Generation Z Artists

Chapter 86 A Good Day for Counterattack
October 10th was a rather chaotic day for Fang Xinghe.

There was not a single moment of leisure in the whole day.

I got up in the morning and practiced martial arts, sweating comfortably. Wang Charlie brought breakfast, but just as I was about to eat, I became restless.

First, Xie Rong called and said that he, Mr. He, and the provincial propaganda leaders were driving to the county town.

Then it was President Jin of Times Literature and Art. He and Chief Editor Chen also set out to talk about the new book.

As soon as I hung up the phone, the principal of the experimental school, an old man, came with his two generals. A few minutes later, the county leaders arrived.

In fact, Charlie is not good at this kind of welcoming and seeing off. He rubbed his forehead and said with a headache: "Boss, I just sorted out the business cooperation and I need you to make a decision..."

"Put it back there."

Fang Xinghe reminded him succinctly: "It's just a good opportunity to observe how they behave when I'm caught in the negative tide, and select a few companies that are worthy of long-term cooperation."

"it is good."

Wang Charlie simply nodded, opened the door and let the old principal and Liu Dashan in.

Brother Dashan seemed like an extra-staff assistant, holding a pile of newspapers and with a sad face as he walked in.

"My dear little ancestor! I knew you were not a good person. Are you happy now? More than 20 newspapers have written articles criticizing you. My blood pressure is almost out of control!"

“Only more than 20?”

Fang Xinghe was puzzled. Isn't that right? How could their fighting ability be so poor?

“More than 20 mainstream newspapers.”

The old principal had a gloomy face and said angrily, "Except for Renri, Beijing Youth Daily, and Xinmin Daily, most of the top 30 newspapers are slandering you to varying degrees."

What about Jilin Daily?
Oh, Jibao didn’t make it into the top 30…

Da Huang cursed indignantly: "Fuck, these media are all fucking sick, like mad dogs!"

There is no such thing as fairness and objectivity.

"Let me see."

Fang Xinghe took the pile of newspapers, flipped through them casually, and found that China Youth Daily, Guangming Daily, Capital Daily, and Magic City Daily were all among them.

So, in fact, the division between official media and information media is not accurate. There are their people in the official media, and they have never been united.

Of course, the current Nandu Nanri also has mission-driven journalists who risk their lives to conduct in-depth investigations into criminal groups. The truly disgusting people are those public intellectuals who have stolen into high positions.

The most troublesome thing at the moment is that they seem to have united.

Well, the criticism is interesting.

The tone set by Nandu is "The Morally Declined Young Generation". Through Fang Xinghe's performance in the program, it expresses the lack of respect awareness.

The entire article does not mention the mistakes made by Jiao Guobiao and Chen Danqing in words or deeds, but instead insists on labeling them as "highly respected seniors". It criticizes Fang Xinghe for "not focusing on the debate itself", "making personal attacks", and "having no sense of respect", blah blah blah.

The rest of the media were similar, mainly criticizing Fang Xinghe on a moral level.

The editor-in-chief of Nanri Licheng No. 1 Middle School made a famous statement: "No matter what, Jiao Guobiao and Chen Danqing are still your elders! Putting aside their minor faults, do you, Fang Xinghe, have no faults? Are you pure and innocent? Before you smash other people's windows, please first check whether the moral depression under your feet is already filled with hypocritical water!"

Immediately afterwards, freelance writer Xiaochuan denounced Fang Xinghe’s seven sins in the same newspaper.

"Fang Xinghe's arrogance is unprecedented. He puts himself above everyone else without any reason..."

"Fang Xinghe's brutality is also the root cause of cholera. I didn't want to criticize him, but just one day before the long holiday, a horrific incident occurred in our middle school..."

The story is about a fight between high school students. On one side are the Thirteen Eagles, a group that imitated Fang Xinghe, and on the other side are the weak and helpless students from other schools. In the end, four were seriously injured and two died.

Xiaochuan directly put the blame on Fang Xinghe, saying: "Security management of middle school students had been improving, but when Fang Xinghe came out of nowhere, he used his extremely confusing face, inflammatory violent declarations, and deliberately beautified spirit of resistance to destroy decades of efforts in the education sector in one day, causing middle schools to return to the dark bloody era many years ago...

Boys take pride in fighting and being the boss, and girls idolize such people, which once again fuels the uncontrolled restlessness of teenagers..."

In short, you, Fang Xinghe, are the source of cholera!

What’s even more terrifying is that Xiaochuan is not the only one shooting arrows from this angle.

