Chapter 645: Four Words, 370,000
The so-called Weibo Q&A is a feature launched by Weibo last year, allowing anyone to pay a certain fee to request a blogger on the platform to answer their question. However, the exact amount to pay and whether one ultimately gets a satisfactory answer are both uncertain.
The rule for asking is: the questioner offers a price between 1 and 9,999 to the blogger. If the blogger doesn’t answer, the amount is refunded. If they do answer, they receive the money. The voice response is then permanently preserved on Weibo for others to view. For subsequent viewers to listen to the answer, they only need to pay one yuan. Of course, 10% of the total money is deducted as a platform service fee, and the revenue from subsequent views is split evenly between the blogger and the questioner.
Previously, someone spent 3,000 yuan to ask a question to a big name in the internet industry, and that expert gave a thorough answer. This response ultimately garnered over 8,000 views, meaning the questioner not only didn’t lose money but actually made a profit. The maximum price for this Q&A model is 9,999 yuan, and some questions have reached that figure, though most are used by insiders as gimmicks. In reality, not many people use this feature; the vast majority adopt a spectator mindset.
Asking Chen Mo a question on Weibo Q&A was also an option, but many players opposed the suggestion. “Dude, how much are you planning to pay for Chen Mo to answer your question? He’d just flip you double, right?” “Exactly, Chen Mo is so rich—would he be short on the money from answering questions?” “What if Chen Mo talks nonsense? Then the money’s wasted, right? Plenty of people on this Q&A use it to scam cash.”
However, some thought it was feasible. “I don’t think so—if he can earn a few thousand yuan just by answering one question, why would Chen Mo turn down the money? Besides, Chen Mo already interacts with players on Weibo sometimes. Now he can interact and get paid—how great is that?” “Chen Mo’s not an idiot. What’s the downside of earning a few thousand yuan just by moving his mouth? I say the big spenders should give it a try.”
This post quickly attracted a lot of attention, and quite a few wealthy players were eager to take the plunge. After all, Thunder Interactive Entertainment was already a well-known name in the country, and everyone knew the answer, but the response kept getting viewed. Within just two days, this Weibo post had been reposted over 5,000 times, with more than 32,000 comments and over 65,000 likes. The total number of views for the entire response reached an insane 370,000 times!
The players were stunned. Holy crap, how much money was that?! Even the wealthy questioner himself was shocked. He had originally thought that if the answer got 20,000 views, he’d easily break even, but now it had been viewed 370,000 times?! This meant the wealthy guy did nothing and netted over a hundred thousand yuan in profit…
Many players were slapping their chests in regret: “Ah, if only I had spent ten thousand yuan to ask Chen Mo that question, I’d have made a pure profit of over a hundred thousand!” But it was too late to regret now, because a wealthy player had already asked. The first question would draw people’s curiosity to view it, but for subsequent questions, no one would really pay to watch anymore.
Genius remembers this site’s address in one second: