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

Chapter 449 Cyber ​​Battle Cricket

The atmosphere was silent for a long time, until Du Hua and Wang Yibo were almost sweating, Meng Bai finally spoke.

"I heard from Ziyi before that you called her to apologize?"

Wang Yibo was stunned for a moment, then quickly said: "Yes. Because of my fans, Sister Meng was scolded, and I feel very sorry for her. In fact, when the crew was filming before, we were quite familiar with Sister Meng, and we didn't expect something like this to happen."

"Sister Meng?" Meng Bai looked at him, "What year was Xiao Wang born?"

"I'm 97 years old."

"Oh, then you should call me Sister Meng." Meng Bai said, "Okay, your Sister Meng said that this matter can't be completely blamed on you. Come to think of it, I should thank you for posting on Weibo to help explain it."

"Haha, Mr. Meng, that's too much. The incident was caused by us, so we should explain it clearly to our fans."

Du Hua smiled again: "These kids are young, and many things in the circle are immature. I hope Mr. Meng can give them more advice in the future."

After saying that, she touched Wang Yibo, who quickly thanked Meng Bai.

Meng Bai waved his hand: "Alright, stop being so polite. Let's just do what we need to do at the ceremony."

"Okay, Mr. Meng, we won't bother you any more." Du Hua stood up. "Regarding the program, if there's anything you need, just let me know."

"In that case, when there is a supporting stage, let Xiao Wang make a guest appearance to help increase the popularity of the show." Meng Bai said.

Du Hua immediately said, "No problem, President Meng, don't worry, just let us know whenever you need us."

Wang Yibo also nodded in agreement.

Seeing that the two were about to say goodbye, Meng Bai suddenly said, "By the way, let's take a photo together. Otherwise, those fans behind you will see you standing here for a long time and think I'm bullying you."

Wang Yibo hurriedly said: "No, Mr. Meng, I will explain it clearly to the fans..."

He was interrupted by Du Hua halfway through his words, who gave him a look and then said with a smile: "Then let's take a photo with President Meng, and we'll have one more item in the company's honor room in the future."

"Just post it on Weibo, forget about the Hall of Fame." Meng Bai joked, then stood up and took a photo with Wang Yibo.

Seeing that Meng Bai did not pursue the matter any further, Du Hua finally put his worries to rest.

In fact, before this, she had always wanted to bring Wang Yibo to apologize to Meng Bai. But Mr. Meng's whereabouts were erratic, and she had never been able to make an appointment.

Finally, we met at Scream Night on Strange TV tonight. Although the occasion felt a bit inappropriate, Du Hua still came here.

There is no way. Although Wang Yibo is now a top idol, there is actually no stage suitable for idols in the domestic entertainment industry. If artists want long-term development, they still have to go in the direction of film and television.

They can't squeeze into the traditional film and television circle, and can only rely on the emerging Internet capital. This field happens to be the main battlefield of Arclight, and the status of Arclight Film and Television can be seen from the attitudes of several major platforms.

Among the artists under Lehua Entertainment, the former ace Han Geng has lost his popularity and popularity as he gets older. Girl group idols such as Cheng Xiao, Wu Xuanyi, and Meng Meiqi are inherently at a disadvantage in the domestic entertainment market where female fans are the majority.

As the only remaining trump card, Lehua has high hopes for Wang Yibo. It would be terrible if he offended Arclight.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that being the top streamer sounds impressive and all the project parties are scrambling to get it, but in fact, that’s just what they say to the fans and is actually very empty.

There is no need to talk about the distant past. A few days ago, Weibo Night held a voting for the "Entertainment Person of the Year". Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, two of this year's "top-tier hits", were forcibly suppressed by UZI from the e-sports circle, and judging from the number of votes, it was a crushing defeat.

Facts have proven that male fans are not without value, it’s just that they pay less attention to the film, television and entertainment industries.

This can be clearly seen from the industry data. The total market size of the film and television entertainment industry is only 200 billion yuan throughout the year, while the game market alone has exceeded 300 billion yuan, not to mention other entertainment fields.

Celebrities seem to be very well-known, but this is only because of the high-profile nature of the film and entertainment industry. They have a loud voice, but their actual influence is not that high.

Du Hua has been working in the entertainment industry for many years, so she naturally understands the truth. So even though Meng Bai never expressed any restrictions on them, she still insisted on taking Wang Yibo to apologize in person.

Fortunately, the final result was pretty good. President Meng did not make things difficult for them, and the matter was finally resolved.

