Chapter 75 is the most recommended chapter.
Chapter 75 is the most recommended chapter.
Li Hong is a female college student who usually watches videos and dramas online. She especially likes to browse Tudou.com, which has a lot of content related to UCG (Universal Creativity, Culture, and Games) and always manages to pique her interest.
Today, as usual, she logged onto Tudou.com, hoping to find a video that suited her taste.
Soon, she noticed a video recommended on the homepage of the cooking section.
The cover features a beautiful and approachable woman holding a large loaf of bread in both hands, with an exaggerated yet adorable expression. The caption reads, "Homemade soft white milk bread, a gift for a special friend."
Li Hong was immediately drawn to the cover. Nowadays, most bloggers on the website make very perfunctory covers, and many even use the first second of the video as the cover. Covers designed with such care are extremely rare.
She clicked on the recommendation. In the first scene of the video, the blogger talked about her bond with her "special friends" and said she wanted to make a nutritious and delicious bread to give to them.
In just a few dozen seconds, Li Hong was swept up in the emotions conveyed by the video, completely immersed in it, and entered a state of flow.
In the second act, Xiao Yang brought up the "reduplicated words" joke. Li Hong, who has a low threshold for laughter, was amused by this witty self-deprecation and laughed until her stomach hurt.
In the third scene, Xiao Yang tries repeatedly to make bread, but fails each time. Li Hong wipes away tears of laughter, wondering to herself: Will this lady succeed? The video has already been posted, so she must have succeeded, right?
Finally, Xiao Yang's cooking team found a product called "Tehao Delicious Milk" on the market and successfully made bread from it.
"Extra delicious milk?" Li Hong asked, somewhat confused. "There's milk called that? Is it really that good?"
As the bread came out of the oven, the classic background music from "Cooking Master Boy" started playing, and Li Hong smiled knowingly.
In the video, Xiao Yang's cooking points the bread at the camera and says with a smile, "Fans, eat first."
Li Hong felt a warmth in her heart: Hey, they're quite polite.
But the next second, Xiao Yang shoved the bread into his mouth with lightning speed, making Li Hong laugh in exasperation.
In the fourth act, Xiao Yang takes bread to meet his "special friends," the children from the orphanage.
The video's mood gradually softens, the camera slowly zooms out, and freezes on the scene of laughter and joy in the courtyard.
At the end, Xiao Yang's cooking poses for likes and shares on camera.
After exiting full-screen mode, Li Hong was overjoyed: what a great video, it kept her happy for a full eight minutes.
Because she liked it, she clicked "Like" (the like function on Tudou.com) and added the video to her playlist.
Tudou playlists are a collection feature on Tudou.com. Unlike later collections, users can share playlists to create a playback timeline for others to click and watch continuously.
Then she opened the comments section. There were already forty or fifty comments, the first one being, "This bread looks delicious, do you have a link?", followed by the blogger's reply: "Yes, there is a link below the bio."
"They actually sell them?" Li Hong was very surprised. It felt like something that was far away on a screen had suddenly come into her life.
Curious, she clicked the link and was redirected to the product page on Taobao Mall. The main product image was exquisitely designed, and the title read "Soft white milk bread, the same bread as Xiao Yang's cooking video, breakfast bread, student bread, healthy breakfast."
She glanced at the price: 20 yuan per box, 20 packs in total, shipping not included, shipping fee is 2 yuan for Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and will be charged separately for remote areas.
Li Hongfei quickly calculated: "At this rate, a loaf of bread only costs 1 yuan?"
The bread in the video looks quite big, so how come it's so cheap?
She scrolled down the page to view the product image and discovered that the bread was the size of a baby's fist, similar in size to Panpan bread on the market.
Oh, I see. It's a small one, no wonder it's so affordable.
Is this really the same model as the one in the video?
Filled with curiosity, Li Hong opened the customer service chat window and asked, "Hello, is this bread the same one featured in Xiao Yang's cooking video? Did Xiao Yang make it herself?"
After waiting for half a minute, customer service replied with a message next to their profile picture: "Pre-sales customer service representative Honghong is at your service: Dear customer, this bread wasn't made by Sister Yang herself, but we use the same recipe, and it tastes great! One loaf of bread has the same nutritional value as a glass of milk, healthy and nutritious, and it will help your child grow taller~"
Li Hong couldn't help but chuckle. Upon seeing the words "grow taller," she instantly recalled the "repeated words, disgusting" meme from the video, which made her feel even more familiar with it.
Since it's the same recipe and cheaper, and I eat breakfast every day and have been craving the bread in the video for a while, why not give it a try? Li Hong immediately placed an order.
Meanwhile, in the video editing department of Tudou.com, the chief editor of the cooking section was staring in shock at the soaring data of Xiao Yang's cooking videos.
Six hours have passed since the video was released. With the support of being featured on the homepage of the cooking section, the video has garnered a large amount of traffic, and the cover conversion rate has reached an astonishing 2:1. That is to say, one out of every two users who see the cover will click to watch.
With a video retention rate as high as 85%, such data is simply incredible.
At this moment, the video has been viewed over 6 times.
It's important to remember that 2009 is not 2025. Gaining 6 views in just 6 hours after its release is definitely a hit of the year.
"We must upgrade the featured spot!" The editor-in-chief immediately decided to put the video in a secondary featured spot on the homepage. But then he thought, this level is still too low. If we're going to put it on, we should put it in the highest-level featured spot on the homepage. However, this featured spot requires the director's approval.
It was already midnight, and the director had long since left work. But a hit product waits for no one, so the editor-in-chief simply called the director: "Old Wang, come back and work overtime! We've got a hit in the cooking section—a charity-plus-food theme, and the data is exploding!"
"Huh?" The director's voice on the other end of the phone sounded dazed, clearly having been woken up from his sleep.
The editor-in-chief raised his voice and explained the situation again: "Here's what I'll do. I'll send you a link so you can watch the video yourself. Don't you have a computer at home? Just log in to the intranet and get the necessary permissions."
"Oh, okay, okay," the director mumbled, still sleepy.
After a while, the head chef of the culinary department rubbed his eyes, got out of bed, and went to the computer to turn it on. The computer fan whirred, and it took a minute for it to boot into Windows.
He logged into QQ, clicked on the link sent by his editor, and started watching the video intently. His initial drowsiness gradually dissipated, and he became more and more energized as he watched. After finishing the entire video, he couldn't help but sigh in admiration.
Wow, the concept, the angle, and the overall quality of this video are practically works of art.
It must be featured on the homepage, given the most prominent position.
With its director-level image, this video could very well become the first viral hit of the year.
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