A simple count shows that eight media outlets have blamed Fang Xinghe for vicious fights that occurred locally, the earliest of which can be traced back to three months ago.

Other media focused on criticizing his morality.

"Fang Xinghe smugly declared on the show: I have no morals. Good, at least he has self-awareness. To prove whether a person has low morals, there are several obvious pieces of evidence..."

"Fang Xinghe doesn't deserve to be an idol!"

"Which parents still allow their children to worship Fang Xinghe?"

"Our reporter went to Nong'an and interviewed the police officers and civil affairs department staff involved. We can tell you for sure that Fang Xinghe is very likely to suffer from mania. When he has an attack, he even beats girls..."

On the whole, it was a gangster approach, first morally downgrading Fang Xinghe to a person with a long history of bad deeds who could not be trusted, then proving through "facts" that this person would only radiate negative influence to the outside world, ultimately destroying him and discrediting him from a public perspective.

Liu Dashan and the others were furious, even angrier than Fang Xinghe.

"Making things up!"

"How shameless!"

He cursed as he watched, and the more he watched, the angrier he became, and the more he cursed, the more fiercely he cursed.

This causes them to feel extremely uncomfortable even when watching media that offer even the slightest criticism.

"China Youth Daily is also fucking sick. They don't have any opinions of their own. Why are they just following the crowd and criticizing something?"

The old principal was worried: "It's troublesome..."

Several adults were at a loss as to what to do, but Fang Xinghe didn't feel anything - compared with the smear campaign by water armies in later generations, this was indeed more intense, but the impact was much smaller.

In his era, making up stories was no longer acceptable, and anyone who spread rumors would be sued for it.

However, even some groundless and vague smears can affect the interests of tens of millions.

Tan Cheng, Wang Xiao, no matter who has a new film or TV series released, there will inevitably be overwhelming negative articles, which will reduce the possibility of another explosion by influencing passers-by's perception, thereby actually reducing the other party's commercial profits.

The competition at that time was so simple.

At present, the seemingly more intense rumor-mongering actually causes much less damage - because the business plate itself is not big.

"Don't take them too seriously..."

Fang Xinghe's words of comfort had just come out when the county leaders arrived, along with his second brother, the propaganda staff, and the county TV station reporter, pushed the door open and walked in.

After a busy chatter, someone from the province was received.

The propaganda guy from the provincial TV station and newspaper accompanied us and we were squeezed into the house with no place to sit, so we ended up recording the video and taking a bunch of photos in the yard.

The theme is probably "XXX from our province inspects the literary and artistic circles and expresses condolences to the literary and artistic orphan Fang Xinghe"...

We took photos along the way until almost noon, and then went to the government hotel for dinner.

There was another round of official jargon at the dinner table, and finally, when they went to the room to drink tea and rest, they finally talked about some practical matters.

There was no one left in the room, including the propaganda leaders, the top two leaders in the county, Mr. He, Xie Rong, President Jin, Editor-in-Chief Chen, the little old man, and Fang Xinghe.

The leader then spoke frankly: "I am here, to a large extent, to support you."

Maybe he was afraid that Fang Xinghe wouldn't understand and might make a wrong judgment, so he spoke in plain language.

"You are a cultural celebrity of our own province. Many people have high hopes for you, so don't be afraid. The groundless attacks from the outside world will never hurt you without us."

The county elder smiled and agreed, "That's right. Although the county can't help you stop the media, we have been working hard to clarify and report to the higher authorities. The facts are not what they fabricated..."

The leader went on to say something more profound: "In 97, the th National Congress formally proposed the basic strategy of 'ruling the country according to law.' This year, 'building a socialist country ruled by law' was written into the Constitution. Times have changed. It is no longer a chaotic period of struggle where you can be easily tried by simply putting a pot of shit on your head. Don't take those vicious incidents that are said to be influenced by you to heart."

Feed them handfuls of reassurance pills, and it can actually be summarized very simply - although we can't do anything to them at the media level, they can't do anything to you officially either.

No matter who is spewing nonsense, the provincial newspaper, provincial TV station and even the official authorities always speak in a highly consistent tone: it’s not happening!

The sincere love of protecting one's own child is fully reflected.

In fact, there has always been a situation in China where no one can be convicted for speech. It can even be clearly stated that before the special laws and regulations were introduced in later generations, no matter how the public intellectuals cursed or who they cursed, there was no legal basis for dealing with them.

A big government means a wide range of responsibilities, including being able to control everything.

The rule of law means that it is difficult to impose punishment without basis.

The result is the current situation - neither side can do anything to the other.

