Losing money, mygo, what does it mean that I really lost money?

The original price set by E社 was like this; the price increase was Bilibili's own decision. There's no way around it; Bilibili paid a hefty price to acquire the merchandise distribution rights, so they have to recoup their investment, right?

What's most incomprehensible is that a set of Ps*Ple autographed photos and souvenirs costs 390 yuan, a Maruyama Aya fmo costs 130 yuan, and a package deal for members costs a whopping 540 yuan.

What, a packaging fee?

The collection was also affected by the flood.

The collection costs 10 yuan per draw, and after two draws, you get a set of animated emoticons. If you complete all the draws, you get a free animated avatar that pops out of the frame. Even though Bilibili has to pay a high percentage of revenue to E-Company, it still makes a fortune.

Unfortunately, making money always comes at a price.

Uncle Chen gained money, but lost a lot.

Uncle also made money, but he hid it.

The Collection was a product that was hastily launched after only 7 tests. Besides the fact that many departments worked overtime to revise the background art after the release of version 6, it was heavily criticized for having no guaranteed reward for hidden items and being untradeable. Mr. Chen from Bilibili was directly and fiercely insulted for his greedy behavior, forcing idols to make easy money, and for the exorbitant price of membership purchases.

When apologizing, MembersBuy also announced that starting with the next [Ps*Ple Collection #2], the hidden shipment rate will be adjusted, the number of guaranteed shipments will be displayed, and virtual merchandise will be given away.

PREO was so angry that he went on a Twitter rant, saying, "So you didn't have a guaranteed minimum?"

Several employees were too embarrassed to criticize their boss while playing as the top laner for Mongolia, but what Boss Chen did was definitely not fair.

Even after each item was deleted, Bilibili's Japanese partner, E社, still received rumors that Bilibili was making money unfairly through its collection system. Even though E社 was the one who came up with the idea, Bilibili ended up having to apologize to E社 and give back some Bilibili coins to everyone who reached the guaranteed reward for the hidden item. They're losing a lot of money...

"The show's on! Let's watch MC's live stream, stop chatting."

Several employees stopped paying attention to Membership Shopping.

......

As the school's only virtual anchor and the only person who knows Ima Teruyuki, Chihaya Aine always has a calmness in her eyes that is incomprehensible to ordinary people.

She usually speaks quite normally, but she acts a bit silly during live streams. However, after realizing that viewers were appreciating her goofy antics, her tweets changed to "Live stream about to start, oh oh oh oh!"

Sillyness is gradually taking over her.

Chihaya Aine is incredibly adept at making silly, goofy sounds and charmingly cute antics. From the moment the broadcast begins, her virtual avatar wriggles and changes expressions, finally settling into a mournful face and emitting a sweet, tearful expression:

"I forgot to turn on the sound! How could this happen? How could this happen? What's going on? Waaaaah, waaaah..."

The audience watching the dual-stream format was amused.

[Unsatisfactory acting skills, swampy acting skills]

[You could say she's not cute, she seems to know she is; but to say she's cute would be against my conscience and intelligence. Maybe that's just how Sugar is.]

[Hey streamer, your BIBDIB play count has been surpassed!]

"What?! My BIBIDIB is gone?!"

Chihaya Aine was immediately hooked by the comments.

As she clicked into ExElio's MC server loading, she immediately opened Yotbe. She saw that what surpassed hers was Momoka Kawara's "Sbtitle".

"...Ahaha, hehehehehehe."

She had no choice but to make a sound to cover up her mistake and try to hide the fact that she hadn't been hooked.

Unfortunately, the gossipy viewers in the live chat have already informed Mengmengxiang, who is also streaming a game.

Compared to "BIBIDIB," whose music video was still in production and hadn't fully taken off, "Sbtitle" swept the YouTube charts this week, skyrocketing to three million views. Whether Momoka Kawahara made the song famous, or the song made her famous, is hard to say.

After exchanging a few "haha"s with the viewers in the chat, and letting out a few sweet cries to satisfy them, Chihaya Aine, whose forehead was already a little sweaty, finally breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, she already had some experience with live streaming.

