The following video screenshot was taken on the street of a commercial district in Hong Kong.
A large group of young Hong Kong people gathered on both sides of the road, desperately shouting:
"Jiang Tao, happy birthday!"
Some girls even cried out in excitement.
Who is Jiang Tao? This is probably the first reaction of many mainland netizens after seeing this news.
The 23-year-old Jiang Tao is an authentic Hong Kong local artist, singer and actor, and is the real top of the new generation in Hong Kong today.
He is a member of a boy band in Hong Kong called "MIRROR".
And this "MIRROR" boy band, which is also unknown in the mainland, is now red and purple in Hong Kong.
There is a statistic that in the past year, THE MIRAR TEAM, which has a total of 12 members, has more than 60% of the advertising endorsements in Hong Kong, and the number of endorsement brands has exceeded 100.
Moreover, the scope of advertising endorsements covers various industries such as finance and insurance, luxury goods, cosmetics, personal care products, catering, transportation, and payment tools.
Among them, Jiang Tao, known as "Strawberry Man", is the most well-known.
Compared with the mainland idols, Jiang Tao and MIRARROR Tiantuan have more "mother powder".
Most of these mom fans have successful careers, or live carefree lives, the only missing lost memories of youth.
Chasing the young and handsome Jiang Tao and other MIRARROR members of the Heavenly Group can not only make the mother fans regain the girlish heart, but also find the youthful feeling of the heartbeat of youth.
It is precisely because of this that Jiang Tao and MIRAR Tiantuan are now worthy of the real top stream of Hong Kong's entertainment industry.
And Jiang Tao's birthday has also made many Hong Kong fans spend thousands of dollars to hold grand birthday support activities for idols throughout Hong Kong.
In contrast, the older generation of Hong Kong artists, who are very well-known in the mainland, are unlikely to have such a high degree of popularity and popularity in the local area.
In Jiang Tao and Mirror Tiantuan, it actually reflects the huge contrast between the Hong Kong entertainment industry and the mainland entertainment industry:
Although Jiang Tao and MIRROR Tiantuan are red in Hong Kong, their influence and popularity even exceed those of the chief executive.
However, in the mainland, if you pull people on the street to interview, it is estimated that among 100 people, jiang Tao and MIRARROR Tiantuan can be known, I am afraid that even 1 person will be difficult to find.
Five years ago, 18-year-old Jiang Tao participated in "Happy Male Voice" in the mainland, and as a result, he was directly eliminated in the top 30.
To a deeper level, the current situation of Jiang Tao and MIRROR Tiantuan in Hong Kong, but they have no reputation in the mainland, actually reflects the rise and fall of the Hong Kong entertainment industry in the mainland in the past 40 years.
Take a look at this photo of TVB Taiqing in 1992: The Four Heavenly Kings, Mei Yanfang, Faye Wong, BEYOND, Zhou Huimin...
It is impossible to have such a grand occasion now.
A phenomenon that has become a reality despite the reluctance of Hong Kong people to admit it is:
First, today's Hong Kong entertainment industry can no longer become a bellwether for the mainland entertainment industry.
Second, in a sense, Hong Kong entertainment and internal entertainment have been decoupled, and the gap is getting wider and wider.
40 years ago, from the generation of Zhou Runfa and Jackie Chan.
Later, in the 80s, Tan Yonglin, Zhang Guorong, and BEYOND came out.
Then to the four kings of the 90s.
Then after 2000, Miriam Yeung, Eason Chan, nicholas Tse.
It can be said that in the past 40 years, Hong Kong entertainment has been leading the development of mainland entertainment.
But this phenomenon is changing rapidly.
Since 10 years ago, the focus of Hong Kong's entertainment industry has begun to shift, a large number of artists have entered the mainland for development, and Hong Kong's local entertainment has entered a state of inactivity.
The Hong Kong artists who appeared in the major variety shows in the mainland are basically the same old artists as they were thirty or forty years ago.
For example, in the recent fire of the Hunan Satellite TV variety show "Sound and Endless", the most popular singers in it are actually two veteran Hong Kong artists with an average age of more than 64 years old, Lin Zixiang and Ye Qianwen.
While praising the strength of the older generation of Hong Kong artists, it is also full of emotions for the lack of successors in the Hong Kong music scene.
On the one hand, mainland audiences only accept the older generation of Hong Kong artists from the perspective of appreciation, and on the other hand, the younger generation of mainland audiences turn more to mainland idol artists.
Nowadays, if singers and artists in Hong Kong have been active in the local entertainment circle in Hong Kong, they really have no fame in the mainland.
Although Jiang Tao and Mirror Troupe have won all the popular acting awards in Hong Kong, their fame in the mainland is almost zero, which is a typical example.
In the past 40 years, many people's youth has been accompanied and raised by Hong Kong entertainment.
But I have to admit the fact that:
Today, Hong Kong Entertainment is dead!