Chapter 11

The next day,

The draft of his next song was finally completed, and after doing his chores and completing his morning run, he found himself at the usual shooting site to record.

At around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Edward began packing up and felt helpless.

The battery capacity of smartphones at this time was really pitiful; otherwise, he could insist on recording until four or five in the afternoon.

Leaving the shooting site, Edward did not immediately head back home but instead headed towards the Internet Cafe.

Pay an hour's rent and log in to his YouTube account, and just as he expected from the email he received early this morning, his application to join the Partner Program was finally approved.

Seeing this, Edward couldn't help but smile.

After waiting for almost a month, he can finally generate revenue from his videos.

Turning away his attention from the notice,Edward looked through the statistics of his previous videos.

Not surprisingly, the views of the two videos had already been fixed at around 85k and 73k, respectively.

It may increase in the future, but not much considering that the two are his worst works among the four covers he made.

Which is also reasonable; after all, the two last covers were processed through a lot of editing.

From a certain point of view, by adjusting the frequency and volume and removing some of the background noise, it was actually auto-tuned by him.

Speaking of the last two split-screen (multi-screen) videos, the statistics really exceeded his expectations.

Not to mention the 'Stars' that were released for more than two weeks and the views that had already reached 120,068, the views of the newly released song cover 'Gitara' had already reached 87k, only thousands away from the 100k mark.

You know, it has only been less than a week since it was released.

As far as he knew, there were not many Filipino content creators who could achieve such a feat at this time.

Well, there may be hundreds, but considering that he had just started his channel two months ago, at this time, he could already be considered one of the fastest-growing content creators.

Well, of course, that was only in the Philippines regions; on a global scale, he's actually nothing.

Anyway, does that make him already famous?

Yes and no.

The views of his videos are indeed high, but in the end, they are not stable enough.

Subscribers, on the other hand, are different; after all, many people at this time do not own PCs or smartphones like they will in the future.

Most of the time, people just surf the internet to watch videos casually, unable to subscribe because of the time they have to spend creating or signing up for a YouTube account.

In other words, those who can subscribe at this time are only one in a thousand, and they are the real hardcore viewers.

As of now, he only has 11,002 subscribers.

On a grand scale, it may not be as good as those foreigners who had millions of subscribers, but in the Philippines, the biggest YouTubers at this time only had hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

In a way, he was indeed famous already; at least there were a few thousand people who knew him among the 11k who subscribed to him.

With a satisfied expression on his face, Edward logged out of his YouTube account and turned to his Facebook account.

As usual, he was greeted by 99+ friend requests and 99+ message requests as he entered the main page of his account.

Edward looked through it, and occasionally he would reply and accept friend requests from others.

Not everyone was a girl, of course; there are still some guys that caught his attention.

For example, there was this guy named Andrew Salonga who told him that he had created a fan club for himself and asked him if he wanted to join.

Seeing this, Edward felt flattered, and without hesitation, he replied, Thank you, to him and asked him to add him to the group.

Soon, a few seconds later

Andrew: "Thanks for noticing me, idol (happy emoji); of course I can add you; it's for you after all. If you want, I can also make you a moderator."

Seeing this, Edward was excited and immediately replied, "Thanks; yes, I want to be a moderator of the group if possible."

A few seconds later, his notification rang, and after looking through it, he found that it was about him being added to the group called "Edward M." and him becoming a moderator of the group.

The group page, just as he expected, was a small group of only more than 100 members.

And the cover picture was an embarrassing picture of him when he was a kid.

Damn, how did they get that picture?

"..."

Andrew: "It's done, Idol; you can already browse it as you want, add and remove members, etc. By the way, do you want to add some rules and regulations?"

Edward: "Ah yes, you can just add some rules like no to toxic, lewd, and rude posts, etc.; also, any kinds of posts related to politics, social issues, etc. must also be banned."

Andrew: "Okay, I'll do it later; what about the management?"

Edward: "Well, I have many things to do lately: recording and editing, and my class will also start in August, so you can just do it yourself or add more moderators to help you manage in the future."

Andrew: "Okay (thumbs up emoji)."

Edward: "By the way, the cover photo of the group..."

Andrew: "Eh? Do you want to change it?"

Edward: "Yes, please, choose something nice."

Andrew: "But you don't have something nice in your album."

Edward: "..."

Time passed, and Edward chatted with Andrew for a while until his time ended.

At around 3:00 in the afternoon, he was back in the apartment and started reviewing the videos he shot on his smartphone.

Studying it and, at the same time, taking notes about the mistakes he made and how to fix and improve them.

At 7:30 in the evening, he was watching the news on TV.

"2010 Filipino comedy film Here Comes the Bride, released by Star Cinema and starring Angelica Panganiban and Eugene Domingo... grossed ₱110 million at the box office..."

"K-Pop meets P-Pop, feat. U-KISS, Pop Girls, and XLR8, live at the Araneta Coliseum..."

"Manny Pacquiao defeats Joshua Clottey, controlling the fight from start to finish and winning by unanimous decision. This was the first boxing match held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, drawing more than 41,000 people. This was Pacquiao's first defense of his newly awarded WBO welterweight title..."

End.