Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

Takahashi seemed a little excited. He said, "President, this is a great opportunity!"

"A good opportunity?"

Takahashi nodded repeatedly: "Yes, you may not understand these things, but if a scandal breaks out seriously enough, it can effectively divert public attention. The fights that happened in our video game industry weren't serious to begin with. It was just that a few TV stations were deliberately stirring up trouble, hoping to use their influence to interfere with national legislation and suppress video games. But as long as this topic stops attracting public attention and the discussion cools down, our crisis can be resolved directly."

That makes sense.

Zhu Youxing hadn't thought of all that just now. He wasn't the type to handle public relations crises, so he didn't immediately make that connection.

But Takahashi is clearly a veteran in this industry and knows best what to do.

First of all, the best solution is not to take the initiative to step forward and save the day when a crisis occurs.

The best solution is to divert public attention and make them stop focusing on this issue.

The second step is to salvage the reputation.

Takahashi had been trying to divert public attention, and the various announcements he made during the live broadcasts were a way of changing the subject and preventing people from dwelling on the fights.

However, this method of diverting attention is clearly not as effective as a breaking news story from another industry.

"Let's go find a computer."

Zhu Youxing was also curious to see what kind of news had appeared on the internet that could cause such panic among these people; such news must be extraordinary.

Takeyusei and Takahashi randomly found a public rest area at the TV station, where there were usually public computers for visitors and company employees.

However, when the two arrived, all the computers had already been taken over, and many TV station employees were gathered in front of one computer, discussing loudly.

"Oh my god, my favorite innocent-looking actress is actually like this..."

"Damn it! These guys evaded hundreds of millions in taxes, they're incredibly audacious!"

"These high-ranking officials should go to hell!"

The TV station employees were grumbling and cursing when Takeyusei and Takahashi curiously went over to investigate.

A TV station employee is sitting in front of a computer, quickly browsing various information posted all over the internet.

Now, whenever you open a normal webpage, a dialog box will pop up first.

This dialog box will then display a scandal about a high-ranking executive at a certain television station.

Just like what the employee that Director Kubo called out earlier said, many, many scandals broke out at the same time.

Such accusations include tax evasion, clandestine political donations to members of a certain party, harassment of female subordinates, and high-ranking officials having secret meetings with female celebrities.

Every time you open a normal webpage, a completely different message pops up.

Takeyusei was astonished by the sheer volume of news, while Takahashi was excited by it.

"President Zhuyou, it seems we don't need to worry about our problems anymore. I just took a quick look, and a lot of the news is about scandals involving the top executives of those four TV stations. It seems that there are experts on the internet secretly helping us!"

Internet experts...

Takeyusei couldn't help but think of Tsukino Aya.

But... that shouldn't be the case. She's not that old. She just seems to be good at computers. And this doesn't seem like something one person could do.

But I imagine Aya Tsukino probably knows something.

Takeyusei turned to look at Takahashi: "So, is our crisis over now?"

Takahashi nodded: "It's basically resolved. Compared to these sudden, collective scandals, our fights are just minor incidents. Unless these TV stations are willing to risk their own image and do everything they can to slander us."

Obviously, this is highly unlikely.

At this moment, apart from TV Tokyo and NHK, the middle, upper, and even lower levels of the other four TV stations are in a state of utter chaos.

"Damn it! What on earth is going on? Why are there so many negative messages about us suddenly appearing online? Who took these photos? Who left this evidence?!"

A series of roars erupted simultaneously from several high-level offices.

Actually, this kind of scandal is neither a huge nor a small matter.

The key issue is that too many of them appeared at once.

If only one or two serious scandals suddenly appear, they can find a way to resolve them and let the public gradually forget about them.

But this immediately popped up in a bunch on the internet.

You can't stop it even if you want to.

Now, you can see these messages anywhere in Japan with internet access, and they're all different.

Of course, the television station is unlikely to suffer a major blow as a result.

But for current TV station executives, this is extremely detrimental.

Some of them involve moral and ethical issues, while others directly violate the law.

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Right now, the cell phones of many TV station executives are ringing off the hook.

Some received direct invitations to tea from the Japanese government, while others received "friendly greetings" from higher-ups.

The situation caused chaos among several television stations.

Various interview programs that were originally planned to denigrate video games were immediately canceled.

