My Two Dads

The recommendation mechanism in Qu Di is mainly based on interest, followed by traffic. Diverse, random mix of hot topics and hot searches from Weibo would not appear on its homepage. Instead, Qu Di accurately recommend quality video clips according to a user’s interest.

After the “interest-based recommendation” algorithm was changed by Yang Mo’s team, the user experience had greatly improved as well, standing out among its competitors. It’s well-balanced while ensuring the exposure for high traffic videos, at the same time also widely promoting new creators and content with great potential. They even improved this algorithm and applied it on other software under Ji Xun too.

In addition to that, Ji Xun’s security system was also considered the best in the industry.

With a master hacker who won the world’s biggest hacking competition, leading his team to find the loopholes in Ji Xun’s system every day – if someone could find any bugs before them, then Ji Xun would have made an offer with that person instead.

In short, without Dennis’ Lab and Starry, there would surely be no Ji Xun today.

This was certainly not an exaggeration.

Compared to other platforms that inflate their traffic, Qu Di’s data had always been true and honest. Only Qu Di users who had passed the identification assessment could contribute to the views on a video. Furthermore, if the same video was played more than once a day, it would be invalid.

Therefore, if a video had a million views in a day, then, this video had truly become viral. It was certain that it would snatch a spot in the hot search on Weibo. Livestream worked in the same logic.

For example, today’s hot search had Han Shi Yu’s name in it.

Qu Di Entertainment was holding a livestream.

The title: Your long-awaited, beloved President Han is here to visit the company.

Live comments:

“The title emits a strong desire to survive 1.”

“Suggest to change it to: The Leader’s Supervising Tour.”

“Greeting the King of the Biosphere in advance!”

The host was a young lady in a mask, wearing a T-shirt with Qu Di’s logo. She greeted everyone and made a joke in the passing, “Whether or not I can receive this year’s bonus will depend on today’s performance.”

Live comments:

“She burned her bridges hahahahaha.”

“Brothers, let’s spam ‘the young miss deserves it’ for President Han to see.”

After opening the livestream and explaining the run-through, she went downstairs to welcome the guest for this episode.

Yang Han, along with her fellow comrades from the ‘Dog-Raising Gang’, were sitting on the couch, watching the livestream.

Yang Mo and Han Shi Yu’s return had been delayed, so they weren’t home on the weekend yet. And so, Yang Han invited her classmates over for a gathering.

Liu Zuo Ye was also promoted as a member of the ‘Dog-Raising Gang’. Together with Xu Jia, Fang Jia, Shang Xue, the class president and Lu Yue Ming, they crunched on chips at Yang Han’s house while waiting for Han Shi Yu to appear.

The TV was connected to Shang Xue’s phone so he could send in live comments any time he wanted.

The second Han Shi Yu appeared, they collectively let out a ‘oh!”.

Shang Xue’s mouth was stuffed with a handful of potato chips. He patted the crumbs on his hands away, as though he was ready to get started on a grand plan. Then, he vaguely said, “Start spamming ‘the king of biosphere’.”

The class president tilted her head and looked before laughing, “Uncle sure is photogenic on TV.” She added, “Even though he’s already handsome enough usually.”

Yang Han: “He’s just average.”

Lu Yue Ming directed his concentration on the TV screen before suddenly pointing at a person. “Don’t you guys think…this person looks a little familiar.”

Their gazes were drawn over to the direction he pointed at. The camera captured the few security guards beside Han Shi Yu. One of them wore a black cap and a blue mask, the one Lu Yue Ming was referring to.

Six of them stretched out their necks, observed closely before saying in one voice, “A little bit…”

Lu Yue Ming then said, “Isn’t that Uncle Yang Mo?”

Six of them: “……”

They turned their heads to look at Lu Yue Ming.

Lu Yue Ming: “…What’s wrong.”

Yang Han didn’t even notice if he hadn’t pointed it out.

Xu Jia commented, “Xiao Lu, you really are Uncle Mo’s radar.”

Yang Han stared at Yang Mo who was all covered up, raising an eyebrow. Yang Mo never showed himself in front of the media, so she didn’t know what he was up to either.

The difference in the event this time compared to the ones in the past, was that they also invited five other Qu Di artists with over a million followers. For program effect to encourage engagement, these artists needed to be unlocked one by one.

The contracted video creators were in close proximity with Qu Di in the first place, so the staffs could meet many popular vloggers, content creators and it was common to grow close to them.

The livestream was broadcasted with multiple cameras. The host respectfully handed the selfie stick to Han Shi Yu.

While they got on the elevator, they started with the Q&A corner.

The secretary kept checking the live comments before picking a question and passing it to the host to ask.

The host smiled, “Netizens want to ask, how do you usually maintain and take care of your looks, President Han?”

Han Shi Yu glanced at her prompt screen with a puzzled look. “Are you sure this is a question chosen from the live comments? Why is it so official?”

The host: “.”

“Exercise more, sleep more, worry less.” Han Shi Yu answered with that.

Live comments:

“Damn it.”

“We were going to let you off the hook at first.”

“hhk complained that our questions are too official.”

The secretary forced the corners of her lips from curving upwards, sending another question to the host.

“Hm…” The host mumbled, “Netizens would like to ask, if Han Very Fast is…really quick.”

All seven people in front of the TV fell silent at the same time. That silence seemed to have pointed at an awkward, instant understanding of what that meant.

Han Shi Yu smiled, intentionally glancing to his side in the direction that Yang Mo was standing at. But this ‘selfie angle’ couldn’t capture him in the frame.

Han Shi Yu: “You shouldn’t ask me about that.”

There was a burst of laughter in the elevator. Han Shi Yu turned towards the host and said, “If this goes on, the livestream will have to be cut off.”

Live comments:

“He’s laughing madly.”

“He’s covering up the truth by laughing it off and pretending to be indifferent.”

“#Han Very Fast is really fast indeed#”

“#Ji Xun’s president admits he’s really quick in the livestream#”

 

Footnotes

 

Meaning the staffs are trying to please Han Shi Yu with such a nice title, so that they can retain their positions/jobs.