A small note! "Tea Accounts" are online accounts that fuel online gossip discussions. The name stems from the saying "spill the tea", which refers to "Tell the gossip" (^u^)/. I will use "Tea Account" and "Publicity" account interchangeably (depending on the tone of the context).
Also, LiuGuang Entertainment is being changed to "Flowing Lights Entertainment" for easier recall.
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When this Tea Account posted the phrase "Suppression", it instantly attracted the attention of many fans.
Carrying the spirit of gossip, Netizens each left comments in the discussion area, guessing who this d little fresh meat was.
In Huaxia's current entertainment industry, there were countless numbers of little fresh meats. As long as a newcomer was youthful and handsome, they could all be called little fresh meats. Moreover, this Tea Account that was part of the entertainment circle did not indicate whether this d little fresh meat was first-tier or second-tier. Then, according to this statement, even the eighteenth-tier transparent actor who just debuted could barely be counted as a little fresh meat.
Thus, the comments in the discussion area boiled over.
It was needless to say that the discussions on Weibo reached 5000 comments within an hour. In many major forums and Tieba, countless netizens continuously added to the discussion posts.
There were three categories of newcomer celebrity's fans (in the discussion forum). The first was the ones who sat to the side to spectate and listen to gossip. However, these fans' idols were not surnamed d; thus they could naturally perch on the wall and watch the spectacle with a smile. The second was the ones who endlessly searched for evidence to prove that their male gods were definitely not the kind of person who enjoyed publishing suppression news.
But in fact, most fans belonged to the third category. They didn't even have to guess and came to an answer immediately.
[What 'Surnamed d Little Fresh Meat', isn't this just Deng 'Suppression' [1]? Hahahaha, Didn't expect that the BaPo[2] would start nosying Deng 'Suppression'. What is going on, does BaPo really want to peel off Deng 'Suppression's' skin?]
"BaPo" was this Tea Account's nickname. Towards this sort of Tea Account, the fans didn't hold any favorability, but neither did they hold any negative feelings.
With time, the name "Deng Yiwen" was pushed into the top ten in the trending list under the comments section of Bapo's Weibo! That's right, among the top ten discussions, The three words "Deng Yi Wen" were seen clearly, and some netizens even directly mockingly used his nickname: [Deng 'Suppression']
By now, regardless if they were ordinary fans of celebrities within the circle, or ordinary netizens, they all immediately understood.
[Ah, so it turns out everyone was talking about Deng Yiwen? Does he like to suppress?]
[Wait, Can someone tell me what 'suppression' means, I don't understand yet.]
[No way, Deng Yiwen likes to publish suppression news? As part of the European circle, I haven't paid much attention to the circle within the country (Huaxia). He's actually so low? I had watched one of his TV dramas before and had liked him quite a bit.]
As a result, many netizens began discussing Deng Yiwen. They didn't even continue to verify whether this little fresh meat with the surname d was really Deng Yiwen. Because this Tea Account had spoken out, many who had long found Deng Yiwen unpleasant directly came out to post screenshots. On the screenshots were numerous announcement titles and their contents. Without exception, these announcements all praised Deng Yiwen and even trampled on some other newcomers.
However, this matter did not end up widespread.
In the building of Flowing Lights Entertainment, a sunny and handsome young man angrily swiped all the documents on top of the desk onto the floor and said furiously to his own agent: "What is the meaning of this? Sis Lin, that Tea Account dares to talk about me? How dare they criticize me! Now, many netizens are saying that I only post suppression news all day, berating me online!"
The female agent dressed in professional attire pushed at the glasses on the bridge of her nose. Though her face showed calmness, her forehead was sweating from anxiety: "This sort of thing usually wouldn't involve Publicity accounts and common accounts. Publishing suppression news is already an unspoken rule in the entertainment circle. Ah Wen[3], have you offended anyone?"
Deng Yiwen furrowed his eyebrows: "Who have I offended... is this related to the most recent announcement? Oh, Right! That Rong Xu! It seems to be the first time we've published announcements related to him. Could it be he was offended by me and now wants to blacken me in return?"
