Chapter 482 (1/2)
Chapter 482: First!
The live broadcast ended.
There were only positive comments from the netizens!
“That’s freaking cla.s.sic!”
“The sword of a hero doesn’t age, the madam’s sultry never wanes? Ah hahahaha!”
“That brain of Teacher Zhang Ye is really too quick witted. He’s worthy of being labeled as a treasure of humanity. I didn’t expect that 10 short minutes of crosstalking could be done in such an extraordinary way?”
“That was too fun!”
“I got gooseb.u.mps listening to that! That was very satisfying!”
“But that was bordering on the line of controversy, haha!”
“It’s acceptable since the preliminaries are only broadcasted over the internet, so the censors would have less stringent standards for it. If it were broadcasted live on TV, then Zhang Ye would have to modify quite a few of his joke segments. They would definitely not have allowed him to say that.”
“I believe you shouldn’t even think about a live broadcast on TV. Take a look at the official website. The live broadcast has been halted. ‘I am a Scholar’ was there a moment ago, but now it has been deleted!”
“What? Deleted?”
“Then why did they air it live?”
“I heard that it was aired erroneously due to some unexpected complications with communication!”
“Which means the ban on Teacher Zhang and Teacher Yao remains indefinitely?”
“d.a.m.n it! I was happy for nothing. I thought Central TV ignored the ban! So it was just a mistake?”
All traces of ‘I am a Scholar’ had disappeared from the compet.i.tion’s official website. Many netizens, who had not watched the live broadcast, had rushed in to take a look at the crosstalk deemed as a cla.s.sic by so many. They immediately began to rouse as some even began cursing!
“Why is it gone?”
“We haven’t watched it yet!”
Numerous people began lodging complaints with the official website. However, Central TV’s Department 11 remained indifferent to them. They were completely ignored.
However, just as everyone was feeling a great sense of regret, a small video website posted a video of ‘I am a Scholar’. It was obvious that it had been recorded straight from the live stream, as it was identical. Furthermore, it was also a high resolution version. Following that, numerous video websites and discussion forms also posted Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai’s crosstalk performance. Of course, they were not posted by the websites, but were uploaded by netizens.
Everyone was amused!
“It is so timely!”
“Nice, I can watch it again!”
“Haha, empowering!”
“F**k! I finally got to see it! No wonder so many people gave their kudos! This crosstalk is absolutely wonderful!”
At this moment, a heritage of intangible culture, that was pa.s.sed down from China’s Song dynasty, revealed its power once more--Piracy!
A few videos of ‘I am a Scholar’ were taken down from several video websites. It was unknown if it was the website’s doing or because they had received orders from higher management. Clicking on the video would return a “Video does not exist” error, but immediately following that, there would be more pirated copies appearing on other video websites. Deleting one, sprouted two. Deleting two would sprout ten. There was no way of completely deleting them all. Even on mainstream video websites, the views on ‘I am a Scholar’ had risen so much that it was in the trending rankings. In a short moment, it had reached the top 20!
Similarly, the votes for Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai were rising!
The National Crosstalk Compet.i.tion had been going strong for about six or seven hours now. The compet.i.tion was intense. A few excellent crosstalk works were very well-liked, and their fans rushed to vote for them. They wished that the excellent crosstalk actors would be pushed to the top. Before the end of the voting, the first to third place votes were enjoying a stable position. The third ranked group was a black horse. No one had heard of these two new crosstalk actors in the past. Second place was a somewhat famous pair of crosstalk actors. The person who currently in first place was the crosstalk actor who had to pull out last year’s compet.i.tion due to health complications. Although he had yet to perform, the amount of popularity he enjoyed was just too high, so he had already received a large number of votes. Some people evaluated that, if not for his pulling out due to health reasons, last year’s champion would definitely have been him. Hence, this Teacher Peng was temporarily in first place with 8300 votes.
As for Tang Dazhang’s two disciples in Division C, they were ranked fifth. They were, however, ranked first within Division C.
Of course, these numbers were from ten minutes ago, before Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai had gone onstage. Now, the rankings of the preliminaries had undergone a groundbreaking change!
And it was one that made everyone burst out with laughter!
Why? That was because in the voting options for the compet.i.tion, Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai’s names were not written at all! It was as if these two banned contestants were not partic.i.p.ating in the compet.i.tion. The listings of the contestants from Division C were on the second page, and they were densely packed with text, but on the eighth line, Division C, Team #8 was empty. There was no name on it, but there was a voting radio b.u.t.ton on the right, similar to every other contestants.
There was no name, but they could still receive votes!
Anyone who paid a bit of attention could guess who the blank name belonged to!
Hence, during the live broadcast, the voting numbers began changing!
A 100 votes!
A 1000 votes!
2000 votes!
When the live broadcast ended, when ‘I am a Scholar’ began to go viral on the internet, the values had paused slightly before instantly exploding!
10,000!
50,000!
100,000!