Chapter 430 Fan Circle Wars
[The success of this drama is the result of the joint efforts of every leading actor. Everyone is working to complete the work better. I hope that all the "Little Feixia" can look at various rumors calmly and not attack every collaborator. ]——"X九少年团肖占DAYTOY".
[The recognition of "The Untamed" is inseparable from the efforts and contributions of all the main creators and actors of the crew. There are unsatisfactory aspects that can be discussed, but please remain calm. I still hope that everyone can understand and support each other. ]——"UNIQ-Wang Yibo".
Before the broadcast of "The Untamed", the popularity of the two male protagonists was only second-tier traffic, but with the explosion of this drama, the two quickly became the current top streamers.
With their current popularity, no matter who posts a Weibo, it can cause a lot of heated discussion, not to mention that the two of them spoke at the same time.
Almost as soon as the two of them posted their Weibo, they were immediately pushed to the top of the hot search.
What surprised all the fans was that although the two did not directly point it out in their Weibo, anyone could see that they were trying to excuse Meng Ziyi, who had been criticized by them recently.
[Impossible! How could our brothers speak to that kind of woman? They must have been threatened! 】
【She is the "Princess of Arc Light", Arc Light must have put pressure on the company! 】
【Poor Zhan Zhan (Yi Bo), not only does he make money for the dog company every day, but he also has to help them obey the arrangements of capital against his will, 5555...】
【Alas, capital! 】
【...】
As Li Mu said, the thinking of these fans is often completely different from that of ordinary people. As long as it is something they have determined, even if their own idols come out to explain in person, they will understand it as "being forced" and "facing the capital's last resort."
No, we can't let the brothers be bullied! So what if Arc Light, they are not the only capital. As long as we still support the brothers, they will always be the top stream, and there must be other capital willing to help.
In theory, their idea is not wrong. Xinli and Wajijiwa behind Xiao Zhan are the sphere of influence of Tencent, and Lehua behind Wang Yibo is close to Alibaba. Neither of them is afraid of Arc Light.
But what they didn't think about is that in the current winter of film and television, capital giants such as Tencent and Alibaba have become enemies with a leading force in the industry for two mass-produced traffic artists. This account is a loss no matter how you calculate it.
However, this logic that most people can understand casually is obviously not feasible for fans.
We fans are the bread and butter of these film and television companies. Without us, those TV series and movies will fail. So what if you, Meng Bai, are the boss of the "Arc Light System"? When no one watches your drama, you have to invite our brother back obediently.
Therefore, in order to "support" their brother from being threatened by capital, several fan groups of "The Untamed" decided to unite. Not only do they have to boycott Meng Ziyi, but they also have to boycott Arc Light.
However, just when they were still mobilizing each other and dividing their respective tasks, a "secondary creation video" that suddenly appeared directly disrupted all plans.
There is a saying in the audience circle that whether a drama is really popular or false, you only need to see how many secondary creations there are in the drama.
For a top-tier masterpiece like "The Legend of Zhen Huan", even after ten years, there are still audiences creating new works from various novel angles.
On the contrary, if the popularity of a drama is entirely due to marketing, and there are actually no audiences, then even in the so-called hot period, no one will be interested in doing secondary creation.
Although the fans of "The Untamed" are a bit crazy, it is really popular. As early as when the crew just released the trailer, there were already a large number of editing and secondary creation videos on platforms such as Bilibili and Douyin.
One of the more popular types is to add the character's avatar stickers to other earthy videos with similar plots, and restore the famous scenes in the drama in a more funny way.
However, things like secondary creation are mostly generated by fans themselves for love, so the level is high and low, and there are also some shoddy works.
This time, it caused a dispute between fans of several different groups. It was a secondary creation of relatively low quality. The producer is a fan of Xiao Zhan, and she reproduced a famous scene in "The Untamed" "Lan Wangji drunkenly stealing chickens".
This section is talked about by many drama fans because of the contrast between the plot and the character settings, and the "sweet interaction" between the two male protagonists. It is also a common material for various secondary creation videos.
However, the secondary creation made by this fan is indeed a bit rough. A relatively bloody video clip was selected as the background, which made the image of the character "Lan Wangji" in the video a bit collapsed.
Now Wang Yibo's fans are not happy. You "Little Feixia" (Xiao Zhan's fan name) make videos, why do you discredit our image?
"Motor Sister" (Wang Yibo's fans) instantly flooded into the comment area of this video, asking the creator to delete the video immediately and apologize to them. Some more anxious fans even directly started to curse.
It seems that the creator's fan was frightened by the battle of these fans. He quickly deleted his video, but he didn't say anything.
"Motor Sister" was naturally dissatisfied with this result, and continued to send private messages to the creator asking him to apologize.
Speaking of which, this kind of thing is basically a daily event in the fan circle. Today you attack me, tomorrow I attack you, and the day after tomorrow we will attack him together. Often, before the idols say anything, the fans rush up first, vividly demonstrating what "the master humiliates the servants and the servants die".
This time is the same. The other party quickly deleted the video, obviously because he was afraid. Then he asked the other party to apologize, admit his mistakes, and promise not to damage his brother's image in the future, and then delete the account and quit the Internet.
