In 2013, American director spike Jonze's film "she" was released. The film describes a "man-machine love" that will take place in the future. Theodore, a thoughtful letter agent writer, has just divorced his wife and has not yet come out of the shadow of heartbreak. Later, in the process of communicating with Samantha, the artificial intelligence, the scars in his heart were gradually smoothed by Samantha's charming and hoarse voice, and he developed a strange relationship with the virtual Samantha.
Now, the scene in the film is becoming a reality. In recent years, chat service has been quietly emerging in cyberspace. After users place an order for tens or hundreds of yuan, they can get services such as "chat", "sleep", "break up recovery" and "emotional chasing". Many people talk to "companions" and express their feelings.
According to the recent investigation of e-finance law, in the early stage of development, the chat industry growing in the corner lacked supervision, and the order receiving group was full of "dirty wheat", "naked chat", "bubble popping" and other "special orders". Later, due to the attack of the platform, the behavior was somewhat restrained, but the phenomenon of pornography was not eliminated. Under the slogan of "green chat, reject vulgarity", some stores have changed the chat involving pornography to a more hidden way.
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Packaged "companionship"
Recently, Caijing e-method entered "accompany chat" on Taobao for search, but no search results appeared. Only by entering keywords such as "accompany" and "tree hole" can accompany chat shops with two-dimensional avatars appear. Similar information also exists on social platforms such as Xianyu and Weibo.
Search the word "accompany" and some chat shops will appear
According to the e-Law of Finance and economics, the accompanying chat service is divided into four categories: text, voice strip, connected microphone and video. The price increases in turn. Customers can choose half an hour, one hour, day or even month service. After 11 p.m., the price doubled. In addition, "accompaniment" can also provide services such as sleeping, morning call, accompaniment, etc.
"Accompanying" is generally divided into four levels: gold medal, Zhendian, male and female gods, and chief. The higher the level, the better the voice. Customers can choose "blind box", that is, randomly select a level of "escort" to receive services.
Price list of a chat shop
When placing an order, customers can put forward their own requirements to the store. In terms of timbre, female "accompaniment" includes Lori sound, imperial sister sound and girl sound, while male "accompaniment" includes Zhengtai sound, youth sound and uncle sound. In addition, customers can also put forward more detailed requirements on personality characteristics, fantasy image, chat content and other aspects according to their own needs.
In order to further understand the ecology of the chat industry, Finance e method sent an application request to a chat shop. After a period of time, the store added Caijing e Fara to the audit group, and required to fill in the circle name, constellation, specialty, order receiving type and other information. In addition, it also required to send a 15 second voice strip and three order receiving photos to the group.
From the photos and voice messages sent by the applicants to the audit group, the vast majority of applicants are young people aged 20-30. The store refuses to recruit minors and prohibits group members from adding friends and chatting with each other. Violators will not be hired.
The finance and economics e method failed after filling in the information for the first time and submitting it for review. According to the situation in the group, few people can successfully pass the audit. Later, a "companion" named Yu Qing pointed out the reasons for the failure to pass the audit to the e-Law of Finance and Economics - "it's not because of the voice, but because your resume is not filled in well."
Under the guidance of Yu Qing, Caijing e law has filled in a new resume. It turns out that due to fierce competition, stores have certain requirements on the workload of "accompanying", so the purpose of accompanying chat is not to write "curious", "boring" and so on, but to write "to make money".
Compared with newcomers, stores prefer to receive experienced "companionship". However, if newcomers want to pass the audit, they can make up their own information such as experience duration, which stores they have worked in, and the maximum renewal amount. He Qing asked Caijing e method to provide a collection record to the store and lied to it that it was a screenshot of the previous order renewal. Because the previous store did not want to disclose the real information, it mosaic the payer.
Besides experience, image is also important. Yu Qing said that the shopkeeper wanted to have a more refined image of "accompanying" and asked Caijing e method to search for several photos of beautiful and handsome men on the Internet. When reviewing, he said it was his own photo. During the operation of the e-method of Finance and economics, it was found that the shopkeepers actually acquiesced in the use of false photos. After several revisions, the e-Law of Finance and economics passed the review and became a formal "companion".
