Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 15: Chapter 15: Public Opinion Backlash

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Gary realized that he was in trouble, big trouble!

Initially, when Lincoln stirred up public opinion on the Internet, the department had discussed strategies to deal with it.

The options were limited to evading the important points, shifting the topic, and outright denial.

However, when reporting to his boss, the newly promoted boss was young and energetic, and clearly unhappy.

Gary could understand; after all, it was the boss who had given the speech at the press conference.

And then a college student no one had ever heard of pointed fingers right at his nose and cursed him, while hundreds of thousands or even millions of netizens watched, resulting in a severe loss of face.

It was normal to be upset.

Gary thought he’d flatter his new boss and came up with a rather damaging countermeasure.

“We can go on the offensive, attacking and smearing the college student. As long as we lead the narrative and make the public believe that Lincoln is a ‘bad guy,’ whatever he says will be considered fake, even if it isn’t, we can say he has ulterior motives!”

As expected, the boss was pleased with the plan, promptly approving it and even increasing the public relations budget.

With this money, Gary instructed his subordinates to spend whatever it took on a water army while using his connections to bribe media outlets, guiding the wind direction.

Finally, in a very short time, he managed to reverse the public opinion: NetDragon was the victim, and Lincoln was ill-intentioned, maliciously smearing a national tech company for his own selfish purposes.

Yes, during the crisis management, Gary didn’t forget to buy articles, giving NetDragon, a gaming and VR gaming company, the title of a “national technology enterprise.”

He proudly taught his subordinates: “Crisis PR is both a crisis and an opportunity!”

After this operation, he immediately gained the favor of his new boss, shifting his role from being relatively marginalized to being more and more valued.

But now, with the release of Lincoln’s video, netizens would immediately think: This guy is a genius! Everything he said before must be true! His rivals must be absolutely evil!

Netizens are like bipolar switches.

And then NetDragon would face a tenfold to a hundredfold public opinion backlash!

As much fun as they had manipulating public opinion before, they would have to eat their bitter fruit now, as a storm was about to hit NetDragon!

The ambitious listing plan of the new boss could already be declared completely bankrupt!

So who would take the blame?

It had to be Gary! If not him, who else?

When it rains it pours; just as he wanted to rush back to the company, the traffic police knocked on his car window.

“Hello, you have parked illegally. Please show your driver’s license and vehicle registration.”

He could only shout in the department group via voice message, “All employees return to the company and work overtime!” while obediently taking out his credentials and saying softly, “Traffic officer, here are the documents.”

“I declare, from now on, the Lincoln Global Fan Support Club is established! Lincoln, fly with confidence, iU will always accompany you!”

Lincoln was immediately taken aback with a tactical backflip. What was this?

The key was that all of these people were male classmates! Not a single female student was present!

“Where is my fan leader? First, kick out my anti-fans.”

Edmund, who was silently lurking, was startled: Is this anti-fan talking about me? Are they joking? I hope no one really kicks me out.

The monitor hesitated for a moment, then indeed felt the urge to take action, as Edmund had been annoying for more than a day or two.

Fortunately, at this time, the class adviser spoke up and Edmund escaped the fate of being kicked out of the class group chat.

“Lincoln, is this what you call ‘a little improvement’? Or is our understanding of the term off by just a little bit… ”

Feeling unsatisfied, the class adviser even screenshotted and sent out the previous message where Lincoln claimed there was just a little improvement.

Before Lincoln could reply, the classmates were already laughing.

“That’s right, it’s just a billion improvements.”

“Fingertip Universe.jpg”

“Ah, about that…” Lincoln quickly made up an excuse, “You know, doing scientific research, sometimes inspiration comes, and you can’t block it.”

…

Seeing such a shameless excuse, the group chat fell into a brief silence again.

“What kind of mundane words are these!”

“Are you the master of Versailles Literature?”

“When Master Lin left the academic circle, I was strongly opposed.”

The classmates, seeing their fellow student make such a startling world-class invention, were obviously very excited, and the group chat was lively, never stopping for a moment.

It wasn’t until Edmund surfaced again, forwarding a Spiritual Rhinoceros post:

“Genius or Fraud: Can a college student who has yet to graduate and never set foot in a laboratory really make a world-shocking invention?”

“Lincoln, are you sure you didn’t fake it? If you do, confess sooner rather than later or the impact will be really bad.”

“???”

“???”

“???”

A row of question marks appeared in the group chat.

They typed question marks not because they had doubts, but because they thought Edmund had issues!

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