Free Web NovelChapter 883: Chapter 589: Yangma Mountain Reservoir
For the sake of the skit’s effect, Zhang Yang really went all out. After negotiating the price with the boss, he chased the mother goat around the backyard, getting enough footage for the skit before stopping.
"It’s getting dark. How about staying another night?"
Old Zheng, having sold his goat for a good price, was in a good mood and invited Zhang Yang and his friends to stay longer.
Zhang Yang looked back at Xiao Wei and YOYO, and the two girls shook their heads in unison.
Although the cabins in the hawthorn forest by the reservoir could be used for resting, for girls who preferred cleanliness, staying another night was hard to accept. After all, in the hot weather, there wasn’t even a place to shower. Filming material for work was necessary, but now that that was done, staying overnight at the reservoir was not very meaningful.
"It’s not very convenient for the girls, so we won’t disturb you! Well then, since we’ve settled the bill, we’ll take our leave! We’ll come back for fun another time!" freёwebnovel.com
"Alright!"
Fortunately, Zhang Yang and his group had driven two cars. After they got in, they also brought the mother goat along. Zhang Yang and Xiao Yi, being robust men, weren’t too particular; they could tolerate the smell.
And with that, the journey to the East Lake Reservoir came to an end. Instead of finding a hotel in town, Zhang Yang and the others decided to head straight home and rest once they were back on their turf.
The next day, back in their territory, Xiao Yi, the professional photographer and editor, promptly got to work. He organized the footage and edited it according to the timeline, adding various effects to complete the video.
Compared to Zhang Yang’s usual fishing skits, this trip to the East Lake Reservoir was a new attempt.
Besides fishing, they added segments like the rich kids showing off with fish, a forty-pound bighead carp as a highlight, and finishing with the quirky exchange of fish for a goat, making the skit packed with points of interest. They easily grasped the structure of a viral social media video.
Xiao Yi quickly sent the sample video to Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang watched it from start to finish with narrowed eyes and waved his hand with a comment.
Good! Just edit it like this, the effect is definitely sufficient.
With Zhang Yang’s approval, Xiao Yi felt freer to add even a relevant background music, and after checking to ensure nothing was missed, Zhang Yang’s first-season video about the "Reservoir Boss" was simultaneously uploaded to Douyin and Kuaishou accounts.
In a previous life, someone doing this was none other than the top fishing influencer and owner of Wuhan Tianyuan Fishing Tackle Company boss Deng Gang, who had millions of followers.
And Zhang Yang, being a man with an advantage, uploaded the "Reservoir Boss" video at least a year and a half earlier than Deng Gang.
On the Kuaishou platform, Zhang Yang was already a top outdoor fishing influencer with over a million followers, but on Douyin, he had come later and currently had only over 80,000 followers.
These followers were gained from Zhang Yang Company’s staff updating past fishing content on the account, mostly left on autopilot, without any deep management.
But with these foundational followers, the account’s tags were already set, which was sufficient for the current stage. The different platform algorithms meant that even with low followers, the data might not differ too much.
And true enough, when the new skit was uploaded to both Kuaishou and Douyin nearly simultaneously, the data was already very explosive.
One hour after the upload, the play count was 150,000 on Kuaishou, and 110,000 on Douyin. In terms of likes, comments, and shares, Kuaishou was slightly better.
Three hours after the upload, the play count was 660,000 on Kuaishou and 640,000 on Douyin. The data on both platforms had basically evened out.
By evening when work ended, the play count on both platforms had exceeded a million, especially on Douyin where the play count reached 1.55 million, surpassing Kuaishou by over 300,000, with other metrics also comprehensively overtaking.
High-quality content and a distinct character led to a terrifying follower growth. In less than 12 hours since the skit was uploaded, Zhang Yang’s Douyin account gained over 9,000 followers, almost breaking 10,000.
Seeing this, someone might want to scoff: Is the author joking? One side is a million-follower big account, the other is a less than 100,000 follower new account yet to formally operate. With the same content, how could Douyin have much higher data than Kuaishou? Isn’t that nonsense?
But it’s really not nonsense, such a situation objectively exists.
In the niche of outdoor fishing, Kuaishou’s development was better than Douyin in the past couple of years, but with Douyin’s user base booming, from a user demographic perspective, Douyin has started to catch up and surpass.
On the other hand, the top fishing accounts on Kuaishou have stabilised, so new accounts find it challenging to rise. freewёbnoνel.com
Looking at Douyin, it started slower, and many influencers who succeeded on Kuaishou were reluctant to restart on Douyin. So, the content competition pressure on Douyin is comparatively less. Combined with differences in the platform’s daily activity, flow distribution mechanics, it led to this result.
In the following days, Zhang Yang’s new skit continued to be exposed to streaming, with just one "Reservoir Boss" skit causing Zhang Yang’s Douyin account followers to rise by over 50,000, officially breaking into six figures.
