Starting from a Bar to Sign Internet Celebrities-Chapter 145 - 138: Get Famous Early! Don’t Let the Boss Drink

The document Sister Hong brought over was the guild’s approval paperwork from Tiao Yin. It was originally a digital file, but she had printed it out. At the back of the document was a list of names, each followed by a number.

Once a guild’s application is approved by Tiao Yin, the platform allocates resource recommendation slots, commonly known as traffic support. These resources include both video traffic and live stream promotion.

Tiao Yin issues these recommendation slots to the guild, which can then distribute them freely before reporting the allocation back to the platform.

Sometimes, when watching streams, you might see a streamer who originally only had a few dozen viewers and no real buzz suddenly get a massive traffic boost to several thousand, or even over ten thousand, concurrent viewers. But by the next day, they’re back to normal.

This usually means they either paid for the traffic or received one of these recommendation slots.

A good recommendation slot can genuinely help a video go viral almost instantly.

However, since Second-Life Star had only just passed the basic guild application, they naturally couldn’t get any of the premium recommendation slots. Tiao Yin had only allocated the lowest-tier resources.

Sister Hong had already assigned them to some of the girls. All he had to do was sign the document and report it to Tiao Yin, and the chosen streamers would get a promotional boost.

At the end of the month, Tiao Yin would re-evaluate them, and Second-Life Star could be promoted to a One-star Guild.

At that point, they would be able to get Tier 4 traffic pool resources and C-Level live stream promotion resources.

Resources at this level were useless for influencers with millions of followers like Jiang Xiaobai, Yinyin, or even Lin Qing and Cen Ning, but they were extremely helpful for complete newcomers and filler streamers.

For example, a Tier 4 traffic pool recommendation directly added 100,000 to 300,000 views. If the video quality was good, a single video could gain an extra 5,000 to 20,000 likes.

Then there was the C-Level live stream promotion. For a good stream, this could add 200 to 300 concurrent viewers during the promotional period.

Of course, these resources were limited each month, so the guild had to carefully consider who received them.

Besides, once the resources were provided, how many people a streamer could retain was all up to their own skill.

As long as Second-Life Star’s guild level continued to rise, the resources they were allocated would naturally increase as well.

Chen Jincheng reviewed Sister Hong’s resource allocation and signed his name.

Since Sister Hong was in charge of the talent, she naturally had the authority to allocate these resources.

Besides, Sister Hong had done an excellent job, rationally distributing the resources to the filler streamers.

Time passed.

As the sun set, Chen Jincheng drove his Lamborghini Aventador back to the rented villa. He took a nice, long shower. He had a dinner engagement with Yijin that evening.

Meanwhile, Liu Ximeng had returned to her room at the Jinyi Hotel to shower.

She wasn’t from Coastal City; she had come this time for an invitation to the auto show.

Her original plan was to head back as soon as the auto show ended. Who would have thought she’d unexpectedly join Second-Life Star, film a video with her new boss, and blow up overnight? The video of her cutesy eight-part combo already had 550,000 likes.

She had been on Tiao Yin for half a year and her total likes combined didn’t come close to this. And the video’s numbers were still climbing rapidly.

’All I did was exchange a few words with him, get asked if I thought the color of the Lamborghini was nice, and suddenly this incredible opportunity fell into my lap. It feels like I’m dreaming; I can’t believe it.’

’It also makes me realize more clearly than ever that to get famous, you need someone to back you.’

After her shower, she walked out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel. She checked her video again—the likes had already surpassed 600,000, and her followers had broken 150,000.

’Unbelievable!’

Just then, her phone rang. It was her best friend, who was also a car model. She had signed with a guild and, until now, had been doing a bit better than Liu Ximeng.

The moment she answered, her friend’s envious voice came through. "Liu Ximeng, you’ve blown up! How did you end up joining Second-Life Star?"

Liu Ximeng didn’t hide anything from her friend. "Chen Jincheng came to pick up his car, and I just happened to be the model assigned to it. He was live streaming at the time, asked me a question, and then asked if I wanted to join his company. Of course I wasn’t going to pass up an opportunity like that, so I agreed on the spot."

"I’d barely finished signing the contract when they had me shoot that cutesy eight-part combo video, and then it just blew up. It seems like he gave me some resources for pre-promotion, though. The other new people didn’t get that."

Her friend replied, full of envy, "Ximeng, you’re so lucky! That Chen Jincheng might be a bit of a player, but he’s incredible at making people famous. How long has it been, and he’s already created two stars with five million followers? Plus, he’s a real man. He went head-to-head with a singer like Li Yueling for Jiang Xiaobai’s sake. And ’Can’t Help Falling in Love,’ the song he wrote for Jiang Xiaobai, is still a massive hit. It’s already sold over eight million copies."

"Now he’s giving you special resources for pre-promotion and publicity... maybe he’s taken an interest in you. Has he tried to make a move on you? You know, copping a feel, touching you, anything like that?"

Liu Ximeng sounded a little sheepish. "Not at all. I actually thought he was a perfect gentleman. A whole group of us girls were surrounding him, and I didn’t see him get handsy with anyone. In fact... I was the one who took the opportunity to grab his arm."

Her friend was shocked. "Oh, so *you* made the first move! No wonder, then. He was obviously responding to your signal. I’m starting to regret not going to Coastal City with you. I regret signing with OST so early even more. Otherwise, as your best friend, I’m sure I could have gotten a piece of the pie this time, right?"

She sighed, then added, "Ximeng, you have to grab this chance to get big! Once you do, you can do a collab with me and give me a boost. I’m really not getting any resources over here at OST."