She knows that the viewers in the live chat love her voice.

The rest of the MC live stream was unremarkable.

The first-generation members entered the server together, interacted briefly, and then each found a different area to explore on their own. The chat was filled with instructions on "how to do this," but the virtual streamers ignored them. The first-generation members, who hadn't played many games before, made a mistake with a pig nose, immediately drawing red-hot comments.

Soon, nearly an hour had passed in the blink of an eye.

The combined viewership of the five live streams on Bilibili and YouTube has reached 200,000, which is quite astonishing. Most of the viewership comes from Mengmengxiang and Yingyu Aiyin.

The "lazy person's package" mod has a lot of content. Some first-generation members disappear into the mines, some are engrossed in building their own colossal wonder statues, some are researching how to use records, and others...

A shared home has been established.

"Meow dream kiss?" Chihaya Aine continued her poor acting.

The purple cube-shaped figure jumped and hopped in front of Chihaya Aine, and a line of text appeared in the lower left corner.

"I'm the first person on the Minecraft server to do this! Everyone, come and live in the place I built! I've built a free Minecraft shared home by that lake!"

In an instant, all the Bilibili livestream staff members who were sipping tea and watching the livestream suddenly woke up and sat bolt upright. Holy crap, the Japanese are livestreaming, fine, but why are they even making a classic server?!

Main text: The edited version of Chapters 76 and 79 went viral, causing a surge in popularity.

As everyone knows, E社 (E社) is very knowledgeable, perhaps even too knowledgeable.

Bilibili's live streaming page has a separate virtual zone for virtual streamers. The staff and super admins of these virtual zones can all understand Japanese. After understanding the concept of a shared community, they immediately felt a chill run down their spines.

E-Company really doesn't discriminate; they'll take any kind of traffic.

Bilibili staff watched the rest of the live stream on edge, fearing that Miaomeng and Yingyu Aine might say something they shouldn't. Fortunately, they were really just building a place for the first-generation members to live together in MC, and nothing seemed amiss throughout the entire live stream.

In that case, let the people in the video section have a headache; it has nothing to do with the live streaming department.

Those who watch the live stream are relatively innocent virtual streamer fans who don't understand the concept of shared housing. They think it's just about choosing a place to build houses together, which is perfectly normal for Minecraft.

It's worth mentioning that the shared home was located on a large plain, but Yang Gongfei had other ideas and went to a slightly more distant mountain, hollowing out the mountain and digging a cave to build a home.

The area was referred to as "Sheep Village" by the comments section, and a small group of comments also said that the sheep had been "sent down" to the countryside.

Halfway through the live stream, various clips related to interactions with the virtual streamer began to be generated, translated and edited at lightning speed, causing viewership to surge rapidly. Furthermore, various editing enthusiasts who uploaded these clips to Miaomeng Shared Home unanimously added different traditional Chinese style DJ songs.

The scene of Miaomeng and Aiyin building the shared home together is accompanied by the song "Weak Water Three Thousand". For Nakamachi Arale, who joined the shared home midway and loves to sing, the song is her own cover of "Tang Dynasty Love Song".

The scene of Yang Gongfei digging stones alone after "leaving the shared homeland," accompanied by the songs "Don't Ask When You'll Return" and "Red-Clad Ladies," along with the poignant line "Though lowly in rank, I dare not forget my duty to the nation," is juxtaposed with a shot of her looking back at her fellow first-generation students...

The hints are very clear.

But they just wouldn't say anything.

After watching the edited video, the comment section, which pretended not to understand, remained silent, only casually mentioning things like "the intricate details of building the shared home" and "Miaomeng doesn't participate in the labor of sharing the home at all, spending almost all her time eating, drinking, playing, fishing, and looking for pets," leaving the three groups of people who watched the edited video feeling at ease.

People who came to relax saw the girl playing games happily; virtual streamer fans saw their idols' careers flourishing; and the mysterious person also had a great time.

