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Chapter 466: Chapter 255: Chen Jincheng is Dumbfounded: I Was Just Making an Investment

Chen Jincheng hadn’t expected that the news of his brewery acquisition would also make it onto the trending list.

"For now, the company is just us. However, we’ve already acquired three breweries, and follow-up investments will be as high as 300 million. Once everything is on track, I’ll give everyone a huge bonus."

In the video, he was making this promise to the employees of his beverage company.

However, the video was posted by a news media account.

Evidently, an employee had filmed it during a meal, then uploaded it to Tiao Yin to get views. A news media account saw it and reposted it for publicity. And it wasn’t just one news outlet.

It seemed news media outlets were starting to establish a presence on Tiao Yin and were beginning to pour significant resources into the platform.

He wasn’t surprised by this development.

In the other world, news media accounts were a major, mainstream group on Tiao Yin.

And this was precisely how they gained traffic. They would repost any video they thought could generate views.

This method had its pros and cons.

The good side was that with their involvement, a matter could easily blow up. For example, in his past life, many people had met with misfortune this way.

As a result, the general social climate did improve in some ways.

People of that sort became more cautious with their words and actions in public, not daring to be too arrogant, lest they be filmed and have it uploaded online.

They didn’t even dare to handle certain private matters so brazenly anymore.

Of course, there were plenty of negative consequences too.

Relying on reposted videos like this, these news outlets had no way to verify their authenticity. In fact, many unscrupulous media outlets didn’t even bother trying to verify the truth; they reported on things purely for the buzz, which would lead to scandals blowing up.

After this happened a few times, netizens came to deeply understand the importance of waiting for the dust to settle, and these news outlets lost their credibility.

Perhaps this was even intentional on Tiao Yin’s part. After all, Tiao Yin became the final arbiter; with a single push of a stream, it could reveal the truth.

But Chen Jincheng never imagined that a single sentence he’d said over a meal would also be reposted by these news outlets. ’Are they really that desperate for content?’

Still, it was a good thing. This counted as buzz.

When the Sodas came out, he could use this opportunity to stir up some hype: ’Chen Jincheng’s 300 Million Investment Bears Fruit.’ That would be enough to reignite this buzz.

Besides, the bigger the buzz was now, the bigger it would be when he revived it later, which would be a convenient boost for his Sodas.

Chen Jincheng opened the comment section of one of the videos. Clearly, many people were stunned by the news of his 300 million investment.

"Is Chen Jincheng just bragging? He has 300 million?"

"Is it that easy to make money as an influencer?"

"For real? Chen Jincheng barely ever streams. Where would he get 300 million?"

"No wonder everyone wants to be an influencer. The money’s too good."

"..."

Obviously, people were very sensitive to the 300 million figure. The tone of these comments was clearly tinged with jealousy.

Just as he was thinking about how to use this for publicity, he suddenly received several videos from Sister Hong, along with a message: Boss, you’re really something else. You can get on the trending list just by having a meal, and you’re even getting dissed for it.

Chen Jincheng opened the videos Sister Hong had sent and found that they were from various investment and finance bloggers. Moreover, they were all critiquing him in a mocking, derisive tone.

"After many influencers and celebrities get famous, they’re no longer content with their situation. They think they’re special, one of a kind, and want to get into investing. Take Chen Jincheng, for example..."

"Investing is a very serious business. Many influencers and celebrities get tricked into it, forgetting just how deep the waters run in this industry. As for Chen Jincheng’s 300 million, I think it’s more likely to just go down the drain..."

Chen Jincheng watched all the videos and couldn’t help but laugh.

’Seriously, on Tiao Yin, as long as there’s a hot topic to ride, bloggers of all kinds will come out to get a piece of it. After all, traffic and followers are money.’

Cai Xiaoyi, leaning against his chest, asked worriedly, "Mr. Chen, are they saying your beverage company is going to fail?"

"There’s no need to take them seriously," Chen Jincheng said with a smile.

He didn’t pay their words any mind. These so-called investment and finance bloggers were basically nobodies.

At best, they were just people who had worked in these industries and had some understanding of them.

Which real investment tycoons and finance magnates would be showing off online all day? Who has time to host livestreams and sell courses on how to make money? Every last one of them is busy making a fortune offline, in secret.

People still believed these kinds of bloggers now, but later on, as more and more of them were exposed in scandals, they’d basically lose all credibility.

There was a case where a famous investment blogger who sold courses was exposed. After he was doxxed, people found out he lived in a rented apartment and drove a beat-up, second-hand car.

’An "investment expert" like that selling courses, and people actually believed him!’

You had to admit, the world had no shortage of fools, which is how these people were able to survive.

’But with these people coming out to throw shade at me, isn’t this the perfect opportunity to generate some hype?’

He did a search on Tiao Yin. There were plenty of investment bloggers jumping on the bandwagon, but the key problem was they were all small fry. There was no point in using them for his publicity stunt.

Suddenly, a major influencer, an investment blogger who was dissing him, appeared on his feed.

Lin Mouxiao, Teacher Lin.

In the other world, this guy was known as the number one investment blogger. His credentials included a past role as an investment consultant for a certain "Bao" Capital, and he was thriving back in ’18 and ’19.

However, the reason he was called the number one investment blogger wasn’t because he was a particularly brilliant investor. It was because after the start of the pandemic era, every single one of his investment analyses and explanations turned out to be the complete opposite of what actually happened.

To put it simply, if he thought a certain type of store shouldn’t be opened, that type of store would soon become wildly popular.