After using the online photos, the financial e method was successfully applied
After the audit, the store owner introduced the "sharing mode" of the store. For the first order, 40% for "accompanying" and 60% for stores; Renewal income: 60% for "accompanying" and 40% for stores; The customer gives a reward, 70% for "accompanying" and 30% for the shopkeeper. In order to prevent "accompanying" from misappropriating customer transfers, the store will place random orders for testing.
The higher the level of "escort", the more orders can be obtained. If you want to upgrade to a higher level, the extra profits earned by "accompany" in each period must meet the standards set by the store owner. The extra profit refers to 40% of the revenue received by the store when the customer renews the order. All successful "companions" will enter the inner group at the beginning. If the additional profits of phase I fail to meet the requirements of the store owner, they will be dismissed to the outer group. According to the rules, orders will be allocated to the "escort" of the inner group first, while the outer group can get very few orders.
Under the requirements of the rules, "accompanying" will have a lot of pressure.
After entering the order receiving group, Caijing e method found that not only photos can be fake, but also grades can be fabricated. Even if the customer's order indicates the highest level (chief) of "accompany", it is likely that the person assigned will not be of this level. The "order grabbing" mode is implemented in the order receiving group. The "escort" will reply "1" to the order sent by the store. Whoever returns the fastest will get the list.
Customers also have the right to audition. Different "companions" will be pulled into the group to send voice and photos, and customers can choose by themselves.
No matter what grade, whoever replies quickly will get the order
In the order receiving group, customers' requirements are diverse, including the character imagination of "milk dog" and "Royal sister", as well as the specific and strange requirements of "talking about Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou planning" and "answering what love is". Sometimes, the store really doesn't have a "companion" that meets the requirements, so the store owner will ask everyone to "dress up".
Virtual demands project real desires.
In the accompany chat service, "accompany" seems to be simplified into a list of attributes, including voice, appearance, figure, occupation and age - although various attributes may be forged. "Accompanying" can also create a personal setting in the circle of friends, making yourself more attractive.
Just like the artificial intelligence Samantha in the movie she, the sparse social clues make customers focus on the voice of "accompany". In the lonely night, in addition to the sound of "accompany", there are customers' imagination and emotions floating in the microphone.
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Provide "emotional value"
Yan Xi is a 26 year old part-time female "companion". She has been in the industry for nearly three years and is usually engaged in consulting work. She loves literature and art. Her favorite book is Hemingway's snow of Kilimanjaro. She has 3000 fans in Douban and her own poetry reading Podcast in Netease cloud music.
Yan Xi joined the company because she was poked by the reply to a topic in Douban. The name of the topic was "what strange place have you worked?". Someone answered, "call the morning shop". Someone asked why you don't use the alarm clock? The Lord replied, "human beings are really lonely.".
Yan Xi has served customers who are too expensive for a single order of 30 yuan, and has also received orders from customers with an annual salary of one million yuan. Her deepest feeling is that "no matter high or low, everyone is equal in front of loneliness".
Yan Jue once met a male customer suffering from severe depression. He placed an order only for the whole day and wanted to "accompany" him all day. The customer said that he was a writer and would place different orders every day just to listen to different people's stories. After listening to wanyanxi's story, he began to tell his own experience. According to him, his father was an honest official all his life, but he was framed and imprisoned. When it came to the emotional part, he sobbed one after another, and Yan Xi wept with him.
The "accompanying" interviewed have a common experience. Many customers who buy accompanying chatting may have psychological problems. Foreign students are an important customer group.
Yan Xi met a customer who was a student at the University of California, Berkeley. When she called Yan Xi, she said she was going to commit suicide. Yan Xi immediately sat up from her bed. Another time, the customer was crying and doing his homework. He told Yan Xi that he would drive to Las Vegas the next morning and gamble heavily.
Yan CuO has an impressive customer. The boy is studying in Britain. He is "stingy" in chatting with others. The boy has sleep disorders. He buys a sleeping service, but he is not willing to pay double the price, nor is he willing to give Yan Xi a higher order. He begged Yan Xi to pity him because he went to school during the day, worked after school and slept in a restaurant at night. He had no pocket money. But in the end, he renewed his order for three months.
Yan Xi likes the feeling of being needed. She thinks that chatting with others can help her earn pocket money and comfort others.
People who buy chat services, no matter how successful, are bound to have defects. The male "accompany" pudding summarizes the accompany chat service as providing "emotional value". He said that the service of "accompanying" is to grasp the soil, fill in the defects, and at least let customers feel that there is a supplement. Care, encouragement, support, understanding, trust, attention and worship are all the points that "accompany" should focus on providing services.
