A genius? I just love studying.

Chapter 326 What matters is attitude
Chengdu, High-tech Zone, Tianfu Jincui
It's the weekend, and Fang Wen is lying on the sofa without any restraint, playing on his phone with his junior sister in his arms.

No, his junior sister is now his wife.

Both of them started looking for jobs right after graduating with their master's degrees, but his junior sister was two years younger than him. They got married right after graduation, but they both found it too much trouble and didn't hold a wedding banquet.

With his status as the first author of that SCI paper in a Q1 journal, Fang Wen found a pretty good job in Chengdu. Even the head of the Chengdu branch treated him like a brother, simply because Chen Hui was the second author of that paper.

Regardless of the paper's academic merit, the fact that Fang Wen was able to place his name before Chen Hui's speaks volumes about its value.

"Hey, Chen Shen is registering a Weibo account?"

Suddenly, Fang Wen's junior sister exclaimed in surprise, sat up from the sofa, and put her eyes close to the phone screen, seemingly unable to believe her eyes.

"really?"

Fang Wen lay motionless on the sofa, chuckling softly, "How could a scholar like Chen Shen, who is solely focused on academics, possibly use Weibo?"

"But it has a gold V certification!"

The junior sister decisively clicked into her personal profile.

Weibo mainly has yellow V and blue V. Blue V is mainly used for enterprise and organization verification, while yellow V is for personal verification, which requires submitting an ID card and proof of occupation to at least prove the authenticity of the account holder.

Gold V is an upgraded version of Yellow V. If you reach ≥30 views and ≥100 loyal fans, you can upgrade to Orange V. If you reach ≥1000 million views and ≥1000 loyal fans, you can upgrade to Gold V.

"what?"

"This account only has a few dozen followers, no die-hard fans at all, and has only posted one update, so how did it get a gold V?"

The junior sister was puzzled, but became even more certain that the account belonged to Chen Shen, because only Chen Shen was qualified to have Weibo grant him such privileges.

She was right to think that way. As soon as Chen Hui was verified, Yu Mei immediately gave him a Gold V account. If it weren't for Chen Hui, no one else would have this privilege.

"No way, this style... I think it really does have some similarities to Chen Shen."

Fang Wen also sat up. Although he thought that what his junior sister saw was just a fake account, he was still very concerned about Chen Hui's news, so he immediately went to Weibo to search for him.

[Holy crap, is that really Chen Shen?]

Soon, numerous comments appeared under Chen Hui's post.

The moment Fang Wen clicked on the comment, the official Weibo account replied to it below: "That's right, it's Chen Hui, the Fields Medal winner who solved three Millennium Prize problems, the cancer terminator, and an academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering!"

"Even the officials have testified; it really is Chen Shen!"

The junior sister immediately got excited and followed the account.

Fang Wen was also surprised, "It really is Chen Shen!"

But his actions betrayed his true feelings; he followed Chen Hui and left a comment on his post: "Welcome to Weibo, Chen Shen! Let's give Chen Shen a shout-out!"

"Renren Daily has retweeted Chen Shen's Weibo post!"

The junior sister, who had just calmed down, suddenly exclaimed again. Fang Wen also saw the repost from Renren Daily, with the caption: "A national master, shining brightly across the world! A warm welcome to Academician Chen Hui, winner of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Fields Medal, to Weibo! @ChenHui"

This was like a clarion call, instantly igniting the enthusiasm of various official Weibo accounts.

Immediately following, the blue "V" logo of Huaxia News lit up, displaying the message: "[Salute to the climbers of scientific peaks, salute to the guardians of human health! Welcome Academician Chen Hui! The light of science shines here! @ChenHui]".

Following closely, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (@CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (@CAE) issued statements almost simultaneously: "Welcome our pride! Welcome Academician Chen Hui of the Chinese Academy of Sciences/CAE to the new academy!"

[Warmest congratulations to Academician Chen Hui on launching his Weibo account! Your wisdom and contributions are recognized worldwide!]

As the field most directly related to Chen Hui's academic contributions, the welcome message from the China Association for Science and Technology was full of respect: "Science knows no bounds, exploration never ends! A warm welcome to Academician Chen Hui! Every breakthrough you make expands the boundaries of human knowledge!"

