Chapter 658 The Birth of Bilibili



"We need to make sure security is up to par. I hired professional bodyguards a long time ago. You guys need to be careful too. There have been quite a few crazy people in the last two years, and the police's crime-solving rate is pitifully low. If something really happens, it could be very dangerous."

Little Ma nodded: "It was arranged a long time ago. Not only were bodyguards arranged, but the company's employees also used a fingerprint attendance system."

"But there's no reason to guard against thieves every day, so we do strengthen some security measures." Little Ma adjusted his glasses.

"It's better to keep a low profile, but peaceful days are coming soon."

Why did Shen Fang say that? The domestic environment in China improved significantly between 2006 and the 2008 Olympics, thanks to a better international image and the launch of a nationwide campaign against organized crime. This campaign lasted three years and dismantled a considerable number of criminal gangs.

Let's chat and talk; the dishes are all served.

Everyone took their seats.

Chen Fang didn't go to the leader's table. He had said what needed to be said and done what needed to be done. The rest was up to Tianxia Wuzei's own abilities. He asked Ye Daying to accompany him.

Chen Fang is still entertaining his friends; many of them have come from afar today.

"Brother Ma, Brother Ding, Dongzi, Brother Lu, thank you for coming all this way. Come and have a toast."

Everyone raised their glasses and clinked them together.

"Everyone has had a lot of good news this year. Tencent and NetEase's stocks are both doing well, JD.com is also developing steadily, and Lao Lu's Flying Dragon novel has already dominated the Chinese online literature market. They've all achieved pretty good results. Let's have a second drink."

After finishing his second cup, Chen Fang sat down.

"Brother Ma, help me transfer some young talents from the Tencent Video department. We need young, energetic, and uniquely creative programmers."

Brother Ma put down his chopsticks: "Brother, how many people do you need?"

"I need a small team. If possible, just transfer the people from the animation team over here. I went to Japan recently and acquired the copyrights to many excellent Japanese anime. I plan to create a super interactive anime community where Chinese animation, game videos, funny videos, meme videos, and all sorts of quirky people coexist."

Little Ma and the others were completely dumbfounded.

That's right, Bilibili is coming out ahead of schedule!!!

The birth of Bilibili in its early days was quite simple. It was created spontaneously by its founder, Xu Yihua, in just three days. At that time, Bilibili wasn't called Bilibili; it was called MikuFans. Miku is the princess familiar to anime fans—Hatsune Miku! Mikufans means Hatsune Miku fans.

The birth of MikuFans is related to anime and a new form of video interaction (bullet comments). The originator of bullet comment websites is Niconico, which is located in Japan.

niconico

As early as December 12, 2005, Niconico had already begun testing the bullet screen function and successfully attracted a large number of fans.

The first domestic bullet screen website influenced by Nico Nico Douga was not Bilibili, but Acfan, commonly known as A-site. In 2007, A-site was the first to introduce "bullet comments" to China.

Bilibili founder Xu Yi was also one of the earliest members of AcFun.

Later, internal strife broke out among the upper management of AcFun, eventually leading to its 404 error. AcFun remained stagnant for several years without resolving the conflict.

Bilibili was created by Xu Xiang in 3 days, while Chen Fang found Tencent's most professional team and spent a month rebuilding it. As for the anime and manga culture, if they don't understand it, they can be cultivated to like it. What young person doesn't like action-packed anime, right?

The potential of Pixiv (a Chinese video-sharing website) is extraordinary. It was born in the era of the gods. While "secretly developing" was initially a derogatory term in the early days of the anime and manga community, it has become a normal adjective after much development. At first, anime and manga were indeed looked down upon in China. It's normal that some people, obsessed with anime and manga, did things that were incomprehensible and unpredictable to normal people.

At the dawn of any culture, it's normal to encounter some misguided directions and actions. Bilibili was indeed initially demonized, and its early programming was undeniably a bit extreme, bordering on reckless and chaotic. While its creativity was phenomenal, many things crossed the line. Although these elements brought Bilibili considerable popularity, this unorthodox approach inevitably led to lessons learned. This is why, despite being established for so many years, Bilibili hasn't achieved widespread recognition.

However, it must be said that there are indeed many talented people on Bilibili, who can bring a lot of joy and enrich people's lives. It's just that some restrictions are needed, otherwise, if it gets labeled as vulgar, they'll be in for questioning. Giving them a 4040 code would be much better then.

Why have those parody videos and top trending videos on Bilibili disappeared? It's because they're vulgar, infringe on copyrights, and then use certain characters and materials to maliciously demonize people. Here are a few examples: Lu Benwei, Chaoba Damahou, Xiao Milu Zhou Shuyi, Sun Shenmewei, Huoqian Liuming, Chicken Brother, and others. In order to gain popularity, they repeatedly use their names to create parody videos.

Do you really think the person making these videos is funny? No way, you just see it as a chance to make money, so you quickly jump on the bandwagon, attract followers, and then you can sell products via live streaming, without caring about anyone else's fate.

Of course, it was these prank videos that made these so-called internet celebrities famous, but these videos are indeed very vulgar and meaningless, and have no reason to exist. This is also a kind of distortion.

The definition of Pixiv has never been found. Its profit model, after the premium membership, is basically signing some anime streamers, organizing anime conventions, releasing some merchandise, selling toys and tickets. Its commercial value is just so-so.

It's difficult to compare its membership numbers with mainstream video apps like Youku and Tencent Video, and it can't compete with the traffic of short video apps like Douyin and Kuaishou.

The definition is always uncertain. If you say it's a movie and TV app, it doesn't have many works. If you say it's a short video app, it doesn't have many original short videos. If you say it's an animation app, it does everything.

Diversification is a good thing, but Bilibili's development direction is a bit chaotic, and there are a huge number of freeloaders, a large portion of whom have been corrupted by them. The atmosphere is particularly bad.

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