Ordinary people who don't want to be ordinary

Getting into his cousin's car, from Ji'an, Jiangxi to Zhongshan, Guangdong, was the longest 9 hours in Shaodong's life.

In the car, he woke up and slept, slept and woke up. His idea was, "That's it." Everything is "just like this", the father gambles, it's like this; leave the family to work, that's it; part-time work has to pay back the family, that's it.

And his life is like this.

There are a total of 227 million small-town youth in China. Many of them, like Shaodong, lived a life that was either ordinary, or desperate, or stable enough to see the head at a glance. Some of them are poor students who have no hope in the eyes of others, some are entrepreneurial young women who have been tricked into giving up when they cooperate to open a factory, some are singers who love their singing career but are ruthlessly ridiculed, and some are debtors who are frustrated by their dreams alone...

They are ordinary people defined by the world, and they may be as lonely as shaodong who works in the south, but this cannot negate their desire to be seen. Even in the long night, there was a light in their hearts, even if it was faint, it was never extinguished.

And the story that happened to them is also a story of ordinary people from ordinary to shining.

Shaodong is the most ordinary of the four people we will talk about next. But at the same time, it is also the one with the biggest transformation. Compared with his peers, Shaodong took on the responsibility of supporting his family earlier. In 2017, Shaodong decided to go to his brother's glass shop in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, to help. At that time, the southern cities were developing rapidly, and all kinds of dreamers came to Guangdong to do business and start a business, and they made glass lamps and light boxes for these people. But he only knows how to exert himself and do some physical work such as moving glass. In a fast-growing big city, such a young east seems out of place.

Kuaishou anchor Shaodong

Students with poor learning are always placed to sit in the back row of the classroom, and Shaodong is. But he is righteous, so there is no shortage of friends, and as soon as school is over, he asks his buddies to go to the Internet café. This is the life of the young boy in the town. He threw himself into a city completely unfamiliar to him, where he had no friends. Just like the protagonist in the movie "Lion Boy", entering the city and having the identity of a migrant worker, all the people around him are older than him, and all the topics cannot be talked about. He didn't know anyone, he didn't have a friend around, and he felt that everything was meaningless. If there was anything that sustained him at that time, his only thought was to help his family pay off debts. As an important support for the family, the relationship between parents was once broken for Shaodong. At that time, his family had a large amount of foreign debt. When everyone in the village built a new building, only their family still lived in the old bungalows of the last century. Until one day my mother left the house. For two years, he didn't know where his mother was. This two years of abandonment have brought great trauma to Shaodong. He cared about family, but he was afraid of it. That's why his family has a special meaning for him.

But for others, even with dreams, very few people can succeed. For example, Tian Bin, the anchor on Kuaishou, his most important thing is his dream. In the kind of environment in his hometown, only stable work is respectable. But he has loved Stephen Chow since he was a child, and on Kuaishou, his early work was a remake of Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu". In the video, he and his brother, dressed in rags, walk like two stray dogs in a wasteland. He always felt that he was about to succeed.

But the reality is ironic. The reality is that his remakes of his work are only a few hundred likes. At the same time, the hairdresser he opened in his hometown of Juxian in Shandong Province also lost money for a long time because of filming. Everyone thinks he's a "non-business" person, and no one wants to go to a "non-business" barber shop to cut his hair. In this way, his barbershop lost more than a hundred thousand a year. Among the many people who oppose Tian Bin, the phrase "not doing the right thing" is said the most by his father. At that time, as long as Tian Bin was at home, his father would count him down. He became a lonely, ununderstood dreamer.

Kuaishou anchor Tian Bin

Others, on the road to seeming success, fight alone, and then break the sand. For example, the anchor egg, she is an extremely winning girl, which is very similar to her mother. Mom knew how bitter it would be for a woman to go down the path of business, so she always opposed her. When she was very young, her father and mother went out to work. My mother was originally a teacher, but for the sake of her family, she learned to do business and suffered a lot of losses. Until the body could not eat it, it came back. The mother tried to plan an easy life for the egg, such as going to France to study abroad and then work as a translator. So when egg eggs who were in college said they wanted to start a business, their mother cried and begged her not to go down this road.

