As the 2030s approached, everyone living through it could clearly feel the turbulent currents of social change.

Over the past decade, capital has created many celebrities who attract a lot of attention.

There are no works to show for it, but the data on Weibo comments and likes is ridiculously exaggerated.

They have hardly ever met their fans in real life, but online their fans seem to have all the power and influence.

A popular celebrity with the surname C has recently encountered a sweet trouble.

This celebrity with the surname C rose to fame in a similar way to a celebrity with the same surname ten years ago: he was heavily promoted by capital and then became the subject of countless memes among netizens.

But today, both investors and celebrities are well aware of one thing: being famous for being criticized is still being famous. They are not afraid of being criticized, but they are afraid of not having any popularity.

Even their fans know that having haters is better than being ignored.

Capital will manipulate self-media, and along with their fans, turn black into white, and even create a kind of reverse psychology, which is what is called turning black into emotion.

My brother has been a critic from his youth to middle age. What do you kids know? Only we can criticize!

Similar comments kept emerging. At first, most of these comments were made by fans pretending to be fans, but later some mindless trolls also joined in.

Gradually, it was transformed from black to white.

In reality, netizens are indifferent to traffic stars; it's just that capital forces these traffic stars to feed you.

If you want to get entertainment, you have to see those popular celebrities in various variety shows, TV dramas, and movies.

Netizens criticize celebrities with high online traffic simply because there are too few vehicles for capital to operate. They can only find iconic figures among them, deconstruct them, and try to make their voices heard.

That was in an era of entertainment to the death, where netizens who were willing to be manipulated by capital expressed their protest through the deconstruction of entertainment.

Since he uses entertainment deconstruction to fight back, you should also use entertainment to make his protest dissipate in the wind.

Generation after generation of popular celebrities continue to be active on screen, and netizens continue to create memes and jokes about them, with each generation replacing the last.

Traffic star C is not the number one target of being exploited by the capital flag that netizens regard as the banner of capital.

Before that popular celebrity with the surname C debuted through a talent show, he had filmed many period dramas.

He has been criticized by netizens for his terrible acting skills, but frankly, it's not that he has no acting skills at all.

I sat outside my luxurious mansion in Shanghai, watching myself appear on the television screen behind me. My acting was so superb that no one would believe I was a veteran actor.

In a short ten-second shot, a series of emotional shifts were shown, from standing at attention to silence, then to reddening eyes, and finally to barely holding back tears.

Although few actors in China can match that level of acting skill, it's simply unbelievable for that popular celebrity.

I don't really know much about my own acting skills, since I do watch the TV dramas I've acted in.

Whether it's my formal training or the various directors I've encountered along the way, I'm quite unsure. As for acting skills, I have neither talent nor hard work.

As a result, outside of that TV series, the popular celebrity surnamed C felt that his acting skills were at most the level of an actor who lacked talent but had been immersed in the industry for ten years.

"Damn, is that you? Kechuang Bio's technology is terrifying."

I'm annoyed because I've never acted in that show.

Even if a popular celebrity scores around 700 on a low-scoring exam, what kind of critical thinking ability do they have? But their innate instincts tell me that it's a good thing for me.

Tencent still needs my popularity to bring some buzz to that TV series, but when virtual idols bring their own traffic in the future, we will be swept into the dustbin of history.

I'm thinking about that point, but I know that's exactly what I'm looking for.

"Hey, Sister Wang, when will your paycheck for that show come through? It's already the 17th."

Before watching the latest episode, the celebrity surnamed C remembered that he still owed money for that TV series.

I immediately called my agent.

Popular celebrities earn little, yet they are also heavily exploited by their management companies.

The younger generation needs to sign contracts of ten years or less, and they can receive more than 80% of the profits outside of the contract.

That is also a kind of investment, with brokerage companies investing resources in popular celebrities.

Celebrities who rise to fame through capital will naturally be swept up by capital as well.

Just as Korea relied on maritime capital during its rapid economic rise, we should share a small portion of our profits with maritime capital.

That's the same principle.

Sister Wang on the other end of the phone chuckled dismissively, "He should be called in the next few days. Go and urge the finance department."

You hung up the phone right after you finished speaking.

Before they become popular as traffic stars, they might buy back their contracts with money and break free from the constraints of capital.

In that era, the binding force of contracts for popular celebrities would be weakened depending on their popularity level.

Nominally, they would give him a studio, complete with assistants, drivers, nannies, etc., but in reality, those people's salaries were entirely supported by the popular celebrity. In fact, it was just like a department within a talent agency.

It's exactly the same concept as the studio ten years later.

Before hanging up, the agent surnamed Wang said, "Yanzhi, Da C is asking when you'll settle the payment for the drama 'Dragon Raja'."

Her appearance was also quite distasteful: "I didn't act in that drama at all."

Why should I take the money?

He only shows his face, does he deserve that money?

He tried to fool me first, thinking that he could just drag it out.

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