Chapter 160: The Rise of Bullet Comments

Chapter 160: The Rise of Bullet Comments

"Qingshan!"

Gu Qianli excitedly grabbed Lin Qingshan's arm as she looked at the data on the website's backend.

"Our site's revenue is really improving!"

The C Station backend showed that in the past week, the website had over 700,000 visitors, more than 400,000 IP addresses, 38 million page views, and 500,000 paying members!

It was clear that most of these visitors came for *Edge Walkers*.

After all, 500,000 paying members represented 60% of the total visitors.

Currently, apart from *Edge Walkers*, C Station did not have other content that required membership.

"Of course!"

Lin Qingshan grinned. This was based on a successful commercial model from his previous life.

How could it not succeed?

Having prior experience is incredibly advantageous.

In his previous life, AB learned from the models of predecessors N Station and A Station, combined them, and developed a unique business model.

That's why AB became so successful.

You could say AB was adaptable but never fell behind; it was indeed a very successful bullet comment website in its country.

That's why Lin Qingshan guided Gu Qianli and her team to follow AB's approach.

He even planned to venture into the short video route later, as short videos were the next big trend.

However, right now, C Station was still just a website, and short videos weren't easy to implement yet.

At least, short videos would become effective when C Station launched its mobile app.

On a computer website, users still preferred long videos or videos of their own choice.

"But right now, C Station's traffic is mostly due to *Edge Walkers*."

Lin Qingshan said, "To convert these viewers attracted by *Edge Walkers* into regular users, we need to rely on other creators on the site."

"Yeah, we can't just focus on momentary success."

Gu Qianli nodded, then hesitated. "Qingshan… don't we need to introduce other currently popular animations?"

Currently, C Station had introduced a number of other anime besides the popular *Cyberpunk 2077: Edge Walkers*.

However, most of these were older series.

Although many of these were once popular, they were outdated now.

Other sites, like YouDooNet, also had these older series.

But YouDooNet had also included many popular series that had aired on TV.

In short, except for *Edge Walkers*, C Station had the same series as other sites.

But there were things other sites had that C Station didn't.

Gu Qianli was still determined to purchase a large number of current popular anime series to stabilize traffic.

After all, she had just received an investment of five million from her father. Although Lin Qingshan had directly "paid" for the servers and technical shares, she still had money to spend and could buy a lot of series.

"There's no need for that."

Lin Qingshan continued to smile. "We don't need to introduce so many currently airing series yet, at least not urgently."

Did AB start by importing a large number of anime?

No, it still succeeded without that.

Later, AB did start importing many new anime, but that was only after they had money from listing and financing.

At first, they didn't introduce the latest anime, but still became popular.

This proves that the success of a bullet comment site isn't solely about the anime itself.

It's about... precise positioning and unique content.

Bullet comment culture is crucial, and the many ACG (Anime, Comics, Games) content that emerged from it was key to AB's success.

So rather than spending a fortune to import many new series, it's better to focus on improving our site's own content and optimizing user experience.

"Our priority now is to support original creators who are passionate about ACG culture."

[Translator: sauron]

Lin Qingshan said, "Passion is important, and we should also provide creative incentives to support these creators. We can't just let them work for love alone."

"And as the official site, we can also produce some videos ourselves... like tutorials."

"What kind of videos?"

Lin Qingshan's eyes gleamed. "Kichiku (bizarre or absurd) content, film and anime discussions, anime edits, makeup tutorials, cosplay, game tutorials! All of these can work!"

...

The popularity of *Edge Walkers* continued to rise.

After all, it was still airing on TV. In this parallel world, television and print media were still the mainstream.

The popularity of the internet and computers was still somewhat lagging behind.

Especially for children, they didn't have the best conditions to use computers.

Some families didn't even have computers.

However, the main audience for *Edge Walkers* wasn't children.

It was adults like Liao Zijun, who still loved anime.

Liao Zijun binge-watched the entire *Edge Walkers* series on C Station.

Afterwards, *Edge Walkers* maintained its strong impact.

Moreover, because Liao Zijun had subscribed to the C Station membership for ten dollars, he didn't just forget about C Station after finishing *Edge Walkers*.

This was the reason Lin Qingshan suggested Gu Qianli set up a paid membership channel directly.

He specifically set it up so that watching *Edge Walkers* with a membership was cheaper and more cost-effective than buying *Edge Walkers* separately.

Besides making money, this also...

People tend to care more about things they've paid for.

Just like how Lin Qingshan subscribed to a membership for a video platform in his previous life to watch a show, he would continue to use his membership to watch other popular shows afterward.

Liao Zijun was the same. After watching *Edge Walkers* a few more times and finding it truly enjoyable, he began exploring other anime.

Unfortunately...

"These anime here are so old."

Liao Zijun said with some dissatisfaction.

C Station had many other anime series, with over 500 anime introduced by Gu Qianli.

But most of them were quite outdated.

The newest were from two years ago.

As for the popular series from recent years, there were none.

However, under the new bullet comment mode, revisiting old series could still be quite interesting.

Liao Zijun spent several days re-watching some of his favorite old series.

At this moment, he saw a promotional video for...

"[Edge Walkers Animation End Credits: With My Broken Body, Transform Into Fire! Fly Me To The Moon!]"

(The End of This Chapter)