[The Devil Wears Prada creates history! At the recently concluded 79th Academy Awards, Prada went 14 for 14, becoming the film with the most nominations and the most wins since the Oscars were founded!]
[No surprise at all! Isabella Haywood reaches the summit again! At yesterday's Academy Awards ceremony, Isabella Haywood became the youngest Best Actress winner in world film history at the age of 16 years and 343 days!]
[Isabella Haywood becomes the only underage Best Actress winner since the Academy Awards were founded! She also pushed Marlee Matlin's 21-year-old record forward by 4 years and 240 days!]
[Isabella Haywood creates another miracle! She is the only person in Oscar history to win more than two Academy Awards before the age of 18! Before this, only four people in Oscar history had won two Academy Awards at the age of 30 or younger: Bette Davis, Luise Rainer, Jodie Foster, and Hilary Swank!]
[Isabella Haywood has ruled the entire entertainment industry! She owns trophies in the three major fields of film, television, and music! At present, she also has historical records belonging only to her in all three fields!]
[Isabella Haywood creates history again! The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, which she attended, had a terrifying viewership of 59.41 million! This figure surpassed the 57.24 million viewers of the 70th Academy Awards in 1998! It is the highest in history!]
[Isabella Haywood is expected to achieve the ultimate clean sweep of the entertainment industry! Because right now, she is making animation!
As long as her animation can be released before she becomes an adult! And as long as it wins an Oscar and an Annie Award! Then she will become the number one person in the global entertainment industry! Even though she is already the number one person in the global entertainment industry right now!]
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On the second day after the Oscars ended, global media fell into madness.
This was not only because the final result of the 79th Academy Awards was extremely shocking.
It was also because Isabella's personal achievements were far too exaggerated.
After Isabella had taken all the major awards in the global entertainment industry, and after many of those wins had been achieved in the same year, her accomplishments were unparalleled, impossible to describe with words, and absolutely had to be written about in great detail.
But for the general public—
Although they were amazed, they felt it was even more natural.
There was nothing that could be done about it.
Who told Isabella to use the limited time of the past seven years to show the world her unlimited extraordinariness?
Her debut starting point was already the life goal of countless people—
Harry Potter was a publicly recognized SSR-tier resource, with unbeatable traffic.
In the second year of her career, she created her own epic. The appearance of The Voice brought joy to countless people.
But joy was not the key reason this IP was so sought after. The reason countless ordinary people liked The Voice was that Isabella had given all ordinary people a platform where they could show themselves and quickly become rich.
When American Idol nearly squeezed its contestants dry, the generosity of The Voice moved people deeply.
Isabella's war of words with Eminem also let the world see her terrifying talent in music. Party in the U.S.A. had already become America's second national anthem.
At present, whenever something happy happened, Party in the U.S.A. would ring out on the streets of America.
This kind of recognition had allowed Isabella's first mini-album to sell 40 million copies.
This achievement was unprecedented, and even more—
Now, in the global entertainment industry, Isabella was the only person qualified to release physical albums.
In the entire world, only Isabella had not been affected by digital music.
And speaking of digital music, Isabella's achievements in the technology field were even more terrifying than what she had gained in entertainment—
Google had officially submitted a report to the SEC in January this year regarding changes in the group's shareholding.
Everyone now knew that Isabella held nearly 12% of its shares.
When her Google shares alone were enough to place her in the top ten of Forbes' 2005 global billionaires list, published in 2006, casually adding in her other industries would be enough to put her in the top three.
In terms of wealth, right now, the only people who could rank ahead of her were Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Of course, this ranking was only based on publicly visible global wealth.
As for the deeper level—
The public did not know about that.
Mm.
Americans had never pretended otherwise. They had been talking about things like the deep state and deep financial groups for decades. People did not believe it before because what they said sounded too shocking. But when Trump himself stood up and started attacking those people, and South Korean chaebols and the ancient Netflix looked at each other before voluntarily committing suicide, if there were still people who thought the Americans were talking nonsense, then they were either stupid or evil.
