Soon, the first wave of red envelope rain ended.
Someone posted a screenshot of the red envelope they received on the Douyin app to their family QQ group. At that time, QQ was undoubtedly the most popular communication software.
Wow, cousin, you actually managed to snag 888 yuan! That's amazing!
"Send red envelopes! Send red envelopes!"
"No problem, I'll give you a red envelope when I visit you on the second day of the Lunar New Year."
"I'm not talking about the red envelope, I'm talking about the red envelope in my phone."
How do I send red envelopes on my phone?
"Cousin, download MiXin. You can send red envelopes through MiXin. Plus, both MiXin and Douyin use Huasuan Pay, so you can send the money from the red envelopes you receive directly there."
"Is that so? Then I'll download it and give it a try."
A few minutes later, a new group chat suddenly appeared in MiXin.
"Wishing you prosperity and good fortune!"
Wow, it's time to grab red envelopes! It's time to grab red envelopes!
"Yay, I got 66!"
"I managed to snag 30!"
"Waaaaah, why do I only have 1 cent?"
"Hurry up, hurry up, the person who grabs the most will get more red envelopes."
The kids were having a great time grabbing red envelopes, and a few parents joined in.
What are you guys playing?
"They're grabbing red envelopes."
"Grab a red envelope?"
"Yes, the red envelopes you grabbed on Douyin during the Spring Festival Gala can be sent directly through Mixin."
"And what is Mi Xin?"
"It's a chat app similar to QQ, from the same company as Douyin, the Huasuan.com, you know?"
"Huasuan.com? I've heard of it. Almost all the young people in my company use this website to shop online. I heard it can save you a lot of money."
"Yes, yes, look at this down jacket I'm wearing. I searched on Huasuan.com before buying it and found that it was more than 200 yuan cheaper on Pinduoduo than on Taobao."
"That's great! Download one for me too."
So, a group called "We Are a Loving Family" was created on Mixin, and a Mixin Wallet was opened, where bank cards were linked.
"Hey, this software is really great. It can even send voice messages, so you don't have to type anymore. How come I never noticed it before?"
“Dad, it’s no use for you to have discovered this before. You used to have a Nokia brick phone that couldn’t install these apps. This year you got a Xiaomi phone, which is a real smartphone.”
"Hahaha, come here, Dad is sending you a red envelope. Happy New Year."
Happy New Year! Yay, love you, Dad.
...
Although Zhang Yiming was spending the Chinese New Year at home, he still kept a close eye on the data.
As the Spring Festival Gala progressed, the number of downloads of the Douyin (TikTok) app skyrocketed.
Surprisingly, the downloads of the Mixin APP and the Huasuan Payment APP also increased significantly.
This was truly an unexpected bonus.
Pay once, earn three times the money – it's perfect!
Moreover, Zhang Yiming was very fortunate that before the holiday, Lin Chen asked him to replenish the video library as much as possible, even including many completely uninteresting videos.
I watched as my parents downloaded TikTok and started scrolling through it.
If the parents open TikTok at this time, they will see nothing but sexy young women dressed in revealing clothes singing and dancing.
He would definitely give himself a good beating and then kick himself out of the house, leaving himself homeless during the Lunar New Year.
Why?
The elderly couple had already boasted that the software their son had developed would be featured on the Spring Festival Gala this year. If that happened, one can imagine how much money the couple would lose during the Spring Festival.
Under Lin Chen's guidance, Zhang Yiming and his team worked overtime for a week to edit out interesting clips from many TV series and movies, add various effects and filters, and then publish them using those robot accounts.
There are also many other clips, such as online game clips, mobile game clips, Dou Dizhu (a popular Chinese card game) tournament clips, variety show clips... basically anything that people watch, is edited out and uploaded to Douyin (TikTok).
This also significantly reduced the proportion of videos featuring young women.
Furthermore, based on the tags that users set for each video, after a certain period of time the user stays on the app, a big data recommendation mechanism will be triggered to recommend similar videos to the user.
When Zhang Yiming asked Lin Chen why he did this, Lin Chen simply replied, "You'll find out when the time comes."
I do know now, thank goodness.
The next day was the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Zhang Yiming and his family of three went to his grandparents' house to pay New Year's greetings.
Zhang Yiming's mother boasts to everyone that the Douyin video that aired last night during the Spring Festival Gala was hosted and developed by her son.
As a result, everyone began to praise Zhang Yiming.
"This TikTok is really great. I watched Dou Dizhu videos all night last night."
"Indeed, I've watched so many variety shows, they're hilarious."
...
The young men looked at Zhang Yiming with gratitude, and Zhang Yiming knew that these people might have rewarded him last night.
Phew, that was close. Luckily, there are plenty of resources in the video library now.
Soon, Zhang Yiming noticed that several women were filming videos, preparing to upload them to Douyin.
"Hey? Auntie? Did you see that creator support program on Douyin? You get cash rewards for videos that reach a certain number of views."
"What plans? No, we just want to shoot some videos and share them."
"Yes, yes, and the camera on TikTok is really good; it made me look so beautiful."
Zhang Yiming twitched his lips. That was the highest level of beauty enhancement from a beauty camera, the effect was practically a head transplant, how could it not be beautiful?
That evening, after he got home, he logged into the management backend of the Douyin app and discovered that the number of videos uploaded by users that day had reached a staggering 3 million!
It's worth noting that his video library only contains two million videos in total.
Indeed, art imitates life, and everyone is a director!
Looking at the categories again, the videos posted by users in their twenties are the most numerous, probably because they are all here for this creator support program. After all, who doesn't love watching pretty girls?
The most liked comment on Douyin says this.
"I'm a construction worker, and I never imagined in my life that I would see so many beautiful women singing and dancing for me. Moreover, they don't want my money; all they ask me to do is move my finger and give a like. Thank you to the official platform and thank you to the Douyin app."
The replies below were all the same.
"Me too!"
Surprisingly, the group that posted the second most videos was the aunties and grandmas. Their videos didn't have any highlights; they might just have filmed what was in front of them and then paired it with a catchy love DJ track that made it very addictive.
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