Speaking of the list of the top 100 ups of the B station in 2021, some people are still standing, some people are suddenly rising, and some people are already cold...
Just as the so-called "Yangtze River back wave pushes forward wave", generation after generation of B station newcomers have followed in succession, constantly injecting more fresh blood into this young and energetic community ecology, thus jointly creating a thriving scene.
However, a few joys and a few sorrows, in these "front waves" that were photographed on the shore, there are also some top gangsters of the past, who once shone as dazzling as today's hundred up masters.
01. Years are not forgiving
Speaking of the representative works of director Ao, it must be counted in his debut work "The Call of 囧" on the B station, the series of videos takes game entertainment explanations and game culture discussions as the main content, which also includes the spit on garbage games, which once became the highest click-through single-player game commentary video in China.
Each episode of the video is a small theater with a game as the core of the topic for processing and creation, reprocessing the popular stand-alone game with dazzling AE special effects and combining network buzzwords to explain, and it is said that those mentioned games will be used in their special effects to rejuvenate the second spring and be accepted by more domestic players.
For example, in the 189th issue of the "Shadow Warrior" game explanation, Ao Factory Director himself personally experienced the game, while using his own professional and humorous copywriting explanation to introduce the content of the game and its features to you step by step.
Because the form of the unit drama does not have the plot coherence, but the content of the video itself is very interesting, so that everyone will be curious about which game the up master will take in the next episode, thus gaining popularity.
However, fame has never been achieved overnight, when it was first released, his video basically did not make a splash, but this is not to blame him, at that time, the director of Ao Factory had not yet formed his own personal style, and it was inevitable that the beginning of the exploration stage would hit a wall.
A few years before the birth of Station B, the director of Ao Factory was not called "Ao Factory Director", but "Mr. 囧", which also corresponded to his debut work "The Call of 囧".
At that time, the videos he created were mainly published on the "Command and Conquer" Tieba and a cool website, in which the factory director had a "囧" face, and the way of speaking was very different from the current humorous style, and even those who came to "archaeology" frankly could not adapt to such changes.
Also unacceptable is also the bar friends at the time, the first episode was released when the word of mouth response was very bad, all are consistent bad reviews, and the video after that is also not popular, it is said that Ao Factory Director also said that he had thought about giving up many times.
The video has no characteristics and naturally does not set off any heat, and after understanding this, the director of Ao Factory officially became the "Ao Factory Director" that everyone knows, and only then can he be prompted to practice the familiar pretzel "Trump" tone and spicy and humorous interpretation style.
"The Call of 囧" has brought a lot of fame to director Ao, but there is also a creative bottleneck, because a single fixed video form is easy to cause aesthetic fatigue to the audience, even if it is a funny and funny video, there will be a tired day after a long time, so that the popularity of the up lord will also decline.
The video has been on fire for two years, and the director of Ao Factory also realizes that his video popularity has reached the same state, if he does not want to do something to improve it, it will be cool sooner or later, in the words of Ao Factory Director's idea: If you want to maintain the heat, you must bring more diverse works to the audience.
Since then, he has successively launched "MC Factory Director" with the theme of the sandbox game "Minecraft", a series of videos such as "I Am Not a Foodie" that reviews various hot topic snacks, a "antique" game research video based on hardcore exploration, and "Anti-囧 Breath" derived from "The Breath of 囧".
Not only that, Ao has also guest starred in other works, such as "Egg Pain News", "The Call of 囧: Origin", "囧 Bar の Everyday", "WODOTA Spring Festival Special Program" and so on.
As an up owner who entered the B station in 2011, the career history of Ao Factory Director also reflects the rise of the self-media era to a certain extent, from the beginning of obscurity, power generation for love, to the current hundred flowers blooming, a hundred schools of contention, as a "living fossil" Ao Factory Director can also be regarded as witnessing all this.
