Since Xia Yuan made her live broadcast debut as Yuan Jiang, she quickly became the top live broadcast UP host on Station C. Every time she broadcasts live, she will sweep the live broadcast charts and directly rank first on the list.
In the future, Xia Yuan will live broadcast for 2 hours every day. Her main daily tasks are: one is to play the games promoted and released by Ximilu Studio; the other is to chat and sing with everyone, and also explain some knowledge about music creation.
In addition to the [花Q] meme, Xia Yuan also created many interesting memes and various emoticons that were screenshotted and spoofed. However, after all, Xia Yuan is a live broadcaster in a suit, and she is very good at letting go and playing and making noise with everyone. Her extremely friendly and outgoing personality also helped her gain a large number of young fans.
[You can even write songs, and you still say you are not Yuanbao! ]
[Is Station C so poor that it even needs the boss lady to come out to run the business]
[I call Yuan-chan my wife now. Is that awesome? The webmaster? This pure love god is panicking.]
[Isn't the person on the left more excited? ]
[Go to hell, Bull Warrior!]
Xia Yuan continued live streaming like this for a few days, until the New Year's Eve party before the New Year, when he temporarily stopped broadcasting to prepare for the New Year's Eve party and the Top 100.
Many New Year's Eve parties in this era are still very mainstream and orthodox programs, and C Station's New Year's Eve party program is mainly organized by C Station's top 100 UP hosts. It is a very community-like and youthful activity.
Because Mei Fang promised personally that as long as it does not violate relevant regulations and public order and good customs, any theme and any form can be performed freely, the top 100 UP hosts are also eager to try.
In its previous life, Bilibili launched the Top 100 Plan four years later in 2019, but the development momentum of Yuanxi Interactive Entertainment is much stronger than that of Bilibili. The personal charm and influence of the three giants, Mei, Youyuan and others, attracted a large number of fans in the summer.
However, at this time, the two-dimensional ecosystem is still a very niche ecosystem. Ordinary UP hosts with more than 100,000 fans are considered great figures. UP hosts like Xia Yuan and Yuan Baoyuan Jiang, whose two accounts combined are equivalent to the daily activity of an entire C station, are top-notch UP hosts, so it is actually very difficult to make up the top 100.
More than half of this year's top 100 UP hosts were selected by Mei Fang himself. In addition to the top of each section, Mei Fang strengthened the selection weight of subtitle groups, games, animation, singing, and otaku dance. These UP hosts play a vital role in the inheritance of C station's two-dimensional culture.
Therefore, UP hosts such as Chunhei, Laofanqie, Wang Laoju, Lao E, Liangfeng, Pingziji, Xiaoyuan, etc., who were also well-known in their previous lives but may not be very popular at this time, were finally selected into the top 100.
Of course, Director Ao has been in disgrace since 2020 due to his various strange operations and orders, but the "Jing's Call" series of albums he made has left a very deep memory for the older generation of gamers, and Mei Fang cannot ignore his contribution to the website based on his later experience;
Similarly, the "former emperor" in the animation drama area is also one of the top 100 candidates that Mei Fang cannot avoid seeing at the moment. As the top one, there is no reason why he cannot be selected into the top 100.
In the process of communicating with these UP hosts who were controversial in the previous life, Mei Fang even felt that they were a little too sincere and straightforward, and they were totally inconsistent with the events caused by those people in the previous life.
However, it is understandable... After all, a person's personality and behavior style will definitely change a lot before and after becoming famous.
In fact, Mei Fang also thought about whether to use his past life experience to screen out a group of people who may affect the future reputation of C Station in advance, but after thinking about the pros and cons, Mei Fang gave up this idea.
He is not just a user of Station C, but the boss of Station C. He should not consider the problems of a single UP host, because even if he avoids this UP host, there is no guarantee that other UP hosts will not have the same problem.
It is very dangerous to take an official stand and actively express a biased stance, because that in itself will become a black spot for the official.
The most the official can do is express its inclination in terms of selection weights. However, simply attacking a certain UP host or praising a certain UP host too much and causing the UP host to leave is a small matter. If it triggers large-scale condemnation from fans and goes viral, it will be a public relations crisis. Whether the handling method at this time can convince the general public of netizens is what Mei Fang needs to consider most.
As for why Yuanjiang and Yuanbao did not remain neutral—
This is clearly official, so why is there any discussion about whether it is neutral or not
What's more, Mei Youyuan himself is not even top 100, and the three of them are just award presenters.
The only offline friend who made it into the top 100 was Mei Fang’s former deskmate Wan Chaoxiong.
Another point worth mentioning is that as a high school classmate of the webmaster Mei Fang, Wan Chaoxiong never uses this as material for promotion of his submitted videos. He can be said to be a very individual person.
There are many honorary top 100 in the first issue, accounting for 20%. They are all big names in the subtitle groups who have made outstanding contributions to the dissemination of two-dimensional culture.
These subtitle translation groups are not just for animation, but also for games, movies, and other aspects of two-dimensional culture. They once completed translation work based on their love for games and animation. Most of them have started families and careers, and focus their lives on family and work. They have retired and no longer contribute to the subtitle translation group, but are still highly respected on the Chinese Internet.
Mei Fang reserved a place for them here not to force the top 100 places, but also as a kind of inheritance and commemoration of the past two-dimensional culture, just as he personally wrote the award speech for the big guys of the subtitle group.
"Many young people may not understand what these honorary UP hosts who were unable to attend the event mean to Station C."
“To me, this means a kind of cultural inheritance.”
"Many of the Japanese games we played in our childhood, the JRPGs we secretly played at home, and the TV series we secretly watched, the reason why you can resonate with the characters in the game, laugh with them, and fall in love with them together is because you can understand their stories."
“It’s all based on, you know what they say.”
"Many Sakura-style role-playing games have millions of words of text at any one time. They have not been released in Chinese in China, so naturally there are no corresponding localized language packs."
"For most of us Sakura novel novices, it's almost impossible to get into the game if we can't understand the text."
"The role of the subtitle group and the Chinese translation group is also reflected here."
"They often work out of love, and have never received or asked for any compensation or honor. All they get is a thank you from netizens in the community who like their translations and the texts they write based on their understanding of the story. This is the greatest reward for them at the time."
"We always praise selfless dedication, but this does not mean that there will be no rewards for the efforts. That is undoubtedly a kind of moral kidnapping."
“The reason why I set up the annual top 100 is not just to award an honor, but also to commemorate and pass on.”
"We want to commemorate the contributions made by the subtitle group over the years, pass on our love for the ACG culture, and let this love continue."
"Therefore, I will award these top 100 honorary medals and give them a lifetime honorary membership account on C Station. From now on, their viewing experience on C Station will always be unimpeded, and they will enjoy limited exclusive logos, which can even be passed down forever!"
Mei Fang's speech at the New Year's Eve awards ceremony moved many members of the subtitle group who were watching the live broadcast in front of their computers and holding their children in their arms to coax them to sleep to tears.
Looking at those familiar names and IDs, they couldn't help but miss the time when everyone surfed the Internet ten years ago...
Time is a butcher's knife.
I could have posted twice a day today, but I was in a melee in the afternoon, and in the evening I couldn't bear to play with Kiss the Pig after seeing him lose consecutively. In the end I lost too, so I got off the game and started writing. But I was still thinking about Kiss the Pig sister in my heart, so I wanted to see what the result would be.
As a result, Kiss the Pig didn't get its first win until after 12 o'clock, and only then did I start to write with peace of mind. I was really slow.
I'll update another chapter in the evening.
(End of this chapter)