Chapter 2653

This was the morning of a certain day about two months later; Schiller, who had attended the documentary premiere last night, was sleeping soundly in bed, while in the night of the internet world that he didn't care about at all, a storm was brewing on a well-known social media platform.

"I know you've already watched the latest Tony Stark wedding documentary; yes, I watched it too." A man with a small mustache and ears full of earrings and lip rings covered his mouth, pointed upward below the screen, and said, "It's this one, which was released just last night."

"Oh, I know what you're going to say; Captain America is hot as hell, that damn Iron Man is as annoying as ever, and that handsome young researcher, and the uh, who was it that got married young, never mind, that's not the point I want to make."

"Friends... you little bitches watching this video in front of the screen!! Look at this!!!"

This man started covering his mouth and screaming; he said, "This doctor, oh, my God!! Beep——"

After the sound was muted and the screen glitched, the man appeared again, looking a bit calmer; he extended the thumb and index finger of one hand, gesturing, and said, "I know, I know, calm down, everyone; I know people are always very prone to falling in love with professions like doctors and firefighters because, besides their handsome appearance, their focused demeanor at work is very charming, but that's not what I want to talk about either."

The man took a deep breath and said, "I can only say he really is the biggest highlight of this damn boring documentary; I'm now guarding that damn cheesy channel for updates every day just to watch this doctor... ah, sorry, I don't mean I want to see him have bad luck, but this is really interesting."

"Superheroes and such are really—really boring to watch!" In this video, a typical blonde white woman tucked two strands of hair in front of her forehead; she rolled her eyes hugely, blew on her hair, and said, "Come on, who actually wants to watch superheroes acting out 'Real Housewives of New York' on screen? Tony Stark should change his name to Tony Kardashian; the topics he brings up are boring as hell!"

"But I watched it anyway." The woman suddenly laughed, as if she thought she was funny too; she took a deep breath, sniffed, and at the same time, her face on the screen became very small, and what appeared in the center of the screen was a still photo of Schiller.

"That's right, I just wanted to see how this ordinary doctor has such bad luck among this group of superheroes; this is really interesting, just like you dealing with your mentally ill colleagues; you're angry, complaining, helpless, but still diligently completing your work; it's both unlucky and funny."

"Has everyone watched that documentary that's been popular lately?" A chubby black woman with a head full of dreadlocks said to the screen, "Alright, the most successful thing about this documentary is that it let us know that superheroes are nothing; they're about the same as those annoying troublemakers around us, looking for trouble every day when they have nothing to do."

"As for how I discovered this, of course, I have to thank our Dr. Rodriguez, because he is the only normal person among this group of monsters!!!" The black woman said at a fast pace, as if she were rapping, "Colleagues arguing endlessly over sesame-sized matters; a group of people are like they're bored to death, looking at this one with displeasure, wanting to give that one two punches; I was furious when I watched it because it reminded me of at least 80 famous bastards!! Including that damn sissy Paul!!"

The black woman flicked her lips and continued, "This Dr. Rodriguez is like a benchmark, letting us see what the standard for a normal person is; come on, what did he do wrong? He just wanted to take a vacation; even if that Stark gave him a lot of money, so what? Didn't my boss pay me a salary? Besides that, we should also get more mental distress compensation!"

More and more faces appeared on the screen; this was a form of video that had been circulating on personal media in the West, generally called a "reaction," which, if translated into Chinese, would be equivalent to a "review."

But actually, if it were more appropriate, it should be explained as "I watched something new today, and I have something to say about it, so I put this thing and my own views on the same screen to show everyone."

Reviews of reality shows were common, especially those reality shows with all kinds of complex interpersonal relationships and drama; every time, a bunch of bloggers would release these review videos to explain their views on a certain person or event in the video.

Even if media copyright in the West was very strict in many countries, the crackdown on this aspect wasn't very strict because it helped promote these programs, and TV stations basically wouldn't be bored enough to go looking for trouble with these personal media.

2018 was a major year because the global new media industry was about to welcome their eternal god—that's right, TikTok had arrived!

