Starting from a Bar to Sign Internet Celebrities-Chapter 50 - 48: Unleashing the Ultimate Move
Sister Hong was surprised to find that the boss’s follower count had suddenly shot up. Moreover, the number of gifted fan badges had also spiked in that same instant.
She quickly checked the stream’s relevant data and, sure enough, discovered that the number of people with Artillery Regiment fan badges had plummeted.
She understood immediately. The ones gifting the fan badges were all Li Lisheng’s fans. Like Wuyan, they had switched their allegiance.
And that was why the boss had drawn Li Lisheng’s fans three times in a row.
He had done it on purpose.
’What a brilliant move.’
The key, she also understood, was that this all hinged on one prerequisite: the "Beauty Roulette" stream was genuinely entertaining.
When Chen Jincheng saw the sudden increase in gifted fan badges, he naturally understood what was happening. Everything was going exactly as he had planned.
But the other streamers who were lingering in his channel to observe the situation all laughed when they saw his repeated screenshot blunders. Some couldn’t even help but mock him inwardly.
’This guy can’t even take a proper screenshot?’
Making such a basic mistake repeatedly was practically a live broadcast incident.
"He really needs to practice his screenshotting skills," Gao Yanyan remarked to a streamer beside him at his own company.
"Yeah, doesn’t he know he can just use his finger to scroll the bullet comments to the spot he wants to capture?" the other streamer replied with a laugh and a nod.
Clearly, they had no idea what Chen Jincheng was actually doing, so they gloated with a sense of schadenfreude.
Back in the stream, Chen Jincheng took another screenshot. This time, he finally didn’t capture anyone with an Artillery Regiment fan badge.
The live event continued. He sent a co-streaming request to a lucky viewer named Brother Shan.
Sister Hong looked at the backend data, her admiration for her boss growing even stronger.
These former Artillery Regiment members who had switched to the boss’s "Affection" badge all had decent user levels, which meant they usually made donations online.
’You could say some of them must have been Li Lisheng’s core fans for PK battles, right?’
’If Li Lisheng found out about this, he’d probably cry his eyes out.’
Meanwhile, Li Lisheng already felt like crying. He had been truly crushed from the very beginning. Who would have thought that his meticulously planned, record-breaking PK stream would end with him getting slapped in the face? Not only had he failed to break Gao Yanyan’s record, but he had also ruined his own reputation.
So, after being thoroughly criticized by Chen Jincheng, his mentality shattered and he hastily ended his stream to cool down.
He had just managed to calm himself down by splashing cold water on his face when he received a message that made his anger erupt all over again.
"Wuyan just donated 60,000 yuan to Chen Jincheng’s stream." His assistant, who was still monitoring the rival stream, reported it immediately.
After all, it was a big deal for a top supporter to drop that much money on a rival’s stream.
Li Lisheng recalled how he had begged these same people to match his donations earlier, only for them to ignore him and even advise him to give up. His fury surged once more.
’As my top supporter, what does it mean for him to not donate to me, but run off and donate to Chen Jincheng instead?’
He actually went straight to the veteran fans’ group chat, tagged Wuyan, and said rudely: What’s the meaning of this? When I asked you to follow my donations, you said it wasn’t worth it and told me to give up. Now you turn around and donate to Chen Jincheng. Are you fucking trying to slap me in the face?
Wu Yan was just lurking in Chen Jincheng’s stream when he saw Li Lisheng tag and confront him. He was fucking speechless.
At first, he’d felt a little guilty for switching to Chen Jincheng’s fan badge. But who the hell would have thought Li Lisheng would come out and attack him directly?
"I’ll be hanging out at Second-Life Star from now on. Goodbye." Wu Yan said this directly and left the group chat the next moment.
’What a piece of work. It’s his money; he can donate it to whomever he wants.’
’Now it’s like he needs Li Lisheng’s permission to spend his own money?’
Li Lisheng was completely stunned. He cursed in the group chat, "This idiot just left the group. Fuck!"
He still didn’t seem to understand that when you lacked real strength, a top supporter was a top supporter. He was just a streamer, with no right to clash head-on with a whale unless he reached a level where he could say, ’I don’t need your paltry donation!’
His curse, however, triggered a chain reaction. Many fans were displeased. The number of people in the group chat began to plummet, dropping by more than half in an instant.
Only then did Li Lisheng understand. It was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over him, and his face turned pale.
But Chen Jincheng’s stream was still booming.
"Thank you for your support, Brother Shan." After finishing her dance, a girl thanked the lucky co-streamer in a sweet voice.