Isabella could ignore the influence of the times and succeed at anything she did, winning awards? A grand slam? A clean sweep?
In the eyes of countless members of the public, that was only natural!
Or rather, the current her could actually establish a religion.
As long as she was willing, she could instantly become the leader of the world's tenth-largest religion.
Because she had enough believers, and because she was miraculous enough.
Of course, she would not do that.
The religious bowl of rice was not easy to eat.
However, just as Isabella returned to Leavesden and continued filming Harry Potter, the cultural symbol Britain had given the world in the new century, one day, she suddenly heard a piece of bad news from her little assistant, Margot Robbie.
Uh—
It should be called strange news.
"What did you say? My cartoon stickers have been updated on Facebook?"
Isabella frowned tightly and looked at Margot with a stunned expression.
Margot nodded and said, "Isa, I told you before that the appearance of your cartoon stickers on Facebook was very strange, because those things all premiered on Facebook."
"Other platforms only followed much later."
"This kind of spread is unreasonable."
As she spoke, Margot opened the Apple laptop in her hands.
She showed Isabella the content she had just seen.
It was a nine-panel grid.
There was a lot of content involved.
The focus was winning awards and celebration.
For example—
The first image was a cartoon little beaver holding up an Oscar statuette.
Any normal person could recognize at a glance that the inspiration for this image came from the Oscars.
Another example—
The second image was a cartoon little beaver wearing the Infinity Gauntlet. There were four gems on it, labeled F, M, T, and G.
Although there were many elements in this image, anyone who understood Isabella should be able to understand its meaning.
The meaning of the Infinity Gauntlet was the simplest. It symbolized that Isabella was already unbeatable and had become the Boss. It also symbolized that Isabella had already taken control of Marvel and was producing Marvel films.
The meaning of the four gems, F, M, T, and G, was a little deeper, but after thinking about it, people could still analyze that they corresponded to film, music, TV shows, and Google.
F was "Film."
M was "Music."
T were "TV shows."
And G was "Google."
F, M, T, and G were the first letters of each term.
Another example—
The third image was a cartoon little beaver raising her arms and shouting, "I'm the king of the world!"
At a glance, this was clearly cosplaying Jack from Titanic.
After such strongly directed, almost openly explicit stickers appeared, the fact that they had been "updated in sync" made Isabella narrow her eyes. She slid her finger over the laptop's trackpad and scanned the webpage for a while. Then Isabella raised her head.
Looking at Margot, she said, "What did you just say? These stickers are currently only spreading on Facebook?"
"Yeah." Margot nodded and said, "I just browsed YouTube, and I didn't see any similar stickers."
Before her words had even finished, Margot changed her tone.
She said solemnly, "Isa, this really is a very abnormal thing."
"Because everyone in the world knows that YouTube is your home base."
"So, if these stickers were made by your fans, they should have appeared on YouTube first."
"For example—"
"The creator could post a video on YouTube showing the process of making the stickers."
"After doing that, they could both spread the stickers and gain fans. In the future—"
"They might even have the possibility of making money, right?"
"But the creators of these stickers did not do that."
"So these stickers probably weren't made by your fans."
Margot's words made Isabella press her lips together.
She admitted it.
Margot's analysis made some sense.
Everyone in the world knew that YouTube was Isabella's home base, posting fan creations related to her on her home base would be an absolutely correct thing to do, because that method would allow all fan creations to receive the best spread.
And that was only one of the benefits people could currently gain from posting fan creations related to Isabella on YouTube.
The second benefit was this: the current YouTube was already planning to create a content incentive program.
After YouTube received advertising fees from content capital and luxury goods capital, YouTube's management wanted to take a portion of the company's advertising revenue and distribute it to high-quality content creators on the platform.
On the surface, this plan seemed to have the goal of letting those who got rich first help those who came later, eventually achieving common prosperity.
But in reality—
The main reason YouTube wanted to do this was to crush all video websites on the market.
