The video starts playing,
The beginning of the camera stays on the cold girl in a wheelchair on the cover for a few seconds.
After a close-up shot of the impressive girl on the cover, the screen slowly turned off, and the personal trademark of [Mr. Hyperion] and the link to the shopping website were inserted.
Uncle Sakai and his family had already found a relatively secluded cafe to sit down in the calligraphy and painting night market.
Sakai Tsunamasa took out his mobile phone and opened a browser plug-in in his favorites.
He placed his phone against the coffee cup next to the IPad that was playing the video.
As the progress of the video was synchronized, comments immediately began to appear on the phone screen, line by line.
This is a chat room plugin.
Different texts have different characteristics.
When people read scrolling barrages, it is due to their reading habits and sentence length.
Language systems that use words as subunits of sentences, whether it is European and American Latin letters or Russian Hillier letter systems, are difficult to read through horizontal screen pop-ups.
Both live broadcasts and real-time comments can only be played through a browser plug-in in a separate list on the right side of the video.
Some content-rich side chat room software can also manually add real-time related messages on Reddit, Twitter and other discussion board functions similar to Tieba.
"That girl is gorgeous! lol..."
(The girl on the cover is so beautiful! Haha, does anyone know who she is? Does she have an INS account?)
(It seems that there is something wrong with the legs, so pitiful.)
(I think this sister is more beautiful like this, like Venus with a broken arm. I declare that I am in love.)
(Bro, why do I feel like you'll fall in love with any pretty girl within your sights.)
(Aura! The key is aura! This majestic and cold feeling makes me feel like I’m seeing the principal of our girls’ school.)
(Please meet your principal!)
…
In just a few seconds after it went online, more than 10,000 people were watching it at the same time.
Various comments quickly slid through the notification bar on the right.
Sakai Katsuko held a cup of sugar cane milk tea in her arms and sipped it through a straw.
She read the comments on her phone.
People watching the video seem to be focusing on the pretty girl on the cover at this point.
She shook her head slightly,
That face is indeed very impressive, with blue eyes, pale skin, and cold eyes. Sitting in a wheelchair, the whole person has a contrasting beauty.
Beautiful women are not uncommon, especially in the era of self-media. Turn on the TV and you can see all kinds of beautiful girls.
But the beauty of the girl on the cover of the video is special.
There is a hint of vulnerability in the arrogance, and a hint of pity and tenderness in the majesty.
"This young lady is really beautiful."
Tsunamasa Sakai tugged at his artistically curly hair that had been carefully styled by Akiba's hairstylist, his tone full of admiration.
I don’t know at this time,
How many boys around the world felt the same way when they saw the video.
"I'm more curious about who she is? Is she the art judge for the seven works this time? She is a bit too young." Uncle Sakai thought worriedly.
Art critics are not beauty pageants.
He prefers that the person in front of the screen is an old man with wrinkled skin and gray beard who looks like he won't live for a few years.
If the other party's art quality is not enough to support her to use professional and convincing standards to judge the quality of the painting.
At least from a professional point of view, this video may be a lot less impressive.
Fortunately, the art connoisseur resume printed on the video quickly dispelled Uncle Sakai's concerns.
[Anna Elena - visual art critic, art collector, the youngest contributor and senior column editor of "Ölgemälde (Oil Painting)" magazine since 1934. 】
"He's actually a contributor to "Oil Painting"?" Komatsu Taro exclaimed.
"very young."
Sakai Katsuko bit her straw. She thought that the writers of such a senior journal were all in their forties.
Unexpectedly, this little girl who looked not much older than herself was one of them.
"amazing."
Professor Sakai commented: “It is not easy to become a contributor to Oil Painting. I remember that in June last year, Sergei Yi, the original column senior editor of the visual arts section of Oil Painting and a tenured professor at the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, Professor Vanovich retired and was replaced by a critic named AE."
"A·E, Anna Elena, it seems she is the one."
Katsuko Sakai nodded. In order to prevent gender discrimination in the art field, it is also common practice to replace feminine names with unisex names.
"Hello, everyone, I am Mr. Hyperion, welcome to my video."
Mr. Hyperion's figure appeared in front of the camera.
"I think viewers who have seen the trailer already know that the content of our One Dollar to One Million Dollar Challenge this time is the illustration contract. As a friendly reminder, please watch the last moment, which is when I filmed this series. Best video ever.”
Best video?
Professor Sakai and his family immediately thought of Rei’s realistic colored pencil drawing.
It is indeed a dark horse.
The first few minutes of the video are all about the super internet celebrity’s process of purchasing illustrations.
Thomas knows what the audience wants to see.
The process of requesting articles from several Fiverr shop owners only takes about ten seconds and goes by in a blink of an eye.
Most of the scenes were spent in the scene where he went to the bank to exchange one million dollars with Jane Arnold's agent.
In order to satisfy the audience's curiosity, the editing team also gave an additional close-up of the street vagrant's transaction, and it took more than ten seconds to complete the entire scene of Thomas's contract.
And added lace special effects to the dark drawing paper that had a few dirty fingerprints on the back.
Uncle Sakai is not interested in this kind of content that is purely for eyeballs.
Just when he was about to fast forward, the video had just cut to the collection room of the girl in a wheelchair in the Austrian manor, and introduced the selection rules.
"What's up, guys? I think everyone already understands the selection rules."
Thomas clapped his hands and pointed at the seven picture frames on the table. At this time, the velvet cloth on the picture frames had been lifted off, but their backs were still turned to the audience.
Only Anna in the wheelchair could see the full frame.
"Miss Elena will hand over these illustrations to us one by one according to her own subjective evaluation, from worst to best. And each of the four of us will give it a subjective score, and the work with the highest total score will , is the winner of this challenge.”
"Now, Miss Elena, which one of these seven illustrations do you think is the worst?"
Anna didn't answer. She didn't say a word after she took away the velvet covering the seven picture frames.
She bit her lip gently, her blue eyes staring closely at a certain work on the table, her brows slightly furrowed.
The tips of her fingers gently pinched the leather armrests of the wheelchair. The slender fingertips looked pale due to the excessive force.
The expression on the girl's face is very complicated. When she is not smiling, she often has a straight face, like a majestic queen.
But now, the expression on this little queen's face is full of disbelief, surprise, appreciation and... incomprehensible confusion.
"Miss, miss?"
The nurse behind her had been taking care of Anna since she was a child. She had rarely seen Miss Anna show such a rich expression, and asked with some concern: "Are you okay?"
Ana bit her lower lip lightly. "I'm fine, just...a little...surprised."
"But this choice shouldn't be difficult, right?"
Thomas was a little surprised when he saw Anna's gaze falling on the picture frame for a long time without any response. He thought it was because the other party didn't know how to make the selection.
It may be debatable to say which painting is the best.
Which painting is the worst?
The result shouldn't be obvious, right?
"Yes, I do have a terribly bad painting in front of seven frames, and it was not difficult to choose it."
Anna turned around, shook her head and turned over a picture from the walnut frame on the table, facing the camera.
"It's classic, terrible, a typical failure. I think this is the one you requested on Fiverr. Not only is it completely stupid, but it's also so typical of stupidity. This is why I have never been interested in cheap painters. Reason for the good impression.”
To the surprise of Thomas and everyone watching the video.
That was not a random illustration drawn by a homeless man, at least it looked like it was even quite beautifully drawn.
"I'm sorry, I can only give it 0 points for this painting, if zero is the lowest score. Not only is it bad, it also has no professionalism at all."
Ana said coldly with complete disgust in her tone.
"Rubbish."
