CHAPTER 887: CHAPTER 885: APPRECIATION

After the morning broadcast, Diamond didn’t have enough time to rest at all.

She ate her breakfast alongside Ruby, who had puffy eyes but Diamond didn’t understand why her baby sister looked that way. Anyway, she was a big girl, and she didn’t want to pry too much.

After breakfast, the two sisters left in Ruby’s car, heading towards the hotel where the others were currently staying.

Since they didn’t stay with her, they were elsewhere.

The twins left at midnight with their private jet, since they had other schedules to attend to. So that morning, Diamond and Ruby went to send off Richard and Essy, who came to support Diamond at the concert.

After sending off these two, the two sisters passed by the stadium where they didn’t linger for long upon seeing the long queue of people entering inside the stadium to buy the merch, which Diamond had promised previously.

Seeing that the business was all good, the two sisters happily returned to the villa, where they started doing their respective chores.

Meanwhile, online, there were several published articles regarding the concert.

It wasn’t just in Athary but Gesalsi where several artists benefited, all because of an online celebrity without a lot of work.

A lot of Gesalsi netizens were curious about who Diamond was, while the JEWELS were curious about who those artists were as well.

Most of the articles praised Diamond’s concert. It was well organized; the fans were united and the fact that Diamond supported some of the fans was even exposed.

But there were two major topics that were most talked about and it was about the income earned from the sale of merch. Some of the people busied themselves doing the math and after doing the rough calculations, the income earned in just hours made everyone gasp in awe and envy.

Diamond had earned millions, and she was still earning more. Some were truly in awe of her genius mind, while others were busy admonishing her for being too greedy and using her status to milk the fans dry.

[I have been saying it. This woman is out there to take your money.]

[Umph! Who are you to say that? If you don’t understand her, then stop talking shit!]

[It’s not like you don’t have eyes. Didn’t you see how many people buy that merch? All that money and she goes around talking about how she doesn’t like your money!]

The fans were infuriated when they saw the people who were busy tarnishing Diamond’s name. As her fans, they all knew pretty well that Diamond wasn’t the kind of person who was greedy for money. Moreover, they all knew where that money was going to be used. So, what were these sour lemons talking about?

[I can tell that you don’t follow Diamond. If you did, you will understand that all the money earned from us fans is used for the right causes.]

[Tell the hater upstairs. Just because these people support their idols, who don’t show any appreciation to them, doesn’t mean that Diamond is the same.]

[If we calculate the amount of money that Diamond had spent on us fans globally, some of you have never even sniffed that kind of money.]

[To all haters, here is the current breakdown of Diamond’s celebrity income.

Platform gifts: all money earned from the gifts is used monthly for charity projects headed by the fans’ committee teams to help and improve the fans’ societies and communities.

Online songs income: the money will be part of the foundation which will help fans’ social welfare.

Merch sales income: Part of the foundation and entertainment agency.]

[As fans, we know where the money is going. No matter how much will be earned, we as JEWELS support our idol.]

[Hehe, the foundation hasn’t been founded and yet all of you are already clamoring about it.]

There were so many voices online, but the JEWELS weren’t easy to defeat. They were united and very energetic to defend their goddess.

The other topic revolved around her outfits.

It was the first time that those in the fashion industry had seen someone so daring and bold to wear four expensive outfits. Each outfit is more expensive than the other. But the main shocking thing was the last outfit which many were dazed with.

Whilst they were in that mode, the GM of VERTAH published a long post and tagged Diamond, making the fashion enthusiast go wild.

VERTAH simply announced to the world how precious that magenta outfit was. When the people learnt how many millions Diamond was wearing just to sing to her fans, they were at a loss.

Those who were clamoring that she was milking fans dry didn’t know what else to say.

For a person who wears an outfit worth U$65 million, which was already a shocking figure for global citizens. If that amount was exchanged into Atharian dollars, Diamond was wearing several family’s luxurious villas.

Such kind of person, how could she be greedy for the merch money?

As a result, the fans gained another fighting tool, which left the haters speechless.

At the same time, that outfit alongside many others inspired a lot of fashion brands, including VERTAH itself.

Diamond was a VIP customer, to be honest. She practically owned a piece of every fashion line that came out. That’s why when the new princess line was made, they reached out to the personal shopper responsible for Diamond and surely the other party took it all.

For such a dedicated shopper and lover of their brains, the GM couldn’t help but call the directors for a meeting. It was unknown what they talked about, but when the meeting ended, the GM wore a smile on her face as soon as it ended.

It could be seen that it was good news.

Meanwhile, other big brands, especially those that Diamond loved wearing and had indirectly increased their purchases without her knowing, were quite tempted and made arrangements to hold meetings to discuss further how to utilize Diamond to earn more money.

Meanwhile, at WYCE in Gesalsi, the results of making Diamond cover their songs was a good choice, which benefited them a lot. Especially those unknown groups which didn’t have the same fame as the popular groups.

Seeing how much Diamond was well responded to, the managerial team was greedy and wanted to keep Diamond with them for a bit longer.

As a result, they held a meeting without further ado and the topic was collaborating with Diamond for more songs. By collaborating with her, their reach would go far and they could attract other markets. After all, they truly aim to be known globally and they haven’t achieved that as of yet.

With the decision anonymously agreed to, someone was put in charge of talking to Diamond. That way, as long as she agrees, further plans would be put into motion.

While the big guns were thinking of ways to earn more money and collaborate, the pure fans were busy buying merch and some buying more even after getting it.

This time, more merch was brought to the stadium and, without any restrictions, put on the quantity one could purchase, the fans were buying to their hearts’ content. The money in their pockets was the only restriction.

The majority of her merch was autographed, which made the fans very happy. Even for those that weren’t, the fact that they got it was enough to make the fans buy more.

Most of the merch that was bought were the t-shirts, albums, phone cases and keychains. Those received the most sales. Perhaps it was because they could be used daily or something, but everything went exceptionally well.

The majority of the fans recorded unboxing videos and used Diamond’s songs in their videos, which garnered a lot of attention and served as a promotion as well.

As a result, there were more paid downloads on GOOD MUSIC, increasing the income that Diamond had already earned from selling singles before the album officially came out.

At the same time, the haters were in panic mode, especially those two who were going to be hosting their concerts after Diamond made such a huge splash.

It was more so after Paul sent threatening messages to them asking for a crazy amount of hush money. If not given the money, he was going to expose them.

Receiving such threats, the two, despite their reluctance, could only meet up with Paul and pay him the money that he wanted in cash before getting all the evidence that Paul had.

However, that one move drained these two pockets. They weren’t like Diamond, who had a lot of money. Life wasn’t easy and with some of that money taken by Paul, they hated Diamond and Paul to the core and vowed to get revenge one day in the future.

For now, they couldn’t make a move lest something bad happen before the concert. They didn’t have the money to refund any tickets. They could only lie low.

Who made them lose this round?