On the evening of July 2nd, at the Magic City Stadium.
This venue, also known as the 80,000-seat Stadium, has hosted concerts by many well-known singers. Today, the graduation ceremony of Shanghai Jiao Tong University is held here.
The reason for choosing this place is that almost all of the more than 40,000 teachers and students of Jiaotong University came, and not only that, there were also many "people with connections" who came to "take advantage of the ceremony."
If you only look at the name "2023 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Graduation Ceremony", you would wonder how so many people could come, but then you continue reading.
Organizers: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, East Asia Mingyu Group Co., Ltd.
Organizers: East Asia Mingyu Media Information Technology Co., Ltd., Bilibili, Penguin Entertainment, Douyin
This graduation ceremony, which was different from the traditional one, was funded by Si Mingyu and held on the scale of the Coin Station New Year's Eve Gala. It was broadcast live on the school's official website, Coin Station, Penguin, Douyin and other websites.
The school, for its part, saw this unique graduation ceremony as a valuable way to promote the school, so it naturally supported the event. All graduating students and faculty were expected to attend, while students in other grades could apply for admission using the school app.
At the beginning of the second semester of my senior year, word spread that this year's graduation ceremony would be innovative. At first, no one paid much attention, but once the organizer was confirmed, the discussion suddenly intensified.
The quality of the Coinbase New Year's Eve Gala and its popularity among young people are very high. As one of the organizers, they will definitely not disappoint everyone. In fact, this is so true that the Student Union immediately launched an on-campus survey with the question: "Who do you want to see at the graduation ceremony?"
This is going to be a lively scene. From domestic celebrity artists to famous foreign singers, from popular idols to various groups, from carbon-based organisms to virtual singers, the students' imaginations are really open and there is nothing they dare not think of.
Finally, the student union will compile a list of 100 people, and then everyone will vote to select ten people or groups, and the organizer will invite them to participate.
Once this incident took off, it spread beyond Jiaotong University and became a hot topic online. Many netizens on prominent forums even selected their own top 100 list and forwarded it to the campus network for students to consider. After all, only Jiaotong University faculty and students had the right to vote.
After three days of voting, the final results were what everyone expected. Now the pressure is on the organizers: will the voting result be a failure?
One month before the graduation ceremony, East Asia Mingyu Media Information Technology Co., Ltd. issued an announcement that all the ten individuals and groups selected by vote agreed to attend except for two who were unable to attend due to schedule and other reasons.
The two missing spots will be filled by the eleventh and twelfth place votes.
Netizens were shocked by the news. After all, Jiaotong University students are selected from all over the world. Not to mention the appearance fees of these superstars, just having them participate is a huge honor.
In particular, I don’t know who was so smart who directly submitted the idea of inviting the Avengers to attend the graduation ceremony. This was the second most popular vote. After all, one vote can be exchanged for several stars, so there is no reason not to vote.
Of course, both teachers and students of Jiaotong University and netizens were mentally prepared. It would be a great surprise if five out of ten were invited. Unexpectedly, not only eight were invited, but almost all members of the Avengers were in place.
Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd, Don Cheadle, Brie Larson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Holland, and Chris Pratt, a total of eleven people were listed.
The program was released three days before the graduation ceremony, and then "How much did the Jiaotong University graduation ceremony cost?" became a hot topic.
According to the program, the first thing to happen is the graduation ceremony, which will take about an hour, as the leaders will have to speak a few words. The subsequent performances will have a total of 30 programs and will take about three hours.
All of these programs are carefully prepared, including 23 domestic and foreign stars and groups, and this is after counting the Avengers as one.
Even if each of the eleven Avengers received only one million US dollars in appearance fees, the total would be 75 million Chinese yuan after conversion. The remaining twenty-two celebrities and groups, averaging one million US dollars each, would total 150 million Chinese yuan. Not to mention the dancers, orchestras, and other performances, all of which are top-tier domestic and international teams, whose fees aren't necessarily lower than those of the stars.
Taking into account the venue layout and the top sound system team, plus other miscellaneous netizens, it is estimated to be 300 million Chinese yuan.
That's why almost all the teachers and students from the school came. It's no exaggeration to say that for many people, this might be their only chance in their lifetime to see a performance of this scale. Because the star artists on the bill really can't be hired just by having money.
This year's "Balls of Legends 2" was not only a huge success but also became a milestone in science fiction films. When director Guo and leading actors such as Wu Jing and Hua Zai appeared on stage, the entire stadium cheered.
Many teachers and students posted photos and videos at the time, with captions like, "I thought Ball 2 was a science fiction film, but it turned out to be a documentary."
The netizens who were watching the live broadcast could no longer sit still, and they spoke out in the Douyin live broadcast room, urging everyone to quickly upload the link, especially the door frame robot, saying that they had to get one back to protect their home.
Cheers and shouts of approval continued throughout the performance. The Bizhan planners understand young people, and each performance catered to their preferences while maintaining artistic integrity. The artists, both domestic and international, delivered a flawless performance, perfectly capturing the essence of the performance. The word "blast" perfectly captures the essence of the performance.
The number of people in the live broadcast room is also soaring. Many people are expressing their feelings in the comments: "There are hundreds of millions of people watching a school's graduation ceremony live", "But I am uneducated and can travel the world with just one word xx."
Is that an exaggeration? Not at all.
After all, this graduation ceremony performance has been preheated for a long time in advance, and the performers are all world-famous artists and groups, and Douyin has an overseas version. These factors combined make it no surprise that so many people watched the live broadcast.
This directly led to three of the top ten trending searches being about the graduation ceremony performance.
Apart from the hot topic of "How much did Jiaotong University's graduation ceremony cost?", the remaining two are "other people's schools" and "outstanding alumnus Si Mingyu".
At the end of the whole performance, the drones in the sky formed a formation of "Goodbye! Shanghai Jiaotong University, we are graduating!", followed by fireworks that filled the sky.
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