Starting from a Bar to Sign Internet Celebrities

Chapter 347 - 210: Recruiting the Stragglers! Help Me Ascend the Throne

That was a real possibility.

After all, cybersquatting trademarks wasn’t exactly uncommon.

Fortunately, the handover went smoothly. The username "Coastal City’s Number One Dreamboat" was now on one of Chen Jincheng’s lifestyle accounts.

After completing the transfer, Sister Hong returned to her office. She needed to contact Tiao Yin again. It would be best to get the account with the "Coastal City’s Number One Dreamboat" username officially verified.

That way, whenever people online discussed her boss or searched for the "Coastal City’s Number One Dreamboat" topic, the system would prioritize pushing her boss’s verified lifestyle account.

Back in the office, Chen Jincheng smiled at Yijin. "Yijin, the ’Coastal City’s Number One Dreamboat’ topic going viral is all thanks to you. So, as a thank you, I’m going to give you a gift. Come with me!"

With that, he walked out of the office.

Yijin, his face beaming, quickly followed.

He didn’t know what kind of gift Brother Cheng had for him, but as someone who made clip compilations of the man, receiving a gift from Brother Cheng was an incredible honor—and definitely something to brag about.

When they reached the parking garage, Chen Jincheng led Yijin to his Lamborghini. As he opened the driver’s side door, he gestured for Yijin to get in.

Yijin, face flush with excitement, immediately climbed into the Lamborghini’s passenger seat. Rumor had it that no one besides a "Miss Cheng" had ever sat there. For those who ran clip accounts, this was a massive scoop.

"Brother Cheng, mind if I film this for a clip?" Yijin asked.

Chen Jincheng nodded. The whole point was to publicize this for all the clip accounts on the web to see; there was no reason not to cooperate.

With Chen Jincheng’s approval, Yijin took out his phone and started recording. "In the passenger seat of Coastal City’s Number One Dreamboat’s Lamborghini. Brother Cheng said he’s going to give me a gift. I’m so excited right now."

He ended the video with a close-up of Chen Jincheng at the wheel. The moment he stopped recording, he sent the video to his studio’s group chat with an order: "Edit this and get it up on the clip accounts, fast."

Back at the studio, Yijin’s employees saw the order and immediately watched the video their boss had sent. After watching, they couldn’t help but feel a pang of envy.

The passenger seat of Coastal City’s Number One Dreamboat’s Lamborghini—not just anyone gets to sit there. On top of that, he was giving their boss a gift! They wondered what it could be.

They immediately saved the video, exported it, and started editing. Before long, all 150-plus of Yijin Studio’s clip accounts had posted the video.

With 150 accounts, each with a solid follower base, all posting the same video featuring a superstar like Chen Jincheng, it wasn’t long before the clip became a trending topic.

Besides, you can’t hide anything on the internet for long. People quickly figured out that the voice in the video belonged to the same clip account creator who started the "Coastal City’s Number One Dreamboat" trend.

So, everyone understood: Chen Jincheng was thanking the content creator for the whole "Coastal City’s Number One Dreamboat" affair by giving him a gift.

The incident quickly drew more and more attention, especially from other creators who ran clip accounts.

Right now, the relationship between many of these clip account creators and the internet celebrities they featured was a bit... delicate.

A while back, for example, a female gamer was featured in a clip compilation that specifically focused on her moments of frustration. The video blew up—it was more popular than anything she had ever produced herself. After being teased about it, she ended up suing the clip creator.

The court ended up ordering the creator to pay 320,000 in damages. This person was only making tens of thousands a year from their clip accounts and had to sell their car to pay up.

This incident gave a lot of other internet celebrities an idea for a new revenue stream: suing the creators who made clips of them. Now, anyone in the clip compilation game was on edge.

As a result, many had given up on making clip compilations altogether. They were planning to quit, hiding or even deleting their old videos, terrified of being the next person to get sued.

But now, seeing this harmonious interaction between Chen Jincheng and his clip creator, they couldn’t help but take notice. It even gave them some ideas. As they watched, many of them even tried reposting the video.

After all, given the current climate, they were a bit worried about making clips of the other celebrities they used to feature.

At least with Chen Jincheng, it seemed safe—so many people were already making clips of him without any trouble.

This was how the story of Chen Jincheng giving a gift to a clip creator shot straight to the top of the trending charts, attracting the attention of more and more people, including other internet celebrities.

Most of these celebrities, however, saw it and didn’t pay it much mind. The majority of them still didn’t take clip accounts seriously.

This was a limitation of the times.

But with Chen Jincheng’s impending gift of a car, they would soon be utterly shocked by the power of clip accounts.