Text | Mirror Entertainment, author 丨 Liang Jialie, editor 丨 Zhang Fengyi
Recently, the accompanying software Bixin has been removed from the shelves indefinitely, and together with it, there are many accompanying software such as fawn play, Mia, and Yipai. There is no official explanation for the reason for the removal, but it is not difficult to imagine that this is inseparable from the chaos involved in the play platform.
The large-scale removal of the escort app is undoubtedly a major blow to the entire playing industry. In the current strict Internet regulatory environment, it is still unknown whether these accompaniment platforms that have been repeatedly exposed to have pornography-related problems can return to the market.
"Sooner or later, I don't know how outsiders look at the software, and the water to play with is indeed very deep." It is not denied that some people are serious about playing with Bixin, but there are also people who come to Bixin to find meal tickets, make transactions, and use Bixin as a detective. The accompanying mode itself leaves room for the edge ball. Xiao Zhou said in an interview with Mirror Entertainment.
Xiao Zhou, 25 years old this year, has done half a year of accompanying play in Bixin, and in this half year, she has deeply realized the complexity of playing with the jianghu.
It is true that the home page of the Bixin APP reads "Find the big god to open the black together", but in the heart, not only the big god can do the accompaniment, because the "boss" of the heart is not everyone who comes to the heart to open the black points, and then to play with the heart, not everyone "makes money with technology".
Those who are sweet, can chat, can accept CP, willing to video chat or offline meeting with the accompaniment, in the heart of the market, regardless of the game technology is good or bad.
Nowadays, some people have earned more than 10,000 yuan a month in Bixin, some people have been deceived into cheating money in Bixin, some people are looking for tree holes in the online platform of Bixin, and some people are "uneasy and kind". The various people gathered on the platform constitute the complex ecology of the platform, and the only thing that Bixin can do is "monitor the inside of the platform", as for those who are playing with the bosses and bosses in the Bixin line, what happens on other platforms or offline, than the heart can't manage, maybe don't want to care.
<h2>In Bixin, it is not difficult to earn more than 10,000 yuan a month</h2>
The first time to disclose user data than the heart, it is still 2019. At that time, the "2019 Game Sparring White Paper" released by Bixin showed that in 2019, more than 27 million gamers found sparring on the platform to play games, more than 1.29 million people made money on the platform, the average monthly income of sparring was 7857 yuan, and the average monthly income of part-time was 2929 yuan.
In 2019, Bixin is already the head platform in the field of accompanying play, but Xiao Zhou and Bixin are still two parallel lines. Growing up, Xiao Zhou hardly touched the game, after graduation, the people around her were playing the popular "Glory of the King", she followed the trend to become a gamer, and occasionally opened black with friends to pass the leisure time.
After playing "Glory of Kings" for four years, Xiao Zhou's duan position has been hovering around the stars or kings. Although she knew that there was a profession of "playing with", she had preconceived notions that only the gods of glory could do companion play.
At the beginning of this year, Xiao Zhou met a Teacher Tony who was doing sparring in the barbershop, "a game can earn 17 yuan" and "not only the gods can do accompaniment", which made Xiao Zhou have the idea of trying. She is an administrator in a company in a first-tier city, although the salary is stable but the upper limit is not high, holding the idea of "playing by herself is also to pass the time, playing with others can also make money, why not enjoy it", Xiao Zhou registered a Bixin account.
In "Glory of the King", Xiao Zhou can be competent in other positions except for the wild position, and has a proficient hero, so it is not difficult to join Bixin to take orders, plus she is also active in grabbing orders, and soon embarked on the right track. At the beginning, the price of Xiao Zhou playing a game with was only one dollar or a few dollars, and later after the order volume and service praise increased, Xiao Zhou's accompanying price became a dozen yuan in a round. "On a day off, you can play more than ten rounds a day, and there is no problem in earning two or three hundred a day."
