Chapter 207: Dream Linkage
Yang Ruoqian looked at the video, which had been viewed over a million times and received a high number of comments, and felt vaguely that something seemed to be beyond his control.
How could the audience expect anything from this new movie that is riding on the popularity of the original, copying it, and maliciously smearing the original? Did the director team change the plot? The new season has already started off badly, why is there so much bad news now? !
Don’t be in a hurry… The movie hasn’t been released yet, so there are still many opportunities to make up for it. Let’s take a look at the reviews and the promotional video released by Chengyu before making a decision.
Yang Ruoqian clicked on the video and watched the entire film review video carefully without fast forwarding.
"Hello everyone, I'm Xiao Liu!"
"I saw a trailer for a new movie online a few days ago. I wonder if you guys noticed it?"
"The name of the movie is not surprising, it's called "The Black Robe Inspection Team"... Hey, don't rush to click on the video when you hear this, because the film was produced by your old acquaintances, the duo of Kui Guang and Cheng Yu."
"The name doesn't sound very famous, right? But if I tell you that the drama 'The Dragon Son-in-law' was also produced by them, would you all be interested all of a sudden?"
"If you haven't watched that episode, you can search for it in my past videos. I promise that after you finish watching it, you will be interested in the following content."
At this point, Xiao Liu's tactics in the video paused for a moment, and the screen immediately switched to the promotional video content of "The Black Robe Inspection Team".
What came into view was a man in a superhero uniform with a sunny smile, speaking in a gentle tone to a young man with a blindfold.
Soon, a lot of question marks appeared on the barrage.
"What the hell is this? At first glance I thought it was Superman."
"It must be a modified version of Superman!"
"I suddenly became curious about what Kui Guang and Cheng Yu were going to do this time..."
Xiao Liu's voice then appeared: "So far, the plot has been very normal. The character you are seeing now is called 'Motherland Man'. We have analyzed this plot and it seems that the superhero team headed by 'Motherland Man' has a new member joining."
"This new member is a fan of 'Homeland Man' and has excellent hearing. When he saw his idol coming over during training, he excitedly walked up to greet him."
"Well, you can appreciate the following contents by yourselves."
After saying this, the content of the promotional video continued to play.
In the video, the blindfolded young man was full of joy, his voice choked with sobs: "Motherland Man, wow, you...you..."
"It's such an honor to meet you..."
The Homeland Warrior smiled with admiration on his face: "You can tell it's me? Wow, that's really admirable!"
The whole communication environment was full of joy. The Chinese heroes were modest and humorous, and everyone had a relaxed smile on their faces.
This is a superhero, humorous, powerful, and with a good personality. It seems that he has all the advantages in the world without even a single flaw.
As if because he was recognized by his idol, the masked young man showed a little pride on his face: "When I have clairaudience, I no longer need clairvoyance!"
The Homelander nodded and said very seriously: "And you, my friend, you are the real hero."
"Thank you...your appreciation means a lot to me!"
A senior helps a junior, and a united superhero team is about to be formed. Most of the audience who read the film reviews with relish can't help but imagine the following plot.
I guess a big villain will appear soon, and then this superhero team will pass layers of tests, go through hardships and obstacles, and then defeat the villain?
Bang! "Ah!!!"
The sound of flesh being crushed and the soul-stirring screams almost penetrated the screen and filled the ears of all the audience.
Looking at the blood all over the ground and the blindfolded young man rolling and struggling on the ground, the motherland hero, who had just looked so kind, showed an extremely hideous smile on his face.
"This is what happens when you act like a big shot in front of me."
Before the audience in front of the screen could recover from the huge contrast, the Homeland Man turned his face to the camera.
The expression on his face was still kind, but his tone was extremely gloomy and vicious: "I am a hero of the motherland. I can do whatever I want."
The picture then froze.
After this clip was played, there was a pause for a moment and then the barrage of comments came pouring in.
"What the hell?! Did I just see something wrong?!"
"I went back and watched it again to make sure I saw it right."
“This is so exciting!”
"Just now I thought it was another cliché story of a super good guy defeating a super villain, and I almost quit."
"The moment the hero smiled, I got goosebumps..."
"I suddenly can't wait. I will definitely watch this movie when it's released."
"Anything produced by Kuiguang Chengyu must be top quality!"
“…”
Just as the title of the video says, the expectations of almost all the audience have been raised to the highest point in this promotional video!
