For Bai Yu's fans, his first batch of fans were beachcombing enthusiasts, but his second batch of fans were definitely fishing enthusiasts.
With a fan base of nearly 70 million, his fishing fans must number at least several million.
And from the very beginning, his account has never given his fans any perks.
We had never advertised before, and without advertising, we had no sponsors. In addition, Bai Yu didn't earn much money before, and he needed to save money to buy a boat, so we never thought about it.
Now that he has money and free time, and with the Chinese New Year approaching, he needs some material for his videos. So, why not give his fans a treat while he's at it?
After discussing with Li Shuang, Bai Yu and Li Shuang decided on a way to give out benefits: to find thirty people to go out to sea together and hold a small fishing competition.
The thirty participants in the competition included the Ocean University F4, namely Bai Yu, Wang Hai, Li Shuang, and Lu Sheng, and then six fishing bloggers were selected, with the remaining twenty spots given to fans.
Ten of the twenty spots will be selected from the comments section of Bai Yu's account, and the other ten will be selected from the live stream by distributing lucky bags.
Since it's a competition, there will naturally be rewards. Bai Yu set a total prize pool of 200,000 for the competition, and all the fish caught will also belong to the contestants.
Furthermore, Bai Yu's company can help process these fish catches, contact buyers, and take full responsibility for sales.
And since it's a benefit, the simplest benefit, which is the round-trip travel expenses, will definitely be reimbursed by their company.
After figuring out how to distribute the benefits, Bai Yu and Li Shuang split up and took action.
First, the company's account and Bai Yu's personal account each posted a video. Bai Yu's video was for fans who wanted to participate in the fishing competition and had the time to do so.
Participation is very simple; just like and comment on the video. Getting selected is even simpler: the top ten videos with the most likes within a specified time will be selected to participate in the competition.
The only restriction to participating in this competition is that you must have the time and be a fan who has been following Bai Yu for more than a month.
After all, this is a perk that Bai Yu is giving to his fans, especially his long-time fans who have always supported him. This perk is for them.
With this restriction in place, it can largely prevent some bloggers and internet celebrities from using their existing fan base to artificially inflate their likes and win competitions.
After all, Bai Yu has never interacted with any bloggers since he created his account. Among his fans, there are not many bloggers or internet celebrities. If there are any, they are mostly athletes. There are really very few internet celebrities in the fishing field.
After having the company's employees create a competition poster and add some text, Bai Yu released the video to all his longtime fans.
The same applies to the company account, except that the participation method for the company account is different from that of Bai Yu. The company account requires watching the live stream and participating in the lucky bag giveaway in the live stream room to grab a spot.
Leaving aside the company's account for now, just looking at Bai Yu's account, this video immediately attracted a lot of attention from fans as soon as it was released.
Bai Yu's video was posted at 1:00 AM on December 30th, and the likes were limited to 35 hours, ending at midnight on January 1st, 2021.
However, by 6 PM on the 30th, five hours after the video was released, Bai Yu's video had already received over two million likes and over one million comments.
More than 70% of the comments expressed a desire to participate in the competition, meaning that hundreds of thousands of people were vying for just ten spots to go deep-sea fishing.
With hundreds of thousands of people vying for ten spots, the intensity of the competition is unimaginable.
These people will stop at nothing to increase their likes, saying all sorts of things in the comments section.
Some call everyone "daddy" or "godfather" and give him a thumbs up, while others use their long legs in black stockings to trick people into giving them likes. They're definitely just gold diggers.
Some even posted certain comments in the comment section.
You know what, this guy's move was really brilliant.
At first, Bai Yu and his group didn't notice the comment. By the time they did, it had skyrocketed in likes, gaining hundreds of thousands of likes in just one hour and soaring into the top ten.
But even though you made it into the top ten, Bai Yu's video is dangerous! You broke the law!
So after Bai Yu and his group noticed this, they immediately deleted the other party's comment and even pinned a comment to the top, sternly condemning this behavior.
The general idea is that as long as you post pictures of black or white stockings and don't go too far or revealing, Bai Yu won't interfere too much. However, posting learning website links is illegal!
Based on that comment that just received over a hundred thousand views, Bai Yu could easily send the guy who posted it to jail if he wanted to.
They had verified the website address; it was indeed that kind of website. The other party's actions constituted the dissemination of obscenity, and the number of views was at least in the hundreds of thousands. If they were convicted, their prison sentence would be calculated in years.
However, sometimes these things shouldn't be investigated too deeply. As a man, who doesn't have a couple of websites in their browser?
After deleting the video, Bai Yu then instructed the company's employees to keep an eye on the comment section, and to delete any comments that appeared in this manner immediately.
Bai Yu then sent another message to Lao Deng.
Previously, at Lao Deng's invitation, he participated in a fishing competition organized by the other party's company. During the competition, he also added Lao Deng's contact information.
So this time he plans to ask Lao Deng if he's interested in participating in his fan benefit competition. The prize money isn't important; the main thing is to have fun.
Their competition is tentatively scheduled for January 5th, with the participants meeting at 6 PM and departing from either the county or town docks for a five-day sea fishing competition.
The reason for setting the timeframe so long is mainly because Bai Yu wants his fans to earn more money. Even if they don't achieve a good ranking during the competition, it doesn't matter.
As long as you can catch fish, you can accumulate profits based on the number of fish you catch, but you can also earn a lot by selling fish.
Faced with Bai Yu's invitation, Lao Deng only considered it for three seconds before readily agreeing.
Bai Yu gave Lao Deng, an acquaintance, two spots. Besides Lao Deng, he could bring one more person along.
Bai Yu then called the older brother whose fishing spot was to his left during the last competition, inviting him to come to Sanya and take him out to sea to fish.
In addition, there were several other fishing bloggers, all of whom he met at fishing competitions, whom he invited to go fishing at sea together.
Without exception, none of them refused Bai Yu's invitation; they all agreed, and the six fishing bloggers besides Bai Yu and his group were also gathered together.
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