Chapter 125 "Nuclear weapons" are not that fun
"Okay, I got it, I'll talk to Mr. Meng."
In the office of Arclight Film and Television, Hua Yan hung up the phone and looked at Meng Bai beside her and said, "Brother Meng, the reporter Lin who has been cooperating with us before contacted us and said that he also saw a lot of articles and posts on the Internet that slandered us."
"Oh, that Xiao Lin from Banana Entertainment, right?" Meng Bai said.
Hua Yan corrected, "It's Orange Entertainment."
"Oh, this pile of fruit." Meng Bai said, "If you want to thank them for me, just say that if you have any interview needs in the future, we will definitely cooperate with Arclight."
Hua Yan responded and wrote it down in her little notebook, and then looked up and asked, "Brother Meng, "Pendulum" is about to be broadcast. There are so many rumors and news about slander on the Internet. Don't we have to do something?"
In fact, long before Xiao Lin found those "highly repeated" articles, Leshi.com and Arclight Film and Television had already received risk warnings for related public opinion.
Not only on public accounts, but also on news platforms such as Toutiao, UC, NetEase, and Sohu, which are mainly graphic and text, are their main battlefields.
In comparison, platforms like Weibo are not so bad. After all, you can watch videos and put links here, and just post the original video to clarify.
"Besides reporting these articles to these platforms, there is nothing we can do." Meng Bai shook his head and said, "It will be broadcast in two days. Their actions have no practical effect. They are just to disgust us."
He knew in his heart that this wave of inexplicable smears, just like the last "online drama censorship" dispute, was still caused by those traditional media.
There is still a month to the Spring Festival, and one month after the Spring Festival, there will be the "Censorship System Reform Conference". They are stuck at this node to "put on eye drops" for the online drama.
"But this kind of out-of-context stuff, even if there is censorship, the censors will know what is going on after watching more clips. What's the use of it?" Hua Yan asked puzzled.
Meng Bai sneered: "Some things can't be solved by explaining them clearly. On the contrary, even if it's not your fault, as long as there is heat, you will still be dealt with."
You are the boss of a large company. Someone posted a seemingly inappropriate behavior of an ordinary employee at the grassroots level of the company on the Internet. Not only did it have a great impact on the company's reputation, but there are also a lot of netizens staring at your company every day and finding fault.
At this time, will you seriously figure out the right and wrong of the matter, and then go online to confront netizens and convince them one by one, or will you directly fire the employee and send a processing notice to calm the heat?
Either choice is possible, but based on Meng Bai's understanding of the relevant departments above, they usually choose the latter.
Don't tell me what the original drama is like, what the original intention is, and just don't shoot it in the future.
"Then let's just watch it?" Hua Yan asked.
"It's definitely not enough to just watch." Meng Bai thought for a while and said, "I'll go to Leshi.com later and ask Brother Liu to talk to these news platforms in the name of Leshi to see if we can directly delete this kind of articles."
"Huahua, contact the legal department and use the official WeChat account to issue an announcement, saying that we have recently discovered organized smearing behavior, expressing our attitude of protest, and finally saying that we want the other party to bear the relevant legal responsibilities."
"Okay." Huahua responded, and then asked, "Will it really go to court in the end?"
"Look at the situation, you can find a few influential articles, pick out the ones you don't like and report them to the police, even if it's killing the chicken to scare the monkey." Meng Bai said.
After thinking for a few seconds, Meng Bai muttered to himself, "We can't just let Huguang handle it." Then he found Hua Yan and continued, "You should also contact similar water army businesses and give them some new business."
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This batch of smearing articles on the Internet did play a certain role. Under the related publicity of "Soul Ferry" and "Red Ling", there were many more negative and abusive comments.
The fans of the "Pendulum" drama and some passers-by who had watched the original video were completely confused when they first saw these comments, thinking that the other party had gone to the wrong place.
But they soon discovered that these people were not in the wrong place, but were deceived by the smear articles.
Many drama fans immediately became rumor-refuting ambassadors, and began to explain under similar comments and recommend them to watch the original video.
Some passers-by who saw the explanation half-believed and half-doubted, watched the original video, and immediately realized that they were fooled. Some kept silent, while others jumped on the spot.
But not everyone will listen to the advice. There are still a group of preconceived people who do not listen to the explanation or watch the rumor-refuting, and stubbornly continue to hold their own views.
Liu Jun also told Meng Bai that the backstage of Leshi.com has recently received a lot of complaints and reports. Although they were all directly deleted as spam, some people may continue to report to the upper level.
"It's okay, individual reports don't matter. It's only two months before the 'Review and Reform Meeting', and the upper level generally won't do anything in advance during this period. As long as we can hold on until the end of the broadcast of "Soul Ferry", they can deal with it as they please." Meng Bai comforted Liu Jun.
"You bunch of idiots, you guys make your TV series, we make our web series, we don't interfere with each other, but you have to make trouble, damn it!" Liu Jun cursed.
Although it has not been found out who is behind this, they all blamed the TV station.
In fact, deliberate smearing is not so infuriating, although the means are despicable, but at least it is within the limit.
But guiding the public to complain and report, this is obviously an act that crosses the line!
"No, we can't just take the beating." Liu Jun said, "This is not our business. I'll contact other platforms to see if we can do something together."
"Don't worry, brother, how can we just take the beating?" Meng Bai drank his tea calmly, "Don't worry, since they have used an underhanded trick first, we must be prepared for the same revenge."
Liu Jun heard this and asked in confusion, "What are you going to do?"
Meng Bai smiled, "There is a saying that double defeat is better than single defeat. Don't they like to play with 'nuclear weapons'? Okay, let's all do it together."
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The day before the broadcast of "Soul Ferry", when many fans and viewers were still struggling to refute the rumors, the trend on the Internet suddenly changed again.
On major platforms such as Weibo, a large number of news and posts appeared that found fault with various popular dramas in the past two years. Regardless of the subject matter, platform, or format, they specifically used the banner of protecting "youth health" to find problems that were exaggerated in these dramas.
Costume dramas are "spreading nihilism", idol dramas are "spreading money worship", action dramas are "inducing violent impulses", and youth dramas are "promoting premature love"...
This wave of trends came quickly and scattered, and almost most of the popular dramas in recent years have been evaluated, but there is no centralized target.
Some dramas that have already aired are fine, and the discussion is not that hot. But those dramas that are currently on the air are in a worse situation, and many of them have been distorted by this trend.
The first to bear the brunt is the recent hit "The Legend of Wu Mei Niang" on Mango TV. When the drama was first aired, it was on the hot search because of the large-scale costumes. At that time, many people had already reflected that the drama was suspected of "playing a gray area".
This time, not only has the point of "exposing the costumes" been raised again, but the "horse shock" scene in the recently aired episode has also set off public opinion on the entire network.
Compared to the web dramas that are still being polished in a small circle, this New Year's Eve drama starring Bingbing and broadcast by Mango TV is several levels higher in popularity and heat.
Because of this, the drama immediately attracted a large number of netizens who came to watch the fun.
Of course, "The Empress of China" is not the only one. In addition to CCTV, the dramas currently being broadcast on several other satellite TV stations have also caused a lot of noise.
In this chaotic situation, the highly anticipated "Soul Ferry 2" finally started broadcasting.
(End of this chapter)
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