Chapter 429 Find something for them to do
"Gu~~"
There was a slight sound, and Meng Ziyi touched her stomach with a little embarrassment - she hadn't eaten much since last night, and now her mood has improved slightly, and her body has regained its hunger.
"Wash up and pack up, I'll take you out for dinner later." Meng Bai smiled and said, "It is said that eating something delicious can help improve your mood."
"Yeah." Meng Ziyi nodded obediently and followed Meng Bai out of the bedroom.
"Ziyi!"
The agent who had been waiting outside saw that his boss finally came out, and hurried over: "Are you okay?"
Meng Ziyi shook her head and hugged the other party gently: "I'm fine, sister, I made you worry."
"I'm glad that you're okay." The agent smiled and said: "It seems that President Meng is better at ideological work. We persuaded you for two days but it was useless. Once President Meng came, it was done in an hour."
Meng Ziyi's cheeks blushed: "I'm sorry, sister, I made everyone worried recently."
"It's not your fault, what's there to be embarrassed about. And we are your team, who else can you bother if not us?"
The agent smiled and said: "By the way, there is something I want to tell you. Just now, the "Acting School" program team called and said that they felt sorry for rejecting it at the last minute, so they still wanted to invite us to participate."
"Ah? This...why did it change suddenly?" Meng Ziyi blinked, a little confused.
The agent didn't say anything, but just glanced at Meng Bai carefully.
Meng Ziyi suddenly realized that it seemed that the program team knew about her relationship with her uncle, so she quickly slid down and apologized in order not to offend Arc Light.
She subconsciously looked at Meng Bai: "Uncle, do you think I should still participate?"
"Being arrogant at first and respectful later, it makes people laugh when thinking about it." Meng Bai snorted and laughed, "You decide for yourself, if you want to go, go, if you don't want to go, there are new programs for you."
"Then I won't go!"
Meng Ziyi frowned. She refused because of her bad reputation, and apologized again when she saw her uncle's background. Isn't this playing tricks on her?
Although she also knew that she couldn't blame the program team, she still couldn't forget the feeling of being "abandoned", so she didn't want to continue the cooperation.
"Sister, talk to the program team and let them find someone else." Meng Ziyi said with a cool expression.
The agent sighed when she heard this, feeling a little pity. In fact, from her point of view, she was in the right now, so she could negotiate conditions with the program team and let them give her better treatment and shots in the program, which would be better than before.
But since Meng Ziyi refused so bluntly, she stopped trying to persuade him. Nodding, she said, "Okay, let's talk to the production team."
After saying this, the agent gave a few more instructions, then left an assistant to take care of it, and hurried back.
The company just called, saying that President Yang had personally organized a meeting and asked her to go back to discuss how to calm down the storm as soon as possible. As
soon as they left, the apartment suddenly became much more spacious. Seeing that it was getting late, Meng Bai simply stayed and went out to eat later.
"Boss." Hua Yan, who followed him, handed him a pad, "Just now the public opinion department of the company detected the news that someone on the Internet broke the news about your relationship with Sister Meng."
Meng Bai took it and took a look. Sure enough, many people already knew about their relationship.
[Is there anyone who doesn't know that Mzy is backed by the "Arc Light System"? I have a friend who works in the crew, and she told me that this person's background is quite impressive. ]
[Yes, Mzy played a maid in her first drama after her debut, but in the next drama, she got the top resource of Arclight, "Day and Night Chase", and found a bunch of powerful actors to lead her, but she played the most awkward role. ]
[The fans of Jiaxi Ka are still arguing with me, saying that all the roles in her family were auditioned by themselves. It's so funny. If you use your brain to look at the last name of Arclight's boss, you should know what the relationship between the two is. ]
[What else is there to argue about? Just ask people in the circle, who doesn't know that this person has always been called "Archlight Princess". ]
[That's no wonder, just say that an ordinary third-tier actor, where did he get so many good resources. Since you have a background, then go and make fun of your own drama, why do you have to come and ruin our Xianxian and Lan Zhan. ]
[Rubbish Arclight! Relying on capital, he will bully our "Bo Jun Yi Xiao" and other small actors. I will never watch his drama again! ]
[Resolutely resist Arclight capital interfering with works! Boycott Jiaxi Ka! 】
【……】
Looking at the various news circulating on the Internet, Meng Bai didn't care much. He really didn't hide the relationship between himself and Meng Ziyi.
