After gender swapping, my best friend and I hardcore BL (Boys' Love) became top influencers.

After the live stage recordings for the third round of performances were completed, everything in reality seemed to suddenly accelerate.

The talent show "Superstar" has now reached its most crucial stage, with everyone entering the "one pick" phase.

This means that from now on, each account will only have one chance to vote per day.

Furthermore, you can only cast your vote for the contestant you most want to debut. Since you can no longer exchange or hoard votes, every vote now is much more valuable than before.

So the fans of each group were all incredibly excited, frantically boosting views, soliciting votes, and buying endorsements and spending money to get extra voting opportunities.

Every team wants to win the third public performance and get extra votes.

The production team was the same; naturally, they wouldn't let go of any opportunity to make money. They urged the post-production team to work overnight to quickly edit the latest episode, plus two extra episodes. Their efficiency was simply terrifying.

A certain Douyouer group (related to the Star Group)

[My goodness, the closer we get to the group's formation, the crazier the fans become! In the past few days, even our group has been overrun by those fans who are campaigning for votes.]

[Seriously, the forums have been awful these past few days. The homepage is flooded with posts urging people to spend money; it's driving me crazy. Do they genuinely want votes or are they just trying to cash in?]

[Seriously, countless ocean-view properties are growing flesh and blood like crazy!]

[It's normal for fans to urge each other to spend money and vote, after all, it's already the third round, 35 to 20, and there are only 11 debut spots. If they get in this round, it's more than 50% chance of making the group, so it's understandable that fans are going crazy.]

Ultimately, the problem lies in the awful voting system of this show. You only get one vote per day, and you have to complete tasks with your real name to get it, which excludes a lot of votes from casual viewers.

The happiest people right now must be the fans of the trainees ranked in the thirties or so, right? I've already seen so many places selling tickets.

【Wait, this thing can actually be resold?】

【Why not? I saw one that scared me to death before; apparently, the highest price was twenty yuan per ticket】

[Wow, it's worth that much?! Is this voting task easy? I want to earn some extra money too!]

Don't even think about it, it's not that high. This price is deliberately inflated by scalpers. In reality, it's usually only 50 cents to 2 yuan per ticket, and those who buy in bulk can even sell it by the cent.

That's quite a lot! Even if you only sell in large quantities, you can make a fortune. It's practically free money with no investment!

[My goodness, does that mean ticket sellers are making a fortune?]

[That's right, especially those families ranked in the thirties. They say that since their idols aren't going to debut anyway, they might as well take this opportunity to recoup some losses. Even their fan clubs are leading the way in buying tickets.]

[So arrogant? If they give up now, wouldn't all the money and votes the fans spent go down the drain? Would the other fans agree to that?]

[How could we possibly agree to that? We'd be lucky if the other fans didn't tear those ticket sellers to pieces!]

Of course, they still don't dare to be so blatant; they're all selling them secretly.

[Anyway, from all the gossip I've heard, there are even reports of fan clubs and fan site admins running off with the money, and apparently the amount is quite large. I'm guessing a big scandal is about to break, so I'm keeping an eye out for it.]

[Let out a butt]

[Sigh, why does this kind of thing happen every year in a talent show?]

[This has nothing to do with talent shows; it happens even when there aren't any talent shows. It's the same in all fandoms. There are only disappearing funds, and no big fandom is immune to scandals. In short, fans' money is too easy to be swindled.]

[Speaking of which, other groups are putting in so much effort, is that American pair still not focusing their voting efforts? Do they really not want to debut?]

These two people probably never even considered this.

[They were only planning to be eliminated in the first round, but they keep making it into the top spots every time. Isn't that just ridiculous?]

【What else can we do? Donghai Entertainment is practically admitting it outright, they can't stop the fans from voting, this CP is selling too well】

[Here's a scary story: I just secretly checked the vote pool again, and the votes for those two are still increasing!]

So, is there any chance they can debut?

[I don't know. I've never seen a company with a better mentality than Donghai Entertainment. Lansi and Jiaosi criticize them on VB every day, but they don't even respond to a message, let alone make an announcement.]

[It doesn't seem like he has a good attitude; it seems like he's been verbally abused to the point of exhaustion...]

Am I the only one worried about their future? I'm not even a fan, I just really feel sorry for those two faces.

[To be honest, my eyes have been ruined by these ugly people for so long. It's so rare to see two such good-looking people. If they don't debut, where will I be able to find good-looking people in the future?]

It's all because of poverty. To put it nicely, Donghai Entertainment is an entertainment company; to put it bluntly, it's a makeshift operation.

The company hasn't even paid off its debts yet, what good resources could it possibly have? Are we really going to have to watch Uncle Donghai bring two kids to livestream battles? Are they going to be doing livestream busking?

[It's not impossible...]

[I have to say, Donghai Entertainment is really broke. Who knows what happened in that family call segment on the show? Ling Tinglan topped up her uncle's phone twice, and his phone was still out of credit. It was such a relief!]

[Isn't the funniest thing that the money for topping up the phone credit was borrowed from a staff member? I wonder if they ever paid it back?]

[No bag at all. This is the first time I've seen a trainee with pockets emptier than their face. Even my grandma would want to donate some money after seeing this.]

[Don't spread rumors like this, okay? The money was actually repaid, and it was Jiao Wangshu who helped repay it.]

[Is this for real? My goodness! I knew wandering around was useful! I actually managed to find a bite of water chestnut! 99!]

The bag is real. Su Xingran's fans used it to spread rumors about Ling Tinglan, saying that he had character issues and didn't repay the money he borrowed.

As a result, even the staff members were forced to come out and refute the rumors. The chat logs that were posted showed that the money was transferred to him by Jiao Wangshu.

[Didn't they used to be fans of Lanxing? How come they're suddenly spreading rumors about them?]

[Pulling up gossip and then stepping on it – these are the usual tactics of fans of BL (Boys' Love).]

Help! Does anyone know how funny that chat log is?! This Jiao Wangshu didn't say anything, just kept transferring money while smiling apologetically.

Now, whenever I see that meme of a smirking, apologetic person, I automatically picture him. He looks so pitiful.

There's nothing we can do; our poor uncle-nephew trio and childhood sweethearts are just always the source of laughter.

So, it seems that Jiao Wangshu is actually the richest one among them? No? Is that right?

Who knows? He didn't even participate in the phone call segment; I don't know if it wasn't recorded or if it was cut.

[Such a mysterious family background! Can't any fans dig into it?]

[If they don't want to talk about it, they don't have to. I don't know where all this voyeurism comes from (rolls eyes)]

At least our Jiaojiao looks quite wealthy, right? She has a naturally rich appearance.

I don't know, but I doubt a rich person would stoop so low as to hang out with my uncle and Ling Tinglan...

【Hey! What does this mean, upstairs? Are you putting pressure on two poor people? (╬▔皿▔)/】

Wow! Go check out Jin's latest VB video! This "Rhombus and Horn" pairing is terrifying!