Chapter 15: Celebrities Touching Porcelain!
Chapter 15: Celebrities Touching Porcelain!
In addition to posting in those forums, Xia Ping also deliberately chose to post on the forums of erotic novel masters such as Jia Zhiwei and Bao Pichang.
These two people were the Shakespeare and Keats of erotic novels. They had written countless classics and had many fans. The number of fans following on the forum alone was 30 million.
If you could make a hot topic in these posts, you would definitely attract many readers.
So Xia Ping immediately registered several sock puppets, and one of them posted “Discussion on the fall from grace of Master Jia Zhiwei in modern times.”
“Agree with the original poster. Although I also think that Jia Zhiwei is a master of erotic fiction in an era, his works are too old and stale. No one will read it in this era. I can’t understand what he is saying half the time.” A sock puppet desperately stepped on it.
“Isn’t it? If Jia Zhiwei wrote a novel in person again, except for some diehard fans, everyone would scold him. I think his works are not as good as this new novel ‘Teacher Bai Rong’, the gap is huge.” A sock puppet replied.
“According to rumors, Jia Zhiwei did not completely stop writing. He also secretly wrote a novel under another pen name and published it on the Internet, but it flopped hard and nobody read it.” A sock puppet tried to spread a sinister rumor.” At that time, he read a novel which seemed to be called ‘Teacher Bai Rong’. He was so stunned by the superior quality of the new novel that he cried for a whole night. He was ashamed, and since then has no plans to come out again. It is sad that a master of a generation has fallen.”
“He cried your sister! It’s absolutely not true!” a fan read the previous posts and rebutted harshly, “Don’t spread rumors here, I have never heard of Master Jia Zhiwei writing novels with another pen name. He is in his 70s already. How could he still have time for this?”
“Shameless host, Jia Zhiwei is a master of an era. His novels have benefitted many people. The current novels are written in accordance with his ideas, and they haven’t escaped his framework yet. Those younger generations eat his leftovers. And you dare slander the great master. How come you have time for this farce?”
“That’s right, Master Jia Zhiwei is a great novelist with unparalleled influence. There are also several remakes into TV series and movies with box office of billions. You dare slander him here? You fucking blind bastard!”
“Sorry poster above. The host crawled out of the mental hospital before he took any medicine. I’ll take him back.”
“I’m sorry, everyone. The host is my son. I just let him out before he is well educated. I’m sorry everyone. I am ashamed to have given birth to this piece of barbecued pork.”
A group of fans of Master Jia Zhiwei exploded in rage. These fans were so angry that they immediately posted rebuttals and scolded the host as if to make him unable to lift his head in life. They clamored to spit on him whenever he went out.
In just half an hour, the click count reached millions and the number of replies reached 50,000, which directly ranked this post first.
Of course, most of them were cursing the original poster and scolded the original poster’s 18th generation ancestors all over.
Xia Ping’s sock puppet continued to open a new post “Don’t believe me? Teacher Bai Rong is a hundred times better than all of Jia Zhiwei’s works. It’s completely a landslide victory.” This post zealously praised the novel, ‘Teacher Bai Rong’.
However, he also stepped on Jia Zhiwei’s works and devalued them as worthless and completely rubbish.
“Just go and check Jia Zhiwei’s sales records and see if you still have the gall to say this.”
“I have never heard of this novel before. I don’t know where it came from. This guy must be a fan of the novel’s author.”
“If he wants to be scolded, we will fulfill his wish. Didn’t he say that that novel is better than all the works of Master Jia Zhiwei? I’m going to see just how good it is.”
“Everyone let’s go to that novel’s site and start a bloodbath at the comments section.”
”Everyone, collect some bricks. As soon as I see the author, I will definitely give him a brick behind his head to wake him up from daydreaming.”
A group of fans were angry and agitated, and their replies were vicious.
Seeing these replies, Xia Ping felt very proud. This kind of hyping method was very popular on earth in his previous life. There was also a professional term for this called celebrities touching porcelain.
Simply put, some low-profile Internet celebrities would challenge celebrities with some fame and step on them, thereby increasing their game and fans in the process.
If the big star responds, it increases their exposure. The more intense the discussion, the better. it doesn’t matter if the big celebrities don’t respond, their fans would not be able to stand it.
In short, for small stars or those who are not well-known, celebrities touching porcelain is a very profitable tactic. At least you can take this opportunity to let your name be known to the public to no longer be anonymous.
Although this approach was shameless, but from the perspective of hype, there was no doubt that this was the best and fastest way of publicity.
So Xia Ping followed the same pattern and wrote provocative posts on the forums of famous writers of other erotic novels, which stimulated those fans to blow heads in anger. As a result, his novel “Teacher Bai Rong” became famous at a crazy high rate.
After such crazy hype, the effect was also very obvious——
A large number of people appeared in the originally empty comment sections for his novel. They looked like a large army, neat and uniform. They were all enthusiastically insulting Xia Ping.
In just one hour, more than 500,000 comments appeared in the comments section, adding 3 million clicks to the novel and 300,000 readers who happened to read his novel.
“Success!”
Xia Ping clenched his fists. He knew that even though many people would scold him, there would be quite a few people who were curious and would chose to subscribe to his novel.
Even if the proportion of money paid by these people were not high, it was still a start. This single spark would turn into a prairie fire in a short time. With these seeds sown, Xia Ping believed his novels would surely become popular quickly.