The higher-ups were sweating bullets and hurriedly ordered their subordinates to find a way to mitigate the impact.

However, the internet is not their territory, but belongs to a new force: the internet upstarts.

This is a group of guys who suddenly became rich during the birth and rise of the internet, and the internet has given them the potential to become new tycoons.

This is a group completely separated from the traditional power camps in Japan, and they can't even find a place to speak to eliminate the influence of the internet.

In fact, even the current internet upstarts are completely baffled.

It's absurd that their own website, which was running perfectly well, suddenly becomes a news website reporting behind-the-scenes scandals.

In the early days of the internet, there was no systematic network defense. Back then, even someone with a little computer knowledge could hack into a network platform.

If they could understand more advanced network knowledge, they would be like fish in water in today's internet, able to swim freely anywhere.

However, only two or three websites were mainly attacked, but these are also the ones people visit most often.

That's enough, just like how later generations of Chinese people, when using computers, almost always choose to log in to Baidu or other search platforms to search for things.

Once such a website is hacked, everything about it will be known to everyone.

When the internet upstarts realized that the intruder was merely spreading messages and had not caused any interference to their network, they were relieved.

This intruder was probably a fairly normal person, but it should serve as a wake-up call for them to start considering network security. Otherwise, while the problem might not be serious this time, it could be much more serious next time.

In just one day, the video game brawl was completely ignored, and now everyone is watching the drama unfold.

The juicy gossip on TV is way more interesting than a mere brawl!

Chapter 107 Foreigner

The main targets of this exposé are the four major television stations. NHK and TV Tokyo also have some minor revelations, but they are all insignificant, involving trivial internal matters such as behind-the-scenes deals between superiors and subordinates.

These kinds of things happen occasionally, so it's nothing special.

Therefore, TV Tokyo and NHK remained quite calm.

The deputy director of TV Tokyo, Hisabo, was quite frightened.

Almost none of the top executives at the six major television stations are clean; the only difference is the sensationalism of the content they expose.

It's just something like insider trading between superiors and subordinates, which is much less serious than what the other four companies revealed.

The four major television stations are already overwhelmed with problems and have no time to criticize the video game industry.

However, Zhu Youxing did not relax and had his online marketing team continue to promote the benefits of video games according to plan.

Mutual slander within the industry is commonplace, and such things were also frequently seen in my past life.

If there really is any downside, it's that everything has its limits. Playing too many games isn't good either, and haven't short videos taken up a lot of people's time in later generations? Other forms of entertainment also have their limits; as long as you don't exceed them, there's no harm in it.

As for the matter involving those four TV stations, it has nothing to do with video games anymore. It's more important to spend that time researching how to make games.

Despite several violent fights occurring during this Dragon Quest sale, it hasn't diminished players' enthusiasm for the game at all.

Some of them didn't even know about the fight.

The most important thing is for the hero to fight the dragon.

Wilson is an ordinary person from the United States.

He came to Japan for work. He arrived at the end of last year and was quite lost because he didn't understand Japanese at all.

In this environment of speechlessness, he felt helpless and didn't know what to do. Apart from work, he seemed somewhat dazed and confused every day.

The only people he could communicate with were probably the two or three translators who accompanied him.

But that is clearly not enough.

After staying for almost a month, he finally couldn't stand it anymore and wished he could buy a plane ticket back to the United States and go home immediately.

However, headquarters required him to stay here for at least another six months.

Damn bosses! Those guys have no idea about human suffering; all they know is how to order their subordinates around.

If you push me too far, I'll just go on strike and resign!

Wilson was already prepared to submit his resignation at that time.

But the day before he was to resign, he went to the home of the Japanese colleague who had accompanied him as a translator and accepted his invitation to have a meal at his home.

He didn't refuse. He didn't eat very well to begin with, and most of the time he would just eat fast food. So the opportunity to eat properly cooked food was quite appealing.

He also heard that Japanese housewives are known for their skillful hands and delicious cooking.

So he thought that before returning to the United States, he would try a Japanese family meal and then brag about it to his friends and family.

Then he went to the home of his translator colleague.

However, he forgot exactly what the meal he ate that day was like.

He only remembers one thing.

The home entertainment computer known as the FC should more accurately be called a game console.