Winning Everyone's Favor: Starting as the Owner of a Bullet-Comment Website

System: "I want you to become unpopular. The more unpopular, the better. But if you become very popular, it's game over."

Lu Xiaoyi: "Being unpopular should be easy. I can just buy some terrible anime and do a bit of marketing, right?"

One month after becoming a website operator

Lu Xiaoyi: "What the heck! Why is the whole internet praising me? What have you all been doing this past month? Why am I so popular!"

Employee 1: "We just did what you said! We bought some unpopular anime airing in July, nothing out of the ordinary."

Employee 2: "We just casually encouraged some anime-section uploaders to make new-season anime discussion videos over the summer! We created an entirely new way to promote anime!"

Employee 3: "We just casually partnered with a top video platform, bringing more high-quality user-generated content to our site!"

Employee 4: "We just casually reached an agreement with Neon’s biggest copyright holder..."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.