How did the top Internet celebrities with nearly 10 million followers "disappear" overnight?
I believe that friends who often brush vibrato must be familiar with Li Liqun.
This old man from Taiwan, treasure island, does not open filters, does not pay attention to angles, and records videos on camera every day like a big head sticker.
Occasionally, a few stubborn nose hairs are revealed.
It's all about his daily life, eating, sleeping, and talking about teapots.
But that's it, and videos often get tens of thousands or even millions of likes.
In just a few months, it quickly accumulated 9.43 million followers, and its popularity exploded.
However, Li Liqun, who has changed several times in the past day, posted a recent video on July 15, which was made of rice noodles with his wife, and has never been updated.
As the most representative top-stream Internet celebrity in 2022, it has "disappeared" on Douyin for more than 288 hours.
What happened to Li Liqun?
Taiwan Province "See the Emperor"
To know a person's future, you must first understand his past.
Li Liqun was born on May 2, 1952, in a military village in Hsinchu County, Taiwan Province.
My mother is from Beijing.
His father, Li Xiyi, was a native of Henan, graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy and participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Li Liqun has lived in a "Mandarin" environment since he was a child, and the genes of northerners have a profound influence on him.
When he was a student, it was precisely because of his good mouth that he taught cross-talk and performed stage plays in school, thus completing artistic enlightenment.
Li Liqun, who spoke cross-talk since his art
But studying art is very expensive.
How poor is the Li family?
At one time, he borrowed the outer walls of two neighboring houses and built a shed in the middle as a house.
Therefore, under the "persuasion" of his father, he gave up art when he entered the university, went to a Chinese maritime business college, and worked as a seaman for a year after graduation.
It wasn't until 1978, when he saved some money, that he ran to participate in the Huashi actor training class.
Talent is something that can't be stopped.
Maybe we look at Li Liqun now, he is more like a comedian.
Played the funny East Sea Dragon King in "The Eight Precepts of the Brilliant Spring Pig".
The headmaster who plays the false seriousness in "Charlotte Troubles".
But in fact, Li Liqun was an emperor in Taiwan and a pioneer actor in stage dramas.
At the age of 29, he won the Golden Bell Award for Best Actor for the TV series "Qing Su Pity Me Pity Qing".
Later, he founded a performance workshop with the famous drama director Lai Shengchuan, and became the elder figure of Taiwan's new drama.
From left to right: Li Guoxiu, Lai Shengchuan, Li Liqun
Huang Lei has mentioned "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden" many times in "Longing for Life".
Li Liqun is the founding actor of this drama.
He played Lao Tao, Jin Shijie played Jiang Binliu, and Lin Qingxia played Yun Zhifan.
In 1986, he also starred in the film "Terrorist" directed by Yang Dechang with his old partners Jin Shijie and Gu Baoming, with a Douban score of 8.9.
It can be said that it is one of the representatives of the new wave of Taiwanese cinema in the 1980s.
Three important actors in the performance workshop: Gu Baoming, Li Liqun and Jin Shijie
Why did such a cattle actor finally come to the mainland to act in a bunch of bad films, and further become a top Internet celebrity?
Leaving Taiwan and becoming a "top stream" in the mainland
Li Liqun has a lot of personality.
When Teresa Teng was most popular, she wanted to invite him to be the host, but she could refuse it.
But it was also personality that "harmed" him and eventually ran away from Taiwan.
In 1995, when Taiwan's film and television industry was in a slump, Lai Shengchuan, another founder of the performance workshop, wanted to take over 300 episodes of the longevity drama "Our Family Is Human".
Li Liqun strongly opposed.
I think that the fast food creation of finding materials in the morning, writing scripts at noon, and broadcasting live in the evening is not in line with the original intention of the studio.
There is nothing wrong with starting from reality and aligning one with ideals.
But the more the two quarreled, the more fierce, and in a fit of rage, he simply quit the performance workshop.
Many years later, Lai Shengchuan (left) and Li Liqun "reconciled" and collaborated again on the drama "Winter Journey"
This decision was a bit reckless, knowing that the market was sluggish at that time, coupled with the age of more than 40 years, it was not easy to take over the role.
Complete one's misery.
At about the same time, Li Liqun blindly believed in his friends, and a business that had been invested for nearly 10 years failed.
The loss of about 7 million yuan is almost his entire wealth, and he still owes a lot of debt.
Middle-aged bankruptcy, career obstruction, what to do?
