Soon, it was the second country's turn to release a video of a lost one. Access was likewise restricted to local IP addresses, with viewers from other regions barred from watching.
The video was effective at first, but lost its effect after a while.
The tester raised the lantern again and shone it on the lost one's face, restoring their sanity.
But the video was still being distributed, and large numbers of people were watching it. The lost one who had regained their sanity instantly became lost again.
Neither of these two living examples could be brought back again. The Lost One's Lantern seemed able to guide a lost one only once.
Once a lost one became lost again, no amount of motivational platitudes had any effect.
This was a detail Big-Faced Cat had not mentioned. But Big-Faced Cat never revealed every detail anyway. The testing phase was precisely meant to uncover these little details and keep their own people from falling into a trap.
"Based on the viewing data from our backend, they become lost after roughly ten thousand people watch. The threshold for becoming lost a second time is another thousand viewers."
Ten thousand sounded like very few compared with the tens of millions of fans who watched Ke Meng's videos worldwide.
But that comparison only held under normal circumstances.
Now that the whole world was in despair, who was in the mood to pay attention to officially released videos?
Traffic to official channels was abysmally low!
They had even imposed regional access restrictions, preventing people from other regions from watching and further reducing their audience.
Still, once more promotional resources were committed, the viewer count passed ten thousand much faster.
The second country to release a video reached ten thousand viewers in just ten minutes.
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