“…A-choo!”
Lu Ban sneezed, rubbed his nose, checked the temperature of the air conditioner, and turned it up one degree.
He watched Qin Tiantian's live broadcast in its entirety.
The effect is very good.
After Qin Tiantian went live, Lu Ban gained more than 5,000 fans in the two hours since then.
It’s not that Qin Tiantian has strong appeal, but because after she forwarded the video to the small group of anchors, several anchors clicked on it. For a while, several virtual anchors in the live broadcast area of the Jiuri Video Network were watching the same video.
For anchors, pleasing the audience is very important. Everyone can sing and play games, and they can show it through videos. Therefore, when live streaming, what is required more is the ability to entertain and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
Some anchors can’t sing and are terrible at playing games, but they are good at making fun of others. They are not good at anything else, but they are the best at making fun of others, which attracts a lot of fans.
You know, the anchor's captain income and the tips during the live broadcast are the bulk of the income, so in order to pursue the program effect, the anchors also like to find some interesting videos to watch live.
For example, horror videos are very good material. Audiences feel nervous and excited when watching the videos, so they like to watch other people’s reactions to the videos. There is probably a kind of gloating mentality involved.
Especially the horror videos I have watched, because I know where the high energy is, and I look forward to the hosts' reactions.
Therefore, Lu Ban's video quickly spread among the anchors.
If it was just a horror video, everyone would just watch it. But when some people saw the UP link of the video, they said, "Wow, isn't this the author of the heartbeat counting video from last time?"
I'm always being fleeced by the anchor.
The last video not only became a minor hit in the anchor circle, but also brought more material to the Ghost O section of the Old Video Network, and it seems that Lu Ban himself will be able to enter this year's Ghost O All-Star.
During the first two days after it became popular, people watched Lu Ban’s original video, then watched Lu Ban’s Ghost O video, and then watched Lu Ban’s Ghost O video’s Ghost O video again. It really made everyone remember the face of this handsome guy who liked to commit suicide.
But this does not help Lu Ban much in increasing his fan base. It is like many emoticon packages, everyone is using them, but very few people actually know the stories behind them and who they belong to.
Most people simply repeat and play with old memes.
Lu Ban doesn't mind things like repeating oneself or playing with cliched memes, as long as he can gain fans, that's enough for him.
He watched as the video's views began to increase with each refresh, and the barrage of comments and likes also climbed steadily. He felt a sense of satisfaction, like playing an idle game and watching the numbers continue to grow.
Lu Ban casually glanced at the comments.
[Brothers, from Chuanbao, put the public screen on protection! ]
[I remember this UP, it specializes in doing things in the underworld that people in the world of the living cannot do]
[After watching the video, the special effects at the end are very good and realistic. Is UP a professional in this? ]
[What is the BGM at the end? Does anyone know? ]
[UP Where are you going to explore next time? I think the haunted hotel in the north city is a good choice.]
[Am I the only one who came to watch UP’s eating show? What brand is that self-heating rice? ]
[I can’t be the only one watching such a good video, I must give it up to society]
Of course, these are friendly comments.
There were also some who were malicious or directly attacked Lu Ban, but he didn't care.
As mentioned before, this kind of cursing after being frightened actually proves that Lu Ban’s video is very effective.
This was not the first time that Lu Ban had edited this type of video. When editing the video, he paid attention to four points.
The first point is to mobilize the audience's emotions.
The audience's emotions cannot be kept in a tense state all the time. If the audience remains tense all the time, they will be mentally prepared for the thrilling and horrifying scenes, which will weaken the impact. Therefore, Lu Ban edited in shots of himself eating to ease the rhythm.
In horror movies, there are often shots where the protagonist escapes a disaster and goes through daily life. This kind of shot gives the audience a certain sense of security, and then suddenly destroys it for a better effect.
The second point is that the incident cannot be truly resolved.
What Lu Ban actually experienced was much more dangerous than what was shown in the video, and he almost completely resolved the incident. However, what was shown to the audience was an ending in which he was powerless and only managed to knock down a few model dolls before escaping in a panic. On the one hand, the unfinished events kept the audience in suspense and made them look forward to Lu Ban's next exploration.
On the other hand, the way the incident is completely resolved is not "horrible" at all. The so-called horror is to keep the truth behind the curtain and make the audience not understand what happened, so as to guide their imagination.
The third point is that although it is a horror video, it cannot be really horrific. Lu Ban’s goal is not to scare people to death, but to get more views, more attention, and more fans.
If the video is very scary, the spread rate will definitely be greatly reduced, because many people will not click on it when they hear the name, let alone pay attention to it.
