Chapter 106 : The Tail End of 2009

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Chapter 106 : The Tail End of 2009

Mei Fang spent two weekends accompanying Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi to practice riding bicycle. During this time, Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi also found time to practice on their own.

By the third week, the two of them could already ride their bicycles to school, but they always rode together, with Mei Fang and Xia Yuan protecting the less skilled Lin Youxi.

The winter of 2009 was as cold as the previous year, but the weather was mostly sunny, so the ground wasn’t too slippery. The three of them rode their bicycles to school on such days.

They endured the hardships and worked hard day and night.

They waited together in the cold wind for a companion who overslept.

They bought various snacks at the school gate shop.

Delicious and warm thousand-layer cakes, fragrant pancakes.

They looked at the delicious but always dauntingly expensive sliced rice cakes.

Pan-fried dumplings priced at five yuan for three pieces, or ten yuan for five pieces, were outrageously expensive.

And the sweet oatmeal porridge that was cheap and of good quality, one yuan for a cup, with the option to refill.

Although Mei Fang was mentally prepared for his life in the second year of middle school, he couldn’t help but sigh at how tough studying was back then.

Now, unlike his past life, he wasn’t just thinking about indulging in a particular game.

His spare time was squeezed to maintain the website with Lin Youxi and find time to practice guitar with Xia Yuan

Meanwhile, the website operation of C Site was currently in a lukewarm upward trend. Since it had A Site (AcFun) as a reference, the platform had gradually formed a stable user base.

Mei Fang maintained strict user selection for C Site, similar to the early days of B Site (Bilibili) in his previous life. However, unlike the early days of A and B Sites, C Site didn’t restrict registrations to specific holidays. They implemented a series of gaming and anime-related multiple-choice and quiz questions, requiring an accuracy rate of over 95% for membership registration. Only registered C Site members could contribute videos and send bullet comments.

Currently, C Site’s official UID0001 was 【Mountain Has Forest】. This account was usually used by Lin Youxi to post site update announcements. However, Mei Fang, in the name of Lin Youxi, also used this account to casually chat with users on the website to gather suggestions.

Mei Fang also has experience in community management from his previous work and was also an anime enthusiast himself. Despite being busy with studies and other aspects of life, whenever he appeared on Baidu Tieba or other forums, he could easily connect with everyone.

Mei Fang, in his role as the site administrator, imitated Lin Youxi’s usual tone of speech, showcasing a cool and elegant demeanor. However, the online community users naturally assumed that the administrator of C Site must be a tech-savvy otaku. Lin Youxi found this amusing because she noticed that Mei Fang was really learning to be like her. She was also amazed by the online community.

In addition to this, Mei Fang secretly sent many popular content creators on A Site (AcFun) free registration codes under the guise of being the C Site owner. Some of them responded to Mei Fang’s invitation, but only a few actually posted videos on C Site. Only the subtitling groups invited by Mei Fang were enthusiastic about submitting their produced anime videos, hoping to spread their beloved anime to a wider audience.

The reason why the local anime culture was able to expand over the past 22 years was because of the early efforts of these passionate anime enthusiasts, especially the subtitling groups who promoted it out of love. Mei Fang was deeply moved by their enthusiasm and dedication during his conversations with them.

Together with Lin Youxi, Mei Fang’s reason for establishing C Site wasn’t driven by commercial motives. He envisioned that as long as the platform could sustain its operation, even with a slight loss, it would still be acceptable.

While there might be future websites following suit or emulating their model to create more commercialized and successful platforms, Mei Fang has no intention of easily changing the current harmonious cultural atmosphere of this community.

Mei Fang’s aspiration was for C Site to stay true to its original intent until the end. Withstand the pressure to maintain the purity of its user selection, and to tread a different path from B Site (Bilibili), which he had known for 22 years. In a way, it might also serve as compensation for the unfulfilled desires of the previous generation of anime enthusiasts who couldn’t find a sense of belonging for 22 years.

After the winter snow, a new year (Lunar New Year) had arrived.

As the ice melted and the snow thawed, the signs of spring gradually awakened.

With the arrival of 2010, following a brief winter break, Mei Fang and his classmates in the second year of middle school soon entered the second semester.

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