New York 2006

Chapter 15 The popularity is soaring
In the early morning of the next day, Luo Ji got up and found that it was already a little late. He took his backpack and rode his bicycle towards the school.

When he ran to the school corridor, he suddenly realized something was wrong. Because of his appearance, the students around him became quiet, and everyone's eyes were focused on him, looking directly at him.

Luo Ji quickly touched his face. After touching his face, he felt a little confused. There was nothing else on his face.He asked a familiar classmate next to him in confusion: "What's going on? Why is everyone staring at me?"

A familiar classmate immediately said, "You know you're famous? Everyone has been discussing this matter since we came here this morning."

Luo Ji looked confused: "What's going on?".

"Have you not watched your YouTube video? More than 50 people watched it in one night! I heard from my classmates that it seems to have 60 views now."

The students around him all came over and started talking in all directions.

"How did you do that? Why did you watch the video so many times in one night?"

"Logic, are you going to be famous? Can I be in the next video shoot? I saw Blake in the video."

"You sing so beautifully, why haven't you performed before?"

A group of classmates immediately surrounded him. Even the thin classmate who ran away after seeing him last time was observing from the outside. Everyone was very excited, as if watching a rare animal.

Luo Ji hurriedly spoke: "Everyone, be quiet. I came to school directly when I got up this morning. I don't know exactly what happened. Class is about to start. Let's go to class first! We'll talk about it after class."

The classmates consciously made a way for him, and Luo Ji walked towards the classroom. At this time, Black appeared out of nowhere and patted Luo Ji on the shoulder: "I called you several times last night. Why don’t you answer the call?”

Luo Ji took out his cell phone: "My cell phone was on silent last night when I went to bed. Look, you were not the only one calling me. There were a dozen missed calls and dozens of text messages."

Blake was very excited: "Two hours after your video was posted last night, I went on YouTube and watched it, and it already had 60 views. I woke up this morning and watched it again, and it shot up to [-] views. How about the growth? So fast?"

Luo Ji knew the reason as soon as he thought about it: "I posted on the forum last night to attract traffic, but I didn't expect the effect to be so good!"

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell!
"Let's go to class first! We'll talk later."

As soon as he entered the classroom, everyone's eyes were focused on him.Luo Ji raised his hand and said hello briefly, then walked to his seat. The classmate next to him immediately came up to talk to him: "Fxxk, how did you do that?"

"Go to class first, go to class first! Let's talk after class!"

The math teacher walked into the classroom, took out his textbook and started teaching.Luo Ji was distracted. He really didn't expect that the post about Paris Hilton would be so powerful.

In 2003, Paris Hilton's sex tape with her ex-boyfriend was circulated on the Internet. Since then, she has become a hot figure in American news. The media likes to ridicule her, and she also cooperates, showing off her wealth to the extreme to increase her fame.

She built a small villa worth $215 million for her pet.I like LV, so I buy all LV series and use LV bags as fitness equipment.I like pink, so I customized the world’s first pink Bentley.Two days after buying the pink Bentley, she bought a blue Bentley: "Because I just bought a blue skirt and a blue bag, but I don't have a blue car to match it."

She also often makes some shocking remarks to increase her fame.She once announced that she would run for president, saying that if she took office, the first thing she would do would be to paint the entire White House pink and appoint her pet dog as the Secretary of Defense.

Black and red are also popular. She has published an autobiography, released an album, done variety shows, and made movies, earning a lot of money.She was very calm and told people all day long that you can call me Princess Paris or Bichi.

Luo Ji posted a fake news post yesterday, spreading rumors that there was a video of Paris and her new boyfriend XX, to attract traffic to his work.

However, he really couldn't understand why this post attracted so many people.It stands to reason that if others have watched the video, someone should comment under the post and say that it is a scam.In this case, no one will click on the link, but why are there so many people watching it?
……

After lunch, Luo Ji and Blake went to the school library and turned on their computers. As soon as they entered the 4chan website, Luo Ji saw his own post. It was so popular that it was posted on the homepage: "This is the post I posted."

Black urged: "Open it quickly and see what they say?" Luo Ji clicked it open and couldn't laugh or cry.

"I saw it, and it's true. Paris Hilton is really hot! Come and take a look."

"It's true. This "kitten" Paris is really tempting! If you don't look at it, you will regret it for the rest of your life."

"Hahahahahahaha, it's true. The male protagonist is really handsome."

"Their "ensemble" is really beautiful, come and enjoy it!"

People who don’t know it really think it’s a XX video when they read the comments.Blake's face was full of confusion: "Why do they seem to be saying that the content of the video link is true?"

"Don't you understand this?" Luo Ji clicked on the link and showed it to Blake.

The video is a video of myself performing on the streets with Bob the Cat. The comment with the most likes below is: "Man, April Fools' Day isn't here yet!"

Blake laughed: "Hahaha."

The direction of this post seems to have gone in a strange direction since the first person left a comment!No wonder people in this section call themselves "mental patients", they really know how to play!
Luo Ji went to the comedy community on Reddit again. Netizens' reactions were exactly the same as those on 4chan. After being deceived, they all left messages saying that the linked XX video was real, and then tricked others into watching it too.

Luo Ji took another look at several positive comments on the YouTube video.

"Why do you all say that this person is an old man? The songs he sings are quite nice."

"Jokes aside, he does sing beautifully! From now on, the kitten will no longer be called Bob, but will be called Paris."

"You sing very beautifully, come on brother!"

"Why do you say April Fool's Day hasn't come yet? I don't understand."

It seemed that some people were not attracted by forum posts. Luo Ji went to the music section of YouTube and saw that his video was pushed to the front of the music section.I just don’t know whether the video recommendation is manual recommendation or algorithm recommendation, but it must be related to the rapid increase in the playback volume of his video.

Therefore, the first reason why videos become popular is because forum posts attract traffic, which rapidly increases the number of views of the video.The YouTube official detected that his video had a lot of views in a short period of time, so he recommended his video to make his video more popular and more people would see it.

Blake sincerely praised: "Logic, you are so smart, how could you think of posting about Paris Hilton? No ordinary person would think of this!"

Luo Ji was also very satisfied with his plan and was very proud: "At that time, I suddenly had an idea and thought that there is indeed a future in pornography! Hahaha, taking advantage of the current popularity, I will post another video when I go back tonight!"

In one week, Luo Ji posted 7 videos, 1 video introducing himself, and 3 videos of him playing with kittens. 3 are videos of him singing.His channel has 10000 subscribers.

Despite its small subscriber base, Logic’s channel has racked up 700 million views for all its videos combined.This is because when watching YouTube videos, you do not need to register an account. Many people choose to watch directly without registering an account.

Luo Ji's cover of "You're Beautiful" has been viewed 363 million times.

At this time, the channel with the most subscribers on the entire website is lonelygirl15, with only over 5 subscribers.

This channel is very interesting.At first, it was a girl taking selfies and telling stories to the camera, but later she was involved in a supernatural incident.At first, everyone thought it was true, but as the story became more and more outrageous, people naturally thought of the movie "Blair Witch" that deceived the whole country. Later, someone tracked their IP and found that it was the film company that was exposure.

Now that the Logic channel is gaining momentum, let’s keep up the good work and start Luo Ji’s great career of shooting videos!
(End of this chapter)