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Click on the picture to listen to a horrible singing contest. If it doesn't work, try to click here for a direct link. Isn't it amazing when two Chinese fellow from 2 different place out of China making a collaboration in a "foreign" language?

A friend of mine Nicola is currently reside in England, and I'm from Malaysia. We met each other in an online Karaoke app, gone through a Hong Kong friend which host a singing community within the Karaoke app. Sounds familiar eh? Yeah, these Chinese Karaoke APP has sub-communities that allow user to build a tribe and invite like minded people to have activities in their own clan.

They have their own digital currency within the app, which very similar to crypto token. The only thing is, these are not backed by blockchain. It's a very centralized controlled token, and the value has been fixed at 1/5 at point of receive. Which means, if you received 1 token, by the time it pays out, you'll only get back 0.2token. And each token are at the cost of 10 Chinese cents.

Not so much fun eh? Wrong. It's so much fun, so much ego, so much craziness in the "game". Singing Karaoke is not like having fun anymore. Because of so much of ego, it has literally turning into a profession. Where a pretty girl doing live stream for an hour, it can easily brought her thousands of Chinese Yuan(a few hundred dollars?).

Why is that so? I've been there for more than 2 years now, and I've seen a lot. Investors who does not invest(I wanted to, but I can't because I do not have a Chinese debit/credit card), are quite impossible to earn. Occassionally someone would send me a token or two, and that still subjected to 80% tax.

Well, where does the "money" goes? The app somewhat need pay the bills right? Hence, whatever token user bought from the app are generally taxed by the company. Now what makes it so attractive and people start spending in APP is:

  1. Once you sang a song, it's opened for curation. Listener can choose to give you flower(which yield absolutely nothing, its just a "like")
  2. When your audience start sending you token/coins/gifts that worth a value, your recorded karaoke song will start to receive credibility.
  3. And these recorded/curated songs will be rank based on AREA segregation. You may make it to the top in one city, you're only the top in that city!
  4. When your openent received more tokens/coins than your recording, then your oponent will be staying on top of you.

Funny eh? I set my account to Tibet, so there's nobody else to fight with me on my ranking. Some of these English songs, I don't even need anyone to send me any gift, I'll still be the champion because there's nobody else singing English songs there?

You see, I kinda get why #justinsunsteemit suggest to make this subscription base, apparently Chinese company does this all the time. The amount you put in, will never be enough to self sustain in the network. It will only be depleting, slowly but surely. And user will have enough fun by paying to enjoy their pride. Trust me, I've seen people sang a horrible Karaoke piece, and than send himself 500 token (that's 50 bucks Chinese Yuan). Atleast, 1/5 of that is still going back to the owner as rebate, but there's the BURN.

Not suggesting anything, but I've been practicing tipping. It's not much 0.10 each time I tip, but it's a habit.



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文章似乎是写给某些人看的🤭

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明眼人就看得到。算了,也不方便多說。來玩就對了🙂 !tip !shop

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