This small local war can't attract attention at all. Everyone's main energy should still be focused on resisting the evil "Arc Capital" and the bad woman.
However, what they didn't expect was that the fans of the attacked creator suddenly sent a new message after a day of silence. However, it was not an apology as they expected. On the contrary, what they waited for was a "provocative letter".
In the new message, this "Peter Pan" directly mocked and said that Wang Yibo was just a second-lead actor. The popularity of "The Untamed" is mainly due to their Xiao Zhan, and Wang Yibo is just following the popularity.
This has touched the sensitive spot of the "Motorcycle Sisters". You know, since the drama "The Untamed" has not yet been aired, the two families have been arguing about a topic - the ranking dispute.
The "Peter Pans" insist that Xiao Zhan is the leading male in this drama. This is shown by the ranking of the crew's publicity, the position of the name on the poster, or the data performance after the actual broadcast.
The "Motorcycle Sisters" insist that gay dramas have "double male protagonists" and the two leading actors are equal, and there is no one who is taking advantage of the other.
This topic has always been a point of contention between the fans on both sides. It was temporarily suppressed because they had a common enemy. Unexpectedly, it was directly exposed this time. The fans' emotions can no longer be suppressed. They began to call their friends and vowed to let this "rival" know their suppressive power.
Xiao Zhan's fans are naturally not to be outdone. Although they were the ones who started the conflict, they must help their own people first at this time, not to mention that what they said is not wrong.
Fans of both sides quickly fought together, controlling comments, counter-controlling comments, posting tanned photos, posting ugly photos, making rumors and gossip, spreading black material, posting photos of the idols of the other side, and revealing the identities of the fans of the other side...
Various means of attack in the fan circle quickly spread in the actions of both sides.
Several big fans on both sides wanted to restrain themselves at first. After all, the drama was still on the air, and conflicts at this time would only affect the perceptions of ordinary audiences and passers-by fans.
However, fans are a scattered group, and they don’t care about big fans or small fans when fighting. In addition, there has always been a group of people in the fan groups of both sides who are provoking each other, so later those big fans were also dragged down and "went to war" with the other side.
Some fraternity fans and CP fans who like both sides still want to mediate, but within the fan circle, DD fans (fraternity fans) and CP fans are at the bottom of the contempt chain, and no one cares about their mediation, and they are often scolded by both sides at the same time.
For a while, whether it was the barrage and comment area of the feature film, Weibo, or community platforms such as Bilibili and Douyin, as long as it was related to "The Untamed", you could see the fierce battles between fans of both sides.
And it doesn't matter whether you are a fan or a passerby, as long as the content in your comments is biased towards one side, you are his fan.
Many ordinary viewers and passers-by were attacked for this reason and had to choose to shut up.
But don't say it, under this ultra-high frequency of "interaction", the popularity of "The Untamed" has increased a lot.
If the scale of the "battle" has remained at this level, it's actually nothing. Although the fans on both sides fought fiercely, at least they were still controlled within a circle.
But at this time, a new surprise appeared.
In late August, the finale of "The Hidden Corner" was broadcast. Although the audience's evaluation was a little worse near the end due to some plot deletions and changes in lines, the overall level still maintained the expectations of the early stage.
By the time the last episode was broadcast, the popularity value of the entire series had reached 12,800, becoming the highest record since the promulgation of the "New Film and Television Regulations". Plot elements such as "climbing together" and "BGM Little White Boat" have created a trend of following the trend and playing memes on the entire network.
The leading actor Qin Hao has become one of the top actors in the Mesozoic era, and the national popularity of the three young leading actors has also soared. Even the supporting roles such as Zhang Songwen have also increased their popularity a lot, which can be said to be a full rise.
Qiyi TV has relied on this breakthrough masterpiece that dominated the entire summer, continuing to overwhelm Tencent and Youku, and firmly sits on the throne of the first domestic streaming media platform.
The producer Arc Light Film and Television once again demonstrated its ability to produce "masterpieces" and the suppression power of the head team to the film and television industry. Even with the recent "boycott" action by fans of "The Untamed", the popularity has been suppressed a lot.
They made a drama without a popular cast and big stars, and they easily suppressed your "traffic + big IP" works. Is it meaningful to say "resistance" here?
At the same time, many viewers are also very interested in the last two parts of the "trilogy".
Qiyi TV issued a timely notice, indicating that the second part of the "trilogy", "The Undocumented Crime", will be broadcast before the end of the year, and the third part, "The Silent Truth", is scheduled to be broadcast at the beginning of next year.
There are even rumors in the circle that the three major awards next year may allow online dramas to participate in the selection. If the news is true, then "The Bad Kids" will definitely have a place in next year's awards season.
But no matter what, "The Bad Kids" is over after all. At the same time, on the popularity rankings of major data platforms, "The Untamed" finally had no suppression and rose to the top position.
Another "The Longest Day in Chang'an" also rose to second place.
To be honest, all three dramas in this summer can be called hits, with popularity of more than 12,000. If they were put in other time periods, they might all win the championship in the same period.
