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Chapter 942 - 517: The Fury of Netizens (Please Subscribe)_2

Chapter 942: Chapter 517: The Fury of Netizens (Please Subscribe)_2

The head of the public relations department replied.

"Alright, as long as money can solve it, it’s not a problem," said Chen Xueming very calmly.

"Understood, Mr. Chen."

At this moment, the PR Department of Q Entertainment Media 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 payments were made, the virality could be reduced.

Unless there was one possibility, that the state media got involved.

It was clear that this time the state media hadn’t become involved; it was only the official account of Mist City Arts and Science University that had started the exposure, followed by numerous other "online media" reprints.

For Twitter, all they needed to do was reduce the trending status; the same 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 time, 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 became 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 time.

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 mercy.

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 Department at Q Entertainment Media immediately reported this to the chairman, Chen Xueming.

"Young brother, look at the trouble you’ve caused this time. Not to mention 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 troublesome 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 immediately informed the PR department, and they quickly reached an agreement 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 immediately restricted.

Once a topic was restricted, it was practically impossible for it to climb the trending list again. Plus, the relevant department 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.

Meanwhile, 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 comments, it was also being throttled.

That is to say, no matter how many more likes, heart reactions, comments, 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 recommended section on the homepage.

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 shameless, 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 some clever tricks."

"You guys are not looking at the relationship between the boss of Jiangjiu Group and Chen Xueming from Q Entertainment Media 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 shameless 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 punishment 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 became difficult to extinguish.

Although Twitter is rife with brainless fans, fistfighters, public intellectuals, and Western bootlickers, when it comes to something 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 department 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 means that the actions of Jiangjiu Group and Q Entertainment PR Department of Penguin Group in lowering the heat and pulling the trend this time have somewhat 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 Entertainment Media 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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