Fang Xinghe has his base, teenagers.

It is difficult to prevent the faction from also having a base, including anti-establishment angry young people and angry Chinese.

The province plans to give Fang Xinghe the honor he deserves soon, but you have to bear the grievances you suffer in the media on your own.

"I'm OK."

Fang Xinghe replied: "It's nothing more than a fight in the media, I quite like it."

Yes, now it is a chaotic situation.

The difficult-to-defend tactics are indeed insidious. Whenever a fight breaks out in junior high and high school, Fang Xinghe will be blamed. However, this can only affect his popularity among the public, and there is no such critical damage as in later generations.

On the contrary, what they thought was an attack was actually helping Fang Xinghe to refine the essence of his fans.

"Objectively speaking."

The county elder brother carefully considered his words.

"Well, even if your uncle's incident is exposed, the problem will not be serious. Our government departments have a scale in their hearts. What is the social atmosphere like in normal times? How many public security cases are there? What is the specific problem of youth violence?

And so on, it is mainly affected by some unexpected factors and cannot and should not be simply attributed to a certain person.

So what you need to do most is to get rid of the influence of this factor on your mentality, and then stop advocating violence too much, and appropriately declare in public that you do not support violence..."

"Cough cough!"

Editor-in-Chief Chen of Times Literature and Art suddenly coughed twice, interrupting the other party's speech.

When the county elder brother looked over in confusion, he smiled awkwardly, took out the manuscript of his new book, and asked the provincial envoy elder brother: "Leader, look, Xiaofang's new book..."

"Well……"

The elder brother from the province fell into deep thought.

Fang Xinghe didn't care at all, but the old principal's scalp instantly went numb and he glared at the brat.

Damn it, what on earth did you write?

At the critical moment, Mr. He suddenly spoke up: "Literature, as a thing, must be realistic, have a warning effect and ideological value, but it should also allow for a certain degree of exaggeration and sublimation to produce more tense literary and artistic value."

From beginning to end, the old man only said this one sentence.

President Jin suddenly let out a sigh that sounded very abrupt at first.

"Alas, the publishing houses in our province have been lagging behind for a long time. In terms of literature, the gap is getting bigger and bigger. I feel so ashamed of the expectations of my superiors!"

The leader's eyebrows relaxed slightly, and he asked Fang Xinghe in a friendly manner: "Xiao Fang, can we just talk briefly about why you designed such an ending?" Fang Xinghe's face was full of righteousness, as if he was possessed by the movie emperor... no, he was possessed by Bao Zheng!
"Because the blood of a teenager is too hot, he cannot stand any injustice! I know that writing like this will definitely be criticized, but I am 14 years old this year, so I will only write about the spirit of a 14-year-old!"

To be honest, even though everyone present was a veteran, who could withstand such an impact from the Gepai actor in person?

You see, when he clenched his fist, his body tensed, veins on his neck slightly popped out, his eyes were determined as if he was going to kill someone, his voice was full of emotion, and the word "willfulness" was pronounced with a distinct and broken emphasis.

Anyone who sees this would be confused by his age, right?

The leader spoke in an increasingly gentle voice: "Well, Xiao Fang, can the background of the story be modified to be more vague?"

Fang Xinghe was overjoyed, but his brows were tightly knitted as he continued to follow the plot.

"Isn't it enough to downplay the provincial and municipal information? I didn't mention any city by name!"

The leader patiently advised: "The name of Xuecheng is still too straightforward. It is easy to make people think of the capital of a brother province. And the description of some streets and geographical environment, you borrowed from our Changchun, right? This is not a good idea either."

Fang Xinghe suppressed his joy and asked, "What about the others?"

The leader waved his hand and said, "I am not an expert in this area, so I won't give you any instructions. Book publishing is a business cooperation between you and the publishing house. You two should discuss it."

The old principal savored the meaning of his words and felt more and more uncomfortable.

ε=(ο｀*)))Alas!
The little calf definitely didn't write well...

Indeed, provincial leaders are avoiding the issue, so one can imagine how inappropriate the content is.

But the interesting thing is this - when the top propaganda leader avoided the issue, it also meant that he delegated power to Times Literature and Art Publishing House. Then, as long as President Jin dared to publish...

It can be published!
President Jin reacted instantly, and said in a very serious tone, "Don't worry, I will strictly control this aspect! If there are any problems, we at Times Literature and Art will take full responsibility!"

Then he turned to look at Fang Xinghe and added a temporary scene: "Xiao Fang, I will modify the details for you, there will be absolutely no problem."

