Chapter 1422: Let You See What Influence Really Means

I was originally having a happy trip to Xia Weiyi, but before I could even enjoy it for long, I ran into this annoying situation.

However, Luo Quan wasn't bothered by this at all; she clearly understood this was a crisis, but at the same time, it was also an opportunity.

As long as this matter is handled beautifully enough, it will avoid many similar troubles in the future.

Now she has already made her stance clear, and she has no intention of giving these people a chance to reconcile; she's just waiting for the truth to come out, then she'll let these people know what privilege means.

Only about an hour later, while Luo Quan was still casually chatting with the live stream and fans, Yuni Jin Na sent her a mobile message.

Once a day!

This kind of push algorithm is something Bilibili fills almost every day, and it's not really difficult to achieve.

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Some calls aren't from the person themselves but from their secretary, but there's not much difference.

"I go, it's not that bad, is it?"

Finally, a fan brought up this matter.

However, Zhihu and Tieba are relatively small in scale, so their prices aren't high.

Over the years, they've contributed an unknown amount of traffic to Weibo, so for Wang Zong, they're already considered old acquaintances.

"Okay, Luo Bao has now even learned to buzz in first."

Besides the official side, Weibo is completely a place that recognizes money but not people.

Soon, the consumer gala topped Bilibili's hot search list, even pushing down Luo Quan's Xia Weiyi trip.

Luo Quan laughed and said: "I'm doing this for your company's own good, after all, this is the hot search of the consumer gala; you guys say withdraw and just give it to others—what if the higher-ups ask about this?"

Or just let it stay on the hot search for a few more days, giving this matter the heat it deserves.

"Indeed, and you didn't even check whose turf this is."

"The boss of that preserved vegetable braised pork shop has already been forced to livestream eating braised pork to prove himself, but it seems useless—just all curses, and they can't even get him banned."

Luo Quan also didn't waste words; after a brief exchange, she got straight to the point, directly telling Wang Zong about her troubles and what she wanted to do.

"You'd better not say such things—will not planting a flag make you skinny?"

Moreover, after Bilibili was acquired by her, it became a scene of vibrant life and competing growth; a boss so capable, wealthy, and good-looking—this little bit of willfulness is naturally tolerable.

"Those spouting such saintly rhetoric are the ones who haven't seen how dirty these people's food-making methods are—basically, they don't treat consumers as human. Since they don't treat people as human, no matter how miserable their fate, I'll only clap and cheer!"

"This network has been fully mobilized—Luo Bao, just how much energy did you use?"

After quite a bit of back-and-forth talk, the matter was finally settled.

"Hahaha, dare to be funnier?"

However, after Luo Quan had her fun, more thoughts popped up in her mind.

It seems like it was obtained during the last auction I attended.

So Douyin basically doesn't care about how these big streamers' reputations are, after all, the taxes they pay don't go into Douyin's account.

Speaking of which, besides Bilibili, Weibo is Luo Quan's second deep cooperation platform.

They are platforms; as long as they're willing to give traffic, it's easy to push a product-selling top streamer to fame.

Because you never know if the person you pulled in to block a knife for you will turn around and stab you to death instead.

So Luo Quan just mentioned this matter casually, and Douyin's side readily agreed to cooperate.

Luo Quan said while turning the camera toward the window: "Everyone, don't ask why I didn't shoot photos this morning—I originally planned to go in the morning, but it's raining, so I had to postpone."

Luo Quan's answer was deserving of both face and substance.

Overnight, the few brands named at the gala were immediately scolded bloody by netizens, and related discussion volume directly headed toward one hundred million.

Luo Quan basically has the phone numbers of most big company bosses.

But Weibo's hot search can be bought with money—pay to get on, pay to get off.

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"Luo Bao, you're also very pretty today."

So Luo Quan directly called Wang Zong's secretary at Weibo.

"You're right—I'm just hoping these heartless vendors drop dead immediately; if someone's a saint, then trouble you to only buy from these few shops in the future, and see what kind of end they meet."

There was also once at an auction, where Wang Zong greeted her and then left their contact information.

Upon hearing this, Wang Zong also quickly said: "Luo Boss, don't be like this—it's just business, where does life and death come in? Harmony brings wealth."

