Discovering the unusual state of the livestream room, Zhang Yang lost the momentum he had at the beginning, constantly pondering over this issue, and his enthusiasm for streaming was significantly dampened.
For the next two hours or so, Zhang Yang casually mentioned it to the viewers once and then didn't continue the topic, just kept streaming.
Around eleven o'clock before noon, Zhang Yang sent a message to Meng Fan using his own phone.
When Meng Fan is streaming, he blocks most messages and phone ringtones, but Zhang Yang's messages are specially set not to be blocked; this was a pre-planned way for secure communication to prevent any miscoordination during livestreaming due to reasons inconvenient to state directly.
Upon hearing his phone notification, Meng Fan knew it was from Zhang Yang, naturally took out his phone for a quick glance, and then put it back in his pocket soon after.
Five minutes later.
"Hey, Xiao Meng, did you bring the power bank you took home yesterday today? My phone is out of battery!" Zhang Yang suddenly said.
Xiao Meng cooperated well, paused for half a second, and slapped his forehead, "Oh no, it's plugged in at home charging, I forgot to bring it!"
Zhang Yang went along and said, "To our brothers in the livestream room, I'm really sorry, there's a small technical issue; I forgot to bring the power bank, and the streaming phone is out of battery! We'll have to end the stream a few hours early today! I really apologize to everyone!"
The audience in the livestream room, though a bit regretful due to this issue caused by non-subjective factors, didn't have much to say — everyone forgets stuff sometimes.
Therefore, after saying their goodbyes, less than ten minutes later, Zhang Yang forcibly disconnected the stream.
"What's going on, boss? What happened?" Meng Fan stood up from his fishing spot with a face full of questions after seeing Zhang Yang close the stream.
The text Zhang Yang sent earlier didn't explain any reasons, just told him to cooperate and pretend he forgot to bring the power bank to wrap up early.
The stream was going well, and the fish were biting, so why suddenly stop streaming?
Zhang Yang, who was smiling in the livestream room earlier, now wore a cold expression, frowning slightly, "Our livestream room's permissions have been restricted! More severely than just limited traffic!"
"Huh? Permissions? Why? I've been afraid of breaking rules, I didn't even smoke all morning!" Meng Fan couldn't understand.
Over the few hours of streaming, Zhang Yang had figured something was up, and in a certain tone said, "Judging by content, we're definitely fine, and there's no language violation!
So there's only one possibility: the officials are deliberately giving us a hard time! I guess it's about the streamer contract!"
"Damn! That's so ugly!"
Hearing this guess, Meng Fan instantly got fired up, restricting traffic for not signing a contract — that's really dirty, pushing streamers away?
"Don't rush, I'll make a call and ask! Let's pack up and figure out where the problem lies!"
"Okay! Damn, such a good fishing spot today wasted! Should we keep feeding the big fish spot?"
"Keep feeding it! Regardless, it won't hurt to keep the bait there!"
Soon, Zhang Yang took out his phone in front of Meng Fan and found the Yingke Live's official customer service hotline.
Here Zhang Yang deliberately didn't call the executive he had contact with for signing a contract, instead using the platform's public customer service.
After several button confirmations, the call quickly transferred to a human representative.
"Hello, sir, this is the Yingke Live platform, I am customer service representative 0527, is there anything I can help you with?"
The voice on the phone was a sweet young lady, with a saccharine tone that could easily rival three sugar cubes. Usually, Zhang Yang might joke with the customer service, but right now he wasn't thinking about anything irrelevant.
"Hello, I'm a streamer on the platform, my name is Ming Yang Fishing! Currently, I have about 240,000 followers.
Usually, the stream goes fine, but today, without any violation prompts, there's no natural flow in the stream room, and followers can't see my streaming status on their notifications. I want to ask what's happening?"
"Uh... could you repeat that, what is your account name?"
The young lady was a bit surprised hearing Zhang Yang reveal his follower count, as with the platform just being launched not long ago, a streamer account with over 200,000 followers in many fields is considered top-tier.
Logically, top-tier streamers have dedicated contacts, and reaching out to ordinary customer service shouldn't happen.
"Ming Yang Fishing!"
"Oh, please hold on!" The young lady tapped away in the background, quickly finding Zhang Yang's account.
"Please provide the last six digits of the registered account's ID card."
"261810"
"Alright, sir, after verification, your account's backend status is showing everything is normal!"
"Everything is normal? There's no natural traffic in the stream room, and you call this normal?"
Hearing the words "everything is normal," Zhang Yang's anger flared up instantly, this was somewhat infuriating.
"Sir, please calm down, from our regular customer service backend permissions, it does show everything is normal indeed!
If there was a streaming violation or penalty, it would be recorded in the account notes! Your account has no violation notes, which is why I said the account status is normal!
If you feel there's an issue or a bug, you can describe the account's problem details, and I'll help record and report it to the supervisor, after which someone will contact you for follow-up!"
"Alright then, please record it in detail, the situation is that since I started streaming today..."