Wei Yuan was not the only one.
At this moment, thousands of people in Hua Xia realized that there was a "problem" with their WeChat.
Even Wei Yuan's colleagues noticed it one by one.
Just as everyone was curious about the content of the video, a scene that no one could guess the meaning of appeared.
It was a piece of paper that was spread out on a shabby desk. Suddenly, a small hand holding a pen appeared on the paper. The small hand scribbled on the paper. The image flashed and a very funny triangular plane was drawn.
At the same time, more small hands appeared in the video.
It was a classroom that looked more like a classroom in a poor town in the mountains. These children dressed in rustic clothes were sitting in the classroom and drawing on the paper with a pen.
On the blackboard, there was a sentence: [What will the plane of the future look like?] The title pointed out the core content of the video.
It turned out that this group of children were drawing what the plane of the future looked like in their imagination.
"This must be a public service video. But looking at the classroom in the video, at least it has the style of a teaching building with floor tiles and a TV. There's no need for us to donate money, right?" Wei Yuan quickly came to a conclusion after watching the video for five seconds.
He was a copywriter for a large domestic advertising company. He believed that he still had a good eye for such things.
At least, from the content of the video, he could not associate it with any commercial advertisement.
As soon as he finished speaking, the video changed again.
The screen turned into a black background. Then, pieces of white paper quickly appeared on the black background, like a slide show.
On the white paper, there were all kinds of pictures of planes mixed with the children's whimsical imaginations. These pictures looked funny and had no beauty to speak of. They were only simple ballpoint pen lines. However, the content of these lines was eye-opening.
There were triangular planes, circular planes that looked like saucers, and long planes with two pairs of wings.
In a few seconds, more than a dozen pictures of all kinds of planes from the future flashed.
Although the pictures were very young and in the eyes of adults, it was impossible for them to be what the plane of the future looked like. However, the children's imagination was still good.
Wei Yuan smiled knowingly. Wei Yuan and his colleagues also smiled knowingly. They were about to discuss this video and analyze the meaning of this video. Was it WeChat calling for everyone to pay attention to the cultivation of children's imagination?
It was when WeChat was about to make a big move and was preparing to sponsor a number of Hope Primary Schools.
Two lines of text suddenly appeared on the screen that was slowly fading away.
— — What will the planes of the future look like?
Skynet Airlines gives you the answer.
"…"
"Damn, what kind of twist is this?"
Wei Yuan was stunned, and so were his colleagues in the copywriting department.
"What the hell is Skynet?" Wei Yuan felt that this company's ability to tackle problems was extremely strong. They could actually advertise on WeChat, and it was even a ten-second video advertisement.
Wei Yuan was also considered an insider in the advertising industry. He knew that the most valuable advertisement on television was the Spring Festival Gala. A product advertisement embedded in a skit program might only be shown for a few scenes, but the price would start at 5 million.
During the prime advertising period before the start of the Spring Festival Gala, the average price per second was 5 million.
But for the Spring Festival Gala's advertisements, as long as one was a legitimate manufacturer and had the money, they would be able to do it.
Who has ever seen a company advertise on WeChat?
It was a video advertisement at the top of the main page. If the WeChat department used this place as an advertisement spot to auction, Wei Yuan felt that it would not be a problem to bid for 600 to 700 million yuan in these ten seconds.
However, this was obviously impossible. The positioning of WeChat's product was not for advertising. In the years since the launch of WeChat, there were only a few advertisements that promoted their own company's Internet products. Could this Skynet Airlines also be a product of WeChat?
Was it a game?
"I think I've heard of this Skynet Airlines before. It has nothing to do with Tencent Group. It's a company under Monster Industries." A colleague said in surprise, "But what the hell is this video advertisement? It only said one ambiguous sentence in ten precious seconds?"
"But Skynet Airlines has successfully aroused our curiosity." Wei Yuan felt that the angle of this advertisement video was very unique.
It was just that no one knew what Skynet Airlines was up to.
…
More and more netizens in Hua Xia were also stunned after watching this video.
An hour later, discussions about this video exploded on the Internet.
Soon, major technology websites began to popularize the origin of Skynet Airlines. This airline company was established less than two months ago, but it was a wholly owned subsidiary of Monster Industries. Anything that was related to Monster Industries could not be looked at with normal eyes.
For example, when this airline was first established, it sold all of its profitable planes in one go.
For example, WeChat had some kind of evil wind and helped them advertise for ten seconds. There was also a small program that did not need to be downloaded [Skynet Airlines] on the side of the small program.
Countless experts and advertising practitioners were analyzing the meaning behind this video advertisement.
Some of them thought that Monster Industries must have reached some kind of secret strategic cooperation with Tencent. Otherwise, WeChat would not have helped them advertise for the first time.
There were also people who thought that Monster Industries would hold a press conference soon to announce that they had made some kind of breakthrough in the aerospace field. In the next five to ten years, Monster Industries was likely to launch a domestic aircraft to seize Hua Xia's aviation market.
On Zhihu, the explanation that received the most likes was from the founder of a well-known advertising company.
He said that the video used a group of children's imagination to point out that Skynet Airlines was bound to make a big move in the future. Moreover, the content of the video was very straightforward. This big move was not something that adults would dare to imagine. Even a group of imaginative children would not be able to imagine.
As for what the new plane would look like, everyone could now start imagining.
But no matter what explanation it was, it could not explain the ticket booking system on the small program.
But there was no doubt that this ten-second video was an unprecedented success. It successfully attracted countless netizens. The more people did not understand, the more they wanted to find out. What was Skynet Airlines up to?
Then, the netizens were shocked to find that Skynet Airlines had already started selling tickets!
The earliest flight date was tomorrow.
There was no airport, no plane, so why would they sell tickets?
There were those who did not believe in evil. They thought that since they had started selling tickets, and they were selling them on WeChat, the money would be deducted from WeChat.
Then they would not believe in evil and buy one. Let's see if they would refund it the next day or let them take a plane in their dreams.
For a time, a contest to post electronic ticket stubs was set off on the Internet.
Netizens after netizens posted their ticket stubs on WeChat Moments and forums.
Monster Industries' pricing method was very crude. The ticket price was calculated according to the distance of the flight. Within 500 kilometers, one kilometer was 50 cents.
Beyond 500 kilometers, one kilometer was 40 cents.
Beyond 1,500 kilometers, it was 30 cents.
This price was similar to a high-speed train. If the journey was more than 500 kilometers, it was cheaper than a plane ticket.
The price was not the netizens' concern now. The flights offered by Skynet Airlines were too strange.
They were all flights from small counties or remote areas to big cities. Or flights from big cities to small counties.
How could these flights be real?
Monster Industries must be joking with everyone. Tomorrow was the beginning of the Spring Festival. Countless people wanted to buy a plane ticket or train ticket, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not buy one. So Monster Industries created a small program on WeChat to make everyone's dreams come true.
As for the money for the plane tickets, after deducting it, they believed that they would return it the next day or make up for it with a small red packet.
This was the most reasonable speculation. They believed in Monster Industries, and they believed in WeChat.
The netizens thought so, so Skynet Airlines sold a third of the tens of thousands of seats the next day.
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