The two county leaders were extremely curious, and like the old man, they were anxious and their eyes were always subconsciously glancing at the manuscript.

But the big boss didn’t have that much time, and when he saw that the conversation was almost over, he looked at his watch.

ojbk, it’s over.

The group sent the leader to the car and went back to continue chatting. There were so many things to talk about today.

"This year's selection of the top ten youth reports in the province has already begun, and you should also pay attention to it."

"As for the demolition compensation, the county has taken care of it for you. Just sign and wait to receive the money and the house."

The two big bosses in the county said something each, showing their willingness to show goodwill.

Fang Xinghe naturally accepted it happily, and then said nothing more - he raised his hand to indicate, "Talk about whatever you want to talk about quickly, I've freed up time."

The county doesn’t pay much attention to contemporary literature and art, but it is very eager for provincial TV stations.

Fang Xinghe was sensible and deliberately kept silent, which made it clear that he wanted the provincial TV station to give him some face. Xie Rong, who was such a smart man, immediately showed his utmost sincerity - PY blending.

Of course, it is impossible to get results immediately, but once the door is opened and the contact information is left, there will always be opportunities to help when the time is right in the future.

The two officials were laughing. Some deep-seated things were hard to talk about, but it was obvious that with the help of Fang Xinghe, someone was going to rise to fame again.

Indeed, celebrities are different from each other.

Starting from literature, although it is difficult to attract fans and he has little star power, his level is indeed higher than that of an actor. It just so happened that the province was in great need of such idols with cultural influence, so Xiao Fang naturally became the focus of attention.

All I can say is that it is a matter of time and fate, and those who are self-reliant will be helped by heaven.

Like the three things today, each one is not small, and it would probably make ordinary people exhausted. But in front of Fang Xinghe, they took the initiative to come to his door to do it.

From the perspective of being needed, he has already raised his value to a certain level.

Although it is limited to the province, it is a very good start, isn't it?
The time was almost up and they had finished their tea, so Fang Xinghe said goodbye directly.

As soon as he left, the bureau was disbanded - Jin and Chen followed him, and Mr. He was too lazy to continue to deal with the junior department head, so they all followed Fang Xinghe home.

When a group of people from the same family sat down again at home, they had the opportunity to talk about some specific things.

When Mr. He saw the pile of newspapers on the desk, he burst out laughing.

"Yesterday, there was no movement outside, but today, everything exploded."

Fang Xinghe flipped out the Jilin Province Daily and shook it in his hand: "Who wrote this? I think he is crazier than those people..."

Xie Rong and others laughed loudly, and each of them shook their heads five times.

"If they dare to write, just bear with it. It's you who paid for the press release~~~"

The report claimed that Fang Xinghe's in-depth interview won the first place in the highest local ratings among the guards in the same period nationwide, and won a super ratings of 40.35%.

Just tell me whether this is nonsense or not?
But actually...

Not only is the data customized, but even this customized data contains a lot of bragging content.

It is quite troublesome to actually count the ratings now, as there is a gap of at least 24 hours in between, because the data from the headcount meter needs to be summarized and analyzed every other day.

Moreover, the sample distribution is very critical. There are huge differences whether the sample families are in the Northeast or Southwest, in the city or in the countryside.

The information released in advance by Jibao is an early batch sample report that is exclusive to the province and distributed in urban areas.

It is conceivable what its value is.

Fang Xinghe looked at Xie Rong and said, "No need to ask, this is you who did it again, right?"

Xie Rong was not ashamed at all: "As for bragging, if no one exposes it, then you don't have to care about it. If someone exposes it, you can pretend that you didn't see it and continue not caring. Haha, don't worry!"

The strange thing is that those southern media that had been arguing fiercely before did not expose the truth and simply shut up.

"They have been waiting for this day." Editor-in-Chief Chen sneered.

Liu Dashan was mixed with joy and worry: "The show is indeed a big hit, but I am becoming more and more nervous."

Fang Xinghe asked Xie Rong in a deep voice: "How much is it exactly?"

"Uh, the national ratings are 13.2%. We are no match for Gege and New Water Margin. Damn, these two reruns have beaten us!"

Xie Rong was clearly complaining, but his expression was beaming.

Fang Xinghe was too lazy to figure it out himself, so he asked directly: "What's the concept?"

"Well, among the variety shows, except for Focus Interview, none of us is inferior!"

Xie Rong obviously excluded the news broadcast and weather forecast, as those two things have never been included in the statistics.

But Fang Xinghe still doubted the result: "Did they kill off Variety Show, The Same Song and Super Winner?"

