After watching the video, a chilling feeling went up the spines of many viewers. Just imagining such a scene was enough to make them feel extremely terrified.
However, when we think further that many minors are being defined as suffering from "mental illness" and are about to receive electric shock treatment, netizens can no longer sit still.
This video seems to have sounded the clarion call for attack.
The general offensive officially begins.
Netizens immediately spread the word and Xu Shang's video to their bulletin boards, forums, and QQ groups; many people flocked to Professor Yang's blog account to denounce and even abuse him; some people even followed the lead of Professor Yang's fans and demanded that the authorities completely ban internet addiction treatment schools.
Some parents were shaken, and Professor Yang was furious.
Naturally, he couldn't just let it go, and he wouldn't allow himself to be ruined.
He immediately mobilized parents to speak through various channels and loudly appeal:
"These are vested interests! They want to use our children to make money! Just think about it, if they succeed, what will happen to our children's future?"
"Today they can whitewash internet addiction, tomorrow they can whitewash fighting, gambling, drugs and crime! We absolutely cannot sit idly by!"
At the call of Professor Yang, they launched a thorough counterattack in public opinion. So many parents went to the government gate to protest, taking videos and posting them online, posting photos, posting on forums, deleting posts and banning accounts, but it was useless, and waves of people kept coming.
With the mobilization of the connections of this group of parents, many people who knew nothing about this also joined in supporting Professor Yang. As for watching Xu Shang's videos... the number of people who go to watch personal bloggers' videos these days is insignificant compared to the whole number, and is far from being comparable to later generations.
The battle became intense from the very beginning, and more and more people died.
The two sides are becoming increasingly aggressive in both words and actions.
Such a result was beyond Xu Shang's expectations.
The result he expected should be a fatal blow, which would directly kill Professor Yang, and at the same time arouse social attention to such institutions, and then uproot the related industrial chain.
But now, we are stuck in a tug of war.
Such a melee would naturally not be left completely alone, and soon the voice of the mainstream media emerged.
Xu Shang knew that whether the final decision could be made depended on this moment.
However--
"What will happen to this society if we allow Internet addiction to continue?"
“What should we do about the openly clamoring Internet addiction?”
“The whitewashing of Internet addiction is more terrible than Internet addiction itself!”
“…”
The headlines of magazines, journals, and even some news not only exceeded Xu Shang's expectations, but also almost everyone's expectations. Xu Shang's supporters felt unbelievable, while Professor Yang's cronies cheered with joy.
Xu Shang paused, then leaned back in his chair and sat back. He frowned, not understanding what was going on.
Obviously, he has made it very clear in the video.
Xu Shang believes that anyone who has watched his video, even if they have not become his supporter, should at least have a neutral attitude and will not explicitly support Professor Yang.
But the result is——
Ignore the facts, ignore the results.
Xu Shang sat on the chair, thinking carefully about which step he had failed to do well. Was it because his way of expression was not attractive enough, or was it because the content was too profound for people to understand?
After a long time, Xu Shang finally figured it out.
No matter what he made the video look like, it didn't work.
Because those people don't care about his videos or his arguments at all.
They just heard the word "Internet addiction", saw their own children sitting in front of the computer, saw the children gathered in Internet cafes and game halls, and they couldn't wait to line up.
Although young people have a voice, and it is a very loud voice...but it is still the parents who truly control society.
The format has changed.
The entertainment industry, which is very careful about its reputation, immediately shut up and quietly but simultaneously deleted the comments they had previously made, as if they had never participated in this online debate.
At this moment, there are still many people in the Tieba forum struggling to speak out.
The change in wind direction has disappointed many passionate young people. They found that no matter how hard they typed on the keyboard, expressed their opinions, and found like-minded partners... no one still cared about their voices.
Can't hear.
But I can't hear it.
It seemed like those people really couldn't hear what they were saying.
In this era when traditional print media and television are still the mainstream, the voice of the Internet is not loud enough.
Xu Shang suddenly smiled bitterly.
So what if it's loud enough?
In the future, even if the public opinion of the whole society and the whole network focuses on certain people or certain things, it will still end up with nothing. The so-called public opinion only has an effect on most people.
When the hot blood was poured into the cold reality, the rising mist covered the center of the city. When one looked out, one could no longer see into the distance. When the color of the sky became strange and dim, people began to become silent day by day.
Xu Shang seemed to see the wave of public opinion that he had created rolling up, which could have caused a huge storm... but it seemed to be pressed down by an invisible hand.
He discovered that the obstacle he faced was not Professor Yang.
Professor Yang's methods were crude and his tricks were ridiculous. Xu Shang didn't think such a person would make him feel powerless.
What really made Xu Shang feel powerless and even a little desperate were actually these parents who even made Xu Shang feel terrified. Without Professor Yang, they would still go to Professor Zhang, Professor Wu...
They don’t accept rebuttals, they never communicate with their children, and they are unwilling to understand in depth. They only want to believe what they believe, and they never realize that the most fundamental problem comes from themselves.
"call--"
Sitting in the chair, Xu Shang let out a long breath. He suddenly felt a little confused. The results of his actions so far had been too smooth, so he had forgotten what frustration felt like.
Rebirth, plus the golden finger of the system, what a powerful force.
Xu Shang had long thought that "as long as I want, I can do anything". After all, he had such a strong power, what could stop him? But now, he was desperate, not because these parents were clamoring to ban him or severely punish him.
Instead, he thought that he could only watch helplessly as the tragic stories of these so-called teaching institutions poisoning students were repeated. What could he change? Nothing, nothing.
After a long silence, Xu Shang picked up the phone.
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