"I'm ninety percent sure this was done by Luo Bao!"

And the person who personally created all this, Luo Quan, deeply hid her merit and fame, not mentioning this to anyone.

Luo Quan saw this and pretended to be profound with a smile, saying: "I don't even know what happened—maybe these people did too many wrongs and brought it on themselves; besides, this heat was originally supposed to belong to them, so it's quite normal, isn't it?"

Early the next morning, the stock price of the listed company began to plummet, online sales brought a pile of return requests, and even those advertising these products— their live streams were also flooded by netizens.

As soon as Luo Quan said this, Liu Jingli immediately shut up.

So whether these streamers are cool or hot doesn't matter at all—after all, the platform only needs to take a cut; when a batch of top streamers cools down, soon others from below will rush up to take their places.

"Give an extra 125 percent—when those companies ask you, just say it was me who did it; if they don't accept it, have them come take revenge on me, and see who dies."

"Luo Boss, this isn't about money—doing business requires integrity."

For Luo Quan suddenly showing up at the door, Wang Zong had no mental preparation whatsoever.

Luo Quan not laughing would've been fine, but this laugh made everyone instantly understand:

Wang Zong's tone sounded very embarrassed, but Luo Quan clearly knew he was just waiting for her to name a price.

"Where does all this feudal superstition come from? I just don't buy into this—words are spoken, this rain will at most last until noon!"

Douyin has relatively more of its own collaborations, and previously, due to film and TV editing copyright issues, it was negotiating with Bilibili, and it has needs from me.

If she doesn't speak up, this video isn't allowed to go down.

If that's the case, then there's no need to worry about mistaken harm.

"Double the payment, and as long as you and I don't speak of this, no one will know. At worst, we just have the platform suppress the relevant discussions."

Although there were quite a few layers of people in between, the order was passed down without the slightest loss or distortion.

Bilibili is her own; she can arrange trending searches however she pleases.

The entire Bilibili belongs to this young mistress; however she wants to burn money, that's how she burns it.

Not only did she have to pay double the price, but she also owed a personal favor.

"How simple is that? When the time comes, just have Bilibili block them directly and be done with it?"

The fans were exchanging their daily greetings. Seeing Ningmeng mentioned again, Luo Quan also turned her head to look and discovered she was still sleeping.

Although it might not necessarily come in handy, for President Wang this was worth far more than the money he earned.

After all, the money belongs to the company, but this favor is owed to him personally.

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"It's not just Bilibili either. I saw related trending searches on Weibo and Tieba too, and the comment sections are full of people cursing these companies."

"Surely it won't be next week's rain, right?"

Subordinates delegating to subordinates, all the way down to the grassroots code farmers doing the actual work.

Zhihu, Tieba, Weibo, Douyin — every platform with any significant volume had related news appear.

Luo Quan consistently carried out a carrot-and-stick policy: money on one side, ruthless words for President Wang on the other.

"But those few from the Consumer Gala have also spent big money to take down trending searches. This matter is really hard to handle."

As soon as these words came out, the bullet comments were full of flattery like 'well done' and 'nicely played'.

The fans applauded and cheered in the bullet comments; Luo Quan smiled without speaking the whole time.

Luo Quan gave a price that wasn't especially high, leaving room for bargaining later.

"Lobao, what's the deal with that Consumer Gala trending search on Bilibili? I've seen it hanging on the hot search list for a long time."

Soon, clarification news about the starch sausages and rice noodles came out. It turned out only some small workshop products without any brands had safety issues — they didn't implicate the entire industry at all.

Besides that, every brand mentioned in this video was singled out for its own separate video, and then it was ensured they appeared at least once on every Bilibili user's homepage.

"I can only say Lobao's series of moves was incredibly satisfying."

Luo Quan switched to the Bilibili backend's business group and sent a message to Manager Liu, who was in charge of Bilibili, telling him to push the Consumer Gala related videos to the top of the trending searches and multiply the video click-through rate by ten.

Manager Liu received the order and immediately passed it down to his subordinates.

Although several of these brands had collaborations with Douyin's live-streaming sellers, with the brands in trouble, those sellers weren't having a good time either.

"Maybe later they'll just purely throw money at it, but this way is pretty good too — it counts as punishing evil and eliminating wickedness."

