Chapter 21: 【021】Martial arts practice is not easy, live streaming to showcase skills
The nights in the mountains are especially quiet, aside from the wind and insects, you can’t hear any noise.
Wang Longhu lay on the wooden bed, browsing Douyin on his phone. Since he planned to try livestreaming on Douyin to see if it can make money, he definitely needed to understand it in advance.
As the freest platform for livestreaming in the country, Douyin has a unique advantage compared to Shark, Tiger Teeth, and Little Broken Station, which is that there’s no need for contracts, and the traffic is huge.
As soon as you open a live broadcast room, you can get some traffic support, and having over a hundred concurrent viewers is easy.
After forcing himself to watch hundreds of different livestream styles in half an hour, Wang Longhu got some insights.
The most lucrative content on Douyin’s livestreams are selling goods and PK challenges. The former needs no further explanation, while in the latter, you shout loudly with exaggerated gestures as if pretending to have hyperthyroidism, talking tough with the opposing host and setting up penalties.
Then you’d shout things like ’Brother and Sister, let’s get a sports car’ ’Thanks to my XX brother’s Porsche’ ’Brother, send a sports car so the opponent won’t steal the tower,’ and if you’re lucky enough to encounter rich, foolish tycoons, you could make a couple of hundred bucks a day without any problem.
Next is having people send different kinds of gifts, and the host performs corresponding penalties, also making a good amount of money if lucky.
Wang Longhu saw someone sitting on a log sawing wood, costing one pair of sunglasses (9.9 yuan) for ten saws, one Porsche (120 yuan) for 120 saws, and they fall into the water once the wood is cut through, filled with dark humor.
There’s also physical penalties, like a few idling youths standing on the streets at night or in rundown warehouses, laying on the ground pretending to sleep when no gifts are sent, but jumping up to do frog jumps or jumping jacks once someone sends them a gift.
These people typically yell slogans arrogantly at the camera: ’Challenge all top guys on the net in this livestream, we are unbeatable’ ’One flower for a frog leap’ ’One beer for jumping jack’ ’One pair of sunglasses for ten push-ups.’
