334 YouTube Partnership (2/2)
No one would have thought that last night, Song Bai had been frantically pressing on the F5 key for two hours to refresh the page constantly, joyfully witnessing the increase of the numbers on his screen…the views of this vlog had almost surpassed that of all his previous vlogs put together. What’s more, driven by this vlog, the views of his prior vlogs were also increasing, for the audiences who yearned for more videos would search his channel, looking for more similar videos.
If only Black Flower didn’t jump out from his arms to go to the bathroom, he would have personally known what the buzzword ”F5 is broken” meant…
Song Bai had heard that a lot of videos went viral overnight, and he believed that this vlog had the potential to go viral. But when it really happened, he still found it dreamy and incredible.
When he came to himself, he found that his finger was unconsciously pressing on the F5. He quickly shook his head. He couldn’t waste another two hours tonight. Last night, after pressing F5 for two hours, he forgot to do his laundry or take a shower, and was still tossing and turning on his bed and couldn’t fall into sleep. When he got up this morning, he had gotten two dark circles like that of a panda.
Just as he was ready to view the comments, an e-mail from YouTube popped up in his mailbox.
Song Bai thought it was just advertising mail at the beginning, but when he was going to delete it, he found that the format was different than that of any advertising mail.
Clicking open the email, his body and his mind were completely frozen. The hand holding the mouse stayed still while his palms were sweating nervously. He was still panic-struck, for he almost deleted this email…
The subject of the email was very simple—Your application has been approved. YouTube invites you to join YouTube Partnership.
YouTube Partnership was the famous YouTube advertising incentive program. In other words, receiving this invitation meant that he could earn money through the commercials played on YouTube.
Song Bai rubbed his eyes. His mouth was dry, and his heart was beating rapidly. This was what he had always wanted, and it even could be called his dream. But how was that possible? The threshold of the YouTube Partnership invitation was very high, and not everyone could make money from YouTube.
According to the rumors heard by Song Bai, YouTube Partnership had two prerequisites—one was that the creator needed to upload at least one video a week, and the other one was that, the videos had to be viewed millions of times in total. He was able to meet the former one, but was far from meeting the latter prerequisite. But if the views could continue growing at this rate…it was only a matter of time before his vlogs were viewed millions of times. It seemed that YouTube was not that rigid.
”Will you accept this invitation?” Hell, yes!
Song Bai had applied for the YouTube Partnership before, but every time, he had only received replies beginning with ”We regret to inform you that…”
In the face of this letter of invitation, his previous frustration of rejection had vanished. Even though YouTube, the mean girl, had made mistakes before, he was going to forgive her now!
Leaving the comments aside, he first followed the steps in the link provided by the letter of invitation to change the account settings, and whenever he encountered words that he was not sure about, he would carefully look up their meanings, for fear that something might go wrong. He was glad that he didn’t attend the KTV singing and social gathering tonight. If he went there, he would inevitably need to drink. And when he came home drunk, he might have accidently deleted this email…
Lying on his lap, Black Flower had felt the trembling of his thigh muscles. It raised its face worriedly, and uttered some meowing sounds, as if asking if he was sick.
Song Bai restrained his excitement, holding it up with both hands over his head and smiling from ear to ear.
”Black Flower, we are going to be rich!”