Chapter 854 - 873: High-Level Trolls Dominating the Gourmet Section? (NO! It’s the Ju People Battling Little Yellow Dog!)
Chapter 854: Chapter 873: High-Level Trolls Dominating the Gourmet Section? (NO! It’s the Ju People Battling Little Yellow Dog!)
Below it, a ton of materials was attached. This included, but was not limited to, claims that Jiang Qiuqiu had done this and that on Q3 Star, copied others to drum up hype, quit the competition to be edgy, and acted inappropriately. They also dug up some of the alleged marketing tactics she used during her early streams, like hiding her face at first and revealing it later. In short, there were pictures to prove the truth, videos accompanied by analysis, emotional appeals, and plenty of hard evidence.
However, the very first reply read:
[If she’s not worthy, are you? Are you joking with this garbage? You’re not even worth the dirt on her shoes, yet you’re questioning whether Juju can represent the food section?]
[What kind of trash baiting troll are you? Juju representing the food section isn’t something you and I just decided; it was decided by the competition, okay? If you say Juju can’t represent it, then who can? Name someone!]
[Is this a joke? Who are these people?]
[Are the Little Yellow Men posting in the circle again? Haven’t we taught you enough of a lesson?]
Back when the food circle was first established on New Star and Federation Broadcasting was heavily promoting Master Huang, a serious battle for the top spot had broken out. In the end, amid all the fierce arguing, Jiang Qiuqiu—with her larger fanbase, wider variety of dishes, and incredible ability to flawlessly replicate Master Huang’s signature dishes on a whim—emerged as the one who "represented the current Federation food section" and secured her title as the "Number One Streamer in the Food Section." For a long time after that, the disgruntled Little Yellow Men would often come to the circle to complain and nitpick, but the Ju people always shut them down.
It had been so long since someone used a title claiming Juju was unworthy of her position. Unworthy? Unworthy? Juju was so amazing and cooked such good food. If she was unworthy—
[Then is that fake bankrupt crab paste factory spokesperson of yours worthy?]
[Copycat Yellow Dogs! You’re the ones who are unworthy!]
None of the fans actually read the lengthy descriptions (it was too long, and no one had the patience to read haters whining). They just charged in with a flurry of counterattacks.
This tone of response left Mystery Studio completely dumbfounded. The hired trolls were thoroughly confused. They wondered, "Isn’t the main point of this title that her reputation doesn’t match reality, she’s fishing for fame, and her reckless hype makes her unworthy of her position? Why has the focus shifted entirely to whether her food tastes good or not?! An idol streamer made such a serious mistake, and these people only care about her cooking?!"
There were many others in Mystery Studio who faced the exact same treatment. As long as the title slightly mentioned anything along the lines of "her food isn’t good" or "she isn’t worthy of being a leader," the comment section would immediately be swarmed by her fans. Without even reading the content, they would brand the Mystery Studio staff—who were pretending to be neutral passersby—as trolls, slapping them with labels like "Little Yellow Men" or "Little Yellow Dogs." Then, they would launch an organized and disciplined extermination of the post.
Having done this so many times, the Ju people had developed a specific technique. The studio could only artificially inflate a post’s traffic and reply count; they couldn’t directly force it to stay at the top of the trending list. Consequently, under the manipulation of Jiang Qiuqiu’s fans, the posts’ popularity actually plummeted.
"What is going on?!" The minor boss was furious.
The sub-squad leader was equally speechless. "Those people are desperately flooding the post, leaving very short, repetitive comments—usually just ’Little Yellow Men’ or ’Little Yellow Dogs’—and then deleting their replies en masse all at the same time."
To suppress spam, the circle’s algorithm was designed to drop a post’s popularity if there were too many interrupted comments, repetitive comments, or deleted replies.
"That’s it? We set the baseline popularity so high—" The minor boss couldn’t believe it.
"Yes, and because our baseline was so high, those people left millions of comments."
Through a relentless cycle of posting and deleting, they completely tanked the posts.
Moreover, because the first wave of exposes consisted of lengthy posts filled with "hard evidence," many users would check the comments first. They would only bother reading the actual post if the comments were interesting. As a result, with so many people spamming, the top comments were all negative reviews from the studio’s trolls. Since Jiang Qiuqiu’s fans refused to engage with these negative reviews, there wasn’t a single dissenting voice underneath them. The insults felt far too one-sided and lacking in substance.
Then, when users sorted by the latest comments, all they saw was spam about "Little Yellow Men" or "Little Yellow Dogs." When casual passersby saw this, they figured, "It’s just another war between the Little Yellow Dogs and the Ju people. How boring. We already know how this ends. I’m not reading this."
After hearing the full explanation, the minor boss was speechless.
"Millions of meaningless comments were left under each of your accounts?" he demanded. "How is that possible? Do these people have nothing better to do?! Even in the Q3 section, Jiang Qiuqiu’s fans didn’t seem to have this much free time. Their campaign to dominate the section was running perfectly well, so how did things turn out like this?!"