Many of the shared communities' edited videos were of very good quality. Leaving aside the generous "E-Community Second Creation Incentive Program," they truly achieved a moving effect.

Live streaming is just a way to maintain fan loyalty. Fan growth depends on video production and live stream clip editing. These interesting edited videos quickly attracted a large number of casual viewers. Let's take a look at what this virtual streamer that Bilibili has been promoting is all about. It turns out that everyone has something to offer.

"What do you mean by 'Miaomengqin released her Chinese cover of 'Weak Water Three Thousand''?"

"I must immediately follow the broadcasters who sing Chinese songs!"

This kind of scenario often happens to passersby who accidentally click on the link, and that's how they become fans. Subsequently, some of them will become live stream viewers or buy merchandise out of interest.

In short, Jin Zhao has made a fortune.

......

At midnight, because Japan is one hour ahead of China, the first generation of trainees was already airing very late. With the final episode of the first generation, Hitomi Hino, ending, the editing began to unfold rapidly.

At Yutenji Wakame's house, she was talking on the phone with Imaizumi.

"President, you know me, I've always admired you..."

Yutenji Wakana from Kumamoto is willing to do anything to attract attention, and Teruyuki is perfectly capable of helping her. With popularity, everything else is negotiable; the first generation members are a harmonious and friendly family.

After hanging up the phone, Miaomeng immediately couldn't contain her excitement and searched for her name on Bilibili. Seeing a series of videos with hundreds of thousands of views, she couldn't help but exclaim in amazement:

"Really? This is just kindergarten pretend play, how come so many videos are playing? Am I dreaming? I'm famous! I've finally become a super popular celebrity!..."

Miaomeng, who had always been a bottom-tier YouTuber with videos rarely exceeding 1000 views, finally understood what it felt like to be popular and trending. She had only spent two hours building blocks, planting crops with Chihaya Aine, and researching redstone with Takamatsu Akari, and yet so many people watched?

Although a large number of followers and high views on Bilibili are difficult to convert into revenue, a large audience at least creates a lively atmosphere, which is something Miaomeng craves. Furthermore, her YouTube views have all surpassed 10,000, which is a good thing.

By proposing the concept of "shared home" during the MC live stream, a large number of new fans subscribed, and Miaomengqin's channel fans exceeded 20, resulting in very high advertising revenue.

YouTube viewers seem very interested in this kind of "political" gimmick.

YouTube's restrictions on speech are not as strict as Bilibili's, so viewers directly replaced the first generation members with foreign political figures such as "Nyan Dream Roosevelt and Edison during a turning point in history," playing with memes that Bilibili would never even dare to imagine. In the comments section, they wrote about President Nyan Dream's personal deeds, Nyan Dream's racial persecution of Himiya Hina, the Aine Foundation's ruthless suppression of Himiya Hina, and so on. Foreigners also went crazy.

"Am I Roosevelt?" Miao Mengqin was completely baffled.

Anyway, all she needs to know is that she's becoming popular.

She looked at the Minecraft icon on her computer and couldn't resist clicking the launcher again. Since this could increase her popularity, she might as well secretly play a little more, familiarize herself with the game, and prepare her script for the next live stream.

Now that no one is streaming, the server remains unchanged, and no one is sneaking around.

Miao Meng pressed tb and casually glanced at the online players. Besides her own Nychi_Nym, she was surprised to find three other players: "Huh? How come there are so many people?"

One ID is Stff, a staff member, and the other is rle, Little Arale. It's not surprising that these two are still in the game. The president is probably busy finding inspiration and planning the script, and Arale is also looking for her own live streaming content. Miaomeng doesn't pay much attention to these two.

But who is this Mortis? (Search)

Miaomeng looked at the string of letters and only remembered that it seemed to be in the format of a second-generation member. After checking, she found that it belonged to the rhythm guitarist of the second generation who was very skilled; his name seemed to be Wakaba Mutsumi.

