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"Bang!"

With a muffled thud, Yu Le slammed the thermos containing goji berries heavily onto the mahogany conference table.

"Mike."

Yu Le's voice wasn't loud, but it was like a reassuring pill, instantly suppressing all the noise and unease.

"The overseas distribution plans for 'The Eight Hundred' have all been suspended."

After those words were spoken, the room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Yang Nuo's mouth opened slightly, her face full of disbelief.

Old Wang's anger, which had just been ignited, was momentarily extinguished by this sudden decision.

Yu Le continued speaking.

"There's no point in pushing forward now."

"Since they're determined to conduct political censorship, even if we edit the trailer into a family-friendly version, they'll still find fault with it."

He turned to the old Mike in the video.

"Mike, you have two things to do next."

Old Mike immediately picked up his pen and waited attentively for instructions.

"First, find out the details."

"Was this move directly authorized by the president in the White House, or was it orchestrated by those members of Congress who received political donations from Japan?"

Old Mike nodded.

"Second, stop all marketing and promotional spending in North America and consolidate the funds."

"Since they don't want to see it, we won't show it to them."

Yang Nuo was somewhat worried.

"Boss, without overseas box office revenue, the film's production costs..."

The investment in "The Eight Hundred" was enormous; the actual set of the Sihang Warehouse and the Suzhou Creek alone cost hundreds of millions of yuan.

Yu Le picked up the cup, blew away the floating goji berries, and leisurely took a sip of hot water.

"Yang Nuo, do you have some misunderstanding about our domestic market?"

"China today is no longer the country it was ten years ago, when a few tens of millions of yuan in box office revenue could win the annual championship."

"1.4 billion people! What does that mean? It's the world's largest and most promising single voting bloc!"

"As long as the film is of high quality."

"Even if there is not a single penny of overseas box office revenue, 'The Eight Hundred' will not lose money."

Yu Le's tone was extremely confident.

"This is our own history as Chinese people. It is enough to support the backbone of this film."

After listening, Old Wang slowly sat back down in his chair.

"Mr. Yu is right."

"Our domestic pre-sales have already exploded, there's no need to fawn over others."

Yu Le tapped on the table.

"Domestic promotion and distribution efforts continue to increase."

"You should go and reassure Director Guan Hu, and help him avoid being influenced by external factors."

Meeting adjourned.

........

Yu Le walked out of the conference room but did not return to his office.

His words were both to reassure the troops and to express his true feelings.

Losing money? You definitely won't lose money.

But his real purpose was far more complex than simply "not losing money".

He wanted to enable more overseas audiences to understand this history.

These guys seem quite stubborn and difficult to deal with now.

Yu Le went down the stairs to the Xianyu Network office area.

The sounds of keyboard typing mingled together densely.

The programmers stared at their screens, surrounded by piles of empty Red Bull cans and coffee cups.

Yu Le went straight to Wang Luochuan's private office.

Wang Luochuan was hunched over his computer, his eyes bloodshot, his fingers flying across the keyboard.

"Wang Luochuan".

Yu Le pushed open the door and went in.

Wang Luochuan was startled and quickly stood up.

"Mr. Yu, what brings you here?"

Yu Le pulled over a chair and sat down.

"Let's check on your progress."

"How's Douyin coming along?"

Wang Luochuan immediately picked up a smartphone used for testing from the table.

He handed it to Yu Le.

"Mr. Yu, the software has been fully packaged and is working on both iOS and Android."

"No lag, no crashes."

Yu Le took the phone.

The screen displays a minimalist icon: a white musical note on a black background.

Click the icon.

There is no complicated registration page.

Directly enter the full-screen vertical playback interface.

The video shows a girl breakdancing with extremely upbeat background music.

Yu Le swiped his finger up on the screen.

The scene switched instantly.

It's a funny compilation of videos from a popular online gaming streamer.

Draw another line, and you'll see a cat playing the piano...

These are all videos collected, edited, or recorded by anchors recruited by Xianyu Entertainment from the internet.

Yu Le swiped through more than twenty videos in a row, ranging from cute pets to food, from dance to comedy, with a wide variety of content, but the operation experience remained consistently smooth and fluid.

On the right side of the interface, the buttons for liking, commenting, and sharing are arranged very logically.

Yu Le put down her phone.

"The smoothness is quite good."

"What about recommendation algorithms?"

This is Douyin's core weapon.

A short video platform without an algorithm is just a disorganized mess.

Wang Luochuan pushed up his black-rimmed glasses.

"The basic algorithm framework has been built."

"We have set up hundreds of labels."

"We create user profiles based on how long users spend on each video, whether they like it, whether they open the comment section, and even whether they loop the video."

"As long as the user watches fifty videos."

"Algorithms can initially grasp his preferences."

"Then continuously push out high-quality content of the same type."

Wang Luochuan paused for a moment.

"But there's a problem now."

"Algorithms must constantly evolve through practical applications."

"The tens of thousands of data points we tested internally are far from enough."

"Without massive amounts of real and complex user data to feed it, the content pushed by the algorithm can easily fall into the trap of homogenization. For example, if a user accidentally likes a cat video, the algorithm may bombard him with cat videos for the next half hour, and the user will quickly get tired of it."

Yu Le tapped his finger on the table.

"If we don't have enough data, then we should go all out and collect it."

"Now that the software is ready..."

Yu Le looked out the window at the city lights and smiled.

"Then let's launch it as soon as possible. Once the recommendation algorithm is running smoothly and maturely in China, we'll expand overseas!"