Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

Having traveled through time, the only option is to kill, kill, kill! : 17. Media Magic

Sexual desire, especially in the media, is a ubiquitous and pervasive source of desire in modern society.

Both men and women have a desire for and admiration for beautiful members of the opposite sex—and a small number of people also have this desire for the same sex. This instinctive desire is strong and uncontrollable.

It may sound vulgar, but media and romance have been almost inextricably linked since their inception—even serious news media, when selecting female hosts, place great importance on appearance in addition to assessing professional skills.

You can interpret it as dignified or for other reasons that are not vulgar, but in essence, this is the important position that eroticism occupies in the media field.

Dongjiang has always put a lot of effort into this aspect.

Although his AI generation is not allowed to generate this content in online mode, it is possible to bypass that simple restriction by deploying it locally or with the help of some small tools.

As we all know, arousal is the primary source of human productivity.

Since his software was open-sourced, the percentage of erotic content generated has remained consistently high...

However, the power he gained from this field was never concentrated enough, and he didn't know the specific reason, so he planned to try various methods.

For example—creating a star or something.

By creating a persona, appearance, story, and background, a star with enough popularity can be created, and then this method can be used to try to simultaneously reap the benefits of 'hot topics' and 'romantic' related fields.

The reason for choosing Kasumigaoka Utaha and Sawamura Eriri was simply because I saw someone I knew and thought she looked nice, so I called them over.

Moreover, their appearance and 'character setting' do indeed have promotional appeal and value.

"I see the potential of stars in you. With just a little guidance, I can turn you into world-renowned superstars!"

"Absolutely impossible!"

Eriri Sawamura's resistance was resolute and even fierce. Her face was flushed, and her slender hands, which were tightly clenched, trembled slightly, whether from shame or anger, it was hard to tell.

But if it were someone else's knowledge that I was drawing erotic comics, that would be truly outrageous.

"You seem to have misunderstood something. Whether you agree or disagree makes no difference to me," Tsugumi said nonchalantly.

"Of course, the Spencer surname adds some value to these things, but only a little."

"What exactly do you want?!"

Eriri Sawamura's delicate face was flushed red with anger, and her azure eyes were practically spitting fire.

"A member of the Spencer family, which produced the world-famous Princess Diana, the daughter of a military attaché stationed abroad, Ms. Sawamura Spencer Eriri, of mixed Japanese and British descent, is actually a writer of erotic comics. This is a very sensational topic for hype."

Tsurue twirled the pen in her hand, savoring the flavor.

"At least in Japan, this would be a big deal, and you are indeed quite good-looking. Just based on this buzz, I can make you a famous internet celebrity."

"Then I will devise a series of promotion and business expansion plans for you. With VOX Technology's resources and capabilities, even if you have no acting or singing skills, we can make you a big hit singer, actor, or even something else. With your existing popularity and my abilities, I am confident that I can help you monetize your traffic within a week."

"And as for you—" He looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha, scanning the voluptuous, black-stockinged beauty from head to toe, and stroked his chin.

"While the traits of a beautiful young woman and a novelist are overused, and you're not exactly a famous author, don't worry. With the support and promotion from VOX Technology, we're confident we can help you win both the Akutagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize!"

With a flick of his finger, countless novels and works with different titles appeared on the screens on both sides.

"We'll keep it well under wraps for you. These are the best works among the millions of articles generated by our AI. We'll publish them under your pseudonym and create hype. As for the judges, don't worry, I'll take care of that!"

He stood up, walked to Kasumigaoka Utaha's side, grasped her shoulders, gazed into her crimson eyes, and whispered...

All you have to do is trust us~~~~

Kasumigaoka Utaha felt a wave of dizziness. The handsome, almost otherworldly face before her made her instinctively shy, and his assertive and confident demeanor...

"...Let me go!"

She suppressed her primal urge and pushed the man away, taking a few steps back, her pretty face flushed but glaring at him fiercely.

"That's absurd! We would never do such a thing!"