The National Health Commission's response, posted on @HealthyChina, focused on his identity as a cancer terminator: "[A healer with profound medical expertise and integrity! Academician Chen Hui's achievements benefit countless people. We eagerly await your sharing of your insightful perspectives on health! Welcome! @ChenHui]"

The National Center for Disease Control and Prevention (@ChinaCDCUpdates) quickly joined in, posting: "A tribute to Academician Chen Hui for his outstanding contributions to human public health security! Welcome!"

Fang Wen kept refreshing the Weibo page, and each refresh brought dozens more reposts and welcomes from influential Weibo users. It wasn't just official accounts; even some internet celebrities, stars, and Weibo accounts from all walks of life were reposting Chen Hui's Weibo posts and expressing their welcome.

Only at this moment did Fang Wen fully confirm that this person was indeed Chen Hui.

Only the real Chen Hui could have such influence. From the moment he first saw Chen Hui's account until now, only a dozen minutes have passed, and thousands of Weibo influencers have already reposted it. Chen Hui's number of followers has exceeded 100,000.

It's common knowledge that Weibo's follower count is heavily inflated, but Fang Wen understood that in such a short time, Weibo probably wouldn't have time to inflate the numbers, so these were a genuine 100,000 followers!

Horror!
Chen Hui, who had stirred up a wave on the internet, was completely unaware that he had already boarded a plane to Beijing. Two days ago, Mr. Qian said that he had something important to discuss with him and hoped that he would go to Beijing for a short meeting.

Since he couldn't use his phone while on the plane, he was studying a paper on the four fundamental forces.

Now that both cancer and Nirvana II have stabilized, he doesn't need to spend too much time on them. Naturally, he plans to continue his previous research, unify the four fundamental forces, and wait for the planetary particle collider to be completed to see if he can uncover the secrets of the deepest level of the universe.

Dark matter, antimatter... there are still many unsolved mysteries in this world waiting for him to unravel, and he is full of motivation for it.

……

At Weibo headquarters, after completing Chen Hui's real-name authentication and providing him with one million views, Yu Mei quickly convened a meeting with the heads of various departments to discuss how to promote Chen Hui's entry into Weibo.

Her initial idea was to push Chen Hui's post to anyone who logged into Weibo, or simply put up a poster on the Weibo homepage announcing Chen Hui's entry into Weibo, in short, to let everyone who entered Weibo know the news.

"This is not good."

The head of the technology department frowned. "Our recommendation algorithm has been perfected over decades. There's no need to modify it for a few individuals. That would make users question our professionalism."

"I believe Chen Shen can generate enough buzz. Anyway, everyone will know about this eventually, it will just take a little longer, and I don't think he'll mind."

The product manager also hesitated before finally speaking, "I don't think it's appropriate to modify the homepage interface. There's no precedent for this, and I believe Chen Shen doesn't need such methods to attract traffic to himself."

"Are you crazy?"

Looking at these guys, Yu Mei really wanted to know why she was in the same company as these idiots. "We're not doing this to drive traffic to Professor Chen, we're using Professor Chen's traffic to drive traffic to ourselves, you idiots!"

The faces of everyone in the conference room were not very good. Even those as shrewd as them found it hard not to get angry when called an idiot.

They understand the reasons, of course, but Weibo is already quite good these days, and they don't want to make any rash moves. They understand the principle that the more they do, the more mistakes they make.

If this works, everyone will be happy. But if it attracts criticism, who will step forward to take the blame?
They argued that since Chen Hui had already joined Weibo, their goal of gaining traffic had been achieved, so why add anything unnecessary? The arrival of a highly discussed scientist could indeed bring a lot of traffic to Weibo, but that was all. Chen Hui was indeed highly discussed online, but so what? Could he have hundreds of millions of followers?

Can it compare to several currently popular celebrities?

There are already many celebrities like them on Weibo, several of whom have over 100 million followers. When those celebrities joined, they weren't given any special treatment, were they?

Furthermore, Chen Hui is different from those celebrities. Those popular celebrities have data workers who generate data for them and spend money on them, but it's not necessarily the case for Chen Hui. Higher traffic doesn't necessarily mean higher commercial value.

If that's the case, then wouldn't those bloggers with tens of millions of followers on video platforms be the highest earners?

However, the reality is quite the opposite. The most profitable short video platforms are not those with the most followers, but those that generate sales through live streaming. Therefore, traffic and commercial value are not always completely equivalent.

