The head of the public relations departnt replied.
"Alright, as long as money can solve it, it’s not a problem," said Chen Xueming very calmly.
"Understood, Mr. Chen."
At this mont, the PR Departnt of Q Entertainnt dia at Penguin Group was urgently contacting Twitter and TikTok to try to reduce the virality of the story on these two platforms. Apart from spending money, there was basically no other way.
For both Twitter and TikTok, as long as public relations paynts were made, the virality could be reduced.
Unless there was one possibility, that the state dia got involved.
It was clear that this ti the state dia hadn’t beco involved; it was only the official account of Mist City Arts and Science University that had started the exposure, followed by nurous other "online dia" reprints.
For Twitter, all they needed to do was reduce the trending status; the sa principle applied to TikTok, where they could also throttle the traffic.
By limiting the traffic, the general public would hardly see the news about the incident at Huangcheng Forest Farm exposed by Mist City Arts and Science University.
However.
This ti, the cost would be much higher than before.
Previously, it was just a flow of traffic caused by a news subscription account from Mist City Arts and Science University, which cost less than one million yuan to suppress.
But now it was different.
After the official account of Mist City Arts and Science University exposed the report, the virality soared rapidly, and more and more netizens beca aware of the incident at Huangcheng Forest Farm.
After all, the official Twitter account of Mist City Arts and Science University had several millions of followers.
Once the university posted the exposé, at least tens of thousands of these followers saw the news about the incident at Huangcheng Forest Farm in a short amount of ti.
Then, these tens of thousands of followers started sharing it, creating even higher virality, with the highly viral topic #HuangchengForestFarm already climbing the trending charts.
Netizens were quite outraged about this matter and demanded that the authorities investigate and punish the guilty without rcy.
With these netizens constantly pushing the topic, its ranking on the trending list kept climbing.
"20 million yuan!"
Twitter quoted this price to lower the trending status, amounting to 20 million yuan.
TikTok, on the other hand, had set their price at 15 million yuan.
The PR Departnt at Q Entertainnt dia imdiately reported this to the chairman, Chen Xueming.
"Young brother, look at the trouble you’ve caused this ti. Not to ntion the previous spending of over one million yuan on both Twitter and TikTok platforms, now that the virality has spiked, we have to shell out 35 million yuan," said Chen Xueming to his brother in a not-so-happy tone.
If it weren’t for his brother Chen Xuejun’s lack of thoroughness, they wouldn’t be facing such a troubleso issue.
Obviously, the money would be paid out by his brother, Chen Xuejun.
million yuan was not exactly an astronomical figure for Chen Xuejun, and it was worth it if it could resolve the issue.
After all, in recent years, Jiangjiu Group, under Chen Xuejun, had a net profit of nearly 100 million yuan each year, and since the company’s IPO, his personal assets had reached over ten billion yuan.
"If it has to be 35 million yuan, then so be it, there’s no choice but to spend it now!" Chen Xuejun gritted his teeth, rather annoyed.
After all, it was deeply frustrating that just because a few college students from Mist City Arts and Science University trespassed into Huangcheng Forest Farm, he had to spend 35 million yuan.
Seeing that his brother was willing to spend the money, Chen Xueming imdiately inford the PR departnt, and they quickly reached an agreent with Twitter and TikTok.
This process took only about five to ten minutes, after which Twitter and TikTok started to reduce the virality one after another.
Especially on Twitter—it was very apparent.
The trending topic #HuangchengForestFarm, which had risen to the 29th position on the trending list, suddenly disappeared from the list.
And the topic #HuangchengForestFarm was also imdiately restricted.
Once a topic was restricted, it was practically impossible for it to climb the trending list again. Plus, the relevant departnt on Twitter would monitor this trending topic for a certain period to make sure its virality wouldn’t rise to hit the trending list again.
anwhile, on TikTok.
Although the short video exposing the news released by the official account of Mist City Arts and Science University already had several millions of views with nearly a hundred thousand comnts, it was also being throttled.
That is to say, no matter how many more likes, heart reactions, comnts, and so on this short video exposing the news posted by the official account of Mist City Arts and Science University gets, it will no longer appear in the recomnded section on the hopage.
This!
Is the power of money!
The netizens who had already learned about the "Huangcheng Forest Farm incident" felt a deep chill and frustration when they saw the sudden sharp drop in popularity.
"Holy shit! Twitter’s Bitch is just too shaless, right? Is this their public relations tactic?"
"I’m speechless about this drop in popularity!"
"Did the capitalists spend money?"
"Damn, it was just hanging there on the trending ranks at number 29, and now it’s gone?"
"This is outrageous, even for Twitter to reduce the heat and trend this issue?"
"Holy shit! The topic has been throttled!"
"Did Penguin Group make a move? The trend vanished in an instant."
"Jiangjiu Group really has so clever tricks."
"You guys are not looking at the relationship between the boss of Jiangjiu Group and Chen Xueming from Q Entertainnt dia of Penguin Group."
"Damn, that’s too harsh; I just saw this Twitter trend, and now it’s gone, it’s just terrifying."
"If you can’t solve the problem, just eliminate the person who raised it, right?"
"This issue must be investigated thoroughly, and it’s truly shaless to pull it from trending!"
"Brothers, keep it up!"
"Ignorant question, but what happened? What abominable act has Twitter’s Bitch committed again?"
The rage of the netizens was instantly ignited by the manipulative act of lowering the popularity and pulling the trend.
Originally.
The felling and burning of the sand prevention and control ecological shelter forest at Huangcheng Forest Farm had already been enough to enrage netizens, with countless expressing their hope for severe punishnt from the authorities.
However, now, the action of Jiangjiu Group in lowering the heat and pulling the trend instantly rekindled the anger of netizens.
Once the fire of the netizens’ anger was lit, it beca difficult to extinguish.
Although Twitter is rife with brainless fans, fistfighters, public intellectuals, and Western bootlickers, when it cos to sothing about Xia Country’s sand prevention and control ecological shelter forests, many netizens still stand united!
Therefore.
The vast number of netizens spontaneously created a new trending topic—#TragicDeforestationOfNorthwesternForestry#.
After the topic was created, netizens began to brush up its popularity incessantly.
At Mist City Arts and Science University.
Seeing this situation, Director Liu Hongxia from the PR departnt sought guidance from Principal Ding, "Principal Ding, as expected, our previous trending topic has been dealt with. Now, netizens have spontaneously created a new topic with its popularity rising. Should we stir up this topic?"
"We can."
Ding Yue nodded seriously and said.
Now that the netizens have already organized themselves, this indicates one thing, that is, Mist City Arts and Science University has gained a part of the netizens’ hearts as being ’just’.
This also ans that the actions of Jiangjiu Group and Q Entertainnt PR Departnt of Penguin Group in lowering the heat and pulling the trend this ti have sowhat backfired, and instead ignited the wrath of the netizens.
A single spark can start a prairie fire, especially with these netizens on Twitter, who have strong fighting capabilities and are adept at arguing!
The Huangcheng Forest Farm incident is absolutely impossible to be suppressed so easily.
The most crucial point is that Ding Yue hasn’t even played his trump card yet; let Chen Xuejun and Mr. Chen from Q Entertainnt dia spend a bit more money first.
Ding Yue could already imagine a scene.
That is, after Chen Xuejun and Chen Xueming spent a considerable amount of money for PR and finally managed to lower the heat and suppress the issue, they would find it was all in vain, and they would be utterly dumbfounded...
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