From single to love, from love to marriage, from marriage to divorce, the "marriage" program is accelerating the involution in these years, and a large number of popular "CPs" have been born. Over the years, what popular "CPs" have been born in marriage shows? What is the status of these CPs today?
From blind date love to gender relations, "love complex" has a long way to go
In the marriage and romance program market, which was not fiercely competitive in 2010, with the promotion of the five links of turning on the lights, extinguishing the lights, reverse selection, leaving the scene, and expert comments, the marriage and romance programs officially kicked off in "Do Not Disturb If You Are Insincere". At that time, the "love complex" was also mainly about marriage, and the male and female guests pursued the pleasure of holding hands and pairing quickly and successfully, and the audience was also keen to enjoy the joy of chasing "fast food love".
In 2014 and 2015, Hubei Satellite TV's "If Love" and Jiangsu Satellite TV's "Let's Love Each Other" have introduced stars to join the marriage program. The model of both shows is derived from South Korea, and the theme content is no longer a traditional blind date conference, but "imaginary love".
With the creation of popular stars + outdoor experiences, the audience began to knock "CP" under the influence of the show. At that time, Liu Wen and Cui Siyuan's "Ten-Yuan Couple" and Wu Xin and Pan Weibai's "Koala Couple" were all popular sugar materials.
Most of the marriage and romance programs in this period were mainly based on satellite TV competition. Until 2018, with the development of video platforms, video platforms also joined the army of marriage programs. At that time, "Heartbeat Signal", "Like You and Me Too", "Let's Fall in Love" and other "love" variety shows once again aimed marriage guests at amateurs, and the successive launch of love variety shows also created the birth of popular "CPs" such as Yang Kaiwen & Zhao Qijun.
But love is sweet, marriage is cruel. With the iterative development of the "Marriage" program, in 2021, Mango TV launched the marriage documentary reality show "Goodbye Lover". This time, the marriage show no longer just focuses on the throbbing and entanglement brought by love, but faces the brokenness and truth of more marriages. In the show, Guo Keyu and Zhang He, Tong Chenjie and KK, Zhu Yaqiong and Wang Qiuyu and other three "CPs" have been hotly discussed to varying degrees. At the same time, the interpretation of the observation guests has also become another landscape in the "Marriage" program.
Since then, "Half-Acquainted Lovers", "Spring Day Late Departure", "I Have Never Been in Love", "Brilliant Forward", etc., marriage and romance programs have evolved from the most primitive blind date conference to a program that explores the way of getting along and intimate relationships between people. In the marriage and romance shows of this period, with the mixing and matching of experts, scholars, stars and amateurs, the audience "self-viewing" at the same time, but also more rational "CP".
"Love Complex" A side: a hotbed for cultivating "CP", a paradise for "stunts"
Looking at some of the high-profile "CPs" born in these marriage shows, they can be roughly divided into two categories. The first category is "CP" that eventually comes together through marriage shows. In this large category, it can be subdivided into married "CP" and unmarried "CP".
Already married are Chen Qiaoen and Malaysian overseas Chinese Alan in "Daughters in Love 2" in 2019. The two who met and fell in love through this show were officially married last year and became the object of everyone's blessing. Xi Mengyao in "Time Difference of Love" in 2017, fell in love with He Youjun in the show, and the two had a son and a daughter after marriage.
Also married through "Romance" are Guo Biting and Xiang Zuo, who met in the reality show "The Most Beautiful Time". Subsequently, in the two programs "My Little Two" and "Daughters' Love 2", he completed the process of love, marriage proposal, marriage and so on. Although this pair of "CP" is not favored by netizens, the marriage of the two has not been affected now.
Another married "CP" is Zhong Liti and Zhang Lunshuo, who fell in love in the 2015 "If Love" program. Although the two were criticized for many differences such as age and fame when they were together, their relationship was still stable.
Unmarried "CPs" are much easier than married "CPs". For example, Bharara "CP" in "Half-Acquainted Lovers" - Wang Nengneng and Lola. After successfully holding hands for a year, they have now started a live broadcast and attracted more than 900,000 fans on related social platforms.