Watching Du Hua and the other person leave, and seeing off Tian Ming, Meng Bai sat in his seat with a playful smile in his eyes.

After taking a group photo just now, Wang Yibo directly posted a Weibo, saying that he was honored to meet Mr. Meng tonight and thanked him for his help.

You know, in the previous "The Untamed" incident, although his fans fought fiercely with Xiao Zhan's fans, they also agreed to "fight against the evil capital arc" together.

Now that the leader of one side has suddenly "betrayed" the camp, Meng Bai is very curious about what the reaction of his fans will be, and what the relationship between him and Xiao Zhan's fans will be like in the future.

Meng Bai touched his chin. It would be too narrow-minded for him to keep picking on a few little idols. It would be more interesting to just provoke them and play a game of "cyber cricket fighting" like this.

"Hey!"

A small hand patted Meng Bai's shoulder, and then Li Yitong's dissatisfied voice came from behind: "Why aren't you afraid at all?"

"I can smell your perfume from a long distance away, and you still want to attack me, haha."

"Tsk, you have a keen nose." Li Yitong sat down next to him, "Why did you come here tonight?"

"Girl, the person sitting in front of you is your producer. It's normal for you to come over."

"That's not what I'm talking about." Li Yitong said, "Didn't you dislike participating in these activities before? Why are you here again today?"

"It's been a long time since I last saw Boss Li, so I came here specially to keep you company." Meng Bai said without hesitation.

Upon hearing this, Li Yitong immediately smiled with her eyes curved - she knew this guy was trying to coax her, but she was willing to listen.

"'The Undocumented Crime' has been quite popular recently." Meng Bai said, "I saw many viewers praising your role for being good."

As the second part of the "Zijin Chen Trilogy", with the popularity of its previous work "The Bad Kids", "The Undocumented Crime" received extremely high attention as soon as it was released.

After the first episode was aired, the popularity value on the site exceeded 8000, and it ranked second on the real-time popularity list of online dramas on a third-party platform - the first place was "Joy of Life", the drama king of Tencent Video this year.

Coincidentally, the heroine of both dramas is Li Yitong. It is precisely because of these two hit dramas that this girl's popularity has increased rapidly recently. Many of her fans have expressed their feelings that their sister will no longer have only one "Tong Ronger" to show off.

"I have to thank Teacher Qin Hao and Teacher Zhang Songwen for their guidance. They taught me how to perform better on the spot." Li Yitong said: "Oh, and Teacher Ning Li, his character is the most popular."

Hearing this, Meng Bai couldn't help but laugh.

Indeed, the drama "Undocumented Crime" has the recently popular female lead Li Yitong, and Qin Hao and Zhang Songwen, who received rave reviews in the previous work. But what no one expected was that when the "male lead + female lead + male villain" were put together, none of the supporting roles were as popular.

The killer Li Toyota, played by Ning Li, is called "the new generation of killing god after Zhang Dongsheng" by the audience because of his ruthless and taciturn character, and his unique sign of "reverse smoking".

"The Undocumented Crime" has aired six episodes so far, and the character of Li Toyota only appeared for less than 20 minutes, but his popularity exceeded that of all the main characters. Even Ning Li did not expect that after acting for more than ten years, he would become famous because of a villain supporting role.

Unfortunately, the scale of the drama "The Undocumented Crime" is relatively small and the overall plot is not complicated, so it should be difficult to surpass the performance of "The Bad Kids".

Scream Night opens in the afternoon, but does not officially begin until the evening.

In addition to the two of them, Meng Bai's table also included Su Xiao, the president of Lemon Studios, Jiaozi, the director of "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World", Wang Jinsong who had just collaborated with Ruyi on "The Accidental Detective", and many more.

Instead, Qin Hao, Zhang Songwen and others were arranged at another table. It was not known what rules Qiyi TV used to allocate seats.

Meng Bai's main purpose of coming here today is to show up and wait to win the annual award for "The Hidden Corner". Other than that, there is nothing else.

Fortunately, Boss Li was with them. Although they couldn't do anything private due to the camera, it didn't affect their conversation.

"By the way, has the registration quota for your 'girl group audition' program been filled?"

"The number of applicants must have been full a long time ago, but the production team will still screen them, and it's hard to say how many will be left in the end." Meng Bai asked: "Why, Boss Li also wants to debut as a group?"

"Hehe, I won't cause trouble for myself." Li Yitong laughed, "It's a great joy. When we were chatting a few days ago, she said she wanted to participate in your program. I don't know if she can be selected."