They believe Chen Hui will generate significant traffic, and they respect him greatly, but they are unsure about his commercial value.

"Is that what everyone thinks?"

Yu Mei glanced around the conference room and felt a sense of powerlessness.

Although she is a fan of Chen Hui and does want to invest more resources in him, she does not think she made a mistake and believes that investing resources in Chen Hui is absolutely worthwhile.

But the others clearly didn't think so; they simply sat in their seats, shaking their heads and remaining silent.

dong dong dong...

There was a rapid knocking on the door outside the meeting room.

Everyone in the conference room frowned, knowing who was being so tactless. They were a group of department heads having a meeting, and no matter how important the matter was, they couldn't be disturbed.

The next moment, the conference room door was pushed open.

The deputy director of the technical department stood at the door, looking anxious, and said, "The server crashed."

"what?"

"Who is attacking us?"

The head of the technical department stood up, his face full of anger.

"It's not an attack."

"There were just too many users flooding in at once."

"We have already implemented temporary capacity expansion and traffic throttling, but it's still not enough. The entire Weibo service is now paralyzed."

The deputy director of the technical department was sweating profusely. This was clearly a serious production accident. Although it was caused by too many users flooding in at once, the problem could not be solved even after rate limiting and capacity expansion. This meant that there was a problem with their architecture.

But he was also wronged; he never expected so many users to log in to Weibo at the same time.

"What happened? Is there some major event?"

The head of the technical department looked puzzled. Many unexpected events had occurred in the past, but their Weibo account had usually held up. Why couldn't it work this time?

"Professor Chen joined Weibo, and various official accounts came to congratulate him. Weibo big V's also joined in the fun. Now, Professor Chen's post has been forwarded nearly a million times."

This time, the answer came from the deputy director of the content operations department: "After this kind of fermentation, nearly 9 million users logged into Weibo in just three hours, and Professor Chen has more than 4 million followers."

"what?"

"9 billion?"

The head of the content operations department widened his eyes and exclaimed in surprise.

Weibo currently has 2.61 million daily active users and 5.88 million monthly active users. This means that Chen Hui's move alone brought more than 3 million new users to Weibo.

"This...how is this possible?!"

Not only him, but the other department heads in the conference room also looked at each other in astonishment, deeply shocked. Could this really be something that humans could do?

They knew that completing controlled nuclear fusion power generation and developing Nirvana 1, a drug that can completely cure cancer, would greatly enhance Chen Hui's status in everyone's eyes. They also knew that many people would pay attention to Chen Hui, but they never thought that the number would be close to 10 billion.

Not to mention Chen Hui, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't believe anyone could do it. These aren't fake or inflated followers, but real, living fans!

"Mr. Yu, we think your suggestion makes a lot of sense. We'll do it right away!"

At this point, the head of the content operations department stated unequivocally that traffic does not necessarily equal commercial value, but when the traffic completely exceeds expectations, the value it can bring is immeasurable.

"idiot!"

Yu Mei showed no respect whatsoever, striding out of the meeting room without looking back.

The other managers all looked somewhat embarrassed, but after a couple of awkward laughs, the head of the content operations department said to the head of the technology department, "Let's do as Mr. Yu says. Everyone, let's work overtime and get it done as quickly as possible."

"What's the point of continuing the publicity now?"

The head of the technical department asked, puzzled, "Chen Hui already has over 4 million followers. I don't think their current promotion is meaningful at all."

The head of content operations smiled mysteriously, "You don't understand. Whether it's useful or not is not important. What's important is that we have to show that we value it."

"Just do as I say."

The head of the technical department suddenly realized and burst into laughter as well. Sure enough, their technical skills were no match for the old fox on the other side.

Then he looked at the deputy director of the technology department, "Hurry up and restore the production environment, then have the product department come up with a design plan, announce Professor Cheng's arrival on the entire platform, and you should complete the change and put it into production tonight."

"clear."

The deputy director of the technical department breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the leadership didn't investigate the incident, the users should be able to understand. After all, Professor Chen had attracted so many new users, so it was forgivable for their service to crash.

Just like the popular anime "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality" that aired on Bilibili not long ago, the website experienced lag because the protagonist Han Li reached the Nascent Soul stage and too many users joined in. However, the users didn't dwell on it; instead, they enjoyed talking about it.

Their system crashing today because of Professor Chen might just become a heartwarming story.

(End of this chapter)