Shen Yan was both happy and a little terrified.
"Moreover, the three latest videos on the live streaming app have already exceeded eight million views."
"How come there are so many? I remember that when they were uploaded, the views were only around three million."
Tang Shu was also a bit puzzled.
The account Giving and Taking garnered a substantial viewership for each live stream, with online viewers number stabilizing at over three million. After each live session, she would have Xiao Li finish post-production before uploading the videos.
The people who went on to watch these short videos were originally from Weibo. However, the same three videos were also released on Weibo, and usually, no one would watch the same content twice on two different platforms.
Therefore, the view count for these short videos typically remained around three million.
An increase of more than five million likes was indeed a surge.
Shen Yan did not reply to her immediately, because he was busy wedging his phone between his shoulder and cheek, his fingers flying across the keyboard.
Talking on the phone, he did not forget to work.
Search keywords: Giving and Taking.
As he pressed the Enter key, a variety of related links popped up on the computer screen. Among them, there was an activity spontaneously organized by netizens related to those three videos.
——East-West Painting Technique Fusion Competition.
In the airport, Tang Shu quietly waited for his response.
"Holy crap! So it’s because of this!"
After browsing through the whole page, Shen Yan exclaimed with a mixture of surprise and awe, "Boss, do you remember what you said during your last livestream?"
Tang Shu continued to be confused, "Which sentence?"
"It’s about the fusion of Eastern and Western painting styles. During that time, the Lotus with conjoined petals painted by broadcaster Kitty utilized this concept, but you criticized it mercilessly."
"It’s not necessary to put it that way. Actually, her basics are acceptable. It’s just that it was quite evident that she wasn’t putting much heart into it when she was painting."
For Tang Shu, not capturing the essence of East-West fusion in painting meant not putting in the effort.
If she had been a bit more diligent, the painting wouldn’t have turned out like that.
Upon hearing this commentary, Shen Yan couldn’t help but laugh.
"Whatever you say is right, boss. Nowadays, many art students are trying to blend Eastern and Western painting styles, so they started a painting competition spontaneously, and each organizer has mentioned your name, which led to the rapid surge in traffic," he explained.
"And the person who initiated the painting competition is the owner of that landscape painting, known online as ’Little Housekeeper of Painting’."
Since Little Family Head was the first to start live-stream painting, his channel’s video views were the highest in this competition.
Shen Yan’s investigation made these statistics stand out clear and unmistakable at a glance.
Tang Shu finally understood—it was all because of that painting.
"So, is this related to the trending topic?"
Inside the office of Starshine Media, Shen Yan quickly opened the trending topics page, where the words "East-West Painting Technique Fusion Competition" stood out in red.
"The trending topic online is about this painting competition. Actually, it’s the competition itself that’s trending, but because the last link included the account of Giving and Taking’s live stream room, it meant you also became a hot search topic, boss," he clarified.
"So... do we need to lower the heat this time?"
Shen Yan asked tentatively.
It wasn’t his fault for asking—lately, he had been tasked with this often enough that he had become quite seasoned at it.