She remembered Wakaba Mutsumi because, when Nakamachi Arale recounted the past of Crychic, Nyan Yumechi put herself in Wakaba Mutsumi's shoes and imagined the scene of being pressured by Toyokawa Shoko. If it were her, she would definitely have turned on Toyokawa Shoko on the spot and said, "What right do you have to comment on the team's skills?"

Lost in thought, Mortis's pale green blocky figure hopped over. Meow Dream typed a greeting, but Mortis didn't say anything, just circled around Meow Dream, seemingly trying to express something.

After circling around for a long time, Miaomeng finally saw her type: N

"How do I become a virtual YouTuber?"

Main text: Chapter 80, Chapter 77: Wakaba Mutsu: I've never played Minecraft before.

At this moment, Imaizumi is still playing Minecraft with Nakamachi Arale.

After saying goodbye to the audience and ending the broadcast, the virtual streamer immediately contacted his male roommate who lived next door and played games with him via voice chat... It's hard to imagine that such behavior could be done by his idol.

Arale Nakamachi further justifies her actions by arguing that companionship is the responsibility of a guardian. (II)

Anyone who didn't know better would think he was a virtual boyfriend kept by a virtual streamer.

"...So, the store manager plans to support Xiaodeng as the village chief of the shared community?"

"That's right. I just watched a lot of clips, and they were mostly about her digging the mountain alone. There were also clips that deliberately showed the sheep being ostracized and isolated. In fact, she isolated everyone. The fact that the sheep princess was voted as the village chief would have a lot of unexpected and entertaining twists."

Jin Zhaozhi explained the humor in this arrangement to her.

While chatting with Arale Nakamachi, he noticed the bottom left corner.

It seems that Nyanmu is chatting with Wakaba Mutsu.

Mutsumi Wakaba is a childhood friend of Shoko Toyokawa, the daughter of former Crychic guitarist and famous actress Naomi Namori, and is considered one of the more technically skilled students.

Is she asking Miaomeng for advice on how to become a virtual streamer?

Jin Zhaozhi thought to himself that he was right.

This atmosphere of juniors learning from their seniors in a harmonious way is great. Isn't it wonderful that the other artists in the agency are all very professional and abide by the idol code of conduct?

Even Toyokawa Shoko, whom he cared about most, seemed to be in better spirits after receiving her monthly salary. She greeted him energetically every day and reported on her work progress and life.

[MeowDream: Didn't your captain teach you about virtual YouTubers?]

Mortis: No.

[MeowDream: I also learned how to be a good virtual YouTuber by listening to the president's explanations, exchanging ideas with Aine, and consulting with seniors like Ps*Ple. She goes for a cute and silly style, I mean, witty remarks. We can't really emulate Yoyo and MMK's style.]

When it came to her juniors in the company, Meow Dream seemed to be showing her true colors, giving detailed critiques of each of her teammates' styles. As for Arale Nakamachi, she was playing a game in the middle of the day, and since MC chat is all public, Meow Dream wouldn't be foolish enough to critique her teammates in front of her boss and teammates.

[MeowDream: As the president also said, to be a good virtual streamer, operations and scripts only account for 20%, the rest depends entirely on your own personality. Finding your own path is the most important thing.]

Mortis: I don't know.

Mortis: I can't find my own path.

So, Miaomeng seemed to be in a dilemma as well.

She only has a basic understanding of how to be a streamer who can attract fans, and she's completely incapable of instructing others. So, she had no choice but to ask for help from Nakamachi Arale and Imaizumi, who were also on the same server.

When a well-behaved cat encounters difficulties, it will naturally seek out its adoptive owner, rather than hissing randomly.

After thinking about it, Jin Zhaozhi realized that he didn't know Ruoye Mutsu very well, so he could only play games with her for the time being.

Perhaps while playing games, Wakaba Mutsu will come up with the idea of ​​becoming a streamer.

[Staff: Let's play the game first. Think about what you'd like to say while playing, what you'd like to communicate with the audience, and how you'd want the audience to perceive you.]

[Staff: It's getting late, everyone should get some rest. Also, minors staying up late is prohibited and violates industry regulations.]