Chinese entertainment: Top stars have no holidays

Chapter 103 Look at this noodle, it's so long and wide.

It has to be said that after Lu Ge's reed fans joined in, Jiang Bai's fans, the "white rice fans," have indeed become much more powerful.

If the previous battle with the wool was merely a training exercise...

This fan war between Baimi (white rice) and Meigeni (Meigeni) can be called a war.

Yes, it's a war where white rice is unilaterally crushing Megni.

The mature and reliable former Reed sisters know exactly how to go against Megan.

Other fan groups rely on finding dirt on the spot, searching for evidence, and hastily controlling comments to counter the attacks when they clash with each other.

But for veteran fans who experienced the chaotic fan wars of the EXO era and clashed with Meigeni for years, dealing with Kris Wu's scandals didn't require any last-minute preparation.

Almost every seasoned user of the "Reed" app has several neatly organized pages in their phone's photo album or cloud drive folder.

A clearly categorized long-form chart summarizing Chris Oh's scandals, timeline, and compilation of past controversies.

The one who knows you best is always your enemy!

Those former Reed sisters who had just joined the White Rice Club only needed to make a slight move, and Megan was utterly defeated.

Most importantly, many idle fans and casual observers have also sided with Jiang Bai.

One is a newcomer with no scandals.

One is Chris Wu, whose controversial and tainted reputation is countless: numerous mishaps, controversial topics, and negative rumors pile up so much that they could fill a book.

It's obvious who to support.

The entire battle lasted from late at night until the early hours of the morning.

From her initial arrogance and mockery of others' attempts to extort money, Megan gradually lost ground and became unable to refute, eventually resorting to incoherent ramblings.

In the end, they were completely defeated and had to run away in fear. They could only lock their posts, mute their microphones, and hide in the super topic to comfort themselves. They didn't dare to continue arguing with Baimimi at all.

The newly joined White Rice sisters, who were formerly known as Reed Sisters, really know how to break Megan's defenses.

They're even personally teaching the old white rice fans how to fight in fan wars and how to use special attacks on Meigeni.

The next morning, when Jiang Bai woke up with the fragrant Xiao Tian in his arms, Meigeni had already been beaten and was running away in fear, becoming withdrawn and cursing Bai Mifan.

He said he didn't lose to them, but to his old rival who was just a white rice husk!

This is not a fault of the war!

The related trending topics on Weibo have also been suppressed.

As for who pressed it down...

Anyway, it wasn't done by Dailu's side.

She didn't take this fan war seriously at all; it was just a post on Douban that broke the news, and at most it would just be a fight between the two fan groups.

Most ordinary people didn't even know last night that Jiang Bai and Chris Wu had this little anecdote about their backing.

Everyone was only focused on that lively cat show.

Who would bother to click on their super topic page if they weren't fans?

What may seem like a big deal in the fan community may not actually attract much attention from the outside world.

From beginning to end, apart from causing Megan to lose face and Chris Wu's public image to plummet again, no one was substantially affected.

But this issue is definitely something that both Dai Lu's Jiang Bai team and Chris Wu's team remember.

The feud between the two can be considered to have started.

After quickly checking his phone to make sure there were no major problems, Jiang Bai woke up Xiao Tian, ​​who was exhausted from the previous night and still asleep. The two of them went to the bathroom to wash up and then headed to the airport, going their separate ways once again.

The filming period for "Ever Night" was longer than that for "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," as it required filming on location all over the country.

So even though Oda, the female lead, doesn't have many scenes, filming won't wrap up until the end of December.

Just as Jiang Bai and Tian Xiwei went their separate ways to their respective film crews...

The aftermath of last night's typhoon and the fan war continue to escalate within the "Cute Drama" studio.

Dai Lu is having a meeting with the studio's publicity and public relations team.

The main thing is to figure out how to make things difficult for Chris Wu.

Xu Xu had already given Dai Lu a detailed account of what happened backstage at the Tmall Double 11 Gala last night.

