As a frequently procrastinating online writer, Fu Ming's daily updates may be limited in terms of word count, but it must be said that his books are quite good.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be two consecutive high-quality books, with the second book even reaching nearly ten thousand pre-orders. Haven't you seen how many authors have been in the industry for five or six years and their best results are only one or two thousand pre-orders?

The reason for Fu Ming's decline in subscriptions is not because of a bad plot, but because he updates less frequently, and most readers have gone to support other books.

Therefore, the number of readers and fans in Fu Ming's fan group has always remained around a thousand, and it is quite lively.

Among them, the daily highlight, besides posting explicit pictures, is naturally urging Fu Ming to update.

【Let Go of That Mother Monkey】: "@Unlucky Egg Author, are you going to update the second chapter today?"

【Barbie Ruth Escaping Goldfish Grass】: "It's almost midnight, so it definitely won't be updated. That's just how it is with procrastination [shrug emoji]."

【Ayanami Little Angel】: "@Unlucky Egg Author, why don't you learn from the author next door, Yin Zuo Xia Ji, and see how fast she writes? And also that Mie Yi Juan who writes American comics, she can write thirty thousand words in a day!"

Just as everyone in the group was teasing Fu Ming about his procrastination, a moderator suddenly spoke up.

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【The Little Princess of the Bayun Family】: "Quick, look at the latest chapter, oh my god, it's terrifying!"

Although it was already close to midnight, there were still many members of the cultivation party in the group, and they all became excited at once. Who knows why these people don't have to work and can survive by staying up all night in the group chat.

【Rare Classmate】: "Bayun, what happened?"

【Dao Ancestor Wu Fan】: "I took a look, it hasn't been updated..."

【The Little Princess of the Bayun Family】: "@Dao Ancestor Wu Fan, look at the Easter egg chapter."

With the mention from the moderator Bayun, the entire QQ group suddenly fell silent.

After all, although the group members liked to talk nonsense, the prerequisite for joining the group was being a legitimate reader who liked and subscribed to Fu Ming's books. Therefore, except for the lurkers, most people subconsciously opened their client upon hearing Bayun's words.

But this silence only lasted for less than half a minute, and the entire reader group suddenly became lively.

One question mark after another appeared on the screen, interspersed with a large number of group messages mentioning Fu Ming.

【Dao Ancestor Wu Fan】: "What the f*ck, is this photoshopped or a real video?"

【Xie Wen Yuan】: "I was scared to death, what the hell is this? Cockroaches?"

After a while, Fu Ming finally appeared:

"It's real, it happened at the University of Science and Technology, Building 14, listen to the screams of the entire building... [video]."

Compared to the Easter egg chapter - the video filmed by Fu Ming's classmate Chen Xingyu - the second video was not as explosive in terms of visuals.

But while the video was smooth, the time and content were much more substantial than the first segment:

First, Fu Ming filmed the environment inside the dormitory for a few seconds, then he zoomed in and approached the door, where the strange screams of many classmates on the same floor could be clearly heard.

Then he walked to the balcony and filmed the dozen or so cockroaches still stacked on top of each other. At the edge of the frame, you could also see the lights from many phones or flashlights below - those were alumni from the surrounding dormitories who came to watch the excitement, as well as the excited shouts from outside.

At the end of the video, Fu Ming returned to his seat and filmed the author's backstage, indicating that it was not a stolen video.

Then he continued typing:

"Actually, I wanted to film on the balcony at first, but my roommate kept stopping me. I thought if I persisted, I would either be stabbed or scolded, so I gave up.

So just make do with watching it. I really didn't plan to procrastinate today..."

With the release of Fu Ming's content, the group suddenly became lively.

In today's group chats, everyone knows that forwarding messages is a common practice, and many people have developed the habit of forwarding messages.

Often, while chatting, someone in the group would send a [chat record], and when you open it, it's either explicit pictures or news that you can gossip about.

Some are true, some are false, and many messages have gone viral as a result.

In reality, most of these messages have a hidden pusher behind them.

They would release the news on many groups or accounts at the same time, spreading the news.

For example, at the bottom of many forwarded messages, you can see ads for gossip groups. When you join, you find that the group is muted, and for every two pieces of gossip, there are four or five ads. It's a classic case of double-dipping.

Therefore, in most cases, from the initial release to going viral, most messages actually go through a survivorship bias.

But besides that, if some messages are particularly interesting and have relatively more sources of dissemination, they may also go viral.

A representative example of this is the recent incident of an author being hacked and having their work changed.

At that time, the related topic directly soared to the top of the hot search - perhaps there were some behind-the-scenes pushers during the trending period, but in the initial stage, it did rely on the forwarding of netizens to go viral.

And coincidentally...

Fu Ming's Easter egg chapter happened to have these characteristics.

Even from the perspective of the source of dissemination, his QQ group with over a thousand active members far exceeded the base number of that author from before.

For example, Yuan Yin at this moment.Yuan Yin, female, a student of a certain major at Jinmen University, is one of the few female fans of Fu Ming.

Apart from her daily life, she is also a small uploader on Bilibili, occasionally making videos critiquing and commenting on anime.

However, unlike those popular uploaders, Yuan Yin has been a critique uploader for more than two years, but in the end, she only has a little over three thousand fans, and her video views hover between five hundred to a couple of thousand.

Don't be fooled by the seemingly large number of three thousand. In the world of video websites, the value of three thousand might not even reach three hundred.

According to Bilibili's creator incentive, Yuan Yin can earn about...

Forty yuan a month.

However, this girl did not extinguish her passion for creation because of this, she still tirelessly updates her videos, and has gradually accumulated a fan group of more than sixty people.

After seeing those two videos in Fu Ming's group, Yuan Yin, while being scared into goosebumps, also forwarded the two videos to the group:

"Just saw these two touching short videos, so tear-jerking!"

In less than a moment, a string of ellipses popped up in the group.

【Huai Xun1】: "Yin——Yin——!!!"

【Qi Zhen Shang】: "Indeed tear-jerking, those who haven't watched it hurry up..."

While the group members were collectively criticizing Yuan Yin, a few others forwarded the two videos to other groups.

At the same time, there were not a few book friends in Fu Ming's group who did the same as Yuan Yin, directly forwarding multiple selections.

There was no choice, these videos were just too sanity-dropping.

Some of these people have some social or online status, while others are quite ordinary. Under this kind of radiative forwarding, Fu Ming's chat records quickly spread.

During this period, it's not that no one has raised objections to the synthesized video - in fact, there are not a few people who have this idea, the proportion may even be as high as fifty to sixty percent.

But this level of 'synthesis' has far exceeded the category of being obviously fake, so many people, even if they don't believe it's true, still casually clicked to forward it.

Just like that.

At around three in the morning.

A topic suddenly appeared on the trending list, and its popularity was constantly rising:

#University of Science and Technology of China#Cockroach#.

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