374: A clear lead in votes!

It was midnight.

The global voting channel opened on time.

Countless people were eagerly awaiting its opening, ready to cast their votes for their favorite candidates as soon as it did.

The moment midnight arrived, innumerable voters from all over the world flooded into the exclusive voting link.

Fortunately, every country had prepared well in advance when creating their exclusive links, which allowed them to accommodate such a terrifying surge in traffic.

Moreover, this vote was, after all, about the prestige of various countries worldwide, so no matter what, even at a great cost, the countries would ensure that no technical problems arose with the voting.

Otherwise, the embarrassment would not be their own, but the entire nation would bear the blame.

Among them, the USA, Japan, Great America Country, and Russia, these developed and powerful nations, were undoubtedly the most enthusiastic about voting.

Because in these countries, they each had several or even more than ten individuals who had made it onto the list of the most influential representatives globally.

Cheering for their country's representatives and voting them onto the list was also a way to bring honor to their nation.

And as the country with the most selected candidates this time, the USA's voting passion soared!

In less than three minutes, the cumulative number of voters had already exceeded one hundred million, and this number was rapidly increasing as time passed.

Since voting was publicly registered, each person only had one vote.

Who to choose as their voting object became a matter of curious attention for everyone.

For example, among the dozen or so representatives from the USA who made it onto the list this time, their popularity varied.

Among them, Skema, Gates, and Old Joe, these tech giants who lead the world and benefit the people, naturally received the most attention.

Computers, new energy, cars, mobile phones.

These are indispensable items in people's daily lives.

People enjoy generations of technological iteration and can clearly perceive the improvement of systems and hardware. Naturally, they are more willing to cast their valuable vote for these representatives.

Some even, being loyal fans of one of these representatives, rallied their friends and family to vote together.

As a result, although there were many individuals selected for the final list, the actual final vote distribution was vastly different.

In less than half an hour, real-time feedback from the voting statistics system showed that the top-ranked individuals were precisely those few world-leading tech giants.

Within the USA itself, the gap in votes between the first and last place had already reached an astonishing tenfold or more.

Skema led by a wide margin with thirty million votes, dominating the top spot, while the last-place candidate had a pitifully less than three million votes.

Such a disparity indeed made people sigh with emotion.

Indeed, there are differences between people.

Although everyone was a candidate on the list, it was clear from just this half-hour of voting why this award was named the ranking of the most influential people in the world.

Compared to the USA's chaotic and highly polarized vote distribution, China's situation was much better.

After all, there were only three people on the list this time.

Although it looked pitiful, this actually became a unique advantage.

After the voting channel opened, Su Yu also silently cast his registered vote for himself on the voting link at the first opportunity.

For no other reason than this:

He just didn't want to fall too far behind the other two.

Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing!

Su Yu was actually very self-aware. Compared to the other two tech giants, he was far inferior in terms of both contributions made and time in the public eye.

One is the CEO of Da Mi Company, and the other is the CEO of a promising company, the pride of domestic industry.

One took on the task of the domestic new energy intelligent ecosystem, and the other was responsible for research in domestic chips and 5G.

They were household names, known to everyone.

Su Yu was not at all surprised that these two were selected for the list of most influential people.

On the contrary, his own selection was mostly due to luck.

Furthermore, in terms of time in the public eye, Da Mi Company and the promising company were quite similar.

Both were well-established companies that had been listed for over a decade.

They possessed strong capabilities and deep foundations, having received countless awards both domestically and internationally, with excellent reputations, and they were constantly winning awards.

Compared to them, his only advantage might be his younger age.

Moreover, he had the identity of a Streamer, always able to be active in the public eye. He could often be seen on TV or in live streams.

In other words, he was just more familiar to the audience, nothing more.

So, voting for himself wasn't excessive.

Although Su Yu claimed not to care about the ranking in this first round of voting, deep down, he was still very curious.

Therefore, after voting for himself, he didn't rush to sleep.

He waited until one in the morning, when the first round of voting data was refreshed, and only after seeing the results did he contentedly go to bed.

Currently, his vote count was forty-three million!

He ranked second domestically and thirty-seventh globally.

Not bad, not bad! As long as he wasn't just barely scraping by the promotion threshold in the first round, he could accept it.

And there were still eleven hours left until the end of the first round of voting.

As long as he maintained his position, according to netizens' analyses, he could basically be directly guaranteed a spot in the next few rounds.

My dear audience, you are truly supportive!

Thus, with a slightly excited spirit, Su Yu fell into a sweet dream... Su Yu slept very soundly.

When he woke up again, it was already late morning, with the sun almost directly overhead.

Oh no, what time is it now?

Su Yu sat up with a start from his bed. He pulled out his phone and saw it was 9:58 AM.

Two minutes until ten o'clock!

Phew, good, good, it's not past twelve yet. There are still two hours left until the end of the first round of voting.

He hastily opened Kuaishou, intending to search for his real-time global ranking.

However, a trending topic immediately caught his eye.

["China's Voting Ranking, Results Unexpected!"]

Clicking into it, Su Yu suddenly realized that this trending topic had been published just a few tens of minutes ago.

The message content roughly stated that:

After the voting link channel opened last night, experts predicted that the ranking of the three domestic candidates would most likely be CEO Lei first, CEO Ren second, and Su Yu third.

But who knew, as of just now, the highly anticipated CEO Lei had not taken the top spot.

Instead, the young Streamer, who was least favored, had taken a commanding lead with an absolute advantage, becoming the most sought-after voting figure domestically!