Chapter 96: Meet the Boys (4)
The next three episodes of ’Meet the Boys’ aired over the span of four days showing the uncut audition clips and judges reviews of all the 200 contestants who had made it into the second showcase round.
While the second showcase performance was scheduled to be shown the following week along with the very first episode of the official broadcast on television.
But even without seeing the showcase performance, the released content was enough to build audience hype not only about the show but in the lives of the contestants that were not seen in the Warrior video performances.
The traffic song that Ari wrote continued to gain popularity on TokTik, while the views on Warrior performance videos continued to rise, especially the teams that had contestants with famous parents, or strong social media presences.
The people that consumed all the content did their best to find out all the nitty, gritty details of the contestants, created online forums and group to discuss, and began psycho analyzing everything while waiting for the official first broadcast in a week.
While all of this was happening, Ari slowly recovered from his cold.
He spent the majority of the week sleeping and performing his repeat missions by using the signal song to practice his choreography and vocals.
Toward the end of the week, he finally completed the repeat missions for dancing choreography 1000 times and singing a song in its entirety 1000 and immediately added the two points to his visual stat.
[Visual +2]
[Visual: D -> C-]
Because of the release of the videos and online backlash, Ari realized that he couldn’t delay the upgrading of his Visual stat for much longer even though he wanted to up his dance and rap skills to complete the mission on the mission board.