Chapter 747 - 509: X King (4k)_2

Chen Yong had naturally investigated this and continued, "Regarding this point, we have also specifically conducted statistics and investigations. There are many reasons for this. First, the number of times Wu Mu has topped the trending searches on our X platform throughout the year is several times higher than others. More trending searches naturally mean more homepage visits."

"Moreover, Wu Mu’s trending searches break out of the circle more than others’, and are even hotter. We found that, unlike many other celebrities’ trending searches where followers click in, many of Wu Mu’s trending searches are generated by non-followers clicking, many of whom are users who don’t usually pay much attention to entertainment content."

"Compared to followers who might click multiple times a day which aren’t counted, clicks from these non-followers appear to increase more significantly."

"Of course, just this wouldn’t be enough to create such a large gap. Another very main reason is that, unlike the trending searches of other celebrities, which are mostly initiated by other users and fans, many of Wu Mu’s trending searches are self-initiated. They start with him posting on his own account to generate buzz."

"In contrast to the trending searches of other celebrities, which people only view the topic and don’t visit the associated celebrity’s homepage, Wu Mu’s trending searches result in visits to his homepage to check his content. This clearly has a very significant effect on increasing homepage visits."

"Furthermore, we also found that the followers of other celebrities frequently interact with Wu Mu, leaving many comments under his homepage and regularly checking his updates, because these followers of other celebrities are a large group, thus providing a significant portion of the traffic."

Chen Yong explained in detail on stage.

However, below the stage, many of the audience members outside were becoming increasingly silent as they listened.

Especially that last point, the followers of other celebrities... he was probably referring to those rival fans and haters, right?

Interacting with Wu Mu... probably means going to Wu Mu’s account to curse him, right?

Also keeping an eye on Wu Mu daily... probably means monitoring what that despicable guy is up to, right.

The group of followers is huge... of course it is, that despicable guy is suppressing their idols so much they’re struggling to breathe. He’s becoming a public enemy in the traffic circle, with so many fans gathering together it has to be huge.

So... does this mean Wu Mu’s high data also owes a big part to their contribution?

Are they basically causing their own demise?

Is this reasonable!!?

After a brief silence, a wave of discussion rose on the scene again.

Especially in the live stream, comments were already exploding.

"To sum it up for everyone, the main reasons for Wu Gou’s outrageous data are that he’s often on trending searches stirrers and the stirrers are big enough to break the circle. Also, many of these stirrers are initiated by Wu Gou himself, cutting up everyone and putting up a face, everyone rushed to his account to attack him. Plus his haters keep on hating him, monitoring him..."

"Hahaha, damn, that made me laugh to death, Mr. Chen’s words are too funny. Low emotional intelligence: insulting and attacking him; high emotional intelligence: interacting with him."

"No, guys, I just felt that Wu Gou’s data made no sense at all, like X was tweaking things, but when you hear it, it does seem kind of reasonable."

"Honestly, Wu Gou’s points here are indeed much superior to other celebrities, so it’s completely reasonable for his overall data to be higher."

"Analyzing all this, it’s completely normal that everyone else’s data shows such a gap."

Everyone realized that the reasons Chen Yong outlined made a lot of sense and could really explain why Wu Mu’s data was high.

However, even so...

"Wu Gou’s data is still too terrifying, outright crushing everyone else! No one else can match him, even if they combined their efforts!"

"Wu Gou’s popularity now truly goes beyond the realm of traffic, leading by a significant margin, his data even far ahead, others can’t even catch up with data manipulation."

"I used to think that with all Wu Gou’s antics on X, they weren’t taking him down was way too patient. But now looking at the data... they really should bear with it. If they took down Wu Gou, wouldn’t X’s traffic drop significantly? The heat is just too high!"

Hmm, Wei Cao, the chairman of X, was also a bit uneasy in his heart. He was just thinking that if Wu Mu dared to boycott the show, he would directly blacken him on the whole platform.

But now looking at the data, even if he boycotted, they really can’t blacken him. Doing so would mean killing a hundred enemies, but losing a thousand themselves.

...At most, he would just not be invited for platform events in the future.

After Chen Yong finished explaining and saw that everyone’s doubts had basically been appeased, he stepped down from the stage.

The large screen on stage continued to list data from other guests.

But the atmosphere in the venue was slightly heavy.

No need to list anymore, just give the award to him already.

The suspense is gone.

Who can match a data gap of over 200 billion to more than 1,900 billion!?

Don’t even mention the coefficient takes up 10%, even if it’s a thousandth of that, it’s enough for Wu Mu to win!

Many people noticed that the X data indeed seemed somewhat tailored for Wu Mu.

Yet, this tailor-made aspect left everyone speechless.

Because competing for X’s King is inherently about online heat.

These data are all core reference points for online heat.

If the gap wasn’t that big, there might be room for discussion, but when it’s this enormous, you can’t say the X King shouldn’t be awarded to someone with over 200 billion visits, and should go to one with just a few billion, right?

With no suspense at all, after the data listed on the large screen was done.

The host spoke, "After the comprehensive score calculations of the three data points, the honor of our 2024 X King goes to..."

He paused deliberately before continuing, "Wu Mu! Let’s congratulate Wu Mu! Also, please welcome our chairman Mr. Cao Wei to the stage to award Wu Mu."

The audience erupted in applause, though not very enthusiastic.

Many still didn’t have a great impression of Wu Mu, and even with high heat didn’t want to clap.

Wu Mu naturally didn’t mind at all, his base of success has always been the Performance Card, not the opinions of these real audience members.

He went up on the stage, lingered for a moment, before accepting the trophy from Wei Cao’s hand and the flowers delivered by the staff.

Wu Mu glanced at the trophy briefly, it was a little golden figure with hands raised overhead and connecting. It was gold in appearance, felt heavy, but certainly couldn’t be made of gold.

Speaking of which, this was also his second award; the last was the Best Actor at Cannes Film Award. This award’s prestige certainly couldn’t compare to Cannes Best Actor, but it held plenty of symbolic value.

After the award, it was time for the award speech.

The host really didn’t want Wu Mu to deliver a speech, but the procedure didn’t allow for that, so he reluctantly handed the microphone to Wu Mu, "Wu Mu, anything you’d like to say upon receiving the X King? This is your first time winning the X King, right?"

Wu Mu did not disappoint his reluctance.

Wu Mu held up the trophy to show everyone, looked around and smiled, "It’s indeed the first time winning the X King, I want to thank those netizens who interacted under my account, hopefully everyone can keep up the good work next year."

This guy, just got on stage and he’s already throwing shade at his haters.

The host was dumbfounded and didn’t need to think about it; outside, it must already be a storm of curse words.

This wasn’t over yet.

Wu Mu seemed to remember something and continued, "Oh, by the way, Director Lin should really consider my previous suggestion carefully. I think with Director Lin’s reputation, it would be a pity to be ruined by the ’Dawn Star Plan’."

Now’s really not the time to say those things!!

The host smiled even more reluctantly, quickly steering the topic away, "Then, what are Wu Mu’s plans and outlooks for the new year?"

Wu Mu thought for a moment, "No particular plans, probably just like before - shooting some films, appearing on some shows, and making some games, right?"

Speaking of making games, the female host beside him was curious, "By the way, Wu Mu’s new game’s pre-sales are over seven million, right? Everyone is eager for the new game to launch soon. How much of it is completed now, Wu Mu?"

Wu Mu remained unswayed, "It’s in progress, it’s in progress."

After a few more conversations, the award speech concluded.

"Well, let’s thank Wu Mu for sharing, let’s congratulate him once more."

Wu Mu stepped down from the stage.