But eggs have their own choices. At the end of the day, she and her mother are the same kind of people. The feeling of being able to get others to buy what they need and make money at the same time made her addicted. When she was in college, she was the captain of the etiquette team, and someone always asked where she bought her clothes. She simply sold her clothes herself. On the first attempt, more than 2,000 pairs of women's hot pants were sold. Since then, she has had the dream of fighting in the business world. When she first started doing online stores, she showed greater perseverance and effort than the college entrance examination. She works as a customer service, models herself, takes her own pictures, and runs her own shelves... At that time, in the whole school, she was different from the entrepreneur, and at that time, she was doing this alone.

Kuaishou anchor egg egg

The desire to be seen

For young people, when loneliness spreads, it becomes a broad desire to be seen, a desire to have friends, a desire for self-actualization. For the teenager Shaodong, who did not have any expectations for himself, he did not expect that the opportunity to change him was the live broadcast on the Kuaishou platform. When Shaodong was in the glass shop and no one spoke, he played games. He only touched the game for half a year, and then he beat the game to the top of the rankings. Everyone else is a team of 4 people to practice techniques and cooperation, he is like a lone wolf, a single row, but always live to the last one. The game also seems to be a metaphor for reality. In reality, from childhood to adulthood, he did not recognize the first thing, but this does not mean that he did not have a desire in his heart. When he had such an opportunity in the virtual world, he gradually felt that he could do it.

Unlike some of his peers, he doesn't play games to hide from reality, but to help his family pay off debts. At that time, his friends told him that there was a platform called Kuaishou, on which he could be a game anchor, and he tried to broadcast for a while, during which time he was the most diligent anchor on the platform. When he could earn thirty or forty yuan a day by using a few hours of live broadcasting after work, he decided to officially change careers. Before Tian Bin saw hope, he also experienced despair. There is a line in "I Am Not a Medicine God", "There is only one disease in this world, and that is the disease of poverty." Before Tian Bin got married, the family's economic situation also reached the lowest point in history. Tian Bin's father pressed bricks for people and could only earn 200 yuan a day. This income is just enough to support a family, but the dowry money for the son's marriage is not affordable. When they got married, the other party's family asked for a dowry of 88,000 yuan, and when he arrived at Tian Bin, he didn't even have 10,000 yuan on him. If for a man, even if he has to find someone to borrow money and swipe a credit card to get married, then how desperate should this person be. How desperate a person is, how strong his desire to change the status quo is. He set himself a schedule, before the birth of the child, he wanted to fight one last time, to do his best to fight once. The daughter-in-law's belly grew larger day by day, and his fear deepened day by day. In order to improve his eloquence during the live broadcast, he used the most stupid method to copy down the speeches of others word for word, memorizing them from morning to night, and transforming these things into his own accumulation. The desire to be seen by people, many people have had. But not much can really be implemented. Dede, a Tibetan girl from Qinghai, studied civil engineering and came to Kuaishou to broadcast live because of her love of music. Her father bought her equipment, and her mother set up a background wall with flying wings. But just two years ago, in the process of live singing, a music teacher denigrated her, saying, "Your voice is ruined, your voice is not suitable for singing", so as to deny her. It can be said that this was the first professional music teacher she met in her life, but she was met with such harsh criticism. It made her fall into self-doubt, was it so hard for me to sing? She often cried in depression in the middle of the night.

Kuaishou anchor Dede

And the egg who had a smooth business in college also found that the world was cruel after all. In order to get a lower price, she took the initiative to find the manufacturer to buy. At that time, whoever can get the supply faster will win. Once, in Hangzhou in 2016, she negotiated a list, and when she went to pick up the goods, the owner of the factory repented. She obviously saw that the goods that originally belonged to her were parked in the factory area, but the other party just wouldn't give it to her. It was a moment of isolation, with customers on one side and factories over there, and she was caught in the middle. At the door of the factory, she cried, who had always been so strong. Later, she decided to open a factory with someone herself. As a result, she met a partner who deceived her. When the two sides tore their faces, the other side threatened her, if she didn't do it, then you online stores would also share half of me. After this incident, she resented and hated, but there was nothing she could do. Her father told her to stay at home from then on, "You are not allowed to go out again when you come back." And she really wanted to give up.