Xie Rong slapped his thigh immediately: "Hey, I said no one is weak, but I didn't say it's a sure win. We are just a little bit behind those three..."

"How much difference?"

"Uh, the difference is less than 4 points..." Xie Rong's voice dropped significantly. "We broadcast on Tuesday, so it's different. When compared horizontally, we are not inferior to them."

Well, Fang Xinghe finally roughly understood the level of influence.

A boring talk show aired at 8 o'clock on Tuesday, it achieved a national viewership rating of 13.2%, which was undoubtedly a huge hit.

This thing cannot be compared with the replay data of Gege Yi which had a 25% viewership rating, but should be compared with "Variety Show" which had the highest rating of 18%.

So, which one is more difficult, CCTV's 18% or Jilin TV's 13%?
Obviously an interview.

Fang Xinghe asked again: "How many people are covered?"

Xie Rong simply replied: "According to the current TV ownership rate of about 70%, the coverage population is about 9000 million, mostly in cities. In addition, our province alone contributes 2000 million people. The three provinces in the northeast add up to 4000 million people, right?"

Fang Xinghe did a quick calculation and found that it basically matched the panel data.

The number of floating fans has risen to 1400 million with great difficulty, and there are probably not many middle-aged people left.

Among them, about 600 million of them skyrocketed after the sofa was cracked, and they can be classified as young male fans.

There is a logical trap here: people in Jilin Province are not necessarily fans of Fang Xinghe. This year, there are too many people who just watch the fun and do not care about it.

Get excited when you watch it, then turn around and do whatever you want.

Especially since Northeast China is experiencing an economic downturn, the elderly and children are left at home, and middle-aged men and women go south to work. Fang Xinghe once made strong appeals in an interview, but only the families who still stay in the local area and have no worries about food and drink have the leisure to appreciate him.

Therefore, the overall number has not increased very much. If one really wants to reach 5000 million floating fans in an instant, that would be nonsense. The external environment simply does not have such conditions.

But the number of hardcore fans has increased a lot - relying on the display of kung fu, a large number of young people have been attracted.

Level 2 backbone: 165.8w.

When Fang Xinghe on TV suddenly started to perform Tai Chi posture, audiences across the country shared a common reaction template - from confusion to shock. After a loud "crack", the sofa broke, the person got drunk, and the false world collapsed.

Dad, you lied to me that there is no martial arts in the world?!
Most young boys ask their parents this question, and the fathers are naturally sweating profusely, not knowing how to explain.

At this time, martial arts was still a very mysterious thing.

The qigong craze has just subsided not long ago, and there are still many people who believe that there are martial arts in the world, the kind of mysterious kung fu described in martial arts novels.

Anyway, after being stunned for two seconds, 13 Eagle suddenly pounced on him, hugged Fang Xinghe's thighs and screamed.

"Brother! You are so naughty!"

“Fuck fuck fuck!”

"Too fierce, really, Boss, you are the god of war!"

At that moment, young people all over the country probably went crazy.

Fang Xinghe couldn't see the specific reaction, but he saw that the number of core fans increased rapidly at a rate of 10 per second, directly from 80 to 155 million.

When he was dealing with Chen Danqing later, he looked so handsome overall, but he only gained another 10 core fans. This shows how thoroughly he refined the floating fans in this wave.

A rough calculation shows that among the current 165 million core fans, about 40% are male fans.

In terms of the passion for chasing stars and the duration of the passion, the male fans are definitely far inferior to the female fans. Once their puberty settles down, games can take away their love for their idols at any time, they can also take away their love when they find a partner, and they can also take away their love when they decide to study hard after a breakup...

In short, love is taken away in various ways, and fans are lost at the speed of lightning.

As the year 2000 was approaching and online games were about to debut, this goodwill was in jeopardy.

Damn it, I never thought that one day my enemy would become an online game...

Fang Xinghe sucked his teeth and put the pain in his balls aside for the time being.

Well, they are definitely better than middle-aged people. They can probably contribute a lot to the sales of the new book and provide one or two years of starlight. Isn't this just picking it up for free?
If there hadn’t been that wave of exhibitions, the total loss would have been tens of millions of stars, and if we round it up and extend the time, the loss would have been 10 billion!
Now it’s a good deal, right?

Let’s not look at other data for now. The next few days will be both a super-rhythm period and a super-large offline fan-abuse event.

It won’t take much, just three to five days, and the number of die-hard fans will explode again.

That would be a good time to launch a counterattack.

　I almost couldn't hold it, I'll post it first and then modify it. If you have any questions, leave a message
　　
　
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