Because as YouTube exploded in popularity, quite a few similar video websites had appeared on the market again. Once many newcomers entered the video track, beating all of them to death was something the industry leader wanted to do and would definitely do.
And paying creators was the most effective and convenient method.
There was nothing that could be done about it. Who told all the video platforms in the world right now not to pay creators?
So, as long as YouTube paid creators, all creators in the world would come to YouTube to develop.
Then, the other websites could go bankrupt.
What?
Someone says, why can't other websites pay creators like YouTube does?
Dear!
This question is very simple!
For other websites with no users, or fewer users, trying to set up an incentive program like YouTube would be called burning money.
Because they have no revenue.
They could only pay creators through financing.
But YouTube was different.
After Isabella hammered those low-level capital groups, YouTube directly became profitable.
At this point, when YouTube paid creators, that was called ecological self-circulation.
Since creating a "video incentive program" and paying outstanding creators was not some secret, or rather, since Chad Hurley had already sent questionnaires to high-quality users displayed in the backend—
Right now, as long as someone was a normal Isabella fan, they should only post fan creations on YouTube.
To build up an early foundation.
So, online, those Beaver sticker packs that were being updated in sync actually appeared on Facebook first?
This—
"Where's Keisha?"
Isabella looked around, but did not see her older sister in the dressing room.
"She went to Beaver Island."
Margot said, "There was a problem with the construction over there. The animal park needs to be replanned, so she left this morning. Then, she said that if nothing unexpected happens, she'll be back tonight."
"Of course, if things over there can't be finished in one day, then she'll come back tomorrow night instead."
Beaver Island was the royal island Isabella had bought earlier.
Construction there had already entered its final stage.
But because the animals Isabella was now raising differed somewhat from the original plan in both number and species, the design of the animal park needed to be replanned. And that was Catherine's job.
"What about my mom?" Isabella nodded while asking.
"She went shopping with Ms. Rowling," Margot said. "Ms. Rowling came to London today to discuss the release of the seventh book, and then she wanted to buy some things, so she called your mom away. It happened around noon today."
Deathly Hallows had already been finished. As long as the final draft was settled, it could be released.
Although the process involved was not simple, the busyness that followed would only be commercial work.
Therefore, J.K. Rowling, who did not have any major matters to handle, could be considered truly liberated.
So, with freedom appearing, she wanted to go around and have some fun.
As it happened, Vivian also had nothing to do, so the two immediately hit it off and got together.
"Oh, all right."
Isabella nodded slightly. At this moment, she felt a little like an emperor.
Alone at the top, after all!
"Then call Chad Hurley for me."
"Ask him for some data from the internet industry. See whether Facebook's traffic has surged recently."
"Remember, don't tell him about my situation, mm-hm?"
"I understand." Margot closed the Apple laptop and went to handle things according to Isabella's instructions.
Isabella's thinking was very simple. If things really were as Margot felt, and the fan creations related to her on Facebook had been deliberately pushed by someone, then that person could only be Zuckerberg.
Because right now, no matter where fan creations of her appeared, they could attract the attention of her fans.
So, Zuckerberg updating fan creations of her on Facebook?
Netizens who wanted to have them first had to register an account?
Oh—
Wasn't this just leeching off her traffic?
And Isabella believed Zuckerberg had the brains and courage to do such a thing.
This was not only because Facebook's founding itself involved plagiarism, but also because, in her previous life, Facebook had been the world's largest website for spreading scam information. Zuckerberg had actively cooperated with scam groups.
In 2025, documents exposed by former Meta employees and disclosed by Reuters showed that one-third of all fraud cases in America were related to Meta, and around 10% of the entire group's revenue came from contributions by global scam networks.
When Zuckerberg's heart was even stinkier than a stone in a cesspit, using Isabella's fame to build his own data?
That was something he really might do!
Although Chad Hurley did not understand why Isabella suddenly wanted industry traffic data from him, after receiving Margot's call, he still satisfied Isabella's request in the shortest possible time.
