Huayu: Starting from an Unemployed Male Model

Wei Jun does have haters; the first batch of haters probably started around the time of "We Are In Love".

The first batch of haters consisted of a very small number of Wei Daxun's career fans, Li Lin's physical fans, and people who couldn't stand seeing others do well.

Some people are strange; they can't stand seeing others who are handsome, have high emotional intelligence, or live a good life, and they always think about sabotaging them.

Wei Jun remembers the first negative comment was, "What kind of 'playboy with high EQ' persona is this? He flirts on the show, spouting cheesy pickup lines and raising his eyebrows in an ambiguous way. He's so greasy. Li Lin must feel like throwing up every day looking at him."

Haters believe that Wei Jun's high EQ persona is fake, a scripted character, and that he actually has very low EQ. They say he often scolds the staff on set, his cheesy pickup lines to Li Lin are greasy, and his smile looks fake, like a professional male model.

This earned him his first derogatory nickname, "Fake Jun" or "Tasteful Jun".

This first batch of haters was too few in number and lacked power; they were insignificant and were easily defeated by Wei Jun's fans.

The second batch of haters consisted of a very small portion of Zeng Shunxi's career-oriented fans and a group of online trolls hired by his company.

Wei Jun and Zeng Shunxi had no grudges. Their only connection was auditioning for the role of Tang Sanshiliu in "Fighter of the Destiny". They were competing for the same role normally. Wei Jun won and Zeng Shunxi lost. It's that simple.

Zeng Shunxi lost the role, but he didn't feel resentful or bitter. As a young master from Shenzhen, it would be shameful for him to make a scene just because he lost a role. With his good family background and education, he wouldn't allow himself to be so unreasonable, so the two didn't have a fight.

But this doesn't mean his fans and company will suffer in silence. They don't make a scene on the surface, but they curse him in private on various forums and online communities. His company even hired online trolls to smear him, but they were stingy and only hired a few hundred trolls to smear him for a while before canceling them for fear of wasting money.

However, it wasn't without its benefits; from then on, Wei Jun's anti-fan forum, "Fake Jun Bar," was established.

The group of anti-fans truly developed into a small but powerful force after the huge success of "The Wind Rises." This was triggered by Wei Jun's public recruitment on Weibo for campus youth videos or stories, with successful applicants receiving copyright fees.

As soon as the recruitment information was released, greedy and narrow-minded people sent their own campus videos/stories or stolen stories of other people's youth directly to Wei Jun's studio's email address. However, Wei Jun did not select their stories, but instead selected those videos that he thought were very bad and ugly.

Watching the chosen individuals reap a substantial reward and become internet celebrities due to the massive success of "The Wind Rises," their hearts twisted with jealousy. They began to hate Wei Jun, resenting him for not selecting their stories and for taking away the money and fame they deserved.

This group of people gathered together and posted insulting and defamatory words on various forums, online communities, video websites, and music platforms. They quickly attracted the attention of Wei Jun's "protectors" and were swarmed by the "protectors," who beat them to death or maim them. They eventually fled into the "fake Jun Bar."

The number of people in "Fake Jun Bar" grew rapidly, from a couple of hundred to over a thousand.

Now, these anti-fans have noticed that Wei Jun's new song "Touring Beijing" is showing signs of becoming a huge hit, and they are in a panic, constantly asking "like-minded people" on the forum how to suppress this ugly man, Wei Jun.

As the conversation went on, a "genius" hater came up with a brilliant scheme: to slander Wei Junli as having bad intentions, being selfish and self-serving, and using the National Day holiday, a day of universal celebration, to promote his new song, claiming that he had no patriotism and only cared about his dirty business.

When the haters heard about this brilliant plan, they were so excited that they jumped up and down and posted messages saying: Wei Jun, let's see if you don't die this time.

When they had finalized their attack plan and were about to take action, they were caught off guard by Wei Junxin's newly added fire.

合唱版《游京》MV于2016年10月5日中午12：00在全网同步首发，10分钟后冲上微博热搜第一。

#The duet MV with Yu Jing is heartbreaking# (explosive)

#Two Stars of Peking Opera - My Husband and I# (Hot)

#ChenqiaotouChenxiangkou# (Hot)

#These are the stars that young Chinese people should be following# (Recommended)

#Wei Jun's Little Gift#

It occupied five of the top ten trending topics and remained on the list for more than 36 hours.

The keyword "Liyuan Shuangxing" has garnered over 4 million views across all platforms, and netizens have spontaneously created the "Liyuan Shuangxing Super Topic" on Weibo, gaining over 30 followers in just two days.

Weibo's Super Topic feature officially launched in June 2016, with Lu Han becoming the first Super Topic user. Since then, many celebrities in the Chinese entertainment industry have joined Super Topics.

Wei Jun did not become a user of the Super Topic, mainly because he was too busy at that time. He left many promotional matters to Yang Hua, who was also busy. The Super Topic was newly launched, so she did not pay much attention to it.

Instead of creating a super topic, his "creation" of two stars from the Peking Opera world was created by fans.

The scene of "Li Lin gazing affectionately at Wei Jun" began to go viral, with many netizens spontaneously creating hand-drawn illustrations, fan art, and derivative edits, and turning these works into various images to use as their phone wallpapers.

On Bilibili, the official version of the music video garnered over 1260 million views within 48 hours, with a staggering 38 bullet comments, averaging nearly 12 bullet comments per second.

The screen was filled with comments like "I burst into tears the moment she opened her mouth," "I got goosebumps," "This kind of life is truly unforgivable," and "Today, my husband and I..."

Many content creators produced mashups into a "video series that makes you cry every time you watch it," and some even played the videos directly in their live streams, instantly boosting their popularity.

On Kuaishou, a large number of users have edited the "Liyuan Shuangxing" videos into countless short videos, such as "The Two Stars of Liyuan Poisoning the Invaders at the Chenqiaotou and Chenxiangkou" and "The Two Stars of Liyuan Performing a Spell in Opera Style". The number of views and likes ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions.

Some netizens even spontaneously reposted the MV to YouTube, and the MV surpassed 750 million views within 24 hours of its release, causing overseas Chinese, especially international students, to collectively break down.

The comments section was filled with phrases like "I cried while watching this in a foreign country," "I want to go home," "I'm proud to be Chinese," and "I'm going to go make a living right now."

At this time, Wei Jun's personal Weibo account officially surpassed 600 million followers, and his studio's followers surpassed 200 million, with the comment section being quite lively.

Wei Jun, this National Day gift of yours has made me cry so much, my nose is so stuffy, my roommates think I've gone crazy.

I burst into tears as soon as Li Lin started singing, and I couldn't stop crying, especially at the end when the two of them hugged each other, refusing to let go even as they were burned to death. That really touched me.

【Damn it, Wei Jun, you really deserve to die! You have no heart, you've made me, a grown man, cry my eyes out!】

[Fellow family members, who understands? I was working overtime during the National Day holiday, secretly watching the music video, and when the chorus started, tears streamed down my face like they were worthless. My colleagues even asked me what was wrong, which made it impossible for me to concentrate on work.]

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As the music video gained traction, official media outlets began to get involved.

@People's Daily reposted and added the following text: [National essence and national spirit, opera and battlefield, a song and a lifetime—the choral version MV of "Touring Beijing" pays tribute to the martyrs of the War of Resistance Against Japan with patriotic sentiments. The mountains and rivers are safe and sound; this prosperous age is as you wished. #TheseAreTheStarsChineseYoungPeopleShouldFollow#]

@CommunistYouthLeague: [Using young people's way to tell stories of patriotism...]

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