Chapter 014 Recording (including forum text)
[Is anyone paying attention to the group that graduated some time ago? After eating a melon, I couldn’t help but want to say it. 】A post with such a title was floating on an anonymous forum.
[Move a bench and wait.] 】
[Is this a certain alphabet group? Tell me quickly, I’m so curious. 】
[The owner of the building dug a hole but didn't fill it.] 】
【fishing? 】
After a few minutes the poster finally showed up. [Don't worry, the poster only heard it from a friend who used to be an internal staff member. Just treat it as a story. The authenticity is not guaranteed. 】
[I understand, please update soon.] 】
[Your group is really interesting. Even though the group is gone, there are still people making threads to stir up trouble.] 】
[Don’t be so sarcastic above, I don’t need to pay attention to him, I have already prepared peanuts, melon seeds and mineral water, just sit and wait. 】
On Friday afternoon, most office workers were distracted from work and indulged in slacking off, and Zhou Qing was no exception. The sudden news last week took her a long time to recover. She was still a little listless when she came to work on Monday. Her colleagues couldn't help but ask her what happened when they saw the dark circles under her eyes. Whenever she had free time, she would involuntarily check the news about SLANT, but most of them were marketing accounts trying to get attention, or true and false suspicions and speculations.
It was almost time to get off work, and Zhou Qing was browsing the forum she often visited. When she saw this post, she didn't pay much attention to it. Anonymous forums are very complicated, with a mixture of true and false people. Many people are just fishing and there will be no follow-up at all.
Not long after, on my way home from get off work, a message from a friend popped up on WeChat: "Have you seen the post that was reposted on Weibo? 】
The person who sent the message was a good friend who had gone to SLANT's graduation concert with Zhou Qing. They often talked about SLANT. In the past few days, they had been discussing why things had suddenly turned out like this, but neither of them could figure it out.
[What post? Send me the link.] 】Is it about SLANT?
【Link】Soon a message came from the other side.
[I’m not sure whether it’s true or not. Let me tell you first that it might have something to do with Lin Chiran... Be mentally prepared. 】The friend knew that Zhou Qing’s favorite member was Lin Chiran. The part about Lin Chiran in this post was a bit subtle, so she was skeptical.
Zhou Qing hesitated for a moment after reading this sentence, but still clicked on the link.
[Have you eaten the melon today: A netizen on the forum posted that there was some melon about a group that graduated some time ago. Have you eaten it? 】
[Attached is a screenshot of the forum post]
This is a Weibo post from a marketing account that copied a forum post. It didn’t mention any special information, but the comment section was filled with so many comments that people couldn’t help but pay attention.
The previous hot comments were asking what the melon was about and which group it belonged to. The description was so obvious that it was equivalent to not being censored, which attracted many SLANT fans. There seemed to be an argument in the comment section, with some people replying in a sarcastic tone.
[Being someone's fan is such a peaceful life, just like your idol.] 】
What are you talking about? Don't go crazy here. 】
[How pitiful! Why don’t you take a look at what your own idol has done? 】
Someone posted a screenshot of the follow-up content of the forum post. The poster bluntly stated that there was unfair distribution of resources within the group. Someone used unfair means to snatch resources from teammates and engaged in intra-group bullying. The members were dissatisfied with him and did not want to work with him anymore. The relationship broke down and they had to graduate. From the poster's description, familiar fans can guess at a glance who the culprit who caused the group's activities to be suspended is.
When Zhou Qing saw this, she quickly opened the forum and found the post she had previously swiped past. In just a few hours, she had already scrolled through several pages of comments, so she refreshed the page to see the latest few floors.
[Oh, it's really sad. The OP really liked him before. My friend couldn't bear to see me being kept in the dark. I only knew it after hearing all these things from her. It was so disillusioning. One can never know a person's heart through his appearance. 】
[You said before that the authenticity was questionable, but now you are so sure. Are you sure you are not here to throw mud? 】
[The person above must be someone's fan, he is just being stubborn. 】
[Don’t just say that I have a friend. I have seen too many people spreading rumors like the OP. Let me prove it myself. 】
[I posted this just to vent my feelings, and I didn't expect so many people would pay attention to it... Since no one believes it, I can only upload and download the chat records with my friends. I cannot reveal too much information about my friends themselves. 】
The poster then uploaded a chat record and a Shenghuang work ID card, with the part involving personal information being thickly coded.
[The poster has proven it himself. Where is the person who was suspected of spreading rumors? 】
[How funny, a work ID card can make one talk nonsense. Next time, can you post a message saying that Yunhai is actually facing the crisis of disbanding and going solo? 】
[Support the above post (Yunhai made me laugh when I saw him as an example. Even if these two quit the circle together, there is no way they will disband.)]
After that, it was just a meaningless round-robin battle, there was no new information, and the poster never appeared again.
[Finished reading.] 】Zhou Qing replied to her friend.
What do you think? 】
[It's obvious that he is spreading rumors. Lin Chi Ran is not that kind of person. 】Zhou Qing replied quickly.