Another example is Yang Kaiwen and Zhao Qijun in "Heartbeat Signal 2". The two have been successfully in love for four years now, and the cooperation between various businesses and soft broadcasting online and offline is also a generous business.
These "CPs" can come together because of the divine assistance of the marriage show. The romantic atmosphere of idol dramas and the guests taking the lead in sipping sugar create a strong atmosphere for the heartbeat and fall of male and female guests, and the process of guests' hearts is a sweet pet drama that cultivates a sweet pet, which has an irresistible attraction to female audiences and is the most important element of the show's continued fan attraction.
If the couple who come out of the show can continue to maintain a relationship offline, the show can also continue to obtain a long-tail effect with the support of CP fans, which is conducive to subsequent multi-season development. From this point of view, whether the couple who can be cultivated to let the audience indulge in sugar determines to some extent whether a romance is successful.
For these enthusiastic guests, the traffic dividend brought by the "learning" culture is often proportional to the durability of the "CP"'s emotions, and this traffic can be directly monetized.
"Love Complex" B side: The bustle is all traffic, and the true feeling is only the audience
In the rivers and lakes of traffic, some people have a sense of truth, and some people "have other intentions", and many CPs performed very sweetly in the show, and immediately parted ways after the show. Under this broad category, it is still necessary to divide into married representatives and unmarried representatives. The first to represent the popularity "CP" who are already married are Zhang He and Guo Keyu of "Goodbye Lover".
Although the two had been divorced for a year when they were on the show, the dislocation of the ten-year marriage still made this pair of "CPs" trigger a lot of sugar material. Because the middle-aged + love is many years late, the tangled, free and sweet ambiguity makes this pair of "CP" meet the "sugar bump" needs of fans in marriage documentary programs. However, near the end of the show and even to the end, Zhang He, who was picked up and already had a girlfriend, not only frequently changed his name and was no longer high-profile, but also no longer contacted the program team.
The "CP" representatives who are not yet married are Jin Ziyi and Cui Yutong in "Witty Love", the two who are called "CP" by netizens, and for a long time after the show was broadcast, until "Witty Love 4" was still open as an encore guest in the observation room, making fans look forward to their official announcement. However, the official announcement of the small composition did not wait, but what was waiting was the fact that Cui Yutong was dug up that he had a girlfriend and went to the romance. Jin Ziyi, who finally chose to break up, left Cui Yutong with a trace of decency.
Also unmarried representatives "CP" are Zhang Tian and Chen Yichen. In "Heartbeat Signal 2", they went in both directions, and the two were still together after the show, and they also filmed a lot of vlogs, which made people shout sweet. But not long after, the two tore each other up on the Internet, and the man was even exposed to have an improper relationship between men and women, and also released a recording of the woman secretly, etc., the scene was very shocking. At that time, the "suspension of love" explanation issued by the man was also complained by many netizens. But at the end of last year, some netizens found signs of the two getting back together on the Internet, and Chen Yichen's unhappy response also made it clear that the compound of the two had been nailed down, making netizens shout that the operation was very confusing.
Another pair of unmarried "CPs" are Zhang Li and Wang Mingyang, who looked at each other in "If Love" in 2014. In September of that year, Wang Mingyang "confessed" Zhang Li on social platforms. Unexpectedly, after only three months, Wang Mingyang declared that he was single. The short love between the two also stemmed from a third-party relationship.
In this way, some people come for the marriage show to get attention and win the benefits of CP fans, and when public opinion rolls over, it is not only the partner guests who are hurt, but also the audience who are really feeling sugar. Nowadays, the sugar sprinkling technique is becoming more and more sophisticated, and the audience who knocks "CP" needs to be more and more cautious. Instead of bringing them in, it is better to use these marriage shows as a mirror of "self-viewing", so as not to lose yourself, get the understanding of love and the wisdom soil for dealing with emotional problems.