Super God-Level Top Student

Because the previous version used sliding font and briefly introduced the main problem the paper aimed to solve, it seemed less abrupt.

But there was no helping it, that version's accompanying text was outright rejected by Minister Yang.

Because Minister Yang believed there was too much text and it couldn't highlight the key points.

So now we have this version.

Actually, Qu Wenxiang was very resistant to the idea of releasing this video.

After all, as the teacher in charge of new media content, though the official video account, due to various concerns, had many restrictions in content selection and thus wasn't very popular.

But Qu Wenxiang had to deal with journalism students every day, and he also had good relationships with some students who successfully operated several of the school's video accounts, so he naturally had a keen sense of information.

How should I put it?

This graphic, along with the copy, plus the boost from the official account, truly had the potential to go viral.

It could even explode in popularity.

Not to mention that Minister Yang even took the initiative to say they could spend money to promote it.

But Qu Wenxiang was sure that this kind of popularity wasn't necessarily what the School of Mathematics wanted.

Incoming freshmen, world top journals, papers... These keywords linked together made it extremely difficult for people not to associate them with the word 'academic tyranny.'

Qu Wenxiang even suspected whether Professor Li Jiangao from the School of Mathematics had offended Minister Yang, so he was specifically asked to release this video to put Professor Li on the spot.

Luckily, he had been cautious and conducted all his communications with Minister Yang via WeChat.

And he had been careful enough to screenshot all the chat logs.

That way, even if someone came looking to pass the buck to him, he would be able to clear himself of any blame.

You can't blame him for being too cautious; when the higher-ups fight, you can't let the fire burn down your own little teacher's house.

Refusing to take the blame starts with me.

...

Just as Qu Wenxiang had expected.

After he spent the twenty thousand yuan that Minister Yang mentioned on WeChat for promotional funds, and after he @ the student journalists in the group to collectively share it, the video's popularity clearly began to surge.

Especially in the comment section.

Really, if Minister Yang hadn't suddenly called him out of the blue today, Qu Wenxiang wouldn't have believed that so many people in Huaxia would be up so late at eleven or twelve at night, clutching their phones and endlessly scrolling through videos.

However, Qu Wenxiang was not the least bit excited; instead, he only felt his heart racing with fear.

Those constantly increasing comments felt like a death knell to him.

Especially the comment with the most likes, which had been topped by countless others.

"Yo... what do I see here? A freshman publishing in a world-class top journal? And it's an official account! Haha... So now we're really not even bothering to hide it, right?"

"Seeing this video, I seem to hear several PhD students from the Xilin University of Technology School of Mathematics silently crying."

"Our people from Greater Huaxia are truly amazing! Elementary students can publish in national core journals, and incoming freshmen can be in international top journals, you're so great, why haven't I seen you bring home a Nobel Prize?"

"Am I seeing this right? This is Xilin University of Technology! Another sacred educational institution has fallen in my eyes."

"Come on, want to be famous, right? Let me help you. @Educational Official Website @Tuanzi @Zhonghua Society @... What do you guys think?"

But what hurt the most was a comment hidden underneath that Qu Wenxiang accidentally stumbled upon.

"Which student is operating this official account? Do you want to take a look at what you've written?! Did you want our school to be infamous or what? Tell me, did you take money from University X to deliberately redirect the spotlight from academic misconduct?"

Without exaggeration, upon seeing this comment, Qu Wenxiang felt like he wanted to die.

What's more frustrating is that many comments were either pending review or had already been deleted by the system.

One could imagine what those people had written.

Almost all the rational comments were overshadowed by these indignant voices and were impossible to find.

But the scariest part was that he noticed many official media accounts had already started to share his video.

Don't these social media editors for official media ever get off work?

Are they all on a twenty-four-hour online schedule?

Even though it was getting late, he couldn't help but take a screenshot of the comment section and send it straight to Yang Lichun.

"Minister Yang, the reaction in the comment section seems a bit off, shall we disable comments for now?"

After waiting five minutes, there was no reply.

Just when Qu Wenxiang was about to shut down the comment section, another reply arrived.

"Are you out of your mind, Qu? Closing the comments now would make us look guilty of something, wouldn't it? Besides, the video has already been shared, they can still comment elsewhere even if we don't allow it here. Don't be scared, you should believe in the integrity of our School of Mathematics faculty members."

Qu Wenxiang was stunned.

He couldn't be bothered to reply anymore and simply turned off his phone to go to sleep.

He had figured it out, this was someone stirring up trouble again.

Let them do whatever they want; after all, he was just a tool, and when the blows really come down, surely someone of higher standing would take the heat!

...

It only took one hour, just one hour.

Qu Wenxiang's video shot up to the top ten of the trending charts on social video platforms in no time.

That night, whether you searched for keywords such as Xilin University of Technology, or incoming freshman, Li Jiangao, top journal paper, or even School of Mathematics, it would lead directly to the related video.

And one thing Qu Wenxiang guessed right:

Countless secondary creators in the short video industry really don't sleep.

With sensational material, even if their eyelids are fighting, they'll down a Red Bull and battle on for two more hours.

It can't be helped.

The nature of the online society dictates that this industry must be restless, as the lifespan of each trending topic usually doesn't exceed seven days.

The sooner one reacts, the more likely they are to catch the biggest wave of traffic first.

What's scarier is that these creators active online could be said to have their own powerful ways.

Although Qu Wenxiang's copy was extremely succinct,

he didn't reveal the names of the mentor and the incoming freshman in the text, nor the specific journal it was published in.

Chapter Enjoy:

But those secondary creators, by relying on a single image, found the Duke Mathematical Journal in less than an hour. They went directly to the official website of the Duke Mathematical Journal and downloaded the entire paper.

Some even used ChatGPT to summarize the core ideas of the paper.

Others, by using the pinyin tagged on the paper and matching it with the faculty introductions on the official website of Xilin University of Technology School of Mathematics and Statistics, identified Li Jiangao straightaway.

Only the mysterious student who published the paper was not yet found.

It can't be helped, it was late at night, and most kids from the School of Mathematics were already asleep.

The explosive popularity of the video also excited countless public account authors.

For no other reason than that the phrase "educational fairness" is one of the most sensitive nerves in the whole of society these days.

And just as Xu Dajiang had predicted,

the online sentiment was simple.

What the hell does an incoming freshman know about writing papers?

Not to mention there were numerous knowledgeable individuals enlightening others about how many mathematics professors and PhDs in Huaxia publish papers in world-class mathematical top journals each year.

So, the heat Xu Dajiang hoped for was achieved in just one night.

God knows how many people started enlightening all the viewers under the small videos and various public account articles on how to complain to the university...

After all, Xilin University of Technology is a "double first-class" university, which still has some presence in Greater Huaxia.

In this seething Huaxia night,

the academic circles in the West also began some scattered discussions.

The Duke Mathematical Journal is nonetheless an old, world-class top mathematical journal.

Suddenly posting a major paper on the website providing electronic reading would naturally cause a stir.

Not to mention the paper was indeed interesting.

More coincidentally, using Group Theory to construct a self-supervised system, another paper appeared in "Pure and Applied Mathematics Communications." Plus, the corresponding author was a famous professor from the University of Cologne.

The former was theoretical, while the latter combined theory and application.

Many professors researching mathematics and computer science directly downloaded both papers and started reading.

The only good thing was that neither of these papers had broken into the mainstream yet.

Of course, that's normal.

The news in the academic circles is always supposed to be a little slower.