sovbooks Chapter 68 Why is KuGou so mean?!
Chapter 68 Why is KuGou so mean?!
"Yanbao, what do you think Chen Chen should do to turn things around in this situation?"
On Sunday, Lin Jianlu met Yan Bao at a coffee shop. Looking at the bustling crowd outside, Lin Jianlu turned her head, frowned, and asked Yan Yiyan a serious question.
"What? Reverse what?" Yan Bao took a sip of her latte and asked absentmindedly.
"It's all about public opinion. Chen Chen's reputation online is absolutely terrible right now. Everyone's saying he's falsely claimed credit for saving lives, and... and I think that Akashi Mio probably just couldn't stand his actions, which is why she asked him to release a video apologizing and clarifying things..."
"Stop, stop, stop, stop..." Yanbao waved her hand, stopping Lin Jianlu's incessant chatter. She quickly swallowed the liquid in her mouth, her brows furrowed, her face full of confusion.
"What are you talking about? Am I out of touch with the latest version? How come I don't know about a lot of things?"
"You didn't know?" Lin Jianlu scratched her head. "That's not right, how could you not know? Weren't all those top comments deleted by you guys?"
"What's the hottest comment?"
"Top comments under the video of Chen Chen confessing his love [Seventh Middle School Newspaper]"
"Huh? Wasn't it deleted automatically by the system because someone was swearing in there?"
So that's how it is. I misunderstood Yan Yiyan...
This seems to mean that Yan Yiyan is unaware of the online attacks against Chen Chen.
"No! I know!"
After Lin Jianlu raised this question, Yan Yiyan gave a serious denial.
"I already knew Chen Chen had a bad reputation online, but that's not important. It's the price you have to pay to become a pure-blooded OP!"
"You need to understand! KuGou's anti-Chen Chen faction is blatantly obvious. Any content related to Chen Chen will attract a bunch of these guys to collectively desecrate it. What's more, they hate Chen Chen, a pure-blooded OP who isn't a stalker. Their smear campaign and attacks against him have never stopped. So nothing Chen Chen has ever done is right. Even if he helps an old lady cross the street, they'll say he's lusting after her. Under these circumstances, there's no need to consider his online reputation at all, because it's completely meaningless."
Oh? I see.
What an outrageous community war in the second game industry...
"So, the comments criticizing Chen Chen in the top comment might not be true?"
"It's not just that top comment; all the criticisms directed at him are a mix of truth and falsehood. There might be some truth in them, but in order to smear him, many KuGou users deliberately distort some facts to make it easier to attack him."
It's too complicated. No wonder some people say that the second season of the World Tour is politics for young people. In Lin Jianlu's opinion, it's even more difficult to understand than politics itself.
After all, politics involves tangible interests like money, sex, and power. What does the outcome of the second game war really matter? You still won't have 648 if you didn't, and you still won't be able to draw cards after the event ends. It's not like someone will reward you with money just because you're an OP general.
Turning the corner of the forest road, she saw a shop outside the glass, where the queue seemed to be getting longer and longer.
"What kind of store is that? What does it sell? Why is there such a long line all of a sudden? It's not peak time for people."
"A popular online bakery."
Yan Yiyan gave a curt reply.
"A couple of years ago, it was all the same stuff. Now there are fewer of these things. They're just things that you throw money at to create an effect, grab a bunch of money from passersby, and then run away and close down. They're meaningless."
"Do you think that all this negative publicity surrounding Chen Chen is just a passing fad, and that it will soon fade away?"
"Of course, but being criticized is also a good thing. Being criticized is still being famous. Chen Chen's videos now get several times more views than before."
Seeing Yan Yiyan's nonchalant attitude, Lin Jianlu felt a lump in her throat.
She seems to only care about traffic and not the truth at all. She was actually happy to see Chen Chen being smeared like that. Is this how all people in the media are?
Sure enough, Lin Jianlu still couldn't stand it. She really wanted to know what the actual situation was, especially since someone in yesterday's top comment said that Chen Chen had posted a video saying that he was the one who saved the person, and then deleted it.
If Chen Chen really didn't save anyone, as he himself said, then why would he release a video to lie? Could it be that, like Yan Yiyan, his pursuit of online traffic has distorted him to the point of disregarding the facts?
If that's really the case, then Lin Jianlu can only say that Chen Chen is indeed a hopeless idiot.
But a certain feeling in her heart... or rather, a certain expectation, made her unwilling to believe that such a thing had ever happened. The Chen Chen she knew, although he also wanted his creations related to the 0 God to become more popular, wanted the whole world to know that he was the number one OP in the world, and even wanted his Nintendo to replace Nintendo as the world's ruler, would never use such despicable means to gain attention and traffic.
That's not something Chen Chen would do.
So, is it possible that, since Yan Yiyan said that, the so-called video was fabricated by KuGou to smear Chen Chen, and he never actually posted such a video?
"Can the deleted top comments be retrieved?"
After a brief moment of thought, Lin Jianlu looked up and asked.
"Why do we need to get it back?"
There are some things that need to be confirmed.
"I might not be able to find it, but I have to try."
As Yan Yiyan spoke, she took out her phone and looked down to fiddle with the screen.
All Lin Jianlu could do now was wait. She took a sip of the coffee, which was still a little warm, and turned to look outside.
A light drizzle suddenly began to fall, splashing water onto the glass facade of the coffee shop. Through the now hazy glass, she was surprised to see that the crowd that had been queuing hadn't scattered like birds. Those with umbrellas opened them, and for those without, several shop assistants came out and distributed umbrellas to them.
Are these trendy shops really going this far for photoshoots? Customers are queuing up in the rain; their bread must be incredibly delicious.
But the excited smiles on the faces of customers who bought bread made her feel that there was something strange about this store.
Did you put ice in your bread?
Even the most trendy online stores don't need to go this far with their staged photos. Are you trying to target lower-tier markets? With a personal laugh sound effect, you'll attract all sorts of relatives to buy your bread. But when they see the prices, won't they tear your whole store down?
What puzzled Lin Jianlu the most was that no one was holding up a camera or phone to take pictures next to the group.
"Hey, miss, I want to ask you something." She stopped a passing waiter and pointed to the queue in the rain. "That shop, isn't it a popular online store? Why aren't people leaving even though it's raining?"
"No." The waitress smiled upon hearing this. "This shop has been here for over ten years and has a good reputation. It has many regular customers. It's just that it was recently renovated, which is why it looks like a newly opened trendy shop."
"I've got it!" Yan Yiyan suddenly exclaimed.
"I asked customer service, and they said they couldn't restore it, but they could send me the deleted comment!"