“Hello, kids, do you remember who I am? By the way, I am the actor who dubbed Blue Cat – Ge Ping!”
As a representative work of domestic animation in the early years, “The Three Thousand Questions of Blue Cat” and its various derivative works are the childhood memories of many post-80s and post-90s. Its main feature is that it cleverly combines some scientific knowledge while telling stories, and includes knowledge in various fields such as military, animal, and common sense of life according to different series.
However, with the development of the Internet era, netizens have begun to become active in various forums. Comments praising the Blue Cat series as the number one masterpiece of domestic animation have been emerging, and naturally there have been many opposition voices. In addition, the reputation of a series of sequels has gradually declined in recent years. In the process of constant controversy, Ge Ping, as the voice actor of the main popular character Blue Cat, has also suffered many spoofs.
This ghost video uploaded on Station C was only 3 minutes, but it has played more than 3,000 times in a week.
3,000 times in the Internet era where there are many million views in later generations, perhaps it is just as small as mosquitoes and flies, but for Mei Fang and Lin Youxi, the small C station, it is a dimensionality reduction blow. They have been urgently dealing with the problem of server traffic overload crashes for several nights.
“Why do you talk about this kind of video?”
Lin Youxi also watched the ghost video of “Ge Pao” by herself. She didn’t like this thing very much. “This kind of shoddy editing is just a spoof attack on Teacher Ge Ping. Why do you feel so happy when you post the barrage?”
“I think it’s different perspectives.”
Mei Fang explained, “For example, heavy metal music and death punk, many people don’t like it, and think it’s noise, but there are also many people who enjoy it. You will feel disgusted and normal for ghost videos, and some people just think it’s funny. After all, everyone has a lot of pressure in life. Watching some originally serious characters make crazy ghost videos can also relax to a certain extent.”
“However, personal attacks are not very good, which is good. But if the person involved expresses his disregard, it should be fine…”
Mei Fang himself does not like the creative content of Guizuxiang. He himself only occasionally watches some funny ghosts who are not very aggressive, but he clearly remembers that this incident in his previous life was a very important circle-breaking event, but it seemed that it happened on Station A that year, but this time it happened on Station C by chance.
Mei Fang saw that the number of registered members in the background as a formal member is soaring, from two or three a day before, to now forty or fifty a day.
After the official membership is approved, it also means that they have the right to post barrage and upload videos, but… then again, is this bandwidth fee serious?
Video websites that stream media often have to pay two parts of the server fee, part of which is storedThe cost of resources is the resources stored on your website, such as videos uploaded by everyone, and your account data.
Another fee is bandwidth fee. Whether the website users play your video smoothly depends on the capacity of your bandwidth.
If your bandwidth is very small, but there are many users who play videos online at the same time, there will be insufficient bandwidth and cause lag.
Mei Fang used to have a server bandwidth of 20M, which supports up to 100 people to watch online videos at the same time without lag, and the monthly fee is 1,200 yuan; now he wants to speed up to 100M, and the cost price soars to 100,000 yuan a year, which means a monthly payment of 8,000 yuan. .
No wonder many people say that they are spending money on video websites. So where did Site A and B get so much money back then?
It’s really all about financing!
After seeing the exaggerated cost of bandwidth, Mei Fang now feels like he is wrong. On the one hand, Station C is indeed replicating the prosperity of the previous life of Station B, but it does not have a very stable cash flow. As for Station C itself, it has to wait for several years to make money.
I created Station C because I was eager to occupy the Bezhan track that did not appear in my previous life, and I was unable to focus on game production. It was too early for Bick to play a role. Although my deposit is already scary now, he doesn’t have that much money to burn according to the bandwidth of the video website.
Mei Fang did not make Lin Youxi worry too much about money. He just asked her to concentrate on studying website technology. At the end of June 2010, Lin Youxi, who maintained the website operation, brought Mei Fang a new message. She said that she received a private message from an Internet company called Manha Technology. Mei Fang had never heard of the company’s name in her previous life, but the other party proposed that she was willing to pay 100,000 yuan to buy the domain name of Station C, plus the development source code of Station C.
Mei Fang was not in a hurry when she received this, and she did not show too much excitement on her face. He looked at Lin Youxi who was watching this private message.
“If the other party really bought it, would you be willing to sell this website to him?”