Taking care of your relatives is a matter of course. And he didn't use the influence of Arc Light to snatch other people's roles, so there is nothing to worry about.
"It's okay, don't worry too much about these people." Meng Bai returned the pad to Hua Yan, "The audience of Arc Light does not overlap with theirs. Among these people, one in a hundred has watched Arc Light dramas, which is considered a lot."
Traffic fans are best at making loud noises through the actions of a small number of people, making people mistakenly think that they are the majority.
But in fact, looking at the data statistics in the background, it is clear that these are just a very small group. Even if they are packed up and thrown away, it will not have any impact on the company's business.
But then again, letting them gossip on the Internet like this is not a good idea, because it will indeed cause some passers-by who don't know the truth to believe what they say, and then have a negative impression of Meng Ziyi.
"Tell Li Mu to contact Taiyang Chuanhe to see if there is any solution to resolve this matter as soon as possible." Meng Bai ordered.
"Okay, I'll contact them right away." Hua Yan responded, and sighed, "Alas, Sister Meng is so pitiful. She did nothing wrong, but she was targeted by those fans."
After sighing, she saw Meng Bai glancing at her, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong, boss?"
"I've been wanting to say it just now." Meng Bai said leisurely, "Girl, how old are you? You're still pretending to be young and calling me 'Sister Meng'."
Hua Yan was born in 1993, two years older than Meng Ziyi.
Hua Yan's expression froze. "I didn't call you by your age. Sister Meng took extra care of us when we were out playing together. This is a sign of my respect, okay?"
"Well, I do believe it. If she doesn't take care of you when you two go out together, it's easy for people to mistake it for child abuse."
"...Boss, if you don't have anything to do, I'll go back to the company first!"
Hua Yan went out angrily. She was just shorter, but they were breathing the same air. It's not a big deal that you're tall!
——After
having dinner together in the evening, Meng Bai comforted Meng Ziyi for a while, and then sent her back to rest early.
When he returned to the company the next day, he called Li Mu over.
"What are you going to do about Taiyang Chuanhe?" Meng Bai asked.
"Because this time the main focus is on fans of the drama and the two leading actors, many methods are not suitable. After discussing it, everyone thinks that we should start from the source of the controversy."
Li Mu said: "First, let the crew issue a statement denying the claim of 'adding scenes'. It would be best if the fans can shift their attention to the crew. Then contact the companies of the two leading actors and ask them to issue an explanation statement. Finally, slowly remove the hot search and let things calm down."
Meng Bai pondered and said: "It sounds a bit passive."
"It is quite passive." Li Mu smiled bitterly, "But there is no way. We can use many methods to deal with people in the circle. But there is really no good way to deal with these fans."
"Can the two leading actors speak out and shut up the fans?"
"This... is not very realistic." Li Mu said: "Mr. Meng, this kind of traffic fans are different from the fans of actors in the past. In a sense, they are actually coercing the behavior of traffic artists."
Li Mu explained that these traffic fans are more like a group of believers than fans, and idols are their beliefs. But what they believe in is not the real idols themselves, but closer to a kind of appearance they imagine should be presented.
"Many fans like to call themselves career fans and give orders to their idols' companies. Once the resources arranged are not to their liking, they will turn around and start to criticize the company. Take Xiao Zhan for example, he is an artist of Wajijiwa, but his fans' favorite slogan is 'Wajijiwa is bankrupt.'"
"So, even if their idol's career is really damaged because of them, these fans will only continue to attack others and it is impossible for them to stop.
"Or to be more fundamental, what they like is not those idols, they just like their own feelings."
After listening, Meng Bai touched his chin and thought for a while: "Since it is unrealistic to ask them to shut up directly, can their target be diverted? For example, if there are traffic fans from other companies to provoke them, will they be busy fighting and have no energy to care about this side. "
"This... is indeed a way. In fact, there is no need for other companies, many times they can fight with their own people. "Li Mu said: "Then boss, what you mean is..."
