Shang Yechu set an alarm for 4 a.m., and fearing she wouldn't be able to get up, she instructed the system, "You must wake me up at four o'clock."
"You've completely gone mad," the system said incredulously. "Isn't your sleep schedule chaotic enough?"
“I’m not going to play a minor role,” Shang Yechu said, her eyes already closed. “I’m going to check…the data on the internet. It updates at four o’clock sharp, and I need to see it as soon as possible.”
Shang Yechu fell asleep.
At four o'clock in the morning, 103 woke Shang Yechu up on time. On the cold bookstore floor at dawn, Shang Yechu turned the electric blanket to the highest setting, charged her phone with a power bank, and logged onto the CTVB website.
CTVB (China Television Big Data) is the only official viewership survey website in China approved by the National Bureau of Statistics. Before television declined, CTVB data was essentially the sole standard for evaluating the performance of television programs. While other data can be inflated, official data cannot.
CTVB updates the previous day's TV ratings at 4 a.m. every day. Shang Yechu opened her sleepy eyes and clicked on yesterday's ratings list.
CTVB's ratings charts are quite complex, with different methods used to measure ratings for movies, TV dramas, and variety shows. For example, TV dramas require calculating average ratings per episode, but movies that are only one or two hours long obviously don't use this algorithm.
Shang Yechu quickly swiped the screen and saw the ratings for "Tianji Tower" last night.
It achieved a viewership rating of 1.84%, ranking third in its time slot, with a market share of five percent.
This viewership rating looks pretty good.
Shang Yechu adjusted the page and brought up the 2016 annual movie channel ratings rankings. He scrolled down to number 50 and glanced at the ratings.
In 2016, the movie ranked 50th in viewership on the movie channel, with a viewership rating of 1.88%, ranking third in its time slot, and a market share of 5.9%.
The ratings for "Tianji Tower" were decent, just enough to get by. However, the "1720100 Flowers Blooming Project's" ambitious goals of a strong start, a successful beginning, and a fresh start for the new year were clearly far from being achieved. The initial success turned into a failure, the initial success became a flop, and the fresh start for the new year couldn't even reach the heel of last year's fiftieth place ranking!
After comparing the ratings, Shang Yechu had a clear idea of the situation and then opened Weibo.
Shang Yechu switched to another account this time, changed the ID to "Every Day I Love Sheep", and then followed Yang Huanyi's super topic.
Weibo supertopics were only launched in June 2016. Yang Huanyi's supertopic was also newly established at that time, with few members, but her studio had already moved in, and some die-hard fans were also there.
Shang Yechu scrolled to the featured posts section and began saving the beautifully edited photos and materials posted by Yang Huanyi's studio and fans.
After Shang Yechu saved at least a hundred meticulously edited photos and GIFs, 103 finally couldn't help but ask, "What? Are you still planning to be Yang Huanyi's fan for twenty years?"
“Yang Huanyi hasn’t even been in the industry for twenty years,” Shang Yechu rubbed her frozen fingers. “By the way, system, shouldn’t you be playing a different role?”
"What's the purpose?" Although 103 knew Shang Yechu had ill intentions, he still spoke up, "It depends on the situation."
Shang Yechu breathed on his fingers and said, "Can you hide my IP address and create a virtual account for me? Simply put, it's to prevent others from finding me through the internet."
This was a piece of cake for 103; he didn't even need to expend any energy, he could do it with just his computing power. Shang Yechu's request was like asking a math PhD to do addition and subtraction within 100 for 103.
"Sure. But if you're planning to engage in telecom fraud, no."
“Telecommunications fraud won’t be ‘popular’ for several years,” Shang Yechu laughed. “That’s great, it’ll save us some money.”
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