In less than half an hour, he sent all the data from the past year to Margot's inbox.
Mm.
The current Isabella had no phone, no email, and no social media accounts.
Because as long as those things were used, they would cause information leaks.
So, all contact related to her was handled by the people around her.
Then, the people around her also had to replace their contact devices every week.
This really was not her being paranoid!
It was because there really were many people in this world who wanted her dead.
After briefly scanning the data, Isabella discovered that there did seem to be some problems with Facebook's traffic trend.
Over the whole of last year, Facebook's traffic had seen two obvious surges.
The first surge appeared when registration was opened.
That was when people aged thirteen or older with a valid email address were allowed to register for Facebook.
The second surge appeared when Margot told her there were sticker packs of her on Facebook.
After fan creations related to her kept appearing on Facebook, the accounts posting those fan creations became gathering places for many Isabella fans. And because Isabella's fan age range perfectly overlapped with the user age range Facebook wanted to acquire after opening registration, the appearance of Isabella fans caused Facebook's traffic to form a small peak.
An inverted V shape.
As for why it later fell?
Very simple.
Facebook was not Isabella's product, after all.
More people were still playing around on YouTube.
So—
"All right, Marg, I think you were right."
After reading the report, Isabella smiled at Margot and said, "My stickers really shouldn't be flooding Facebook on such a large scale. They should appear on YouTube first, then on Facebook."
"Tch—" Margot let out a soft scoff at her emotional words and rolled her eyes.
Then she said, "What do you want to do now? This doesn't seem easy to solve."
Although Margot bared her teeth at her, Isabella did not care.
She fell directly into thought, focusing on the matter in front of her. Soon, she had an idea.
"Call Chad Hurley again."
"For what?" Margot did not understand what she meant.
"Tell Chad Hurley that I want to acquire Facebook."
Isabella smiled and said, "If I remember correctly, among Facebook's investors is Chad Hurley's former boss? Since they're one of our own, then their behavior shouldn't be called stealing traffic, right?"
"Of course, the prerequisite is that they have to sell Facebook to me."
As the saying goes, since you leeched off my traffic, then we have karma now.
If you sell the company to me, then I can be magnanimous and pardon your sins.
But if you reject me—
Isabella believed that someone like Zuckerberg would reject her.
Then she could respond move by move.
Yes!
Isabella's idea was very simple.
First:
Regardless of whether Facebook was leeching off her traffic or not, Facebook would never admit that it was.
Next:
Since Facebook would not admit anything, going directly to them to discuss the matter was meaningless. Not to mention, Isabella had long said that she allowed all kinds of non-commercial fan creations to appear on the internet.
So she could only save the country through a curve.
Then:
Since she had to save the country through a curve, as long as she pinned a label on Facebook, wouldn't she be able to beat it up?
For example, I've taken a liking to your company. Name your price.
What?
You say you won't sell?
Wow.
Then you're not giving me face.
Game over.
Everyone here was smart!
As long as Isabella expressed that she had started paying attention to Facebook because she had discovered a large number of fan creations related to herself on Facebook, Zuckerberg would immediately understand why she had come!
At that point, wouldn't the matter be resolved?
Facebook would either give up its infringement and atone for the mistakes it had made.
Or—
It was still the same saying: Europe and America had no civilization.
Facebook had no backer behind it, so who would care if a social media platform disappeared from the world?
Or rather, who cared whether the founder of this social media platform lived or died?
Perhaps Margot felt Isabella's idea had no problem.
Or perhaps she knew that the greatest opportunity of her life was clinging tightly to Isabella's thigh.
In short, after understanding what Isabella meant, Margot decisively called Chad Hurley.
Then—
Massachusetts.
Cambridge.
Facebook's headquarters felt as if it were slowly being covered by a mass of dark clouds.
Although this mass of dark clouds was not huge and had not blocked out all light in the world, what shone through the gaps in the clouds was not warmth full of vitality, but a chill that had covered the entire old century, or perhaps had never disappeared at all.