And so, the stream was flooded with the special effects of Beers being sent.
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User 201706306330 sent Beer x24
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User 201706306330 sent Beer x48
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User 201706306330 sent Beer x96
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User 201706306330 sent Beer x6144
At this point, Xu Shengxia's cashback amount had reached 12,288 yuan.
After topping up her account, she tried to send the gifts again, only to find that she couldn't send 12,288 Beers.
This was because the maximum number of Beers that could be sent in a single burst was 10,000.
Xu Shengxia had no choice but to change her strategy. She began sending the most expensive gift: the Happy Planet, each worth 3,000 yuan. The cashback she'd just deposited was enough for four of them. Since the leftover Kuaiyin Coins weren't enough for another Happy Planet, she decided to spend the rest on more Beers.
And so, the special effects floating across the stream changed:
User 201706306330 sent Happy Planet x1
User 201706306330 sent Happy Planet x2
User 201706306330 sent Happy Planet x3
User 201706306330 sent Beer x288
She received 24,576 yuan in cashback. This time, Xu Shengxia didn't deposit the full amount as before. She only topped up 24,000 yuan to continue spamming Happy Planet gifts.
'After all, I'm rich now. A one-yuan gift is beneath me, so I shouldn't send those anymore. If I'm going to send gifts, I'll send the most expensive ones. That's the style of Xu Shengxia, the rich girl from Earth!'
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Back in the stream, the male streamer, Jiang Xingzhou, was completely stunned.
'What in the world is going on?'
He could understand someone sending six Beers. He could even accept twelve, or even twenty-four.
But for the number to keep growing, doubling each time, and going straight to 6,144... that was just shocking.
He was just a new streamer who had only been broadcasting for two days and had fewer than twenty followers.
'How could someone possibly be spamming him with gifts like this?!'
'This has to be tens of thousands of yuan by now!'
Jiang Xingzhou seriously suspected there was something wrong with his computer.
So, after a moment of dazed silence, he hesitantly spoke into his mic, asking the few fans who were also on voice chat and had gone completely silent:
"Hey, fam, can you guys see the Beer gift effects?... My screen right now says someone sent me 6,144 Beers!"
Fan 1, who was just as stunned by the gifts, woodenly nodded and replied:
"Mine too."
The astonished Fan 2 added:
"Besides the Beers, I'm seeing Happy Planets now..."
Fan 3:
"Yeah, she's sent five of them already... And Zhouzhou, your stream just got pushed onto the hourly rankings. Your channel originally only had a dozen or so followers, but now over a thousand have poured in."
After Fan 3 finished speaking, the lurking fans who had been quietly watching began to surface in the comments section:
[Just an old man who wandered in from the hourly rankings [nose pick] [nose pick]]
[Saw the high viewer count and thought the streamer would be interesting. But when I got here, he was just spacing out. I figured there must be a reason for the popularity, so I waited patiently... and then I saw a whale making it rain!]
[No, no, no! The best part about this stream is that some blank account used 1-yuan Beers to launch the streamer onto the hourly rankings! [haha] [haha]]
[[question] [question] What does the user above mean? I'm just here for the drama, someone explain!]
[It's simple. The account ending in 6330 was originally a blank account. Without saying a word, they started spamming Beers—tens of thousands of them—and sent this rookie streamer to the hourly rankings!]
[But I'm seeing Happy Planets, lots of them. Do whales really spam Happy Planets during off-peak hours in the morning?]
[It wasn't like that at first. They started with Beers.]
[Alright, I got here too late! Missed out on a fortune...]
[First time I've ever entered a stream not to watch the streamer, but to watch a whale spam Happy Planets.]
[Same here! Watching the Happy Planet effects, reading your chats in the comments... the streamer hasn't said a single word, but I'm somehow not bored! [excited]]
[Hey streamer, wanna link up? I'm a female streamer from another channel who came to check things out. Keep an eye out for me~ Let's connect for a PK battle~ [kiss] [kiss]]
...
The Happy Planet gift was different from other gifts. It triggered a scrolling banner announcement that appeared in every streamer's live broadcast.
The message displayed was:
[User 201706306330 has sent a Happy Planet in Zhouzhou's stream~]
If it had only scrolled by once, the other streamers might not have paid it much mind.
After all, it was common for the top supporters of a major streamer to suddenly send a Happy Planet to help them climb the rankings.
But this announcement was different...
It had scrolled by more than ten times in a row!
And it was the same user, for the same streamer... with every indication that it was going to continue!