Chapter 1310 - 492: Silly Netizens (Part 2)
Watching the other person leave, Hamilton was somewhat at a loss, but Qin Miao found the person quite agreeable.
After all, the guy was truly rich. One sentence from him increased Qin Miao’s year-end bonus by over 10 million. Anyone would feel good about him.
After the party ended, Qin Miao happily returned to the hotel to rest.
After the Grand Prix was over, Qin Miao had one rest day, followed by postseason testing, which marked the end of the F1 season.
Next up was the end-of-year awards ceremony. After this routine, Qin Miao’s work in F1 would be completely wrapped up.
Back at the hotel, Qin Miao finally took out his phone and started looking through comments from fans, both domestic and abroad.
Although after two years of racing, Qin Miao’s mindset was quite stable, seeing negative comments would still affect him somewhat. So during Grand Prix weekends, Qin Miao generally wouldn’t read comments.
But now that the season was over, even seeing negative comments wouldn’t affect Qin Miao’s performance on the track.
Not to mention that now Qin Miao was in his complete world champion state, so no one would dare send him any negative comments.
With a smile, Qin Miao opened his social media account. His last post on Weibo and Twitter was published at eight tonight, at the end of the last race of the 2022 season.
It was also the summary from his studio of his performance on the track this season.
Comments: 50K+, Likes: 300K+.
It was quite a popular and high-engagement post.
Opening the comments section, the ones at the top were all the usual flattering comments.
[You’re amazing, baby!]
[Sanshui is awesome!]
[Congratulations Sanshui on winning the world championship!]
...
Honestly, Qin Miao had asked his management company and even the team’s marketing department, but no one seemed to be managing these comments.
After all, these comments were noticeably lacking in technicality, overly formulaic, without any novelty or highlights. Qin Miao found them a bit odd.
As if there were bots specifically controlling the comments here.
However, Qin Miao had a solution. He switched the comment sorting method from likes to time.
Soon, new comments started appearing on his phone.
[Qin Miao, you really are my daddy!]
[Qin Miao, awesome!]
[Congratulations on becoming the double champion and getting off work early. Don’t forget to stream when you’re gaming!]
[Qin Miao is truly a brother. If he wins a championship, he really wins it.]
[From the photo when Qin Miao retired from the race, I knew he didn’t care about the result of the last race. He must be wanting to get off work now.]
The picture showed Qin Miao racing towards the team paddock on Matthew’s scooter.
[Was Sanshui squeezing Perez on the track just to get off work early in the last race?]
Seeing these comments, Qin Miao breathed a sigh of relief and felt comfortable. These were exactly the type of comments his fans would post.
There’s no way silly netizens have such good character.
After browsing for about ten minutes and liking some interesting comments, Qin Miao turned off his phone to sleep.
Anyway, the last race of the 2022 season was over, marking a perfect end to the 2022 season.
The team headquarters, which never took breaks, surprisingly gave a day off. But the break lasted only one day; tomorrow everyone had to return to their positions to support Qin Miao and Hamilton in their winter testing on the track.
On this rest day, Qin Miao received quite a few invitations, from local officials in Abu Dhabi, to gatherings from a few princes in the UAE.
But Qin Miao, having been busy for a year, genuinely didn’t feel like doing anything today. He hadn’t even called his wife; he really didn’t want to talk much today.
After politely declining these invitations, Qin Miao turned on his computer, connected to the internet, and opened his streaming channel.
Today, Qin Miao just wanted to relax in the hotel for a day, play some games, something like that.
But last night, while checking comments, Qin Miao saw fans asking him to stream while gaming.
Since today was a free day, he decided to start a stream to fulfill the fans’ wishes.
Soon, people started entering Qin Miao’s stream. Being the F1 world champion, even if his gaming performance wasn’t exactly humorous,
Qin Miao did have actual skills.
Especially when it came to games like COD and CS, which required quick reactions and good aim.
Thus, apart from his identity as a driver, Qin Miao also gained many gaming fans with his skills. But of course, most of the viewers in Qin Miao’s stream were still racing fans.
Nonetheless, as Qin Miao started streaming, his channel quickly filled with viewers who came upon hearing the news.
[Wow, the world champion]
[Good morning, Sixteen-time Champion!]
[Wow, the live Sixteen-time Champion!]
Qin Miao was playing Civilization 6 at the time. With nothing to do, he naturally kept glancing at the comments in his stream.
Seeing the [Sixteen-time Champion] in his stream, Qin Miao wondered who in the paddock had won the world championship sixteen times.
But the most was probably his teammate Hamilton and Mick’s dad, and they had only won seven times. Where did the Sixteen-time Champion come from?
"What the hell is the Sixteen-time Champion?" Qin Miao muttered.
[That’s you, Sanshui. You beat Hamilton twice, so Qin Miao > Hamilton, thus Hamilton seven titles * 2, plus your two world championships, equals Sixteen-time Champion.]
Seeing this comment, Qin Miao immediately thought of the Rosberg meme.
"Well, that’s nice. At least I have one more championship than Rosberg."
[?]
[Starting a debate!]
[Does that mean Rosberg isn’t good enough?]
[You look down on the Princess of Monaco, yes?]
[Big courage! Daring to criticize the Princess of Monaco!]
Qin Miao chuckled at the comments in his stream, at least chatting with these folks didn’t put any psychological pressure on him.
Plus, the comments these viewers made were quite amusing.
While chatting, Qin Miao’s game loaded up.
He skillfully entered the game, chose a save, and started.
A flood of question marks initially appeared in Qin Miao’s stream, as most viewers expected him to continue playing CS and were surprised when he started Civilization.
But it didn’t affect their interest in continuing to watch. Many viewers even started giving advice in the comments.
Because Qin Miao was playing Civilization, a strategy game, he had more time to interact with the comments in his stream.
And before he knew it, he was playing all day long.
Qin Miao played one save from around nine in the morning till around nine at night.
Today Qin Miao didn’t even exercise; he just kept playing games.
[What? I saw Qin Miao playing Civilization when I left for work this morning, and now that I’m back, Qin Miao is still playing?]
[Playing games as revenge, probably been holding back for too long.]
[The nuke is ready! The nuke is ready! Bomb Tokyo! Send those little devils to heaven.]
[Isn’t there still postseason testing tomorrow? Not going to sleep?]
[It’s only past nine on Qin Miao’s end right now, sleep a bit, next turn!]
Qin Miao didn’t feel his body was the least bit uncomfortable after playing games for so long. F1 drivers are arguably among the fittest people in the world.
However, after glancing out the window, Qin Gang knew it was getting late.
There was indeed work tomorrow, so Qin Miao really planned to sleep after this next turn.
But after arranging the development direction of various cities, ready for the next turn, his phone suddenly rang.