Yang Ruoqian stared blankly at the barrage of comments on the screen, and at the various contents released later in the promotional video, including the various dirty things that the heroine played by Shang Qianyu encountered when she joined the seven superheroes.
However, when these superheroes with original prototypes were modified in various ways and slandered, there was not even a single comment cursing at anyone!
This, this is not right, right?
When we did the research before, the vast majority of the people interviewed clearly expressed their hatred for riding on the popularity of others and their disdain for smearing the original image.
In order to ensure that the sample size was large enough, after the first survey, Yang Ruoqian conducted three more surveys, involving as many as two thousand people.
Almost everyone expressed their displeasure at the behavior of plagiarizing and smearing the prototype.
Occasionally, there are a few mavericks who just stand on a neutral perspective.
There are almost no people who support this behavior.
"No, you are the ones who said you didn't like it, and you are the ones who praised it the most." Yang Ruoqian said in disbelief as he flipped through the comments, his eyes widened. "Isn't this bullying an honest person?"
In the comments section, some people have even speculated on the box office of "The Black Robe Inspection Team"! A large number of people believe that if the content of the actual film is consistent with the content of the trailer, this movie has the potential to hit the annual box office champion.
The annual box office champion...
When Mr. Yang saw these six words, his mind started buzzing.
The question is, I hate this kind of behavior. Once the film comes out, they immediately turn their backs on it and book the box office champion overnight?
Yang Ruoqian, whose movie received huge acclaim before it was released, suddenly remembered an old saying that someone had said.
Many times, audiences don’t know what they like.
"It's okay. The movie hasn't been released yet." After confirming that the tone of the entire film was in line with his requirements, Yang Ruoqian breathed a sigh of relief, "There is still a chance to make amends."
Moreover, from a metaphysical point of view… most of those who pop champagne at halftime do not end up well.
Now so many people are opening champagne for "The Boys" at halftime, maybe the reputation will collapse as soon as it is released? And this Xiao Liu...
He was in "Dragon Son-in-law" and he is also in the new movie.
Are you trying to make things difficult for my Kuiguang Group?
Yang Ruoqian vaguely felt that he had one more enemy - first it was Shao Yiqi, then it was Chengyu Group, and now it was this Xiao Liu...
no!
The first two alone are difficult to handle and are causing trouble all the time. If we add one more person, won’t we still lose money?
This child is so terrifying that he must not be allowed to stay. This future obstacle must be nipped in the bud.
Yang Ruoqian exited the film review video and clicked on Xiao Liu's homepage.
As expected, he found Xiao Liu's business contact information from the personal profile.
An evil plan suddenly appeared in Yang Ruoqian's mind.
The next day, after returning to the office, Yang Ruoqian called Chang Zhiqing over and asked her to investigate Xiao Liu and get as much detailed information as possible.
If you want to defeat someone, you must know yourself and your enemy.
Soon, a document was placed on Yang Ruoqian's desk.
…
Somewhere, in a rental house.
The smell of instant noodle seasoning packets permeated the room, which was neither too big nor too small.
"Lao Liu, this video has been released, and the number of likes and coins is pretty good." Suddenly, someone said excitedly.
Originally, several people in the studio were still racking their brains to find various new dramas and movies on the market to catch up with the popularity.
But I accidentally saw the promotional video of "The Black Robe Inspection Team".
At the beginning, Liu Bi didn't pay much attention to this movie. It wasn't because of any prejudice, but because the movie was still in the promotional stage. At most, he would just look at the subject matter and watch some highlights. It was difficult to make a whole movie review video.
But when I saw the producers of this movie, I found out that it was the combination of Kui Guang and Cheng Yu who last filmed "Dragon Son-in-law".
With low cost, high playback and high discussion, it dominated the hot searches for a long time.
Not only did it directly make a previously unknown little actor famous, it also brought about a wave of copyright popularity.
Will it be possible that the whole thing will come out again this time?
For some unknown reason, they clicked on the trailer for this movie.
As a film critic who always has to be at the forefront of the trend to make a living, Liu Bi naturally has to have the mentality of rather killing the wrong person than letting the wrong one go.
Sure enough, as soon as they saw the content, they immediately felt that this movie had the potential to become a hit, so they released the video overnight and got the first wave of traffic.
"Ah, Kui Guang and Cheng Yu are really extraordinary." Liu Bi sighed while eating instant noodles, "The crew is really creative. How could they think of making a movie of this theme?"
A good movie, even without any publicity fees, will have countless film critics scrambling to explain it and catch up with its popularity in order to gain traffic.
