Chapter 168
As mentioned earlier, the development of the world's network is definitely much faster than that of An Yi. The essence of this is that the people in Greater China in this world are very rich. As a capitalist and even a domineering imperialist country, it exploits the whole world to maintain its prosperity. The upper class's powerful people eat meat, and the lower class's civilians also drink a sip of soup. The miserable ones are naturally the non-nationals in the colonies and the white people in Europe. As for the black uncle in Africa, it is the lowest race...
Because the people are rich and the industry is extremely developed, even the lowest-level civilians can buy a computer with very low configuration at a low price. Long before the Internet was popularized, computers were tools that every household had. Just look at the computers at An Yi's home that also had computers, you can understand this.
In the world of Anyi, even if the original personal computer was not a luxury, it was not something that the lower class could own.
Therefore, the wide popularity of computers has made the development speed of the Internet shocking. Now the number of netizens is at least 50 million, and it is still increasing at an incredible rate!
The population of Greater China, the vassal states and colonies, has a total population of more than 3 billion. It shows how broad this market is, and how attractive the prospects for network development are!
Naturally, the role of online public opinion on propaganda is becoming more and more important. An Li had long seen this under the inspiration of his sister, so he established a secret online navy, and combined with the promotion of portal websites with increasingly large traffic, Renren social networking websites, QQ pop-ups, and Baidu searches, he had a huge force that influenced online public opinion.
It is precisely such power that makes his status and status popular. After all, the presidential election in Greater China relies heavily on media propaganda. Now the power of online media is getting bigger and bigger. Who dares to underestimate him, a rapidly rising Internet giant like Anli?
If Anli had not vigorously promoted his sister's works on his blog, then a niche work like "Evangelion" would not have been known to most people, and it is a work with highlights and connotations after all. Under this overwhelming publicity, it will naturally attract a group of loyal fans.
Now that he wants to plan the comics industry, he also needs to use his sister's works to open up sales to the girl's comics magazine "Flowers and Dreams". Of course, he has to hype up his sister's works before they are published in the magazine!
Even if he hasn't seen the quality of his sister's works, he is full of absolute confidence!
So he didn't ask his sister what kind of works he would draw, but this did not prevent him from dispatching the navy and the power of his major websites to promote his sister's unborn works.
So on the entire Internet, a grand occasion where everyone is looking forward to An'an's new works. In fact, there are not so many readers of An'an...
But this has gradually mobilized the curiosity of many netizens. Some new netizens who heard about An An's internet celebrity for the first time went to read the works in An'an's blog and found that it was indeed interesting, not worse than the serialized works in physical magazines, and it was also full of unique creativity and charm.
Just when many Anan fans and most netizens were aroused of strong curiosity, the answer was finally revealed. It turned out that Anan's new work will be published on the girl's comic magazine "Flowers and Dreams", and will also be serialized on the website of "You Yaoqi Original Comics", but the speed will be slower than in the magazine.
Now anyone with a discerning eye can see that "Flowers and Dreams" depends on the great master An An to drive sales!
It also clearly reached a strategic partnership with the largest original comic base on the Internet, because there are many popular masterpieces serialized on the website, as long as they are girls' comics, they will also be listed on "Flowers and Dreams"!
This "Flowers and Dreams" seems to have great potential...
Wait, why hasn't you heard of "Flower and Dream" magazine before? Is it a newly founded comic magazine?
Of course, ordinary readers will not worry about this issue. The loyal An An fans will not care about what the magazine is. They only know that when An An’s new work starts serializing, they will buy this magazine without hesitation!
But industry insiders of "Anime Home", especially the editors of major magazines who are hiding in it, are very concerned about this issue, including the editor of "Nanfeng Flower Language", the industry's highest-selling romance comic magazine. After all, "Flowers and Dreams" is likely to rise rapidly with An An's joining.
No one can deny the fatal attraction of An'an's unique literary temperament to specific readers, because ordinary cartoonists will never learn her style. This irreplaceable style ensures that she can always be sought after by a large number of petty-bourgeois literary and artistic youth. The sales of her single-book works undoubtedly prove this.
Even the worst-selling "East Evil and Western Poison", its monthly sales are very stable, and it even occasionally experiences counter-growth. This momentum is much longer than that of fast-food commercial comics. Sometimes it is "literary and artistic to death" and is also a huge commercial selling point.
I believe that with the release of the movie "East Evil and West Poison" this year, the sales of this original comic will once again see a huge increase!
A few days later, in the "Gopaque Chat" section, industry insiders finally revealed that the predecessor of "Flowers and Dreams" magazine was "Love House". Among them, the most famous cartoonist is Quan Yingyue, a second-tier cartoonist, Zhongshen, and the sales of a single line this month was only more than 1 million. However, she (he) won a group of loyal fans with her work that is both funny and girlish. Her work "The Daily Life of a Girl's High School Student" was successfully animated, but the DVD sales are average and may not be able to release the second season.
After "Love House" was reprinted into "Flowers and Dreams", the sales of the new issue plummeted to 500,000 copies, which was extremely dismal. The entire magazine was impetuous. Many three-line romance comic magazines that competed with "Love House" celebrated and took action to poach several little god cartoonists, and even many editors resigned. Among them, the competitive magazine that took the opportunity to take advantage of the situation was "Pink Memories", which dug up two popular cartoonists who were originally considered popular in "Love House".
If Quan Yingyue had not been sticking to this magazine that had reached its most critical moment, and if it weren't its editor-in-chief Gu Ying and tried her best to stabilize the people's hearts, then the newly revised "Flowers and Dreams" would probably be its situation even worse!
When many industry editors saw that "Flowers and Dreams" were so bleak, they suddenly felt relieved, but they thought, even if they could ask An An to take action, they would not be able to reverse this bad situation, right?
After all, An An is a great god with an alternative style, and she is not the supreme god like Yi An. Can she really turn the world around?
Having said that, can An An really draw popular comics of girls full of commercial value? (To be continued.)
ps:
Chapter completed!