Some people commented on the director of Ao Factory, he has always been adhering to the attitude of loving games, despising money, and never giving up on garbage games, and it is precisely because of the existence of such a person that his words and deeds have a very important reference value for the players' game experience.
In the early years, it was still a pure two-dimensional B station, as long as the up masters could grasp the development of one of the areas in the anime game, they could get tens of thousands of fans, which was already the first place in the whole station at that time.
And Ao Factory Director is to seize his research on the game, so as to get the first place in the number of B station fans at that time, and in the next few years the popularity is also among the best, it is with such a popular foundation, he can sit in the early B station a brother status.
But the rise in fame has brought not only honor, but also controversy.
Although the game video of Ao Factory Director is very interesting, the level of copywriting has also been criticized by many people, such as "Contra Underwater Eight Levels" and "Atari Sword Hunting" have been spat on by everyone because of their exaggerated descriptions.
However, those are just small problems that are difficult to reconcile, and can not affect the fame of the director of Ao Factory, if it were not for the Q rotten money incident, perhaps the reputation of the director of Ao Factory would not have fallen off a cliff.
In October 2019, it was also about a year after the listing of station B, when it had millions of fans and was still in the top position, Ao Factory Director, because of the promotion of a game that was criticized for rubbing IP heat, "The Return of the Great Sage", the result was "discredited" on the spot, and the number of powder dropped was more than 20,000.
In the video, Ao Factory Director bragged about this game, what "the strongest IP of domestic games", "elaborate work", the results are all deceitful, the entire game production level is rotten, purely just bad money.
And the most crucial thing is that this move of the director of Ao factory also smashed the human image he had established for many years to pieces, people were angry, and the money was also collected, and the result was a change of face, ugly eating, and deceived the feelings of the players, which is the main reason for the reputation of the director of the Ao factory.
Although the post apologized, but this also made the credibility of the director of Ao Factory in the B station marked with a question mark, even in the 271st video of "The Call of 囧" produced in April 2020, the statement about "Japanese animation technology and art aesthetics (compared with the past) has long been separated" has been accused by everyone and even the well-known animation media Anitama of being wrong and missing.
Perhaps it was the tragedy of the "collapse of human design", in the following days, the director of Ao Factory chose to leave Station B briefly, and did not officially return until July 2020 (it is said that his uncle returned with an invitation of 40 million).
But the first video he released after his return was a commercial mobile phone review, just an additional EVA co-branded style. This also made some fans who had followed him sigh, "Director Ao has long since changed his taste." ”
But on the other hand, the impact of Ao Factory Director on station B cannot be ignored, it can be said that if there is no his appearance, then at least two important people will be absent in the hundred big ups in recent years.
02. The afterlife is terrible
Speaking of Ao Factory Director, he was the first up owner of Station B to have more than one million fans, which was set in February 2016, and in the following 2018 and 2019, his number of fans exceeded 4 million and 5 million, respectively.
And when it comes to the first up master of the B station with more than ten million fans, then this is the popular brother "Old Tomato" in the game area of the current B station.
Since August 2019, the number of old tomato fans in station B has been at the forefront, and the number of people has gradually increased, until april 2020, it took the lead in winning the first place of tens of millions of fans in the whole station.
When he first started making videos, Old Tomato was influenced by the director of Ao Factory, who was popular in a cool factory at the time, which stimulated his enthusiasm for video creation, and with this creative enthusiasm, following the footsteps of idols, Old Tomato also created a series of game videos.
Unfortunately, when I first submitted a video in a cool way, the number of clicks on each work was not very good, the heat was very low, and the creative enthusiasm of the old tomato was also consumed after a long time...
Until 2013, the old tomato under the advice of friends to move all these videos to the B station, sure enough, the video playback is obviously better, probably encouraged by this phenomenon, the old tomato seized the opportunity to take advantage of the chase, in November of the same year launched his famous work --- "Have you ever seen such a sick Pokemon commentary?" 》
Once the video was released, the number of views exceeded 1.3 million on the same day, ranking third in the B station video list, and this achievement also completely stimulated the creative enthusiasm of the old tomato in the B station, it is said that in the period when he was still in high school and made videos to be sneaky, the old tomato had three or four hundred thousand fans in the B station.
