Chapter 40 - Smells Good (2/2)
“Meng fatty’s stream is popular today!”
After drawing the avatar—Although he wasn’t an American comic character—Meng Fan began to draw the fifth character. This was one of Meng Fan’s most beloved characters, not from Marvel or DC or Disney, but from an animation by MGM. Tom from ‘Tom and Jerry’!
‘Tom and Jerry’ was the only foreign show that Meng Fan could understand in its original format without subtitles.
Moreover, he had understood it ever since he was young ￣へ￣!
Meng Fan’s rendition of Tom was of him mid-run. After drawing him, Meng Fan left a blank space below him to continue drawing. This time, the character wasn’t from an American show but Naruto Uzumaki, from the Japanese anime. Below him, he drew Nicole from ‘Love – live’, and then added a domineering Mikasa from ‘[The] Attack Titan’ below her. These three were all running in a similar manner, with their arms stretched back like a ninja.
Looking up, Tom was in this position as well.
“Hahaha the founder of the ninja run, Tom!”
“Does he run like that because of the reduced friction (serious emoji)”
“I tried it and fell flat on my face!”
“I tried it too. Before it happened, I was a wholesome bright young boy who loved to laugh, the kind with bright white teeth that reflected light. After trying, well… heh. Nobody makes me laugh before I get my teeth fixed!”
“Please stop talking, the more you speak of it the more I want to try!”
“Those of you who study animation, let me tell you why you should draw like this—because it’s convenient and lazy!”
“Hey Mr.Host, are you happy toying with us?”
“I was randomly browsing and found this incredible content!”
“Randomly browsing +1.”
“I clicked the wrong button and ended up here.”
“Clicked wrong button +1.”
“I like this stream, I’m not leaving this channel for the rest of my life! This streamer draws so fast and is so funny too, plus all the netizens on here are all geniuses, everything they say is hilarious!”
On his seventh drawing, he drew a seductive and bodacious black widow. Meng Fan then realized something was wrong.
At this time, the number of current viewers had reached 3800, creating a new peak record!
And even better, the total viewer count in his ‘mind’ left him even more surprised. 6300!
This had exceeded the amount he’d received on his first day of streaming illustrations.
That day, Mr.Sleepy had pulled a lot of people, FlatHeadBro as well. But today, these authors didn’t specifically help to pull people.
“Randomly browsing? Wrong channel?”
Meng Fan suddenly knew the reason. Validation!
The metaphysical attribute ‘validation’ was not only effective in scamming Meng Fan through texts and fraudulent calls but was also useful in bringing traffic to his live stream.
What an absurd attribute!
Not only did his own sense of validation increase, but his presence in his stream channel had also gone up as well!
When this sense of presence is used on the internet, the result was much more exaggerated than it had been in real life.
The internet had a prioritization mechanism. As the number of online users in his channel increased, his ranking naturally jumped up on the front page. This meant his chances of appearing in the recommended section for the ‘Drawing category’ would be higher too, and the more times he appeared, the more people would see him. Under a positive cycle, his validation attributes would increase along with it!
Before Meng Fan ended the stream, his online viewers had reached 6100, and total views hitting 9300!
If he could draw a few more, breaking 10,000 would be no problem.
Presently, [Famous Streamer] had about 35,000 total views collected. He wasn’t far from reaching the 100,000 required for task phase 2.
Ding.
Before he logged off the stream, a notification flew in.
Promotional notification!
Next Monday, or tomorrow, at 8:00 pm, the stream channel would be listed in the ‘Drawing Category’ under recommended. This had to be the best time slot in the entire section.
To be on the recommendations list meant more people would watch, and the more people that watched, the faster Meng Fan would complete his task. That meant he would be closer to reaping the ‘charm’ attribute that came as a reward.
He had already decided from the bottom of his heart to reject gaining more ‘validation’ points from the task [Adoration Fever ] as it was a poisonous attribute, but now—Yes, victory smells good!