Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 430 Fan Club War
[The success of this drama is the result of the joint efforts of every leading actor. Everyone is working to complete the work better. I hope that all the "Peter Pans" can look at various rumors calmly and not attack any collaborators. 】——"X九少年团肖占DAYTOY".

[The recognition of "The Untamed" is inseparable from the efforts and contributions of all the main creators and actors of the crew. If there are unsatisfactory aspects, we can discuss them, but please remain calm. I still hope that everyone can understand and support each other. ]——"UNIQ-Wang Yibo".

Before the broadcast of "The Untamed", the popularity of the two male protagonists was only second-tier, but with the huge success of the drama, the two quickly became the current top stars.

With their current popularity, anyone who posts a Weibo post can cause quite a stir, let alone two people speaking out at the same time.

Almost as soon as the two of them posted on Weibo, it was immediately pushed to the top of the trending searches.

What surprised all the fans was that, although the two did not point it out directly in their Weibo posts, anyone could see that they were trying to excuse Meng Ziyi, who had been criticized by them recently.

[Impossible! How could our brother speak to that kind of woman? They must have been threatened!]

[She is the "Princess of Arc Light", so Arc Light must have put pressure on the company! ]

[Poor Zhanzhan (Yibo), not only does he make money for the dog companies every day, but he also has to help them obey the arrangements of capital against his will, 5555…]

【Alas, capital! 】

【…】

Just as Li Mu said, the thinking of these fans is often completely different from that of ordinary people. As long as they believe in something, even if their idols come out to explain it in person, they will understand it as "being forced" and "having no choice in the face of capital."

No, we can't let the brothers be bullied! So what if Arclight is the only investor. As long as we still support the brothers, they will always be the top streamers, and there will definitely be other investors willing to help.

Theoretically, their idea is not wrong. Xiao Zhan's Xinli and Wajijiwa are under the influence of Tencent, while Wang Yibo's Lehua is close to Alibaba. Neither of them is afraid of Arc Light.

But what they didn't think about is that in the current cold winter of the film and television industry, capital giants such as Tencent and Alibaba would fall out with a leading force in the industry for the sake of two mass-produced traffic artists. This is a loss no matter how you look at it.

However, this logic, which most people can understand easily, obviously does not work for fans.

We fans are the bread and butter of these film and television companies. Without us, their TV series and movies will all fail. It doesn’t matter if you, Meng Bai, are the boss of “Arc Light”. When no one watches your drama anymore, you will have to invite our brother back.

Therefore, in order to "support" their brother from being threatened by capital, several fan groups of "The Untamed" decided to unite. Not only did they want to boycott Meng Ziyi, but they also wanted to boycott Arc Light.

However, just when they were mobilizing each other and dividing their tasks, a "secondary creation video" that suddenly appeared directly disrupted all their plans.

There is a saying among the audience circle that whether a drama is truly popular or just a false popularity can be determined by how many secondary creations the drama has.

For top-tier masterpieces like "The Legend of Zhen Huan", even after ten years, there are still audiences who continue to create new ideas from various novel angles.

On the contrary, if the popularity of a drama is entirely due to marketing and there are actually few viewers, then even during the so-called hot period, no one will be interested in making secondary creations.

Although the fans of the drama "The Untamed" are a bit crazy, it is indeed a hit. As early as when the crew just released the trailer, there were already a large number of clips and secondary creation videos on platforms such as Bilibili and Douyin.

One of the more popular types is to add character avatar stickers to other cheesy videos with similar plots, recreating famous scenes in the drama in a more humorous way.

However, most of the secondary creations are created by fans out of love, so the quality varies, and there are also some shoddy works.

This time, what caused the dispute among fans of different groups was a low-quality re-creation. The maker was a fan of Xiao Zhan, and she reproduced a famous scene from The Untamed, "Lan Wangji drunkenly steals a chicken."

This segment is talked about by many drama fans because of the contrast in plot and character settings, as well as the "sweet interaction" between the two male protagonists. It is also a common material for various secondary creative videos.

It’s just that this fan-made secondary creation is indeed a bit rough. A relatively bloody video clip was chosen as the background image, which makes the image of the character "Lan Wangji" in the video somewhat collapsed.

Now Wang Yibo’s fans are unhappy. You “Peter Pans” (the name of Xiao Zhan’s fans) can make videos if you want, but why are you slandering our family’s image?
"Motorcycle Sisters" (Wang Yibo's fans) instantly flooded into the comment section of this video, demanding that the creator delete the video immediately and apologize to them. Some of the more anxious fans even started to curse directly.

As if frightened by the outcry from these fans, the creator’s fan quickly deleted his video but remained silent.

"Motor Sister" was naturally dissatisfied with this result, and continued to send private messages to the creator asking him to apologize.

In fact, this kind of thing is a daily occurrence in the fan circle. Today you attack me, tomorrow I attack you, and the day after tomorrow we attack him together. Often, before the idols say anything, the fans rush forward first, vividly demonstrating what "the master is humiliated and the servant dies" means.

It was the same this time. The other party deleted the video quickly, obviously because he was scared. Next, he was asked to apologize, admit his mistake, promise not to damage his brother's image in the future, and then delete the account and quit the Internet.

