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Pride Goes Before A Fall






                    GROUP B 2ND RUNNER-UP Yong Yoong Jian - 190048 - 4E Zhong






                  ichard  was  once  an  ordinary  Joe  like       One  day,  Richard  had  the  bright  idea  of

           R  everyone  else  around  him.  He  had  a       making  videos  reviewing  other  people  on  the
           job and worked for a local telecommunication      platform.  He  got  to  work,  eventually  releasing  a

           company.  Despite  having  a  stable  source  of   video reviewing fellow YouTuber Snazz. Snazz was

           income, Richard was not satisfied; his position   a channel where Sally reviewed shoe brands, it was

           came  with  the  gruelling  task  of  sitting  in  a   quite  a  large  channel  with  over  a  million
           cubicle  all  day,  staring  at  the  monitor  of  his   subscribers, so as you can probably tell, making a

           computer  as  he  answered  call  after  call  of   video  talking  about  Snazz  would  likely  trick  the

           customers     complaining     about    various    YouTube  algorithm  to  recommend  your  video  to

           communication  errors  when  calling  someone     Snazz’s  viewers.  That  was  exactly  what  happened
           else.  Suffice  to  say,  Richard  despised  the   to  Richard’s  video,  it  blew  up  beyond  his  wildest

           mundane  task  despite  it  putting  food  on  the   dreams,  eventually  surpassing  over  a  hundred

           table for him.                                    thousand views.


                 However,  Richard  had  a  YouTube                    Once  Richard  saw  that,  he  quickly  got  to

           channel.  It  was  not  big  by  any  means,  only  a   making  more,  pumping  out  video  after  video  of
           few tens of people subscribed and watched his     reviewing  other  YouTubers.  His  subscriber  count

           random videos wherein he reviewed things like     skyrocketed  to  a  thousand,  ten  thousand,  twenty

           candy bars, shampoo brands and video games        thousand,  thirty  thousand  and  kept  increasing.  It

           he found during clearance sales. If he got lucky,   was  absolutely  wild  for  Richard.  However,  he
           a  hundred  people  would  watch  one  of  his    realised  he  could  produce  more  content  to

           videos. He got a dopamine rush everytime that     continue  riding  this  wave  if  he  resigned  from  his

           happened as that was the minimum of what he       job  at  the  telecommunication  company.  The

           considered his videos blowing up. Richard only    money  he  had  earned  from  the  videos  were
           ever uploaded in his free time, meaning about     sufficient  to  pay  the  bills  and  making  videos  was

           two videos get made per week.                     much



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