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

Chapter 488 Grand Slam!
Speaking of which, there was quite a lot of fun in this year's Golden Eagle Awards.

The organizer in Jiangxi completely split the actor awards into two parts: "Strength Award" and "Popularity Award". The original intention was to make up for the mistakes of the previous session and reduce the controversy among netizens.

But the result was not satisfactory. Fans of the actors nominated for the "Popularity Award" continued to fight with each other and voted frantically for their brothers and sisters.

As for the male actors, Wang Yibo has always been in the first place since the beginning. Although 740,000 votes were cleared later, he still won the "Audience Favorite Actor" award with a huge base of nearly 2.6 million votes.

In comparison, the situation on the actress' side was much more ups and downs.

At the beginning, Tan Songyun took the second place with a popularity advantage of 400,000 votes. Because the first place winner Zhao Liying had been elected as the "Golden Eagle Goddess" before, most fans and viewers thought that this year's "Goddess Throne" must belong to Tan Songyun.

Unexpectedly, at the last moment before the voting deadline, Song Qian, whose performance had been mediocre before, suddenly saw a massive increase in votes. From more than 300,000, she suddenly rose to more than 900,000, and "came from behind" to take the first place.

As a result, the title of this year's "Golden Eagle Goddess" naturally fell on Song Qian.

Tan Songyun's fans were naturally unhappy with this result, and they complained to the organizers about their opponent's vote-rigging behavior.

It’s a pity that Tan Songyun has a small number of core fans and their strength is weak. Most of them are new fans attracted by the hit "Under the Power" at the beginning of the year. How can they be a match for the "Xiangcai Baby" (the name of Song Qian's fans) who have been fighting in the Korean and domestic entertainment industries for many years.

According to the common development in the industry, it is difficult for this kind of thing to have any results. Even if you want to attack, there is not much heat.

But this time it was a little different, because Song Qian's fans voted so hard that she directly surpassed Zhao Liying who was originally ranked first.

Now the "fireflies" (Zhao Liying's fans' name) are not happy. They say that they don't care if you guys compete for the "Golden Eagle Goddess". Anyway, we have won it before and can't win it again. But the problem is that according to the award selection rules, the popularity vote number determines who wins the "Audience Favorite Actress" award.

Although they all have round faces and are sweet, the fighting power of the fans of the "85 flowers" is not as weak as that of the "90 flowers". They all fought their way out of the bloody storms back then.

On the day when the "Golden Eagle Goddess" candidate was announced, the "fireflies" began to gather and attack the Golden Eagle Award officials and "Coriander Babies", and the momentum was extremely huge.

The Golden Eagle Awards were already nervous because of the last election, and when they saw this situation, they decisively admitted defeat. Just after announcing that Song Qian won the "Golden Eagle Goddess", they issued a notice saying that there was vote manipulation during the voting period, which also caused the subsequent voting to be dehydrated.

After removing the vote-rigging data, the votes of Zhao Liying and Tan Songyun increased instead of decreased, still maintaining 800,000 and 400,000 votes.

Song Qian's data was a bit miserable. More than 500,000 votes were removed after dehydration, and the actual number of votes was only 370,000 or 380,000, ranking third.

All I can say is that only when the tide goes out can you tell who is swimming naked.

Zhao Liying’s fans are very happy that their sister is still in first place and has secured the award.

Song Qian's fans were silent on the surface, but secretly happy. Anyway, she had already won the title of "Golden Eagle Goddess". After three to five years, netizens would have long forgotten the disputes of this year. The only thing that was real was the honor she had won.

Only Tan Songyun suffered a huge loss.

There is no way, the organizer has already announced the candidate for the "Golden Eagle Goddess", and the makeup photos and promotional posters have been posted all over the Internet. It is impossible to tell everyone now that our votes have been inflated, so let's choose again.

The Golden Eagle Awards itself is also quite depressed, because the "Golden Eagle Goddess" has nothing to do with them. It was just created by the organizer Mango TV to promote the bundled Golden Eagle TV Festival.

The key is that this thing cannot be explained to the outside world. Ordinary audiences don’t care whether it is an “award” or a “television festival”. They all have the name of “Golden Eagle”, so they will criticize it together.

The organizers can only try to minimize the impact of this incident. All the promotional resources supporting the past few sessions have been cancelled, and everyone should just pretend that nothing happened.

So just as Meng Bai said, facing the current situation, the Golden Eagle Awards really doesn't want anything to go wrong anywhere. Therefore, for the "The Bad Kids Grand Slam" that many viewers and netizens are looking forward to, no matter what the considerations are, it is impossible to go against it.

"I declare that the winners of the 30th China TV Golden Eagle Awards for 'Outstanding TV Series' are, 'A Flowing River', 'The Longest Day in Chang'an', 'All Is Well'... and 'The Bad Kids'!"

"Wow—"

There was applause and noise at the same time, even covering up the loud music coming from the speakers.

Although this result was already expected, when the "Grand Slam" really appeared in an online drama, it still made people feel deeply moved.

Meng Bai stood up, smiled and thanked the crowd around him who were celebrating, and then walked onto the stage with the other award winners of several other winning works.

After receiving the "Golden Eagle Cup" from the presenter, he stood aside quietly waiting for the other people to give their acceptance speeches. Several people spoke one after another until the microphone was finally handed to him.

Looking at the numerous guests, audience and cameras below the stage, Meng Bai chuckled and then spoke.

"Thanks to the Golden Eagle Awards, The Bad Kids won this award. As you all know, this trophy is one of the most important trophies we have won this year."

"From 2014 to today, online dramas have been around for seven years. In these seven years, online dramas have gotten rid of the impression of being 'low-cost, shoddy, and skirting the rules' and have become an indispensable part of today's film and television industry."

"As a web drama practitioner, I would like to thank the audience for their love, the government for their support, and the increasing number of mainstream awards for recognizing us. I hope that in the next seven years, my colleagues and I can produce more high-quality domestic film and television works for everyone, and demonstrate the country's cultural confidence. Thank you all!"

After the "Outstanding TV Series" award ceremony, the only award left in the entire ceremony was "Best TV Series". This award was won by the mainstream drama "Diplomatic Storm", which was considered to be a consensus among all parties.

It was different from previous award ceremonies because "The Bad Kids" only had one nomination tonight, so only Meng Bai was present.

"Congratulations, Teacher Meng."

Zhang Ruoyun came over with his assistant and said, "Your speech was great. I almost cried after hearing it."

There was also some emotion in his tone.

When Soul Ferry was released, the industry directly called 2014 the "first year of online drama". This drama not only opened up Meng Bai's career, but also marked a turning point in Zhang Ruoyun's career.

"So, we have known each other for seven years." Meng Bai said, "Alas, you are about to have a child without knowing it. I can finally put my worries aside. That's great."

"Fuck, you're taking advantage of me again!"

Zhang Ruoyun cursed with a smile and put his arm around Meng Bai's shoulders: "Let's go, you're hungry after sitting all night, you can treat me to a midnight snack later."

"Why?"

"You won the prize!"

"Hey, your reason... is quite convincing!"

(End of this chapter)