novelraw Chapter 588 - 464: #Professor# Goes Viral!
Chapter 588 - 464: #Professor# Goes Viral!
The words "trending search" made Zhou Tang’s nerves stand on end, "What’s trending?"
"It’s a Weibo trending search," Xiaoqian said with a cheeky grin, "Bro, you had the foresight to actively help promote ’Old Friends’. Otherwise, given its current popularity, if netizens found out we didn’t help with the program’s promotion, they would sarcastically say we look down on low-cost productions."
Zhou Tang is popular, but there are also many people who criticize him online.
As the saying goes, when a person is famous, rumors abound.
"’Old Friends’ is trending?" Zhou Tang was fully awake.
"Yes," Xiaoqian was overjoyed, "This morning, Sister Lin even called me personally to praise our friendly promotion of ’Old Friends’, and said that we could deepen our cooperation with them in the future."
Zhou Tang didn’t care about these things; what he wanted to know was, "What’s the trending topic for ’Old Friends’? Does it have anything to do with me?"
As a top influencer among male celebrities, Zhou Tang has always been confident about his influence.
"...Yes," Xiaoqian paused slightly before answering.
"It’s either yes or no," Zhou Tang, who had been staying up late, was not haggard but was indeed accumulating negative emotions.
People who don’t get enough sleep can really become irritable.
Seeing Xiaoqian’s slow attitude made Zhou Tang impatient.
"Yes and no," Xiaoqian, holding Zhou Tang’s phone in his hand, focused on talking to him, "Bro, the episode of ’Old Friends’ that we were on went viral. It’s only been half a day since it aired last night, and it’s already trending in four places."
"Four trending topics?" Zhou Tang sat up from the bed in shock, "Are the topics still there? Let me see."
"They are," Xiaoqian immediately pulled out his phone from his pocket, scrolled to the Weibo trending topic page, and handed it to Zhou Tang.
With one glance, Zhou Tang identified the trending topics related to ’Old Friends’.
The topics were: #ZhouTangOldFriends# at number one, #Professor# at number three, and #FamilyEducation# at number seven.
They were easy to recognize.
One for him, one for Ning’s younger sister, and one for ’Old Friends’—three hot topics in total.
Two exploding in popularity, one boiling.
It evidently had a high discussion volume.
Zhou Tang accepted the phone, skipped today’s top trending topic, and directly clicked on #Professor#. He found that it contained a snippet of Ning Youguang’s slip-up on last night’s episode of ’Old Friends’. He casually opened the one with the highest view count and just as he did, he heard a gentle voice like the wind saying, "When the lights are dim..."
He patiently listened to the video, then earnestly looked over the content that accompanied the post from the blogger who clipped the video. The accompanying text was not long, reading—
[The professor’s confidence truly radiates from the inside out. She is beautiful and elegant, and when she looks at others with a peaceful and inclusive gaze, I feel a sense of closeness. Only someone with enough wisdom can be this calm, accepting everything that is happening. When failing, staying out of it and calmly accepting it as a spectator.]
After editing the post, the blogger also attached #ZhouTangOldFriends# #FamilyEducation# as topics, instantly boosting their post’s visibility.
The blogger is a well-known entertainment influencer, with over a million followers. Posted during prime time, the video quickly accumulated over four million views, more than ten thousand shares, over twenty thousand comments, and more than a hundred thousand likes.
"Professor?" Zhou Tang roughly examined the data, then looked at Xiaoqian with a laugh.
"Yes," Xiaoqian leaned closer to Zhou Tang, chuckling, "Bro, ’Professor’ is what the netizens are respectfully calling Miss Ning. This morning, everyone was calling her a fairy, but after this blogger’s article became popular, they changed their tune. Now everyone calls Ning teacher ’Professor’."
"Professor sounds nice," Zhou Tang chuckled and shifted his gaze back to the phone, "What’s with this ’fairy’ business?"
"That was this morning’s trending topic. Didn’t you praise Teacher Ning as a fairy on the program? Late last night, this topic suddenly shot up to trending status, but it went down by morning, which is why you don’t see it among the current trending topics."
Zhou Tang paused with the phone in hand and looked up at Xiaoqian, "Fairy? On trending?"
Xiaoqian nodded heavily, opened his Weibo, directly searched for "fairy", and opened the earliest trending topic #ZhouTangFairy# for Zhou Tang to see. The metrics on it were indeed impressive.
"This topic was initially very popular, but it somehow went down later on." Xiaoqian was also catching up on sleep in the morning.
#Fairy# was climbing the lists while he was in a deep sleep, so he had no idea that Teacher Ning had become the first trending topic thanks to a compliment from her cousin.
He didn’t wake up much earlier than Zhou Tang and had only seen some messages from the team’s PR afterwards. He had personally talked to the PR to understand the whole process surrounding ’Old Friends’ dominating the trending lists on Weibo.
That’s when he realized the online buzz caused by Teacher Ning on this episode of ’Old Friends’ was almost on par with his brother.
This kind of public appeal and topic influence...
Xiaoqian sighed silently, "If she were to join the circle, she would definitely become a top influencer."
Not to mention, Miss Ning’s impressive background.
Were she truly to enter the circle, the current young female stars who arose post-95 would need a shake-up.
Teacher Ning would definitely soar to unprecedented heights.
With a mind full of random thoughts, Xiaoqian felt that the topic #Fairy# being suppressed wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.
"#Professor# more aptly fits Teacher Ning’s temperament." Unable to hold back, he mumbled his thoughts aloud.
Zhou Tang was looking at comments related to #Professor#—
[Knowledge, experiences, the people you’ve met, the things you’ve encountered, and the environment you grew up in—all these experiences and reflections culminate in a person’s judgement.]
[The need for family education is apparent when looking at the data charts.]
[Taking a leisure day to watch Old Friends.]
[Silent like fallen flowers, serene like chrysanthemums, reading the book of time, which speaks volumes.]
[Who knocks at the wooden door, startling the crane from its dream, as the moon shines afar bringing old friends.]
[After watching this episode of Old Friends, I’ve definitely gained some knowledge. There are no standard answers to questions, but there are different perspectives and insights.]
[Old Friends is like a book, not suited to be finished in one sitting, so I’ve decided to watch this episode several times.]
[What I love most in Old Friends is listening to Ma Zhou’s conversations with scholars spanning centuries, who narrate each topic of life with humility and ease. But I didn’t expect to enjoy a discussion with a few young people about education. The professor truly shattered my ancient prejudices against young, beautiful girls, Sis, my apologies, I’ve watched this episode three times!]
Just in time to hear Xiaoqian’s mumbling, Zhou Tang, without thinking, replied with an "Mm-hmm". 1314