Xiao Zhou told Mirror Entertainment that the income of the players in bixin mainly depends on full-time or part-time, if it is full-time, there are many people with a single monthly income of seven or eight thousand, and there are many people whose income exceeds 10,000. In addition, Xiao Zhou believes that the income of accompanying play also depends on personal ability, "the same work, some people do well and some people do not do well, can not be generalized." ”
After the number of orders rose, Xiao Zhou found that although each order has a clear pricing, there is actually elastic space behind it, and this elastic space is all determined by the boss. "Sometimes when the boss has fun, he will give you more money to see how the boss is feeling." If you play with a boss for a long time, he may also send you gifts and tips, similar to the operation of the live broadcast platform. Sometimes, you can also take the initiative to negotiate the price with the boss, saying that you want to increase the price, as long as the boss is willing to rise to as much as you want. ”
At the beginning, Xiao Zhou received basically game orders, and later after becoming familiar with Bixin, he gradually began to take chat orders, after all, pure chat is more worry-free and labor-saving than playing games. In order to increase his income, Xiao Zhou also registered as a celebrity in Bixin and joined the voice actors union. Voice actors chat prices are higher, the most basic is 30 yuan an hour, but there are also people who spend hundreds or thousands of yuan looking for a voice actor.
In the WeChat group of the voice actors union, Xiao Zhou met a girl of the same age who earned more than 200,000 yuan in two years in Bixin. "The 200,000 was earned from the same boss. Her boss already has a family, and every time she clicks on this girl, she does not play with herself, but plays games or chats with his wife. Over time, the girl and the boss's family have become friends, and the boss and his wife will occasionally give the girl living expenses. ”
In the past six months of joining Bixin, Xiao Zhou has seen all kinds of bosses and accompaniments in the platform. Among the bosses who look for entertainment, the age group of 18 to 40 is the largest, including college students, as well as civil servants, sales and other people from all walks of life. The identities of the accompanying players are also different, Xiao Zhou has encountered the accompanying play of dropping out of school, and has also encountered the high-quality students of Tsinghua Peking University to play with, and even the married mother and brother bing.
Bixin is a jianghu, and the people gathered in this jianghu through the network from all over the world have different purposes and needs.
<h2>Strange bosses</h2>
In the heart, bosses can write down their requirements when looking for a companion, such as age, gender, price, etc., and can also have other more detailed requirements, such as "being a northeasterner", "speaking English", "high education" and so on.
In the half year of playing with him, Xiao Zhou has met many bosses who have strange requirements. A student of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University once asked her to convert a PDF file into Word; someone asked her to add a heart-shaped special effect to Li Bai's Phoenix skin to confess; someone needed her to fill out a questionnaire; someone wanted her to help find resources for popular dramas; and some people who wanted to come to Xiao Zhou's city for tourism or school needed Xiao Zhou to make a travel guide for them, or introduce the local university situation.
Xiao Zhou found that some old users who are more than heart no longer regard the platform as a place to purely find a place to play with, and bosses have encountered problems that need to be solved in their lives, and they will also spend money to find a way to play with them. "In Bixin, you can certify some qualifications, such as psychological counselors, and some bosses will come to you to place an order if they have special needs."
However, when doing accompaniment, Xiao Zhou encountered the most, or need to accompany the bosses who play games and chat.
The word "accompany" in the word "accompanying play" is destined to be the social attribute of the accompanying play platform, and it is stranger socialization. In Xiao Zhou's view, the bosses who come to play with their hearts more or less have social needs in their hearts, so introverts or silent people are not suitable for playing with them. "In addition to the chat list, when playing games, I will also chat with the bosses, talk about gossip and talk about hot spots, or talk about the mountains, it is best not to let the atmosphere freeze."
In half a year, Xiao Zhou found that most of the bosses who came to her heart were more willing to find the opposite sex to play with, and the bosses she herself met were more male. However, there are also some bosses who specify to find the same sex to play with, and once, Xiao Zhou met a female boss and asked Xiao Zhou to "scare people" in the game with her. "She often has a single row, probably because of her general skills, always scolded, and scolded herself, so she found a companion to help her scold."
The male bosses that Xiao Zhou met also had different personalities and requirements. For a while, there was a boss who successively looked for Xiao Zhou to place an order, asking for only "losing the game", Xiao Zhou felt strange about it, at first, she thought that the boss would "retaliate against society" because of losing the game, and later in the chat, Xiao Zhou found that the boss was because of the loss of love, so he wanted to vent his emotions by losing the game.
