Huayu Entertainment: Tianxian really wants to improve

Chapter 351 Feng Kuzi, are you going to kneel down like this?
"Haha, isn't that perfect!"

Upon hearing this, Feng Xiaogang immediately burst out laughing.

According to their plan, if Gu Bei and Weibo really got angry and took action against his account, then it would be the perfect reason for Feng Xiaogang to cry foul.

However, Wang Zhonglei on the other end of the line showed no excitement. He said impatiently, "Come to the company first. It's hard to explain over the phone."

Feng Xiaogang logged onto Weibo with a question in mind, only to find that the notifications in the background were all insults directed at him!
what's the situation?
Feng Xiaogang was somewhat confused.

Just two days ago, most people supported him, but after Weibo actually took action against him, why did everyone suddenly stop supporting him?
Feng Xiao initially wanted to figure it out herself.
However, he received so many private messages, mentions, and comments in the backend.

Feng Xiaogang, who wasn't very knowledgeable about electronic products, couldn't figure it out for a while, so he could only hurry from his villa to Huayi.

at this time,

Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei are already having a meeting in the conference room.

Feng Xiaogang rushed over, and before he could even sit down, he couldn't help but ask, "What exactly happened? Why is everyone on the internet criticizing me?"

"The main reason is that Weibo officially posted a message last night announcing the ban on Director Feng, and the reason for the ban was that he had repeatedly promoted other platforms."

The PR manager explained the situation to Feng Xiaogang and showed him the Weibo post.

[Weibo: In view of the fact that users such as @冯晓刚 have repeatedly promoted other companies' platforms, after warnings and reminders have been ineffective, we have made a difficult decision to ban these accounts.]

Weibo is just a new platform. Our goal is to serve every user well and provide them with a platform to share their thoughts.

We sincerely urge our competitors to compete fairly and let their products speak for themselves, not their money!

"As expected, Tencent is as shameless as ever. I knew they would copy Weibo, and here it is."

"Weibo is so gentle. It keeps referring to Tencent, a rogue company, as a competitor. I feel like I'm seeing a weak little girl who has been cornered."

"This time I'm on Weibo's side. Not only is Tencent's interface almost identical to Weibo's, but they even copied the name. It's shameless!"

"And then there's Feng Xiaogang. I originally thought Director Feng was just a bit foul-mouthed, but I didn't expect that the things he did were disgusting too!"

"I just checked out our competitors' posts, and Tencent Weibo has also issued a statement denying that they paid Feng Xiaogang to join Tencent Weibo. It's like being someone's dog, nobody wants you!"

"Seeing how attentive Director Feng was next door, I originally thought Tencent was paying for it, but it turns out he's actually paying out of his own pocket!"

The top comments below further enraged Feng Xiaogang.

Along the way, he had been a subservient servant for who knows how long in order to seize opportunities. Now that he has finally achieved success, he is still regarded as a servant. Doesn't that mean that he has worked for nothing all his life?

Those words deeply stung Feng Xiaogang. He slammed his fist on the table and roared, "That brat Gu Bei framed me! I promoted other platforms, so show him the evidence!"

The voice just fell,

Feng Xiaogang noticed that no one said a word, and everyone was looking at him with strange eyes.

"Xiaogang, stop fooling around!"

Wang Zhongjun waved his hand, indicating that Feng Xiaogang didn't need to act anymore.

Meanwhile, the PR manager secretly pressed the remote control, and the conference room screen immediately jumped to the next page, which was Feng Xiaogang's Weibo homepage.

Aside from a few mentions of 1942 propaganda,
The rest all mentioned Tencent Weibo, intentionally or unintentionally.
However, the use of words like "next door," "other Weibo accounts," and "QQ" to replace them makes it almost immediately obvious that it was intentional.

When Feng Xiaogang saw this, he was completely bewildered: "How are these things displayed?"

The PR manager asked curiously, "Didn't you send these out?"

"I posted them, but these posts were not visible to others before. Only when I looked at them myself could I see that they were locked."

Feng Xiaogang said, completely bewildered.

The reason he dared to act so tough just now was because his previous Weibo posts, which were used to attract traffic, had already been proactively locked by Weibo.

