My American magical life
Chapter 353 - 353 22 You Fire the Gun I Want to Laugh!

353: Chapter 22: You Fire the Gun, I Want to Laugh!

353: Chapter 22: You Fire the Gun, I Want to Laugh!

It’s been five days since CEO Cheng landed on Harbour Island, and the public opinion he sparked online hasn’t been significant.

Although he’s quite a big internet celebrity now, even with Boss Jia’s backing, it’s a shame that the Simplified Chinese internet never lacks trendsetters.

Even though he personally hired internet trolls, CEO Cheng’s self-deprecating strategy didn’t cause much of a stir; KOLs busy making money won’t care about the significance of a small Karami like him, will they?

Just when CEO Cheng thought his self-deprecating offensive would silently fade away, a turn came.

In 2018, there were three main battlegrounds for public opinion on the Simplified Chinese internet: the largest one was Weibo, second was WeChat Official Accounts, and third was Today’s Headlines.

During that period, compared to the top three, platforms like Zhihu and Bilibili or various short video apps still didn’t have enough voice.

Weibo is an old god of the internet; it’s been clearly in decline under the impact of various new platforms, but even in 2023, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse, and Weibo remains one of the biggest platforms for public opinion in the Simplified Chinese internet.

The second is the Official Accounts system; WeChat Official Accounts, though comprised of isolated islands, have good reach and top accounts have extremely high user loyalty.

ByteDance’s Today’s Headlines, although third, brought great user experience due to cross-platform information flow and algorithmic advantages, gaining widespread affection from users.

The person targeting Cheng Daqi is named Ai Guobei, with accounts on Today’s Headlines and Weibo, commanding a total of over three million followers.

The content he creates, like his name, is highly provocative and deceptive.

Waving the flag of patriotism, he bamboozles those unaware of the truth into paying him, harvesting his followers’ money to buy a big house in America.

In general, he’s a rotten ass public intellectual with a deep cover, criticizing America on one side and yearning for the American lifestyle on the other.

Cheng Daqi’s online persona on the ByteDance video platform is quite peculiar, but undoubtedly, he seems very much like a “spiritual runner,” a “brain drainer.”

Indeed, who in their right mind would attempt to illegally immigrate and become homeless on the streets of America, even if Cheng Daqi has tried to whitewash his image, yet he didn’t delete his videos of being homeless in America’s streets.

Ai Guobei and his team extensively analyzed Cheng Daqi’s short video content and past experiences, drawing an outrageous conclusion—Cheng Daqi attempted to gain traffic by denigrating America, and upon seeing poor results, switched to showcasing the good life in America.

Essentially, Cheng Daqi is a clown who’ll do anything for traffic.

Their deduction is correct; Cheng Daqi indeed would do anything for traffic and even paid to have himself badmouthed.

Their reasoning process, though, is wrong; Cheng Daqi neither smeared America, nor was his life there any good.

The right conclusion coming from the wrong reasoning process just goes to show how the world is so unreasonable.

Ai Guobei himself is also a clown that would do anything for traffic, as well as a hidden spiritual American.

Attacking Cheng Daqi could gain him traffic while also vindicating his spiritual homeland—daring to smear America, let’s see how I deal with you!

Ai Guobei, like a starving wild dog, saw other people confused by Cheng Daqi’s sudden rise to fame and equally perplexed by his being badmouthed, but to Ai Guobei, Cheng Daqi was like a delicious piece of dog feces, able to fill his belly.

Thus, a new article appeared simultaneously on Ai Guobei’s WeChat, Weibo, and Headlines accounts: “The Ridiculous Behavior of an Internet Clown, Spewing Lies and Deceiving the Public!”, with an aggressive title aimed directly at CEO Cheng.

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While Cheng Daqi was unaware and already on the internet’s equivalent of a wall poster, he was a busy man—this morning, he arrived early at Shanhaiguan and was now engaging in his first in-depth, face-to-face communication with Yang Yuan.

Yang Yuan was someone he didn’t know well, and although CEO Yang also used to be a key figure within Dongxin, Dongxin is just too large, with over 4,000 employees, and there were easily a hundred people at Yang Yuan’s level.

Of course, this doesn’t mean Yang Yuan lacks ability; Dongxin is just so full of strong personnel that they were even playing power struggles in front of Sun Dongxin.

Even if Yang Yuan was just one percent of Dongxin, he was entirely qualified for the position of a leading general at Shanhaiguan.

“You come recommended by Brother Sun, who thinks you can be of help to Shanhaiguan.

I trust his judgment, so I’m considering promoting you to deputy CEO, responsible for the contracting agent team.”

Cheng Daqi was very candid; he trusts people recommended by Sun Dongxin implicitly, which is why he wanted to put Yang Yuan in the position of deputy CEO.

For a normal private commercial company, the sales team is the most crucial department.

Whether a product is good or competitive can be quite esoteric; as long as the sales team is strong, even trashy items can sell billions within a year.

The sales business of Shanhaiguan is divided into three tiers, the first being the resource acquisition, which refers to contracting internet celebrity resources—the part Cheng Daqi wanted Yang Yuan to take charge of.

Thanks to CEO Cheng’s information advantage, he wanted to implement a model within Shanhaiguan based on self-development and internal incubation.

How to expand their own platform of internet celebrities is key to whether Shanhaiguan can go far.

As a middle-aged Lao Deng who has been fighting in the sales industry for over a decade, and someone Sun Dongxin trusts and approves of, Cheng Daqi hoped Yang Yuan could integrate into Shanhaiguan quickly and get the contracting business up and running as soon as possible.