"God TM daily first discount, are we playing gacha here?"
In the silence of the night, Lu Ban couldn't help but complain.
According to the description, he could spend 50 Silence Points to purchase the Madman's Knowledge once a day, and the second time, it would revert to the original price.
This was just like the daily single draw in mobile games used to promote consumer spending.
And it seemed that the Madman's Knowledge included a variety of knowledge, whether it was the proof of Goldbach's conjecture or how to pick your nose elegantly, no one knew.
There was no guarantee, no publicly disclosed odds, and no drop list.
It was the blackest of black box gacha games!
Even if it was the cheapest product of Excellent quality, Lu Ban wouldn't rely on such a gambling method to try his luck!
"Seems like there's nothing worth buying, might as well save up."
Thinking of the career development task, Lu Ban decided to finish watching before making a decision.
He flipped back to the page where "Marseillaise" had been composed, and in his personal panel that unfolded, the career column was a dark green.
His finger slid over the text, and the writing on the pages changed, condensing into a few lines of eerie text.
[Career Development Task]
[Having received inspiration, do you feel a strong creative impulse? Complete it, and embrace the joy of rebirth.]
[Task Requirement: Release a video work online, and achieve enough views to complete the task]
[Release a video work: 0/1]
[Achieve views: 0/5000000]
["From this moment on, let the world experience horror"]
"?"
Lu Ban was puzzled.
After dealing with all that strange stuff, are we now back to entertainment?
This task didn't seem to require selection; it activated automatically after he completed the previous task.
In other words, Lu Ban needed to release a video and achieve five million views to complete this task.
Five million, neither too many nor too few.
On several famous video sites in Lu Ban's world, like Scarecrow Video Web, where the site produced its own TV shows, variety shows, animations, movies, etc., those popular works could reach over a hundred million views in a day.
Ai Shouyi Video Web, a rival to Scarecrow Video, had a similar nature and not much of a gap in data.
Mingri Online specializes in short videos and only has a mobile app, focusing on the rural market, where popular videos easily get tens of millions of views.
Then there's the Old Day Video Web, which leans toward animation, daily life, and has a younger user base, with more genuine views and a larger core audience.
For homemade videos, Lu Ban would prefer to post on Old Day Video Web or Mingri Online, because of their site's tone.
Scarecrow and Ai Shouyi are big sites; their users are overwhelmed just by the content offered by the websites. Videos uploaded by individual creators without official backing tend to have dismal view counts.
Old Day Video Web and Mingri Online, on the other hand, are mostly user-generated UCG content, and their users are more likely to watch other people's videos.
As a young man determined to make a career in the entertainment industry, Lu Ban naturally had uploader accounts on these platforms.
In the past, he shot some videos imitating popular videos from the last world, but unfortunately, they didn't take off. Maybe those videos' success relied not only on personal effort but also on historical progression.
"A video..."
Lu Ban murmured the content of the task. Without a doubt, although this system was spooky, it seemed to be his reliance, and completing its tasks should be the best choice.
Moreover, he had just played that eerie little game; surely releasing a video wouldn't attract ghosts, right?
Ah right, the video!
Lu Ban turned on his phone and looked at the file that had suddenly appeared, named [A Video Not To Be Opened At Night].
He didn't know what was inside it.
But since he had decided not to open it tonight, Lu Ban stuck to his word.
After experiencing the peculiar events earlier, he had no intention of going back to sleep; instead, he sat up and turned on his computer to watch videos.
While others were still deep in sleep, he was already studying strategies for operating after video release.
Lu Ban was just that awesome!
More than an hour later, Lu Ban looked at the payment messages for several channel subscriptions on his phone and smirked.
"Why are these people also not sleeping late at night, doing ASMR live streams!"
He had just subscribed as a channel member to two ASMR streamers, and after listening to a young girl's cosy chat under a blanket, he impulsively subscribed to her channel too.
A channel membership costs two hundred yuan a month, and he had just spent it all at once.
"Stay vigilant against the traps of consumerism!"
Lu Ban criticized himself.
He picked up his phone again and scrolled through the Mingri Online app.
"This time, I'm sure to crack some tips to make videos go viral!"
An hour and a half later, Lu Ban turned off the app.
He had spent an enjoyable hour watching someone else fishing.
"It's okay, as long as I didn't spend any money, I count it as a victory!"
Lu Ban muttered to himself.
He then remembered to look up some experience online, so he opened up a knowledge-sharing blue website called [Got It?].
[How can new UP masters on Old Day Video quickly gain fans?]
[How do you increase click rates for short videos?]
[Mingri Online guide to get 500,000 clicks in one day!]
[Top ten things to watch out for in Old Day Video releases, increase your view count by more than a hundredfold!]
Similar questions were countless. It seemed like everyone wanted a piece of the pie from the internet video traffic of this era.
Lu Ban casually clicked on a highly upvoted answer.
The response, with hundreds of likes, detailed how to create a hit video from the aspects of video title, subject choice, cover, content, etc., complete with vivid illustrations, as if following this method would surely result in a viral video.
Then he clicked through to the responder's Old Day Video space wanting to see what kind of videos such a powerful UP owner made.
And then Lu Ban saw the view count on the personal space's few videos.
The highest was less than three thousand, and even that was a re-posted video.
"..."
Lu Ban closed the page in indignation.
It made sense when he thought about it. If one could really create hit videos with these theories, why would someone share them with you?
All those success tutorials are just chicken soup!
Lu Ban watched a few more newly concocted stories before he heard the birdsong outside the window.
It signaled the arrival of morning.
The east was showing a hint of dawn, and at four in the morning in Jiangcheng, it belonged to the hardworking!
He thought about it, went downstairs to eat breakfast at a 24-hour fast-food restaurant, washed his face, and only opened that video on his phone when the entire city gradually basked in the golden sunrise.
Lu Ban quickly found that the video was not some cursed tape of Sadako that would bring misfortune if not forwarded to the next person within seven days.
The video showed Lu Ban's gameplay of the horror game he played the previous night.
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