Before doing the accompanying play, Xiao Zhou has not understood that everyone will basically have friends who can play games together in reality, why would they find a companion to play in the online world? After joining the play industry, Xiao Zhou learned that many bosses are not looking for a play club to open a black or score, they just need a "tree hole" in the virtual world to share the thoughts that are difficult to talk to family or friends in real life.
Many bosses that Xiao Zhou has met have a strong desire to talk. There is a male boss from Beijing who is engaged in business management consulting, and once confided in Xiao Zhou about his career anxiety. "He said that when he and his colleagues walked on the street, his colleagues paid attention to beautiful women, but he focused on men with successful careers, others could not understand him, complained that he did not have worldly desires, but he knew that he only hoped that one day he would become such a being."
Xiao Zhou divides the above bosses into the category of "normal people", because in her definition, there are also some bosses who have other purposes to compare their hearts, which can be classified into the category of "abnormal people" who are "mentally incorrect".
In half a year, Xiao Zhou has encountered a lot of bad bosses, such as asking her "bump cannon" or "can you meet offline", Xiao Zhou told Mirror Entertainment that "bump cannon" is a code word in the bixin platform, which means equivalent to "about". In addition, some people will ask whether Xiao Zhou will take video orders or photo lists, and for these "mentally incorrect" bosses, Xiao Zhou's way of dealing with them is to report.
"When some people place orders to find a companion, they will vaguely mark these needs, and I will generally avoid them when I see this." But just because you don't answer doesn't mean no one answers. ”
<h2>Accompany the "character" of play</h2>
The bosses have a variety of needs, and naturally put forward different requirements for the accompanying players.
In Xiao Zhou's view, whether the accompanying players can make money and how much money they can make in their hearts is not only related to full-time or part-time work, but also related to "Buddhism or seriousness", "Whether emotional intelligence is high or low", "where is the lower limit of acceptability" and so on.
"Many people play games to win, but those who have played "Glory of kings" know that this game has lost and won, but if the boss plays with you and wins, and you are happy to lose, that is the embodiment of your high emotional intelligence." 」
Xiao Zhou came to Bixin, just hoping to increase her income through part-time in her spare time, she is more willing to accept chat orders in the later stage, in addition to the reason of ease, it is also because she is an extroverted person, and her work experience and life experience are relatively rich, and she is good at dealing with various bosses. In Xiao Zhou's view, chatting with the boss is a technical job, different people have different chat needs, and the players need to figure out the psychology of the boss.
In the process of playing with you, if you encounter some bosses who are silent and introverted and do not know how to open the conversation box, Xiao Zhou will generally guide them to talk to themselves, starting from daily topics such as weather and city, and gradually getting closer to the boss. However, sometimes some bosses are talkative, but the mood swings are too large or there are some psychological problems, which also puts forward higher requirements for the chat skills of accompanying play.
Xiao Zhou once met a very "mournful" male boss. "Because the family environment is superior, and looks good, when he was young, he was surrounded by suitors continuously, but he basically did not fall in love with anyone, he was quite scummy in his feelings, and now he may have grown up, talking about past feelings always said that he was ashamed and wanted to take a relationship seriously."
In the face of this boss, Xiao Zhou will sincerely guide him every time he chats, and sometimes share his emotional experience to reassure the boss.
When doing accompaniment, Xiao Zhou will try to meet all the normal requirements of the boss, which in her opinion is a qualified professional cultivation of accompanying play. But leaving the play platform, Xiao Zhou is not willing to have too much contact or personal feelings with these bosses, she is a relatively rational person, and she is not optimistic about online dating or developing feelings.
However, there are many sentient beings on the accompanying play platform, and some of the stories that happen to accompany the play are completely different from Xiao Zhou.
Xiao Zhou once contacted a male boss who was cheated by a female companion. "He works in Shanghai, the income is good, come to Bixin is not to find a girlfriend, but in the process of playing the game to meet, think it is good to develop into a romantic relationship." The girl had borrowed money from him on the pretext of being sick and needing to be hospitalized, borrowing an online loan and not having money to repay, and then the money was not repaid, and she broke up with the boss directly on the grounds that her family did not agree, and the boss reacted that he was just a girl's cash machine. ”
This is the story that happened on the Bixin platform, and it is also the story that happened on all stranger social platforms. After hearing and witnessing for half a year, Xiao Zhou learned that this kind of "looking for meal tickets" in the name of love is not a minority. "Not only women, but also men, and men play with them to find rich wives." Some aren't even romantic relationships, just simple deals. ”
However, there are also sincere people in the rolling red dust. In the voice actor union where Xiao Zhou is located, there is a female accompaniment play and the boss who develops a relationship as a lover.
