The fishing bloggers have all been recruited. Next is the fan base. There are a total of twenty fans, and the spots will be finalized before the new year arrives.
With the help of company employees controlling the comments, Bai Yu's comment section has always improved slightly, at least many of the inappropriate messages have disappeared.
Even so, it still couldn't dampen the fans' enthusiasm; they were still trying every possible way to get a spot in the competition.
In fact, it wasn't just Bai Yu's ordinary fans; as time went on, the fan competition that Bai Yu organized had already climbed to the top of Douyin's trending list in just one day.
As the popularity grew, especially after other fishing bloggers like Lao Deng announced their participation, it became clear that the number of people wanting to get involved was no longer limited to ordinary fans; many bloggers also wanted to join in.
However, these bloggers were not Bai Yu's fans before, and had not followed him. They did not participate in the competition to compete for a spot.
It's not that there aren't any spots available, it's that we don't even have the right to compete for a spot, which is really frustrating!
As a result, many bloggers have tried to get an invitation from Bai Yu through private messages in order to participate in the competition.
There's no way around it; the competition is just too popular right now. Anyone with eyes can see that anyone who can participate will definitely get a lot of exposure.
Putting everything else aside, Bai Yu alone has over 100 million followers on both platforms. He will definitely be updating content on both platforms simultaneously for this fishing competition, and the exposure he will receive will be unimaginable.
Some readers might have a different opinion at this point: if it's a giveaway for fans, why only give it to Douyin fans and not to Kuaishou fans?
Actually, that's not the case. Kuaishou's fans also get benefits, but instead of baiting, they get real-world perks.
For Bai Yu, his current focus is definitely on Douyin, since the company's accounts are all on Douyin, and Kuaishou is naturally not as high a priority.
For this fishing trip, Bai Yu planned to charter a boat, which naturally limited the number of people, since in addition to the fishermen, there also needed to be someone to film video footage.
In this way, the number of people who can board the ship will naturally be limited. Since his own account and the company's account are separated, there are no slots left for Kuaishou.
However, to make up for the fans on Kuaishou, Bai Yu also gave away twenty of the latest Huawei Mate 40 phones in the comments section of Kuaishou.
As a Chinese person, if I were to give a phone as a gift, it would naturally be a Huawei. Apple phones can just stay out of the way.
Getting back to the topic, Bai Yu naturally wouldn't give out spots to bloggers who asked for them via private message. After all, he had no business dealings with these people, so why should he let them participate?
Bai Yu's competition was organized for his fans, and since none of them paid attention to him, he naturally wouldn't make an exception for them.
If there are no spots available, then there are no spots available.
As time goes by, on the 31st, which is New Year's Eve, everything will be settled, and the allocation of the spots will be answered.
First, regarding the situation in the company's live stream, the spots were given away through lucky bags, with ten spots distributed across more than twenty lucky bags.
To ensure that the spot goes to a fishing enthusiast, they set up several restrictions. For example, after the draw, the system would send a private message to the winner, asking them some questions that they had to answer within a specified time.
Once the inquiry is completed and the details are confirmed, the spot becomes non-transferable, preventing situations where spots are traded privately.
Of course, this question isn't very difficult. It's just asking if I have any fishing experience (it's okay if I don't), and if I have time to participate in the competition, and whether I get seasick, etc.
After all, this competition lasts for a long time, a full five days. If you add the time it takes for ships to travel back and forth, it may take a week or even longer.
It takes time for fans to come to Hainan Province; even ordinary office workers may not have that much time.
Another issue is seasickness. This fishing trip will take place at sea, which is not as stable as land. If a fan who gets seasick comes along, this competition will not be an enjoyable experience, but a torment.
That's why they distributed lucky bags more than twelve times before finally securing the ten spots.
The ratio of men to women among these ten people is eight to two. As for the ratio of internet celebrities to ordinary people, it is slightly lower, at nine to one. In other words, one internet celebrity has managed to sneak into these ten spots.
Bai Hao had nothing to say about this. Since the other person was lucky enough to get a spot, he would definitely bring them along this time.
Because of this event, on New Year's Eve, Yuxue Shipping Company's official account topped the sales charts for four consecutive hours, from 7 pm to 11 pm.
There was nothing we could do; there were just too many people participating in the event today. Within just ten minutes of the live stream starting, the number of viewers in the live stream room had reached over 100,000, and it never dropped below 100,000 until the end of the live stream.
In this situation, their company sells products that are both high-quality and inexpensive, so why worry about not having anyone placing orders?
The company's quota had already been given out, and the competition in Bai Yu's comment section came to an end at midnight on January 1st.
At the very moment midnight struck, the company took screenshots of the top 100 comments with the most likes in Bai Yu's comment section and then began to filter them one by one.
Weed out those who were just trying to take advantage of the situation, leaving only those who met the requirements, and then communicated with them about some details.
For example, the comment with the most likes was from a female internet celebrity. This person garnered millions of likes and won the top spot with her pretty face and revealing outfit.
There's no way around it, there are just too many perverts these days. These guys really can't resist seeing pretty girls or black stockings, especially since this person is an internet celebrity with family support.