"Yes, I would never do something so shameful for money!" Eriri Sawamura protested.

"Because you are not short of money, and although you are from a collateral branch, you are indeed children of noble birth."

Tsugumi looked at her, but her gaze carried a pure, cruel malice.

"Only people who are not short of money say they don't care about money, but your businesses should be in jeopardy by now."

He spread his hands, and the screens on either side suddenly displayed a comparison of the traffic of his two works with that of AI products that imitated them.

“Attention, recognition, a sense of accomplishment—these are indeed addictive things.” His voice became deep and seductive.

"Can you give up all of this? You want to stop it, but your own drops cannot stop the torrent I bring."

"Look at your predictable and pathetic future: forgotten illustrators and short-lived light novel authors. Even when you reluctantly release new works, all you'll get are comments like 'I've seen this before,' 'So cliché,' and 'Boring.'"

Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri's faces darkened simultaneously. They absolutely did not want to see that future, but they didn't even have the right to stop it.

It wouldn't matter if other people wrote better works than them, but the technological superiority brought by AI is something that human beings, as they know it, cannot reach or surpass.

The ever-evolving AI, which will only be trained on even more massive datasets after being open-sourced, is growing at a rate that humans cannot match every moment, and they cannot even see whether they are progressing or regressing.

At the same time, their fans and those who love their creations are constantly feeding their work to AI, which then generates imitations of them to entertain themselves.

For them, isn't this exactly what just happened? Aki Tomoya chose VOX's AI, using their products to feed the AI ​​and create products that are almost identical to them. Although it wasn't explicitly stated, what difference is there between that and saying outright that they are now worthless?

"...Even so, I will not stoop to your level!"

Kasumigaoka Utaha's pretty face turned pale, but she still stubbornly retorted, her chest trembling slightly with excitement.

"To go along with the crowd? You think too highly of yourself."

Tsurugi looked at them, her eyes filled with even more mockery.

"Why don't you guess how long it would take me to create two super internet celebrities from scratch online, based on the exact same personas as you two?"

He held up one finger and gently shook it in the air.

“One, no, half an hour is enough for me to create a ‘product’ that is exactly the same as yours, but is known to more people.”

"Hmph, who would believe that?" Eriri crossed her arms and scoffed dismissively.

Tsugumi smiled slightly, walked into her office, and left only one sentence.

"You can stay here and watch my performance, or you can leave. It's your choice."

They did not leave

Perhaps they were genuinely curious about how Tsuruga would accomplish the incredible things he spoke of, or perhaps they were uneasy about what this inexplicable guy would do with their identities.

In short, they chose to stay and watch until the end.

The moment Tsugumi closed the door, she transformed back into her demonic form, then unleashed her media powers with a maniacal laugh.

In an instant, his mind entered a network world of countless information exchanges, and his thoughts, which extended almost infinitely, allowed him to roam freely in this virtual world like a god!

With a single thought, he can crash a game's server instantly. With a single idea, he can send flowing data soaring to heaven or plummeting to hell.

But what he's going to do now is to create two characters from scratch in the online world, and then make them real stars despite having accomplished nothing.

The power of the media was instantly mobilized around the two names that already existed online: 'Kasumi Shiko' and 'Kashiwagi Eri'.

Tsugumi's capabilities fully activated VOX Group's entire social media account portfolio, including but not limited to X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Bilibili. All accounts underwent account nurturing, exhibited genuine user behavior patterns, and were linked to IP addresses from residences worldwide, perfectly circumventing the platform's AI review process.

Rankings, traffic, trending topics, and communities—the fan social circles of modern media influencers have been established from scratch. Unlike those who simply buy fake followers, these AI-generated data accounts, through their own creative work, have completely filled in and enriched their identities.

For the vast majority of people, at least, they wouldn't be able to detect any falsehoods in the information. Even if they did, falsehoods are the norm online.

With the massive AI-powered online army they had built, traffic was mobilized, and on various platforms, two previously unknown names dominated the top headlines on several platforms with an almost invincible attitude.

