Edited the video and wrote the title. Zhang Beixing’s video went live on his feed almost instantly.
「anwhile.」
Across the country, many people received notifications from the official Douyin platform.
[The user you follow, Zhang Beixing, has uploaded a new video. Go check it out!]
As soon as this notification popped up, many people browsing Douyin were startled and subconsciously swiped it away. After swiping, however, they belatedly realized sothing was amiss.
Wait a second. What did Douyin’s official notification just say? Who posted a video? Zhang Beixing?
"HOLY SHIT?!"
Suddenly, exclamations like this erupted all across Great Xia.
They quickly switched their app to the ’Following’ tab. Sure enough, the video Zhang Beixing had just posted was prominently displayed there!
"HOLY SHIT! The missing person has returned!"
"After two months, Brother Dan finally rembered his account password."
"First ti this early! I’ve made it!"
"You still rember you have this account?! If you didn’t update soon, we were starting to think you’d abandoned it for good!"
"Grandpa, the blogger you follow has finally updated!"
"..."
Upon opening the video, in just a few monts, several bullet comnts had already flown across the screen.
People were surprised by Zhang Beixing’s sudden return from the dead, and at the sa ti, they felt a little bittersweet.
They had been using Douyin for so long, yet to this day, they had never seen a blogger neglect their fans to this extent.
When other bloggers got popular, they’d practically post ten tis a day, desperate to maintain their presence.
Then there was Zhang Beixing. Forget ten posts a day; for him, it was an extraordinary event if he updated even once a month. That was cause for serious celebration.
It was only because the quality of his content was exceptionally high, sothing no one else could replicate, that his fans remained so fiercely loyal.
Otherwise, for any other blogger, forget one or two months of silence—if they didn’t post for three days, it would be a testant to the netizens’ good mory if they were rembered at all.
After marveling at how Zhang Beixing, a top-tier blogger with millions of followers, had suddenly returned from the dead with a new video, the netizens’ attention then turned to Zhang Beixing himself.
Although Zhang Beixing had been out of the public eye, having vanished from the scene for quite so ti, this didn’t an his popularity had waned.
On the contrary, Zhang Beixing’s popularity was still very high.
First, a ’Daredevil Bro’ had recently erged out of nowhere. His crazy stunts inevitably reminded netizens of Zhang Beixing, the ’reality challenge’ blogger.
Both of them challenged the seemingly impossible, leading netizens to involuntarily compare Zhang Beixing with this ’Daredevil Bro.’ It had essentially turned into a massive digital cockfight.
Second, there was the fire incident that had gone viral online today.
Thanks to Zhang Beixing’s intervention, the fire was successfully extinguished without any fatalities. The fire departnt was currently handling the aftermath and hadn’t had ti to address the online speculation or issue an official statent.
As a result, after watching videos fild by passersby, netizens unanimously concluded that the footage was fake—purely movie special effects and completely unbelievable. They also began speculating about what movie Zhang Beixing was filming.
Fueled by these two events, it wasn’t long before similar questions flooded the screen:
"Brother Bei, Brother Bei! I heard you went off to shoot a movie? A modern sci-fi film, right?"
"Brother Dan, what’s up with you? You’re a top strear with millions of fans, the ’realest man on the internet,’ the President of both the Great Xia Martial Arts Association and the Asia Martial Arts Association, and the only Great Grandmaster in seven hundred years! Why are you ssing around shooting movies and TV shows? What future is there in that?"
"The comnter above is right. I won’t say much more, but given our status, it makes no sense to shoot movies. That’s just lowering ourselves. We can be down-to-earth, but we shouldn’t be digging our own graves! This move of yours is just too grim."
"Is it just , or is anyone else curious about what movie Brother Dan is filming? How grand must the production be, and how star-studded the cast, to actually get our Brother Dan to act in it?"
"My take? It’s pointless. No matter how grand the production, it’s all fake, all smoke and mirrors. Nothing beats the real deal. Brother Dan, you really made a bad move here!"
"Seriously, was it really necessary to make such a big deal just because you made an impossible boast? Just admit you were wrong, man. We’re all buddies who’ve followed you from the start. Would we really give you a hard ti? Why resort to sothing so extre?"
"Alright, alright, that’s enough out of all of you! Whatever path Brother Dan chooses, whatever he does, that’s his business. As a loyal, long-ti fan, all I can say is, whether you’re changing careers or not, Brother Dan, I support you unconditionally! Of course, if you expect to chip in any money, then just pretend I didn’t say anything."
"LOL. Not a damn cent to your na, so it’s all about the moral support, huh?"
"Brother Dan, you’re finally back! While you were gone, this amazing guy popped up on Douyin—just like you, super daring and incredible. Who do you think is more impressive, you or him?"
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