Starting from a Bar to Sign Internet Celebrities-Chapter 113 - 110: The Gap Is Too Great! A Way to Vent Frustration
"I’ve already spent 20,000 on Dou+," Chen Long said to his sister with a smile. "I’m sure this video will go viral."
This 20,000 figure was an inside tip he’d gotten from their planner. If a video didn’t blow up after a 20,000 yuan investment in Dou+, there was no point in spending more. It would just be a waste of money.
Chen Xiaoying nodded and turned her attention to her own video.
With the boost from the 20,000 Dou+ investment, she could see the likes on her video were indeed starting to climb quickly. In just ten minutes, it had already reached 3,000 likes.
This made her unable to resist searching for Cenchun’s account.
After all, Chen Jincheng was now shooting videos for Cenchun, so she felt a little competitive. Based on their agreement, if she had gone to Second-Life Star, Chen Jincheng should have been shooting videos for her now too.
But when she opened Cenchun’s Douyin account, she saw that Cenchun had indeed uploaded a new video. The number of likes left her stunned.
It already had 30,000 likes.
She checked the time—it had only been uploaded for twenty minutes. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂
She looked back at her own video: 3,000 likes in ten minutes.
The gap was just too big. Her video was going to be left in the dust.
Sure enough, after another ten minutes, her video reached 7,000 likes in twenty minutes—less than a quarter of the other video’s likes in the same amount of time.
Chen Long had naturally been watching his sister’s video as well. He said with a smile, "Sis, your video is about to break 10,000 likes. It looks like spending money on Dou+ really works. When I used to shoot my own videos, I rarely even broke 500 views."
Chen Xiaoying sighed. "In the same twenty minutes, the video Chen Jincheng shot already has 30,000 likes."
"How can the difference be so big?" Chen Long was clearly taken aback. "I even spent 20,000 on Dou+."
He hurriedly searched for Cen Ning’s account and was stunned when he saw the latest video.
As time passed, his expression grew darker. The gap between the video he shot and the other one was only getting wider. By the time his video broke 10,000 likes, the other one was already over 50,000.
Finally, by evening, Chen Long discovered that the likes on the video he’d made for his sister had stalled at 110,000, no longer increasing.
Meanwhile, the video Chen Jincheng shot for Cenchun had already reached 550,000 likes, and the number was still climbing.
"Bro, is this what you call surpassing Chen Jincheng?" Chen Xiaoying sighed and shook her head.
Chen Long was utterly embarrassed. He lowered his head, not knowing how to respond. It seemed that shooting short videos wasn’t as simple as he’d thought.
’So this is what the planner meant by a video being a waste of money to promote any further?’
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Jinhui Mall was a relatively famous shopping center for apparel. Most of the country’s major clothing companies had flagship stores there, including Jinglan Women’s Clothing. However, Jinglan Women’s Clothing wasn’t a very large company, so the scale of its flagship store was also limited.
After Li Yueling finished recording her sweet-sounding song, she decided to come over to shop for some clothes. She even put on a mask to avoid being recognized.
Upon entering the mall, she made a special trip to the Jinglan Women’s Clothing flagship store. After all, she had accepted their advertising deal, and there was a large print ad of her outside the store.
But when she walked up to the Jinglan Women’s Clothing flagship store, her expression darkened.
Because her solo print ad had now been split in two, and the other half had been replaced by a print ad of that Jiang Xiaobai from Second-Life Star holding a handbag.
"What is the meaning of this?" Li Yueling exploded with anger at the sight.
She had already been annoyed with this female influencer because of the previous ad campaign. That woman had used a risqué pajama ad to overshadow her own, which had significantly impacted her.
Now, some of those little bitches who were her rivals were secretly mocking her for losing out to an influencer in an ad campaign.
’What is Jinglan Women’s Clothing thinking, splitting an ad between me and this influencer? And this handbag ad... I shot one for Jinglan Women’s Clothing before, didn’t I?’
’Now they’re having this Jiang Xiaobai shoot it instead. This is a total slap in the face. Are they saying I’m only worthy of sharing the spotlight with an influencer?’
She immediately called President Liu of Jinglan Women’s Clothing. The moment the call connected, she demanded, "President Liu, what is the meaning of this? Why did you put that Jiang Xiaobai’s print ad right next to mine?"
Liu Qing naturally knew what this was about and said with a pleasant smile, "Miss Li, this is standard procedure for our company. There’s nothing improper about it."
Li Yueling said directly, "President Liu, what you’ve done damages my advertising image and value. I want you to take down Jiang Xiaobai’s ad. Otherwise, I will not be renewing my contract with your company when it ends."
"Miss Li has her freedom. We won’t insist," Liu Qing said with a chuckle before hanging up the phone, as if she even wanted to work with her again.
’Once the new line comes out, I’m going straight to Second-Life Star. Why would I ever work with her again?’
"???" Li Yueling was dumbfounded at being hung up on like that. At the same time, she was furious. Staring at Jiang Xiaobai’s print ad, her anger intensified.
Just then, her phone buzzed with a notification from a group chat. It was her company’s artist group chat, and the company had just posted an announcement: "Notice of Document Issuance: Regarding the Crackdown on Risqué Content Across the Internet!"
If Chen Jincheng saw this announcement, he would surely sigh. The inevitable internet cleanup had finally arrived.
Li Yueling read the contents of the announcement. She also saw that the company’s vice president had sent a special reminder to all the artists: "It’s best not to create any risqué content recently. The higher-ups are starting a crackdown. Everyone, please self-audit your public media accounts."
She couldn’t help but smile when she saw this, then shot a vicious look at Jiang Xiaobai’s print ad.
’It really seems like even the heavens want me to get my revenge.’
As far as she knew from before, that Jiang Xiaobai had gotten famous precisely by making risqué videos. In fact, most of the influencers at Second-Life Star were like that.
With that in mind, she opened Douyin, clicked on the customer service option, and filed a real-name report, sending the announcement directly to them.
The reason she used her real name was that her sweet-sounding song was about to be released after recording, and she needed to generate some buzz on Douyin anyway.
When the time came, she could also use this opportunity to step on Second-Life Star to promote her song on Douyin. As long as this song went viral, she could potentially become an A-list celebrity.
Besides, she was politically in the right. Douyin must have received the announcement about this wave of crackdowns too!
’Heaven itself is helping me. How could I not act?’
Following Li Yueling’s report, the staff in Douyin’s report review department were shocked. They reported it to their superiors immediately.
Why on earth would a celebrity suddenly report an influencer? Just how deep was this grudge?!
However, when they saw the announcement she sent, they knew the internet cleanup was imminent—they had received the notice at Douyin as well. This matter had to be dealt with.
