In the past few days, the entertainment industry has made another earth-shattering melon -
Li Yifeng, a "national school grass," was administratively detained by the Beijing police for repeatedly engaging in prostitution.
Although this incident broke out very suddenly, all indications showed that it did not seem to be so sudden.
As early as May, a blogger broke the news that a three-character male star had been arrested for prostituting. However, there are many such revelations on the Internet, and everyone does not take it seriously.
3 months later, netizens found that Li Yifeng had not appeared in public for a long time, he just happened to be a three-character male star, so there was a lot of gossip on the Internet.
The real fermentation of this matter is during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Originally, he was going to participate in the CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, and the program list exposed before also showed that he would become a designer and perform the song "I Hope People Last" with the famous Kunqu artist Wang Fang.
However, in the latest updated program list, this program was removed.
At the same time, Li Yifeng is the activity ambassador of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, but on the same day, the Supreme Procuratorate also deleted Li Yifeng's relevant dynamics and said that there was no bug.
Everyone suddenly realized that the incident was not as simple as imagined, and Li Yifeng instantly appeared on the hot search list that day.
When the rumors were flying, Li Yifeng's studio quickly responded, saying that the online remarks were seriously untrue, and the legal liability of the infringing subjects would be pursued in the future.
However, friends who are familiar with internal entertainment know that the rumors of celebrities in this year are often equivalent to real hammers.
Sure enough, soon after, Ping An Beijing issued a briefing saying that Li Yifeng had been seized for repeated acts of prostitution, that he had confessed to his illegality, and that he had been administratively detained.
If we look at this circular, it is only two lines, but the amount of information is very large.
The first line reads: "The Beijing police seized the actor Li Moumou in the detection of a criminal case. ”
This means that when the police handled the case, they caught Li Yifeng with their feet, and he was arrested by a certain degree of accident.
The second line reads that Li Yifeng confessed to "the illegal facts of prostitution many times" and "many times" shows that he is already a habitual offender.
The official hammer directly shattered the public image that Li Yifeng had painstakingly managed for many years, and his acting career was likely to end.
In the past two years, it has become common for celebrities to collapse houses, but Li Yifeng's arrest of prostitution this time still makes people feel a little sad.
Although the fact of prostitution is conclusive, because of its identity and image factors, there are still 3 major questions left on Li Yifeng, which need to be answered one by one.
The first big question: Why did Li Yifeng dare to issue a statement to refute the rumors? His scandal 6 years ago, how to suppress it
Judging from the Beijing police's report, Before this, Li Yifeng had already been administratively detained and confessed to the illegal facts.
His own artists have entered the bureau, but his studio dares to stand on the cusp of public opinion and issue a "righteous speech" to debunk the rumors, which is simply lifting a stone and dropping it on his own feet.
And it is not only Li Yifeng who carries out such a riot operation, there are many precedents before.
For example, Xue Zhiqian, after being exposed by his girlfriend, has been hard-mouthed, issued a lot of high-sounding statements, and finally asked for a hammer, and finally poked out more black material.
For example, when the artist surnamed Wu broke his material, he also immediately came out and issued a statement, and also vowed that "if there is such an act, I will go to prison myself", and the result was quickly punched in the face and really went to prison.
Why do they dare to open their eyes and talk nonsense?
Just because the entertainment industry is essentially a game of capital, many privacy and scandals can be settled or sold by money, and this phenomenon is even semi-public.
For example, Zhuo Wei, the "first paparazzi in the entertainment industry", his most common routine is to get the star's big melon, put only a small part out, and then add a sentence "see you on Monday" at home to wait for the other party to negotiate.
The other party opened the price is right, he will use the spare small melon to top off this big melon, take the money to flash people, this trick he has tried many times, and he can also retreat.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were Hollywood's fairy lovers, and they were also very strict about their daughter's privacy protection, but People magazine then bought their daughter's photo rights for $4.1 million, which directly made the magazine's sales soar by nearly 50%.
Therefore, to borrow the lines in "The Godfather", as long as a condition cannot be rejected, there may be no uneven things.
Li Yifeng was deeply aware of this, and he had repeatedly overcome dangers through operations before.
For example, on May 27, 2016, he hit a bridge pier driving a Lamborghini and left without calling the police.
Curiously, the next day Li Yifeng went abroad to hide, and after returning to China for several days, he ran to the public security organs to explain the situation.
