After reaching an agreement with Xu Chenhao, Xie Yang's plan officially got on track. He created a small group and assigned tasks to everyone in the group: Hu Biao was responsible for following up with Mo Bin and the company, Xu Chenhao was responsible for the complete arrangement of the new songs to be used in the performance, Ke Lan was responsible for writing the lyrics for the new songs, and Tong Jian... Tong Jian just had to protect his voice.
Everyone is busy with their own things and time passes quickly.
A few days later, a new episode of "Hello Holiday" was broadcast.
Xie Yang specially made time to take a look.
As he expected, in order to take advantage of the popularity of #IUD自灭牌牌# on Weibo, the "Hello Holiday" program crew not only did not cut out any of his poor performance shots, but also specially used pauses, close-ups, and text markings to magnify his performance. The online show has barrages, and since he appeared on the show, the insults in the barrages have never stopped.
After the show, an awkward silence fell in the small group.
Tong Jian: Well, this is Yangyang’s first time participating in the show, and his performance is actually pretty good.
Xie Yang did not take Tong Jian's fig leaf and typed: Pay attention to Weibo, the show is about to begin.
Tong Jian: What play?
Xie Yang: What a good show to mock me.
Sure enough, after the show ended, many blog posts analyzing Xie Yang’s performance tonight appeared on Weibo. Several big marketing accounts followed suit under the banner of caring about the future of IUD, cutting Xie Yang's performance into length charts, and vilifying, implying, and belittling Xie Yang in various ways, describing Xie Yang as a dull, clumsy, talentless, without advantages, disrespectful to his predecessors, and an arrogant fool who had no sincerity towards the program crew.
Some of the marketing accounts that claimed to be objective and neutral, after criticizing Jie Yang for nothing good, hypocritically tried to save his reputation, saying that after all, Jie Yang had no experience as a trainee and majored in acting, so he was not familiar with the on-stage performances of singing and dancing idols, and it was understandable that he was stiff when he first appeared on the show.
As he was speaking, the topic suddenly changed. He said that although Xie Yang's poor performance was understandable, his behavior of giving up on himself and pretending to be sick because of stage fright and dragging down his predecessors was too selfish and not desirable. He sighed that Wen Yi was too irresponsible in selecting people.
Many IUD fans were already angry after watching the show, and now they are further provoked by the marketing accounts' overt analysis and covert provocation, and they are about to explode.
The topic #IUD自灭签牌#, which had already dropped a lot in the rankings, was quickly brought up again by fans, and the popularity continued to rise. At the same time, various new topics such as #Jie Yang get out of the IUD#, #Jie Yang sleepwalking#, #Jie Yang is arrogant and looks down on his predecessors# also gradually climbed up the hot searches.
With this level of screen-sweeping, many passers-by were attracted and clicked into the topic, and then they began to dislike Jie Yang and followed suit to step on him.
At this point, Xie Yang officially fell into a situation that all newcomers are afraid of falling into - he was criticized before his work was released.
Hu Biao became furious after seeing this and started cursing in the group.
Hu Biao: I clearly informed the production team and they agreed to cut out most of Jie Yang’s shots, but they ended up doing this? !
Hu Biao: And what about those imaginary words they wrote? They were just daydreaming. What does "the young team members don't seem to like talking to the brothers" mean? Are they saying this to provoke a fight?
Hu Biao: Those marketing accounts definitely received money! A messy analysis made us understand that since it was Xie Yang's first time on stage, all his roads were blocked because he was not used to it. I @#￥%...
Tong Jian said: Brother Biao, don’t be angry, I will post on Weibo right now to help Yangyang clarify and explain!
Hu Biao: Don’t send it, it’s useless! With the way the public opinion is going now, as soon as you speak up for Jie Yang, his fans will feel sorry for you being forced by the company to smooth things over for the newcomer. Fans now only believe what they see. The more you speak up for Jie Yang, the more they will hate Jie Yang!
Ke Lan: But we can’t just say nothing. If we remain silent, people will be more likely to make associations.
This is reality, and the group was quiet for a while.
Hu Biao: Anyway, don't say anything for now. I will find the public relations team and try to clear the name of Jie Yang faking illness.
Xie Yang saw this message as soon as he logged out of Weibo, and typed back: No need.
No one expected that Jie Yang was also watching the group. Hu Biao quickly replied: What do you mean?
Xie Yang: There is no need to find a PR team to whitewash myself. I will post on Weibo myself.
Everyone was shocked.
Hu Biao: What Weibo? ! Where did you get your Weibo from? !
Xie Yang: I just applied.
Everyone rushed to Weibo to check, and after searching hard for a long time, they finally found the account that Li Yang had just applied for among a bunch of fan black accounts. The account name is very simple, just called "Jie Yang", and it has only posted one Weibo post so far, the content is...
[Jie Yang: Go ahead and scold me. There will come a time when you will cry and apologize to me.] 】
Everyone: “…”
Hu Biao collapsed and called directly.