He didn't know much about computer technology.
I thought this lock was irreversible.

As a result, Weibo's "great memory recovery technique" left him completely dumbfounded.
Isn't this just like exposing his butt to everyone?

"Director Feng, you should know that all your actions are recorded on the server, right?"

A young employee cautioned, "Don't think these Weibo posts are just locked. If Weibo wants to, it can even restore a draft you've only half-edited."

Feng Xiaogang suddenly felt a headache coming on.

This is completely different from the media era he is used to.

In the media age, he, as a sharp-tongued critic, can say whatever he wants without fear, because it's impossible to be remembered by the audience without any explosive moments.

People will forget about it very quickly after watching it.
Even if you remember it, the information is scattered across different news articles.

To investigate the whole story requires a lot of effort, and only investigative journalists have that kind of perseverance.

On Weibo,
Every word he uttered was recorded.
By simply clicking on the name after the @ tag, netizens can immediately be taken to his profile page.
His recent posts are readily available, making it easy to understand what happened.

"Xiaogang, delete all of these first!"

Wang Zhongjun took the initiative to break the awkward situation.

Let Feng Xiaogang do something, otherwise it will be too awkward.

Feng Xiaogang took out his phone and tried it: "No, it says I'm muted and can't do anything."

This is awkward; the once-powerful Huayu Entertainment's rising star has now become a dud!

"Can we sue him?"

Wang Zhonglei seized the opportunity to ask, "What Gu Bei is doing is definitely illegal, isn't it? It's my own account, can't I operate it?"

"Theoretically, it's possible, but if it's written in the user agreement, then there's no way to prevent it."

Just then, the young man next to Wang Zhongjun, who had been silent until now, spoke up, “But my suggestion is to start a cooling-off period right now and minimize the impact.”

Wang Zhongjun introduced to everyone: "This is Mr. He, the vice president of the investment bank. He is in charge of training us for this IPO."

After a pause, he continued to say to President He, "President He, please continue."

"Now is a crucial time for Huayi Brothers' IPO. My original idea was to postpone the release of 'Back to 1942' until the Lunar New Year season, and try to avoid any news at this critical juncture. This period is a quiet period for IPOs, and if it were a North American IPO, no information would be allowed to be released to the public."

Even without corresponding restrictions in China, it's best to remain silent; otherwise, it could negatively impact stock prices or even hinder the IPO process.

President He glanced at Feng Xiaogang with displeasure and spoke righteously.

"Xiaogang, you might have to go through some hardship this time."

Wang Zhongjun reassured Feng Xiaogang.

"fine."

Upon hearing this, Feng Xiaogang waved his hand.

After his anger subsided, Feng Xiaogang no longer dared to pursue the matter further, and instead felt a deep chill.

After all, I hadn't felt the terror of the Weibo platform before; I just thought it was similar to a newspaper.

But after seeing Weibo's "great memory recovery technique,"
Feng Xiaogang truly felt the gap between the two sides.
The newspaper couldn't just shut him up and then unilaterally criticize him;
The newspaper also had no way to restore his previous statements and make them available to everyone.

The gap between a platform and an individual is like an unfathomable chasm!
Even in this particular incident,
Weibo didn't even focus on him.
He was just one link in the chain of power struggle between Tencent and Weibo.

But this already made Feng Xiaogang feel powerless, as if someone had his throat choked and was making him say whatever he wanted!

Feng Xiaogang is no longer inclined to resist.

After all, that's how far he's come.
The word he understands best is "knowing when to be sensible".

After the public relations meeting ended
Feng Xiaogang approached Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei with great concern: "Mr. Wang, Mr. Wang, we think we should just postpone the release of 1942?"

We shouldn't continue to fight Gu Bei; his power extends far beyond our circle!

"Xiaogang, you're all grown up, are you really afraid of some young guy who just came back from Hollywood?"

Wang Zhonglei thought Feng Xiaogang was referring to Hollywood, and he laughed and mocked Feng Xiaogang, saying, "I didn't see you being that afraid of Wu Yusheng last year!"

"That's not what I meant."

Feng Xiaogang shook his head and voiced his previous concerns.

