That night, while most people in China were asleep, a new clarification video appeared on the largest video platform on the other side of the ocean.

[This is not a team effort, nor is it a bot; this is a clarification video.]

The user of the video is called "xiaohei".

At first, many people didn't know what this meant, until the account of the organizer and platform blogger liked and shared the video, and other people in the circle finally heard about it and came to the scene.

The video is quite long, lasting over two hours. It recreates the production process of the rendering competition entry "Mech Battle" at 100x speed. Only the time spent waiting for rendering and the time spent switching the computer on and off during the intermission have been edited out. The rest of the video perfectly presents the entire production process of "xiaohei".

This video has no background music, or rather, the video creator simply couldn't be bothered to add any. The description simply states: "I'm a complete newbie. This competition is just for practice. I have other things to do in real life. This account is only for clarification. Please don't follow me."

Foreign viewers were completely confused, while only those who knew the situation and had participated in the discussion were stung by these words.

Oh, so Xiaohei is just a newcomer?

He's so arrogant!

My God, how can a newcomer have such amazing production skills? It's incredible!

[A newbie? This feels like a pro player disguised as a newbie. Their skills are way beyond what a newbie should have.]

[Actually, he seems a bit like a beginner, because in the video, some of the steps are things beginners like to do, and it seems that xiaohei wasn't very familiar with some key bindings at the beginning, but became more and more proficient later on.]

Okay, so he's a genius. I'm heartbroken.

Why did you all provoke him? Now look what's happened, nobody's happy.

We've mentioned this before; the incident blew up so much, yet the organizers didn't say anything, which definitely means the other party is innocent.

[No, this doesn't necessarily mean Xiaohei is without fault, right? Besides, this clarification is a joint statement with the organizers, which confirms what was said before: the organizers leaked the questions in advance.]

[@viker, what do you say? Do you have any further evidence? If there's no evidence, it's just spreading rumors.]

[@viker.]

This guy named Viker was the one who first spoke out against Xiao He's work. He was originally a participant in the rendering competition, but his ranking wasn't very high. He taught courses on various platforms for many years, essentially acting as an overseas course-selling instructor.

His malice towards Xiao He came out of nowhere. At first, he may have just wanted to create some buzz and gain some traffic, but since Xiao He never came forward to respond, he seemed to have seen the secret to gaining traffic and began to take advantage of the hype surrounding the competition to relentlessly attack Xiao He's work.

Of course, he didn't just criticize Xiao He's "Mech Battle". He also criticized several other creators, but these creators' works were not well-known and did not generate much buzz. After being criticized, they withdrew from the competition, which actually confirmed that Xiao He's works also had problems.

Unfortunately, no matter how much he jumped around, Xiao He ignored him, making him look like a clown.

The organizers did try to communicate, but due to Xiao He's "indifference," they did not respond for a long time. The other companies that were watching the situation were naturally unable to step in and help, so they just observed the situation from the sidelines.

However, after reviewing the project documents submitted by this contestant, most people felt that there were no problems with the contestant.

Even at the same level of technical skill, everyone has different habits. To take a somewhat inaccurate but easily understood example, for the same file name, some people prefer uppercase, some prefer lowercase, some prefer mixed uppercase and lowercase, and some are simply too lazy to rename each file and just use the default serial number... These are all individual habits without a unified rule.

This is why many programmers joke, "No one can understand my code except God and me."