Dailu was furious after learning the whole story.

In the eyes of Dai Lu and everyone in the studio, Jiang Bai is the one and only star that has descended from heaven to the cute drama studio.

It is the core lifeline and the only trump card of the entire studio.

Now that he has secured his position as a top influencer, and yet he is being bullied in public for putting on airs, isn't that a waste of his status as a top influencer?

We must fight back!

The best way to retaliate is naturally to find something that can affect Chris Wu's image and stir up trouble for him!

Having been in the entertainment industry for many years, Kris Wu is no longer satisfied with just being a regular star in film, television, and variety shows.

All of his current public relations marketing and persona building are aimed at breaking into the international high-end fashion circle and striving for the status of an international superstar.

With her arms crossed, Dai Lu paced back and forth in the public relations team's office area, muttering to herself, "Chris Wu's Burberry contract is about to expire, and he's putting all his efforts into securing a partnership with LV."

"I heard that Kris Wu wants to get a global ambassador contract from LV, something they've never offered before!"

"Is there any strategy that can precisely lower his fashion image, shatter his persona as a high-end international trendsetter, and disrupt his negotiations with LV?"

It's no secret in the industry that Chris Wu's team has been working hard on public relations with the top luxury brand LV to secure a global ambassadorship.

This is his most important business plan this year, and also a key factor in maintaining his high-end, luxury image.

Dai Lu didn't expect to ruin the whole thing.

But making things more difficult for Chris's team, causing some disruption, and ideally lowering his own prestige, would also give Jiang Bai a chance to vent his anger.

Her question caused everyone in the publicity and public relations team to fall into deep thought, looking down at the information on their computers and sorting through the negative information about Chris Wu.

To be honest, this is an extremely difficult problem.

To be honest and objective, Kris Wu really does have a very stylish face.

His features are three-dimensional and exquisite, his contours are cold and sophisticated, his bone structure is perfect, and with his superior height of 1.87 meters and perfect body proportions comparable to professional male models, he is indeed naturally favored by luxury brands.

Countless celebrities in the industry desperately market themselves as fashionable and trendy, yet they can never truly project a high-end image.

With just his looks and aura, Kris Wu can easily pull off all kinds of haute couture and luxury goods, and his sense of fashion is innate.

This is also why, although his popularity is not as high as Lu Han's, he has been able to surpass Lu Han by several levels in terms of high-end luxury endorsements and fashion resources.

He is currently the most sought-after celebrity in the fashion industry in China.

Jiang Bai is actually an artist like Kris Wu, whose image and temperament are favored by the fashion industry.

However, he currently lacks the necessary sophistication, so the fashion industry is still observing.

For artists like them, associating them with negative labels such as "uncultured," "lacking in style," and "cheap" is incredibly difficult, almost impossible.

The entire PR team buried themselves in a massive amount of information about Chris Oh, including past variety show clips, interview videos, and stage footage, but they couldn't find a clue for a long time.

Just when everyone was at a loss.

A PR staff member sitting in the corner, engrossed in reviewing Chris Wu's materials, suddenly had a flash of inspiration, looked up abruptly, and exclaimed with delight, "Mr. Dai, I've found a breakthrough!"

Everyone looked up at him instantly. A glint of light flashed in Dai Lu's eyes. She quickly walked behind his computer, leaned over, and looked at the screen: "Speak."

"It's from the variety show '72 Floors of Mystery' that he recorded this year, where there's an impromptu freestyle segment that hasn't gone viral yet!"

The employee quickly opened the video file and explained as it played: "The recording location for that episode was a noodle shop in Xi'an. The production team asked him to improvise a rap to fit the scene."

"He pointed to a bowl of noodles on the spot and improvised a song, but the overall rhythm was awkward, the lyrics were straightforward, and there was no quality to it."

"This is completely at odds with the persona he created in 'The Rap of China' as a top rap mentor and a leading figure in Chinese rap."