The agent shook her head: "That Rong Xu's recent momentum of development is very strong, but he is still only a second-tier actor in Huaxia Entertainment. His agent is also only a second-tier. They shouldn't be able to buy a Publicity (Tea) Account and break the standards to place the blame on you on Weibo."
Deng Yiwen slammed the table fiercely, shaking it. Right now, nowhere on his countenance showed his usual display of a carefree and joking attitude. With a cold look, he said word by word: "What do we do now?"
The agent said: "Like this, then. Ah Wen, you don't need to be too worried. We've already started handling the public relations, and it's fine if I have the publicity (tea) account delete the post later. Rest assured that no matter how the fans discuss, it's impossible for this to land in the trending list. I've already contacted the people at Weibo. As soon as it makes the trending list, it will be taken down. There is even less need to worry about the media. This issue of purchasing announcements isn't interesting, they won't care about it."
Following everything just as the agent predicted, Deng Yiwen's team dealt with the public relations swiftly. In the forum's discussion area, they spent money to shut down the account. On Weibo, they also continuously deleted netizen comments and accounts.
Having money allowed one to accomplish many things, including using capital to control public opinion to a certain extent.
Deng Yiwen had also received retaliation from other stars in the past. No matter how sweet his mouth was, or how well he could socialize, as the sort of person who enjoyed publishing suppression news, he would still attract some individual's ire. But it didn't matter since, as long as he spent money to control public opinion, he could submit announcements however he wanted. He relied on fans to eat. So, as long as he had fans, he would never fall.
Deng Yiwen quickly calmed down. Though he carried a stomach full of anger, he wore a facade of casualness on the surface. In the evening, he left Flowing Lights Co. and hummed as he went home.
After parking his car and heading upstairs, he nonchalantly opened up his Weibo. Looking at the Publicity Account which refused to delete their Weibo, he sneered coldly: "They're sick in the head. This sort of thing wouldn't affect me at all. Just wait and see what laozi [4]will do to you in the future."
After returning home, Deng Yiwen changed clothes and put on a hat, planning to go out to experience the nightlife. But, just as he was about to walk out the door, he suddenly received a phone call from his agent.
Deng Yiwen answered the phone impatiently and had only said "What is it, I'm busy right now" before hearing the other side anxiously say: "Not good, Ah Wen! Weibo refused to let us interfere with public relations this time, and there's even several more Tea Accounts that have emerged[5]."
Deng Yiwen's cell phone suddenly slipped and fell to the ground with a "clack". His eyes widened as he reached to pick up his phone in a fluster, and he opened up Weibo ——
Only to see that on Weibo's trending topics list, #DengYiwen Suppression# tag landed in ninth place!
However, it didn't end there!
Without a doubt, they had already reached a consensus with Weibo, Teiba and other major discussion platforms to selectively delete and remove certain comments in order to prevent matters from becoming widespread. But slowly, the other parties actually stopped deleting.
There were also several Publicity Accounts with millions of fans that started to post criticisms on their Weibos. There were two publicity accounts that directly called out Deng Yiwen's name, even posting a lengthy analysis.
[Old Gossip King: Deng Yiwen's record of suppressing has already been long ingrained into history. Ever since his debut these past few years, he'd been suppressing his peers day in and day out. Among them, Dong Zheng from the same company had it the worst, being trampled on every single time. [image][image][image][image][image][image]]
The images in this Weibo post were all of suppression news announcements.
In the news, there were both Deng Yiwen's and Dong Zheng's names. Any discerning person could see at a glance that these announcements were all boasting Deng Yiwen. Although they sometimes also praised Dong Zheng, the between-the-lines implication was: Dong Zheng is indeed quite strong and impressive, but he could only be ranked second. Deng Yiwen is the first.
Looking at these Weibo posts and Tieba posts, Deng Yiwen clenched his phone in fury as it made cracking sounds.
On the trending list, #DengYiwen Suppression# already reached third place.
