Chapter 543 - B-list! (2/2)

”I've watched the interview a few time. It's quite good. Sis, you looked great in it.” His first aunt tried to mediate. ”You were very photogenic.”

C-List.

Fourth ranked.

Regarding his rise in ranking in the celebrity rankings, Zhang Ye hadn't expected it. It was really fell outside his expectations. Just a few days ago, he was still hovering at the bottom around the last or second-to-last spot. But after the events of the crosstalk compet.i.tion, his rank rose to the middle of the C-list rankings. Following that, he solved the mathematical conjecture and that pushed him even further up the list. He got within a step away from the B-list rankings. This surge of popularity was really too fast, especially the popularity that he won after solving the mathematical conjecture. It was really too heaven defying!

From the bottom of the C-list to the middle?

From the middle all the way to the top?

Although these two increases in ranking might look the same, they were really different conceptually. The amount of fame needed was not in the same order of magnitude!

As this was the higher-ranked C-list rankings, the difference between each ranking increased as it went up. A simple example would be: If there were a total of a hundred people on the C-list, the integrated a.s.sessment score of the 100th ranked might be 1 point. The 50th ranked would be 200 points and the 10th ranked would be 1000 points. So rank number nine required 1100 points and that was the difference!

So the popularity brought by the crosstalk performances which had pushed Zhang Ye from the last few spots to the middle of the list rankings, even if it were to be replicated while he was ranked in the middle, would push him up a few spots at most, not all the way to fourth rank. And so, it could be seen just how much popularity the proving of the mathematical conjecture had brought to Zhang Ye. It was definitely many times more than the popularity gained during the crosstalk compet.i.tion!

It was incredible!

To the people who were from the entertainment industry or those who paid attention to it, Zhang Ye's rise in popularity was truly incredible!

What did Zhang Ye possess that let him do this?

Was it looks? Well, he didn't have any!

Was it experience? He hasn't even debuted for a full year!

Works? None of them were mainstream!

How many of them had reached the A- or B-list of the celebrity rankings by hosting programs? Almost none! But you might find three or four of them if you really looked up their past works. Then how many celebrities had done it through their writings? Not a single one! As for directing, crosstalk acting, calligrapher, painter, literary works, lyricists, none of those that did such things could be seen in the top tier celebrity rankings! Why? Because they were all unconventional works! Due to the scope of the work, most viewers only paid attention to movie stars and singers. Those were jobs that would gain the most reputation. It was the easiest way to make your way into the top tiers of the celebrity rankings. It was evident if you scanned through the ranking list. Most of those at the top were either singers or actors, or both!

But what about Zhang Ye?

He wrote poems and literature? They were mainly used to scold people!

Talk show? No one knew that such a thing existed in the past!

He spoke about the Three Kingdoms and Dream of the Red Chamber? Many people have not even read the Four Great Cla.s.sical Novels before!

A global mathematical conjecture? There were many people who couldn't even multiply two digit numbers, so you could say that it was a really dull and dry subject!

And those were the list of Zhang Ye's works and achievements.

Just looking at it, they were works that were more than unconventional, they were f**king one of a kind!

Yet somehow, a person with such average looks, whose works were all more unconventional than unconventional, had actually defied the heavens and almost reached the B-list celebrity rankings as a rookie who had debuted for less than a year! Many people who were not interested in math, did not listen to crosstalk performances, were not good at literature, or even those who never knew what a talk show was, started paying attention to Zhang Ye and began to enjoy those things that they would never have listened or watched in the first place. It truly made everyone gasp with astonishment!

Since everyone enjoyed music, you can just sing well to let them enjoy it. This was not a difficult task.

If people did not enjoy poetry, did not like talk shows, or hated mathematics, yet you are able to attract them to start liking these things that they wouldn't have in the first place, that would be a most difficult task!

And Zhang Ye did it!

Zhang Ye's surge in popularity this time was known by thousands and thousands of people and industry insiders. Many of them had seen the rankings and were moved deeply by it!

A wondrous person doing wondrous things!

For Zhang Ye to have such great popularity and achievements today, it was truly deserving as something no one could pick a bone with it! Everyone had to be convinced!

Why?

Because what Zhang Ye had achieved, even if you were to look thoroughly through the entertainment circle, going forward or backward several decades, you would not find another person capable of it!

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