This was a change he had brought to this world.

The wonderful sense of accomplishment was indescribable.

"Okay, I’ll reply to President Jiang then!" Sister Hong nodded and went to take care of it.

As the sun set, Chen Jincheng left the company with Sister Hong, Lao Chen, and the others, heading to the restaurant booked by President Hu of Danni Clothing.

Hu Jing was indeed very satisfied with the ad shot by Second-Life Star. Even though the video hadn’t been uploaded yet, she knew its popularity wouldn’t be any less than that of Luna Stockings or Jing Hong Pajamas. Because of this, the dishes she ordered for the dinner were all high-end, and everyone had a great time eating.

After dinner, Chen Jincheng received a message from Lin Hao: "Going live tonight. Don’t forget to check out the results of your plan!"

Chen Jincheng smiled. He had had a little to drink that evening and wanted to get back to the villa to rest early anyway. So, after returning to the villa, taking a shower, and lying down, he pulled out his phone, opened Tiao Yin, saw that Lin Hao was already live, and tapped his way in.

But to his astonishment, Lin Hao’s stream showed over 150,000 concurrent viewers.

’Damn, I wonder how many bots he’s running.’

No matter how popular Lin Hao was today, there was no way he had 150,000+ concurrent viewers. He was definitely running a lot of bots.

However, botting was commonplace at this stage.

Just two days ago, hadn’t Gao Yanyan’s stream broken 300,000+ concurrent viewers? Just like in the other world, he had become the temporary king of popularity, and even many PK streamers couldn’t beat him.

The next phase would probably be a huge popularity contest among the major PK streamers. Soon, top-tier PK streamers would emerge, and it would be a spectacular sight to see any one of them easily pull in hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers just by holding an event.

This would continue until the authorities cracked down on the gray-market data industry that Tiao Yin had spawned, arresting waves of illegal members from traffic-driving studios. Tiao Yin would then explicitly ban botting, classifying the artificial creation of fake data as a serious violation. One by one, they would all be exposed for what they were, utterly humiliated.

Their viewer counts would plummet from the hundreds of thousands to barely being able to break 50,000. Everyone knew what that meant.

Chen Jincheng felt he should give Lin Hao a heads-up about this.

The more glory he gained from fake data now, the more it would hurt when the truth came out.

Lin Hao’s stream was actually pretty good. The format was a bit like Ah Zhe’s from the other world.

As the stream continued, a shocking scene suddenly unfolded. A line of Japanese was spoken, and then a "teacher" in a maid outfit appeared, placing a cup of coffee next to Lin Hao.

"Whoa, what did I just see?"

"I think that’s Teacher San Shang!"

"..."

The chat exploded. Some people immediately got the joke and started spamming "male lead."

"Holy shit, is Ah Hao really going to be the male lead?"

"Ah Hao is a fucking madman!"

"..."

Even Chen Jincheng was stunned.

Fuck!

’It must be nice to be rich!’

Lin Hao still knew how to manage the stream. He quickly said, "Everyone, stop spamming ’male lead.’ This is actually pretty awkward, so can we drop it? Also, that was just my new assistant. Don’t go crazy with the comments!"

But as soon as he said that, the audience only got more fired up.

Chen Jincheng had to admire Lin Hao.

’The guy really knew how to play the game.’

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(The next Chapter is coming soon!)