[I thought so too, but suddenly I saw this...] and then sent another link.
[Have you eaten melons today: I received a private message from a fan, and this voice sounds familiar. Attached is an audio clip]
As soon as I clicked on it, I heard a familiar melody - "Submarine Whale". I quickly recognized it in the comment section, but the singer was not Lin Chiran, but Chen Zhou.
[Isn’t this a submerged whale? It sounds like a demo]
[Chen Zhou has also tried this song before, so what does the author want to express? 】
[By the way, no one cares how the author got this recording. It usually won't fall into the hands of outsiders. 】
There was no further news after that. Zhou Qing vaguely felt that something was wrong, but after discussing it for a long time without any result, they had no choice but to give up and wait and see what would happen.
On the other side, Lin Chiran was also informed of the news by the public relations department.
"At present, some news is only being spread on anonymous forums and Weibo. I guess the other party will have follow-up operations. Should we suppress the news now?"
"We don't need to do that right now. If we suppress this news, they will have more reasons to hype it up." Lin Chiran said calmly after hearing the whole story, "Since they are targeting me, let's see what other tricks they have."
SLANT's once extremely high popularity divided up a large number of top resources in the circle. There were many people who held a grudge against him or wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to get a piece of the pie. He would not act rashly before confirming the other party's intentions, but the incident of releasing the demo made Lin Chiran a little concerned.
"Besides the people involved in the record production, is there anyone else who can get the demo that was recorded at that time?" Lin Chiran asked.
"Generally speaking, this kind of thing wouldn't happen, but it was quite chaotic when Fang Yao took his men away, so it's possible that it was leaked at that time." The other party said this, but in his heart he was actually wondering whether it was Chen Zhou himself who leaked it, but without follow-up action, it couldn't be fully confirmed.
"Really?" Lin Chiran listened thoughtfully and told the public relations department to inform him when there was any news so that he could respond in time.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Chiran listened to the demo circulating on the Internet, sent a message to Qi Puxin to confirm something with him, and had a rough judgment in his mind. The next step was to see when the person behind the scenes would show up.
Later, the platform traffic reached its peak, and we noticed that there were more and more posts and submissions, so we started a discussion, which slowly turned into a melee. At this time, the follow-up to that submission came. It was a very short recording, but the content immediately caused huge controversy.
A strange voice asked: "Ning Sheng, have you never minded Lin Chiran?" This person mentioned Captain Ning Sheng, who is very familiar to everyone who follows SLANT, and Lin Chiran, who is currently at the center of public opinion because of that post.
There was silence for a few seconds, and then I heard a familiar voice answering: "He is more popular than me and has better resources than me, how could he not care at all."
The two sentences only took ten seconds, but they caused an uproar in the comment section, with messages scrolling by rapidly.
[This is Ning Sheng’s voice, right? Are there any fans who can confirm it? 】
[It’s true. I’ve been a fan for many years. I can’t be wrong about his voice. 】
Who was the first person to speak? 】
[It doesn’t matter who it is. It seems that the post saying that the members are dissatisfied with someone is probably true…]
[Is everything in that post true? I can’t believe it. 】
Fang Yao was always paying attention to changes in the topic. If there was an occasional deviation, he would immediately direct the focus to how other SLANT members had their resources snatched away by Lin Chiran, and chose to graduate because they were dissatisfied with the unfair treatment. He would then subtly lead onlookers to pay attention to Chen Zhou's current situation.
The topic's popularity rose rapidly. When the attention reached its peak, the news of signing the contract with Xingchen was released through Chen Zhou's Weibo, and then he used a small account to ask and answer questions himself to create hype effect.
[Chen Zhou, can you respond? 】
[Sorry, I don’t want to answer because of the feelings I’ve had over the years. 】
People who saw Chen Zhou's comment immediately agreed that it was true. Although there were also comments mocking him for being pretentious, the overall effect had met Fang Yao's expectations. He then arranged publicity, focusing on the fact that Chen Zhou had switched jobs to Xingchen, and guided the onlookers to speculate.
[Have you eaten melons today: What do you think of Chen Zhou’s approach? 】
Having given this information, the onlookers would naturally associate Chen Zhou with leaving because Lin Chiran acted recklessly and kept snatching resources from teammates, squeezing out the living space of other members. As for the demo released previously, it was naturally guided by Fang Yao into evidence that Lin Chiran was stealing Chen Zhou's resources.
A demo alone was not very convincing, so he also used the recording that Fang Yao had left behind. He had originally wanted to release it later, but the situation did not allow him to wait. I feel that the whole process is very perfect, so I will play the emotional card a little more to improve Chen Zhou's impression and attention.
Not only can it provide a reasonable reason to change companies after graduation, but it can also allow for continuous use of SLANT's old news in the future, and by the way, throw dirty water on Lin Chiran to increase attention. Fang Yao naturally thought that now the higher-ups would definitely see his methods, as well as the fame and value that Chen Zhou had accumulated in the past, and that the current situation of being ignored would change soon.
But before he could be happy for too long, things did not develop as he expected.
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