Just as Bai Yu and the others were pondering what gift to give the Snake family, their fishing trip became a trending topic on social media in China.
Moreover, it wasn't just a trending topic on a single platform, but a trending topic across all platforms, with its popularity soaring from the bottom of the trending list to the top at a rocket-like speed.
The speed at which its popularity has soared is the envy of many idol stars!
Even if the trending topic appears in the morning in China, making it easier for the trending topic to rise, it is still surprising enough.
After all, this wasn't just a trending topic on a single platform, but across all platforms, and it appeared on the trending list very naturally without any manipulation.
As for why this happened, it goes back a few hours.
Just a few hours earlier, when the organizers announced the results of the Ocean University F4, the Chinese internet was already in an uproar.
It was only close to midnight, the time when night owls gather in droves, and many of these night owls had placed bets on Bai Yu and his group.
The amounts range from a few dollars to tens or hundreds of dollars, and from thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Now that the results of the Haida F4 have been announced, they are the champions, and even double champions! How could those netizens who placed their bets on them not be happy?
Their assets doubled; those who bought early saw their assets increase dozens or even hundreds of times, while even the lowest-valued assets more than doubled.
By the time the betting companies cancelled their bets, the amount wagered on Bai Yu and his team was several hundred million US dollars, making them absolute favorites to win the championship.
Now that Bai Yu and his team have won the championship, all the netizens who bet on them, regardless of their nationality, will now be Bai Yu's fans, and the die-hard kind at that.
Before the joy of their assets doubling disappeared, these netizens would absolutely not allow anyone to say a bad word about Bai Yu and the others; once that joy disappeared, it didn't matter anymore.
Among these netizens, our own fans are the most numerous, since it was our own people who initially voted Bai Yu and his team to be the favorites to win the championship.
Now, our own netizens are having the most fun, posting their prize redemption slips on various platforms every night.
The small amount was a few tens of dollars, and the caption read: "I lost money. I should have trusted Bai Yu and invested more!"
The large one is worth over ten million US dollars, and the caption reads: "Thank you, Brother Yu, for gifting me an apartment (in Lujiazui)!"
Of course, besides Bai Yu and his two companions, there were only four other people who bet over a million US dollars, and only one person bet tens of millions. This person was a gambler who bet 100,000 US dollars on Bai Yu and his group, and he was betting on them to win both championships, with odds of 1 to 142.
Because so many posts showing off their bills appeared all at once, the popularity of information about Bai Yu skyrocketed. Before most netizens could figure out what was going on, Bai Yu was already trending on social media.
By the next morning, Bai Yu was already at the top of the list, and in a way that no one could challenge.
After all, many onlookers didn't know what happened that night. If they wanted to know, they would have to search for information, which inadvertently increased Bai Yu's popularity.
Of course, around 8 a.m., a large number of posts about Bai Yu on the internet began to disappear, and the popularity of news about Bai Yu also dropped again and again, falling out of the top ten from the top of the list.
The main reason for this situation is that those netizens posted screenshots without blurring their faces, directly revealing their gambling funds on online gambling websites!
It was just posted like that, and it even included an English introduction to the online gambling company!
Everyone knows what kind of environment our family is in and how tolerant we are of these kinds of posts. After starting work in the relevant departments, it's natural that we have to clean up the internet.
Some of them were even interviewed by their local police station.
After all, gambling overseas is illegal, and it's one thing for them to gamble on their own, but to post screenshots online is really going too far.
However, this matter is quite troublesome to investigate because the gambling website these netizens logged into is a legitimate gambling company, a Las Vegas company.
Whether it's the cyber police or other police officers here, it's not easy for them to collect evidence in this area.
In response, apart from catching a few outstanding individuals, such as the one who earned over ten million, most others received a criticism and warning, followed by the deletion of their posts.
As for those few who had a greater impact, they are still figuring out how to deal with them. Simply criticizing and educating them is definitely not enough, after all, the amount involved for these individuals is quite large.
While the online buzz surrounding Bai Yu is waning, for those media accounts, their story is just beginning.
They saw something profitable and a hot topic to look for in everything that happened from last night to this morning.
Not long after, an article about public figures inducing their fans to gamble appeared online, directly targeting Bai Yu, who had just come down from the top of the trending search list.
Moreover, once this article was published, it was immediately reposted by many peers, and its popularity was visibly rising, quickly pushing Bai Yuhe back into the top ten trending topics.
As for the article that claims Bai Yu instigated fans to participate in gambling, if you click on it, the examples listed in the article are, according to relevant sources, Bai Yu is suspected of instigating fans.
Then there were some screenshots of posts from last night, such as netizens' comments like "I should have believed Bai Yu if I had known," and "I didn't listen to the elders, and now I'm suffering the consequences. Brother Yu, I was wrong."
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Then, just as Bai Yu and the others saw off Yu Xue No. 5 and were about to discuss what parting gift to give Snake, Bai Yu's phone rang.
"Hey, Xue'er, what's up? My flight is tomorrow night, I should be home by the day after tomorrow."
The call came from Li Xue, and Bai Yu thought she was calling to ask how his plane ticket purchase was going.
"Brother Xiaobai, I didn't call to talk about this. You're trending on social media again in China today, you know that?"
"I'm trending again? Wait a minute, I'm currently abroad. I haven't done anything in China, so why am I trending? What are they saying about me on the trending list?"
Bai Yu was stunned when Li Xue mentioned that he was trending on social media. He had been out of the country for almost a month, so how could he be trending in China?
