Chapter 506: Network Explosion

Chapter 506: Chapter 506: Network Explosion

As the voice fell, the audience fell slightly silent, followed by a flurry of knowing, whispered discussions.

"No wonder it was fully recorded and archived throughout; it turns out they were saving the suspense for the television premiere."

"They really know how to make a show. We can’t even spoil it after watching it live, keeping the entire internet in suspense."

"Who will be the champion? We’ll have to wait until it airs on TV to find out. How long do we have to wait for that?"

The more mysterious and open-ended it was, the more it ignited the anticipation of the entire internet.

There was no on-site award ceremony, nor any crowning of the champion; all the excitement and amazement were quietly sealed within this concert hall.

Four thousand audience members carried full hearts of shock and stomachs full of suspense as they orderly stood up and slowly left.

Everyone wore an expression of lingering attachment. Having witnessed eight legendary stages with their own eyes, only for it to cut off right when the answer was about to be revealed, this experience was both novel and special.

Walking all the way out of the venue, the evening breeze brushed through the Manhattan block, fading the scalding and passionate atmosphere inside, yet the five-person squad still couldn’t recover their wits for a long time.

"It really is amazing," Michelle walked and sighed, her eyes full of lingering excitement, "We watched the entire grand finale and cast our votes, yet we don’t know who the ultimate champion is."

Hayley said, "Suddenly it feels so special. We are the first batch of people in the world to witness all of this, and also the first batch of audience members to participate in the voting. This memory belongs only to us and the four thousand people at the scene."

Zoe said, "My heart is crazy curious about the result right now! I’ll probably be thinking about it all night!"

Ella said, "This is the best open-ended touch. All the highlights, matchups, and suspense are left to completely explode on the day of the television premiere."

At this moment, no one across the entire internet knew the rankings of the final four, nor did anyone know who the inaugural champion would fall to.

Therefore, as everyone returned home, the first thing they did was open their phones, log into social media platforms, and frantically express today’s shocking sights and experiences.

Within a mere hour, the American social platform Facebook was directly flooded with the popularity of The Voice grand finale.

The trending topic surged to the top, crushing all other trending searches by a fault line of popularity.

The entire internet’s trending search list was directly monopolized by the show: the first-place topic was—

#Who is the Voice grand finale champion#

and the second-place topic was

#Who drew the Britney limited edition doll#.

The two trending searches followed one after another, firmly occupying the top of the list and instantly igniting a nationwide spectacle.

A large number of passerby netizens who had not participated in the registration or understood the show’s progress curiously clicked into the topics to watch, continuously delivering huge popularity to the subject, with the topic’s readership rapidly breaking ten million in just one hour.

The comment section beneath the trending topic completely exploded.

The four thousand live audience members became the most special batch of "insiders" across the entire internet. Although they did not know the final champion, they had witnessed eight top-tier legendary stages with their own eyes.

Thus, they spontaneously and meticulously shared their live perceptions in the comment section, without spoiling the match results, only discussing the stage texture and contestant styles.

"I must say, there are simply no weaklings among the final four this season, and everyone’s stage has reached the level of professional singers!"

"Bruno Mars’s singing and dancing stage directly blew through the venue, and his live infectiousness is unbeatable. I bet he is the champion!"

"I stand with Katy Perry! Her stage is the most healing and has the best passerby affinity, maximizing the audience’s favorability!"

"Christopher’s R&B vocal timbre is truly a gift from heaven, gentle to the extreme, and tickets were hard to get!"

"Is no one talking about Stephanie? Her rock stage is too avant-garde, its artistic texture crushing the whole house, and her style is truly unique!"

These were all the genuine thoughts of this batch of live audience members, without exaggerated boasting, filled entirely with immersive live experiences, instantly arousing the ultimate curiosity of internet passersby.

At the same time, the hundreds of thousands of fans who had previously signed up but regretfully missed out also entered the fray, participating in discussions, leaving comments and interacting, expressing their regret at not being able to be present in person.

As the number of discussion participants skyrocketed, a witty live audience member, in order to satisfy everyone’s curiosity, spontaneously created a network-wide prediction vote, opening voting channels for the four contestants and inviting netizens to bet on the champion candidate based on live reports and personal preferences, attempting to pre-judge the final grand finale result through online public opinion.

For a time, netizens across the entire internet swarmed in to participate in the voting, with the number of participants skyrocketing exponentially.

But what no one knew was that all these popularity trends were already within Irene’s pre-judgment and control.

From the moment the grand finale recording ended, Irene had already anticipated subsequent developments and specifically instructed the operations team to closely monitor the internet’s popularity dynamics throughout.

As soon as this vote came out, she kept close track of grassroots voting data and netizen public opinion trends at all times, issuing a precise and clear directive: all personnel must enter the field to participate in voting and control comments to build momentum, ensuring that the online voting results were completely opposite to the real offline grand finale results.

What she wanted was the ultimate reverse effect.

The more internet public opinion deviated from the real result, the more the show’s popularity, topic explosiveness, and audience sense of surprise would reach their peak when the television officially premiered and the real champion was officially announced.

Smoothing out all possibilities of guessing correctly in advance and creating the dramatic effect of a nationwide misjudgment was a high-end play that Irene had laid out long ago.

Thus, behind the countless netizens’ spontaneous voting and heated discussions, the show’s official operation accounts, internet navy matrices, and cooperative marketing accounts all secretly entered the fray.

They didn’t guide the narrative, didn’t provoke wars, and didn’t flood the screen; they simply quietly dispersed among the massive number of netizens, silently casting reverse votes, subtly leveraging the overall voting data bit by bit, and quietly misleading the internet’s pre-judgment.

On the other side, the second trending search #Who drew the Britney limited edition doll# likewise swept across the entire internet, firmly locking onto the gazes of countless fans.

At first, quite a few passersby clicked into the topic, mistaking it for lost merchandise of Britney. Only after reading the massive amount of popular science sharing from live audience members did they suddenly understand.

Everyone then learned that the audience benefits for this grand finale were unprecedentedly luxurious.

The show team had customized four mentor blind box dolls, and Britney’s style had the smallest circulation, making it the rarest hidden edition of the whole venue. Only a very small number of the four thousand live audience members could win it.

Britney’s fans across the entire internet instantly suffered collective envy and mental breakdown.

"I’m really jealous! Watching the top-tier grand finale for free, and also getting limited edition badges, blind box dolls, and customized water—who wouldn’t be tempted by these benefits?"

"Britney’s hidden edition is way too scarce! No wonder the whole internet is waiting for the lucky winner; this collection value is maxed out directly!"

"Missing out on the draw is a huge loss! This show spoils the audience so much; zero tickets and they even give top-tier souvenirs. I’ve never seen such a conscientious show team!"

The five-person squad also silently scrolled through the trending searches on their phones, watching the boiling discussions across the internet and the envy and curiosity of countless people, their hearts filled with a unique joy.

Looking at the chaotic public opinion trends in the online voting, they also entered the fray to support, watching the entire internet frantically flood the screen for Britney’s rare doll, truly feeling that the show’s popularity this time was astonishing.

After a whole night of fermentation, the total discussion volume and view volume of the two trending search topics both broke 100 million.

Without the show having aired yet and without any main footage leaked, The Voice managed to rely purely on a free grand finale, a nationwide suspense vote, and a set of rare blind box merchandise to explode into the most anticipated variety show of the year in America.