"The two people opened the black for a long time, found that the personalities and three views of both sides are very compatible, and became friends without saying anything, and later, the female escort just had a travel plan, and went to the city where the man was located." Before the girl went, the man was afraid that she had security concerns, and also took pictures of her ID card and work permit and sent her. After the face of the base should be very satisfied with both parties, now in love, the man even considered coming to the girl's city to work and get married. ”
Becoming a hotbed of edge balls, or becoming a "red lady", may not be the original intention of Bixin, but the social attributes of accompanying play are destined to produce such an extension of Bixin.
<h2>Than the "original sin" of the heart</h2>
Nowadays, Xiao Zhou is ready to quit Bixin and no longer work part-time as a companion. When talking about the experience of playing with Bishin, she thinks it is fresh and interesting.
Xiao Zhou told Mirror Entertainment that he had met a boss who had been a radio anchor, "especially like the fugitives of deyun society, he was very happy to play games with him, and he felt that he was not playing with himself, but the boss gave me a companion to play." And maybe because of his rich experience, he also learned a lot from him. ”
But for the Bixin platform, Xiao Zhou's feelings and cognition are complicated. On the one hand, Xiao Zhou believes that the accompaniment platform is a product derived from the development of modern games and the loneliness of modern people, and the existence is reasonable, because at the beginning of the establishment of the accompaniment platform, it only provided the trading and trading of this service.
"There are indeed many people in this society who are unwilling or unable to talk to the people around them about something, so since you can spend money to find a stranger to chat and play games, isn't it good?" You only have to pay a certain price, and the price is relatively transparent. There are people from all walks of life on this platform, and when you chat with them, you will have a certain harvest, which is also a good thing. ”
On the other hand, Xiao Zhou believes that the accompanying platform itself carries a certain "original sin". When she first joined Bixin, she once had the experience of being banned, and the reason for the ban was that a boss asked her "bump cannon" when chatting, and she did not understand the meaning of this sentence at that time, so she asked "what is a cannon cannon". Bixin has strict supervision over the chats on the platform, and this conversation was judged "unhealthy" by the artificial intelligence, and Xiao Zhou was banned for this reason.
"In bixin, all the calls between the accompaniment and the boss are regulated by artificial intelligence, and as long as sensitive words appear, they will be banned or punished accordingly." And the Bixin platform also has a reporting mechanism, if it involves unhealthy content, you may find that other accompanying play has unhealthy behavior, you can directly report. ”
Xiao Zhou recognizes the supervision of Bixin, but in her view, even if the chat screening is strict and the reporting mechanism is sound, it is impossible for Bixin to eliminate some chaos derived from the platform. Because the players and the boss have been in contact for a long time, they will exchange other contact information, and anything that happens in the future is beyond the scope of the platform' management.
"Some people just have improper intentions to compare their hearts, and how to manage it is a difficult problem."
In an interview, Xiao Zhou said that she had hardly met minors on the Bixin platform, because the Bixin platform could only register if she was eighteen years old, but in the six months of playing with her, she had met many college students to accompany her. In Xiao Zhou's view, bixin allows students under the age of 22 to register accounts, which has a negative impact.
"Although 18-year-olds are adults and they can take responsibility for their own actions, if you think about it, they are in the reading stage, their outlook on life and values are not mature, and it is easy to be guided by some incorrect values on the platform." For example, Bixin allows bosses to find CP on the platform, although it is a game CP, but the two sides may also have some money exchanges or other pornography-related behaviors, will this make young people think that engaging in CP can make money? I'm in someone else's way to cp it's a natural thing for someone to spend money on me? ”
When she learned that Bi xin was removed from the shelves, Xiao Zhou was not surprised, and she believed that it was necessary and meaningful to remove the software from the shelves and rectify it.
"People are difficult to manage, and it is not the reason for the platform to get rid of the crime, because everything is bred here, and the platform cannot be exempted from responsibility." Wandering in the gray area will only harm the industry, and there are more young people with immature minds. "Little Zhou Dao.