At the beginning of this year, Huang Zhibo, a contracted trainee under Lehua Entertainment, was arrested for defrauding 280,000 yuan on the basis of the epidemic and sentenced to three years and three months in prison. His sister then said that Huang Zhibo would defraud because his father fell ill in the early years, and he had to drop out of school to work, with a low level of education and weak legal knowledge.
Yesterday (November 6), a magazine published a 10,000-word interview, and the sister and brother once again explained the reason for the fraud: at that time, Huang Zhibo urgently needed a sum of money to participate in the talent show, and he felt that he could no longer take money from his parents. ”
Many netizens heard the question mark: What is the reason for this...
Huang Zhibo Source: @Huang Zhibo
Huang Zhibo was born in November 1999, before the incident, he was a contracted trainee under Beijing Lehua Entertainment Culture Communication Co., Ltd. @ Lehua Entertainment, and also participated in the recording of youku men's group selection variety show "In the Name of the Group".
Let's briefly review the facts of the case. On February 1, a Shanghai citizen reported to the police that he found a merchant selling masks at home through a certain Tieba and contacted him through WeChat, agreeing to buy 400,000 masks at a unit price of 0.9 yuan per unit, and had paid a deposit of 107,000 yuan in advance. After receiving the advance payment, the merchant asked her to go to Yangzhou to pick up the goods, but after she arrived in Yangzhou, she could not find the pick-up place at all.
This "merchant" is Huang Zhibo.
On February 5, Huang Zhibo was arrested by the police. According to his account, during the epidemic prevention and control period, he found that the masses were in urgent need of masks and other protective equipment, so he lured others to buy them through the Internet in the name of selling masks and then defrauded them of money. In fact, he simply didn't have a mask to sell. The total amount of his fraud reached more than 280,000 yuan. In the end, Huang Zhibo was sentenced to three years and three months in prison.
When he was caught by the police, Huang Zhibo was still lying on the bed
For more than half a year since then, Huang Zhibo has not been released from prison due to the epidemic and has been staying in the detention center. On November 6, Esquire magazine published a 10,000-word interview titled "The Beautiful Boy Scam: The Dream and Fall of a Cold Door Trainee," saying that it had written to Huang Zhibo four times.
Speaking of the reason for the crime, Huang Zhibo remembers that when the company asked him to participate in the second season of "In the Name of the Group", he saw the form sent by the program team and found that he had to buy a lot of new clothes. In addition, he recorded a song and spent thousands of dollars looking for an arrangement.
"I don't think I can take any more money from my parents. And I haven't made my debut yet, and there's really nothing I can do... I really felt like a piece of crap during that time. He wrote that unlike some domestic companies that will give subsidies to trainees, Lehua refers to the Korean trainee training system, and he has no income.
Later, someone in the circle of friends looked for him to sell masks together, saying that each order would give him "several points", and said that the masks were sold at a conscience price, just a few cents, Huang Zhibo tangled for a long time, or moved.
"There was a particularly large order in the back, I don't know if he shipped it or not, he didn't contact me again, I didn't know I had broken the law, and then one day, I was suddenly taken away while I was sleeping..."
After being caught, Huang Zhibo told the police that he really wanted to sell masks at the beginning, "The back is that the goods are too expensive, and then the goods are not there, the brain is chaotic, and then they collect (money), and then delete the (buyers)..."
As for now, Huang Zhibo said that he had a good life in it and still remembered to sing and dance. He asked his sister to send Korean books, books on pop music production, menswear matching magazines, autobiographies of musicians or dancers, named "Yang Wenhao, rap musicians Jony J and Yu Jiayun", and printed the lyrics of an English song "I love you 3000", saying that he wanted to "learn". Next, he also wanted to look at recipes and special forces books.
"Every day I read and study, I have a very fulfilling life, I eat well, my body is very healthy, and I exercise every day after dinner." However, he rarely sees the sun, "eating and sleeping every day, and then the double eyelids are gone." ”
Talking about future planning, Huang Zhibo said that at the beginning, every day was spent by imagination, and he also wanted to do business in the past. He asked his sister to send a map of the urban areas of Beijing and Hangzhou, "related to the career planning I will do later." He felt that these two cities were very suitable for starting a company, and he would choose the address of the future company according to the map.
But now that he figured it out, he still planned to do dance and music, "When I go out, I'll get back everything I have, and I won't be knocked down by difficulties." ”
After that, the reporter also interviewed Huang Zhibo's family. They now live in an old lime cement house in Jieshi Town, Lufeng City, with leaking ceilings everywhere, and their father is a farmer who has a heart attack and can't work. His sister, 26 years old, went out to work after dropping out of junior high school, and now manages the warehouse in a sports brand store, with a monthly salary of 4,000 yuan. She always saved half of her income for her family to support her brother's dream of stardom.
