In order to live in seclusion, I tricked my roommate into falling in love.

Chapter 320: The key to breaking out of the race is the unique characteristics

Travel notes by foreign travel bloggers checking in at home have long been a very mature track.

The 144-hour transit visa-free policy has been open to foreigners since 2016.

As long as you hold a normal passport of the relevant country and have a plane ticket to a third country "through" the mainland, you can stay for six days visa-free.

With the optimization and adjustment over time, more and more countries enjoy visa-free entry and more and more mainland cities are allowed to be visited.

Mainland MCN agencies have been forced to go to China to survive. Countless teams and companies have been studying and polishing their skills in this field.

As long as foreigners come and praise the mainland like a country bumpkin, and desperately tout several important selling points such as the security environment, infrastructure, and the spectacular high-speed rail, they can attract a considerable amount of attention from netizens and get good returns.

But as the video blogger market becomes more and more crowded, the platform has various restrictive policies.

It is already very difficult to make a lot of money by instantly becoming popular with traffic under this mature Internet mechanism.

The first factor behind this is just a bit of luck, the platform has plenty of traffic, and there is no stronger one grabbing the headlines.

Then there must be capital operation, then the level of promotion, packaging and operation, and finally the individual’s true strength.

No matter how beautiful you are or how good your skills are, it’s all in vain without the first few things.

Therefore, it is no coincidence that foreign bloggers become popular on the domestic Internet.

In particular, they "happened" to have enthusiastic netizens provide timely translation subtitles.

This is like the famous Bear Grylls, who was rumored to have traveled the world alone for many years, but in the end he admitted that the most amazing thing was his photographer and the huge team's support.

Therefore, the more exciting the plot, the more classic the lines, and the more enduring and interesting the travel blogger, the more likely there is a team of silently dedicated people behind him.

This is also the key reason why it is becoming increasingly difficult to deceive netizens after the development of information.

Greya happened to take a middle path. Her support was limited to background technology and security. She did all the appearances and even the video editing herself.

This ensures that all her content and language expressions are authentic to the Chinese style.

Even because of Zi Xiaowei's reminder, Gao Tingting and the others didn't let Graya watch too many videos of foreign bloggers on "The Code of Wealth".

Let her explore it on her own, the whole content is indeed unique.

At least among the foreign travel bloggers who have come to the mainland so far, this is definitely the first one to learn to drive and drive on the road.

And she is such a "pure, sweet" and well-behaved girl from China.

It must be admitted that the temperaments of different nationalities are really different.

Graya was always slow and had a friendly smile on her face. She would say yes and yes, but then turn around and continue doing her own thing.

From the time she was brought back to Jiangzhou for preliminary planning, she discovered that this girl could not be assigned complex tasks or outline long-term goals. She had to be given simple instructions on what to do next. A few more steps would definitely make things a mess. She wasn't upset or angry, but she was carefully avoiding it and didn't want to do it again.

Considering the last time she was popular, she was invited to perform and sing in China, but she quickly ran back and didn't want to come again.

It was Zi Xiaowei who suggested that they should not assign her a script and let her go on her own. Later, Sister Gesang came in as an assistant, and they got used to each other through their own efforts.

As long as I'm happy, all I want is to be in the same frame with the cute cat.

From the first day she drove on the road, Graya turned the cute pink and black car into her own mobile home.

The rear seats are folded flat and covered with air mattresses, and all the gaps and corners are filled with various food, drinks, and clothing items.

There was even a line at the back for hanging clothes out to dry!
It can be said that this was originally the largest advertising space for the cat series live broadcast at the end of March, which sold nearly 50,000 cute cats.

In twenty or thirty travel videos, this cute cat is everywhere.

Without specific requirements, Graya relaxed instantly and produced a travelogue of about 30 minutes every two or three days.

At the beginning, my travel notes in Chengdu were relatively normal. I was amazed by the beautiful metropolis of the Land of Abundance, the busy and crowded modern features, and the bright lights and nightlife at night.

Netizens and viewers just thought it was interesting, but it was not much different from other travelogues of foreigners. It was just because the novelty had not worn off that it accumulated four to five million fans, more than seven million views, and more than two million reposts.

This girl will take the travelogue to the countryside in the next episode!
Even Tingbao Media was caught off guard.

Arrange for her to drive 600 to 700 kilometers to Anxi, and if she is tired, she can take the high-speed rail with the trailer.

She didn't, and she and Gesan actually left the highway and walked along the national road!
What was supposed to be an eight or nine-hour drive took three days to complete. It was all just her driving around the countryside!

