"If you do such a thing, you will be punished!" "What a cold-blooded enterprise!" "Bytes beat, day and night light years, identified as rotten!" Since two days ago, similar words, accompanied by a large number of bad comments, have appeared in the comment area of the Games owned by Chaoxi Lightyear studio. There is only one reason for these bad comments. The fans of the domestic virtual idol group a-soul launched an attack on them because they wanted to defend their idols.
In the face of byte, a large company with a market value of trillion, young people hold the weapon of "bad comment".
A-soul collapsed, which is the biggest news in the domestic vtuber community recently. Some people may not understand what "collapsed house" means. Simply explain, "collapsed house" is a word that mainly appears in the "rice circle." XXX collapsed house "usually means that XXX (star name) has negative news and the original good image no longer exists.
It is difficult for passers-by to understand the collapse of virtual idols - they are "virtual idols" without entities. In the early years, the Chinese Internet had a passage similar to "chuyin will be killed due to smoking risk evaluation in the future". The "virtual Idol" is even just a code that lives in digital space. How can a string of codes "collapse"?
But this time, a-soul's "house collapse" has become a recognized fact by large and small we media and fans. The introduction of virtual idol group and a-soul will not be repeated here. At the end of last year, the store teacher wrote an article of nearly 30000 words [a-soul still under the "filter" after the first anniversary] with love( https://www.3dmgame.com/original/3743353.html ) 》, it introduces the member information and development experience of this virtual idol group in detail.
This time, we hit the light directly on the "collapsed house".
A-soul's "house collapse" is not a "house collapse" in the traditional sense, but refers to the fact that fans find that the young ladies and sisters they have been holding in their hands are being treated unfairly.
Since it is not the "collapsed house" in the traditional sense, why do fans, together with large and small we media, stubbornly call this event "collapsed house"? The reason is simple - in 2020, the slogan of Lehua entertainment in promoting a-soul is "never collapse".
What is more gimmicky than a house that "never collapses"?
Since April 2022, the news about a-soul has become strange. Today, a member was "opened (the information of the person in the box was exposed)"; Tomorrow, the conspiracy theory will reveal that "the operation team is developing an AI speech synthesis plan", suggesting the possibility of people being replaced in the future; Later, a bigger revelation appeared that "Jiale will announce its graduation on May 10".
On May 10, the official number of station B was a-soul_ Official released the news, announced the suspension of QA activities this week, and officially announced that "Jiale will enter the live dormancy period due to physical reasons", emphasizing that this does not mean that "Jiale will withdraw from a-soul".
While the announcement revealed that "Jiale is about to graduate" in April, it also made fans wonder whether other revelations in the same period are all true? For example, "members were injured by PUA", "still forced to perform" and "running water 200W, only 1000 yuan by hand".
Those revelations were confirmed one by one as fans stripped their cocoons like lewenhoek.
First of all, it was revealed that Jiale suffered from the boss's workplace PUA. In the Netease cloud music personal account "sansongxu", which was later proved to be her own, she talked about that she was "interviewed by her boss and made a real debut".
Secondly, it was revealed that the members had a low status in the planning and were not valued by the operators. Questioned sometimes work overtime to practice dancing until the early morning, and even the most basic health can not be guaranteed. Thoracic spine injury, leg passive capture clothing scratch and vocal cord problems have occurred. Among them, some statements were confirmed afterwards.
Finally, it is the most vulgar but also the most important issue - salary. As one of the most successful virtual idol groups in China, a-soul has attracted millions of attention. Both Bella and Jiale broke the record of "ten thousand ships" broadcast live on station B at their birthday party in 2021. Since the "boarding" started with a monthly fee of 198 yuan, it means a revenue of nearly 2 million.
Source: Baidu Post Bar @ Jiaotai Wolf
However, according to the salary in the disclosure news, only a small part of the beautiful revenue flow obtained by members with sweat will come to them in the form of 1% commission. When there are no special activities, the monthly flow of 200000-300000 yuan may be only 1000-1500 yuan if you calculate the proportion of 1% after removing half of your uncle.
Workplace bullying, overdraft, health, salary mismatch, it's hard to believe that these things happen in the virtual idol world - it seems that these things will appear in other news, such as the social version accusing workers of low pay, or in another era, such as before the birth of the labor law.
In any case, they should not be the experience of a virtual idol group, let alone the name of this group is a-soul - a-soul that makes many workers get warm in the late night after working overtime through distracted content.
Fans began to fight back.
At first, these dissatisfied notes appeared in small groups. Later, the notes beat together and tried to play a movement called anti byte.
On the eve of live broadcast of Jiale on May 11, the official number of station B was a-soul_ Under the dynamic of official, fans repeatedly asked the operation "are you ready to read the script", "can you come to the live broadcast, can we even wheat" and "can you explain the face model and AI synthetic sound?"
The same voice of doubt also appeared in the live broadcast of Jiale that night. Fans in the live studio encouraged Jiale to "stop going to the bird's nest, let's go home" while driving a unicycle to "let the studio operate and talk, don't push the girl out".
After the live broadcast of Jiale ended on time, Nailin and jiaran came to the live studio to continue the live broadcast. At this time, the voice of doubt completely outweighed the voice of support, while Nailin and jiaran could only reluctantly continue to broadcast live in the way of talking to themselves under the title of "Zhijiang shield group".
