Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

Chapter 362 Who is this?
"Oh? To whitewash a mere trainee, they actually went to such lengths. These fussy 'researchers' are the most troublesome..."

Fukuyama didn't even have time to wash his hands before he sat back in the "cockpit".

The reason why online public opinion has become a powerful tool for major entertainment companies to manipulate reputation is that, in addition to its low cost, the most important thing is that "it takes only one mouth to spread rumors, but it takes a lot of effort to refute them"...

If the slandered party wants to clear itself, it often takes hundreds or even thousands of times more time and money than the slanderer to clear its name. Therefore, even top stars from some large companies will prefer to adopt an attitude of "no response" or "cold treatment" towards most rumors.

For a "professional organization" like Tianren, online debates will only make them more excited to "smear data", while cold treatment will make them more wanton in spreading rumors. The fact-checking party, which is willing to "run its legs off" to find out the truth, is the most troublesome existence for them.

"Lijia Fitness Research Institute? This organization has millions of followers and is very authoritative among those fitness gays..."

"There is no need to debate in areas that others are good at, and let the 'robots' use automatically generated 'circumlocutions' to argue with them, insisting that those people are 'trolls' of the Burning Department and purchased marketing accounts."

"Let's put this topic aside for now and focus on attacking other topics. With so many black spots, any few of them will be enough to become a huge obstacle for Xia Fan to overcome in his lifetime."

Fushan carefully read the argument about Xia Fan's physical qualities, confirmed that he could not compete with him in terms of professionalism, and decisively gave up this line of battle.

"Boss, we're having some trouble here too... OG Kato personally recorded a rap song, refuting those who criticized Xia Fan's weak rapping skills, and severely criticized the singers we collaborated with, angrily saying they 'took money.'"

"And here, the street dance master Kitamura Hanamichi said that he was the one who taught Xia Fan how to do the elbow loop. Not only did he analyze Xia Fan's movements frame by frame 'without editing', he also used his personality and reputation to guarantee that Xia Fan had indeed broken the world record for the elbow loop... An artist from District 11 broke the world record held by Europe and the United States. Now the entire District 11 street dance community is excited..."

"What? OG Kato, Kitamura Hanamichi, they are from the niche rap and street dance circles, why are they joining the idol world? Is it because the economic environment is bad that they have also started to cross over to gain traffic and make money?"

The feedback from other "fronts" made Fukuyama frown.

"Oh no! Some netizens compiled all the impact data of the "Idol Birth Festival" and compared the data of all the trainees. It proves that before the last episode, Xia Fan's appearance rate ranked last among all the trainees. He didn't even have a single shot on the stage..."

"Since the show started, hundreds of former trainees who participated in J-company auditions but were eliminated have begun to share their experiences of being suppressed and even having unspoken rules when participating in the competition. They have also posted expired confidentiality agreements and anorectal diagnosis records to support Xia Fan's claims that he was 'suppressed', 'there was a script', and 'hidden rules were used to get to the top'..."

"Boss, some netizens compiled all our malicious comment templates into a collection, and used it as evidence that several companies hired Internet trolls to suppress Xia Fan..."

With the latest "battle reports" popping up one after another, the "battle" that was originally progressing smoothly suddenly became precarious due to the sudden changes in the situation.

"Assholes, these netizens whose emotions run ahead of their rationality, why are they sober and vindictive today?"

"However, as of now, at least the popularity vote ranking is still developing in the direction we expected..."

After taking a look at the popularity vote ranking and confirming that Xia Fan's ranking was still slowly falling, Fushan felt a lot more at ease.

After all, according to the requirements of the sponsor, ensuring that Xia Fan cannot make his debut takes priority over discrediting Xia Fan and whitewashing public opinion.

In the face of the internal tickets of several companies with "unlimited firing rights", no matter how fanatical Xia Fan's fans are, they cannot use real money to compete with these "internal tickets" that only require value-added tax costs.

"Something's wrong... Our plan has only been implemented for a few hours. It hasn't even had time for normal topics to ferment. How could there be a backlash from public opinion so quickly?"

"No matter how strong Xia Fan's diehard fans are, this situation is too weird." Fushan, who has rich industry experience and a keen sense of smell, vaguely felt that there was an invisible big hand under the deep sea of ​​public opinion, controlling the turbulent undercurrent to confront him...

"Lao Tai, don't sleep... help me dig up the personal accounts that speak for Xia Fan and find out who is behind them..."

He walked to the corner of the office and kicked a messy camp bed hard.

"Understood, give me five minutes..."

At the bottom of the pile of adult magazines, a bearded man sat up and walked sleepily into a large workstation where several servers were placed.

This "Lao Tai" is a former computer researcher at the RIKEN Institute of Physical and Chemical Research. He became a wanted fugitive after being found guilty of selling scientific research data to overseas institutions.

In consideration of their cooperative relationship in previous years, Fukuyama helped him arrange smuggling records and forged a fake identity, allowing him to temporarily live in the company to avoid the limelight.

This technology tycoon will only help when the business requires "high-end technology".

"Boss, these personal accounts, from the registration time, real-name information, and login IP, have no connection other than the identity of 'Xia Fan fans'..."

"If it was an ordinary hacker, he might have been fooled like this..."

Five minutes later, "Lao Tai", who was typing frantically on the keyboard with a cigarette in his mouth, said softly.

"Oh? In other words, there is indeed an organization behind this, working against me?"

"I haven't heard of any 'comparable company' taking orders from the combustion department... Who are they?"

After hearing what he said, Fushan simply stood behind Lao Tai.

In the entire industry, there are only a few "Internet companies" of the same scale as Tianren Network. In order to avoid "data internal consumption", they will inform each other about any business matters.

Even if the financial backers behind the scenes have opposing positions, everyone is just going along with the situation, or even helping each other to raise the price or something, and will never engage in "ineffective internal competition."

"Among the accounts that spoke out in support of Xia Fan, about 20% of them change their IP addresses every hour. Ordinary individual users don't have this feature..."

"I suspect that these are 'professional organizations' like us, using AI programs to manipulate the comments of these accounts."

"But if that's the case, in terms of the realism, logic and maturity of the conversation, their AI, whether in terms of language model logic, computing power or intelligence, is much more advanced than the version we use."

"Let me dig deeper and find out who is so generous."

Lao Tai was obviously also excited. He controlled three servers at the same time and tried his best to trace those "suspicious accounts".

(End of this chapter)