Although "The Longest Day in Chang'an" is one place behind, the gap between it and "The Untamed" is not that big. Moreover, it takes the path of "pseudo-drama", which will have an advantage over the other in the selection of various awards in the future.
So for "The Untamed", although the fans of "The Longest Day in Chang'an" occasionally say a few sour words, they basically have nothing to do with each other.
The fight between the fans of the other party is the same this time, and most people choose to eat melons and watch the show.
But what I didn't expect was that I don't know which one started it, and they actually directly started a group against Yi Yang Qianxi, saying that he was an out-of-date traffic, and the current top traffic belongs to newcomers such as Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo.
The fans of the four characters are not happy now. Let's not talk about whether it's out-of-date or not. You don't follow the basic etiquette of the fan circle, such as "circle the land for self-adultery" and "the first to tease is cheap". Besides, our fans are also seniors according to their debut time, so we should have some respect for them.
Since the two dramas were broadcast, the fans of the four characters have been accumulating resentment in their hearts because of the results. Now they finally have the opportunity to be right, just in time to vent.
At this point, the "Thousand Paper Cranes" (the name of Yi Yang Qianxi's fans), who are more powerful than "Peter Pan" and "Motorcycle Sister", finally came to the stage and suppressed the other two with one side.
However, the two sides are not vegetarians, and they began to attack and cooperate at the same time.
When there are only two parties, they are hostile to each other; when facing a third party, they become allies.
The three parties fought in a mess, and the scale gradually became uncontrollable and began to spread to passers-by.
The real fan circle war has finally begun.
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"Wow-wow-tsk tsk..."
In the room, Meng Ziyi held her mobile phone, watching the fan circle war on the Internet, and exclaimed from time to time.
She was a little uncomfortable with the attacks she suffered, but now it seems that the means those fans used to deal with her were at most only 60% to 70% of their strength.
If they really went all out like they are now, she would have been blackened into coal.
"Uncle, what on earth did you do? How could these fans quarrel so fiercely?"
Meng Bai, who was sitting next to her, looked up at her and chuckled, "In fact, we didn't do anything. We just slightly amplified the comments of these fans in the fan circle at a few points. We were actually quite surprised that it would develop to this point."
Because they were worried that Taiyang Chuanhe's "cold treatment" would not be effective, Arc Light added an additional "provocation plan".
In order to avoid being discovered by these fans that someone was behind the scenes, they adopted a mode of action that went with the flow. Like the creator who posted the video at the beginning, he was indeed a fan of Xiao Zhan. After being attacked, he was indeed ready to apologize.
It was at this time that Arc Light's people came up disguised as "Peter Pan". A round of comfort, encouragement, and provocation successfully aroused the fan's fighting consciousness of "fighting for his brother", so there was the subsequent provocation.
Then, the people from Arclight attracted their own groups by pretending to be fans quarreling with each other, and pulled Yi Yang Qianxi's fans into the scene at a critical moment, successfully creating a conflict between the three parties.
To be honest, if these fans think about it calmly and look at the past speech records of those "trouble-making" accounts, they will definitely doubt whether someone is deliberately provoking.
However, most fans are young teenagers, who are not mature in mind and easily get excited. In addition, they have resentment among each other, so no one cares about these flaws.
When the "war" starts, even if someone notices something is wrong and wants to stop, it is impossible.
So to be honest, Arclight only ignited a small spark in this incident, and then these fans in the fan circle came up and burned into a prairie fire.
This "provoking" plan was proposed by Meng Bai, and Li Mu and Arclight's public opinion department were responsible for its implementation. Although the scale is a little larger than expected, the result is not bad.
Most of the people who originally attacked Meng Ziyi were also core fans. Now that these "main forces" have all gone to the "three-party battlefield", naturally no one is paying attention to this side.
Of course, just because no one scolds her doesn't mean that her fans have forgotten about her. They will still criticize her if they meet her. However, her reputation among passers-by and ordinary audiences should be preserved, which is enough.
"And this."
Meng Bai put two scripts on the table: "There are several projects in preparation recently. I picked them out and found two that are more suitable for you."
As he said, he put the two scripts side by side: "One is a new drama in the 'Retrospective Series' newly launched by Arclight, called "Twinkle Twinkle Star". You play the heroine Lin Beixing, a girl who travels between a 30-year-old social animal and an 18-year-old high school student." "
The other is a costume drama called "Eastern Palace". The heroine Qu Xiaofeng is a princess of a foreign race with a cheerful personality, who dares to love and hate. The character setting is quite attractive. If she performs well, she should be able to attract a wave of fans."
Meng Ziyi picked up the two scripts and flipped through them. As Meng Bai said, both the plot and the role are very suitable for her now. Obviously, these were specially selected for her.
She bit her lower lip lightly, and a warm feeling rose in her heart. How could she not be moved that her uncle was so busy, yet he still thought about finding the right resources for her.
And when she thought about how much effort he had put into saving her from the haters recently, she was even more moved.
Thinking of this, Meng Ziyi suddenly stood up and walked forward, hugging Meng Bai directly——
"Thank you, uncle."
(End of this chapter)
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