Old Zhang's Song didn't sound like the singing of an ordinary internet celebrity who'd just picked up a mic.
He seemed to have had professional training, and he sang quite well.
On top of that, marketing accounts had been speculating about his love story with Xiao Ran based on the things he'd said in his livestream, the song Old Zhang's Song, and his username.
That brought him another wave of followers. By the evening of the third day, he had reached one million.
Meanwhile, the marketing accounts started making new edits.
They showed that Old Zhang's Song had had only a few hundred followers before, then that he'd had more than 200,000 while on a live call with Wang Yi, and finally that he now had one million.
Then they gave the video a title: "Five Minutes on a Live Call, One Million New Followers—Only Brother Yi Has That Kind of Influence Across the Entire Internet."
These days, any video, picture, or text connected to Wang Yi's name got plenty of clicks.
This video quickly went viral on TikTok and other major platforms.
That brought Old Zhang's Song yet another steady stream of new followers.
Some people predicted that in three days at most, his follower count might reach three million.
And while his followers were skyrocketing, Old Zhang's Song kept that handwritten sign in his livestream.
It still had the same five words on it: Xiao Ran, come back.
Meanwhile, over on Team America, Wang Yi and the team kept moving forward.
Everyone knew that the conflict within Team America remained unresolved.
You could tell from the completely different things the starters and the reserves said off the court, and their entirely different styles of expressing themselves.
You could also tell from the completely different expressions they wore on