More and more passers-by netizens found out about the situation. Initially, they were utterly surprised, not quite believing that celebrities were allowed to just randomly submit announcements to tout themselves. Later, once they understood the situation, they suddenly realized: [Right, our company also often cooperates with the media to directly publish news announcements. Then, celebrities could also do this! This Deng Yiwen is too shameless, stepping on others to hype himself. His actions are too low! ]
Throughout the night, Deng Yiwen's public relations teams unceasingly contacted people, hoping to delete the Weibo posts and withdraw from the trending list. However, what was inconceivable to them was that only one Publicity Account accepted their money and agreed to delete their Weibo post. None of the other Publicity Account Companies even answered their phone calls. They didn't even take a glance at the emails sent to them.
The duration of one day and night was enough time for the situation to ferment and spread. The most ironic thing was that just the day before yesterday, Deng Yiwen's team had issued three to four articles on major portals, touting themselves. Now, those articles had turned into hard evidence against them, being used by Netizens to smack them in the face with ridicule and condemnation.
Deng Yiwen stayed in the company all night, thinking up countermeasures with his agent. Later, he even called some of his close friends within the circle in hopes that the other party would help speak up for him. However, when these friends who displayed a good relationship with him on usual days answered the phone, they all smiled and said: "Deng Yiwen, it wasn't I who hurt you this time. Don't look for me."
Deng Yiwen was suddenly thrown off.
He looked for another few close friends until, in the end, there was one friend who directly hung up on him, only replying in a text message: [You are quite an interesting person. So, when you had also previously stepped on me, I just pretended I didn't know of it. But, now that you're in trouble, Deng Yiwen, where did you find the face to come ask me for help? Last year, didn't you publish four articles consecutively saying that my acting skills were not on par with yours? That my crying scenes were the same as howling, whereas yours were true flowing tears? Do you still want face!]
After this text message was sent, Deng Yiwen called them again, but the other party had already blocked him.
Deng Yiwen kicked the sofa irritably and scolded: "This idiot. He's also previously published articles that undermined me in order to gain hype. Now, he dares draw a clear line in our relationship. Fuck, who does he think he is. He's already washed up but still gives me attitude?!"
In reality, Deng Yiwen's anger was through the roof, wishing he could tear apart all those small people who borrowed his wind to gain popularity. But, on the Internet, the netizens' comments have already spread through the entire web, and they discussed crazily under Deng Yiwen's Weibo.
[Even you have this day, Deng 'Suppression'! People have their karmas. Two months ago, you suppressed my family's bias, now you have received retribution. Peh][6]
[Roll out of the entertainment circle. Deng 'Suppression', you malicious tumor, roll roll roll roll!!!]
[Truly, whatever the celebrity is like is whatever the fans are like. Your mental fans actually can look straight at those articles and insist that you didn't post them. They really take the media as charities that help you build hype for free?]
Very soon, there were Deng Yiwen's fans who came out to retort——
[Fuck, are you blind? These articles/announcements are clearly published by the websites themselves, are you stupid, on what basis are you saying this was submitted by Ah Wen.]
[All of you bi*ches, daring to criticize Ah Wen, all of you ugly B—-$#$#%$#...]
[Dong Zheng just doesn't have acting skills, Dong Zheng is just not as popular as Ah Wen. What is Ye Qiao worth, even a little, transparent second-tier dares to compete with Ah Wen. Then there's Rong Xu. When Ah Wen became popular, he wasn't even a fart. What did these news say wrong, they are all telling the truth! Roll out of the entertainment industry? You brainless fans are the ones who need to roll out of the entertainment industry!]
This scolding battle continued for a full day and night, and even Deng Yiwen didn't expect his fans would act so desperately for himself.
His fans, for him, had declared war on all other netizens. They hardly slept and instead argued for 24 hours a day, making Deng Yiwen feel both moved and heartache.
"Ah Wen, your fans are all busybodies. What we need right now is to calm the circumstances down and handle things passively so that the situation can pass. But if they continue on like this, it will be very troublesome and things will never pass."
It's not like Deng Yiwen didn't understand his agent's words. He also felt that his fans had problems with their IQ's. In this type of situation, why are you still engaging in fights with others? Shouldn't they be playing dead and pretending that they didn't know anything? Shouldn't they be waiting for the spotlight to pass and then feign ignorance?
