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Chapter 35 Dogs Bite Dogs

"What... is going on?"

The blogger stared blankly at the video.

If he could still cling to the hope that "I can just re-upload the video" when he was reminded that the video length had changed before, now, right under his nose, he watched helplessly as the game video, which had never been uploaded, went from "17 minutes and 28 seconds" to "11 minutes and 53 seconds" after being uploaded. The whole thing started to spiral out of control.

In particular, he even recorded a video specifically to report the situation to his boss, so he couldn't comfort himself with excuses like "maybe I just misread it."

"Maybe...maybe it's a bug in the platform...haha..."

He chuckled dryly as he pulled out the video he had planned to update that evening, ready to upload it now.

"It must be a bug in the platform..."

He stared intently at the video upload progress bar, waiting for the video length to decrease as well—he had to, no, he absolutely had to prove that this was a problem with the platform!

The video uploaded successfully, and he couldn't wait to see how much shorter it had become—

Nothing changed?!

Why hasn't anything changed?!

The blogger's palms were already covered in cold sweat. With trembling hands, he opened and closed the video several times, refreshed the video's background several times, and even logged out and logged back in.

The video's length remains unchanged.

The blogger swallowed hard, trying to console himself: Maybe, maybe... the platform fixed the bug...

Although he knew very well that this was probably impossible, he still clung to that sliver of hope and started uploading "囍" videos again.

Once, twice, three times...

After what seemed like the umpteenth time, seeing that the backend still only showed the video at "11 minutes and 53 seconds," the blogger angrily overturned his table.

"Why did it turn out like this?!"

He stared intently at the video in the background, angrily grabbing his hair.

The pain in his scalp calmed him down a little.

Right, right, he can also ask other people!

"Have any of you tried re-uploading the video?"

The blogger opened the group chat with trembling hands, made several typos, and finally sent the message.

"...I tried it."

"...I tried it too."

Someone in the group quickly replied, but judging from their replies, the blogger suddenly had a bad feeling.

"So...did you all successfully make the replacements?"

"……No."

"...Me neither."

"I'm going crazy..."

This sentence was like opening a floodgate in the group chat, and a group of bloggers excitedly chimed in.

"I've tried so many times! I even uploaded the video I was going to update tonight in advance, but only the '囍' video changes its duration!!!" a blogger exclaimed in despair.

"I also tested it. I tried it with the 'double happiness' scenery footage I recorded before, and as long as I upload a video without spoilers, the video length won't change."

Another blogger remained calm, but what he said sent chills down the spines of all the other bloggers: "I've noticed that any spoilers related to '囍' (double happiness)..."

"The video can stay locally, but as soon as it is uploaded to a public platform, whether it is a video website or my personal social media platform, this content will disappear directly."

"I also edited a video with only spoilers and uploaded it to my personal social media account. Guess what—"

"The video just went black when I clicked on it, I couldn't see anything!"

"Do you think... current technology can really achieve this level of performance?"

His words silenced all the bloggers in the group.

A moment later, a newcomer named Xiaoyo timidly emerged: "So what do we do now? My boss is still relentlessly demanding an explanation from me..."

"Never mind, frankly, what does this have to do with us?! We just take orders and make videos. I've edited the video the boss wanted and published it."

"The boss can see the view count and comment count on the front end. I've already completed this video task, so I don't know why it's turned out like this. Anyway, I haven't touched the video since I uploaded it, and I have a clear conscience!"

"When I uploaded a video before, I recorded a screen recording of the operation. I plan to send this recording directly to my boss and let him have his own headache!"

As he spoke, the blogger opened the boss's chat window and sent the previous screen recording.

After a while, the boss slowly sent back... a question mark.

Boss: "What do you mean by screen recording?"

Blogger: "Because the boss said that the strategy content in that video is gone, I want to re-upload the original video to overwrite it."

Blogger: "But boss, you can see that I specifically checked the video content and duration before uploading, and they were all correct. But after uploading, the video automatically deleted the strategy content."

Boss: "...Why is this happening?"

The blogger stated: "We don't know either. We don't know if the game developers on the '囍' side used some new technology... Anyway, what I want to say is that the deletion of the walkthrough content in the previous video was not due to my fault."

Boss: "..."

Boss: "If it's not your fault, is it my problem?!"

Boss: "Do I need to remind you what the contract stipulates?"

Boss: "I don't care about technical stuff, all I know is that my contract requires strategy videos for '囍' (double happiness)! Your video is just a simple promotional video! You've breached the contract!"

Blogger: "Boss, I'm trying to talk to you properly now, but this isn't the attitude you're using to discuss things..."

Boss: "You even said you used new technology for the 'double happiness' decoration? Do you really think I'm a fool?"

Boss: "Is it possible that you took money from the 'double happiness' side, planning to double-cross them, and even specially made this 'screen recording' to fool me, intending for me to suffer this in silence?"

Boss: "You actually managed to make such an outrageous screen recording video. It must have taken you a long time to edit it, right?"

Seeing the text pop up in the chat, the blogger was so angry that his hands started to tremble.

He had initially thought that the person on the other end was his boss, and that there might be opportunities for cooperation in the future, so he had been very polite. However, he did not expect that the other party would not only ignore his explanation but also turn the tables on him. He immediately stopped being polite and started arguing with him.

……

"Then the blogger said, 'Don't forget, you asked me to make a strategy video, deliberately spoiling the chat history of "囍" (double happiness), I still have it saved!', and then..."

The system clicked its tongue dismissively twice. "The other side chickened out, and the two started discussing what to do again..."

The system watched the entire chat log with great interest via the internet, then turned to see Jiang Yi lounging lazily and enthusiastically flattered her: "Host, you are truly a master of foresight!"

"Now, those gaming bloggers and the people behind them making those videos are definitely arguing!"

Ever since a kind person reminded me that there were many strategy videos online, the only solution the system could come up with was to hack into the backends of those bloggers and manually delete those videos.

However, its host stopped it.

Jiangyi only instructed it to do two things:

First, she made the system set all game guides, spoilers, and other content related to her game to be unviewable.

This is a simple function that the pre-thriller system can easily implement.

After all, it had used this method before to prevent players from revealing the way to clear dungeons to each other.

The second thing Jiangyi did was to have the system add a small "design" to the game she created—

Once players enter the game, they will automatically forget any strategy guides they have read or heard from others; only their personal experiences within the game will remain.

This is to prevent some strategy videos from spreading too widely and being seen by many potential players.

Similarly, this is also easy for the system to handle – in the past, in wireless games, players often had already met the requirements to complete the game and leave, but before they could complete the game, their memories were erased by the horror game and they would re-enter the game.

Of course, for the system that has now been forced to reform, it is not so brutal; it has only added a small in-game memory isolation function.

At first, the system didn't understand why the host was going to such lengths. But now, seeing this group of people arguing and tearing each other apart in fear and anxiety, it was truly amazed.

This is definitely more interesting than the method it came up with!

Despite the system's flattery, Jiang Yi shook her head: "It's not over yet..."

But this is far from enough.

She said from the beginning that these dungeon bosses... all have very bad tempers.