"This video is currently only circulating in a small circle, it hasn't gone viral, and it hasn't been linked to his image on the show 'The Rap of China'. We might as well use this clip as a black history to hype it up."

Dai Lu stared intently at the computer screen, carefully watching the short, impromptu rap segment.

In the video, Kris Wu is seen holding a bowl of ordinary knife-cut noodles, pulling the noodles in his hands, and improvising a rhyme with a serious yet relaxed expression.

His tone was deliberately cool and aloof, but the lyrics were so straightforward and simple that they were both catchy and awkward.

"Look at this noodle, it's long and wide, just like this bowl, it's big and round."

After just one viewing, these two catchy lyrics instantly became a recurring, unforgettable part of my mind.

Simple, straightforward, corny, and catchy, it lacks the rhythmic quality and sophistication of rap, and even carries a strong sense of awkwardness.

At this moment, Dai Lu couldn't help but frown, her eyes filled with a mixture of amusement and exasperation.

That's so low-class.

That's so low-class.

Chris Wu, who usually markets himself as aloof, cold, and high-class, and claims to be a leading figure in Chinese rap and a force to be reckoned with on the international music scene.

On stage, they exude trendiness, but their actual freestyle improvisation skills offstage are surprisingly cheesy and awkward.

It looks like it has absolutely no technical content.

This scene perfectly shattered all his high-end persona, rap filter, and fashionable sophistication.

The persona of a high-end trendsetter, an international superstar, and the pinnacle of rap music collapsed instantly, revealing a strong sense of tackyness and creating a stunning contrast.

Dai Lu immediately made the decision, her tone resolute and firm: "Let's use this material."

"Focus our efforts on three major platforms where male users congregate: Hupu, Tieba, and Bilibili."

"The main focus is on a person whose image has collapsed and who is unworthy of their position."

"Is this the kind of person who sets the tone—a so-called leading figure in Chinese rap, a top mentor, an international star—whose live freestyle skills are really only this much?"

"They can't even rhyme as well as an average person, yet they dare to sit on the mentor's panel and give orders? They dare to boast about leading Chinese rap?"

"Just post this video clip, and ideally, share it everywhere, spreading this clip of Kris Wu's impromptu rap!"

Once the order was given, the entire publicity and public relations team immediately sprang into action, dividing tasks and cooperating with each other.

The editors are responsible for editing, and the operations team coordinates accounts on various platforms.

In just half an hour, the first batch of parody videos, character comparison videos, and rant posts officially landed on the three major platforms of Hupu, Tieba, and Bilibili, and quietly began to spread.

Meanwhile, Jiang Bai, who had already landed in Qingdao and successfully returned to the film crew, received the inside information from the studio immediately.

Jiang Bai was instantly left speechless, unsure whether to laugh or cry.

He was pleased with Dai Lu's protective behavior, but the way she did it also troubled him.

Is hyping up the "big bowl of wide noodles" meme really a bad thing for Kris Wu?

He couldn't help but remark that as his popularity and status within the industry increased, the ripple effects he generated also multiplied.

In the original timeline, the meme "Chris Wu's Big Bowl Noodles" didn't break until the summer of 2018.

At that time, the second season of "The Rap of China" was airing.

Chris Wu's team heavily marketed his image as a rap mentor, with fans frantically controlling comments to praise his skills, mocking rap enthusiasts across the internet, and making sweeping generalizations.

As a result, Hupu users posted an unedited audio recording of Kris Wu's rap and questioned the judging standards of "The Rap of China," feeling that Kris Wu's level was not good enough to be a mentor.

This time, they've really stirred up trouble for Megan.

They immediately started reporting various posts on the Hupu platform, which prompted a rebuttal from Hupu's official Weibo account.

Ultimately, Chris Wu himself angrily responded on Weibo, and that post contained the famous line, "Whose cheese did he touch again?"

