The group was kicked out, and low presence means they are bad?

4 month 1 number.

10 o'clock in the morning.

In an Internet cafe in Gangnam District, Seoul, Jin Mingxi, a college student in his twenties, stretched his body and said with a pair of gray eyelids:

"Holy crap, I actually finished watching Squidward! I'm really patient!"

His good friend Lee Seung Hyun laughed and scolded, "How the hell can you bear this? It's obviously the drama "Squid Game" that's so good, okay? If "Squid Game" wasn't good, I guess you would have fallen asleep several times."

Although he had been working from 12 o'clock last night to 10 o'clock this morning, Lee Seung Hyun did not feel tired at all.

Even after watching all the episodes of "Squidward Gaming", he still felt a little unsatisfied.

"Squid Game is really good, Bai Xingjian is really fucking awesome!"

Mentioning this topic, Jin Mingxi perked up a little.

However, his state still caused Lee Seung Hyun to laugh at him, "You are like this even after staying up all night. You are only 21 years old! Have you lost control recently and taken too many flights?"

"Can I only blame myself? If you want to blame someone, blame the fact that there are too many slutty girls on the Internet. I am just a human being."

Jin Mingxi did not feel the slightest bit ashamed, and said without scruples: "Don't even mention those slutty bitches on the Internet. Even in Squid Game there are clips that are banned for 18+. Now I know why those people in China don't allow Bai Xingjian's Squid Game to be released online."

"Hahaha, Bai Xingjian is quite good at taking pictures."

Lee Seung Hyun, who had just finished watching "Squid Game", was naturally impressed by this. He sighed and said:

"It's a pity that the beautiful Han girl is too old. If she had a younger female character instead, maybe she would have looked better!"

Hearing this, Jin Mingxi rolled his eyes at Li Shengxuan, "With your temper, you just laughed at me? You're not much better, are you?"

"I'm just thinking about it, but I won't put it into action."

Lee Seung Hyun tilted his head slightly and smiled, "I'm not like you, who can't even control my hands."

"I can't beat you in a verbal argument."

Jin Mingxi didn't dwell on this topic any more. "I'm going to get off the plane in a few minutes. I'm going to get off the plane early and go back to catch up on my sleep. Damn, I've been watching Squid Game all night and it's making me feel dizzy."

After saying that, Kim Myung-seok no longer paid attention to Lee Seung-hyun's reply, and simply got up from his chair and went home.

Before leaving, he mumbled, "I finished watching Squidward in one night, which is worthy of the 300,000 won bonus they gave me."

At this time, another winner of the 300,000 won prize, Lee Seung-hyun, was still sitting in front of his computer. 】

After seeing the logoff notification in the lower right corner of the computer, he happily continued for another two hours.

It's okay, we have money.

One hour surfing the Internet, another hour chasing girls online.

After deleting Netflix, Lee Seung Hyun went straight to Twitter and browsed netizens' reactions to the drama "Squid Game".

What surprised Lee Seung Hyun was that most of the netizens who made relevant comments were from Coria and China.

There are very few netizens from other countries.

"What's going on? Is Squidward so unpopular internationally?"

Lee Seung Hyun muttered something, but didn't think much about it. He turned around and looked at what netizens had posted.

[Oh my god! Bai Xingjian is a god! The bloodiness of the drama "Squid Game" is even more brutal than the games I play. He really dares to shoot it! ]

[I won’t say anything else, the first episode of “Squid Game” shocked me directly. Not long after the female doll turned her head, gunshots rang out, and then blood splattered, and corpses piled up like a small mountain. Even if it was fighting zombies, it would be no more than this, right? ]

[The person who fired the gun must have felt great.]