When ordinary people are seen for the first time

Looking back now, Shao Dong made a lonely and courageous choice. It was then that he had the idea of doing what he loved for the first time. He was home from Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, and the most valuable thing on his body was an installment purchase of the iPhone 6s, which he used to broadcast live, in addition, there were 40 yuan, not even clothes, toiletries. He quietly returned to the village, borrowed 50 yuan from a friend, and opened a local hotel to broadcast live. For him, it was three months of isolation. During the live broadcast, he met a group of people, and he took these people to play the game together, and everyone chatted and became friends. It felt like going back to school and going to an Internet café with my brothers. Human connection can dispel loneliness and find its place in existence. At the end of 2017, there were not many game anchors on Kuaishou like Shaodong. Some of them are because of hobbies, and some of them are because they are idle. But Shaodong realized that if he wanted to stop returning to the life of selling coolies and moving glass, this was his only chance to turn over. Like a man who has drowned, he can only grasp the straw.

He is more diligent than most people, and starts broadcasting live every day as soon as he wakes up, without holidays. After three months, he earned ten thousand yuan, and the first thing he thought of was to hand it over to his family. At the same time, he finally ended his live broadcast life in the hotel of 50 blocks a day. Shaodong did not realize at the time that during the live broadcast, he also received something more valuable than money - positive evaluation and encouragement. In the past, whether at school or at home, he was always an ordinary person, but here he was the leader of the team, the one who could be trusted and lead them to victory. In those three months, ShaoDong had heard more praise than he had in his entire life so far combined. He also thanked them: "Thank you for not leaving when I was not going well, and for accompanying me crazy when I was on the downwind plate." "This proves that ordinary people also have a day of being seen.

Tian Bin's efforts have also paid off. When the child was about to be born, he finally had an income of one or two hundred a day, which made him very excited, because more and more viewers gathered in the live broadcast room. People gathered together because of his eloquence and humor, and when the heat was at its highest, Tian Bin's home even became a scenic spot, attracting a bunch of people to visit. And Tedd, who loves to sing, can stand on the stage because she meets someone who recognizes her. After encountering negativity, she was lucky enough to meet her current master when she was connected to Mai again. She was nervous that day because the master was the second professional teacher she had met, and she was afraid to hear the words "you are not fit to sing, your voice is broken" again. But her master affirmed her, "The girl sang awesome, the tone was really good, come on and come on." Never before in her life had she ever felt so happy. And her master, later, really became her family.

Kuaishou anchor Tian Bin (left) Kuaishou anchor Dede (right)

The same is true of the anchor egg, she is not willing to follow the life planned by her parents, and it is this obsession that makes the story turn. The fans she had accumulated over the years kept her, "We don't know where to go to buy clothes if you don't do it." She felt like she was still needed. In 2018, she encountered an opportunity on Kuaishou, where her current master team is recruiting female anchors. She decided to start over on Kuaishou. She chatted with the master for half an hour, and as soon as she told her experience, the other party immediately agreed.

After contacting Kuaishou e-commerce, busy selecting eggs

It was 2019, and she started the era of eggs.

She fought the hardest. At that time, everyone was popular at 6 p.m., but she brought the time forward to noon. From 12:00 to 6:00 p.m., fans still feel that they haven't bought enough. Almost every live broadcast of hers lasts for 7 hours, sometimes even bringing more than 200 goods. At the beginning and the end of the live broadcast, you can hardly see the difference between her speed and state. Other people's strings are tight and loose, and they have been tight here. She said that what supported her was "the 571 sentences of 'believe in you' when I choked up live."

Just by a ball of lights

There is only one kind of heroism in life, that is, after recognizing the truth of life, still love life. Shaodong's parents felt that Shaodong had changed. A few months after that, Shaodong returned to his home from the hotel. His parents also approved of the live broadcast work, but then he discovered a lot of incredible things. For example, he is now diligent enough to make his parents say, "Don't get too tired, rest more." Is this still the same him as before? Parents do not know how to express love, can only make him a good meal, when eating for him to add more vegetables. After the live broadcast, he even had his own new views on the concept of "family". He used to grieve over his mother's non-farewell, but now he is beginning to understand the definition of family and love, "I found that they loved me, but they would not express it". Once, Shaodong said to his mother, "Now that I don't rely on you to earn money, let me support my family." Shaodong's mother cried after hearing this. The mother felt that her son had grown up. Due to the game's strong strength and handsome appearance, his fans on Kuaishou have also experienced several sharp increases. He feels that his talent is not 80 consecutive wins, but "taking everyone to play highlight moments again and again". He answered fans' skill questions on his phone and wrote down a list of instructions on a blank piece of paper. From the beginning of dozens of people, to June 2020, Kuaishou's 10 million fans. Today, his family's debts have long been paid off, he also has a new plan, and now making money may only account for 50% of the purpose, more or to develop his own live broadcast career. "Because the fans are my family, live streaming is my second home." This has to be said to be the story of a miracle teenager.