If he was driving normally at the time, he could have called the police. Taking a step back, even if he is drunk driving, the next day the wine has long passed, there is no need to hide, what is he hiding when he is so anxious to run abroad?
A similar thing happened to Tse Tingfeng that year, and in the end he was locked up for a period of time and almost ruined his future.
And Li Yifeng that time, CCTV came out to report, and finally this matter was not resolved, and we do not know how to settle it.
For example, as early as before this accident, Li Yifeng's lace news continued, and the most fierce rumor was that he and the net red bay shared the New Year's Eve.
The Internet broke the news that during the New Year's Eve in 2018, he made an appointment to go to Samui Island for New Year's Eve, and was also exposed to live together for 5 days.
And Wanwan also excitedly shared the bits and pieces of this date with netizens afterwards, and even responded very "sensibly", sleeping together but not in a romantic relationship.
Of course, this lace news finally ended up.
There are still many revelations on the Internet, because we will not list them without evidence.
But what is certain is that Li Yifeng is by no means a well-behaved man who guards himself like a jade, and he has successfully retreated from the whirlpool of public opinion through capital operation many times after committing crimes before.
Therefore, when this storm came, although he was already in prison, his team still wanted to repeat the same technique, first issued a statement to stabilize public opinion, and then used capital and contacts to see if the scandal could be suppressed.
Unfortunately, in the end, it was not pressed.
Evil does not suppress righteousness, which is also the inevitable development of all things in the world.
From this point of view, Li Yifeng's end was already doomed.
The second big question: how to cultivate the special psychology behind Li Yifeng's prostitution and the deformed "sexual concept"?
When Li Yundi was caught prostituting, everyone asked this question.
This time Li Yifeng was arrested, everyone still wanted to ask, why are these people handsome, talented and high-status, not good to talk about love and marriage, but they have to take risks to do these three indiscriminate things?
The root of this is that in internal entertainment, fans have sanctified stars.
You see Hollywood's little plum, most of his girlfriends are female models under the age of 25, the time of the breakup is always so interesting, but everyone never criticizes him.
You look at Wang Sicong, he is often surrounded by beautiful women, the girlfriends exposed by the Internet have also changed several times, and everyone has no opinion on ridicule.
Because they don't mix with each other, they don't need to wear moral shackles.
In the eyes of fans, the stars of internal entertainment are saints who should not have sexual desires, and their duty is to clean themselves and love themselves and satisfy the fans' fantasies.
For example, Hua Chenyu, in order to cater to fans before, was stunned to make himself a pure love boy with social fear, and he couldn't stand sleeping with strangers.
Until one day he had a whole child, the fans were dumbfounded.
Another example is Lu Han, because he is beautiful, he does not dare to fall in love, when he officially announced that he and Guan Xiaotong fell in love, the fans' hearts were broken.
There is also the small fresh meat Chen Youwei, when he participated in "Actors Please Take Place 2", Er Dongsheng let him and Wang Churan hug, and as a result, he stayed there because he was afraid of hurting the hearts of fans.
As an actor and singer, you speak by your works, and you can not care about these shackles.
For example, Ren Xianqi got married not long after graduation, but there are still many fans, because everyone likes his songs mainly against him, not just him.
But stars like Li Yifeng are different.
Although he has made great progress in acting skills, he is still unstable compared with the strength faction, and he still eats the bowl of idol rice.
When he has physiological needs, fall in love, it is laborious and easy to be photographed, fans know that they have run, and their "star path" is gone.
Thinking about it, Li Yifeng regarded prostitution as the "most cost-effective" choice.
It should be pointed out that their prostitutes are not the same as ordinary people going to the clubhouse.
They have a so-called high-end circle, and the periphery inside are the goddess-level figures we see in ordinary days, these girls are not only online in appearance, graceful in stature, but also trained and have "professional qualities".
For example, the Internet celebrity mentioned above, in order to "pick up" Li Yifeng, she went to body beauty a week in advance, and it was a full body exfoliation and a maintenance of private parts.
After the incident, she can also keep her mouth shut and protect Li Yifeng's privacy to the greatest extent.
Generally speaking, such a prostitute is ranging from tens of thousands of yuan, which is a sky-high price for ordinary people, and it is simply too cost-effective for these stars who earn 2.08 million a day.
And when you go to the prostitute, you can change the new person every time, and you don't have to be responsible for lifting your pants after you are finished.
In the entertainment industry, what kind of handsome men and beautiful women they have not seen, they want this freshness, this deformed "sexual concept", is also the main reason why high-quality male stars like Li Yifeng and Li Yundi fell into the "abyss of prostitution".