For an extremely bad movie, even if they are paid advertising fees, many film reviewers and bloggers dare not take the money, for fear of completely ruining their reputation.
Obviously, Kuiguang Group is the former.
"Brother Liu, our video revenue has been cut again recently. We feel like we're going to have to eat dirt this month." A voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting Liu Bi's thoughts.
Hearing this complaint, Liu Bi paused while eating instant noodles with his chopsticks.
For websites like Bilibili, the income of a video can only be determined by the official algorithm, such as the number of views, the number of likes, the number of coins and collections, etc.
A small number of users will pay rewards, but the income is basically negligible.
Therefore, once the income algorithm changes, it will be a devastating blow to all such up-masters.
If there is an advertisement that can make money from it and insert an advertisement in the video, everyone can improve their food this month. Otherwise, they will have to eat dirt.
Unfortunately, no advertisers came to us this month.
In a studio where workers often suffer work-related injuries from eating instant noodles every day, there are signs of instability among the staff.
Look at the movie "Dragon Son-in-law", the craze it created on the Internet has not completely subsided until now.
I don’t know how many novels of the same type he has made popular, and he has made a lot of money in copyright fees.
Every time Liu Bi saw those huge advertisements and those endless zeros, he would toss and turn in envy.
I guess Kuiguang Group must have made a lot of money from this web drama.
I really envy their boss...
While eating instant noodles, Liu Bi said, "It's okay. I looked at the new algorithm. It means that the video cannot just have the number of views, but also the corresponding like rate."
"In the future, we can just add a short clip asking for likes and coins in the video."
"In fact, many viewers are not unwilling to take action and click on the free like, but they are not aware of it. As long as they are reminded, the likes will come immediately."
After finishing the instant noodles, Liu Bi opened the background of his account and began to clean up various messages in the background.
Most of these messages are meaningless jokes from fans, and he would pick out one or two to respond to.
The remaining small portion are old fans who recommend movies and TV series.
If there is a miracle, I can occasionally find business cooperation from these private messages.
Suddenly, he saw a very unusual message in his private message.
"Hello, Xiao Liu Talks about Movies. I am a netizen from the south. I am very interested in your videos and would like to discuss some business cooperation with you. Could you please add your WeChat?"
This news is too strong...
Liu Bi took a close look at the message, ignoring the overly weird wording and focusing on the six words "business cooperation".
Here we come!
It's finally here!
I've been waiting for you for so long! Now the whole studio is in a state of crying out for help, begging for an advertisement.
Liu Bi did not dare to neglect his sponsor and immediately sent his WeChat account to him as quickly as possible, so that the other party would not look for other similar up-hosts after not seeing a reply for a long time.
Soon, the other party added my WeChat.
The avatar is a picture of blue sky, white clouds and red flowers. It is obvious that the person opposite is an old elite.
The name is Yang Bujiao...
Liu Bi did not dare to neglect and typed, "Hello, Mr. Yang, nice to meet you!"
I wonder how much advertising money this time will earn? 1000? 500?
After all, it is a buyer's market. There are a lot of up-masters and bloggers with hundreds of thousands of followers, but the demand for advertising is far less.
This kind of advertisement inserted in the middle of the video will be skipped by most viewers. Even if they don’t skip it, they may not click on the link below the video to shop.
If you spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to put an advertisement in a video, it would be considered good if you can earn one-tenth of it.
Liu Bi didn't dare to quote too high a price, for fear of scaring away this hard-earned customer.
How about... just 800?
"Mr. Liu, we would like to ask you to help customize a video. We will give you 2,000 yuan per video. Is that acceptable?"
Liu Bi was just about to finish his noodle soup when his eyes widened after seeing the other party's offer.
Where did this big consortium come from? The opening price was 2,000? He had met sponsors who offered 2,000 before, but they had very strict requirements on the content, duration, and location of the inserts in the video, making them very difficult to please.
Now this kind of big order comes again, you must not miss it!
Liu Bi immediately perked up: "Sure, whatever advertisement you want to run, just send me the content. If you have any requirements for the duration and location of the advertisement, feel free to ask."
Yang Ruoqian, who goes by the pseudonym Yang Bujiao, replied: “It’s not an advertisement. I want you to make a video and send it out using your account. Is that okay?”
Liu Bi was stunned for a moment, and replied: "I am a movie reviewer. Do you have any needs for movie reviews?"
"Yes."
"Then... maybe you need to let me see which TV show or film you want me to explain."