Tian Bin also has his own new career plan, others call him "mentor Tian Bin", and his own mentor is life. He hid all his previous works. "After the total total and then re-shoot, the original conditions may not be in place, there are many deficiencies, I am not satisfied, the pixels of the mobile phone used before are not very good, after that, I want to be perfect." He even changed his hat and clothes in the studio, which he said also symbolized a new beginning. Sometimes, fans come to him for dinner, and he never refuses. He grew up with his fans, and fans can also draw nourishment from Tian Bin's experience.

For Dede, nearly a year after the teacher, she has appeared on the stage of CCTV as a singer. Kuaishou is her second stage, and some fans have become family. She likes the title, "Calling family, I don't think it's too much at all, and I think it's a real title, and to have such fans, for me I cherish." 」 "For example, there is a fan, every live broadcast, she will watch. She also helps to drive the atmosphere in the live broadcast room, or to maintain order.

The same is true here in the egg egg, generally speaking, as an e-commerce anchor, the relationship between her and the fans is only a shopping relationship, but here in the egg egg, there is also more trust in the family, "is to use their own weight to calculate, to win the deep trust of fans." She treats her fans as her family, and this statement is not simply a lip service. Girls all know that makeup removal is particularly harmful to the skin, but when she brings cosmetic products, whether it is oil or makeup removal products, it is displayed on her face, a live broadcast, sometimes have to remove makeup more than a dozen times. Some fans can't look at it and say "it hurts", but the egg feels that if you just rely on your mouth and don't use it, how can you let the fans feel at ease when they use it? She has an uncle fan, who is 56 years old this year, and wears glasses and eye drops every day to watch her live broadcasts. For a while, when the egg was coughing during the live broadcast, the fans sent a large box of cold spirits and cough syrup. With diligence and love, Egg Egg has finally become a sister with fast goods.

At the end of January 2022, the four young people had the opportunity to come to a film and television base in Tongzhou, Beijing, to shoot a short film telling their own story with Huang Zitao, who defines himself as an "ordinary person". It was an uncommon reunion, and Huang Zitao also regarded them as family and praised their stories. As selected as one of the top 100 anchors of Kuaishou in 2021, their current identity is that of Kuaishou's game anchor Shaodong, anchor egg with goods, singing anchor Dede and funny anchor Tian Bin, and these post-90s and post-00s fans add up to nearly 80 million.

Sanlian Life Weekly,

Maugham once wrote, "Neither happiness nor pain matters. They are like other trivial details, which are designed together into the pattern of life. "Maybe that's life. Everyone's life is different, and they all have different life stories, but as long as you persist and work hard, you may meet a fire that will make everyone go to the light. At 20:00 on the evening of February 27, #快手一千零一夜 2021 Top 100 Anchors Gala, meet for a warm feast.

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Their faces were filled with confidence and sunny smiles, and at this time, a new opportunity had arrived. At 20:00 on the evening of February 27, at the Kuaishou 1011 100 Anchors Gala, their four "ordinary people" and more Kuaishou anchors will take the Fast Night stage and show themselves on the same stage with the stars and kuaishou's families. This is enough to show that the heavens always care for the "children who love to dream", and in them, no matter what kind of life, they can live out the light. Nowadays, they are the top 100 anchors of Kuaishou who are active in all walks of life and various fields of Kuaishou. But who would have imagined that just five years ago, they would still be lonely and frustrated in their lives? At this moment, Dede, who sings in the grass, may still be worried about whether the sound of standing on the stage will be whether he will be excited; Shaodong, who deals with virtual characters all day, may become a new idol when he dresses up; eggs who choose products for fans may not expect that his efforts are also inspiring more people to move forward... They're just one step ahead of you on a bigger stage. They are ordinary ordinary people like you and me.