[Isn’t this just an adaptation of the shooting incident that happened in Las Vegas a few years ago? ]

[No, this can also be connected? ]

[I can only say that the 123 wooden man game in the first episode is just an appetizer. During the tug-of-war in the third level, those who fell down were directly pierced by the steel spikes below, just like the thorn birds. The scene is so beautiful! ]

[The simplest game, with the most horrifying bloodiness, Bai Xingjian is truly a genius! ]

[Holy crap! Is Squid Game so good? ]

[I watched it from 1:00 last night to 10:00 this morning, staying up all night. Do you think Squidward is not good? ]

[+1+1, +1 for watching "Squidward Gamble" all night]

【1111】

[Is "Squid Game" really that good? It makes people not want to sleep? ]

[The Kaurians do not deceive the Kaurians. Go and see. They are absolutely honest! ]

[Children should not watch "Squidward Gone Wild" because the age limit on Netflix is ​​16+]

Lee Seung Hyun, sitting in front of the computer screen, looked at the comments posted by netizens with great excitement.

When he was enjoying the show, he also posted a few comments and even answered some questions from netizens about the show "Squid Game".

But not everyone has a positive response to Squidward: The Last Airbender.

There were also many people cursing on Twitter.

[The drama "Squid Game" really makes me want to vomit. The games we played when we were young have been turned into a slaughterhouse. It's so disgusting! ]

[Bai Xingjian is really sick! I thought "Squid Game" was a TV show for children, so I took my little son to watch it, and he was scared to tears by the story in it. Now he is still crying... Pay me! Bai Xingjian, I want you to pay me! ]

[After watching a few episodes of "Squidward Gamblers", I just want to say that the culture of Coria has been ruined by Bai Xingjian. What kind of shit is this? Can anyone really watch TV series with so many disgusting scenes? ]

Of course, many viewers who like the drama "Squid Game" also responded to these comments.

In an instant, the discussion of topics related to "Squid Game" on Twitter was rising at an extremely rapid rate.

……

America.

Netflix Los Gatos headquarters.

Technical department.

In the center of the open office area, there are two huge LED display screens.

The content on the screen shows the viewing data of Netflix's global users: how many people are online per second, how the server load is, and which region needs more bandwidth support.

Several engineers in uniform were staring at the data nearby, discussing in low voices from time to time.

"China is indeed a country with a large population! If it weren't for the support from Youshi, the servers we have deployed would definitely not be enough."

"It would be great if all these Chinese users were paying customers. In that case, Netflix would be able to move to a higher level!"

"Hahaha, increasing the market value by a few hundred billion dollars shouldn't be a problem."

"The data of the drama "Spiritual Lord" is really scary." "Well, now it's only watched by free users, so it's meaningless, don't watch it."

"There's no need to be so disrespectful to them. Aren't there people who have signed up for premium membership? Although the number is very small compared to the free users."

That being said, someone still cut off the data chart of "Spirit Lord" and replaced it with the data chart of "Endless".

The other display screen still shows the viewing data of Netflix users around the world.

When the engineers present saw the data of "Never Ending", they couldn't help but show surprised expressions.

"It's really worthy of being a big production that cost hundreds of millions of dollars! The show Limitless has now gone beyond Japan and is now facing the world."

"In the morning, the traffic in Japan accounted for 55%. After 45 hours, the traffic in Japan still accounted for %. It seems that this drama is really popular!"

"After all, it's a $1.6 million production, and it's been a long time since a TV series with such a high budget has appeared."

"Hahaha, I'm afraid Mitsui Film and Television will be overjoyed after hearing the news."

"I originally thought that Bai Xingjian's Squid Game could compete with Never Ending, but now it seems that there is no hope for Squid Game to compete with Never Ending."

"Squidward!? I'm not being regionally discriminatory, but can anything good be made out of the culture of the Corians? Not to mention that the person who filmed Squidward! was a Chinese named Bai Xingjian."

A man with a scraggly beard said with a smile, "Besides, a TV show like Squidward Games, which has a strong Kaurian culture, is expected to be very niche. It will have 50 concurrent users at most in the first weekend."

This person is called Carl Jenkins and he is a network engineer in Netflix's technology department.

Concurrency refers to the number of people using the service at the same time.

On the streaming platform Netflix, it refers to how many people are watching the video at the same time.

Netflix will adjust server capacity in real time based on the number of concurrent users.

Carl's words are actually based on past experience.

Because these are relatively niche dramas, they have better reputations, but their traffic is quite moderate.