He simply broke the can and left Taiwan, shifting the focus of his work to the mainland market, which was in the ascendant at that time.
In order to pay off debts, go to the cave, run business performances, make all kinds of quick money, and take the drama is not picky and make a lot of bad films.
Some people laughed at his lack of love for feathers.
However, Li Liqun has never played a bad role.
It's not that his acting skills are excellent, but that he is willing to be close to the role.
When filming "Wenzhou Family", in order to play Zhou Wanshun well, Leng ran to the streets and alleys of Wenzhou City and squatted for two months to familiarize himself with the local customs and customs.
Stills from "Wenzhou Family"
And this true temperament and grounded style finally sent him to the "throne" of top Internet celebrities.
During the Shanghai lockdown, Li Liqun was idle and panicked, sending several videos a day, which was almost an instant live broadcast.
In addition to patting and drinking Lazar.
He will occasionally mutter two sentences of "call us nucleic acid when it's okay".
Other celebrities shoot short videos, they are afraid of being seen where their homes live.
Li Liqun poured well, smoked the large front door on the balcony, and then took a picture of the surrounding area.
Soon let netizens lock in the neighborhood where he lived.
Natural, easy-going, gracious like the uncle next door.
Through the short video platform, Li Liqun has greatly satisfied the public's curiosity about celebrities and narrowed the distance between them.
Without marketing promotion, relying only on the audience's likes and forwards, in just two months, it has soared more than 7 million fans.
Even Liu Qihong, a brother of Douyin Fat Reduction, came to "rub traffic".
However, Cheng ye Xiao He also lost Xiao He.
Old Li's "mouth is not covered" and his uninhibited and freedom-loving personality soon plunged him into a "crisis".
The "curse" comes out of the mouth, is Li Liqun's position really a big problem?
Li Liqun said whatever he thought in his heart.
Once a netizen left a message ridiculing that his house in Shanghai was not cheap.
He explained that his house was small and had been bought 20 years ago, and incidentally spat on a big bubble of mainland real estate.
Because of his good eating and good life in the mainland, Li Liqun was attacked by some Taiwan netizens.
Therefore, after returning to Taipei after the closure, he was interviewed by the local media to explain.
As a result, a mouth has offended mainland fans and been accused of two-faced people.
The storm became more and more noisy, and finally had to be explained.
Does Li Liqun really have a position question?
In fact, from his birth experience, it is difficult for Li Liqun not to regard himself as a Chinese.
Both parents are from the mainland, and there is a half-brother in his hometown in Henan.
In his early years, he also returned to his hometown to help his brother's family pay off debts, rebuild the old house, and fund the establishment of a factory.
Kinship is thicker than water and difficult to sever.
Li Liqun's father
In some videos, we can also see his heartfelt admiration and excitement for the rapid development of the motherland.
He is even more proud of his mother's Beijing accent.
So why did he suddenly "disappear" from the Internet after the interview incident fermented?
Since Li Liqun's platform account has not been banned at present, the greater probability of stopping is a decision made by himself.
Because Lao Li's video is visible to the naked eye, there is no professional team operation.
It's all not pretty "death angle" back-up shots.
I often see a few hairs of sweat flying in the wind on the furuncle, and sometimes I can blow a snot and paste my face.
He took the video, presumably purely to be happy.
It was just a coincidence that the fire broke out.
If this leads to right and wrong, public opinion, or even Internet violence, presumably it is not his original intention and his willingness to experience it.
After all, before leaving Shanghai, Li Liqun had already expressed his intention to go home to accompany his wife and spend his old age in peace.
In a way, this controversy is also an opportunity to cool itself down.
Li Liqun once became friends with Lan Tianye because of the drama "Winter Journey"
As Chinese, Chinese artists, loving their motherland and nation, is of course the minimum morality and position.
Those who are vague or opportunistic are bound to be eaten back.
But as netizens, as a member of the composition of public opinion, should we also reflect on the current "sensitivity" of the public opinion field.
From the controversy over Zheng Zhihua's change of lyrics, to Jacky Cheung, who came out to apologize.
"Rationality" seems to be becoming a scarce quality of Internet public opinion.
Therefore, creating a healthy and rational network environment is not just a slogan.
It requires the joint efforts of each of our participants.
As for whether Li Liqun will come back to update the video.
Old Lee's mantra is "goodbye, goodbye, goodbye."
Maybe one day, we'll see you again.
Text/Steven Smoke
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