Rebirth is fine, but I get eight hundred dollars right from the start?

YY Inc. didn't expect this either.

Originally, it was just to send a friendly signal and casually give the young man's videos a few hours of top recommendation.

Who would have thought that this casual move would directly incubate a phenomenal monster in the field of game tutorial videos over the past 12 years.

Within 24 hours, the number of views skyrocketed to 1.4 million.

On the third day, it got even more outrageous—3.09 million!

The number of views is skyrocketing by a million per day, like it's been on a diet of chewing gum, it just won't stop.

Besides the number of views, the sheer volume of comments is equally astounding.

The comment section of the video on the Guangbox and the Duowan forum saw a surge of nearly 5,000 comments on the first day.

By the time those slow-witted operations team remembered to put the video back on the featured list on the third day, the number of comments had officially surpassed five figures.

Ten thousand, and that number is still jumping up.

The number of downloads is unheard of!

Before this, if anyone had said that a game video could be downloaded by hundreds of thousands of players, the head of YY Inc. would have called them a daydreamer and told them to go to the hospital to get their brains checked.

But now?

No matter how unwilling he was to believe it, the facts were right in front of him, the data in black and white as a slap in his face.

The person in charge could only push up his glasses, sigh deeply, and attribute it to the crazy internet age.

How else can we explain it?

In the past few days, Chinese players have truly enjoyed a period of celebration.

On major esports forums and online communities, there are countless posts praising Lin Shu, the first player in the Chinese server to release a free tutorial video.

The atmosphere was just as festive as during the Lunar New Year.

Take the comment section of Youku videos as an example.

The players' replies were so enthusiastic that they practically built skyscrapers!

[Holy crap! A 2600-point pro! This is real teaching! Not just smurfing, it's teaching you how to actually win!!]

[Who says there's no smurfing? Even opponents with 2400 points got brutally crushed by Emperor.]

[I've saved this, I'll check it every day, and try to reach 1800 views this month!]

[Every step is explained clearly, ten times more thoroughly than what Xiao Zhi and Ximen did!]

[The guy upstairs is insulting me, Emperor. Xiao Zhi and Ximen are all trash, they should be ranked before you talk, okay?]

[So minion waves are that important? No wonder I got ganked so badly when I was pushing the lane recklessly!]

[Thanks, expert! I'll play according to this strategy tonight and try to climb out of this 1700-point hole!]

[After watching this, I feel like an idiot. I never knew games could be played like this!]

After watching the expert's tutorial, I, a LeBlanc specialist, have successfully racked up 200 points.

It wasn't just the comment sections of platforms like Duowan and Youku that were buzzing with excitement.

As the videos gained wider popularity, a group of secondary creators couldn't resist taking Lin Shu's videos and repeatedly dissecting, analyzing, and recreating them.

The featured posts on Baidu Tieba, the analysis topics on forums... it's fair to say that they spread like wildfire across the entire internet at a viral speed.

……

YY Inc. headquarters.

Gu Feng held a teacup in his left hand and the video data report from the Duowan Box in his right, and finished reading the last line of numbers.

He twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, and his mood was much more relaxed than a few days ago.

Posting videos is great.

If they are willing to post videos and choose Duowan as their first choice, it proves that they are willing to cooperate with them.

As long as you're willing to talk, everything is negotiable.

"So?" He tossed the report onto the table, glancing at his assistant beside him. "Do you still think the Emperor isn't interested in live streaming?"

The assistant stared at the data, his lips trembling for a long time before finally managing to stammer, "That's...that's outrageous!"

He swallowed hard, his face filled with disbelief. "My first video got a million views... I'm incredibly lucky."

"You think it's just luck?" Gu Feng raised an eyebrow, a half-smile on his face.

"Of course not." The assistant gave a wry smile and quickly replied, "Luck is just a convenient term; in the words of novels, it should be called destiny."

"I've seen the analysis of the current League of Legends game market by Duowan Box before, especially the part about players' psychological aspirations... The video uploaded by Emperor can be said to be a perfect fit for the needs."

……

What are the current needs of League of Legends players?

Just as Gu Feng guessed, Lin Shu did a thorough research based on his memory before releasing the video.

It was the end of 2012.

As League of Legends becomes increasingly popular, the number of new players is skyrocketing, and the malpractice of the ELO matchmaking system is becoming more and more apparent—if you win a few games, you'll be given a few terrible teammates, and if you lose a few games, you'll be given a couple of free wins, relentlessly keeping you stuck in the same rank and grinding you through the game.

More and more people are trying to get out of this mess.

But reality is cruel.

Seventy percent of players in the Chinese server are stuck in the 1200 to 1600 MMR range, which, to put it bluntly, is the range from Silver to Gold, according to Riot Games' ranking reform next year.

Open any forum or online community, and you'll find a screen full of repeating voices—criticizing teammates for being bad, bragging about how good they are, and crying out that they can't climb the ranks no matter what.

"My teammates keep giving away first blood, what should I do if I can't carry?"

"I've been stuck at 1400 points for a month, please help!"

"I clearly have the ability to score 2000 points, so why is the system forcing me to stay at 1800?"

There are countless similar posts seeking help or lamenting their plight; you could scroll through three pages and still not finish them all.

The reality is that there are very few players in the Chinese server with a score of 2,400 or higher, and even fewer who are willing to make tutorial videos.

There are professional players, such as the WE and IG teams signed by YY Inc., who occasionally stream and play ranked games.

But they play the game according to the established strategies, with five people coordinating and coordinating as a team, which is completely different from solo queue.

You, a Silver-ranked player, are trying to learn how to play team fights in competitive matches?

That's nonsense.

As for those content creators who frequent the video section...

It's not that Gu Feng looks down on them, it's just that their skill level is truly worrying.

Some people are sweating profusely and flustered even when playing a 2,000-point game, their skills are so distorted it's like they have Parkinson's disease. They're in such a predicament themselves, yet they have the nerve to come out and teach others?

To put it bluntly, they only gritted their teeth and used high-scoring footage to make videos, so you can imagine how low the quality was—they themselves were only half-baked, so how much substance could they possibly produce?

What players want is someone who truly stands at the top, telling them how to navigate the path.

And so, in this desert, a man named Emperor was born.

Starting from ranked matches, he was like a top player in the Chinese server, sweeping through all the top players and professional gamers in the country.

Then, they launched a top-tier tutorial video for the Chinese server that no one else could imitate.

With high-quality content from creators with 2600 creators and 2400 game points, coupled with practical, directly applicable techniques such as laning strategy, skill-based gameplay, roaming timing, and situational decision-making, this guide precisely addresses the essential needs of League of Legends players looking to climb the ranks.

After such a series of moves, if you tell him now that it wasn't carefully planned and was purely a fluke, who would believe you?

Do you believe?

Gu Feng, anyway, didn't believe it.