Sometimes, in the process of empathy, even "accompanying" oneself will fall into this kind of difficult feelings. Part time chatting companions and Qing tend to pity customers. Once, she talked with a customer who was also a medical student for a long time. She was considerate of him to recuperate at home. She didn't ask him to renew the order at a high price. As long as he sent a message, she would reply every second.
During a chat, he joked with the customer, "won't you order others to chat in the future?" The customer replied, "no". The next day at another store, she saw the customer ordering something else to accompany her. For a moment, she felt very disillusioned. "If he doesn't give you money, he will also give it to others. What can you do if you don't want his money?"
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Secret "special order"
The combination of hoarse voice, fermenting mood and lonely night makes it easy for "companions" and customers to take off their guard against each other, resulting in a sense of attachment and falling into a psychedelic emotional experience. The chatting industry attracted people's attention at the beginning because of its "virtual lovers" service.
Yu Qing said that in fact, not so many customers have the consumption strength. Most customers place orders out of curiosity. The big orders in the store are all "false love lists", which are "made by the target".
According to the observation of e-method of Finance and economics, when someone proposed to the chat shop to enjoy the "virtual lover" service, the shop hurriedly asked to withdraw, but after the withdrawal, the service could still be provided. In order to avoid supervision, stores usually forbid "accompanying" to chat in the group, and only accept orders.
Yan Xi revealed that although the store apparently prohibits "special orders", some customers who have established a stable renewal relationship with "escort" will still put forward some special needs, such as "abuse orders", "naked chat orders", "gay men's orders", and even offline sex transactions. The price of "special orders" is higher, which meets the needs of some "companions" who want to make quick money, and can also increase the income of stores. Therefore, stores generally turn a blind eye to this.
Yan Xi believes that the chatting service involves pornography, in part because many customers are seeking pornographic services. Yan Xi once received a list. When she called, the male customer was masturbating. When she didn't answer, the male customer sent her nude photos and videos of other women and insulted her by saying, "what are you wearing?"
Yan Xi likes to read poems to customers to make them sleep, but some customers don't buy it. They think that they should call her husband? Shouldn't you be like a girlfriend? What's the use of reading poetry like this?
Some "escorts" express antipathy to customers with pornographic needs
There are many rich "gold owners" in the chat circle. Yan Xi claimed that there was a female secretary of a rich businessman in Zhejiang who had placed an order of more than 1million yuan. She placed an order of more than 200000 yuan for a male "companion" and rewarded him with 130000 yuan. Later, she simply kept him. Another customer gave a female "companion" a reward of more than 50000 yuan every month, and has successively made a list of more than 600000 yuan for her.
Yu Yan is a top-level male "companion". His job is a psychological consultant. People in the circle say that he is "good at grasping human nature".
Compared with customers, "accompanying" is much more sober. Behind the seemingly hot catchwords in the microphone are cool calculations. How to "push and pull" with customers, slowly establish an intimate relationship, and then transition to the "virtual lover" stage, and even let customers "take the lead", is a top-level "accompany" skill. The right time, the right measure and the right transition all need to be accurately grasped.
E-Law of Finance and economics once joined an online chat experience sharing meeting, at which Yu Yan shared his experience. Once, he received a list from a female customer. At the beginning, the girl was pouring out her emotional pain to him. She counted her love but could not. She burst into tears. Yu Yan was patient and relieved, and gradually gained the trust of girls. The girl feels that Yu Yan is like his life mentor and is willing to renew the order for him.
In the next few days, the girl's heart knot was relieved, and the heat of chatting gradually faded away. However, the girl inadvertently mentioned during the chat that she saw the "virtual lover" service on a platform and wanted to experience it.
Yuyan "understood in an instant". To avoid embarrassment, Yu Yan continued to chat with the girl in a normal tone, inserting a small amount of ambiguity in the middle, and did not forget to collect information about the girl. He gradually sketched out the portrait of a girl: a teacher, who had a villa at home, opened Maserati, had a certain amount of money, was curious about sex, but shy.
Knowing this, Yu Yan knew that the time had come and began to launch an "attack" in this regard. As Yu Yan expected, his ambiguous offensive hit the girl's needs. Since then, the girl has continued to order, from Baotian to Baozhou, and now requests to meet him offline to further establish the relationship.
