The development that followed surprised the audience.
The score was clearly the lowest, destined for elimination.
Everyone knew that Little Taotie only took one bite and did not think much of this plate of fried rice.
But unexpectedly, Little Taotie gave a perfect score.
Because of her perfect score, contestant number 88 was saved and successfully advanced to the next round.
The first episode ended.
The audience was left wanting more.
Whether it was the culinary skills of the 88 chefs, the 440 dishes, or the elegance of the 8 celebrity judges, no one wanted to see the end credits.
[Is fried rice that bad?]
[But when I cooked it following the trailer, the fried rice was delicious, and I even got my male god!]
[Same here, following the video, I also made delicious fried rice.]
[But it seems the 8 judges didn’t like the fried rice, some even felt that Cupid Chef bringing out this dish was dismissive of the show.]
[It does feel like a lack of care, while others made complex dishes, he just fried some rice, it seems perfunctory.]
The show "Who is the Master Chef" received both praise and criticism, causing a lot of controversies, but the greater the controversy, the hotter the show became, propelling it into the trending searches.
[Shock! Little Taotie actually had a nosebleed!]Hot~
[The fried rice scam! Is it bad or good?]Hot~
[Cupid Chef isn’t worthy of being a chef!]Hot~
Little Taotie, eating a lollipop, saw the trending searches opened by Gu Bei, "When did I have a nosebleed?"
Gu Bei couldn’t help laughing and crying, "You should click into it and see."
Little Taotie clicked to see, only to find the title was misleading!
Upon clicking, an enlarged face appeared right away, it was her looking goofy with a tissue stuffed in her nose.
"I was blocking my nose to keep from smelling the aroma, there was no nosebleed at all, how can they talk nonsense!" Little Taotie was fuming.
Gu Bei sighed, "For the sake of eyeballs, headlines are mostly misleading."
Little Taotie opened the second trending search and saw screenshots of the judges setting down their spoons after just one bite of fried rice.
And screenshots of everyone’s calm expressions while tasting the fried rice.
If it were delicious, the expressions wouldn’t be so monotone.
Everything showed that the fried rice was not good.
But what about the video of the fried rice that had previously been released?
The fried rice made by everyone who followed the video and learned from it was clearly delicious.
Whether the fried rice was good or bad became a puzzle.
Little Taotie tapped on the title, saying in a childish voice, "It’s not misleading."
"If there are misleading ones, there must also be those that are true to fact."
"I like those that are true to fact."
"But it’s being overshadowed by the first one, isn’t it?"
Little Taotie paused, her little brows furrowing, "So does being true to fact mean you’ll lose?"
"Not necessarily," Gu Bei sighed, "but now, in the new media, the more sensational the headline, the higher the click-through rates are, leading those new to the profession to believe that as long as the title is attractive, the content doesn’t matter, creating a vicious cycle and making the entire industry exaggerated."
Little Taotie tilted her head, "Doesn’t anyone regulate it?"
"Yes, but as long as the entertainment news is fast, it will definitely get click-through rates. By the time someone comes to regulate it, it’s already outdated entertainment news. The editors of unsubstantiated entertainment news make a show of admitting their mistake, delete the post, and nobody can do anything to them, after all, they’ve already got the click-through rate they wanted."
Little Taotie pursed her lips and lowered her head, "I know these kinds, they’re like, I know I’m wrong, but I’ll do it again."
"Little Taotie sure knows a lot," Gu Bei nodded, "Indeed, since there are no real penalties, the attitude towards admitting fault is positive, but this doesn’t prevent them from doing it again."
Little Taotie opened the third trending search, her little brows twisting into knots, and she asked seriously, "Is this trying to blacken his name?"