He then added, "This time they only released the Weibo posts I locked. If Gu Bei is shameless enough, he could even modify the content I post. Some things only require one or two words."

Wang Zhongjun calmly said, "He won't do that. Although Gu Bei is a bit straightforward, he still knows his limits. This kind of overstepping behavior will only do him harm."

“He may not necessarily need to resort to these methods. If Weibo develops in the future, it may very well become similar to Big Brother in Reply 1984. Anyway, I will never dare to go against Gu Bei again.”

As Feng Xiaogang spoke, his gaze subtly drifted towards Wang Zhonglei.

The source of everything right now

It was that argument between Wang Zhonglei and Gu Bei back then.
Huayi has come this far step by step in order to save face for Wang Zhonglei.
To this day, no one knows exactly what Wang Zhonglei said that angered Gu Bei, leading to a bitter feud between Huayi and Gu Bei. This has become an unsolved mystery in the entertainment industry.

Wang Zhonglei was furious.

Feng Kuzi, are you about to kneel down?
However, after Wang Zhongjun glared at him, Wang Zhonglei lowered his head and suppressed his negative emotions.

"I'll go back and think about it. Even if we want to reconcile, Gu Bei has to be willing to reconcile first!"

Wang Zhongjun reassured Feng Xiaogang.

But he had considered reconciling with Gu Bei.
Gu Bei completely ignored this suggestion.
I wonder what Xiao Lei said back then that made Gu Bei hate Hua Yi for so long?

A public relations meeting ended on bad terms.

However, everyone agreed on one thing: to handle it quietly.

During Feng Xiaogang's roadshow, he forbade the media and audience from asking this question. Even if they heard it, they were told to pretend they didn't hear it, and to act as if the matter didn't exist.

Huayi also remained completely silent, refusing all media interviews.

This is truly astonishing to the entertainment industry. Is it because the IPO hearing is about to take place?

However, at a broader public level,
Weibo and Tencent Weibo are the main players in this game.

Weibo preemptively banned a group of people with swift and decisive action, then seized the moral high ground with a seemingly weaker Weibo post.
The use of the term "competitor" in particular is an extreme example of personifying the company, instantly garnering public sympathy.

Moreover, in an era when public intellectuals control public opinion...
The high box office of "The Founding of a Republic" has aroused dissatisfaction among public intellectuals.
When Feng Xiaogang used patriotic propaganda for 1942, he inadvertently drew criticism to himself.
Just as the public intellectuals were getting into their rant, Feng Xiaogang revealed such a huge flaw, so naturally they followed up on that flaw and ended up on Weibo's side.

The next morning, Tencent Weibo issued a statement on its platform.

This response time is already considered fast, considering that public relations these days are measured in 'days', so half a day is already considered incredibly fast.

However, after denying that it had instructed Feng Xiaogang, Tencent Weibo accused Weibo of spreading rumors and even threatened to sue.

This tough stance not only failed to salvage its public image, but also aroused greater dissatisfaction among netizens, causing the newly launched Tencent Weibo to be labeled as a plagiarist from the very beginning.

In an instant, the entire internet was in complete chaos.

And at this moment,
Gu Bei was the instigator of this incident.
Standing at the border between Yunnan and Sichuan, I leisurely gazed at Lugu Lake outside the window.

Compared to when Gu Bei came here in his previous life, Lugu Lake is now basically undeveloped, and there are no guesthouses everywhere. Everything is quiet, like a paradise.

Gu Bei plans to film the ending of Gravity here.

That is, the lake where Liu Yifei landed from the emergency return capsule.

He chose this place for two reasons. First, the scenery here left a deep impression on Gu Bei; the water lilies and the Goddess Gemu Mountain could both be used as imagery.

Secondly, it is for the sake of a certain degree of rationality.
After all, the landing point of the emergency return capsule can be calculated.
Given the speed of the Chinese army's response, there are not many places within the country that cannot be reached in advance, and remote places like Lugu Lake are one of them.

The original explanation could be attributed to NASA's slow response and obstacles in data exchange between NASA and the Shenzhou return capsule.

at this time,

A pair of small hands with a slightly cool feel,
They blindfolded him and asked, "Guess who I am?"

(End of this chapter)