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"Woman, don't provoke me!" "Dare to rebel against me? Very well, you managed to get my attention. ”
The blunt tone of machine reading, the jaw-dropping passage of online text, may come from the mobile phone of an elderly person.
Do the elderly also read online texts? The reporter went undercover in the park for half a month.
Look at the network article, the old sisters are even better!
When it comes to web posts, we habitually associate it with young people. Who would have thought that those entangled bridge sections and handsome domineering presidents in the network text are also the love of the silver-haired people.
Before retirement, Grandma Wang was a primary school teacher, although she did most of her life teaching and educating people, but she was born introverted and did not join the square dance army after retirement, nor did she enter the elderly social interest group, in addition to walking, cleaning up flowers and plants, is to read online texts.
From urban romance, ancient court, to travel through time and space, campus love, various themes of online articles introduced by Grandma Wang are like a number of family treasures, "watching the two people in the story go through ups and downs, and finally form a happy family, lively and lively, and happy to see it." ”
At first, I thought that "fans" like Grandma Wang were only a minority. Who knows, in the half a month of undercover park, I actually found a large number of online fans like Grandma Wang. Of all respondents, more than 50% said they would read online texts, of which more than 8 were women.
When the old sisters read online articles, they love to talk about the plot, and they will also "Amway" good works and platforms for each other, while the old brothers are relatively conservative. Grandma Chen mentioned her wife's love for online texts with a helpless face, "Since her granddaughter came into contact with online texts, she has watched them every day before going to bed, and later developed to wake up and then watch." Children sometimes ridicule him about this matter, and he also explains that although he reads online texts, they are all historical themes and can be regarded as learning. ”
What are the elderly thinking when they look at the "overbearing president"?
Nearly 70-year-old great-grandmother was a veritable literary and artistic young woman when she was young, love to copy poetry, love to do newspaper clippings, literature and classic works from all over the world, "Now that I am old, I always stare at books and my energy is not good, now listening to online articles is the biggest pastime in my life, when I was young, I read too much brain, and when I was old, I wanted to read something relaxed." ”
When asked what her favorite subject matter was, her great-grandmother replied flatly: "According to the words of your young people, overlord!" ”
In online novels, president wen is a more typical female frequency shuangwen, which is a variant of earlier "Mary Sue" literature.
On a website, a search for the keyword "overbearing president" can find many novels of this type.
Around 2000, with the prosperity of a number of online literary platforms, the president's text or hegemonic text began to become popular, and the category may have rebirth, sadomasochism, etc., which can be simply understood as the modern version of the story of poor women and overbearing presidents falling in love.
In terms of content, the storyline is often familiar: the heroine is born relatively poor, or comes from a rich family but is not valued, and the family is ready to sacrifice the heroine in order to achieve a certain purpose.
But in the process of this "sacrifice", the heroine accidentally hit and bumped into the male protagonist of a "domineering president" who was rich and noble. The two have some kind of intersection in life or work, and then, he will fall hopelessly in love with the heroine and give everything for her.
Like great-grandmothers, for the old sisters who love online texts, urban romance and campus romance, which often have "hegemony", are the most popular.
In addition, the martial arts fairy tale online articles have gradually attracted attention in the world of silver-haired people along with the popularity of many film and television dramas in recent years. Some elderly sisters also said that some online articles place the timeline before and after the reform and opening up, or use rural life as the background of the story, which is also in line with their hobbies.
The elderly enjoy reading online articles, but the children are worried. Social platforms have also raised similar questions: "What if Dad is addicted to fantasy novels?" How to persuade the mother to indulge in the bully general text? What type of web novel should I show my parents? ”
For the worries of their children, the attitude of the old sisters and brothers to whether they will indulge in online articles is much more optimistic. Grandma Xu said that after living for such a long time, she is very clear about the boundaries between the online world and real life, "this is just a kind of life pastime for us."
Read the text only "white prostitute"? Someone spends 20,000 a year!
When asked "if you are willing to recharge the online text platform", the old sisters and brothers gave an unprecedented answer: "No! ”
"If I see half of it and pay for it, I won't read it, and another article will be fine." Grandpa Zheng said with a smile.
The online text market seems to be difficult to directly pry the money bags of the elderly, but they are not just "white prostitutes".
According to Zhuzhou News Network, the 65-year-old "Youranjun" (screen name) has been reading online texts on the WeChat public account since four or five years ago. From casually watching at the beginning, to quickly being deeply attracted by the novelty of online novels without taboos, it takes four or five hours a day. Novels with martial arts, military, and treasure hunting themes such as "Pupil Art Treasure Connoisseur", "Sword Sect Qiankun", and "Iron-Blooded Life" have unconsciously read many of them.
The most surprising thing is the cost of "Youran Jun" reading novels, one day the family inadvertently found that he recharged the public account for more than 20,000 yuan a year, and spent fifty or sixty thousand yuan in a few years.
In addition, there are also cases where the elderly read books and young people pay.
"Ever since my grandmother became obsessed with 'Do You Know If It Should Be Green Fat Red Skinny' a few years ago, I began to buy her online books." According to Ms. Lin, her grandmother does not have the habit of using a smart phone on weekdays, mainly by reading physical books to contact online texts.
"When I was in junior high school, I was addicted to online books and romance novel magazines, because my mother was very opposed to me reading these, so I hid all the books I bought on weekdays in my grandmother's house. Later, I was found out by my grandmother and read it all, and then she offered to let me help her shop online. ”
An interesting phenomenon is that many elderly people nowadays read online articles by watching TV dramas adapted from them. They either reminisce about the plot of the TV series by reading the original works, or to understand the follow-up trend of the hit episodes.
Zhang Jingcheng, director of the China Creative Industry Research Center, said that the Internet provides a broader reading platform for the elderly, and can also replace "reading" with "listening" to make reading more simple and convenient; while some elderly people are willing to slowly contact the hobbies of young people, providing a larger market and new user groups for online literature platforms, and the development prospects are worth looking forward to.
Source 丨Beijing Business Daily (reporter Lu Yang Han Xinyuan), China News Network, Zhuzhou News Network
Image source 丨 Beijing Business Daily, screenshot of reading platform, screenshot of film and television drama "Shanshan is coming"
Editor 丨 Wang Lination