The exaggerated performances by the male students during the Magic City Academy's freshman military training had gone viral.
The Magic City Academy had enjoyed a little burst of online fame too.
Other academies soon caught on and began following suit, each trying to outdo the last.
"Isn't this more effective than an admissions brochure?"
"Look at the girls at our academy. Now that's college life!"
"Florges and female Trainers dancing in perfect formation!"
Official videos from one academy after another began going viral. As the internet's shameless gawkers watched, they never forgot to leave a comment:
"Thank you, Magic City Academy."
You had to give credit where credit was due!
Without the Magic City Academy leading the way, none of them would be enjoying this treat!
So thanking the Magic City Academy was a must!
(This joke comes from "Thank you, Unicom." If you know, you know. If not, check the comments or look it up!)
Competition was all well and good, but taking it too far was another matter.
It started with a student from the Chang'an Academy whose online comments were so heated that they angered the legions of gawkers.
Someone promptly doxxed the student!
Then came an overwhelming barrage of online attacks.
Some small-time streamers even went to the student's hometown to livestream from there, hoping to draw an audience.
They showed everyone the hometown of this Internet Troll!
But don't look down on people chasing a trend. Fair was fair: most people couldn't do what they did.
Do it well, though, and they could build an account with a decent following, then sell it for hundreds of thousands of League Coins.
That student had been dragged through the mud.
They had nearly dropped out.
But would the Chang'an Academy allow that?
It was a major academy