Chapter 118 - This was a Performance Art! (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

At 8 PM that night, a brand-new series and a brand-new video had successfully passed the auditing process. The first episode of the ‘Products of the Gods’ series: Game Designer and a Large-Scale Performance Art!

Teacher Qiao’s fans were stunned. What was happening? Wasn’t he pretending to be dead? After playing dead for three days, was he back to commit the offense despite the eyes that were on him?

Moreover, was it a paid video for the same game? He was trying to cause a commotion!

Recently, ‘Qiao-logy’ had surprisingly become popular on many video websites. Although other content creators posted similar videos, Teacher Qiao was the first to do that. Therefore, he became the main person held responsible for those videos.

Given the current situation—as expected, the comments section was bombarded by people who were posting about that meme.

Was he… going all out since he had nothing to lose?

Since there was no way he could salvage his reputation, maybe he was trying to maintain his popularity by building a notorious reputation? Maybe he wanted to ride the wave of the popularity of ‘Qiao-logy’ and profit from that?

Considering Teacher Qiao’s current circumstances, it was hard for his fans to not have such thoughts. The netizens were prepared to roast him as they opened the video with anxious or worried feelings. Some onlookers just wanted to join in the chaos.

However, Teacher Qiao’s first sentence in the video shut them up.

“Hey, y’all. I am still your Teacher Qiao. I know what everyone wants to say. Before you guys start roasting me, I want to announce something really regrettable.

“Three days ago, on the first of April, on April Fool’s Day; we conducted a large-scale performance art and achieved incredible success. However, the results of this art experiment were really upsetting.

“That’s right. The theme of this performance art was: in the digital age, what content will become popular more easily—an intentionally silly short video or a high-quality game that cost millions and was rich with content?

“After our experiment, I am here to announce a really regrettable result.

“The former won.”

Many people wanted to start roasting him, but the opening speech stuffed their words back into their mouths. Only confusion was left.

What? Performance art? What show are you acting?

They continued watching on with confused feelings.

Teacher Qiao continued introducing the act in the video. He explained the concept and definition of performance art and the motive for the performance art that he participated in. According to him, this performance art was started by Teacher Qiao. Its purpose was to explore a really deep theme.

In the digital age, people were bombarded by information. This was an age when an explosion of information and a lack of information existed concurrently.

Information explosion referred to the huge volumes of information that everyone saw online every day. An insignificant incident at the corner of a small city could be popularized within one night for an unknown reason. The very next day, everyone in the country would know about the incident.

The lack of information referred to the scenario when information that possessed true value and meaning was buried by the huge volume of fast-paced, entertaining, and sensationalized information trash.

Therefore, this performance art did a comparison.

Teacher Qiao and many other content creators would upload their respective videos. The content of the videos was simple and utilized exaggerated tones and words to lick their boots. Everyone’s video was largely similar and used the exact same script.

In order to capture audiences’ attention, the video did all that it could. For example, it did things that instigated their distaste such as by mixing Chinese and English together in their speech and used huge amounts of discourse fillers.

The video itself was pointless and meaningless. However, since many video UP Masters uploaded them concurrently—coupled with the video’s sensationalized and attention-drawing content, netizens would ride the wave naturally. That instantly produced a unique trend on the internet!