The 2018 TV series "The Summer of Stars: The Dark Side" garnered over 100 million views online within just 11 hours of its release.
Moreover, in the television sector, this episode of "Super Idol" achieved a peak viewership rating of an astonishing 4.8!
As a summer-themed variety show on Ruzhou TV, "Super Idol" has consistently maintained stable ratings. It remains unremarkable during the rainy season and holds up reasonably well during the dry season. However, this episode, which collaborated with "Half a Day," unbelievably achieved a double success on both television and online platforms. This almost startled Ruzhou TV's management, who thought their ratings were inflated.
The sheer volume of discussion generated by this level of popularity is unprecedented. According to incomplete statistics, on Weibo alone, over a dozen topics related to this episode of "Super Idol" trended on the hot search list. The cumulative readership of related topics is in the billions. Except for Xue Haodong, who doesn't have a Weibo account, all the guests participating in this episode saw a significant increase in their fan base. This was particularly noticeable for Ye Chu (who played Li Yiming), Shi Shan (who played Li Ruhui), and Ou Yang (who played Cheng Daiqing). Ye Chu gained over two million followers in a single episode, while Shi Shan and Ou Yang each gained approximately one million.
Ye Chu has once again found herself in the eye of the storm due to immense controversy. This time, it's because her actions on the variety show were overly cunning and calculating, bordering on dishonest. Her fans praise her exceptional intelligence, while her detractors condemn her as treacherous and malicious. The two sides are locked in a fierce battle, the battlefield stretching across the entire internet.
Weibo's marketing accounts and influential figures even held a poll:
Do you agree with Ye Chu's actions on the show?
A: Yes, games are meant to be played.
B disagrees, stating that the behavior of deception and exploitation is somewhat excessive.
C, although I don't agree, I admire him.
The number of participants in this vote reached as high as 160,000, with 90,000 voting for A, 50,000 voting for C, and only about 20,000 people choosing option B.
Ye Chu's fans became busy again. Ye Chu's overly flamboyant behavior on the show aroused the indignation of many righteous bystanders. In addition, Shi Shan's die-hard fans, Sister Climbing Tiger and Chu Zixin's die-hard fans, Little Bamboo, went crazy and were tearing at Ye Chu like crazy, as if they were going to die together.
The fans have to be timid and reasonable to passersby, passionately fight with ivy and bamboo, organize new fans who have just joined the circle, and do data collection for Ye Chu. Their days are more fulfilling than sausages.
Although Ye Chu has been gaining fans every day since the premiere of "Tianban", the sudden influx of such a large number of new fans still left Ye Chu's fans dizzy and confused.
Variety shows attract a high level of new fans with high intensity and purity. In just one day, the fandom is packed with people, and new forces are everywhere.
Shi Shan's fanbase also experienced considerable turmoil. On one hand, many female fans, heartbroken, left the fandom and angrily turned against Shi Shan, also launching tenfold more vicious and furious attacks on Ye Chu. On the other hand, some fans secretly switched sides and quietly became CP (couple) fans.
Of course, the largest group of fans still insists that Shi Shan's behavior in the variety show was only for the sake of variety show effect and publicity needs, and denounces Ye Chu's behavior of throwing herself at him - this group is the one that Ye Ya hates the most.
To disgust this group, Ye Ya turned Shi Shan's lines and actions in variety shows, such as "My lord," "I am your accomplice," "I went to Ye Chu to form an alliance immediately," as well as picking cherry pits for Ye Chu and handing her a flower wreath, into memes. She then chased after the ivy and threw it in their faces, determined to make them understand who the real clingy monster was.
The fighting was chaotic, with everything in disarray. The newly formed Leaf Sprouts, having just absorbed new blood, were forced into another tough battle before they could even fully develop. However, every cloud has a silver lining; this battle also allowed the new generation of Leaf Sprouts to quickly hone their skills, rapidly increasing their cohesion, unity, organization, and combat effectiveness.
In Ji Juntao's words, Shang Yechu was both the most controversial and the luckiest artist she had ever seen. She was controversial because she frequently stirred up controversy both on and off screen; she was lucky because at every crucial moment of gaining followers, a group of skilled individuals would emerge to train her new recruits. It was as if they were whetstones sent by heaven.
Chu Zixin wasn't exactly innocent either. Because he was so badly abused by Ye Chu in the variety show, his fans seized the opportunity to patrol various platforms and play the victim again, which actually helped Chu Zixin gain quite a few fans.
The most carefree and successful person was actually Ou Yang, who spent three hours planting vegetables. Countless passersby flocked to his Weibo to try and get lucky, hoping to receive the same good fortune and win effortlessly at the last second. As of twelve hours after the broadcast of "Summer's Desire: The Dark Side," Ou Yang's latest Weibo post had been retweeted over 200,000 times, all thanks to his good luck.
Of course, in this battle, there was also a group of unexpected haters who caught the Leaf Buds off guard.
That is, Shi Shan, and the CP fans of Shi Shan's ex-girlfriends.
That's right. Although they basically lost contact after breaking up, there are still quite a few netizens who ship Shi Shan with his ex-girlfriends, and each of them believes that their own girlfriend is Shi Shan's true love!
"Not everyone has this kind of ability," Ji Juntao commented.
In half an hour, episode 36 of "The Half of the Sky"—the episode where Li Ruhui sacrifices himself—will air. Ji Juntao specially canceled most of his work to come to Shang Yechu's house and watch the episode with her.
It wasn't that Ji Juntao had any particular fetish for Shi Shan or enjoyed watching him die. Whether Shi Shan was dead or half-dead, Ji Juntao didn't care. But she got a hint from Zheng Bohan: the old man said that Shi Shan's death scene was extremely tragic and moving!
This set Ji Juntao on high alert. Shang Yechu, so focused on her role, often became too immersed in it. After leaving the "Half a Sky" set, she was depressed for a full month before recovering. What if seeing Shi Shan's death in this episode stirred her emotions, causing her to completely transfer her on-screen feelings for Li Ruhui to Shi Shan?
In order to keep an eye on his cash cow, the busy CEO Ji didn't even have time to take care of the few new recruits in the company. He rushed into Shang Yechu's house to binge-watch TV shows without even having a meal.
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