Under Schiller's promotion, the overall progress of the Earth was fast, so this software actually went overseas as early as 2016, but the response had always been lukewarm and it hadn't become popular.

By 2017, it had improved slightly, and some famous self-media bloggers had also moved to it, but mainly to analyze the relationship between China and the United States; for a time, it almost became a professional political analysis software.

But as the saying goes, gold will always shine; powerful algorithms and the short video format itself were more suitable for short, flat, and fast entertainment topics; the program "Tony Stark's Romantic Wedding Journey," once broadcast, could be considered to have completely ignited this spark.

Recently, there hadn't been any good reality shows to watch; those housewives from all over the world were topics that had been discussed to death, and the documentary filming the superheroes was biased toward a serious drama style, without many entertainment topics, and instead was a bit heavy, so it hadn't been able to spread.

But now, under the circumstances of Stark sacrificing himself for righteousness, his wedding documentary had achieved unprecedented success; it could almost be said to be globally popular, with views repeatedly hitting new highs, and even breaking the viewing records for the same type of documentary on platforms like YouTube several times.

As for the reason, there wasn't any special point; no matter what, humans just love watching drama; ordinary people's quarrels couldn't stimulate the audience anymore, mainly because the topics were always the same: who had more money, who had higher status, who loved which man or woman, whose family was more unfortunate than whose.

Even if it were changed to countless regions around the world, and countless themes were changed, in the end, it was all the same old stuff; after watching too much, the audience was tired of it.

But superheroes were different; besides these things that ordinary people could discuss, they had more things worth discussing; first of all, it was their abilities.

This was something ordinary people didn't have, and it was also what ordinary people felt was the freshest; for example, Tony Stark insisted on comparing surfing with this group of people, while Peter said he was the only one among them without superpowers.

This made people suspect that Peter actually had superpowers too; after all, if he didn't, he wouldn't have said Tony was the only one; this sparked a round of speculation among people about this genius researcher, and some even suspected he possessed super intelligence.

And watching Iron Man get deflated was really interesting; if Tony appeared in other reality shows, he would definitely be a super big shot in the spotlight, but among a group of superheroes, he was like a poor little guy who wanted to desperately grab attention but didn't have the ability to do so.

Besides making ordinary people feel it was interesting, this also made them realize that in the society of superheroes, there was a whole new set of rules, which were completely different from the rules of the society they lived in now; they didn't just judge certain things through secular material conditions, and the gap between people themselves was also widened, which would bring quite rich topics.

Starting from this angle, many people began to analyze the conflict between Iron Man and Captain America back then, and some even dug up the old history of the Superhero Registration Act.

Of course, this act stopped at Congress back then and wasn't announced to the public, but the federal government itself was as leaky as a sieve, so one couldn't expect everyone not to hear a bit of wind.

Then there was the old topic of mutants; people also saw that there were similarities and differences between mutants and superheroes; they could get along well, and even move forward hand in hand, such as Wanda and the young people of the New Warriors team, but at the same time, the old debts they carried also made it difficult for them to get along harmoniously with some superheroes, and there were even various conflicts between them.

The sister relationship between Scarlet Witch and Polaris was also a hot topic; first of all, the two of them were very beautiful, very eye-catching, were biological sisters, and had such a father, and one of them had just become a mother; no matter what, it could trigger various discussions about family, mutants, and social issues.

Appreciating beauty was also an indispensable part of this documentary; it had to be said that these superheroes were all quite handsome and had unique temperaments; people just loved watching these handsome men and beautiful women interact and judging their various strengths and weaknesses.

Various personal fans, CP fans, and troll fans were dancing wildly, launching a melee on the TikTok platform, which once drove the popularity very high.

But no matter how high the popularity of these topics was, it couldn't compare to a name that rushed to the top of the trending list overnight—Schiller Rodriguez.

Just like the question Schiller asked himself before, audiences all over the world were also curious—how did such an ordinary psychologist manage to mix into this group of monsters?

And curiosity had always been the primary driving force for humans to explore the world.