When sending this message, Liu Bi sighed deeply.
It's not easy to make money.
When the other party proposed to customize the video, Liu Bi vaguely guessed the identity of the financial sponsor.
It must be someone from a publishing company.
Either they want to promote a certain film, or they want to restore the reputation of a certain rubbish film.
To put it simply, it means hiring water army.
It’s just a matter of spending a lot of money to hire these big-name water armies.
Unfortunately, this kind of money is different from advertising. If he insists on promoting a TV series or film with a very bad reputation, the consequence may be that he will ruin his account, which has worked hard to build a good reputation, and cause a large number of fans to leave.
This kind of behavior is not "making a living" but "making rubbish money".
Will be despised.
You can't just buy your own job just to have a full meal.
Therefore, Liu Bicai proposed the requirement that he must first know which TV series or film he was going to interpret. If the reputation of this TV series or film was really too bad, then he would not accept the business order no matter what.
The message Yang Ruoqian sent was brief: "Our movie has not yet been released and is currently in the promotion stage."
That's good……
Liu Bi breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he could live on the money.
The risk of promoting a movie that is in the promotion stage is actually not that great - just add a disclaimer at the end of the video such as "This is what it looks like from the current promotional video, but we won't know the specific performance until the movie is officially released." A lot of trouble can be avoided.
"Okay, please send me the promotional video. If it's convenient, you can also send me a few more exclusive shots so that I can help you promote it better."
Yang Ruoqian sent a message: "No, you misunderstood. It is an objective and fair review of a movie called "Black Robe Inspection Team". You posted a review of the promotional film of this movie not long ago."
An objective and fair evaluation...
That's just smearing!
It turns out that he is Kui Guang and Cheng Yu’s rival.
Liu Bi thought for a moment and said, "But, I just posted a video yesterday about this movie. Now I suddenly post something with completely opposite content. Isn't that a bad idea?"
His video content is divided into two sections, one is good movie recommendations, the other is bad movie reviews.
Yesterday, the video praising "The Boys" was placed in the section for recommended movies.
If we accept the business order from the sponsor, the next video will be the same "The Boys", but it will appear in the bad movie review column... It always feels a bit weird.
Yang Ruoqian wanted a strong effect of loyal fans defecting, so he immediately replied: "It doesn't matter, just post it."
"Well, do you have any requirements for the content of the video? Or should I just let myself express myself?"
In competitions like this, rival companies often have some dirty laundry in their hands. When attacking a movie, they often not only attack the movie content itself, but also the actors and production company.
It is half true and half false, based on hearsay, but the effect is surprisingly good.
Yang Ruoqian remembered his own questionnaire and replied, "You can add some content like 'disrespecting the original work' and 'riding on the popularity' in the content of your criticism, and you can express the rest freely."
What kind of people are the most aggressive these days? Die-hard fans, also known as crystal fans.
Once the works or characters that these people like are touched, they will feel as if their reverse scale has been touched. They will put aside the facts and do their utmost to defend those works or characters.
What Yang Ruoqian needs to do is to lure out this group of humanoids and let these highly aggressive online trolls become the vanguard in criticizing "The Black Robe Inspection Team".
In any case, let’s first improve the reputation of the movie.
Liu Bi carefully wrote down the sponsor's request in a small notebook, and then asked, "Okay, if you have any other requests, feel free to contact me. If you don't get a reply on WeChat, you can call me at 132xxxxxxxx."
After this message, the other party sent a transfer information of 2,000 yuan and then there was no reply.
Liu Bi happily accepted the money and distributed the bonus to several other people in the studio. Then he clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Work overtime tonight and serve the big moneybag well. I have already sent you the requirements. Pay attention."
After saying that, he put down his phone and continued to clean up the information in the background of his Bilibili account.
Having just cleared two meaningless private messages, Liu Bi was stunned again.
"Why is there another person who wants to cooperate with us in business? Did I get lucky today?"
Liu Bi clicked on the message suspiciously, and it clearly read:
"Hello, Xiao Liu. I am Zheng Weixiong, the operations manager of the Rifu Group. May I ask if it is convenient for you to discuss a business cooperation with us?"
Japanese government...
Never heard of it.
Liu Bi still did not dare to neglect and quickly said, "It's convenient. If you have any requirements, just tell me."
Zheng Wei Neng, who used the alias Zheng Weixiong, sent a vicious message: "Can you help me discredit the movie "Black Robe Inspection Team" as much as possible?"
(End of this chapter)
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