Chapter 77: Is This How People Make Videos These Days? 11/10 (Bonus Chapter)

A foreign guy? A marketing account?

Zhou Yi was a bit suspicious. He knew what marketing accounts were; they would chop off the beginning and end of someone else's video, add their own voiceover, and pass it off as their own video to earn traffic.

But what the hell is a "foreign guy"!

Driven by curiosity, Zhou Yi clicked on the link.

The link came from a short video platform. Upon opening it, he saw a video. It wasn't as long as his own, but the title read: "A certain foreign guy had his game account recovered, and in a fit of rage, he topped up one million!"

However, what surprised Zhou Yi was that, just by looking at the thumbnail, he could tell it was the "counter-recharge one million" video that he, Zhou Mouren, had filmed.

So... had he now passively become a foreign guy?

With a bit of curiosity, Zhou Yi clicked to watch the video. Sure enough, as soon as he heard the BGM, he felt the familiar scent of a marketing account—that scent was so strong it was off the charts!

"Recently, a certain foreign guy, while playing a game, had his 'Original Demon' account recovered. In a fit of rage, he topped up one million, just to send the person who recovered it to prison..."

Holy crap! Even though Zhou Mouren had prepared himself mentally, he was still stunned when he saw this short video. What the hell can't they make up!

Not to mention anything else, damn it, the video even edited in the "Public Security Bureau." They really are afraid people won't know they're talking nonsense!

He was simply speechless.

He checked his private messages again; Yuan Jie had already sent a bunch of follow-up messages.

The gist was simple: because Zhou Yi only posted videos on Bilibili, his videos had already been stolen and uploaded to all the major platforms.

The circle inside and the circle outside are not the same world, and Zhou Yi was busy with lawsuits and being pedantic every day, so he didn't notice that his videos were on all the major platforms now...

But the only place that could actually generate revenue was Bilibili.

He hurriedly clicked on the other links Yuan Jie had sent—Moyin, Kuaishou, Xigua, Qishan, etc. Almost every video platform he could think of had his videos.

And some uploaders were even brazenly claiming in the comments that they were the ones who filmed the video!

According to Yuan Jie, this had happened on Bilibili too, but Zhou Yi's viewers had flamed them until they deleted their accounts and ran off.

In fact, whether a video can go viral is something many video creators can tell at a glance, because the quality of the video is right there.

Just like whether a novel can go viral; many authors know it will go viral the moment they see it. Since it can go viral, just copy it directly.

If you try to seek Legal Aid after they copy it, the lawsuits will exhaust you to death...

And these people on other platforms are just straight-up re-uploading them!

Looking at Xigua and Moyin, Zhou Yi really couldn't take it anymore. The view count of the other party's video on Xigua was almost two-thirds of his view count on Bilibili!

Zhou Yi frowned. Actually, reposting videos isn't a big deal on the internet nowadays; in a sense, it even helps increase your popularity.

But there are rules to reposting. You have to state that you are reposting, and you must cite the source!

For example, on Bilibili, there is no revenue for reposts.

But these people are a bit too unscrupulous. Zhou Yi frowned; he planned to communicate with the major platforms and these imposters first, in his capacity as the original creator.

Behind him, Miss Xiao Xu was still asking questions. Zhou Yi turned around and said, "That... Miss Xu, thank you for your help today. I'll be heading home now."

Upon hearing this, Miss Xiao Xu blinked and suddenly said, "I helped you, and a simple 'thank you' is all I get? If 'thank you' were useful, what would we need gifts for?"

Hmm... huh?

Zhou Yi was stunned upon hearing this. Holy crap, why does that sound so familiar...

After barely saying a few words—there would probably be a gift—Zhou Mouren turned and left. Women are like tigers; one needs to stay away!

They might not be skilled at being pedantic about the law, but when it comes to arguing back, they are all top-tier experts!

He ran all the way home and lay on the sofa; Zhou Yi finally felt safe.

He habitually opened his Task Panel to check. The task regarding the parking space had already reached 85%!

It seems this afternoon's operation was quite good.

It's just that he didn't know if the other party would accept Mediation or if they were thinking of dragging out the lawsuit...

As for that internet celebrity Ling Jie, Zhou Yi didn't have evidence yet, but he knew this woman definitely didn't come because she was "warm-hearted."

To make it big online, a truly warm-hearted person at least understands one principle: you must never listen to only one side when it comes to right and wrong!

And today, the way the other party acted was clearly to prevent him from speaking and to use the livestream camera to suppress him.

Standing on the moral high ground to farm some clout and make money—this business model couldn't look any better!