Not to mention foreigners, many domestic netizens have never seen this kind of rural style in the southwest region.

I saw her driving the cute cat through a fairly ordinary village. When the national highway passed through the building area of ​​only one or two hundred meters, I suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums inside.

Out of curiosity, she stopped the car and watched a customary event which she thought was a wedding but turned out to be a funeral.

There are witches dancing, drawn-out singing, playing of various ancient musical instruments, and of course the lively scenes of collective gambling and mahjong.

All of this made Graya stunned.

There was no sadness at all in the venue. It was bustling and noisy everywhere, and everyone was happily invited to participate in the event.

They even temporarily upgraded the level of the event because they discovered that Gloria was a foreign girl!
There were foreigners watching, so we couldn’t lose momentum, so we invited the best opera troupe to perform that night!
Our village cannot lose!
Graya had an expression throughout the whole process that I didn't quite understand, but I was deeply shocked.

There was a constant stream of local delicacies on the table specially arranged for her. After she finally finished her meal, she sat in the first row, made some tea, listened to Sichuan opera, and watched the folk masters invited overnight perform face-changing and fire-breathing performances that probably no one in the village had ever seen.

In fact, the villagers from the surrounding three towns and five villages had heard that a foreign girl had arrived, and they all came to see the novel under the pretext of paying tribute.

Make the host family very proud!
Even if Greya's follow-up car came to explain that we were a foreign travel filming team, we would pay any amount.

No need, no need. We can't afford to bring shame to this person. This is a good omen for the death of our old man, a good thing.

They are full of a competitive mentality in their bones. They cannot lose face in front of foreigners and cannot be laughed at by the surrounding villages and towns.

The video of leaving Chengdu and heading to Anxi mainly shows this scene.

It took ten minutes just to show and taste the mouth-watering Baba Banquet delicacies, and another few minutes to watch the various performances in amazement.

The funniest thing is that Graya can actually understand a considerable part of Chinese, although she can only speak a few polite words, and her handheld gimbal and collar microphone work very well.

It is completely possible for netizens to understand what the curious villagers who are crowded around are talking about.

There were some curious netizens in Shu who used barrage to dub the surrounding scenes, making the whole picture densely packed and very spectacular.

This kind of real and concrete passionate life can make netizens enjoy watching it, regardless of the foreign blogger Greya.

Because foreign thinking and perspectives are definitely different, the focus of editing and presentation is also quite novel.

For example, in such a lively scene, what Graya noticed most was a few broken chairs at the entrance of the village.

This was a common feature she noticed after leaving the provincial capital and passing through every village along the national highway.

Before entering the funeral village, she was muttering in the car, "Is this a bus stop? Are the chairs for villagers to sit and wait?"
Netizens have been anxious since the beginning!
The barrage of comments could have pierced through the phone: "That's the village's intelligence station!"

"It's clearly the highest information command center!"

"It's clearly the village honorary awarding office!"

"No, no, no, this is the longevity spot for the entire village. Not only does it allow the elderly to release their spirits through passionate communication, but it also provides a place where they can enjoy the warmth of the sun in winter and a great place to escape the heat and cool off in the summer..."

"I'm so funny! As a northerner, I followed a foreign girl's camera and saw rural scenes in the southwest that I've never seen before. It was really eye-opening!"

"It's very interesting. Seeing things we take for granted from a foreigner's perspective, with the added cultural contrast, gives me a unique perspective. I'm surprised to see such an interesting travelogue on Douyin."

So during these three days, Graya really took pictures of the "bus stops" in countless villages, and indeed saw many "Supreme Council members" leaning against the wall chatting and gossiping with beaming faces.

She even tried to get closer and exchange a few words...

"It's over. I guess you'll be discussed many times here. It won't be long before the whole village knows that a foreign girl drove by in a flashy car."

"If you stay a little longer, your destined marriage will probably come soon..."

This completely novel travelogue format for foreigners has attracted enthusiastic responses from netizens and has been recommended by websites. It has quickly stood out from a group of wealth codes and topped the list of long video travelogues!
At that time, there was no traffic restriction on Tingbaobao, and no one knew there was any connection between the two, which definitely gave her ample opportunities for traffic exposure.

Next, the city travelogue of Anxi was unexpectedly greeted by a lot of comments from netizens, who said, "We want to see the countryside!"

So originally after Journey to Anxi, the trailer should have gone to Shanghai or Pingjing, and the internet celebrity flew there by himself to take some time off.

Graya chose to drive to the countryside without hesitation.

It was from this time that netizens began to speculate that there seemed to be a "mysterious photographer" around Greya?
(End of this chapter)