Time Travel: 2014

Chapter 30 Anti-Involution Foundation

With this idea in mind, Lin Hui also registered an account on Twitter.

The ID used is GRAY FOREST.

As for the personal profile, it still follows the profile on Weibo:

——A technology nerd with a wide range of interests, developed Life Restart Simulator and 2048

It’s just that what’s written on Twitter is the corresponding English version.

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Although Lin Hui quickly passed the Twitter certification, it was scattered and not many people paid attention.

There is absolutely no comparison with the skyrocketing number of fans on Weibo and Weibo.

Despite this, Lin Hui still tweeted:

——The new game FLAPPY BIRD will be launched soon, so stay tuned.

However, no one responded after a while.

Not even a single like.

It seems that it is obviously not feasible to rely on Twitter to promote overseas.

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The problem seems a bit tricky!

But Lin Hui soon found a new publicity strategy.

It is entirely possible to promote through video channels abroad.

In China, Lin Hui did not choose to promote through videos because the various video terminals were too mixed.

Unlike the scuffle among major domestic video players/websites, the situation abroad is completely different.

Overseas, YouTube is basically the only one.

YouTube can basically cover more than 80% of overseas online video users.

In this case, promoting on YouTube can save Lin Hui a lot of trouble.

Through Internet channels, Lin Hui quickly learned about the price of online promotion on YouTube:

A YouTuber with 10,000 subscribers can charge $200 per video;

A YouTuber with 100,000 subscribers can charge $2,000 per video;

A YouTuber with 1,000,000 subscribers might charge $20,000 per video.

This price is still within the acceptable range of Lin Hui.

Lin Hui silently registered a YouTube promotion account and planned to do something again in a few days.

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After this, Lin Hui returned to Twitter.

This time the situation is better than before. He actually has more than a thousand overseas followers.

Many people also sent private messages to Lin Hui.

Are you moved?

Don't dare to move.

The languages of the private messages can be said to be diverse.

Not only English, German, French, Russian, but also many Japanese.

Lin Hui even saw a lot of Arab language.

Although there is a translation function on Twitter, Lin Hui really cannot praise this translation function.

It's not much better than the machine he found before.

Of course, although I can’t quite understand what these fans said specifically, some people mentioned the abbreviation RR repeatedly in their words.

RR?

Isn't it just Reincarnation Revelation, the overseas version of Life Restart Simulator?

It still surprised Lin Hui.

Isn’t this game popular abroad?

When Lin Hui looked at the background data on his personal developer account this morning, he saw that the number of effective overseas downloads of this game was still not very high.

The positive rating is even less than 50%.

I really didn’t expect that under such circumstances, there would actually be people from Waiguo discussing this game with Lin Hui in private messages on Twitter.

But this is quite similar to that in China.

When Lin Hui first registered on Weibo in China, most of the first people to follow him were also players of Life Restart Simulator.

Sure enough, the game still needs to have plot and other content to be sticky.

Although there are sporadic discussions about the game RR.

But overseas, 2048 is obviously more topical.

Most of the private messages are basically sending screenshots of the 2048 game.

Of course, there were also a very small number of people who asked Lin Hui what kind of game FLAPPY BIRD was.

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After casually replying to some private messages with screenshots and generally understandable English private messages.

Lin Hui was ready to log off.

At this time, I actually received some messages in Chinese.

See the familiar square characters.

This made Lin Hui, who was almost surrounded by people of different languages, feel somewhat familiar.

However, when I clicked on the message, I only saw:

Dear Ash, hello, I'm David Young, your American fan, I love your RR, this game makes me understand the woodiness of life... I haven't understood everything yet, but I've already gone Confucius Institute, learning Chinese...

It turned out that the message was also sent by Waiguo people. I thought it was domestic fans setting up ladders to show support.

Having said that, there are really some crazy people learning Chinese for this sand sculpture game.

But it’s not incomprehensible.

Even the words spoken by the minions are summarized by shady netizens...

What's more, my Chinese culture is so profound and profound, so it's normal for people to be interested.

Lin Hui clicked on David Young's homepage, and looking at the certification on his Twitter, he seemed to be an entrepreneur.

Although there may be a lot of grammatical errors in what David Young said, Lin Hui felt that it was enough for Waiguo people to learn Chinese at this level.

So I couldn't help but praise him in English.

After knowing that Lin Hui can speak English.

David Young was instantly excited.

He frantically texted Lin Hui, but the text was in English.

After listening to the dialect version of English with hellish difficulty for a while, Lin Hui finally understood it.

This guy is saying that after restarting his life hundreds of times on RR, he has become more and more aware of the cruelty of society...

I am determined to entrust the operation of my business to a trust institution and devote myself wholeheartedly to enjoying life.

He also said that he would use half of his wealth, US$3 million, to form an anti-involution foundation.

And is willing to regard Lin Hui as the spiritual leader of the foundation...

Uh, half of the property is $3 million?

Are all my fans so rich?

anyway.

I saw that a game I accidentally launched could produce such an effect in a foreign land thousands of miles away.

Lin Hui didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

However, out of his most basic conscience, Lin Hui still expressed concern about David Young rashly investing half of his net worth in a foundation with no future at all.

David Young, however, said he has many like-minded people.

This foundation is not just David Young who invested in it, there are many people who invested in it.

The initial investment totaled US$10 million.

More importantly, because of the concept of anti-involution, he also met many like-minded people.

Including his current girlfriend.

Lin Hui:. . .

Good guy, is this a show of affection?

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In short, according to David Young, there are not many players in the game RR.

But there are many die-hard NC fans.

After hearing about this.

Lin Hui suddenly felt that his translation of R.R. was too perfunctory.