Meng Bai smiled slightly: "These kids are full of energy, so let's find something for them to do."
...
Just as Li Mu introduced, the fans of "The Untamed" are not a monolithic group.
Strictly speaking, these people can be divided into six parts-Xiao Zhan's fans, Wang Yibo's fans, the two CP fans, the original fans, the drama fans and ordinary audiences. Some
of these different fan groups have several attributes, while others have only one label.
During this period, different groups have rarely united because of their common crusade against the "evil actor". But as there was no sound from Meng Ziyi who was attacked, these people gradually began to be unable to hold back, and began to have their own opinions.
For example, the fans of the two leading actors began to compare their respective rankings and popularity intentionally or unintentionally. While dissing the opponent, they did not forget to Let’s deal with those “CP fans” together.
For example, there are disputes between fans of the original work and fans of the drama. One side thinks that the original work is well-written and there are problems with the film and television adaptation; the other side thinks that since the film and television adaptation has been made, there is no need to hold on to the original work and create a sense of superiority.
With the external enemy temporarily speechless, conflicts between fans gradually began to emerge, and their respective frictions increased.
However, although they are different, because everyone now has a common "enemy", they can still tolerate each other for the time being.
In fact, regarding the matter of "Meng Ziyi adding drama", fans had already joined forces once when the crew was filming before. At that time, many people said that if the added scenes that were different from the original work were not deleted, They must join forces to boycott the drama.
The main audience of gay dramas are originally these fans, so the crew naturally would not take this risk. Therefore, during the actual filming, most of the added scenes were cancelled.
But not all of them can be deleted. Some of them involve censorship or plot context, so some changes are still retained.
The crew didn’t care at first. After all, it was a film and television adaptation, and it was a gay drama. How could it be filmed completely according to the original.
Unexpectedly, it caused such a big uproar.
During this period, the main creators of the crew were also uneasy. On one side are the main audiences, and on the other side are the bigwigs in the industry. Thanks to the publicity from the fans, now they all know the little heroine in their own dramas. How deep is the background behind it?
They were caught in the middle and were really in a dilemma. In the end, there was no choice but Cao Huayi, the boss of New Classics Media, personally found Arclight.
New Classics had no choice either. After being acquired by Yuewen, the other party only gave half of the money. Whether they can get the other half depends on their performance in the past few years.
New Classics was originally full of hope for this request, but it first encountered the cold winter of the film and television industry, and then several actors who were betting on it were exposed one after another.
They started to cooperate with Wu Xiubao, but this "uncle circle traffic" was banned because of the mistress incident. Then they bet on Zhai Tianlin again, but they didn't expect that at the beginning of the year, because of a sentence "What is CNKI", academic fraud was exposed, and the ban was more thorough than the previous one.
Xiao Zhan, one of the leading actors in The Untamed, is the new candidate they are betting on next. Originally, because of the huge hit of this drama, Xinli finally breathed a sigh of relief. Unexpectedly, they got into trouble with Arc Light in the blink of an eye. They really wanted to die.
Arc Light can now sit at the same table with Tencent, the boss of their boss. Fans can ignore it, but they can't.
In order to avoid being targeted by Arc Light, Cao Huayi quickly asked someone to contact Meng Bai and expressed his willingness to cooperate with them to resolve this storm.
Fortunately, what reassured him was that Mr. Meng from Arc Light did not make things difficult for him, but just "asked" him to ask the crew to come out and clarify the rumors about "adding scenes", and then ask the leading actors to restrain their fans.
Naturally, Xinli agreed to this request immediately, and then turned around and told the crew and the companies behind the two leading actors about it.
The day after Meng Bai comforted Meng Ziyi, the official of The Untamed crew issued a clarifying Weibo, stating that the rumors about "adding scenes" were due to the crew's adaptation needs and had nothing to do with the actors. Immediately afterwards,
the two leading actors, Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, also posted on Weibo one after another, saying that everyone had a pleasant cooperation during the filming, and hoped that fans would not attack the leading actors because of rumors.
(End of this chapter)
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