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Chapter 636: Chapter 274: Daytime Fireworks_2
Gu was probably in a phase where sickness was wreaking havoc in her body, her whole being tottering after finishing up.
Andy was the first to come over, escorting her back to the bedroom.
Gu weakly gestured: "I need to take a bath and rest a bit, you go ahead and eat, then do whatever you need to do. Don’t wait for me."
She had so much to say to Su Huai, but when it came to Andy, all she could do was nod.
Andy sighed, giving Su Huai a sour glance, before taking her upstairs to rest.
Gou Huai: "If she doesn’t talk much with you guys, did you ever consider it might be your fault? Have you tried hard enough? Are you kissing up to the right people? Tsk~"
Without breaking a sweat, he sauntered toward the dining room, bragged about devouring a big bowl of white rice, drank half a pot of chicken soup, and didn’t even touch the ginseng porridge.
As if, bro doesn’t need to replenish!
But then... he was driving to the company, when suddenly a surge of scorching heat raced to his lower abdomen.
Gou Huai touched his nose, and his hand came back bloody. His face was a picture of confusion: "What the heck did the chef put in the soup?"
Really it wasn’t much, just a whole root of Wild Ginseng. It obviously wouldn’t fit in the porridge, so after trimming off the roots, it was stewed in the chicken soup, that’s all.
Gou Huai cleaned himself up in the parking lot, finally getting tidy after a struggle, and as soon as he went upstairs, he saw a bunch of employees with flushed faces.
Cheese, sporting a major black eye, gleefully reported to Su Huai with red-hot cheeks: "Mr. Su, everyone online has started slugging it out!"
"Fine, let me see."
Su Huai took the briefing and waved him off to rest: "You guys should take a nap, the morning is the most uneventful time. Let’s regroup for a meeting at 10 a.m."
Unfortunately, Cheese was not one to listen.
"I’m fine! Dying at my post is my lifelong dream!"
Chen Ru, covered in dust, hurried down the hall, and upon hearing this, she punched the air vigorously: "Right! Get them up and at them, I can go another three days and nights!"
Great, the entire executive team was out of commission, each more loopy than the last...
But Su Huai could understand; last night, they had indeed made a big splash.
No matter how outsiders defined success, for the entire staff of Xingyu, having the power to turn the whole industry on its head was worth boasting about for a lifetime.
Yeah, they had utterly blown up the whole live streaming scene.
Su Huai sat down at his desk and skimmed through the comprehensive briefing.
The first key figure was the overall online talking point measurement.
It wasn’t just about the buzz, but a comprehensive count of discussion times, omitting private platforms like WeChat and QQ, with data collected from all other public platforms.
The figure was 7.88 million.
But, actual readership was only 20.5 million, a staggeringly high ratio.
Normally, a topic with 100 million reads might not have 2 million discussions.
For example, Fong Fong from the Returning Four Boys garnered 140 million reads and retweets for his contract termination and return to China topic. Discussion counts didn’t even reach 4 million.
Meaning: there was buzz, and plenty of people saw it. But, most just looked and dropped it, nothing worth discussing.
This time was different.
Of that, about 18.5 million reads didn’t convert into even a single comment, and the remaining 2 million reads averaged four comments per person.
The reason was simple—they were all fighting online.
Battlefields spread across Weibo, Douban Group 8, Tianya, NetEase, Zhihu, and chat areas of major live streaming platforms...
QQ Groups were also badly hit, but the data was inaccessible.
Then, categorizing by nature, the battlefields boiled down to three main segments.
First was the core controversy: Pei Shuyu’s personal fans vs. Tara’s personal fans fully at war.
Second was the extended controversy: the Korean entertainment fan community mocking NEETs, with domestic fans mocking Korean netizens, and bystanders mocking all fans.
Third was the unrelated controversy: netizens were abuzz with discussions of the live streaming industry, some shocked by Yuji’s money-making power, some questioning, others jeering, begging, and even some calling for a national ban...
Voices exploiting the rivalry between the two countries for ulterior motives were everywhere, if not sharply classified.
No exaggeration, Northwest Shanxi was a mess, and yet this wasn’t even the peak of the chaos.
When the situation really ferments, it should reach its climax in a day or two.
Su Huai glanced at the trending searches, where several terms still hung in the top ten, and with a slight smile, he continued reading the briefing.
The second key figure was about the situation of Pei Shuyu’s fan growth.
Overnight on Weibo, she broke through the 5 million follower mark. She was still behind Miss, Grandma Lu, PDD, and other well-known internet personalities. However, the ratio of active fans was over 60%.
The 2000-person advanced fan group, opened 40 in one go, nearly full.
The 500-person WeChat core group required rankings worth over ten thousand yuan, real-name system, and clear details down to phone numbers and job info for admission—1 is full.
The 500-person WeChat admin group—1 is full.
For WeChat’s tycoon group, one needed to spend over 100 thousand yuan, with transparent information, and 24 people joined.
Su Huai scrolled through the tycoon group and with a thump, kicked Wang out, leaving 23.
Wang Siming was actually still awake and sent Su Huai a message—
"Grass!"
Gou Huai ignored him.
Right, both his main account and alt were in there. The main account was named Xingyu’s Executive Assistant, and the alt was called Turbid Dog.
The group was bustling, with probably hundreds of messages @Turbid Dog.
Read but didn’t reply.
Just by the number of fans, Pei Shuyu became an A-lister online overnight, the top female broadcaster and roughly fifth overall when both genders are counted.
But regarding fighting power... no exaggeration, those male broadcasters are all little brothers.
Who on earth is supporting these shout-casting male broadcasters?
Chen Ru, one of the originators of YY’s online world, described it this way: "All this talk of You’s Army, Zhe’s Army, is really just a bunch of people screwed over by life, following them to experience what it feels like to screw others over."
