"Frankly speaking, I'm very disappointed. Originally, I was also a loyal baseball fan, and I'm truly disappointed by the behavior of these athletes."
On Tokyo TV, an expert from a certain university expressed regret.
"Professor, do you think the baseball league will be affected by this?"
"Well... I don't think so. Baseball is ultimately the favorite sport in the hearts of the people. The real problem lies with those athletes only. We shouldn't generalize to the entire baseball community. Not all athletes are bad; it's just a few of them."
"That's true. It's only a few athletes who are really bad."
"Speaking of which, have you played the recent ga 'Super Baseball Blood League' which is currently under scrutiny?"
"Of course, it's really fun. It's just unfortunate that it has been under attack before, which overshadowed the highlights of the ga." The host said with regret.
"Now that you ntion it, I suddenly rember those athletes who criticized the ga before. It seems like they are not so clean themselves."
The host also seed to realize, and exclaid, "Yeah, it does seem like that. Those people were saying the ga lacked professionalism and realism, but now I feel like there's sothing even more real in the ga."
The professor nodded with a smile, "Exactly. This speaks to the creator of the ga, Mr. Takayuki, the president of Gastar Electronic Entertainnt. I used to have so prejudices against electronic gas, but now I suddenly realize that he is a person very sensitive to social issues. Through his ga, he criticizes the current social situation, showing a great sense of social responsibility."
"Indeed, there is a lot to be learned from this ga. I used to just see it as an interesting ga."
On the television screen, the professor and the host were in sync, with seamless cooperation.
Takayuki watched in amazent.
"Am I really that amazing? I didn't even realize it myself."
Before, he had simply wanted to take a different approach with this ga, without thinking much about it.
But being described like this by the professor and the host, it seed like he had imdiately beco a national teacher, actively exposing the dark side of society.
In movies and TV shows, criticism of social phenona is common.
But in electronic gas, it's not particularly obvious.
Electronic gas tend to be more comrcialized than movies and TV shows, serving purely for entertainnt purposes.
Of course, there are so gas that allude to social issues.
For example, 'This Is My War,' which depicts the lives of ordinary people during warti, bringing attention to the lives of civilians on the battlefield.
And then there's 'World War of Brave Hearts,' describing the lack of choice for civilians during World War I.
But this isn't the original purpose of electronic gas; it's just a supplent within electronic gas.
However, this could indeed be a good breakthrough.
It could be a starting point for the water army to work from. And, by the way, give those TV stations a good lesson.
...
Atsue Kuree, the director of Asahi TV, had only been in office for a year.
He had just taken office not long ago and was preparing to make a big splash, to make a na for himself in the television industry and lead the TV station to prosperity.
However, he happened to catch the end of the television era.
The internet, electronic gas.
Under the double pressure of these two fields, the TV station was getting worse day by day, and the ratings seed to drop a little every day.
As the director, he felt quite aggrieved.
He had worked so hard to get to this position, but he couldn't produce any results. The performance was plumting, and the associated TV stations were all complaining, blaming the big brother for not being competent.
In such a situation, he had considered launching so TV programs to reverse the decline.
But in the end, it was impossible to turn the tide.
In the end, he chose to use others as scapegoats.
The newly erging industry of electronic gas naturally beca his target.
Coincidentally, several other TV stations had similar ideas. They joined forces to attack electronic gas.
Whenever there was a chance, they would sar electronic gas as much as possible. And when there was no chance, they would absolutely not provide any publicity channels for electronic gas.
If electronic gas were promoted through other channels, they would use their influence to suppress those advertising channels.
But in the end, only these four TV stations persisted.
Other channels succumbed to the onslaught of money.
Later, they had a good opportunity to attack electronic gas, but it was unexpectedly destroyed by an exposure scandal. Kuree's position as director was barely maintained.
And then, recently, there was a second opportunity to attack electronic gas.
However... this ti, they weren't as lucky as before.
On the internet, a large number of users seed to have erged from nowhere, flooding screens everywhere with criticism.
"Trash TV stations, you're rotten to the core. You dare to defa electronic gas? Clean up your own act first! Bastards!"
"Garbage TV stations, no wonder your shows are getting worse and worse. You're always engaging in underhanded tactics. Please just die quickly. I'll never watch your programs again!"
"I apologize to Gastar Electronic Entertainnt. The ga you produced is really interesting. I spoke insincerely before. You're truly a responsible company, more so than those old companies. Please keep up the good work. I'll buy all your gas for sure!"
This ti, such ssages were more nurous than ever before.
Not only on the internet, but also in their company mailboxes, they were flooded every day. There were thousands of letters from different places across the country every day.
The contents were mostly extrely critical, calling the TV stations garbage dumps and urging them to die as soon as possible.
Atsue Kuree, along with the directors of the other TV stations, were extrely angry but had nowhere to vent their frustrations.
Now, whenever their TV programs contained even a hint of criticism against electronic gas, they would imdiately face boycotts.
The ratings would plumt to ten percent.
This was already a dire situation.
On the other hand, NHK, as the big brother among the six TV stations, remained calm and collected. They even reaped the benefits of the situation, gaining two or three points in ratings for even their trash programs. It was very gratifying.
And Tokyo TV, which had directly embraced electronic gas, had seen a significant rise in ratings. From an average viewership of less than fifteen percent, it had soared to an average viewership of about twenty percent.
Even if the viewers didn't want to watch anything, they would still choose Tokyo TV or NHK when turning on the TV. This was very frustrating for the four TV stations.
What was even more infuriating was that many of Tokyo TV's programs were subtly mocking the four TV stations, considering them a group of unsavory characters.
Are you clean?
Can you say you're clean? You're just not caught yet.
But Tokyo TV didn't care about them.
Anyway, those who exposed these things have nothing to do with . I'm just riding the wave of popularity. Even if they want to retaliate, they can't target first; they have to go after electronic gas first.
But now, Gastar Electronic Entertainnt had gained so prestige.
In just one year, according to the sales data disclosed by Gastar Electronic Entertainnt, the Red and White machines had nearly four million users, and the SFC was approaching one million in sales.
With so many users under their control, they already had a certain dominance in the industry and couldn't be easily manipulated anymore.
Now, they were beginning to suffer backlash from those gars.
So of the more extre gars even stood in front of their TV stations with banners.
The content read: "Trash TV stations dare to sar electronic gas? Please clean up your own ss first! Bastards!"
You wanted to drive these people away but didn't dare, afraid of triggering a more intense reaction.
Atsue Kuree knew this was probably related to Gastar Electronic Entertainnt, but there was no evidence. If they dared to expel them, it would show they were guilty, and for a while, they were really stuck in a dilemma.
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