It was precisely because their own rice noodles were attacked that all these people had a hand in it.

"Here's what you do: buy a plane ticket to Shuzhou. There, find a scenic spot called the Leshan Giant Buddha. After you get there, make that Giant Buddha stand up, and then you go sit there."

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As for Weibo, the matter was even simpler.

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Subsequently, these brands mentioned by the Consumer Gala also frequently landed on users' homepage recommendations, and click counts quickly broke through 500,000.

Food is the paramount necessity of the people; tampering with food safety is originally a damned wicked deed that brings karmic retribution.

"Damn it, I suddenly have an ominous premonition."

"Uh..." President Wang smiled awkwardly. "But if we do it this way, I'm afraid those few companies won't be easy to explain to."

Since her debut, she had attended the Weibo Night, and almost never missed a year.

But for Douyin, it actually didn't matter at all.

Who knows how many people have eaten these foods, and how much money was spent only to vomit it all up after watching the secretly filmed processing procedures by reporters.

"Speaking of which, if those people find out it was Lobao who did this, will they come looking for trouble?"

Early the next morning, Luo Quan glanced at the weather outside the window and decisively chose to start a livestream.

"Seventy-five percent extra."

"Ningmeng is still sleeping. Let everyone see her after she wakes up."

Once the fans' emotional venting had more or less run its course, Luo Quan made a final summary: "This matter tells us: never do bad things, and never drag innocent people in to block the knife for you."

"Look at how happy she's smiling. It's definitely Lobao's handiwork."

"Want to see Ningmeng. Don't know if she's sleeping or not."

"Doesn't matter. Anyway, it's still early since returning from Xia Weiyi. There's plenty of time to film."

"Awesome, Lobao. Yesterday you wanted to find out who the culprit was, and in a single night you got the facts settled?"

"Lobao, are you up?"

Moreover, after the Consumer Gala's exposure, netizens directly saw just what disgusting methods these people used to concoct one "delicacy" after another.

"How did you know we were going to ask this?"

"Have someone calculate the lost earnings and charge it to my account!"

The information listed exactly which companies were buying water armies to divert attention. Luo Quan took a careful look and discovered that every single one that had made it onto the Consumer Gala was buying trending searches.

Seeing Luo Quan bring even the higher-ups into it, President Wang immediately nodded: "Alright, since Boss Luo you've put it like this, I'll play the villain this once. You don't need to pay extra either — just calculate it at the price they originally offered, as if doing business directly with you."

"That won't do. We agreed on one hundred twenty-five percent extra. A favor is a favor, business is business."

The smear news about rice noodles and starch sausages originated from Weibo's trending searches.

Moreover, the comment sections were also unlocked, full of netizens cursing with endless creativity.

"President Wang, in business we talk business. This matter definitely won't bring losses to Weibo. However much they pay, I'll give you fifty percent more!"

This is only Bilibili.

Very soon, President Wang used another number to call Luo Quan back.

If she really woke up, then the livestream wouldn't continue. After Lemon woke up, the first thing she did was nurse, filling her stomach being her top priority every day.

However, the two old acquaintances didn't exchange more than ten words; once, they met at an awards ceremony where President Wang congratulated her.

"If you keep doing this, how can you still do business? Aren't you letting netizens know that Weibo is just a place where you can pay to get on the hot search list?"

"Boss Luo, regarding the smear news about your company, there's no problem taking it down."

"What a beautiful natural look, I love it."

Other platforms would require payment.

Meanwhile, Manager Liu was more worried, saying doing this might result in losing a lot of advertising revenue……

Livestreaming is the most important platform for product promotion, and Douyin claims to be second in the livestreaming world—who dares to claim first?

Netizens were surprised to discover that the consumer gala, which had mysteriously disappeared for a day, suddenly appeared out of nowhere on the hot search lists of major platforms.

Of course, consumers themselves also need to keep their eyes open and not buy those three-no products just for the sake of cheapness, lest they end up with real problems and not know who to hold responsible.

Using privileges feels really good—no wonder so many people, after using them once, get deeply trapped and then unknowingly walk down the path of illegality and misconduct.

This time she easily resolved the problem and also vented her anger.

If she encounters a similar situation next time, will she continue to use privileges?