This small local war will not attract any attention at all. Everyone’s main energy should be focused on resisting the evil "Arc Capital" and that bad woman.

However, what they didn't expect was that the fans of the creator who was attacked suddenly sent a new message after being silent for a day. However, it was not an apology as they expected, but a "provocative letter" instead.

In the new message, this "Peter Pan" directly mocked that Wang Yibo was just a second lead. The popularity of "The Untamed" was mainly due to their actor Xiao Zhan, and Wang Yibo was just riding on the popularity.

This has touched the sensitive spot of the "Motorcycle Sisters". You know, since the drama "The Untamed" has not yet been aired, the two families have been arguing about a topic - the ranking dispute.

"Peter Pan" insists that Xiao Zhan is the leading male in this drama. Whether it is the ranking of the crew's publicity, the position of the name on the poster, or the data performance after the actual broadcast, it shows this.

However, the "Motorcycle Sisters" insisted that the gay dramas have "two male protagonists" and the two leading actors are equal, and there is no question of one taking advantage of the other.

This topic has always been a point of contention between the fans of both sides, and it was temporarily suppressed because they had a common enemy. Unexpectedly, it was directly exposed this time, and the fans' emotions could no longer be suppressed. They began to call their friends and vowed to let this "rival" know their suppressive power.

Xiao Zhan's fans naturally did not show weakness. Although they were the ones who started the conflict, they would definitely help their own people first at this time, not to mention that what they said was not wrong.

Fans of both sides quickly started fighting, controlling comments, counter-controlling comments, posting tanned photos, posting ugly photos, making up rumors and gossip, spreading negative information, posting photoshopped photos of the rival idols, and revealing the identities of the rival fans...

The various means of attack from the fan circle quickly spread during the actions of both sides.

Several big fans on both sides initially wanted to restrain themselves. After all, the drama is still on the air, and conflicts at this time will only affect the perception of ordinary audiences and passers-by fans.

However, fans are a scattered group, and they don’t care about big fans or small fans when they are fighting. In addition, there are always some people in the fan groups of both sides who are provoking each other, so in the end, those big fans were also dragged into the fight and went to war with the other side.

Some universal fans and CP fans who like both sides still want to mediate the fight. However, within the fan circle, DD party (universal fans) and CP fans are at the bottom of the contempt chain. No one cares about their efforts to mediate, and they are often even scolded by both sides at the same time.

For a time, whether it was the barrage and comment section of the main film, Weibo, or community platforms such as Bilibili and Douyin, as long as it was related to "The Untamed", one could see the fierce battle between fans of both sides.

And it doesn’t matter whether you are a fan or a passerby, as long as the content of your comments is biased towards one side, you are his member.

Many ordinary viewers and passers-by were attacked for this reason and had to choose to shut up.

But it must be said that with this ultra-high frequency of "interaction", the popularity of "The Untamed" has increased a lot.

If the scale of the "battle" had remained at this level, it wouldn't have been a big deal. Although the fans on both sides were fighting fiercely, at least they were still within the same circle. But at this time, a new accident occurred.

In late August, the finale of The Bad Kids was aired. Although the audience's evaluation of the show was somewhat poor due to some plot deletions and line changes near the end, the overall level still maintained the expectations of the early stage.

By the time the last episode was aired, the popularity of the entire series had reached 12800, the highest record since the promulgation of the "New Film and Television Regulations". Plot elements such as "climbing together" and "BGM little white boat" have created a trend of following the trend and playing with memes across the Internet.

The leading actor Qin Hao has become one of the top actors among the Mesozoic era, and the national popularity of the three younger leading actors has also soared. Even the supporting actors such as Zhang Songwen have seen a lot of popularity improvement. It can be said that everyone has risen.

Thanks to this breakthrough masterpiece that dominated the entire summer, Qiyi TV continued to surpass Tencent and Youku and firmly sat on the throne of the country's number one streaming media platform.

The producer Arclight Films once again demonstrated its ability to produce "masterpieces" and the suppressive power of its top team to the film and television industry. Even the recent "boycott" action by fans of The Untamed was suppressed.

They can easily overwhelm your "traffic + big IP" works by making a drama without a popular cast or big-name stars. Is there any meaning in talking about "resistance"?
At the same time, many viewers are also very interested in the last two parts of the "trilogy".

Qiyi TV issued a timely announcement, stating that the second part of the "trilogy", "The Undocumented Crime", will be broadcast before the end of the year, and the third part, "The Silent Truth", is scheduled to be broadcast at the beginning of next year.

There are even rumors that the three major awards next year may allow online dramas to participate in the selection. If the news is true, then "The Bad Kids" will definitely have a place in next year's awards season.

But no matter what, "The Bad Kids" has finally ended. At the same time, on the popularity rankings of major data platforms, "The Untamed" finally got rid of the suppression and rose to the top position.

Another drama, “The Longest Day in Chang'an,” also rose to second place.

To be honest, all three dramas this summer can be called hits, with popularity basically above 12000. If they were released in other time periods, they might all win the championship in the same period.