While asking Li Xue, he also had Li Shuang and the others open their phones to check the specific situation.
After a few minutes of conversation, Bai Yu learned the whole story, and then he became unhappy.
What does this trending topic have to do with him? He didn't do anything. He just participated in a fishing competition. How did that become inciting others to gamble?
"Brother Xiaobai, during the competition, and even before, did you mention anything about betting companies online?"
After Li Xue finished explaining the situation, she also asked about the main purpose of the call: to confirm whether Bai Yu had mentioned any information about the spinach company.
As for instigating others to gamble, Li Xue didn't even need to ask; she was certain Bai Yu wouldn't do such a thing.
The real concern is that Bai Yu might mention the betting company's information during the live broadcast or video of the match without his knowledge, which would be seen as promotion and instigation.
"Am I out of my mind? Do you think I don't know what our family situation is? I know what I can and can't say."
Besides, I'm not a gambler to begin with. Why would I bring this up for no reason? Would I be looking for trouble?
Bai Yu was very clear about whether he had instigated others to gamble. He had indeed done so, but he had not instigated anyone else but Li Shuang and Lu Sheng.
Apart from that, he never mentioned it to anyone else. In fact, he was introduced to it by someone else, Snake. He didn't even know the name of that betting company before.
As for the information that Bai Yu and the others communicated with Snake, it was done without any record and would never have been leaked. Therefore, the online claims that he instigated others to gamble are pure fabrications.
With Bai Yu's confirmation, Li Xue had a better understanding of the situation and then asked another question: how did Bai Yu intend to resolve this matter?
"Brother Xiaobai, if you haven't mentioned gambling companies to anyone, then these articles are pure fabrication. What are your plans to do next?"
"What else can I do? First, I need to assess the impact of their actions on me. If the impact is significant, then I'll sue them directly."
First, issue a statement, then investigate and trace the source, find out who was the first to publish the article, and sue all media accounts that reposted it afterward, especially those with over 10,000 views and over 500 reposts.
Our company has a legal team, and they've been pretty free lately, so let's give them something to do: have them go door-to-door and file lawsuits against companies.
Xue'er, tell the legal team to go all out. Generally, any compensation they secure will belong to the legal team; consider it a bonus for them.
The other half was donated in the name of our company's legal team to the Law School of Ocean University. I refuse to believe I can't take down these rumor-mongers.
Bai Yu told Li Xue his idea: to fight the other side to the bitter end.
When their company was preparing to start live-streaming e-commerce, Bai Yu assembled a legal team of more than a dozen people, all of whom were top students who graduated from the law school of Ocean University of China.
Even their company's legal counsel includes two professors from the law school of Hainan University, all of whom are elites from the law school.
Furthermore, if Bai Yu's company were to sue those who spread rumors, the court that would handle the case would inevitably be the court in Sanya, which is Bai Yu's territory.
Take their company's legal team as an example. In any court in Hainan Province, from the intermediate court to the high court, most of the people in the team are senior colleagues from the legal team.
If Bai Yu's company's legal counsel comes later, they might even run into a few students.
Therefore, in Hainan Province, as long as Bai Yu and his group are in the right, they are not afraid of anyone when it comes to lawsuits.
After receiving Bai Yu's request, Li Xue knew what to do. After all, Li Xue and Xia Jing were both law students, so they naturally knew how to proceed with the prosecution process.
Subsequently, their company directly reported the case to the local police station and also filed a report with the procuratorate, pursuing both cases simultaneously.
By the time Li Xue called Bai Yu, their company had already collected almost all the evidence.
The report was filed against a certain Southern Daily for spreading rumors and slander against Bai Yu, and the evidence was conclusive. The police were called to arrest the editor who wrote the article and his chief editor.
The prosecutor's office is lumping all the media outlets involved together and filing lawsuits against them for defamation and spreading rumors, demanding that they compensate Bai Yu and Yuxue Shipping Company.
After all, everyone knows that Bai Yu represents not only himself, but also Yuxue Shipping Company, the national team, the provincial team, and various brands as a spokesperson.
Even though these people's slander and defamation of Bai Yu didn't last long, the impact and losses were enormous.
If Bai Yu succeeds in his lawsuit, he will receive at least eight figures in compensation, because there are simply too many media outlets spreading rumors, at least twenty or thirty of them, all using the same wording, clearly a group of people.
Moreover, Li Xue and her group were very cunning. They didn't notify the other party in advance. Even after the case was filed, they submitted the evidence first and then slowly continued to search for evidence, allowing the situation to escalate further.
Their company's approach is completely different from how other celebrities are dealt with when they are the subject of rumors.
Those people in the entertainment industry, when they are slandered, will at most issue a statement and maybe send a lawyer's letter. They rarely file a lawsuit without prior communication.
As for the various reasons, everyone knows what they mean.
But Bai Yu and his group are different. As public figures, he directly filed a lawsuit instead of engaging in a war of words with these people.
By the time these media outlets realized what was happening, it was already too late. They had already collected all the evidence they needed and taken all the screenshots they needed.
These media outlets only learned they were being sued several days later, after the Sanya court issued them a notice of case filing.
They were kept in the dark until then, and the articles they published and reposted were already circulating online.
As for the bland announcements issued by Bai Yu's company, no media outlet paid any attention to them; they just continued as usual.
It wasn't until Li Shuang and his team figured that these media outlets should have received the case filing notices by then that their company slowly released the case filing receipt.
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