As Lin Yu'an drifted into a deep sleep in the warmth of Wiseman's Wooden House, the video was sweeping across the world like a wildfire!
The explosive popularity during the first few hours of the video's release was predictable. The expectations that had been building for six months, compressed to their limits, erupted with astonishing force.
Bilibili's trending list, YouTube's recommendation algorithm, pushed this two-hour construction epic to eager fans and passersby drawn in by the "hardcore" label.
The 2.1 million views he saw were merely a spark in this wildfire. That was just the initial energy contributed by the core fans and the first batch of algorithm-suggested passersby.
The real force driving this storm to continuously mutate and eventually sweep across the globe came from a detail he never anticipated.
A two-hour, fifteen-minute, and thirty-seven-second video, what was the background music?