"Has she signed up?" Meng Bai thought for a moment, as if he didn't remember seeing Jin Chen's name before. "Maybe they contacted each other during this period. Why, are you worried that she won't be selected?"

"A little bit." Li Yitong said, "Before Daxi, the company delayed her for more than a year because of the contract. Although she has started filming again, her popularity is no different from that of a newcomer. So she wanted to see if she could increase her popularity through this show."

"Then you can reassure her. What the show lacks most right now is contestants who can dance."

"Sisters Who Make Waves" is built as a girl group, so singing and dancing are definitely indispensable.

Singing is easier to say. As long as you are not a "genius" like Meng Ziyi, most people can sing along to the melody. Even if the singing is average, the sound can be corrected in post-production.

But dancing is not a skill that can be learned through intensive training. Although girl group dances are generally simple, the feeling when people with basic skills dance and novices dance are completely different.

Therefore, among the "sisters" who have registered so far, more than 80% have filled in singing in the specialty column. Only a few contestants, such as former girl group members Meng Jia, Wang Feifei, Zhang Hanyun, and Wang Likun, who has studied dance, have added the "dancing" item.

There are a total of 30 contestants in this program, and there are definitely not enough places for just a few people who can dance. Therefore, professional contestants like Jin Chen don't need Meng Bai to say hello at all, the program team will definitely not let them go.

Meng Bai had always heard that Jin Chen had good dancing skills and had won the "Taoli Cup" gold medal when he was in school. But apart from the few moves he practiced at his home, he had never seen the full version in person.

This time, I can satisfy his curiosity by taking the opportunity of recording the show.

……

The process of Strange TV's Scream Night took much longer than Meng Bai had expected. He sat on the scene for four or five hours before it was over.

After going back with Li Yitong, Meng Bai found out that he was on the hot search list when he woke up the next day.

One is the Weibo post he asked Wang Yibo to post last night - I don’t know whether it was posted by his fans or bought by Lehua, but it stayed in the top three of the hot search list for most of the day.

Meng Bai flipped through the comment section of the Weibo post with great interest, and just as he expected, the fans were confused by their own protagonist's sudden "defection".

Some continued to implement their previous "opposition" strategy, claiming that Meng Bai was deliberately taking advantage of their brother.

Others cheered on the contrary, saying that their brother had secured Arclight's support, so future film and television resources would not be a problem.

If there is anyone who is more confused than Wang Yibo's fans, it is Xiao Zhan's fans. We agreed to unite to fight, but how come your family surrendered to the enemy in the blink of an eye?

Originally, with the end of the broadcast of The Untamed, the conflict between the two groups of fans had eased a lot. But now, it has been intensified again.

But the situation this time is a little different. Since the era of traffic, too many passers-by and netizens have been fed up with this kind of "battle" between fan circles, and have expressed that these traffic fans should find a place to fight on their own and stop occupying the public platform.

The traffic fans have long developed the habit of automatically fighting in various fan circle battles. When they see someone criticizing, no matter if it is a passerby or a rival, they immediately start to fight back. This further intensifies the situation.

After looking around online, Meng Bai had a vague feeling that if these traffic fans continued like this, they would be hit back in no time. Now all they needed was a fuse.

But this has nothing to do with him. It’s also quite interesting to be a bystander and watch the “electronic cricket fight”.

As for another hot search, it was about him and Li Yitong.

The two sat next to each other for the entire night at Scream Night. Even though they tried to keep their distance, they would subconsciously get close to each other from time to time. Under the camera, they looked quite intimate.

But now is different from before. Meng Bai is too lazy to care about this kind of "scandal" that has no offensive power. At most, he asks the company to contact Weibo to remove the hot search.

Even Li Qin and the other girls didn't say anything, apparently they were used to his scandals.

Even Li Yitong's own fans have found an excuse for them - Meng Bai is the producer, Li Yitong is the leading actress, and it is normal for them to have a good relationship.

Looking at the fans who have automatically adapted, Meng Bai couldn't help but laugh. He really hoped that everyone could have such awareness!

After flipping through it casually again, Meng Bai was about to exit the app when a piece of news caught his attention.

【CCTV News: Recently, many cases of influenza have occurred in Jiangcheng, and the type has not yet been determined. Relevant departments remind everyone that winter is the peak season for influenza, so pay attention to protection. Wash hands frequently, ventilate frequently, pay attention to weather changes, and take good warming measures. If you find a fever patient around you, please seek medical attention in time. At the same time, please do not spread rumors. All information is subject to official release. 】

(End of this chapter)