What kind of intellectually impaired fans are these? Truly is 1 fan to 10 sunspots.
Deng Yiwen was so angry and anxious. His head was so big[7] and he couldn't find a solution.
On the Internet, his reputation was growing worse. Originally, many passer-bys were already very dissatisfied with his press releases and announcements, but now his fans were so messy that they even ended up irritating these passer-bys, such that they also came to take hits at Deng Yiwen, asking him to roll out of the entertainment industry.
It wasn't until the third day that Deng Yiwen and his team finally succumbed to desperation and released an official announcement/press release.
The press release stated that letters from lawyers would be sent to those Publicity Accounts who slandered Deng Yiwen, asking them to delete their blogs and apologize. At the same time, it asked netizens to leave Deng Yiwen a fair path. He always filmed diligently. An honest person has nothing to hide. Future facts will prove everything, prove that he never released statements to suppress others.
The tone of the announcement seemed hard, but when it was released, netizens all reacted in the same way——
[Idiot.]
Deng Yiwen: "..."
Mother!!! What else do you want? Exactly who is the one hurting him this time, who is it!!!
Anyone would know that this kind of 'lacking in principles' issue would only damage Deng Yiwen's reputation and diminish his popularity. But, it would be impossible to really drive him out of the entertainment industry.
However, it revealed the true face of this small person and allowed more investors and advertisers to see his true self to understand the reality that "Deng Yiwen has already been boycotted by the public". Thus, netizens were satisfied. Moreover, it is assured that Deng Yiwen will not dare to publish another suppression announcement in the future.
[Relieved! Really relieved! I have been holding back for three years and can finally breathe a sigh of relief for my Da Qiao. Ye Qiao, you are the best!]
[[Hahahahaha, let you suppress, let you step on! You are more famous than Dong Zheng? You actually have the face to say that out loud!]
[Wuli Rong Rong's acting skills aren't as good as your? Popularity isn't as high as yours? Isn't as good looking at you? Why don't you piss off and take a photo of yourself to see what you look like!]
The Suppression incident went on for a whole three days. During this period, whenever the interest in this situation was dying down, Deng Yiwen's brainless fans would mysteriously jump out and wreak havoc inexplicably, once again igniting the netizens' enthusiasm towards scolding Deng Yiwen. Now, with this announcement, things could be considered to be finally coming to an end.
#DengYiWen# this tag, was once again pushed into the number spot on the trending list. When you click into it, it'd show endless criticisms.
From one perspective, at least this would also be considered a headline that allowed Deng Yiwen to accumulate some heat. However, this 'number one in the trending list' only lasted around an hour before it was bumped down by another tag.
[Zhao Chuyun: #LostWings1.02MIllion# Eight-day total sales of "Lost Wings" has exceeded 1 million! All proceeds generated from this single will be donated to RongYun Foundation. Thank You Rong Xu, Thank You Zhao Kun, Thank You Black Clouds crew. Without you, Ling Xiao's dream would not have come true.]
At four o'clock in the afternoon, #LostWings1.02MIllion# surpassed #DengYiWen# to become number one on the trending list.
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The author has something to say:
Orange Qin: Rong Rong is not better looking than you? Dream on ︵ (> ^ < ) ︵!
Sis Fu (author): Can you please care about something other than the face!
Orange Qin: Then when will you let Rong Rong and I meet again? Baby wants Rong Rong to kiss kiss, hug hug, lift high, lift high!
Rong Rong: ... I want to change gongs…
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[1]Don't forget that in Chinese, the surname comes first. The English equivalent would be 'Suppression' Deng
[2] 八婆: Ba Po. A rough term referring to nosy or gossip-loving women
[3] Ah (name): term of endearment for someone close to you.
[4]Laozi: an arrogant way to refer to oneself. Here, it's spoken in a way that asserts superiority over another. It can also be used casually, sarcastically, or comically.
[5] Emerged: The original translation is ironically "submerge", referring to new accounts 'dipping their feet into the waters' and adding to the situation.
[6]peh: 'spit'
[7] Big-headed: burdened and helpless