Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 695: Brother Xiao Ma unexpectedly sends a favor

Chen Ran was a little dazed.

He was stunned for a while, and when he came to his senses, he realized that he had caused a far-reaching change.

He actually changed the WeChat icon inadvertently.

In fact, when designing the WeChat icon before, Chen Ran tried his best to get the company's team to follow the WeChat icon style of the previous life, because this subconscious idea was deeply rooted in his mind.

But Xiao Ma Ge didn’t. He had a flash of inspiration and made the WeChat icon, which was also green, move closer to the shape of a tennis ball.

Then using QQ to attract traffic, and adding Chen Ran’s own identity as a tennis goat to attract traffic, it was simply like adding wings to a tiger.

Especially now that the London Olympics has just ended, the popularity is still high.

At this time, Xiao Ma Ge's premonition became even stronger.

He increasingly felt that this product called "WeChat" would most likely have an impact on Penguin no less than QQ in the future.

Without saying a word, Xiao Ma Ge immediately asked for people to be assigned, and added a wave of technical personnel from the company to the R&D team, which also strengthened the team's strength.

A month later, when China's National Day was approaching and the annual China season was just beginning, the new version of WeChat was launched on major application platforms.

Penguin's QQ began to attract traffic crazily, and various promotion channels also began to exert their strength. Chen Ran also took advantage of the popular China season and personally became the spokesperson for "WeChat" to promote this social software with an icon that resembles a tennis ball.

Fire!

Explosive!

WeChat, which is similar to the "tennis ball shape", has become popular on major platforms.

And because tennis balls are green, and the previous version of WeChat was also green, they share similarities, and are visually very comfortable, simple, and stylish, so the change in the WeChat icon is acceptable to the WeChat users who have already accumulated experience.

The most important thing is that Chen Ran’s brilliant achievement of winning three Golden Slams has made his reputation in China unparalleled.

This also led to the Chinese official media openly supporting Chen Ran and promoting this new version of WeChat software.

At this moment, even a strong person like Lei Zong could only feel extremely desperate. Today's Xiaomi is still in the growth stage, far from the behemoth in the later stage, not to mention that his energy is focused on mobile phones, and Mi Chat is just a by-product.

In this case, the balance of competition has completely tilted.

The media and the public's attention were all attracted by Chen Ran, especially the cute icon that resembled a tennis ball, which was warmly welcomed by young people.

Tennis is a fashionable, beautiful and youthful sport. Especially with the continuous expansion of the Chinese middle class and the existence of leading figures like Chen Ran, this sport has become more and more popular.

The addition of the "Three-lap Golden Slam" has also made the popularity of this sport in China reach an unprecedented peak.

If tennis were not difficult to learn, its popularity would be no less than basketball or table tennis.

But even so, China's tennis population has exceeded 3000 million, surpassing the United States by 2100 million to become the first.

You have to know that in the past, even by 2024, China's tennis population had barely exceeded 2000 million, still lagging behind the United States.

But because China now has both men's and women's Grand Slam and Olympic singles champions, and among the women, Li Na and Zheng Jie have already won Grand Slams, this has greatly accelerated the popularity of tennis in China.

In 2012, China's tennis population ranked first in the world.

Moreover, 3000 million are only the number of people who have played tennis. The number of people who have watched tennis matches is an astronomical number. This is the same as the situation of Chinese football. The number of people watching is far greater than the number of people playing.

Some sports fans even joked that although China has the most people playing badminton, among those who play badminton, the number of people who usually watch tennis matches is likely to be greater than those who watch badminton matches. Nowadays, China's three small balls.

The table tennis match was organized like a makeshift team, but because of the big fan club, it attracted a lot of attention from fans and the popularity has remained high. The tennis match, with its mature operation, exciting games, and competition among masters from all over the world, has attracted a huge number of sports fans and numerous sponsors.

Relatively speaking, although there are many people playing badminton, the popularity of badminton games and athletes is much lower.

This also made Lin Dan and his wife angry, and they became more determined to let their children learn tennis in the future.

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During the China season, Chen Ran was very honest and wanted to answer some questions about "WeChat" truthfully.

Indeed, WeChat is now very popular and is very likely to become the social software that dominates the mobile Internet era.

Although WeChat was first developed by Chen Ran's team, this genius idea was indeed thought up by Pony Ma, and Chen Ran had nothing to deny.

But what was quite surprising was that when Xiao Ma Ge was interviewed by the media, he took the lead in giving the credit to Chen Ran.

"Of course, this icon design was thought up by Chen Ran."

“I thought it was great, so I adopted it!”

"It turns out that Chen Ran's idea is great, and the market reaction is the best evidence!"

Xiao Ma Ge said this, and then distanced himself from the matter completely.

From his point of view, as long as Penguin Company can benefit, this favor can be given to Chen Ran, and he can totally accept it.

In addition, from the perspective of interests, the WeChat icon designed by Chen Ran, which resembles a tennis ball icon, naturally has more traffic and topics than the one designed by Pony Ma.

Who made Chen Ran a tennis superstar?

What’s more, Xiao Ma Ge also knows that his reputation is not very good. After all, the idea of ​​Penguin’s game “you can become stronger by paying money” has been deeply rooted in the hearts of netizens.

This reputation is only slightly better than NetEase's game "You still lose money even if you pay money".

So Pony Ma was very smart. In order to avoid causing disputes, he kept himself behind the scenes and put Chen Ran in the foreground. He also gave Chen Ran the title of "WeChat icon creator".

If Chen Ran is pushed forward, the public will be more likely to believe him.

Even after analyzing a wave of public opinion, Xiao Ma Ge came to a conclusion that was both funny and sad.

If he announced to the public that he was the one who came up with the idea for the "WeChat icon", most netizens would not believe it. They would all suspect that Chen Ran was the real original creator, and that Xiao Ma Ge shamelessly plagiarized the idea and put it under his own name.

Then, you will face a wave of criticism from netizens.

After all, penguins used to do things like "plagiarism and copying" frequently, so everyone has left such a stereotyped impression of them.

"So it was very wise for me to do this favor to Chen Ran. It's killing two birds with one stone!" Brother Xiao Ma thought proudly.

From his point of view, the interests of Penguin are the most important.

However, in the future, it will be recorded in history books that Chen Ran, a tennis superstar, will become the original creator of the icon for this influential social software.

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(End of this chapter)