When Yang Lin received the news of the official website explosion, he felt a sense of bewilderment.
"What's going on? Didn't we just upgrade our VPS hosting? How did it get blown up again?"
Upon hearing Yang Lin's question, Tu Meng, the engineer responsible for the operations of the Xihong Zoo's official website, showed a wry smile.
"I don't know either. As soon as I connected the monitoring feeds from each park to the official website as you requested, the website exploded."
"It's probably because the instant traffic was too high, reaching the cloud server's traffic limit, which caused it to crash."
"The backend logs indicate that at least several million users were accessing our official website simultaneously. If I didn't know the situation, I would have thought we were under a hacker attack."
"My suggestion is that we either pay to rent dedicated servers or separate this monitoring live stream module."
After listening to the engineer's explanation, Yang Lin instantly understood.
He had originally just wanted to satisfy some fans' requests, so he had opened up the monitoring videos for some areas.
He had never expected the netizens' enthusiasm to be so high.
While Yang Lin was contemplating which solution to choose, the engineer who had just explained the reason suddenly proposed another idea.
"Director, I see that netizens are quite interested in this monitoring live stream format. Why don't we just create a live streaming website?"
"Given the influence of Xihong Zoo, if we create a live streaming website, the traffic will definitely be no less than that of the top live streaming platforms in the country."
As soon as this idea was put forward, Yang Lin's eyes lit up.
"How did I not think of that? This way, we can even earn some gift money."
"Other live streaming websites have to share with streamer guilds, but ours would be pure profit. We can also run advertisements on the website."
"Brilliant!"
He had to admit, Yang Lin was tempted at this moment.
Just then, engineer Tu Meng spoke again.
"Director, coincidentally, before I came to Xihong Zoo, I was involved in running a live streaming website with some friends."
"If you trust me, I can assemble a team for you in two days at most."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Lin immediately gave a positive reply.
"In that case, go ahead and do it."
"If you need money or anything else, just come to me."
"Alright!"
After some discussion, some details regarding Xihong Zoo's live streaming business were quickly finalized.
Just one day later, the news that Xihong Zoo was about to launch its live streaming business had already spread online.
When netizens first saw this news, they thought it was a joke.
After all, zoos and live streaming platforms are two completely unrelated industries.
However, considering Yang Lin's previous actions, netizens were still hesitant to make a definitive judgment.
They still vividly remembered the New Year's Eve party not long ago.
The New Year's Eve party hosted by Xihong Zoo at that time had completely outperformed a number of star-rated satellite TV stations.
Just as netizens were undecided, a live streaming platform, under the banner of Xihong Entertainment, had quietly been launched on major app stores.
And this was less than two days after Xihong Zoo announced its intention to create its own live streaming platform.
When netizens discovered this live streaming platform, they were directly shocked by Xihong Zoo's efficiency.
"Director, you're serious!"
"Xihong Zoo's approach is becoming more and more unconventional."
"The key is that other zoos can't imitate it."
"No wonder, it's probably because the official website was overwhelmed, which led to this idea of diverting traffic."
"Strongly support. I also didn't expect Xihong Zoo's official website to be overwhelmed that day. Having a dedicated live streaming platform will be more professional."
"I want to know if ordinary people can register as streamers on Xihong Zoo's live streaming platform?"
"Don't even think about it, you'll have to wait for your next life. In your next life, choose an animal you want to be reincarnated as, get injured, and be rescued by the director himself."
...
One hour after Xihong Zoo's exclusive live streaming platform was launched on major app stores, the news immediately hit the trending searches on Douyin.
Upon seeing this news, live streaming platforms like Shark and Wolf Fang were in a panic.
They were afraid that their streamers would switch to Xihong Live due to traffic issues. As for viewers, that was not something they could control.
Viewers could watch wherever they wanted, and they had no way to influence them.
With a strong sense of apprehension towards Xihong Live, the high-level management of Shark Live streaming platform immediately downloaded the Xihong Live app.
They then convened a meeting of their middle and high-level management to analyze the threat level to themselves based on the first day's live streams on Xihong Live platform.
When everyone opened the app, a series of live streams were directly presented on the homepage.
To their surprise, there were only about thirty-odd live streams on the entire platform.
"With so few live streams, it seems we were overthinking. Xihong Zoo doesn't intend to deeply engage in the live streaming industry."
"Yes, with so few live streams, how can they attract a large audience?"
"This doesn't pose any threat to us."
"It's probably just something they created for fun, and viewers are just trying it out of curiosity."
"Right, let's check out their live stream content first."
...
At this moment, everyone had completely relaxed. However, out of curiosity, they still clicked on a few live streams.
The first ones they checked were the live streams of the giant panda Tuan Tuan and the newly arrived Qinling giant panda Cai Cai.
The reason she was named Cai Cai was because visitors generally felt she was a bit smaller when paired with Tuan Tuan.
So Yang Lin removed a portion of Tuan Tuan's size and turned it into Cai Cai, whose formal name was Li Cai.
As soon as they entered the live stream, everyone was shocked by the popularity of over 100,000 displayed in the top right corner of the screen.
Before they could figure out why this live stream had such high popularity, they saw Panda Cai Cai massaging Tuan Tuan's legs, acting like a subordinate.
What was even more outrageous was that Tuan Tuan was at that moment constantly gnawing on sugarcane.
Peeling, chewing, spitting out the residue – a series of actions performed smoothly.
Every time Tuan Tuan finished one stalk, Cai Cai would hand her the next one. The proficiency of her actions was definitely not something that had been practiced for just a day or two.
"They're live streaming this?"
"What's so interesting about eating sugarcane?"
"Yeah, how boring is this?"
"To be fair, pandas have good teeth. They can bite through sugarcane stalks."
"Is Guixi sugarcane that delicious?"
"Of course, it's nationally famous."
"To be honest, it's quite stress-relieving."
...
As time went by, the Shark Live management, who had initially been disdainful, were gradually drawn in by this single and monotonous live stream content.
When they realized it, an hour had already passed.