And directly confronted Hupu: Hupu doesn't do sports but comes after me, looks like they're really bored — my music doesn't need to be listened to by you guys.

Hupu responded with jokes, freestyle rap, and temporarily changing the "like" function to "skr".

The two sides engaged in a major battle on Weibo and Hupu forum, a battle between fandoms and straight men's communities, historically known as the "skr battle on the pedestrian street."

It was during this epic battle that Kris Wu's impromptu rap on a variety show was unearthed, turned into numerous parody videos, went viral across the internet, and the "big bowl of wide noodles" meme became a mainstream phenomenon.

In the end, Kris Wu won and lost this epic battle.

He won because he had a lot of traffic and popularity, and he also severely hurt his fans, which refined and crystallized a lot of Meigeni (his fans).

He lost because of the "big bowl of wide noodles" meme, which became the most popular meme about him and sparked a nationwide meme craze.

Too many netizens who had no idea what was going on were also making fun of his memes everywhere. It's safe to say that anyone who goes online knows about his embarrassing impromptu rap.

Its prestige vanished almost overnight.

It was around this time that his collaboration with LV was already finalized, the contract was signed, and all that was left was to wait for the official announcement.

Later, they relied on the unprecedented title of LV's global brand ambassador to maintain their prestige.

If things ended there, Jiang Bai wouldn't have any objections, but this slapstick joke had indeed caused Chris Wu a great deal of trouble.

However, at the beginning of 2019, a capable person emerged in Chris Wu's team and came up with a way to turn the tide and save himself.

They capitalized on the situation by self-deprecating humor and turning negative publicity into popularity.

Chris Wu changed his previous stance of fighting hard against Hupu and even the entire internet's haters. He put aside the burden of traffic, accepted this "black mark", and tailored and released the title track "Big Bowl Wide Noodles".

Wow, Chris Wu's move immediately reversed public opinion.

This cheerful self-deprecation was well-received by passersby, with many even leaving comments like "Kris Wu, I'm sorry" under the song.

What was originally a dark history that was ridiculed by the entire internet has been transformed into a positive persona of being open-minded, insightful, able to take a joke, and having a broad perspective.

Not only did it completely clear up the public opinion crisis, but it also won over a large number of casual observers, and its reputation rose against the trend.

"Big Bowl Wide Noodles" generated a huge amount of buzz, and its explosive popularity was predictable.

I must say, this song is really good.

It even became Kris Wu's representative work that truly brought him into the mainstream, receiving rave reviews and topping the charts for a long time after its release.

More importantly, taking advantage of the popularity of this self-deprecating comeback, Chris Wu also took a jab at Cai Xukun, who is also deeply mired in the Bilibili parody quagmire, ridiculed by the entire internet, and like him last year, is still fighting back against netizens.

This makes her appear to have a much broader perspective, higher emotional intelligence, and a better mindset, completely surpassing the other person in terms of public image.

It can be said that this online backlash, which was originally enough to destroy his image, ultimately became the most successful public opinion turnaround and reputation boost in Chris Wu's career.

We've won so much, we're completely numb!

But now, everything has changed.

Because of a minor backstage conflict between herself and Chris Wu, and because of Dailu's protective counterattack, this old story was brought up again ahead of time.

If Dailu had orchestrated this, it would have gone viral much earlier.

Will Chris Wu's team come up with the solution of self-deprecation to turn the tide?

Or... could it prevent Kris Wu from releasing the song "Big Bowl Thick Noodles"?

If we could stop everything at the point where Kris Wu was being ridiculed and the internet was full of memes, that would be perfect.

Jiang Bai leaned back in his chair on the set, gazing at the bustling film set in the distance, lost in deep thought.

Time flies, and ten days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Just as Jiang Bai had predicted, the cause, timing, and groundwork for the public opinion fermentation had all changed.

But the final, wildly popular result was strikingly similar to the original timeline.