By the way, in July of that year, the first up owner of the number of fans of station B was the director of Ao Factory.
It can be said that if there was no influence of Ao Factory Director at that time, the old tomato may not have been driven by the enthusiasm for creating videos, so there would be no such achievements as today, and there would be no possibility of being selected as one of the top 100 ups in 2018 with "idols", and it is possible to win the honor in the next few years.
In the hundred up masters who were also influenced by the director of Ao Factory, another person was the famous ghost animal brother of the B station "gun trajectory", who had been selected as the top 100 up masters of the B station for three consecutive years, including 2021.
Like the old tomato, the bullet trajectory was also settled in the B station in 2013, before which he was an old user of Tieba.
It is said that the Internet is the ghost animal of the gun brother--- "He is good at digging up treasure materials in current affairs news and daily life, giving the work a strong musicality, making people inexplicably superior, no matter what kind of content theme is given a hundred million times more happiness under his creation, and therefore has nuclear bomb-level explosive power." ”
Speaking of Gun Brother's masterpiece, it must be counted "Ollie to Miaomiaoya" with more than 27 million views, if you want to use eight words to describe this video, it is "too many elements, making people grass".
The ghost animal sense of the video lies in the strong rhythm and prominent groove points, which not only have winter swimming monster pigeons, but also new and old ghost animal stars such as Honey Snow Ice City, Cai XX, and the Lord of Shadow Stream.
Speaking of the Tieba where the gun brother was stationed, it was named after the work of the director of Ao Factory, "The Call of 囧", and at that time, he also posted many times in the Tieba to communicate with his friends, and in a year's time, he left a deep impression on everyone--- big artists and philosophers are the evaluations given to him by bar friends.
Until some things happened later, let the gun brother change his career and run to do ghost animal videos, and at that time, his object of opening was obviously the Ao factory director he admired, such as his first work "Ao Factory Director New Year's Day Passion Ghost Animal".
After that, he launched "Sneak It!" Ao Factory Director", "Factory Director Sings Self-Hanging Southeast Branch", "Attack Factory Director", "Ao Factory Director and Mermaid Sister" and "Ao Factory Director is Really Cute" and a large number of ghost animal masterpieces, accumulating a lot of popularity.
Even Director Ao himself was touched by his true love, so he threw a recognized look at the other party and encouraged him to continue to work hard to create more excellent ghost animal works.
And the facts have also proved that he did not disappoint the director of Ao Factory and the small partners of B station.
Judging from the experience of the above two hundred masters, it can be seen how much influence director Ao had at that time, he was like a senior who was highly respected by everyone, inspiring some juniors to embark on a similar path to him, and finally they had all learned something, only he was silently pushed behind him...
03. Supplement
Last year was the tenth anniversary of the director of Ao Factory in Station B, on April 30, he released a commemorative video about the past 10 years, recalling his past experience, talking about some behind-the-scenes experiences, and reflecting on some of the mistakes he had made before.
Although today's Ao Factory Director has more than 7.5 million fans, and the content of each video is the same as the previous type, the number of plays is also more than 1 million, but in terms of popularity, Ao Factory Director is indeed not as good as before.
This has nothing to do with his "human design" collapse, all are the choice of the times, because with the continuous growth of the scale of the B station, more and more potential newcomers have settled in the B station, the decline of the old predecessors is an inevitable thing, which is the same for other up lords who are currently in the boom, but it is still far from that day.
However, as long as you can continue to do your duty and correct it in time, even if the popularity is no longer in the future, those old fans will not abandon it.
As director Ao himself said at the end of the video, "No matter how station B changes, no matter how the audience's taste changes, director Ao will continue to burn his own strength and bring you more wonderful game creation videos in the future!" ”