"Oh, this is us uploading tickets to the Yuewen Entertainment website. We're rating this movie. You see, Yuewen rating is the fairest and most impartial rating website in all of China. Oh, my upload has been accepted. I'll give this movie a rating first."
Li Xin took out his phone, waved it in front of Chen Jie, tapped a few times on the screen, and showed it to Chen Jie, saying, "I gave this movie an 8.5 out of 10. You see, the overall rating for this movie is 8.3, which is a very high score, right? But I think it deserves that score."
As a reporter on the front lines of the entertainment industry, Chen Jie was naturally familiar with this rating system. "Do you all use this rating system? Why don't you use other rating systems?"
Chen Jie felt that today's interview time had already exceeded the limit, but in order to get first-hand information, she still did not stop the interview. Many people had already entered the hall, so it seemed that the second session was about to begin.
"You mean this? Well, all my friends use this now. They used to use other rating websites, but since Yuewen rating website was launched, they've basically all used this one."
"As for the reason, after what happened last time, who would use other rating websites? A website that can manipulate ratings has no credibility. We don't trust their ratings anymore."
Chen Jie felt that the topic was getting a bit out of the interview scope, so she quickly stopped, "Okay, thank you for clearing up our doubts. We'll go interview the other audience members next."
Watching Chen Jie turn and leave, Li Xin felt like a million herbivores were running through his mind. Sure enough, the prettier the woman, the more likely she is to deceive people. There were no audience members around. During the time he was being interviewed, everyone had already left. Even the audience for the second show had already entered. Now the entire corridor was empty. There wasn't a single person left!
At 9:30, the ratings for the eight movies on the Yuewen rating website were released one after another. Surprisingly, "Bonnie and Clyde" received the highest rating of 8.5, which convinced all the viewers. "Alien" came in second with 8.4, which made some people who like foreign blockbusters very dissatisfied. They called on their peers online to give it a higher score, believing that the current score was completely inconsistent with the reputation of imported blockbusters.
The most controversial film is "Five Ghosts Transporting Fortune," which ranked third. During the pre-sale stage, it was only ranked third from the bottom. Although we don't know how well it is doing at the box office now, based on the pre-sale results, it is estimated that the box office will not be very good now. However, the rating is so high. Could it be that someone is manipulating it behind the scenes, especially since "Five Ghosts Transporting Fortune" is a film from Yuewen rating website!
Most of those criticizing "Five Ghosts Transporting Fortune" are fans of popular celebrities. The three popular celebrities have a huge number of fans, which gave them an absolute advantage from the beginning. They are defending their idols and believe that the Yuewen rating website deliberately lowered the movie rating of their idols in order to attract the audience's attention and lure them into watching "Five Ghosts Transporting Fortune" in the cinema. They believe that this practice is wrong and particularly malicious.
However, the supporting side has more compelling reasons. The Yuewen rating website shows that "Five Ghosts Transporting Fortune" has a total of more than 185,000 valid votes, all of which are supported by movie tickets and real-name authentication, and there is nothing fake.
"The Rich and Powerful" had 210,000 valid votes and a score of 7.5, indicating that its box office was higher than "The Five Ghosts". However, why did it have a lower score? That's a question for you fans who have seen "The Rich and Powerful". The score is what you gave it. The quality of the movie speaks for itself, so don't blame the fans for voting with their feet. After all, not every fan is a mindless fan.
A group of fans objected, asking why the scores on other websites were completely reversed, with the rankings exactly matching the pre-sale results. They argued that this was the correct way: the more tickets sold, the higher the rating. Otherwise, why would other websites sell so many tickets? If you can't sell as many tickets as them, doesn't that mean the movie's quality is inferior?
You have money, and what you say makes sense, but have you ever actually seen a movie? You don't even need to buy a ticket to rate a movie on a website, and you don't even need to use your real name. Who knows how many times you've rated it? Maybe you've rated your idol at least ten times?
Look, the total number of ratings has exceeded ten million. Did "The Rich and Powerful" sell that many tickets last night? And this is just the number of ratings from one rating website. Let's count the votes from all the rating websites and see how many there are. It's like the thief crying "stop thief!" They have no shame at all.
Some netizens actually did compile a list of ratings across all websites. This didn't take much time, and soon a nine-grid image with a comment went viral on Bole. The comment was simple: just one sentence. For a single movie, "The Rich and Powerful" garnered 51.23 million ratings. Based on the rating websites' rule of one vote per person, the total box office for "The Rich and Powerful" should have been over 1.5 billion yuan. Is that true? Is it really possible?
The post was made by a low-level account, but for some reason it became a hit on Bole. In a short time, it received more than 100,000 comments, propelling it to the top 20 of the Bole rankings like a rocket.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that someone is stirring up trouble. This is a newly created alt account, and it's absolutely impossible for it to become this popular in just a few minutes. However, the screenshots they posted are genuine and authentic. They took advantage of the current online buzz to post this thread, and the fact that it's become so popular now only shows that this person is quick-witted and knows how to pick their timing.
Like a spark that ignites a prairie fire, a post that had already broken into the top twenty quickly gained popularity with the attention and comments of netizens. With the help of those who were interested, it swiftly took the top spot and instantly ignited the entire internet.
The last rating website controversy is less than half a year old, and now they're back in the spotlight again. These rating websites really don't learn their lesson. They don't care about such obvious mistakes at all. The first movie has already garnered more than 50 million ratings. Isn't this a joke?
The rating website, realizing what had happened, immediately issued a denial, saying that the website had been hacked and left with a very serious vulnerability that allowed movie fans to vote multiple times. The company said it would thoroughly investigate the source of the problem and hold those responsible accountable.
However, onlookers scoffed at this, saying that these people were shameless and only cared about traffic. In any case, most movie fans don't pay much attention to other rating websites these days. Once a website loses its credibility, regaining trust isn't something you can do just by talking.
If it weren't for the fans attacking the Yuewen rating website this time, movie fans wouldn't have said a word. Anyway, other rating websites are for you fans to play with. Movie fans who like watching movies don't want to log in now, and a large number of them have already deleted them to avoid sullying their eyes and causing trouble for themselves!
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