[Love Jiangshan sent a Lollipop ×66 and said: A thumbs up for the streamer, you're doing great! Learned a lot!]
[Little Raccoon Infinity sent a Beer ×13 and said: This is my whole fortune, all for you! The streamer is legit; he shares real insights when there's a problem!]
[Hu Hansan sent a Rocket and said: Apologies to the streamer, I realized my shallowness after listening to your explanation. I shouldn't have doubted others just based on my own subjective thinking!]
[July's Wind sent Erguotou and said: I've recorded the screen, keep the tuition fee!]
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Not sure which viewer started gifting first, but suddenly the donation atmosphere in the livestream room heated up, and soon various virtual gifts began flooding the screen.
From lollipops costing a dime each to rockets costing dozens of bucks each, the stream of gifts didn't stop, and the gift ranking in the livestream surpassed 200 participants unknowingly, with total donations quickly exceeding a thousand.
Although Zhang Yang had privately decided to donate the future revenue from these gifts, he was still quite pleased to see so many viewers sending gifts,
after all, aside from cashing out real money, it also represented the viewers' recognition of Zhang Yang. It felt good to be trusted and supported by others.
Zhang Yang turned the phone camera, smiling broadly, and said: "Thank you! Thanks to all the brothers who sent gifts, and also to others who have been interacting and pressing the heart button in the livestream!
By the way, while the mood is great, any first-time viewers in the room? If you haven't followed yet, give your brother a follow! Thank you all!!"
For the sake of the show, Zhang Yang instinctively prepared to bow towards the camera in thanks.
Just then, the sound of the fishing line cutting through the water hit the air.
Swoosh!
Meng Fan has cast the line!
Zhang Yang, forgetting about bowing, instinctively looked up.
At this moment, Meng Fan firmly grasped the fishing rod with both hands. The front three sections of the 7.2-meter rod bent into a beautiful arc. He stared sternly at the fish in the water, ready to react at any moment.
"Darn! The floater just sank immediately, got it!" Meng Fan said excitedly while keeping an eye on the big fish underwater.
"How's the size?"
"I didn't use the full length of the rod; the bait landed closer, leaving plenty of line to pull! I haven't applied force yet, but it seems the strike surprised the fish!"
"Keep it steady, try to land it!"
"Don't worry; I've got experience now, and the safety rope is still attached. Unless it's those one or two hundred-pound giants, we'll definitely bring it up!"
Meng Fan had successfully caught several big fish, so he was fully confident in reeling them in and handling them.
Seeing another big fish hooked, Zhang Yang's heart stirred, and he said again: "Alright, brothers, the big fish is hooked!
Now it's time for everyone's favorite segment, guessing the weight!
Today's guessing game prize is still the signature product from our wild fishing lake – the Old Jar Corn! A whole box of twenty packs with free shipping. One-minute countdown starts now, with weight precise to two decimal places, let's get it going!"
After such a long livestream, viewers were already familiar with this weight-guessing game for the prize, and soon the livestream was flooded with weight guesses.
The featured angler, Meng Fan, by now, had mastered the art of streaming while reeling in fish, confidently giving the big fish no chance to escape.
The one-minute guessing screen quickly ended, and everyone was waiting for the fish to come out of the water, then the winner would be announced, determining who the prize went to.
Initially, Zhang Yang's attention was mostly on the reeling, not noticing the changes in the number of viewers in the room, but after about ten minutes of reeling, Zhang Yang habitually glanced at the number of viewers in the livestream room and immediately felt puzzled.
Based on Zhang Yang's current base of over 200,000 followers, he should have had more than a thousand viewers within five minutes of starting the stream. During previous streams, while reeling in fish, the number could reach over 7,000, with a minimum of five to six thousand viewers.
But today, even after having been live for a while, with ten minutes of reeling in a fish, the number of viewers was only a little over 2,500, not even reaching 3,000.
Compared to the normal simultaneous online viewer count in a livestream room, this number was clearly off!
Feeling doubtful about it, Zhang Yang didn't voice it out loud but continued to monitor the situation in the livestream room.
After another ten minutes or so, the big fish underwater had lost most of its strength and was about to surface, Zhang Yang checked the number of viewers in the livestream room again, and it had barely passed 3,000.
This meant that the usual suspenseful fish-reeling approach, which had never failed to build anticipation, only brought about five hundred more viewers to the livestream room in more than ten minutes.
This data, forget about natural traffic, even the push notifications on the following page likely didn't reach many followers, which was definitely abnormal!
Could it be that the stream was being throttled? Yet there were no notifications from the official admins about any violations?
Moreover, it was just a fishing stream, and Zhang Yang never swore or pushed boundaries. It was hard for anyone to find a violation in her livestream.
"Hahaha, it surfaced, the fish is decent size, right brothers?"
By the water, Meng Fan showed off some talent, standing on the fishing box while reeling the fish, excited as the big fish surfaced.
Despite such an exciting scene, Zhang Yang wasn't feeling thrilled at all, his mind was preoccupied with the issue of his stream being throttled.
After exchanging a few casual remarks, Zhang Yang helped Little Meng bring up the fish, weighed it, and announced the name of the lucky winner in the guessing game. After completing this round of interaction items, the rhythm of the livestream slowed down, returning to the state of waiting for the next fish to bite.
At this time, after some calm thinking, Zhang Yang seemed to nonchalantly ask: "Alright brothers in the livestream, the first big fish's reward draw is over, I have a small question for everyone!
Which entry point did you use to watch my livestream today? Follow page? Or was it the special follow notification for the broadcast? Did anyone come in from the recommendation page or home page?"
[Special reminder page? I'm on second shift this week and never miss a daytime stream!]
[I clicked in from the follow page, but what was odd is that there was no notification on the follow page about you being live. I found your account manually and clicked in!]
[I also searched the account manually and clicked in! The other streamers I follow all have a small status bar icon when they go live, but not yours! What's up?]
[+1 to the one above, me too!]
[Mine's even weirder. No notification when you went live, so I manually searched with my main account, but it said the person wasn't found. Now I'm watching with my wife's account and could find you!
The same name, without any obscure or easily confused words, I thought it was a network issue, or the platform had a bug, but it seems everyone isn't experiencing normal conditions!]
Oh boy, Zhang Yang was shocked by the responses without realizing until asking.
The livestream room with over 3,000 people had ninety-nine percent of viewers manually searching the account to watch the stream, with none from natural traffic!
Even worse, many reported that when they manually searched the account name, it either showed an error or no results!
After getting a general understanding of the situation, Zhang Yang's expression was very unpleasant. Damn it, this was definitely the doings of the officials.
Online live streaming platforms are a newly emerging thing, but while striking a dimensional attack on traditional forms of entertainment, it actually demands high network speeds. Other technical changes aren't that difficult.
For example, various permission adjustments in the backend, natural traffic recommendations, popular livestream recommendations, etc., can potentially be tampered with by operation tech personnel with a few keystrokes on the computer, making an account that's been in hard work go to waste.
Having been there before, Zhang Yang had seen his favorite streamers being throttled or banned in the past life. He didn't expect that he would face such a day himself.
A proper outdoor fishing stream promoting positive energy without any illegal or unlawful acts was sneakily arranged against.
These backstage manipulations targeting Zhang Yang have exceeded the regular traffic throttling scope. In terms of severity, it's just a tad less than banning the livestream room!
Damn it, what's the reason behind this?
While being furious, Zhang Yang quickly thought of a possibility!
Could it be that the platform is messing with him on purpose?