318 No Offense (1/2)

Chapter 318: No Offense

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

In the morning, the alarm on the cell phone rang on time.

Song Bai turned over, stretched his arm to fumble with his cell phone, and turned off the alarm. Lying on his bed like a dead fish, he knew the alarm would ring again ten minutes later. Since he became a vlogger, he had turned himself into a geek who was crazy about digital products. Just like other geeks, Song Bai was a night owl who liked staying up late at night but struggled to wake up in the morning.

Before the alarm rang for the second time, his fingers hanging down on the edge of the bed had touched a furry thing.

Startled, he opened his eyes suddenly, his heart skipping a beat. The scenes in the horror movies he had watched were playing in his head, and he was afraid he was going to be as helpless as the protagonists of these horror movies.

He looked carefully at the furry thing. As it turned out, his fingers happened to be touching the back of Black Flower.

Black Flower was still sleeping, its body all cuddled up. It opened its eyes for a moment and then closed them—it was just a sleepyhead like Song Bai.

A cat could afford to stay in bed all day long, but Song Bai couldn’t. He had to go to work to support himself and pay the rent, so that he could use his limited savings to purchase new digital devices.

He shut off his alarm in advance, which was rare, and pressed the power button of the computer. He put on clothes, went to the kitchen, and drank a cup of cold water to refresh himself. When he came back to the bedroom, Black Flower was still sleeping in its cat bed.

Black Flower was much more well-behaved than Song Bai had imagined. It liked skateboarding, had no interest in the digital products all over his room, and loved staying in its cat bed.

Song Bai yawned and scratched his head, from where a lot of dandruff fell, but he ignored this.

The computer had finished starting up and had entered the desktop.

He still had some time before he had to go to work. Song Bai found a ”ladder” to cross over the Great Firewall, logged into YouTube, and assessed the background analysis tool to observe the number of subscribers to his vlog channel.

”2,726 subscribers, well...” he recalled, ”Increased by 74 compared with yesterday... not bad.”

In fact, it was the largest increase range in one day since he began vlogging. However, the number of subscribers seemed to have some relation with the name of the videos. He found that if the names of the videos were related to recent hot topics, the increase range of that day would be larger, so this indicator alone couldn’t represent his channel’s overall popularity.

He opened his latest vlog, Over the Great Wall, which had attracted 375 views, 77 likes and 28 dislikes as of now. Proportionally, more viewers had clicked on the likes and dislikes icons than usual.

Generally, after watching one video, the audience would immediately be attracted by another video. Unless they really liked or hated that video, they wouldn’t bother to click the like or dislike icons. On average, the number of likes and dislikes among the total views was less than 1/10, while the ratio of his latest video’s had approximately reached 1/3, which was abnormally high.

Song Bai looked at the time stamp in the lower right corner of the computer screen It had only been 12 hours since his upload had finished, and the previous vlogs he issued usually attracted 200 to 300 views in 24 hours.

Controlling his excitement, he scrolled down the webpage and read the comments left by the audience.

The top comment was, ”Wow! Dope! Is this real? I think it's real?! Can someone tell me if it's real or not?”

There were five replies beneath that comment.

1.”Wake up!”

2.”Obviously it's fake!”

3.”Brains are a good thing, I hope you have one.”

4. ”I think it's real. The part where the kittens were dancing seemed coherent, and I don’t see any edit points in the process.”

Regarding to the fourth reply, someone replied in a joking manner, ”Right, when I watch sexual videos, I also thought the actors’ movements were coherent, and I couldn’t find any edit points either. I only felt upset for not being as long-lasting as those guys.”