Chapter 81 Boring Surf
Following such a great motto, Penguin Corporation was bound to make money, and so was Adam.
The Internet industry had been booming in recent years, and Adam and Erin had been advancing side by side, neither giving an inch. One made money from women, the other targeted kids, and both were raking in the cash!
Not to mention Erin, even a proud man like Skyview was trying to curry favor with him!
"Well, although Hilda is a scoundrel, he is not the incompetent rich lad I imagined. He does have some skills!" Skyview sneered. "The Davis family caused me no end of trouble with the Lakeview Express incident. If I don't teach them a lesson, they won't know what I'm capable of!"
Lily said, "Do you mean you want to deal with Hilda?"
Skyview replied, "Exactly. I can't take on the entire Davis family, but I can crush Hilda! He covets the chairman's position, repeatedly provokes me, and even has improper thoughts about Hekka. If I don't ruin his career, I shall change my name as a loser instead of Johnson!"
Lily reminded. "Your name isn't Johnson to begin with!"
"Don't sweat the details!" Skyview said. "The point is, I'm going to destroy Hilda's career!"
Lily said, "It's not that easy. Shark Live is doing very well!"
"Then we'll take it slow. First, we need to cut his ties with Penguin Corporation; we can't let him simply rely on Adam!" Skyview said. "I'll check out Shark Live! Here's a task for you: go check on the progress of John and Penguin Company's negotiations. I'll see if I can find a way to ruin Shark Live and make Penguin Company give up on acquiring it."
"You just want to watch sexy female streamers, don't you?" Lily looked at Skyview suspiciously.
"Don't talk nonsense!" Skyview said indignantly. "I'm not that sleazy."
"Yes," Lily said.
"You really understand me!" Skyview shamelessly said. Since you understand me so well, let me ask you a deep question: Do you like me?"
"Piss off!" Seeing Skyview act like a rogue, Lily left decisively.
"You're just being coy!" Skyview laughed. "Apparently, you are mesmerized by my handsome face, but you won't admit it!"
Skyview had never watched live streams before.
But that didn't stop Skyview from knowing how popular live streaming was and how many people watched it.
When Skyview was delivering packages, a colleague named Kyle Reed was very fond of watching live streams. Not only did he love watching them, but he was also infatuated with female streamers. He even showed a lecherous face while watching them sing.
What baffled Skyview the most was that Kyle actually spent a month's hard-earned salary on gifts for the female streamers, which Skyview found incomprehensible.
You should know that with that salary, he could easily sleep with three or four women of the same quality at a brothel, but Kyle did it just to make the female streamers grateful to him. What stunned Skyview more was that he worked all year but never bought his parents a set of clothes.
In Skyview's opinion, watching live streams didn't necessarily make you an idiot, but if you had no money and still tipped streamers, you were definitely an idiot. However, Skyview also knew that this was a world full of idiots. Without such idiots, the live-streaming industry wouldn't thrive.
Skyview was someone who wasn't ashamed to ask questions. He directly logged into Wisdom Haven and asked his question: What is live streaming?
So, the users of Wisdom Haven enthusiastically and half-jokingly explained it to Skyview.
After reading for a while, Skyview found one user's explanation very reasonable, which was that Live streaming was where agencies got their money back, and ordinary fans' money was split between 30-70 by the streamer and the agency! Live streaming was a fraud!
Many streamers received astronomical gifts from people, which were often orchestrated by agencies. The money spent on these gifts was returned. Seeing others spend money, ordinary people were encouraged to spend money on gifts as well. In the end, the money spent by agencies was returned in full, while the money spent by ordinary people was split. The exact split depended on the streamer's popularity! Big streamers got a bigger cut, while smaller streamers got less!
Although Wisdom Haven was a site for sharing made-up stories, with many people boasting, there were still some reliable users who provided relatively trustworthy advice. At least for someone like Skyview, a logic expert, he could discern what was true and what was false from the vast amount of information. After a round on Wisdom Haven, Skyview understood how the live-streaming industry worked!
After closing Wisdom Haven, Skyview opened Shark Live and started registering.
However, Skyview instinctively used a bunch of proxy IPs to mask his real IP.
The Internet today was a lawless place.
Most netizens' online identities were transparent. Hackers could use search techniques to pull someone out of the vast network. Ordinary netizens might think they were safe and could say whatever they wanted online, but in fact, the action of their chatting online was no different from walking naked under a spotlight.
Using various methods, Skyview hid his identity and registered an account.
The name was something Skyview came up with randomly: Boring Surf!
Indeed, for a billionaire like Skyview to watch live streams, it was quite boring.
After registering, Skyview started browsing the live-stream content.
Nowadays, live streams were generally divided into outdoor and indoor streams!
Outdoor streams included paranormal adventures, eating in the wild, traveling, visiting strange places, streaming rural life, wilderness survival, and so on. In short, it was a mixed bag.
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