Chapter 910 - 642: Pay-to-Win
Weiss snorted coldly. He didn't believe it; he had already exposed his country's CEO's private matters, yet he still couldn't snag the headline.
Just as Weiss's thoughts landed, the gourmet Lu Rui'an released today's video: the night view of Qingyun City Wall!
As soon as Lu Rui'an released the video of the Qingyun City Wall night view, Weiss was the first to notice it.
He immediately flashed a smile.
News needs to be new, like the information he releases. The reason why it can garner such high heat is that it was never posted by others before.
However, the scenic video released by Lu Rui'an was different. Yesterday, as a food anchor, he had already posted a video of Dragon Country's scenery. The novelty for others wasn't as strong.
Once the novelty is gone, this video might have some popularity, but it absolutely can't compete with the messages he released.
Exactly as Weiss thought, once the video was released, it did receive quite a bit of heat, successfully making it into the top fifty of the hot list, but it took a full half hour.
Typically, the information on the hot list has a certain timeliness, and being on the list for a day and a night already counts as major news.
But it barely made the list in half an hour. In his eyes, if it stays within the top fifty in an hour, it's not bad; it might even drop out of the list entirely.
"Still want to fight for the headline with me? Dream on!"
Weiss sneered. This time, his headline was finally stable, thanks to our big boss holding the fort!
Another half-hour passed, and although Lu Rui'an's video was still on the hot list, it dropped two spots compared to before, already ranking at the tail, about to drop out of the top fifty.
"At this rate, in ten more minutes, maybe at most twenty, it'll completely drop off the list."
Weiss became relaxed again, sipping coffee while waiting for the other party to drop out of the list.
But ten minutes passed, and Weiss frowned because he found the other party's heat was weirdly starting to rise, and the speed of increase was terrifying. It had already reached the thirties.
"OMG, what exactly is going on?"
Weiss sensed something was wrong and quickly opened the video to check. He had already watched it once but hadn't found anything special.
"Huh? This comment section..."
Just about to exit, Weiss's gaze suddenly fell on the comment section. The comments, which had been only a few thousand, now reached thirty thousand.
And each time he refreshed, the number of comments skyrocketed crazily.
Even a comment by someone named [Kimchi is Number One in the World] had over ten thousand replies alone.
"What exactly is going on?"
Clicking on those comments and checking them out carefully, Weiss was dumbfounded.
Although there were some words in the comments he didn't recognize, some of the content was translated.
From those translations, it was clear that Dragon Country people and Goli people were in a flame war, seemingly because of that guy named [Kimchi is Number One in the World], who accused Dragon Country of plagiarizing Goryeo Country's culture.
But the scale of this flame war was too terrifying. How many people actually joined this battle?
Weiss scrolled down again and found, just in the moment he was stunned, the number of comments increased by another five thousand, and the video's heat climbed straight to the top twenty.
Weiss understood. No wonder the video's popularity suddenly skyrocketed; it was all burned out by the flaming.
Eighteenth rank, fifteenth rank, twelfth rank...in less than ten minutes, the video's popularity reached the sixth place on the hot list, and the number of comments had already reached over a hundred thousand.
"Gulp..."
Weiss swallowed hard; he had never seen a trend like this for increasing popularity. And as the heat grew, more and more Dragon Country and Goli people seemed to join the battlefield, causing the video's popularity to rise again.
Half an hour later, Weiss had a look of despair because the number of comments had reached three hundred thousand, and the video reached the second position in popularity.
Judging by the trend, it wouldn't be long before it snatched his headline again.
"No, this time the headline must be mine!"
Weiss gritted his teeth. Originally, he didn't want to spend money to buy popularity, but now there was no choice. If this went on, his headline would again be snatched.
Immediately, Weiss contacted the platform's staff and spent a thousand bucks, causing the popularity of his post to rise again, leaving Lu Rui'an's video behind.
But this situation only lasted less than ten minutes before he watched helplessly as the video's popularity caught up again.
"I don't believe it, even if I spend money, I can't beat you!"
A fierce look flashed in Weiss's eyes as he spent ten thousand bucks this time, increasing the popularity tenfold.
"Come on, catch up to me if you can!"
Weiss flashed a manic grin, but this mania only lasted half an hour before the video's popularity caught up again.
"Oh sh*t! I'll fight it out with you!"
Weiss cursed, spending a hundred thousand bucks out of frustration. As an ordinary player, he had never spent so much on popularity in his life.
He thought this time the other side couldn't catch up, but soon he was disappointed...no, it was more like despair.
The video's comments had already surpassed a million, and in a moment, it successfully took his headline.
Watching the stolen headline, Weiss almost spat blood on the spot.
For today's headline, he went as far as to reveal his own CEO's private matters, and even spent one hundred eleven thousand bucks. Yet, it only lasted for more than two hours before getting snatched.
He opened the comment section again, finding it was basically taken over by Dragon Country people. Goli people occasionally popped up, but soon thousands of Dragon Country people attacked them, controlling the comments section, until not even a shadow of Goli people could be seen.
Weiss sat dazed in his chair, watching the hot list, feeling increasingly disheartened.
Dragon Country people are too fierce; he couldn't even compete with them by spending money!
In all these years, he had never seen someone reach the top of the hot list amid such flaming, and thinking about how much money he spent, his heart ached.
If he had won, it would've been fine, but he lost, so the money was basically wasted.
These were Weiss's experiences over the past few days: a three-time battle, three-time defeat, leaving this entertainment mogul, who managed to dig up his CEO's private matters and dared to expose them, completely withdrawn.
"Forget it, I'll release new news in a few days, wonder how the goddess is doing lately."
Weiss mumbled, then clicked on a female celebrity's account homepage—Tina!