After all, the hype surrounding the first season of "The Rap of China" hasn't died down yet, and PGOne, Gai, and others remain incredibly popular.

Chris Wu, the newly crowned leader of rap, is still releasing press releases to boast that he has saved China's underground rap scene.

The sheer volume of press releases about hip-hop has already annoyed many users on Hupu and Tieba.

Just because people enjoy watching "The Rap of China" doesn't mean they actually acknowledge Kris Wu's rapping skills.

What people like are the contestants and the viral rap songs from the show!

Kris Wu isn't just someone who sings "6"!

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been called an electric eel and criticized for not being qualified to be a mentor.

Therefore, with the secret support and continuous promotion from the drama's cute studio, the show gained popularity.

The video of Chris Wu's impromptu freestyle while eating knife-cut noodles was quickly discovered by users on Tieba and Hupu who were dissatisfied with him.

As a result, countless content creators on Bilibili followed suit, creating derivative works, editing parodies, remixing and adapting audio, and making humorous comparisons.

Related videos emerged one after another, with views, likes, and coins soaring, dominating the entire site, and the catchy melody etched into the minds of countless netizens.

On platforms like Hupu and Tieba, where male netizens gather, the frenzy was in full swing, with millions of JRs (Hupu users) participating, making jokes and comments, and generating constant buzz.

The momentum has been successfully established, and it seems poised to completely expand its reach beyond its initial target audience.

Seeing this, Megan was forced to mobilize all her members once again to control the comments and defend the team.

A new round of large-scale online battles and infighting ensued with Hupu users, Tieba users, and casual observers.

They desperately tried to maintain their idol image, frantically defending and explaining, claiming that the clip was for the sake of the show, an impromptu joke, and should not be taken seriously, in an attempt to salvage their collapsing reputation.

But the online frenzy of memes and the undeniable evidence presented will only invite more ridicule and condemnation from netizens.

One can imagine that Chris Wu's face must have been absolutely dark during this time.

It was done more than half a year ahead of schedule.

On the evening of November 22nd, the verified Weibo account of Mr. Fan still posted a battle message.

Whose cheese did I stir up this time?

Some people only know how to do dirty tricks behind the scenes; my music isn't for people like you.

This time, his target was no longer just Hupu users, but extended to all haters, and even his peers in the community who were stirring things up behind the scenes.

Yes, Kris Wu and his team had no idea who did it.

They didn't even consider Jiang Bai's team.

Because Kris Wu has too many enemies in the industry, even more than Lu Han, who is a top-tier celebrity.

It's fair to say he has no friends in the Chinese entertainment industry, only enemies.

Therefore, his team is quite certain that this whole situation is being orchestrated by someone behind the scenes.

But there are too many people with motives, making it impossible to determine who did it.

Or it could simply be that a lot of people did it together!

Therefore, he had no choice but to launch an indiscriminate attack.

In contrast, Kris Wu's life has been plagued by misfortunes, with his high-end persona and rapping image collapsing.

Jiang Bai's life here is peaceful and smooth.

After successfully returning to the "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" crew, the filming schedule is nearing its end, with all main storylines and highlight scenes basically completed.

The entire series is nearing its final wrap-up, and is expected to wrap up on the 26th of this month, with a filming period of exactly 90 days.

The two custom-made OSTs he had promised the production team to create for the series, "Want to See You, Want to See You, Want to See You" and "Exchange the Rest of My Life," have also been completed.

All Jiang Bai needs to do is record it after filming wraps up.

Not only that, but he also worked overtime to complete the accompaniment production for a song he had hastily written a week ago, which he sent to the arrangement team.

On November 23, just as the internet was still reeling from the "Kris Wu Big Bowl Wide Noodles" meme, which was gaining popularity and becoming increasingly popular,...

After finishing work early in the afternoon, Jiang Bai went to a recording studio in Qingdao and successfully recorded a song in four hours.

He prepared a surprise for Chris Wu.

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