Japanese Entertainment: A Comeback Beginning from Bankrupt President

This program was filmed a few months ago.

At that time, Yuko Yoshioka was a very popular representative of the pure and innocent female artist. Her appearances in programs and dramas garnered a lot of attention. She was a money-making tool in the eyes of television stations, and sponsors were very satisfied with her appearances.

But it's different now.

After the show aired, everything related to it was impacted.

The television station itself, the program itself, and the sponsors who appeared in the program—but these are not the most outrageous things. The most outrageous thing is that the restaurants that Yoshioka Yuko visited in the program were also given bad reviews on the rating software.

The rating plummeted from 4.1 to 3.1 in just one night.

The reason for this is that the store had Yoshioka Yuko's autograph on it, which was also revealed on a TV program.

The shop owners weren't exactly unlucky; they just didn't expect Yuko Yoshioka to suddenly go bankrupt. Otherwise, they could have attracted Yuko Yoshioka's fans to make pilgrimages to her pilgrimage sites, increasing the shop's popularity and revenue.

That's how celebrities are; you never know when they'll have a major scandal.

The shop had nothing to say, and the television station had nothing to say either, because they had chosen to broadcast the segment about Yoshioka Yuko.

They could have re-edited the footage from the master tapes, which is a core part of crisis public relations. Every television station can do this, but before seeing the truth, people just want to test the power of public opinion.

The television station understands now.

The program's account was flooded with attacks, the producer's personal account was also attacked, and then the television station's account was attacked. In short, any account that had ever appeared on the internet was destroyed by netizens.

OK, NTV has taught all TV stations a lesson with its own image: when dealing with disgraced artists, just handle the crisis directly and don't worry about past relationships with their agencies.

Damn old flames won't bring any returns. The other party will still demand exorbitant appearance fees, and the TV station's goodwill will also decline because viewers will think the TV station is protecting disgraced artists, and they will turn to watch other TV stations' programs.

If the TV station brought this on itself, then the sponsors are the ones who really suffered.

The company was just routinely failing and had nothing to do with Yuko Yoshioka, but because of her appearance on the show, they suffered an undeserved disaster and woke up to find themselves being called an idiot.

Countless complaint calls flooded the company's customer service department, overwhelming the newly hired customer service staff, and this was just the beginning of their misfortune.

Someone online compiled a list of products endorsed by Yuko Yoshioka, intending to boycott these companies' products. They also conveniently included the sponsors from last night's program.

After all, NTV just casually released the program, so they just casually added it in. Blame NTV for this.

In response, the company immediately pressured the television station to remove all content related to Yuko Yoshioka. Otherwise, they would blame the television station for the losses, reduce future sponsorships, and in severe cases, withdraw their funding altogether.

The television station had no choice, because sponsors were the main source of funding for program production. The entire production team's livelihood depended on how much they earned; without them, they would starve.

They started operating, and not just one television station.

Yuko Yoshioka won't just participate in one program; her footprints are all over major TV stations. It's just tough on the staff in charge of editing. They're halfway through watching the drama, but then they get caught up in it themselves and have to be called back by the production team to work overtime.

bother.

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There's much more to the story surrounding the Yoshioka Yuko scandal.

It's like a company recalling related products overnight, not because of quality issues, but simply because the product packaging had a picture of Yuko Yoshioka printed on it. Overnight, it went from a best-selling product to a worthless, rotten egg.

Some idle people dug deeper into the incident and discovered that Yoshioka Yuko had actually been accompanied by her best friend that day.

Yuko Yoshioka truly lives up to her reputation as Tokyo's best friend; she never forgets to bring her along when she goes out for a sneaky meal.

Her best friend's identity was quickly discovered; she was a female artist from the neighboring Platinum Productions. Although she didn't follow a pure and innocent image, she didn't go to Seoul to spend twelve hours in private with someone either, because she took a flight back to Tokyo overnight.

After the public uncovered the truth, the people at Platinum Productions breathed a sigh of relief.

Yoshioka Yuko is a mess right now; anyone who gets involved with her will get a broom in the face, and nobody wants to get close to her.

But no sooner had they breathed a sigh of relief than their hearts were gripped by a new discovery: the gossipers, having nothing better to do, had turned their attention to the nightclub that Yoshioka Yuko had visited.

As we all know, problems cannot withstand investigation.

Don't underestimate the eyes of those who follow the entertainment industry closely; they can spot problems with a sharper eye than the detectives of the First Investigative Division.

That same evening, someone released a so-called investigation report about the store, pointing out that the store was actually a members-only nightclub frequented by South Korean celebrities, and only celebrities with membership cards or those who were invited could enter and exit.

They didn't know if Yoshioka Yuko had a card or was invited, but they knew who frequented this nightclub.

The list included a high-profile guest—a celebrity recently arrested by Seoul prosecutors for drug-related offenses who frequented the nightclub before the scandal broke.

So the onlookers started to wonder if Yoshioka Yuko had touched something in this store.

Could it be drugs? Could it be controlled substances?

There is a type of person in this world who is not trustworthy: poisonous insects.

No one wants to believe that drug addicts are surrounded by clean people, nor does anyone want to believe that the places drug addicts like to go are free of poison. Even though her best friend helped Yoshioka Yuko draw some of the fire, after that fire burned even brighter for Yoshioka Yuko.

She was radiant, attracting the attention of countless people.

The more you dig, the more dirt you find. All you need is one point worth exploring, and that point has already been discovered.

Following the thread of the drug addicts' interpersonal relationships, various Sherlock Holmeses immediately came online, connecting the celebrities through the various photos they had previously uploaded, linking them together at a certain time and place, and dragging more people into the mess.

Besides the platinum production's best friend, artists from well-known South Korean entertainment companies have also been exposed, as have playboys from various agencies who have been to that nightclub.

There are celebrities with an innocent image, and there are celebrities with a playboy image.

They never explain their playful nature and have been frequenting various social occasions since a young age, including nightclubs, bars, and clubs. Wherever there is fun, they will be there, and the media has also reported on this in many related news articles.

But this time it's different; this time it's a suspected drug-related location.

The various agencies hurriedly began public relations efforts to clarify the safety of their artists, lest they be implicated in this undeserved disaster.

However, things did not go as planned.

The Metropolitan Police Department, which usually has little to do with the entertainment industry, quietly raided the Tokyo residence of popular actress Kashiwazaki late at night, finding ecstasy, a prohibited drug, in her home, pushing the whole matter into an even more complicated abyss.

Because Kashiwazaki was a regular at that nightclub.