After thinking about it, since he had nothing to do for the moment, Zhou Yi started searching for the video-stealing dogs on the major platforms, leaving comments for them, and chatting with the platforms' customer service.

Leaving comments was simple, and reporting them to customer service required providing his Up Master backend, but that was simple too. Afterward, they told him it would take time to review.

No problem, that's how it should be—it's a review, after all.

This kind of thing is extremely time-consuming. Two hours passed before he knew it. After finishing, Zhou Yi decided to take a look at Ling Jie's video.

He always felt that as a Self-Media internet celebrity, you can make money and earn your keep, but you must at least have a bottom line!

At the very least, he couldn't bring himself to lie through his teeth.

He found the other party's platform, Kuaishou, and was just about to watch the video when he discovered that she had started another livestream!

Driven by curiosity, he went in to take a look, and Zhou Yi was directly shocked.

Because this Ling Jie was complaining in the livestream.

"I don't know why he had to treat me like that. I just heard someone say his car was blocked by someone else, and the other party wouldn't let him move the car and wouldn't accept Mediation, so I went to help."

"But I'm a victim too. I didn't know anything at all..."

Ling Jie was crying and snotting in front of the camera; it was truly miserable.

Normally, after knowing that Zhou Yi was not someone to be trifled with, she definitely shouldn't have said anything more.

But she's an internet celebrity, and traffic is money. The incident this afternoon caused her to lose quite a few followers, so she hurriedly started a livestream in the evening to put on a pitiful act and try to recover some losses.

Huh? Zhou Yi was a bit dazed. She's a victim now? You weren't like this when you were standing on the moral high ground this afternoon, trying to persuade me with all sorts of things.

He watched the livestream for a few moments and couldn't watch anymore. Inside, a bunch of sycophants—heaven knows if they're real or fake—were defending her in every way, saying that he, Zhou Yi, was too much, and so on...

It didn't look like a proper livestream at all. When he, Zhou Yi, starts a stream, he gets flamed to death by the viewers.

Forget it, let's look at the previous video first.

At a glance, something felt wrong; it was strange—a video posted recently and another from over ten days ago seemed to be from the same shop!

Yet, the content was completely different.

Over ten days ago, this woman went to review the shop and said their mutton soup wasn't white at all, that it didn't look like the mutton eaten by old Jingzhou locals, wasn't fresh, and tasted tough.

And that flatbread was too awful to eat; it wouldn't soften even after soaking in the soup for a long time.

Moreover, the portion was very small; even a female customer like her didn't feel like one bowl was enough.

Then, under Zhou Yi's bewildered gaze, Ling Jie started a bizarre maneuver.

She openly took out a box of some kind of dried mutton she had brought with her inside the shop, broke it open, put it into the mutton soup, stirred it a few times, and then said to the camera: "Everyone look, although this mutton is dried mutton, after being soaked in the soup, it is the most authentic!"

"We old Jingzhou locals love this taste the most."

After watching this video, Zhou Yi felt like his gums were about to clench right out; this product promotion was way too obvious!

The key was that when she was filming outside the door before going in, you could already see her carrying this dried mutton...

What did this mean? She had already planned to say it tasted bad before even entering the shop...

However, the video released today was even more bizarre; it was the same shop, but after eating, she said the mutton was fresh, the mutton soup was white and tender, the flatbread was authentic, and the key was that the portion was very generous...

Do people these days all film videos like this?

Regarding this matter, perhaps because it wasn't caused by him personally, the system did not issue a task.

But Zhou Yi felt he couldn't just watch; after thinking about it, he turned around, extracted the key parts of both videos, edited them into one, and then began to make a comparison.

And he left a sentence in the video: "Is this the legendary special skill, 'Face-Changing'?"

Originally, he only intended to file a Lawsuit and ask for some compensation, and if the other party wanted Mediation, he would accept it, but now it seemed they hadn't realized their mistake at all!

Click publish, done.

No rush to find Fang Dazhuang yet, because his labor dispute First Instance hearing is tomorrow, and Zhou Yi plans to go and watch the excitement.

I roughly calculated that from the time I posted the launch announcement yesterday until now, the monthly votes have increased by one thousand. Counting one extra chapter per two hundred monthly votes, that's five chapters. Then for tips, the extra chapters for the Purple Star Moon Alliance Leader were added during the free period, and one more is still needed. The cumulative tips from other folks are over eighty thousand points, counting as one Alliance Leader, which is three chapters. That means eight chapters are owed. Of course, it will be calculated again tomorrow at noon, and there's also the first subscription, which also starts counting tomorrow at noon. In short, I'll start paying them back slowly. This is the first chapter; we'll see how things go tonight. I definitely won't finish paying them back today...

(End of this chapter)