The last spike brought in tens of millions of online viewers at once, a terrifyingly large number.
Together with viewers from other live broadcast platforms, the total easily surpassed a hundred million.
This was simply historic for Sina.
The websites, seeing such massive traffic, were overjoyed but at times saddened as their servers clearly struggled to cope, leading to frequent interruptions and Internet delays during the live broadcast.
This caused the viewing experience to be frustratingly choppy for many netizens.
The national station didn't allow barrages, so people were reluctant to watch it there.
But they persisted here, lags and all.
During the seminar, Ellen Young hardly engaged in any discussion of the topic; she barely responded and simply listened quietly throughout.
This didn't showcase her abilities at all.
The audience even thought she was just there to attend the seminar.