She said that her parents still do not know the origin of Huang Zhibo's case, when her brother urgently needed a sum of money because he wanted to participate in the new program. "Last year, he spent fifty or sixty thousand yuan on "In the Name of the Regiment", which was the biggest expense since he became a trainee. This year, the family was ready to give Huang Zhibo a sum of money saved to buy a house and give him flowers first, but Huang Zhibo did not want it. ”
"To put it bluntly, it is to give birth to the wrong family, really," Huang Zhibo's sister couldn't help but say, "My parents said that if he had grown up in a good environment, he wouldn't be like this today." ”
For the family situation, Huang Zhibo's statement is that "it does not have much impact on being a trainee", but if you do not debut for a long time, "it may have an impact on the family". However, he once felt very pessimistic and anxious about the return on investment in the trainee career, because his Lehua teammates all debuted one by one, leaving him alone. In the show, Lehua's captain recruited another trainee from another company, but none of them chose him.
Huang Zhibo is pessimistic about the career of trainees
Moreover, Huang Zhibo is not without opportunities. As early as 2017, Huang Zhibo was selected by Big Hit, the company of the famous South Korean boy band "Bulletproof Youth League". However, the korean signature requires proof of assets, and Huang's father borrowed 50,000 yuan from his relatives as a temporary flowing water, and then found a scalper to transfer one of his relatives' Toyota cars to Huang Zhibo's name.
In the end, because no one would transfer the house to Huang Zhibo's name, the visa was still not processed, and Huang Zhibo did not go to South Korea. His trainee friend said that Big Hit valued Huang Zhibo very much, and only selected him alone at the same time, waited for more than two months, and finally gave up.
The article then mentions that perhaps in the entertainment industry, class itself is the ticket. A CEO of an idol company predicted that after Huang Zhibo's accident, the company "will only avoid poor artists, and even the entire industry will not dare to easily choose the poor, and the attitude will be more conservative than before." In Lehua, Huang Zhibo's trainees in the same period are almost all children of rich families, and there is a second generation of stars.
A large number of netizens read the confessions of the sisters and brothers, and they were even more confused: can the poor be justified in using the epidemic to defraud? What a reason for this...
Some netizens also questioned that this article is weakening the fraud facts, highlighting the class dilemma, and "washing the ground" for Huang Zhibo by "selling misery".
But while criticizing its hateful fraud, some people also lamented that the Huang Zhibo incident more or less reflected a social status quo, that is, the class solidification in the entertainment industry. Now the domestic star-making system gives people the feeling that it has become increasingly industrialized, as long as the resources are in place, it can always bring out individuals. What do you get your resources from?
It's the money.
For example, in March this year, Wei Chen and Wang Siyu, two trainees of "Youth with You 2", had a hard time standing on the stage, but they took the initiative to give up the talent display link. They revealed in the program that it was because they could not afford to pay the copyright fee of 200,000 yuan.
Also at that time, the CEO of an idol company in Shanghai revealed to Sina Entertainment Studio that he would not consider the children of poor families when he first signed people. The reasons given are also sufficient:
"He needs money, in order to make money, he came to be a trainee today because his idol is close to money, and tomorrow he may also become an anchor because he makes more money from live broadcasting." And you don't know what he's going to do for the money, like Huang Zhibo, and you don't know what he's done before. ”
"If the family is well-off and there is no shortage of money, if he comes to this line of business, he is really liked and wants to develop in the long run." Such a person is easy to be undistracted, can tolerate long-term training and namelessness, and has a high probability of reaching agreement with the company's plan. ”
Therefore, some netizens remind that nowadays, the family is poor but must pursue the "star dream" at all costs, and finally lead to the family getting deeper and deeper into the young people, far more than Huang Zhibo. "Star dream" is not something that can be done if you want to do it, or you have to consider the reality of the situation.
In fact, as early as when Huang Zhibo was just arrested, his sister was questioned about "selling miserably". On the evening of February 16, she posted a statement on Weibo saying that her brother's fraud was "foreshadowing", their father had fallen ill in the early years, and her brother had to drop out of school to work, so his education level was low and his legal knowledge was weak.
She also said that she knew that Huang Zhibo had dreamed of stardom since he was a child, and after being selected by the entertainment company, she spent more, but she never gave up, even if the income was weak, she still fully supported it, and also used the money for her father's second surgery on her brother.
Huang Zhibo's sister posted huang's father's heart disease diagnosis report
So until this year's Spring Festival, after Huang Zhibo saw his father's health deteriorate, he "didn't know who instigated this idea, and made a sad illegal act without the knowledge of his family."
What is even more outrageous is that according to the video of the on-site interrogation subsequently released by the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Huang Zhibo confessed that the money he obtained from fraud was not used to do the right thing, and was used for personal squandering such as eating, drinking, and entertainment, as well as repaying online loans.
He borrowed the epidemic fraud and squandered the money he had cheated everywhere, on the other end, his sister took his father's surgery fee to give him a star dream, and a large number of netizens said angrily at that time: What is such a person to sympathize with?
Again, the epidemic is a responsibility, not a business opportunity!
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