Chapter 26 - Viral

Gwon Seongjae knew it was the backend data for <>.

While the viewers could see the frontend data, only their platform could access the backend numbers.

At first, Gwon Seongjae was a bit uninterested, but when he saw the numbers on the screen, his eyes widened slightly.

The first-day premiere data for <> was 80,000, and Gwon Seongjae remembered this very clearly.

For BingeBox's long dramas, the average view count per episode usually goes over 100,000.

However, due to the subject matter and the common impression that short dramas are bad, the view count for short dramas tends to be even lower.

But right now, in front of his eyes, the view count for the first episode of <> had reached over 500,000.

What does this mean?

For platforms like CineHaven TV and ReelRise, a first-episode view count of over 500,000 is considered pretty bad.

This time, both platforms released <> and <>, and neither had an episode view count lower than 1 million.

But on BingeBox, it had been an entire year since any drama had reached over 500,000 views for a single episode.

Moreover, this wasn't the final data for <>—the real-time view count was still increasing.

Gwon Seongjae stood up suddenly, "What's going on?"

The colleague in charge of publicity lifted their head from the screen, "It seems to have started gaining popularity in the online novel community."

When <> first aired, BingeBox gave it a spot on the homepage and did some marketing on Chirp and a few TV drama forums.

But the results were just average.

The main focus of the Chirp marketing accounts and TV drama forums was on <> and <>, and no one paid attention to <>.

Yesterday, there wasn't a single post recommending <> on Chirp.

But today, every time they refreshed the page, there were more people recommending this drama.

...

BingeBox was still in shock over the fact that their drama was being promoted by fans without any paid promotion.

This was the first time something like this had happened since the platform was founded.

Meanwhile, a freshman at Seongmun University, Ryang Geumhee, was also in shock over his casual post receiving over a thousand replies.

Not only that, but his random post had been reposted on TV drama forums, and even picked up by marketing accounts on Chirp.

Ryang Geumhee was just an ordinary freshman, with no notable talents.

His only hobby was reading novels.

In high school, his obsession with novels had caused his grades to drop drastically, and he ended up studying archaeology at Seongmun University.

The life of an archaeology student wasn't as exciting as outsiders imagined.

As soon as he started college, Ryang Geumhee went back to reading novels.

In high school, when he was restricted from reading novels, he found every genre exciting.