Why bother with dating when you already have a cat?

Sister Bubble agreed as well.

My brother said I don't know how to edit videos yet, and he's never tried it before. If we can get a ready-made video edited by Sister Bubble for free, it'll be a good opportunity to build up some early followers for Xiaoyu's account.

Hmm... this feels so complicated.

Making money is really hard; you have to use your brain.

My brother said that in this era, to make big money, you have to use your brain.

Earning money solely through physical labor will only ever result in exchanging your body and time for the most basic compensation.

But most people may only be able to live like this for their entire lives.

If you really want to make big money, you have to use your brain.

However, my brother still hopes that I have fun and don't need to think about these things.

I showed him my Bilibili account, and I already have 500 followers!

The video hasn't even been released yet.

My brother has been live-streaming his writing for several months, but he still doesn't have 500 followers.

Oh, by the way, my brother said he has to go back to school for his thesis defense on the 25th of this month.

I don't know what the defense is, but he asked me if I wanted to take this opportunity to see more distant places.

Now that I've become human and can endure for a long time, I can consider going to the city center of Hangzhou. My brother said there's a West Lake there, which is a famous scenic spot throughout the country.

Little Fish was naturally happy to be able to go out and play with her brother.

I've been practicing Vajra Kung Fu diligently these past two days. My brother said that besides practicing in the morning, you can also practice it in the evening when the sun is setting.

So I've decided to start tomorrow and try to practice twice a day so I can achieve the goal of practicing for 12 hours straight as soon as possible.

When I go out to play with my brother, I can play for a longer time.

……

Saturday, May 23, rain.

The video has been released.

Chapter 123 Going to School

Over the course of five years, Bubble uploaded approximately two hundred videos.

In the early days, she didn't have many videos because she had to go to school. About a hundred of them were uploaded after she officially decided to do live streaming properly.

Most of these videos have only a few thousand to tens of thousands of views, which is fairly average.

Later, as my fan base grew, I can now post videos normally and get tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of views, depending on the quality of the video and how well it attracts viewers.

Of these two hundred videos, only three have surpassed one million views.

The first one happened when she had only been on Bilibili for about two years. She was learning voice imitation tutorials and imitated the speech of a popular loli character at the time, which unexpectedly made her popular.

The second instance was after she officially started doing virtual persona live streams. She posted a video where she used a loli voice to seduce her teammates, but they didn't buy it and said they preferred mature female voices. So the streamer switched back to a mature female voice and successfully got the AWM from the other person.

In the end, this guy even came to the live stream and became a captain.

It seems they weren't lying; they have absolutely no resistance to a mature, older woman's voice.

The last video to break a million views has now reached over three million views, making it a video that truly broke out of its niche.

However, like the video that was just released, this one was also a collaboration.

Another person who co-released the content was a Bilibili up-master. The person was male, but he was very good at using female voice imitations.

The two happened to become teammates in the game, and their mutual deception created a very entertaining and entertaining situation.

The video released in collaboration with Xiaoyu mainly consisted of edited clips of their interesting conversations and the thrilling moment of winning the game.

[The girl who played PUBG with me turns out her brother is a famous writer?!]

"Why is the title of this video misleading me?" Ai Qing's face darkened when she saw the title of this video.

"Brother doesn't mind promoting his novel online..." Xiaoyu blinked and whispered as she looked at the video that was starting to play on the tablet, "I think it's very interesting, and I'm sure a lot of people will read your book."

"Thank you so much," Ai Qing said, speechless.

There's not much to say about the video content itself. Bubble isn't a professional editor; he mainly just cut out some interesting dialogues and clips of Little Fish being a sharpshooter.

The final shot, taken before the fish fell in the poison circle, brought the video to its climax.

"Wow, so many people are watching! It's already reached 10,000 views. Isn't that amazing?" Xiaoyu glanced at the data and couldn't help but ask.

“That’s really impressive for you,” Ai Qing said, patting her head. “But you can’t be too proud. This industry is one that requires long-term accumulation. Temporary gains and losses are not the most important thing. A single video that breaks a million views is probably not as stable as each episode having hundreds of thousands of views.”

This is actually similar to writing a novel.

For Ai Qing, if he had two choices, he could either write a book with 10,000 subscribers and then flop all the way down and never recover.

Either you can write a high-quality book every time.

Ai Qing would definitely choose the latter.

Of course, having 10,000 subscribers would be even better, but the difficulty level would be on a completely different level.

[This is hilarious! I've actually read that book in the video?]

【@Qidian-FlowersBloom Around the Corner】

Does Little Fish Sister stream? Or can she only be seen in Momo's stream?

