Let Us Become a Creator!

What on earth? What is going on? What am I supposed to do? The rookie’s three-step panic routine is ready for deployment.

Jiang Yu cast a bewildered look at Kato Anko, plainly looking utterly at a loss. He had never once had an experience that might make him internet-famous.

Kato Anko comforted him, saying, “You don’t need to worry too much. The video creator also wrote a statement at the end asking people to remove it if necessary. Maybe you can try contacting him and ask him to delete the video.”

Jiang Yu drew several deep breaths, striving to calm his mind. After Kato Anko’s explanation, he also realized that a video like that could already be considered an act of infringement.

Though the law gave no clear ruling in this regard, in Jiang Yu’s understanding, matters that brushed the edge of infringement were always troublesome to deal with.

For that reason, most people, when quoting other people’s materials or works, would add a note at the end or the beginning requesting removal if necessary.

After thinking it over, Jiang Yu decided to send the uploader a private message through the site’s backend and ask him to delete the video. Whether a well-known uploader would bother reading every private message, however, was another matter.

Looking up, Jiang Yu saw Kato Anko watching him with concern. After smiling at her, he said, “Thank you for your concern, Kato-san. I’ve already figured out how to handle this, so don’t worry.”

“Oh, right, this is a gift. Thank you, Kato-san, for all the help you’ve given me.” Saying this, Jiang Yu took out the gift box and handed it to Kato Anko.

Kato Anko looked at him in surprise, then instinctively tried to refuse. “I didn’t really do anything that important……”

“For me, many things are important,” Jiang Yu said seriously.

With a wry smile, Kato Anko accepted the gift and let out a soft sigh. “You really are a child…… Still, next time, if you could give something a little more practical, that would be even better.”

“……At a time like this, shouldn’t you be saying thank you, and something like, ‘I’ll treasure it carefully’?!”

“Pfft. Etiquette-wise, yes, that would indeed be the right thing to say.”

“Then do it already! As an elder, shouldn’t you……”

A gust of fist wind howled past, and then the fist deliberately brushed the side of Jiang Yu’s face.

“Women are very sensitive about their age, you know?” Kato Anko said in a tone that sounded not the least bit joking, while uttering words that seemed joking on the surface.

“……Yes, my deepest apologies.” Jiang Yu chose to yield.

……

After the little episode, Jiang Yu began today’s work. But watching the café fill with more and more students, he roughly understood why they had come here.

The site was, in fact, a website with very distinct characteristics. Almost every otaku on the islands had an account there. And the main force among otaku was, for the most part, students and young people who had only recently entered the workforce. Of course, perhaps there were also those who would never graduate from the world of two dimensions in their entire lives.

Setting aside the unnecessary thoughts in his head, Jiang Yu focused his attention on the piano before him, gently flexed his fingers, and began the three-hour performance.

When it ended, Jiang Yu once again left amid the astonishment and applause of those around him. After changing his clothes and returning to Kato Anko’s office to collect today’s wages, he prepared to go home. He still had to deal with the unexpected news he had heard today, as well as that unexpected video.

After returning home and taking a shower, Jiang Yu went straight into his room, turned on the computer, and logged into the site. By the way, the predecessor had been one of the few otaku without his own account there. His most frequent haunt for otaku discussions had been the forum 2CH, though most of the time he merely lurked silently.

Finding the video on the popularity rankings, Jiang Yu was surprised to discover that in such a short while it had climbed yet another position.

He shook his head with a bitter smile, and was just about to send the uploader a private message when he suddenly thought of a very serious question: how was he supposed to make the other party believe that he was the rights holder?

Although he had already applied for copyright, and even if he tried to be optimistic and treat it as though the work had already passed review, there was no way he could obtain proof of copyright in a single day.

So…… send the other party a photo of himself? No, better not……

After much thought, Jiang Yu could only come up with one solution: become an uploader himself!

Ahem…… to be precise, he would use his own account to upload a clear, complete audio file, and at the same time send the other party a private message with his account number attached, using that temporarily one-of-a-kind high-quality audio file to win the other side’s trust.

However…… as the original author, when he actually wasn’t, having to release his own work just to make an infringer believe him—thinking about it was enough to make anyone feel dizzy.

Once he had made up his mind, since the predecessor did not have an account on the site, Jiang Yu had no choice but to register one himself. When it came time to enter a nickname, he suddenly revealed a teasing smile and typed in the words “Master.”

A legendary ID was successfully registered first! Future moon-dwellers, feel the world’s malice!

As for the rest—Master, Servant, Saber, Gilgamesh, the Evil of This World, and the ancient truth that spearmen are always luck rank E—he would leave those to the fortunate ones who came later.

With such benevolent malice in his heart, Jiang Yu clicked the confirm button.

After registration succeeded, Jiang Yu used the video-editing software AE that, for reasons unknown, happened to be on his computer, casually found three images, added the three audio files as separate tracks, and rendered them.

Thanks to his computer’s excellent performance and the tiny size of the videos, rendering did not take long. Before long, three MP4 files had appeared on Jiang Yu’s machine.

He then switched the page to his personal center on the site, clicked upload, and dragged the three video files straight in. Once the upload succeeded, all that remained was to wait for review.

In truth, the staff who handled review were probably the most miserable group among all the people working for the video site. Every day they faced a chaotic mess of videos of uneven quality, constantly having their understanding of the world overturned, their days and nights often reversed.

Even with Google as a back end, YouTube could not entirely eliminate human review, no matter how much intelligent recognition could screen through most submitted videos.

On Bilibili in his previous life, most review wait times were one to three hours. If you were a newcomer, it might take a little longer; correspondingly, for a well-known uploader, the review time would also be a bit shorter.

Jiang Yu did not feel any dissatisfaction toward this situation. After all, this phenomenon existed in every industry. If you were excellent enough, then naturally you would enjoy a few small privileges.

Having finished all this, and estimating that he probably would not receive a reply today, Jiang Yu glanced at the late hour. Thinking it might be a good chance to adjust his schedule, he washed up and went to sleep.

……

Night had already saturated the entire city. Even an internationally renowned metropolis was about to welcome a brief moment of rest.

Time had already crept unknowingly to two in the morning. It was the hour when ordinary people were long asleep, yet for night owls it was the most exhilarating time. After missing the drowsy point around one o’clock, the brain instead became unusually excited. Kasumigaoka Shiwa was exactly like that.

Fully focused on the screen before her, her fingers danced over the keyboard in a blur. Line after line of text filled a page at a speed beyond imagination, then, under the command of the line break, a new blank page was created, the process repeating again and again.

At this rate, perhaps the night would still accompany the girl for a very long time, watching her pour out the fantasies in her mind to her heart’s content……