The third big question: how does a "good boy" rewrite his ending, he is only facing a sky-high claim, and his career is ruined?
Something worse is happening
Li Yifeng's journey is actually not easy.
He was born in the early years of the draft, and the label on his body was "national school grass", but the youth rice was not delicious, and within a few years he was angry.
He became popular again in 2014, he starred in the big male lead drama "Ancient Sword Qitan", in which the red flower Dan Yang Mi matched him, this drama made him popular, but he was 27 years old that year.
Li Yifeng quickly became the top of the entertainment industry, but compared with the general traffic stars, he has experienced a low and knows how to precipitate himself.
After becoming the top stream, his resources were particularly good, and he successively starred in popular film and television dramas such as "Notes from the Tomb Robber", "Qingyunzhi", "Sparrow" and so on, but the public opinion reaction also came soon.
In 2016, he won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actor with the movie "Old Cannon" and was ridiculed by the whole network, this trophy was like a hot potato, leaving him in the whirlpool of public opinion, and this black meme was widely circulated on the Internet at that time.
In the midst of the crisis, Li Yifeng retreated bravely, pushed off many variety show invitations, and concentrated on honing his acting skills.
He first relied on the movie "Animal World" to reverse the reputation, and then relied on "Hidden and Great" to land on CCTV eight sets, and his acting skills were affirmed by the official media.
And last year, he appeared in a very heavy role in the main theme blockbuster.
In the first half of this year, he also had a new drama "Nightcrawler" launched, one person played two roles of light and dark, achieving a good reputation.
It can be said that Li Yifeng is one of the few traffic stars who can transform in time and successfully land on the shore.
In the hearts of many viewers, he is a "positive model" among traffic stars and a "good boy" who leads the right way.
But now it's all ruined.
It is most appropriate to use the phrase "drum breaks ten thousand people to beat" to describe the current Li Yifeng.
After his accident, all aspects related to him responded.
The Huading Awards, the Golden Eagle Festival and the China Artists Association deleted all of Li Yifeng's relevant dynamics, and the Huading Awards also canceled the title of Li Yifeng's Best Actor.
Ironically, in 2017, when Li Yifeng participated in the Huading Awards, he signed the "Declaration of Self-Discipline on the Social Responsibility of Chinese Performing Arts Celebrities".
QQ Music, NetEase Cloud Music, Mango TV and other platforms, Li Yifeng is in a state of "no one to check".
His alma mater, the Sichuan Film and Television Academy, also removed his promotional posters as an outstanding alumnus.
State media have also spoken out, among which the China News Network commented: "The Internet is not an extralegal place, and reality is not." ”
Li Yifeng's business endorsements are many.
At present, these brand merchants have announced that they have terminated their contracts with him, and some have even removed his endorsement posters overnight, and the liquidated damages waiting for him to compensate are hundreds of millions of dollars.
According to Tianyan, there are a total of 7 companies associated with Li Yifeng, of which 3 were cancelled on April 12 this year.
Li Yifeng's acting career also suffered a major blow.
At present, his two films to be broadcast, "Playground" and "Animal World 2", should be determined that they cannot be released, and he will compensate for a liquidated damages, and follow-up film and television resources can no longer find him.
Li Yifeng did not take care of his lower body, but also completely buried the second half of his life.
However, compared with us ordinary people, he still has a very dashing life.
The years when he became popular were the most prosperous years of internal entertainment, and as the top stream, his annual income could reach more than 100 million.
Taking 2021 as an example, his annual film remuneration will be more than 60 million yuan, counting advertising endorsements, breaking 100 million is easy.
And he has been so popular for 8 years, these years he not only filmed to make money, but also engaged in investment, bought real estate in various places, it is said that he bought a house in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, just the appreciation of house prices is a considerable number.
So even if Li Yifeng has to compensate hundreds of millions of dollars in liquidated damages, even if he is banned by the whole network and cannot appear in public since then, it is estimated that he will still have several lifetimes of money that cannot be spent.
Finally, I have to sigh the horror of internal entertainment.
Even if a collapsed star is reduced to a street rat, he is still a person who is unattainable by most people, and they have been silent for a few years and still live a life of fine clothes and food.
In the mainland entertainment industry, some worse things are happening, and it is no wonder that everyone shouts and fights in the entertainment industry, but everyone wants to squeeze in.
This strange circle really should be cured.
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