Volume 3: Taking Roots 2016 Chapter 470: Rising Fame
On Weibo, the post and hot search terms about "Zhou Dongsheng" were so popular that they once reached the top ten hot searches, causing countless netizens to discuss and talk about it with great relish.
But popularity is not always constant. What is most lacking in the Internet age is the endless stream of new things every day, and the public's attention will not always be focused on one thing.
Precisely because popularity is fleeting, there is the phenomenon of "riding on the popularity". If you don't strike while the iron is hot, you won't get any benefit even if you try to ride on the popularity.
Generally speaking, as long as the parties involved do not respond, this kind of heat will soon fade away.
After all, the attitude of most netizens towards this kind of news is at most to take a look at it and sigh that there are such geniuses in the world, and that other people’s children are really amazing.
And then nothing happens. Not even a comment is left. Even if there are millions of views, the silent ones will always be the majority.
That evening, at the Internet's evening peak, an unremarkable short video titled "Zhou Dongsheng's Personal Statement" quickly spread across the Internet.
The promotion of the two major media and Wenxue Network undoubtedly played a crucial role, especially high-quality Weibo accounts with millions of followers such as [papi Jiang] and [PDD], which rushed to repost the video, allowing the short video to quickly gain exposure.
After the person involved responded, the popularity of the three words "Zhou Dongsheng" has undoubtedly increased, and this short video also has a watermark of the words "TikTok".
Countless curious netizens clicked on this short video, wanting to see what the person involved had to say. Is it really as outrageous as the resume exposed on Weibo?
However, I didn't expect that what the person said was even more outrageous than what was on his resume.
When you click on the short video, you will see a young and handsome man looking at the camera with a smile on his face. He greets the camera with a bright smile on his face.
"Hello everyone, I am Zhou Dongsheng. I didn't expect that my little personal experience would attract so much attention from netizens. I am flattered..."
The first feeling of many netizens is that God is really unfair. Not only is he so handsome, but he is also so successful in his career! It is true that comparison makes people angry.
However, as Zhou Dongsheng continued his story, their indignation grew stronger.
"At the same time, there are also many doubts and controversies. Although I am not a public figure, in order to prevent these opinions from affecting my life, I decided to stand up and make a statement..."
"Actually, that resume overstated me a bit. I'm just an ordinary entrepreneur. It's just luck that helped me a little bit...
It all started during the World Cup, with the mentality of supporting the country’s sports cause…”
Zhou Dongsheng remained calm and spoke without any hesitation. He could say such words in a righteous manner, which showed that Zhou Dongsheng had indeed grown up. At the very least, he had become thicker-skinned.
"In the semi-final between Germany and Brazil, I was lucky enough to bet on the winning number and became a lucky winner of a lottery prize of tens of millions..."
"At that time, I knew that my luck in this life might have run out here, so I didn't dare to spend a penny of this money. For an ordinary person like me, it's really a fear of poverty."
Hehe, In the Name of People hasn't been released yet, so I'll just copy this golden sentence reluctantly.
"So I divided my money into two parts, one for business and the other for learning investment and financial management. At first, I just used virtual stock trading software to practice. Not surprisingly, I suffered a floating loss of -23%, which made me more convinced that my good luck had come to an end..."
"I didn't expect to encounter the bull market in 2015. My capital increased several times..." Zhou Dongsheng smiled shyly when he said this.
But countless netizens who saw this were furious. Why was this statement so unkind? Why didn’t this good luck fall on them?
"This experience has made me deeply understand a truth: standing at the forefront of the times, pigs can indeed fly." Zhou Dongsheng casually joked about Mr. Lei's famous saying.
Although this sentence is not as popular as Mr. Lei’s widely circulated “are you ok”, its popularity is second only to the former.
"This is also the main reason why I am committed to investing. After all, I am a lucky pig. All I have to do is find the next lucky pig."
"I hope everyone won't pay too much attention to me, a pig."
The short video of just a few minutes came to an abrupt end, but Zhou Dongsheng's handsome face with a bright smile was deeply engraved in the eyes of netizens, especially that smile, which looked so cute no matter how you looked at it.
What kind of personal statement is this? It seems like blatant showing off. If you are a pig, doesn't that mean we are worse than pigs?
Although they were offended, words such as "ordinary", "a little bit luckier", and "ordinary people are afraid of being poor" made many netizens empathize.
Combined with the "grassroots" attribute of Zhou Dongsheng's previous resume of starting from scratch, it definitely has a bit of the flavor of a grassroots counterattack, which also makes the theory of luck seem somewhat logical.
After all, in this day and age, if you don’t have a bit of luck, how can a grassroots person make a comeback?
Especially the last sentence was like the finishing touch, which immediately aroused the rebellious psychology of many netizens. They wanted to follow it even if they were not allowed to.
After all, such examples of grassroots counterattacks with distinctive personalities and young achievements are rare even in the Internet age, and they are widely sought after and recognized by the general public.
Because these people have achieved what they have always dreamed of but could not get.
Zhou Dongsheng's labels such as "the lucky winner of tens of millions of lottery jackpots" and "stock trading encounters a bull market" are exactly the topic labels that the general public likes and talks about the most.
Who hasn’t thought about how to spend the millions they won in the lottery, or dreamed of making money in the financial market?
Zhou Dongsheng's experience undoubtedly caters to the needs of the general public, especially his lottery and stock trading experiences, which he mentioned vaguely, making people want to know the details urgently.
Why does this person only finish his sentence halfway? It's really frustrating!
As a result, as this short video became widely circulated, a large number of netizens followed the watermark of the two words "Tik Tok" and found the exclusive platform where Zhou Dongsheng released his personal statement.
Without hesitation, I downloaded, followed, commented, and urged for follow-up updates, hoping to learn about the follow-up content of Zhou Dongsheng's experience.
After following, it is natural to browse it on the Douyin short video platform.
After operating for several months, both the platform mechanism and content accumulation have undergone qualitative improvements, and the music short videos presented to many netizens have begun to show the magic of swallowing time.
In particular, the cross-dressing challenge centered on reversal has already been played out by countless people, and it has been improved through countless generations since the earliest version of the "double chin challenge."
This irresistible joy, which only requires a simple swipe upwards mechanism, will quickly make it easy for new users to get started and become addicted.
At the same time, under this wave of self-marketing, the number of followers of Zhou Dongsheng's personal Douyin account has skyrocketed, and it is expected to break the record set by Saozhu for the fastest number of followers to reach 1 million.