[Is this really not cheating?]

[Little Fish, stop playing games! Your brother has a geography question for you: Where is your home address?]

[So this is what a real loli voice is!]

What time does Xiaoyu usually play games? Is it still accessible?

[Has Momo added Xiaoyu on WeChat yet? I missed yesterday's live stream, will I be able to watch it today?]

"Looks like it's quite popular." Ai Qing sighed, unsure of her own feelings.

It's normal for the little fish to be popular, but it's like a treasure you've kept for a long time finally being discovered by someone.

Fortunately, no one else can take it away.

Why does my brother seem unhappy?

“It’s not that I’m unhappy.” Ai Qing shook her head with a smile. “It’s just that Xiao Yu’s excellence will eventually be recognized by others.”

"No, not at all." Little Fish became a little embarrassed. "It's all thanks to my brother's excellent teaching."

……

The new video was uploaded on the 23rd, and its views began to rise rapidly afterward.

From initially getting 10,000 views per hour, it had surpassed 200,000 by midnight that night.

Even for a bubble, this is considered a minor hit video in terms of data.

Today's big data recommendation system has quite complex rules, but as a streamer and content creator for several years, Bubble still learned some general rules from his peers and his own operations team.

For a video to gain more views, the conventional way is to enter a traffic pool and compete against other videos.

For example, in this video by Bubble, the tag is "PUBG". When it was first uploaded, it would target a small group of users who are sensitive to videos about games like PUBG, forming a traffic pool.

This pool is relatively small, so many PUBG videos from the same period will be put in for comparison.

The group with the best final scores will then move on to the next, larger pool of players.

After filtering out users who are highly sensitive to the PUBG theme, the pool will be expanded to a larger user base.

If the response is very positive, and the video continues to compete, it may even enter a very mainstream audience, which means the video has gone viral.

Of course, this "going viral" doesn't mean it becomes a nationwide sensation. Rather, it means that the video has transcended the realm of "PUBG" and even attracted viewers who don't usually watch PUBG to click and take a look.

By the 24th, the video had reached 500,000 views.

However, the growth rate gradually slowed down at night, which meant that it couldn't continue competing and couldn't enter the next larger traffic pool.

This is also why some videos are deleted and then re-released.

Sometimes a decent video might simply fail to compete with several exceptional viewers in a popular pool early on, ultimately fading into obscurity.

After resending to a different traffic pool, it was able to overcome all obstacles.

Of course, real-world big data push notifications are not that simple; the specifics are far more complex and cannot be explained in just a few words.

I was a little disappointed with the bubble; I thought it could reach a million views.

For her, the more attention she can attract, the more fans she will eventually gain.

Even if not many of these video viewers actually become live stream viewers, at least it will provide her with some data metrics if she releases some sponsored videos in the future.

That's all money.

But for Ai Qing and Xiao Yu, it didn't matter.

To be honest, hundreds of thousands of views is already a pretty high starting point for Xiaoyu.

Ai Qing actually hoped that she could take it one step at a time. Otherwise, if Xiaoyu really edited and posted her own videos later, and the result was too different from the first video, he was worried that it would dampen Xiaoyu's enthusiasm.

So he didn't forget to give her a heads-up: "Hundreds of thousands of views is already amazing, and it's also because of the joint video. Bubble itself has its own fan base, so the early PK will be very smooth. If you post your own videos later, you may not get such good results."

Although Xiaoyu didn't understand the deeper meaning behind Aiqing's actions, she nodded seriously, indicating that she understood and had the corresponding expectations in her mind.

By the morning of the 25th, when the video's views still hadn't surpassed 600,000, Ai Qing and Xiao Yu stopped watching the video and prepared to head to Ai Qing's school.

……

"What does your brother's school look like?"

Today, Xiaoyu wore a different high-waisted skirt. Unlike the previous one, which had a traditional Chinese style resembling a horse-face skirt, this one was a loose, floral-patterned style that was more flattering for concealing her tail.

Her upper body was covered by a sleeveless white T-shirt, giving her a casual and cute look.

Ai Qing styled her hair into a bun today, and the fisherman's hat covered it perfectly, completely concealing the cat ears.

Hearing Xiaoyu's question, Ai Qing thought for a moment, and to avoid Xiaoyu having too high expectations, she said, "My school is very small. Just think of it as a casual stroll. There's not much to see in detail."

"Is that so?" Xiaoyu wasn't disappointed; the mere thought of traveling far away was enough to excite her for a whole night. "But if my brother is studying there, he must have been to many different places, right?"