"Haha, you’re too kind, Nian Nian. I’ll watch your stream next time." As he spoke, this Brother Shan donated a Tiao Yin No. 1.
Clearly, Nian Nian’s performance was a success.
Chen Jincheng took in the scene. After planned videos featuring the "window wipe," "chest shake dance," and "costume change," Nian Nian had only gained a little over 600,000 followers.
This showed that when it came to making videos, she was far inferior to girls like Lin Qing, Yinyin, and Jiang Xiaobai.
But seeing her brief performance just now, which earned her a Tiao Yin No. 1 from the lucky viewer who also promised to watch her stream later, proved that she had a talent for live streaming—she had a certain Affinity.
’She’s a talent in her own right.’
’I can tell Sister Hong later. Once the MCN application is approved and we get some basic promotional traffic, we can allocate some of that stream traffic to her when she goes live.’
’To develop a successful MCN, you need to cultivate all kinds of talent.’
’Some girls are more suited for live streaming. When the era of e-commerce streaming arrives, they’ll have an easier time adapting and will be able to do better.’
Brother Shan also disconnected from the co-stream.
However, he felt that Second-Life Star’s stream was way more fun than Li Lisheng’s. Li Lisheng’s was nothing but PK battles. That, or he’d get two idiots to put on sunglasses and stand there trying to act cool. How was that any fun compared to watching these girls perform?
More and more of Li Lisheng’s fans were starting to feel the same way. Ignoring the person co-streaming and the other viewers in the chat, it was as if they were Alone, choosing a concubine, with these beautiful women performing one by one just for them.
When had they ever received this kind of treatment?
With each new co-stream and each new girl’s performance, the 10:00 PM end time Chen Jincheng had announced drew closer. The number of viewers in the stream was naturally increasing rapidly, proving the powerful retention rate of "group portrait" content featuring beautiful women.
In another world, when this type of content first appeared, it became a temporary mainstream trend. Moreover, in that world, the saying "Of the thousands upon thousands of beautiful online stars, Wuyou Media has half" wasn’t just talk. It revealed the very essence of how Wuyou Media was able to become number one on two platforms in ’23.
Finally, as 10:00 PM approached, the viewer count in Chen Jincheng’s stream had already surpassed 95,000.
Whether he could break 100,000 now depended on these last few moments.
The S-Class promotional traffic would end at 10:00 PM. If he couldn’t break 100,000 by then, the viewer count would start to drop.
After all, the current number of viewers wasn’t built on his own fan base but was accumulated through various forms of hype. Many of the people who came in hadn’t even followed him yet.
Chen Jincheng looked at the information in his mind from the game about the song "Girl":
[DJ Remix of "Girl": Ancestral Master’s Exclusive BGM.]
[Notes: 1. The instrumental and song have already been registered and filed with the National Music Network! 2. When the host possesses the "ultimate scumbag" persona, singing this love song will grant a special BUFF: Emotion Stir. 3. Girls who hear the song live will experience a racing heart and a flustered mind! 4. When you have the Ancestral Master title, using this song as the BGM for your videos will grant an infectiousness bonus!!]
Whether he could break 100,000 now depended on the "Emotion Stir" and "make girls’ hearts race and minds fluster" effects of this song.
But just as Chen Jincheng was preparing to unleash his ultimate move, the streamers who were lingering in his channel to scout him out were already predicting his failure.
Gao Yanyan, for example, said, "In the time that’s left, if he doesn’t have some explosive new segment, he probably won’t break 100,000. The key thing is, did he not buy enough bots? To be stuck at this number."
He had naturally found out that Chen Jincheng had an S-Class stream promotion today, and based on his start time, it would end at 10:00 PM.
"Therefore, you have to buy and deploy the bots during the middle portion of the stream. Otherwise, in the last half hour when the data flow starts to decrease, it’s easy to get detected and arouse suspicion!"
He had experienced and done these things himself, so he knew the ins and outs perfectly.
He naturally refused to believe that Chen Jincheng hadn’t bought bots. Of the current 95,000 viewers, maybe 40,000 or 50,000 of them were bots.
If he hadn’t bought enough bots, it would be his biggest mistake of the night. His current numbers were already his limit.
Chen Jincheng’s fan base of 2.8 million was too small. This "Beauty Roulette" gimmick was novel and attractive, but after watching for a long time, it would get boring. It’s like no matter how beautiful a woman is, once you’ve had her and fucked her again and again, you’ll eventually find it dull..
Therefore, it would be difficult for him to have a final burst of growth.