Yu Yan concluded that if you want to continue to make a big order, do not rush. He said that it was "too sour" to expose missing photos and abdominal muscle photos at the beginning of the audition group. He had to establish his own style, stop talking and pretend to be reserved, learn to scratch the itch of customers, and scratch it slowly and bit by bit. In a word, this thing is in the best state of being scratched. It is very subtle. He stressed that this needs to be studied. If you want to pretend to be like Baidu or read a novel, you have to observe the expression of language, the state of sound and how the real love happens.
In the chat service, Yu Yan never forgot his purpose. He suggested that other "companions" allow customers to renew their orders half an hour and half an hour, because half an hour's chat time passes faster and the price is higher, which is much higher than Baotian's income. It is like "cutting meat with a soft knife", which can maximize the value.
As long as the money is in place, it can also be involved in pornography. Once he received a "gay man order". After hearing the other party's needs, Yuyan immediately replied, "add money, 300 yuan".
A female "companion" once concluded in a report that "companions" who have feelings can not make money, and "companions" who can make money have no feelings. Yu Yan's words "add money" seem cold and realistic, constantly beating the essence of this virtual emotion - transaction.
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How to determine the nature of Yellow River
Some chat orders are completed with the help of overseas cyberspace, and they are more unscrupulous. Many results can be found by inputting "chat with others" on twitter. Many stores put their QQ QR code or wechat in tweets for customers to scan the code and order.
After scanning the code according to the prompt, Caijing e method sent a request to add a friend to the store, but the store did not pass. It just sent a message to Caijing e method in the form of non friend chat. The shop welcomed the order and said: "green order and colored order are acceptable".
Overseas chat shops clearly indicate that they can receive "color list"
Compared with the half-hour consumption of domestic chat orders, the chat service here is shortened to 10 minutes, while the customized voice strip is only 6 minutes.
After scanning the code of Caijing e method into the group, it is found that there are a large number of customized audio compressed files in the group, which can be purchased from the administrator. It even includes pornographic content such as bathing and masturbation of many minors. During this period, some people joined the group by scanning the code.
Some stores have put their own telegram links on Twitter to accept orders and applications. In the application group, the "escort" who comes to apply for a job needs to indicate what type of list they can accept, and whether they can accept "Jiaochuan", "naked chat", "masturbation", etc. In the order receiving group, most of the orders are "yellow related orders", and most of the customers are men, but there are also women. Customers will put forward various requirements, such as age, body shape, degree of nudity, and even some customers will put forward the need to record the screen.
In fact, because some chat services involve pornography, Taobao has blocked the search results after typing "chat" on the platform as early as 2016.
Zhuwei, deputy director of the communication law research center of China University of political science and law, said that if the chat service still involves pornography, Taobao should further increase the shielding of relevant search keywords and continue to strengthen supervision. In addition, according to the provisions of the e-commerce law, Taobao needs to master the real identity information of the stores operating on the platform to prevent the stores from evading their responsibilities.
Zhu Wei believes that chatting with others is a point-to-point service between "accompany" and customers, which is very private. If there is no clear chat content and call records related to pornography as evidence, it is difficult for law enforcement agencies to intervene, nor can it prove that the store owner knows about it.
The e-Law of Finance and economics found after searching on the China judicial documents website that, in the currently adjudicated cases of "naked chat", the "naked chat" was used to defraud the victim's money, but naked chat was only a means to achieve a crime, and no court had directly judged the "naked chat" itself.
Zhaozhanzhan, a special researcher of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of China University of political science and law, believes that "accompanying" offline sex transactions with customers is undoubtedly prostitution and should be punished by the public security administration punishment law. But online paid pornographic chat and even naked chat are difficult to determine. If "naked chatting" is defined as "prostitution", it is difficult to say that sexual relations have taken place between the two sides, but it can only be said that they have reached sensory satisfaction; If it is defined as "the crime of spreading pornographic materials", both parties generally do not have the behavior of widely spreading pornographic pictures, audio recordings, videos, etc.
There is also a view that the behavior involving pornography in accompany chat should be judged by whether it is profitable or not. If the purpose is to make profits, they are suspected of organizing pornographic performances or disseminating pornographic articles for profit, and they need to bear criminal responsibility.
(all "accompanying" mentioned in the text are pseudonyms)