Source: Matsuri ICU barrage statistics
On the night of May 11, after the live broadcast, the angry fans couldn't sleep. They kept looking through the comments, trying to find the complaint channels shared by their peers, and expressing their dissatisfaction - including but not limited to taking off the account, asking for the invoice of the surrounding area previously purchased, and informing a-soul of the business cooperation relationship.
Source: station B @ Nanzhi NZ
May 14, a-soul_ Official released the "a-soul Production Committee's description of recent events" to try to restore the reputation of the project, but this description was pointed out to be the same as the "a-soul Production Committee's interim QA" released in the early morning of the 11th, with many doubts. Those parts that seem to be a positive response are actually suspected of word games. For example, "disclosing the income composition of the four little sisters" is suspected of temporarily changing the salary structure of the remaining four people.
On May 14, fans were dissatisfied with more and more negative revelations, the concealment of the operator, and immediately designed a four person group dance after Jiale's termination, and officially established the "anti other joint production committee".
While preventing other fans from being blocked, the "anti it joint production committee" unites the strength of the collective and tries to attract more attention on social platforms such as microblog through planned posting with labels.
In this ongoing public opinion war, "bad comments" have also become a weapon in the hands of fans. Since the a-soul team itself is not a commodity that can be "evaluated", they turn their attention to those things that can be "evaluated", such as the game of "morning and night light years" in byte beat's game studio.
Source: Sina Weibo @ a Zhen - social animal begging
Whether it is the game review area of station B, the game review area of taptap, or even the application market channels of various mobile phone brands, and the games related to Chaoxi Lightyear studio, have suffered different degrees of bad comment attacks.
In addition to the simple and crude things mentioned at the beginning, such as "doing this kind of thing, you will be punished", "byte beating is really a cold-blooded enterprise" and "byte beating, every day and night, identified as rotten", the poor evaluation level of fans is also upgrading with the passage of time.
When fans give a low star in the game review area and sound with a stem that only fans understand, other fans will remind them that they may attract unnecessary public opinion, "please delete it and make a bad comment on Chaoxi light year. Please start with the game instead of mentioning us as and ruin the popularity of passers-by".
Source: taptap "morning and evening light year" comment area
Therefore, there are fans who have really played the game and give bad comments to the game from the perspective of players. If you don't click on the personal homepage to see the evaluation records, you will even think that this is indeed a roast krypton gold strength player. It can be said that the camouflage skills are full.
In addition to the bad comments given seriously from the perspective of the game, fans also have other bad comments. Some fans chose to "turn over the history books" and angrily denounced the operation of "art of War: red tide", which produced the predecessor of Youke and had excellent playing methods; Although some fans didn't play the game, they also commented on the whole "one eye Ding Zhen" around the keywords "domestic" and "IP for skin".
When the fans in the game review theater disguised their bad comments in various ways, the fans in the Sina Weibo theater have made remarkable achievements - they skillfully changed "fans fight for injustice as idols" to "workers speak for the exploitation of capital".
Usually, fans regard May 10, 2022 as the turning point of this struggle, and call the a-soul after "5-1" with "post-a-soul era". After that day, they embraced the organized "like in the rice circle" activity from the "de powdering" and "de small group", which they were proud of at first, and became a new "powdered" and organized a "small group".
"The influence of the way of rice circle is really much stronger than that of a person writing a small composition that moves himself." some fans concluded.
On May 14, "a-soul Production Committee's apology" became the first on the microblog hot search list, which was reprinted by the official media "China News Network" and received 300000 likes and 17000 comments. Questions from fans still occupy the comment area today.
On May 15, the account "anti it joint production committee" of station B, which has just been established for two days, has attracted nearly 20000 followers. Fans gathered under this account, trying to expand the heat of the event and increase the attention of passers-by, hoping to make a voice for Jiale who has left and increase the negotiation chips that may be needed for the remaining four people.
Although the fans were angry, they also showed some rationality and restraint. When brushing the bad comments, the reason for playing 2-star bad comments is that "1-star will be screened out by the system"; The keywords of a-soul and byte beating do not appear in the evaluation, but for the problem of the game itself, because we don't want to arouse the disgust of players; They hope to attract the attention of passers-by on the social platform, but at the same time, they also warn themselves that "as long as they are not absolutely opposite big V, they must be friendly" and unite all forces that can be united.
Source: Sina Weibo "fans who encourage each other in Chaohua community"
In any case, this is an event worth observing and recording. This is a huge chessboard that suddenly appears on the Chinese Internet - on the left, there are a group of young people who are so angry that they want to unite all forces; On the right is a large company with a market value of 100 billion; Standing in the middle of the Chu River Han boundary is the actor of one or several virtual idols.
Source: Sina Weibo @808 standby machine
Young people raise big flags against big companies for people they like. If cyberpunk 2077 wants to produce a DLC of "Romeo and Juliet", the story will probably be written like this.
Of course you can see that fans are trying to recover something, but they may not know what it is. Perhaps, they just save a lot of strength and full of resentment.
After all, today, when "5-1" is a foregone conclusion, the once brilliant a-soul plan, the tower of Babel built by them with one hand, is falling slowly and firmly.
However, in the hearts of fans, tomorrow may not be important, what matters is——
Today, they will fight.