The large number of fictitious AI accounts quickly attracted the attention of major external platforms, but no matter how they scanned the backend, the IPs they identified all came from different devices.

The skin of the account is complete; now it's time to work on the bones.

Just like the allure he emanated for Kasumigaoka Utaha and Sawamura Eriri, carefully selected high-quality articles, comics, videos, and AI-generated animations were added to the databases of these two fictional characters, and the data below these works was filled to just the right amount.

The release time is limited to within one month, and the impact of the rankings is set at the end, so that even people who are bored and just staring at these rankings will not notice anything wrong.

Next, using the account cluster, server logs, cloud databases, and local data from different fictitious time periods were uploaded to the server. These "followers," "likes," and "comments" created two "internet celebrity accounts" that were established a year ago and have gradually grown to have a huge fan base, as if they had existed on various websites for a long time, as well as a large number of ghost users.

Eriri and Kasumigaoka Utaha incredulously took out their phones to search for their names, and then found an account with the same name and a huge number of fans, but it showed that it was registered a year and a half ago. When they clicked on all the works in the account, whether it was videos, articles or posts, there were comments, bullet comments, likes and even reposts that matched the time.

"This...no one can believe this!" Eriri gripped her phone tightly, stunned and incredulous.

But isn't that normal? Even someone who logs into a video streaming app frequently can't possibly follow all the top streamers on the platform. There will always be some streamers with huge followings that you stumble upon accidentally during a random browsing session.

This is the case with these two accounts. After all the fabricated data has deceived the website and platform, there's really no need to deceive the audience.

They'll just think of this as a 'hidden gem' streamer they've suddenly discovered; they'll follow if they like, and swipe away if they don't.

Even if a very small number of people discuss these suddenly appearing streamers in the future, such as posting or sharing social media messages like "I'm the only one who thinks that streamers Kasumi Shiko and Kashiwagi Eri just popped up out of nowhere," VOX's AI script, which is based on big data, will immediately capture keywords and then immediately start filling in the comments below with AI ghost users and publishing evidence photos to ensure its authenticity.

He has already been doing this. In all relevant forums and popular communities such as 2chan, Reddit, and K-Island, he has created thousands of related information sets out of thin air using the same method, and has been constantly interacting with the data at a moderate frequency to push these contents to the platform's push algorithm.

Kasumigaoka Utaha and Sawamura Eriri watched all of this in disbelief.

They watched helplessly as their 'names' spread rapidly across the internet at an incomprehensible pace, transforming from nothing into 'internet celebrity' accounts that had existed for over a year. From the number of followers, comments, content, and even some composite photos of real people, there was nothing wrong with them.

A chill and fear spread through their hearts.

Their names, identities, and information, which should have belonged to them, were easily taken away, creating two non-existent identities that made more and more people believe that they truly existed.

Thirty—no, not even thirty minutes, only a mere twenty-one minutes had passed, and two near-top-tier internet celebrities whose existence would not be questioned had already been created.

Tsugumi straightened her collar, smiled, and walked out of the room. Looking at the two pale-faced girls, she coughed lightly and raised an eyebrow at their silence.

"By the way, the names Kasumi Utako and Kashiwagi Eiri have been registered as trademarks by our company and now belong to VOX Technology. The legal department has already sent a lawyer's letter regarding the two women's name changes and potential infringement. Now—"

He pointed at the door and roared.

"Unrelated passersby, get out of my building!!!"

Having transmigrated, my only purpose is to kill, kill, kill! : 18. Kasumigaoka Utaha, who sold her soul

Tsugumi had no intention of winning over the beautiful female protagonist; to put it bluntly, what he was doing was bullying two poor girls.

Oh, he really is an evil capitalist, a master manipulator of public opinion, just like those evil news capital groups that are as wicked as the Jews.

Who told him to be a media devil now?

A demon should act like a demon, shouldn't he? It's shameful if he can't even compare to mortals!

@LaoYe from Another World, I suggest killing him!

"you you......"