Chapter 141: Unexpectedly Worrying About Money
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
The Bun army swept in like a wave and left like one too. It didn’t take five minutes for the Bun army to clear out Meng Fan’s stream.
As a streamer that could bring out a group of fans to reach 50,000 collections in five minutes, Meng Fan realized the power of the Bun army and the collective adhesion of the fans. There were situations where fans from the Bun army “defected” into Meng Fan’s fanbase.
At least Meng Fan knew he did not have the personality and charisma to convert a group of video game fans into art fans.
Of course, it didn’t mean the exact number of people who joined was the exact number that left. When BunToothJi joined, he had 450,000 viewers. When the Bun army left, there were still 550,000 viewers left.
As for how many friends were left behind from the Bun army and how many came in from the recommendations, Meng Fan found it difficult to count.
When the Bun army left, there were 240,000 collectors for “There’s a Spirit Underground”. It didn’t just go up by 50,000 but 900,000.
Additionally, Meng Fan was shocked to find out that the collectors for “Guide To Campus RoMANce” had also gone up as well. He suspected that many of these netizens had collected “There’s A Spirit Underground” and followed the author’s name into their other publications.
Bun army smas.h.i.+ng their own kin?
Either way, it was an unexpected surprise.
At the beginning of the stream, there were only 300,000 or so collectors for “Guide To Campus RoMANce”. Now it was 370,000.
Combined, he had over 620,000 collectors!
He was close to completing the [Collector of Millions] task.
The progress for the task [One Million Merits] that required 1 million HXB was progressing much slower. “Guide To Campus RoMANce” had already received 12,000 HXB in merits, while “There’s A Spirit Underground” had received about 20,000 from their book fans and fickle netizens. Combined, they only added up to 30,000 or so. It was still a long way to go until they reached the goal of 1 million.
Before the task [One Million Merits] came out, Meng Fan didn’t pay much attention to how many merit points he received. Although he had never asked people for points explicitly, he started to pay more attention to this matter.
He discovered a pretty interesting phenomenon.
The most common form of merit gifts were from the novel fans and the stream channel.
Whether it was a web novel or a live stream, it wasn’t that difficult to acc.u.mulate enough merit points to exchange one million HXB currency.
As far as Meng Fan knew, there were several cases where female streamers received copious amounts of rewards. There were also several platinum lords, gold lords, and even billion dollar lords in the novel sharing platform.
Like Mr. Sleepy, who hosted his novel on the Qi Dian website, he had a number of novels that had over one million merit points. He probably had more merit points than the novels with over one million collectors.
After all, there was a kind of person called a local tyc.o.o.n.
There weren’t many tyc.o.o.ns willing to dish out a billion Qi Dian coins, but there were several that were willing to toss out ten million Qi Dian coins or 100,000 Qi Dian coins. Plus, one novel did not lack other lords. Many popular novels had 100 lords who would provide merit points for 100 books, each giving out 1000 HXB worth of merit points. Combined, there were at least 10 serial books on the Qi Dian platform that had over one million HXB worth of merit points.
Plus, there were at least one million gifts from the stream gifts.
However, when it came to the manga platform, things were a bit different.
Meng Fan also checked the Penguin Animation Network. As far as he knew, out of the top 10 animations on the hot list, there was only one novel that had ten lords, or one book that had over 100,000 merit points. The others only had one lord with some only having one.
As far as merit points were concerned, the stream rewards were very different from the novel ones.
However, there were several publications with more than one million collectors!
There was no market for manga? There weren’t any rich otakus?
That was not possible!
Meng Fan tried to understand the reasons. For example, was there not a tradition among otakus to reward merit points? Or could it be because most of the mangas on Penguin Animation Network were produced by certified studios or had been adapted. Hence, there wasn’t much motivation for giving rewards. Was it because mangas did not interact with the audience as much as novels or streams due to their lower update rate?
Novels had higher interaction rates to garner more merit points and so did streams. Thank G.o.d for those guys who gift out thousands of dollars worth of gifts for a pretty young lady in exchange for an air kiss.
He found some reason, but he didn’t feel they were adequate or accurate.
In short, it was way harder to get a million merit points through a manga platform compared to an online novel or a stream.
Maybe he could reward himself?
Meng Fan had tried to do so before, and his experience did increase, so it was possible to merit himself.
But one million? Sure, his family background was good, and he could probably earn half of the money back, but he couldn’t flex that hard.
If the amount he donated could count toward the [Wealth Distribution Cherub] task, Meng Fan would have bit his lip and accepted it, but meriting himself did not count as distributing cash…
Even if the half he didn’t receive could count as wealth distribution, Meng Fan would have sucked it up, but the system didn’t even consider that half to be wealth.
Meng Fan was very hesitant to throw 500,000 HXB at this [Collector of Millions] task.
Of course, from one thousand to ten thousand, the main point here was that Meng Fan didn’t have that much money.
He had one or two hundred thousand but definitely not five hundred thousand.
And Meng Fan couldn’t bring himself to ask his parents or Meng Cai Wei.
If he had the money… well, he would definitely make completing [Wealth Distribution Cherub] his priority for the +1 luck attribute.
Because of this, Meng Fan decided he had to make more money.
While thinking of this, he paused for a moment. Meng Fan did not think he would have to worry about money before he graduated from university.
Speaking of the stream, Meng Fan and Mr. Sleepy only prepared 20 rounds of gifts. They thought 200,000 collectors was already pus.h.i.+ng it, but they didn’t expect the Bun army to bring in so many collectors, adding it up to 250,000. As for the extra 40,000, a giveaway had to be held. It was okay that they weren’t prepared. The two talked it over, deciding to do 4 more rounds of cash prizes, and if it reached 250,000, they would giveaway a new smartphone.
In the end, before they logged off, “There’s A Spirit Underground” had 270,000 collectors. They did not continue the giveaway afterward, and Meng Fan was so overjoyed that he uploaded two more chapters.
The task had to be completed as the manga itself was also very important. It made sense to upload three chapters the day they serialized it.
“The manga will be scheduled to update twice a week—on Fridays and Sat.u.r.days.” He mentioned lastly. “Everyone knows I can draw fast, so I’m not trying to brag here. It’s easy to update three or four times a week, and I’m not trying to milk you guys for profit, but we picked this because Mr. Sleepy genuinely cannot write the script that fast. If Mr. Sleepy’s ma.n.u.scripts can keep up, I will also speed up my drawings.”
Taking with him the trash talk from the book fans and the stream fans, Meng Fan logged off.
Today’s stream was very beneficial to Meng Fan. Everything else aside, he had reached 1.5 total views!
When he logged off, he had gained 8.8 million total viewers for the [Famous Streamer] task. He was so close to completing the 10 million required for task phase 3.
When he logged off, Meng Fan cancelled the incoming call from Mr. Sleepy and went to visit BunToothJi’s stream.