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Lunar New Year's eve.

8 PM.

A third-tier city.

The TV in the living room was on, and it was very loud.

The hosts of the Spring Festival Gala are reading out the same old greetings.

But none of the family members on the sofa looked up at the TV.

"Boring."

Li Qiang, who had just returned to his hometown, threw the orange peels into the trash can.

He used to look forward to the Chinese New Year the most, but now he feels that it is just a large-scale, awkward social event.

My aunts and uncles surround me, asking about my salary and my partner, while unfunny comedy sketches play on TV.

My phone vibrated.

It wasn't a WeChat red envelope; it was a push notification from "Weiguang Video".

Stop sending mass text messages! Use AI face-swapping to let "Ge You" wish your boss a Happy New Year on your behalf!

Li Qiang was stunned for a moment.

What the hell is this?

He subconsciously opened the app.

Weiguang has released a special version update for the Spring Festival. At the top of the homepage is a huge red banner event page: [Spring Festival Special: AI Transformation for Everyone].

Li Qiang clicked in.

The interface is very simple: upload a selfie, choose a template (Zhao Benshan, Ge You, or even a popular young idol), and then click generate.

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"Want to give it a try?"

Li Qiang casually took a picture of his oily face without washing his hair and chose the "Song Xiaobao eating dumplings" template.

The progress bar moved for three seconds.

Ding.

The character "Song Xiaobao" on the screen moved.

That classic image of a dark-skinned man wearing a red hat has been replaced with Li Qiang's face!

What's even more amazing is that the expressions were completely synchronized, and even the mole on Li Qiang's lip was perfectly replicated.

"Hey Haiyan! These dumplings smell amazing! Happy New Year everyone, and may you all prosper!"

The "Li Qiang version of Song Xiaobao" in the video makes faces and the voiceover is a synthesized dialect, which is extremely addictive.

"Holy crap, hahaha!"

Li Qiang couldn't help but burst into laughter in the quiet living room.

The laugh drew the attention of the whole family.

"Qiangzi, what are you laughing at?" Mom came over.

"Mom, look at this." Li Qiang handed over his phone.

Mom glanced at it, froze for a moment, then pointed at the screen and burst into laughter, slapping her thigh: "Oh my god! Isn't that Qiangzi? How did he turn into Song Xiaobao? That look in his eyes is priceless!"

"I want to play too! I want to play too!"

My seven-year-old nephew rushed over and snatched the phone.

Li Qiang retrieved his phone and noticed two large buttons below the video.

On the left is the [Share Link] (it's grayed out, indicating that WeChat does not currently support it).

On the right is a flashing, huge green button: [Save to album and show off on WeChat Moments].

The copywriting is simple and direct.

Without any hesitation, Li Qiang clicked "save".

The video was instantly saved to the album.

He opened WeChat, clicked on Moments, selected a video from his album, and sent it.

Copywriting: Uncle Benshan is sending New Year's greetings to everyone on my behalf!

Sent successfully.

Ten seconds later.

My WeChat Moments exploded.

Even the usually aloof goddesses and the junior high classmates who were always lurking online suddenly started liking and commenting.

"Hahaha, this is toxic!"

"Holy crap, what software is this made of?"

"I need a tutorial!"

Looking at the screen full of red dots, Li Qiang felt his vanity greatly satisfied. He replied with a uniform message:

"The name is in the bottom right corner of the video; search for it yourself."

Everyone who clicks on the video will see a constantly flashing, semi-transparent watermark in the bottom right corner:

Weiguang Video ID: Li Qiang

Search for "Glimmer" to transform instantly.

This watermark is like a living GG badge, deeply etching the words "Glimmer" into the viewer's retina with each playback of the video.

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Guangzhou, TIT Creative Park.

Tencent WeChat headquarters.

There's no festive atmosphere here, only the sound of keyboards clicking and server fans humming.

New Year's Eve is the peak of WeChat traffic, and hundreds of moderators and operations engineers are on high alert to prevent server crashes and monitor for harmful information.

"Team leader, something's not right."

One of the auditors took off his headphones, looking somewhat confused.

"What's wrong? Is it sexually explicit? Or does it contain prohibited words?"

The team leader walked over with a cup of strong coffee.

"No... it's the number of videos."

The auditor pointed to the backend monitoring waterfall.

"Starting at 8:30, the number of videos uploaded to WeChat Moments suddenly surged by 300%."

Normally, people post nine-grid photos on WeChat Moments, but very few people post videos because WeChat limits video length and severely compresses the image quality.

But tonight, the waterfall stream is full of videos.

It's all those... hilarious New Year's greeting videos where the faces of celebrities are replaced, and videos of people dancing to catchy music.

"Which software is this link to?" the team leader asked warily.

If it's an external link, according to the company's latest policy, it will be blocked if it exceeds the threshold.

"No link."

The reviewer shook his head. "They're all locally uploaded. Users downloaded the videos to their phones and then uploaded them as their own files."

The team leader frowned.

That move... was too cunning.

WeChat can block domains and URLs, but it absolutely cannot prevent users from posting local videos.

That is a fundamental right of users.

If even this is blocked, WeChat might as well shut down.

"Investigate the source."

The reviewer randomly clicked on a few videos.

In the images, whether it's face swapping or dancing, there's always that glaring, jumping watermark in the lower right corner.

Micro-light video.

Micro-light video.

Micro-light video.

These four words are like a virus, densely covering the screen of the review backend.

"Microlight..." the team leader muttered the name, "Is that the company that made Go AI a few days ago?"

"Yes, it's Lin Che's company."

The team leader looked at the screen full of "faint lights" and felt powerless.

The other party doesn't use traffic interfaces or APIs with you at all.

The other party exploited users' "desire to show off," turning every user into a botnet and every friend's post into a free spot for cheating.

This is a Trojan horse that has been carefully packaged.

By the time Tencent realized what was happening, thousands of soldiers had already emerged from the Trojan's belly and invaded WeChat's core social territory.