This is why many enduring scary videos often have an ordinary name and an everyday beginning, just to trick people into coming in and scare them!
The last point is also the most crucial one.
The most important thing when making videos is to have fun. Lu Ban likes to insert eating into adventures and play horror movies while eating! He plans to bring some ingredients and make it on the spot next time!
The background music used by Lu Ban when Du Danping performed was a combination of Du Danping's performance that he recorded in "Last Words" and the "Midnight Piano Sound". It has the effect of attracting people's attention but not completely taking people's minds away. The effect is very good and children who can't sleep like it very much.
Seeing that the data far exceeded the increase of the previous few days, Lu Ban had another idea. He edited several key scenes, such as Du Danping's ghost playing the piano and the shot of turning around and encountering a model doll with weird eyes, into a short video of less than ten seconds and uploaded it to his personal account on Tomorrow Online.
Since fans are counted across all platforms, aren’t Tomorrow Online’s fans also fans!
Some fans followed me on Tomorrow Online and also followed me on Jiuri Video Network. Doesn't that mean one person can do two things?
If you follow me on Weibo again, it will be a triple forbidden existence!
As for Aishouyi Video Network and Scarecrow Video Network, Lu Ban spent a long time trying to understand the user agreements and video copyrights of these two websites, so he had to put them aside for the time being.
And thinking that if the complete video was exclusive, the website might also be able to promote it, he was too lazy to do it.
"At this rate, how can we get 100,000 followers in a month?"
Lu Ban even had the idea of finding some place to make some supernatural games or explore ways to stir up the hype.
Thinking of this, Lu Ban couldn't help but feel grateful to Qin Tiantian.
Although the two people have only met once, and although Qin Tiantian asked him if he was a living person when they first met, but at the critical moment, Qin Tiantian is still reliable. If there is anything scary in the future, he will definitely find her first to share it!
"The drainage effect is so good, I don't know whether to be happy or sad."
Lu Ban flipped through the comments.
What surprised him the most was that all the viewers assumed that Du Danping’s appearance at the end was a special effect, and thus believed that Lu Ban was actually a special effects UP host in the technology area.
I should be the daily UP host in the life area.
He looked at the questions in the comment section asking how the special effects were made, thought about it, and then picked up the account to reply.
"It's not a special effect. Please don't imitate it. It's very dangerous."
Less than two minutes after the reply was sent, Lu Ban saw that several people had replied to him.
[This UP is quite humorous and focuses on the character setting. ]
[I understand. This isn’t a special effect. It’s a made-up prop!]
[UP's special effects technology is very good, it looks more realistic than any 3A masterpiece]
[Is this a real-life promotion for some game? ]
[UP You said this is not a special effect, are you telling us that there are really ghosts in this world? ]
“…”
Lu Ban thought about it and decided not to continue explaining.
Special effects are just special effects.
Anyway, Jiangcheng Grand Theater is such a remote place that most people can't go there, let alone run there in the middle of the night to look up at the stars like Lu Ban did, so there is no danger.
He also saw that someone left a message asking about the performer.
[I want to ask what the setting of this performer is. Will he kill people when he plays the piano? ]
Lu Ban became interested in this.
"This performer possessed extraordinary abilities during his lifetime. He performed to fight against the great being from Aldebaran. To be more precise, he performed to protect others. At the same time, there are many great beings in the starry sky that we don't know about who are watching the Earth. Just a glance from them is enough to cause disaster. In this world, the more you know, the easier it is to fall into madness!"
He typed a lot of notes.
It attracted a lot of replies.
[I am dying of laughter. They are still putting the setting here! ]
[It's normal to talk about ghosts, but why are aliens even mentioned? Could it be that ghosts are created by aliens? ]
[UP's character who is obsessed with death and suspicious of everything is quite real. I love it.]
[From the supernatural to science fiction, there is nothing to be afraid of about aliens, we can just shoot them down with an F16]
[UP is quite interesting, I’m following him! ]
[I believe it. I also believe in Area 51, Roswell, the Crystal Skull, and the Tunguska explosion! UP, what is your home address? Let’s discuss it. ]
"…The crystal skull is a fake."
Lu Ban simply replied and then stopped paying attention to the comment section.
Sure enough, just like psychologists, most people will not accept such a fact.
Lu Ban didn't care.
It is unlikely that normal people would come into contact with those strange things, and it is unlikely that normal people who have come into contact with those strange things would survive. Those who can survive, except Lu Ban, are probably not normal.
Reasonable.
At this moment, the mobile phone on his desk vibrated, and Lu Ban saw that it was a WeChat message from Qin Tiantian.
[Wangchuan]: Which building do you live in?