Chapter 153 [Bonus ] 153 - Stream?

    ??[''Bailando'' - 3,400,000 views] +2,575,000 views

    Looking at the huge number of views this song received this week, I had a huge smile on my face.

    Bailando'' had managed to overtake all of my other songs and become not only my most viewed song on the channel, but also the most viewed video on my channel!

    I had already earned $2,900 on MeTube from the song''s views alone, not to mention how much I had already earned from its views on Spokify, making the $7,000 investment I made to record the video completely worthwhile.

    "Maybe I could start investing more in music video production?" I asked myself thoughtfully. "It makes sense for big artists to make well-produced music videos, as it seems to really increase the reach and views of the songs."

    The two cases I had of well-produced music videos were my two most viewed songs today, "Bailando" and "The Lazy Song," both with over 3 million views.

    My channel had already passed 300k subscribers and my Instabram had over 200k followers!

    I was very excited to see all these changes.

    Especially when I opened the GAA website to see my ranking.

    [BlackVelvet - 473rd - 201st E Rank].

    My ranking was rising very fast... but was it rising as fast as I needed it to?

    Doing a quick mental calculation, I''d been gaining about 40 places a day in the rankings since I posted ''Bailando'', but there were only 4 days left until my audition for the role of Jack...

    If it stayed the same, in those 4 days I could possibly be 41st in the rankings, but that meant I''d have to count myself lucky if my growth stayed the same for 5 days to move from E rank to D rank, something that wasn''t guaranteed at all.

    There was no point in leaving it to luck that my popularity would continue to rise at the same rate... I had to do something to try and speed things up...

    What can I do...? I asked myself.

    Several different ideas came to my mind, but the vast majority of the ideas were things I could do, but that would take time to accomplish...

    I need something I can do now...'' I thought.

    Trying to find a simpler answer, I started pacing the room while saying my ideas out loud.

    "If I made videos, it would take a long time, or if I made quick videos with little editing, it might lower the quality of my channel, something I don''t want..." I said, shaking my head.

    "If I wanted to make a lot of posts on Instagram, it wouldn''t do much to increase my popularity in a short amount of time either..." I shook my head.

    "An alternative is to make a stream... yes... I can make a stream by singing or improvising songs, I can talk to the audience, with my current audience I can make my stream rise in the rankings of streams and attract even more audience... as long as I do something interesting, it''s not impossible to accelerate the speed of gaining popularity with streams... the amount of popularity I''ll gain will hardly be as big as the songs I post, but as long as it helps something, it''s not a problem..." I said, getting more and more excited.

    Theoretically, this wouldn''t be the first stream I participated in, since the first stream I participated in was the Quacktus talent show, where I sang The Lazy Song for the first time.

    But it would be the first stream I would do on my channel.

    So the first thing I did was get ready. I wanted to start today, there was no need to waste time.

    "Since you''re taking two phones, I''ll give you a discount and make them both $3,000." She said, making me raise my eyebrows in surprise as well and smile back.

    "Thank you."

    With both phones paid for, she handed me the bill and I was surprised to find a phone number on the back.

    Smiling, I just shook my head and got on the bike to ride home.

    When I got home, I went down to the basement where Liv was practicing.

    "Hey." I said as I waved at her.

    When Liv heard me calling to her, she looked at me confused. "Did something happen?"

    "Yeah, I bought you a present." I said as I handed her the gift box.

    Looking at the box, Liv was confused, not understanding what it was.

    But when she took off the wrapping and saw that it was the box for a pink X30 Ultra, she started screaming with excitement.

    "Aaaaaahhhhh, I can''t believe it Noah!" She started jumping up and down in excitement and ran over to hug me. "Thank you so much Noah..."

    Seeing her happiness, a huge smile appeared on my face.

    Hearing Liv''s screams, my mom and Ethan also went down to the basement to see what all the fuss was about, and they were shocked to see the cell phone I gave her.

    "You went out to buy your sister a new cell phone, Noah?" my mom asked, confused.

    "I wanted to get one for myself, but when I saw it was pink, I thought Liv would like one too." I explained as I pulled my phone case out of my pocket and showed it to them.

    Ethan was more excited than I was to see my new phone.

    So we stayed together to open and set up the two phones together.

    Transferring the data from one phone to the other wasn''t too difficult, it only took a few minutes, and all the while Liv and Ethan were looking at the two new phones with gleams in their eyes.

    Unfortunately, I didn''t want to give Ethan a cell phone because I was afraid that his little brain would become addicted to dopamine like the children in my former world.

    It wouldn''t hurt to let him have a cell phone when he got older.

    Especially since he already had a tablet at home, which meant he didn''t need a cell phone.

    With the phone finally set up and the camera approved, I asked if I could use the basement to do the stream, which Liv agreed to without a second thought.

    Now that she had a new cell phone, the urge to practice violin for the rest of the day was gone, haha.

    So all I had to do was set up my phone on the computer with a program to turn my new camera into a webcam and I was ready to do my first stream!