I came to participate in this event because I wanted to try a different track and also ride the wave of popularity.
However, after screening by the company's backend, it was found that the time the other party had followed Bai Yu did not meet the requirements; she only followed Bai Yu after she posted the video.
In response, Bai Yu had his company's employees send a screenshot to the other party, explaining the reasons why the requirements were not met.
Although this person did not get a spot, she has already succeeded relatively speaking, since she has indeed gained traffic through Bai Yu, and the millions of likes are enough to prove it.
Then came the second, third, and so on up to the twenty-seventh place. The top twenty-seven spots were all occupied by various bloggers, each with hundreds of thousands or even millions of likes. It can be said that Bai Yu gained a lot of traffic from her.
What Bai Yu didn't expect was that among these twenty-seven bloggers, six actually met the requirements, meaning they had been following Bai Yu for some time and were genuine fans of Bai Yu.
What Bai Yu didn't expect was that one of the people had been following him for four years. It could be said that the person had followed him not long after Bai Yu created his Douyin account. This person could be called a veteran fan, someone who had truly watched him grow up.
Bai Yu also had her colleagues send messages to each of these six bloggers, asking them some basic questions.
These bloggers, having come prepared to participate in the competition, naturally made ample preparations, so unsurprisingly, the six spots were secured.
Then they continued to screen the remaining people. Those who met the requirements were asked questions, and those who did not meet the requirements were searched for in order of priority.
The final ten spots were all confirmed. After reading the list sent to him by the company staff, Bai Yu fell into a deep silence.
The ratio of bloggers and influencers to the ten slots is far too high, 9.5 to 0.5. The extra half slot, while not belonging to either influencers or bloggers, is actually Bai Yu's video account, mainly responsible for sharing glimpses of Bai Yu's daily life.
Since his company account started broadcasting, he has also edited some of the company account's live stream content, and his fan base has grown exponentially.
Moreover, this guy doesn't just post videos on Douyin; he also has accounts on Kuaishou, Bilibili, and other platforms.
Bai Yu knows this guy very well, because he has been following him for a long time, and the content of his videos has been authorized by Bai Yu, so he can repost his videos.
The only requirement is that half of the profits from the slice must be donated, and Bai Yu doesn't want the money; he'll just donate it in the name of the slice account.
In Bai Yu's view, no matter how popular a slice account becomes, it doesn't qualify as an internet celebrity or a blogger. After all, slice accounts are at most secondary creations, without any innovation.
Therefore, Bai Yu defines this slice account as half a blogger. Even though he has more than two million followers, he can still only be considered half a blogger.
This also shows that it is extremely difficult for ordinary fans to obtain a spot through likes. Even Bai Yu himself did not expect that the final spot would end in this way.
Bai Yu originally planned to give the spots in the comments section to her fans, specifically ordinary fans, while the spots in the live stream would be up to the fans and the blogger to compete for based on luck.
However, the final result was that while there were indeed fans, there weren't a single ordinary fan. The lowest-ranking fan had seven or eight hundred thousand followers, which meant it was a case of fans surrounding fans.
However, this is something that cannot be changed, since these people have not violated any rules and they do meet the requirements.
In response, Bai Yu posted a video on her account in the early hours of the morning, announcing the list of those who had won the spots.
They also released a list of those who ranked highly but did not receive a spot, explaining the reasons for not receiving a spot, ensuring that no one could find fault with them.
Within two days, all the participants for this fishing competition were confirmed, and Bai Yu had also rented the fishing boats and found the accompanying filming crew.
Don't be fooled by the fact that Bai Yu only set the prize money for this competition at 200,000; the amount of money he invested in this competition is not small at all. The budget alone is one million, and it may not even be enough.
The prize money was 200,000 yuan. We rented a 40-meter-long fishing boat and went out to sea for five to ten days, which cost a total of 400,000 yuan. The remaining 400,000 yuan was for personnel expenses and some reimbursement of round-trip travel expenses.
This time, forty people went out to sea with them. The 400,000 yuan boat fee that Bai Yu spent was actually the normal cost for forty people to go out to sea for fishing.
Although their company owns its own fishing boat, a large one that is 75 meters long, they don't plan to let the Yuxue fishing boat take them out to sea. The Yuxue fishing boat has its own things to do.
As January 5th arrived, the day they were to gather and depart, the contestants who had previously secured their spots began to arrive in Sanya and then in the county where Yuxue Shipping Company was located.
Today they will depart from the county dock, and the meeting point will naturally be the county dock as well.
Bai Yu had arranged for people to wait at the dock early on. As long as they came to participate in the competition, he would first take them to a teahouse to sit and rest, and then reimburse them for their travel expenses.
Whether it's plane tickets, train tickets, or boat tickets, their company reimburses them all.
By four o'clock in the afternoon, all the contestants had arrived, and Bai Yu and his group also came to the dock.
When Lao Deng and his group came before, Bai Yu took Lao Deng to visit their company. The company gave them high praise, saying that it was no different from a shell company and that it was impossible to tell that it was a company run by a big blogger with tens of millions of followers.
After being teased by Lao Deng, they headed to the dock to board the ship and set off.
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