Chapter 7: The all-encompassing meme

Smart Input Method?

Antivirus?

Both of these are things that are currently vacant on the Internet, and if they are in the present world, they will definitely explode.

But unfortunately, Lin Yiming doesn't have his own computer yet, so he can't do it for the time being.

He could only keep his eyes on the chat room.

In the web1.0 era, the Internet is still the world of portals, and 90% of the traffic of portals comes from chat rooms - if you want to make money quickly, make chat rooms!

But his material conditions are so poor that he can't make a full chat room without a server.

And, in one night, he can only do one plugin at most.

So what plugin to do?

Looking at the monotonous interface of the chat room, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration!

That's right!

At this time, the chat room only has a text-only function, and there is no picture function!

Do you know how boring a group of people can be chatting in the future in 2020?

- They can not speak, just fight!

So, you can't post love packets in the chat room, how boring it should be.

He wants to make a sticker plugin and promote it with the help of the current popularity of chat rooms on major websites!

As long as there are enough downloads of the plug-in, someone will soon come to him to buy the plug-in patent, and then he will have the funds to buy a computer!

Thinking of this, his software engineer soul is burning!

Download the programming software and he started flying at his fingertips!

Around, roommates are playing games.

And he's writing code.

The roommates who were addicted to the game forgot the time, it was dark, the lights were on, and Lin Yiming was still by their side......

At 11 o'clock in the evening, after many debuggings, he finally finished the emoji plugin, and he decided to name it "Ordinary Emoji 1.0".

Next, it's time to upload and run.

He specially registered an email address, then uploaded the emoji package to the Internet, and generated a download link, and then hung the download link and email address on the website forum, and specifically noted: Please contact the email for business cooperation.

Once you've done that, it's time to promote.

He clicked on the drunken rivers and lakes that ranked first on the list of hot chat rooms, and as soon as he entered, he saw a group of Internet mobs denouncing "I am an atheist".

He was a little stunned, he couldn't believe that so many hours had passed, and netizens still remembered his "insult" and listening to the wind.

This also illustrates the popularity of listening to the wind in the drunken rivers and lakes - Lin Yiming remembered at this time, long before he knew and listened to the wind yin, that girl pretended to be a woman, and I don't know how many people have made the white moonlight in their minds!

That dead shemale is so capable of misfortune to young people!

He didn't want to clash with netizens, and looking at them was like seeing himself at the beginning.

He was about to leave the room, when he had a flash of inspiration: Isn't this a good opportunity?

After a few hours of arguing, the ID name "I am an atheist" has become familiar to many people, and if he speaks at this time, it will definitely attract a lot of attention at once.

And at this time, he brought the freshly made emoji, and it was difficult for netizens not to pay attention!

So, he spoke—

Hello everyone! /smile

I'm an atheist. /cachinnation

I'm sorry for tonight! /I'm sorry

I recognized the wrong person. /grievance

That's why I scolded the wrong person. /Cry

Please forgive me for being reckless. /I'm sorry

I hope you can forgive me. /wretched

……

With his extraordinary hand speed, after a while, Lin Yiming swiped a few times, and soon dominated the screen.

When it took over the entire chat box and made it difficult for people not to notice him, he stopped.

Then, it's just a matter of waiting.

1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds......

Finally someone spoke!

[Don't ask me by name]: I'm an atheist, how can you say things differently from us? How did you send that picture? Why didn't I?

At this time, Lin Yiming was not in a hurry to answer.

The speeches of netizens have now become two rounds.

One is to denounce him;

The other group is asking for memes.

It wasn't until the speech of asking about emojis drowned out the condemnation, and the whole screen was asking about emojis, that Lin Yiming replied slowly.

[I'm an atheist]: I downloaded a sticker plugin on the Internet, and after installing it, I was able to express my affection.

Where did they download it?

He waited until he had accumulated enough heat before throwing out the download address.

After a while, someone was speaking with a meme.

Even, they don't even bring words, they only express their feelings, which is just like a dime in later generations, boring to the point of fighting pictures, but the current emojis only have basic expressions.

In the future, he will have to be free, and he will use PS to make a few more interesting emojis.

Soon, the entire chat box was dominated by emojis.

The novelty quickly spread, and every new person in the chat room will ask: Why can you post pictures and I can't?

Then an enthusiastic netizen will throw out the download address, and soon, the newcomer will appear with an expression.

You see, that's the benefit of rubbing the heat.

As long as the popularity is good, someone will help you do publicity for free.

Seeing that the popularity of the emoji plug-in had been stirred, Lin Yiming retreated into the background and waited for the changes.

After ten minutes passed, the new netizens in the chat room no longer asked: Why can you and I can't?

And it became: I heard that there is an address to download the emoji pack here? Beg!

At this time, when the newcomer enters the room, it is no longer simply entering the room, but specially added for the purpose of downloading emojis!

Chat room emojis have been around for less than 10 minutes, and they have attracted so much attention!

This effect far exceeded Lin Yiming's expectations.

After another 10 minutes, the room in the drunken rivers and lakes was full!

The room was full, and people from outside couldn't get in.

But Lin Yiming knows that when the water is full, it will overflow, and when the drunken rivers and lakes can no longer squeeze into the newcomers, it will be time for the emojis to start spreading to other rooms.

Sure enough, he exited and clicked on a few rooms to check, and there were already four or five chat rooms asking: I heard that you can send pictures? Which chat room do I have to go to to to have the download address?

At first, he was also enthusiastic and sent the download address.

But then I felt too tired and couldn't reply to so many messages alone, so I waited and waited for netizens to help spread the emojis.

Soon, the NetJane chat room was all captured by emojis!

Lin Yiming smiled at his aunt, judging from this trend, emojis should soon be able to be fully networked!

But he didn't stop there.

Because he knows that only posting emojis in the NetJane chat room, and in the end, only NetJane will buy it, and it will be too passive to negotiate the price at that time.

If you want to raise prices, you have to compete.

So he found two old rivals for NetEase: Xinglang and Somao.

These three are called the "three major portals", and they should be evenly matched at the beginning, and when the time comes, it will depend on who bids higher!

So he registered accounts on both Xinglang and Somao websites at the same time, and sent the emoji to the room with the largest number of online people.

But the effect is not very obvious, probably because he is a newcomer, so when he entered the chat room with the meme, it did not attract much attention.

After half an hour, the number of downloads of users on both websites did not exceed 100.

When the emoji appeared in the NetEase chat room before, the number of downloads exceeded 1,000 within half an hour, and it exceeded 10,000 in an hour!

The gap was so big that Lin Yiming couldn't help frowning.

But he is not in a hurry, because he knows that although the number of downloads today is small, as time shifts, they will push the memes to the whole network......

What he can do now,

It's just waiting,

Wait for this spark to burn all over the Internet!