My Animation Era

  Chapter 246 Reminiscing about Youth (for subscription)

   This is Wanbao's first attempt to broadcast its animation works to the public in the form of exclusive online broadcast.

  For Grades…

   Everyone has no idea, let alone how many people will choose to subscribe to watch, and how much the animation will be played on the first day after it goes live.

   It shouldn't be too ugly, right?

  With a feeling of uneasiness, the Wanbao video website lifted the ban on the first and second episodes of the animation "The Moonlight Is Really Beautiful".

  Why did you release two episodes in one go?

  On the one hand, watching just one episode really doesn’t make much sense, and it’s hard to immerse the audience in it. On the other hand, the first episode is free, and the second episode is exclusive to VIPs.

  Whether it’s for the viewing experience or just a ten-yuan membership, releasing two episodes at once is the best choice.

  Of course, Gu Miao also thought about it.

  Perhaps "The Moonlight Is So Beautiful" can also release twelve episodes in one go, like many foreign online animations, for everyone to enjoy watching.

  Like Netflix does this a lot...

  The benefits of doing this are obvious. For the audience, releasing the entire episode in one go and following up to the end at one go, the viewing experience is simply not too pleasant.

   But the downside is that the heat drops quickly.

  Although with the help provided by Mr. Tan, the animation "The Moonlight Is Really Beautiful" is not lacking in traffic and popularity, but Gu Miao feels that it is too exaggerated to release twelve episodes at once.

   One episode a day!

   Give everyone a break. Although it is not as enjoyable as releasing twelve episodes at once, it is also much better than the constipation-style "weekly update" of one episode a week.

  After the ban on the two episodes of animation was lifted, a large number of "drained" viewers soon poured in.

  The volume of playback continues to rise...

  It took less than an hour to go from zero to one million, and it only took one morning to go from one million to five million.

   It's not prime time yet!

   You must know that when the ban was lifted in the first two episodes of the animation, most people were at work or school, and it was difficult to find time to watch the animation.

   It is expected that there will be another round in the evening, with explosive growth!

  …

   Yan Tao is very free today.

   It was the Lantern Festival, and although the streets were busier than usual, there was no one else in the furniture store run by him and his wife except him.

  Business is very bleak...

   This was a disappointing thing, but Yan Tao didn't feel sad, and even secretly pleased.

   No business is good!

  There are no customers and no business in the store, so he can just be lazy and play with his mobile phone to pass the time.

   Anyway, there is no one, even if his wife comes back, she won't say anything when she sees him being lazy.

"hey-hey!"

   Yan Tao, who was rarely able to take a break from his busy schedule, leaned on the chair and raised his legs, took out the mobile phone given to him by his wife for his birthday last year from his pocket, and opened the Wanbao Video APP.

   This is a treasure software!

  Yan Tao likes Wanbao Video very much, not only because he loves to watch animation, but also because there is a "community" function on it, which allows him to meet many "like friends".

  After work, he likes to exchange ideas with everyone in the community, and by the way, share the animation works that he thinks are more beautiful.

   "Hey! The moonlight is so beautiful?"

  Just after opening the APP, Yan Tao was a little surprised by the "Moonlight is Beautiful" advertisement that popped up on the opening page of the software.

  He knows this animation.

   After all, the Internet is full of promotional materials for this animation. It must be nonsense to say that he, a veteran fan of 2D animation, doesn’t know about it.

   It's just that he didn't expect it to be broadcast so soon.

  Wuhu!

  Although the theme of "Youth Love" is not his favorite, let alone other things, just for the name of "Jiang Chuan Gu Sanshui", this animation is worth watching!

   Yan Tao, who hadn't decided what video to watch to pass the time, decided immediately after seeing the advertisement that he would watch "The Moonlight Is So Beautiful" today.

Well! Update two episodes at once?

   Very sincere!

  The two episodes add up to almost an hour. It happened that my wife went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. There was no hour when I would not be able to come back. The time was just right.

  Thinking of this, Yan Tao quickly clicked on the first episode, and began to watch the animation amidst the melodious music.

   "Spring 2010..."

   "Because of the division of arts and sciences into classes, Tan An and Ye Qian, who had never met before, became classmates."

  As the two met and the plot progressed, a wave of fond memories about "adolescence" came to mind instantly, making Tan An fall into nostalgia.

  Adolescence?

  He seemed to remember that in the third year of junior high school, he also met a girl who looked a lot like Ye Qian.

  Her hair is soft...

   Yan Tao, sitting in the back row of her, can often smell a "shampoo" fragrance. She likes to laugh very much, and when she smiles, her eyelashes tremble, which is really charming.

  What's her name?

  Yan Tao found that he couldn't remember clearly. He only remembered the summer when he graduated from the third year of junior high school. Under the instigation of his best friend, he mustered up the courage to confess his love to her.

   As a result, that day, he flinched halfway through the walk...

   After typing out an 800-word draft and practicing all night in "expression and demeanor" management, Yan Tao felt for the first time that it took so much courage to confess to someone he likes.

   "What was I thinking?"

   Trapped in memories, Yan Tao thought of his current wife, who had given birth to him a pair of children, a wife who managed the house properly, and couldn't help but slap himself.

   Something is wrong, something is wrong!

   Yan Tao, who was inexplicably caught by an animation, evoked memories of "adolescence", suddenly felt a sense of guilt as "I'm sorry" for his wife.

  But even so...

   There is still a voice in his mind, constantly bewitching him: If that day, that summer, he was brave enough to speak out his heart to her, what would the ending be like?

  The first episode of the animation is coming to an end.

  As Ye Qian plucked up her courage, she asked Tan An for her live contact information, and the two added each other as friends, and the sweet chat record of the two "after marriage" appeared at the end of the film.

  Yan Tao once again imagined.

   It seems, it seems, if he remembers correctly, he has also used the Live software, and most importantly, he has also added a lot of junior high school classmates.

So…

  Is she among the friends?

  With great anticipation, Yan Tao opened the app store, and found the very "unpopular" Live chat software that he brutally uninstalled after using it once.

Download and install!

  When he opened the software again and logged into the account he hadn't logged in for almost six or seven years, he found that he was really cute.

  At that time, avatars were still non-mainstream.

   The friend list is dark, and the last time a friend logged in was 367 days ago.

  This is enough to prove how completely cold the Live software is and how pitiful the number of users is.

   But that's okay...

   Everyone doesn’t use Live anymore, which proves that person doesn’t use Live either. In this way, Yan Tao can muster up the courage to tell her what he didn't say that summer.

   "Although you can't see it anymore, I still want to say that sentence..."

   Message sent.

  Looking at the gloomy profile picture and the notification that he had not logged in for 725 days, Yan Tao suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. As if he had completed his mission, he showed a relieved smile.

Great!

  No regrets now.

  But just when he completed his "mission" and was about to uninstall the software, his phone vibrated suddenly, showing that he had received a new Live reply.

   "Thank you for liking me!"

  Yan Tao: "???"

   Isn’t this software cold? Haven't you been offline for more than 700 days?

   Before he could figure out what was going on, his ears were suddenly pinched, and a roar came from behind.

   "Wow!"

   "When my old lady goes out to buy groceries, why don't you just let it go and engage in online dating? Yan Tao! Don't you want to live anymore?"

  (end of this chapter)