Although "The Longest Day in Chang'an" is one place behind, the gap between it and "The Untamed" is not that big. Moreover, it follows the path of "pseudo-drama", which will give it an advantage over the other in the selection of various awards in the future.

So although fans of "The Untamed" and "The Longest Day in Chang'an" occasionally make some sarcastic remarks, they basically have nothing to do with each other.

The fight between the other team’s fans was the same this time, and most people chose to watch the show.

But what was unexpected was that I don’t know which group started the attack, but they actually started a group attack on Yi Yang Qianxi, saying that he was an outdated traffic star and that the top traffic stars now belonged to newcomers such as Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo.

Now the fans of the four-character character are not happy. Let's not talk about whether it's out of date or not. You don't follow the basic etiquette of the fan circle, such as "self-entertainment" and "first to tease is inferior". And after all, our family is also a senior according to the time of debut, so we should have some respect.

Since the two dramas started airing, the fans of the four characters have been grumbling about the poor performance. Now they have finally got the chance to be right, so they can vent their anger.

At this point, "Thousand Paper Cranes" (the name of Yi Yang Qianxi's fans), whose combat power is stronger than "Peter Pan" and "Motorcycle Sister", finally came out and suppressed the other two at the same time with its own strength.

However, these two companies are not pushovers and have started to attack and cooperate at the same time.

When there are only two parties, they are hostile to each other; when facing a third party, they become allies.

The three companies fought in a mess, and the scale of the fight gradually became uncontrollable and began to spread to passers-by.

The real fan circle war has finally begun.
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"Wow-wow-tsk tsk ..."

In the room, Meng Ziyi held his mobile phone, watching the online fan circle war, and exclaimed from time to time.

She was originally a little upset about the attacks she had suffered, but now it seems that the methods those fans used to deal with her were at most only 60% to 70% of their strength.

If she had really opened fire with all her might like she was doing now, she would have been blackened into coal long ago.

"Uncle, what on earth did you do? How could these fans make such a fuss?"

Meng Bai, who was sitting next to her, looked up at her and chuckled, "In fact, we didn't do anything. We just slightly amplified the comments of these fans in the fan circle at a few points. We were actually quite surprised that it would develop to this point."

Because they were worried that Taiyang Chuanhe's "cold treatment" would not be effective, Arc Light added an additional "provocation plan".

In order to avoid being discovered by these fans that there was someone behind the scenes, they adopted a mode of action. For example, the creator who posted the video at the beginning was indeed a fan of Xiao Zhan. After being attacked, he was indeed prepared to apologize.

It was at this time that someone from Arclight came up to him, disguised as "Peter Pan". With a round of consolation, encouragement and provocation, the fan successfully aroused his fighting spirit of "fighting for his brother", which led to the subsequent provocation.

Then, the people from Arc Light pretended to be fans quarreling with each other to attract their own groups, and at the critical moment, they pulled Yi Yang Qianxi's fans into the scene, successfully creating a conflict among the three parties.

To be honest, if these fans think about it calmly and look at the past speech records of those "trouble-making" accounts, they will definitely suspect whether someone is deliberately provoking trouble.

Unfortunately, most of the fans are young teenagers, who are not mature and easily get carried away. In addition, they already have grievances among themselves, so no one cares about these flaws.

Once the "war" begins, even if someone realizes something is wrong and wants to stop it, it will be impossible.

So to be honest, the arc of this incident was just a small spark, and then these fans in the fan circle came forward and burned it into a raging fire.

This "incitement" plan was proposed by Meng Bai and implemented by Li Mu and the Arclight Public Opinion Department. Although the scale was a little larger than expected, the results were not bad.

Most of those who originally attacked Meng Ziyi were core fans. Now that these "main forces" have all gone to the "three-way battlefield", naturally no one is paying attention to this side.

Of course, just because no one is scolding her doesn’t mean that her fans have forgotten about Meng Ziyi. They will still criticize her if they see her. However, her reputation among passers-by and ordinary audiences should be preserved, which is enough.

"and this."

Meng Bai put two scripts on the table: "There are several projects in preparation recently. I picked out two that are more suitable for you."

As he spoke, he placed two scripts side by side. "One is a new drama in the 'Retrospective Series' that Arclight has just launched, called 'Twinkle Twinkle Star'. You play the female lead, Lin Beixing, a girl who travels between a 30-year-old office worker and an 18-year-old high school student."

"The other is a costume drama called "Eastern Palace". The heroine Qu Xiaofeng is a princess of a foreign race with a cheerful personality and the courage to love and hate. The character's personality is quite attractive. If the performance is good, it should attract a wave of fans."

Meng Ziyi picked up the two scripts and flipped through them. Just as Meng Bai said, both the plot and the role were very suitable for her now. It was obvious that these were specially selected for her.

She bit her lower lip lightly, and a warm feeling rose in her heart. How could she not be moved that her uncle was so busy, yet he still thought about finding the right resources for her.

When she thought about how much effort he had put into saving her from his haters recently, she was deeply moved.

Thinking of this, Meng Ziyi suddenly stood up and walked forward, hugging Meng Bai directly——

"Thank you, uncle."

(End of this chapter)