Rebirth: Super Banking System

Chapter 2212: Chapter 2034: Can’t Stop at All

At the beginning.

When Headlines appeared.

Wang Yan felt this might be the ultimate version of the ’fragmented time consumer’, allowing people to spend their time whenever they had a moment.

However.

When TikTok emerged.

She realized.

This is truly the ’ultimate’.

Headlines took minutes, but TikTok was counted in seconds—ten-second music videos almost completely consumed people’s ’most fragmented time’.

Further fragmentation?

There’s no more to fragment.

One second?

Three seconds?

No.

The content for such short durations is too little and can hardly be divided further, though some videos with strong impact can achieve this, but they are rare.

Up to this point.

- Second-level.

- Minute-level.

- Hour-level.

Comet Group has completed the layout of content across these three time intervals. A massive industry barrier and content service closed-loop have formed.

One word.

Strong!

Want to learn?

Difficult.

Just burning money can burn countless capitals to death, especially with an industry leader present, traffic concentration effects will grow larger and larger.

Of course.

It’s not that the second has no space for survival, as long as others provide differentiated content, they can survive, just unable to shake the leader.

Like TikTok.

Its positioning.

The Group is very clear; it’s a music video sharing community, which is definitely not the whole market segment, but the Group says it will only do this one.

The specific reason.

Unknown.

But Wang Yan knows that Tang Qing’s decisions have their reasoning.

Thinking of this.

Wang Yan looked at that familiar face with admiration.

...

"Let me have a look."

New software.

Of course, Li Kai had to try it.

Found it.

Downloaded it.

"So fast!" Li Kai exclaimed.

Over 30 megabytes.

Two seconds.

For the internet speed here, he didn’t even know what to say, and even these two seconds included system checks and visual lag.

In reality.

It might just be a little over a second.

Alright.

You get used to it.

Not only the internet speed here, but also in Tang Qing’s villa and manor, it has always been like this, while others were crawling at one megabyte, here it’s flying at tens of megabytes.

Downloaded.

Installed.

The new generation of Epoch only took five seconds.

Opened it.

Immediately presented with an extremely impactful scene, a beauty was performing... no, doing various gymnastic moves, with a bend so big, it was definitely professional.

Of course.

This did not attract much attention.

It’s just that.

With dynamic music.

"..."

Beauty.

Moves.

Slow-mo.

Freeze-frame.

Flickers.

Effects.

Text.

Music.

...

After watching.

He was slightly dazed, with a thought in his mind, wanting... to watch the next one. Swiping left, not login. Swiping right, homepage.

Swiping up.

Instantly.

Another beauty appeared.

At this moment.

She was singing, obviously, the song wasn’t sung by her, just lip-syncing. It was nothing, the key thing was... her expressions were so rich.

Sometimes attractive.

Sometimes cute.

Sometimes cold.

Sometimes innocent.

Sometimes mischievous.

Those eyes.

That smile.

That... damn, it’s addictive, Li Kai exclaimed inwardly.

Then.

Swipe!

Swipe!

Swipe!

Ten times.

Apart from the first two beauties, the other eight were all different types: handsome guys, food, beautiful scenery, cute pets, animation, movies, music, comedy.

The eleventh time.

"Please register!"

Below.

There was an authorized login, phone number registration, the customized system by Epoch, allowed one-click registration. Li Kai didn’t hesitate and clicked register.

Quickly.

He couldn’t stop swiping.

Five minutes.

Ten minutes.

Twenty minutes passed.

Looked up.

"Old Tang, this software is amazing." Li Kai sighed, this model spends time so effectively, though there’s not much content yet.

Swiping and swiping.

Some repeats.

"It’s addictive."

"..."

Tang Qing rolled his eyes.

Alright.

Just take it as a compliment.

"Is this like Headlines, earning by clicks?" Li Kai asked curiously. Headlines earned by views, but this is too short, based on views.

It’s a loss.

"No."

Tang Qing shook his head.

"The traffic subsidy is not included, purely related to the platform, only rewards. The rest is similar to Headlines, relying on traffic monetization."

"Oh~"

Li Kai nodded.

Indeed.

The cost is too high.

Further subsidies.

Would lose a lot of money, like Comet Video, losing every year, content and copyright costs remain high, while Headlines has massive traffic.

Every video is burning money.

Now.

With TikTok out, costs will surely rise again. If it’s a startup, investors would support, but now, mainly the Group has to subsidize.

Luckily.

The big tree has deep roots.

In the short term.

It won’t be eaten up.

...

Outside.

The popularity of TikTok is skyrocketing.

In three days.

Downloads exceeded six million, everyone opened TikTok, as if opening a new world, realizing that such short videos.

Turned out to be very entertaining.

Among them.

The second video Li Kai swiped under.

"So beautiful!"

"I’ve watched this girl’s eyes ten times."

"Twenty times."

"Fifty times."

"One hour."

"Awesome."

"Who’s this girl?"

"Her homepage says she’s a student at Central Film Academy."

"Pretty."

"..."

How many homebodies.

Were captivated by those ever-changing gazes and expressions. Quickly, everyone discovered that the official basic video quality on TikTok was very high.

Handsome guys.

Beautiful girls.

Were one in a million.

Instantly.

Many felt the world was a bit more beautiful, those few seconds could bring them so much happiness, fingers simply couldn’t stop.

Swipe!

Swipe!

Swipe again!

Simply couldn’t stop.

But soon.

"So many repeats."

"Exactly."

"After a few swipes, there’s nothing."

"Be content, like headlines, content takes time, and requirements are different from headlines, headlines need a computer to edit by yourself."

"But here."

"The requirements for content are different, like those beauties, without people, everything is empty, but believe that soon, content supplementation will catch up."

"Looking forward."

"..."

The issue of lack of content was the most feedback, out of a thousand short videos, those that each person likes were less than fifty.

Fifty pieces.

Could be swiped away in a few gestures.

Then.

It’s repeats and uninteresting ones.

"Production seems quite simple, just a mobile phone."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"I’ll try."

"It’s even easier to edit than Headlines, but the classification requires high imaging standards, of course, if filming for fun, there’s no problem."

"..."

After spending some time, many people learned how to make and started uploading. For a time, TikTok’s review staff went crazy.

Suffering.

And rejoicing.

According to rules.

Once uploaded.

It’s not immediately visible but needs platform review approval before it’s shown to clients, mainly to avoid poor quality and non-compliant content.

Otherwise.

Small movies.

Nudity.

Vulgar content.

Once published and seen, it’s easy to be hit by the regulatory hammer.