"Hurry up and delete your Weibo post and cancel your account! If you keep posting like this, your fans will tear you apart!"
Xie Yang replied: "What we want is for them to tear us apart. We should not waste the free popularity. I said that I would let IUD disband in a grand manner. If the disbanding performances do not attract enough attention, then my promise will become empty words, right?"
Hu Biao was anxious: "But you, you can't... fans are scary when they go crazy."
Xie Yang smiled: "What a coincidence, what I fear least is being scared. Besides, if I let them blackmail me thoroughly and dig up all my secrets this time, they won't have anything to blackmail me with when I officially debut. Besides, we can't just follow Mo Bin's lead all the time."
This sounds reasonable, but I always feel like something is wrong. Hu Biao wanted to persuade him again but was interrupted by Jie Yang. Xie Yang said: "I'm the boss, listen to me."
Hu Biao was choked and hung up the phone angrily.
After answering Hu Biao's call, Xie Yang went to the group to chat again.
Xie Yang: Everyone, please help me get a certification, so that people won’t think I’m a fake account.
Tong Jian & Ke Lan: ...
Hu Biao was so angry that he closed the group chat.
When the future boss gives the order, all we have to do is follow it.
Ke Lan and Tong Jian each went onto big Weibo accounts to follow and repost Jie Yang's Weibo, and followed Jie Yang's request without dubbing a single word.
With their certification, Xie Yang's account was quickly locked by fans. The fans were very happy at first, thinking that they could finally convey their boycott to Jie Yang directly, but after they saw the content of Jie Yang’s post, they were left with only anger.
Apologize crying? joke! Who will apologize to you? Just dream on! You are a newcomer, not only an incompetent fool, but you are also so arrogant and looking for death!
Angry fans flocked to Xie Yang's Weibo and cursed him passionately, which soon made Xie Yang's Weibo a hot topic. The topic #解扬發博# also became a hot search at rocket speed.
Within one day, Xie Yang's Weibo account gained hundreds of thousands of followers.
Tong Jian was in a trance and said in the group: This is the first time since Mu Zhouyi’s car accident that someone in the circle gained hundreds of thousands of active Weibo followers in one day. But Mu Zhouyi's fans are all real fans, while Yangyang's fans are all black fans, the kind who want to dig up Yangyang's ancestral graves...
Ke Lan: Stop talking. If you continue, Brother Biao will be so angry that he will quit the group.
Xie Yang was amused by their words. He closed the small group chat and stretched comfortably in the lounge chair on the terrace.
Now, all that’s left is to wait for Mo Bin’s reaction.
Soon, Mo Bin responded.
Perhaps because he was afraid that being alone would seem too strange, Mo Bin quickly followed suit and retweeted Li Yang's Weibo post, cautiously not adding any captions.
Not long after that, some fans came out to say that Mo Bin, Tong Jian and Ke Lan must have been forced by the company or their agents to support the newcomers. Simply reposting Jie Yang's Weibo without any additional text was a silent resistance to the company's arrangements. A lot of fans and passers-by believed this statement and flocked to the Weibo of the old IUD team members to express their condolences and gossip. Even Xu Chenhao's Weibo, which had been abandoned for almost a year, had many people checking in.
Gradually, public opinion began to shift. Some old fans gathered together to recall IUD's past glory, recounting how amazing IUD was in the past. They felt sorry for IUD's current mess and lamented that if Xu Chenhao hadn't left/if Jie Yang hadn't joined/if the company hadn't made all these crazy moves, IUD might have a chance to create another glory. Finally, they sympathized with the three old team members for encountering such a bad thing...
All in all, it seems that Mo Bin’s goal of making the public sympathize with the three old members of IUD is about to be achieved.
Tong Jian said weakly in the group: Yangyang, is this really okay? Aren’t you helping Mo Bin?
Xu Chenhao, who had been quiet all the time, suddenly spoke up and said: No, IUD is too popular now, and Mo Bin will be very uncomfortable.
Tong Jian: Ah?
Xu Chenhao: All the negative information about Jie Yang can actually be washed away by the excuse that "the company is hyping up IUD's fifth anniversary performance." If IUD's fifth anniversary performance is successful, then as long as the new IUD releases one or two popular singles or an album of sufficient quality, IUD will be considered to have successfully become popular again.
Xu Chenhao: A new IUD that is about to become popular is right in front of us, and Wen Yi will never let go. They will force Mo Bin to release new songs and continue to stay in IUD, but Mo Bin wants to go solo, and the last thing he wants to see is IUD becoming popular again.
Tong Jian: I still don’t quite understand…
Xie Yang had just finished reading the current rhythm on Weibo, saw everyone chatting in the group, raised an eyebrow, and typed to join.
Xie Yang: You don’t need to understand.
Xie Yang: All you need to know is that Mo Bin will soon have a quarrel with Wen Yi. By the way, get ready, Wen Yi is about to invite everyone over for tea.
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