Top Student at Their Peak
Chapter 111 - 79 The Price of Fame

Chapter 111: Chapter 79 The Price of Fame

What is Big Data?

Big Data is probably when, in the study of a large flat in the core area of Coastal City, just because a recently awakened teenager searched for the Little Alibaba Mathematics Competition on his phone a few times, and often talked about the name Qiao Yu with his coach on WeChat.

So when he woke up, picked up his phone, and casually opened D Sound, he saw that maddening guy bragging in front of the camera.

Then he silently watched all three videos, tugged at the corner of his mouth, clicked on the DOU+ page of the last video, entered the number 20000 on the payment page, paid casually, then put down the phone, and opened his workbook.

Big Data is perhaps when a little chubby boy who practiced marching for half a day and stood in a military posture for half a day in Shuangqing City came home, took a shower, ate a satisfying meal, then went into his room, took out his phone wanting to relax with some short videos, saw that familiar figure, listened to that irrelevant talk, and shouted "damn" three times.

Then he decisively clicked share, opened WeChat groups one by one, and started spreading it everywhere, so he wouldn’t be the only one hearing this annoying stuff.

Big Data might also be when a professor in the far-off Xiao Zhou was looking at the questions discussed in the student WeChat group and suddenly saw a shared link with Qiao Yu’s name, subconsciously copied it, opened D Sound, and after watching it, frowned, wondering why this kid asked him if he happened to know a student surnamed Feng from Massachusetts Institute of Technology more than ten years ago?

There’s a story!

Big Data may just be when some not-so-pure-hearted older young people watched the video, felt unsatisfied, cursed, and recoiled but still clicked a red heart; others even opened the comments section wanting to leave something.

However, under the arrangement of the omnipotent Big Data, the comment section was already flooded by many joy-seekers, with so many points to ridicule that made all sorts of complaints particularly dispersed.

"You gold medal, you’re right!"

"You middle schooler, you’re right!"

"I’ve seen it, this is definitely the worst MIT has been blackened in Huaxia. By the way, is Xingtie First Middle School so abstract? Students being interviewed don’t even need to memorize lines in advance?"

"Haha, Star City people are so lazy, they can’t be bothered with fakeness."

"The most innocent two silver medal winners in history, laughing!"

"MIT: From now on, no videoing allowed in class!"

"As a Jiang City University math student, I think what was said is very true, please speak more next time!"

"So handsome, the pride of our Xingtie First Middle School!"

"The gold medal is not important, whether to offend others is not important, it is important that our homegrown child has this confidence, thumbs up for Qiao Yu."

"Fox Net cussed and left the group chat."

"Turns out Qiao Yu was discovered by our Teacher Lan. Teacher Lan is our math teacher in sophomore year, also teaches the Olympiad math class, indeed a very nice person and quite skilled."

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In any case, after the video was released, riding on the momentum of yesterday’s Little Alibaba Competition list being hyped across the internet, it indeed became wildly popular.

In places like Star City Morning News, when their videos were published, many other local official media would just give a nod and use it directly.

With the help of Big Data, the phrase "Huaxia gold medal middle school student comments on MIT" even shot up to the top three of the social hotspot list in just one afternoon.

For the new media department of Star City Morning News, this was definitely an extremely impressive performance.

It almost completed half a year’s worth of KPI all at once.

The only regret is probably that Qiao Yu’s influence in the academic world isn’t that big yet, at least this talk probably won’t make that famous overseas university take him seriously.

Of course, that’s normal.

Not to mention responding, if someone at MIT actually addressed Qiao Yu, that would be a loss.

Xingtie First Middle School also got famous again, Principal Zhang received several calls from higher authorities that day, most of which were praises.

There was even a bigwig who specifically inquired about Lan Jie’s situation.

This is definitely great news for Lan Jie, at least his name was remembered by the higher-ups.

As for the negative impact, it’s possible, but Zhang Tiejun thinks it’s all within controllable range.

The fact is, in an era where people are fed up with bureaucratic talk, it’s not bad at all for a student who hasn’t even entered high school to speak some sincere words in front of the camera.

At least the negative backlash wasn’t as big as expected; on the contrary, the vast majority of people viewed Qiao Yu’s interview with a tolerant mindset.

Certainly, there were curses, the platform just intervened and directly deleted them, nothing significant could be stirred up.

Many times, being a minor is indeed the best protection.

However, Zhang Tiejun also decided to, under the pretext that school is about to start and regular teaching work needs to be carried out, gently decline all upcoming interview invitations for Qiao Yu.

Now the school’s reputation is big enough, further hype will just cause indigestion.

Of course, it’s also a form of protection for Qiao Yu.

Appropriate exposure can instill a sense of honor in a child, but overexposure will only hinder learning.

Especially since the provincial math league is about to start, Zhang Tiejun is indeed worried that the online buzz will affect Qiao Yu’s state.

The Little Alibaba International Mathematics Competition, no matter how famous, no matter how professional the expert panel, is still a non-standard unofficial competition organized by civilians. But the National High School Mathematics Olympiad is an officially recognized competition.

If during his tenure, a student wins an IMO gold medal, that’s something he can brag about for a lifetime.

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After Qiao Yu’s interview video became a hit, besides Xingtie First Middle School, some odd things were unexpectedly brought to popularity.