Carl took a sip of his drink and prepared to open Twitter to see what Corea's audience was saying about the show.

But just as he picked up the phone, a cry of surprise suddenly rang out: "Seoul node! Seoul node is overloaded!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's eyes instantly turned to the first LED screen.

On the world map, the Seoul area has been marked in red.

"Seoul area? It seems to be the main base of Squid Game. Let's switch the data to Squid Game and have a look." Someone in the field said.

Carl frowned and tapped on the keyboard, switching the screen that was displaying the data of "Never Ending" to "Squid Game".

Then he was a little confused: "What the hell is this?"

On the screen, the traffic in Corea accounts for as much as 40% (the traffic generated by Corea users accounts for 40% of Netflix's total global traffic. In other words, out of 100 viewing requests worldwide, 40 come from Corea).

In addition to Coria, the numbers in America's west coast, London, Bangkok, and even China are gradually increasing.

Karl rubbed his eyes, suspecting that there was a display bug in the system, and turned to shout to the other person:
"Hey, Raj, take a look at this data. Is there something wrong with the system?"

The person who was called was named Raj Patel, a system architect in the team. He was sitting in a corner with his mobile phone, doing nothing.

Upon hearing this, he put down his phone, took his laptop and walked over quickly, his eyes focused on the various data charts on the screen.

After looking at it for a few seconds, Raj pushed his glasses up on the bridge of his nose, with a hint of doubt in his tone:
"Impossible? Our surveillance system was just upgraded yesterday."

Despite what he said, Raj opened his notebook and his fingers began to dance on the keyboard.

A few seconds later, he shouted in a rather shrill voice: "It's not a bug! This data is real! The CDN request volume has tripled, and the Seoul node is overloaded!"

Raj pointed to the red dot on the laptop screen, shook his head and laughed, "Not just Seoul, the load rate of the entire Coria server has soared to 95%."

After these words were spoken, everyone present was a little confused.

"No, is it true?"

"Raj, are you sure this data is real? And not someone maliciously inflating the data?"

"Please don't question my professional ability!"

By this time, everyone in the office had noticed something was wrong.

The sound of keyboard tapping became more frequent, and the originally lazy atmosphere was directly replaced by an invisible sense of tension.

Carl picked up the phone and started calling the cloud service provider: "Add 10 nodes urgently, hurry up!"

As he spoke, Karl's voice trembled and his face was full of disbelief.

It’s just a game called “Squidward”, but it’s about to crash Netflix’s servers in Corea?

really!
Raj, a system architect, also came to the whiteboard in the office area at this moment, picked up a marker, and drew a global CDN distribution map at a very fast speed.

As he was drawing, he shouted, "Tokyo, Seattle, who can tell me the delay between these two points? I need to calculate the bandwidth!"

at the same time.

Emily from Netflix's data science team is sitting at her workstation.

In front of her were three monitors arranged in a circle, with Netflix's unique recommendation algorithm scrolling on the screen.

Emily was wearing noise-cancelling headphones at this time, comfortably blogging while monitoring relevant data.

Suddenly, the screen to her left flashed, and a warning popped up.

【Recommendation click abnormality!!!】

Emily took off her headphones with a puzzled look on her face and clicked on the details with a frown.

Then it was discovered that the click-through rate of "Squid Game" was 1100% higher than expected.

"Wang Defa???!!!"

Emily was stunned for a moment.

Emily realized something was wrong and quickly switched to the user behavior analysis interface. The data she saw next was so surprising that she felt dizzy.

The average viewing time of "Squid!" is 6.2 hours, the completion rate exceeds 70%, and most users watch it directly from the first episode to the sixth episode.

"What kind of shocking data is this? Is the show "Squidward Games" so good?"

Emily grabbed the mouse with a trembling body and looked at the detailed data.

Male users aged 18 to 25 are the majority, but the number of female users aged 35 to 44 is also surging.

Even users who usually only watch light comedies like "Emily in Paris" started watching "Squidward".

"?????"

Emily was completely confused. "Is Squid Game poisonous? My algorithm model is useless!" (End of this chapter)