On the evening of April 2, reporter Li Weiao posted a long article - Zhang Jike's 5 million loan contract, the kind with a handprint signature, and disclosed the case involving his ex-girlfriend JT's private video.
Li Weiao said in the article that since the news broke, "I did not expect that the impact of these two Weibo blogs would be so great, and many people on Weibo either publicly or sent private messages, threatening and insulting me and my family." ”
He sighed, this is the legendary "Internet violence"!
Indeed, Zhang Jike fans, compared to traffic artists, are also "no less", and their attack power is extremely strong.
In fact, it was Zhang Jike who made athletes show the characteristics of rice circles, and many years ago, he also set off a widespread "fruit butterfly war".
What is "Fruit Plate Wars"?
Let's start by talking about what is a fruit and what is a butterfly.
"Sister Guo" refers to the fan group "Dragon Fruit" of table tennis player Ma Long, and "Sister Butterfly" is the abbreviation of Zhang Jike's fan group "Butterfly".
"Dragon fruit" is easy to understand, Zhang Jike's old fans are called "tadpoles", this is also easy to understand.
What does "butterfly" come from?
The reason is simple, because - Zhang Jike likes to use butterfly card table tennis rackets. So much so that there is also a joint product - Zhang Jike Super ZLC. Later, fans started calling themselves butterflies.
Zhang Jike and Ma Long, both born in 1988, have an age difference of 8 months (Zhang is older than Ma). It should have been a "sleeping dragon and phoenix chick" in the field of table tennis, but after the "rice circle" invaded the sports world, it caused a lot of bloody fights.
During the 2016 Rio Olympics, the "fruit butterfly war" was on the verge of breaking out.
On the morning of August 12 of that year, in the men's table tennis singles final of the Rio Olympics, Zhang Jike lost 0-4 to his teammate Ma Long and won the runner-up. This made Sister Butterfly unbearable and torn.
From who has good technique, who has a grand slam, and even to who is more handsome, there is a wave. In the words of netizens - hundreds of thousands of comments can be forwarded at every turn, and the performance map covers the entire square.
The two fans have a question that has been debated endlessly - who stole whose technology?
Zhang Jike fans once turned out a paper to argue that Ma Long stole Zhang Jike's technology. The paper writes that Ma Long and Coach Ma Long had studied Zhang Jike's playing skills and used them to improve themselves. However, the table tennis national team has clear regulations that it cannot privately study the technology of unretired players, but can only be speculated in actual combat and practice, so Ma Long's private research on Zhang Jike's technology is "stealing".
And Ma Long fans refuted rumors that the database mentioned in this paper, some of Ma Long's technical samples are also in it, Zhang Jike fans are taking words out of context and vexatious. Moreover, Zhang Jike's so-called backhand technique is inherited by the national table tennis team, so it is natural for Ma Long to practice as the captain.
Zhang Jike Malon
Of course, this is still a relatively advanced tear. Some netizens commented that compared with Messi's Cristiano Ronaldo fan war, "fruit butterfly fight" is like a village fight. It can be seen that the scene is ugly.
From 2016 until Zhang Jike's retirement in November 2021, the "weapon fight" between fans has continued.
After the news of Zhang Jike's retirement, netizens finally felt that it was time for the fruit butterfly war to turn the page. However, no, the two fans still kill you to death and me to life.
Some netizens joked that no matter who fights in the table tennis world, the final end is the fruit butterfly fight.
However, who would have thought that since then, even other table tennis stars have been contaminated with the rice circle culture, and they have also had the so-called "village mouth weapon fight" with each other, so that the new generation of player Fan Zhendong, who is 9 years younger than Zhang Jikemaron, is overwhelmed.
On November 15, 2022, Fan Zhendong ranked first in the men's singles with 7,700 points. When he got off the plane, he found a large group of fans coming to pick him up. That night, Fan Zhendong issued an article calling for "not bringing the bad habits of rice circles into competitive sports."
Fan Zhendong said, "I hope everyone will gain a positive and optimistic attitude from competitive sports and stay away from the bad temper of the rice circle." Anyone's words and deeds are harmful to me, please do not analyze and discuss my work and life and interpersonal relationships under the banner of caring for me and being good for me, and even quarrel and abuse. "
Fan Zhendong
In fact, this is not the first time Fan Zhendong has dissuaded fans, in September 2021, he posted that a large number of fans sent him to the plane caused him great trouble, and the impact was very negative. A month later, he posted a long article to regulate the words and deeds of fans. On February 1, 2022, I posted another article about fan behavior - I hope that everyone will not pay attention to me outside the arena, let alone spy and comment.
Therefore, many people praised Fan Zhendong for being "sober in the world".
So, how does Zhang Jike view fan fights and relationships with teammates?
Zhang Jike once said, "In the past, when I went to the competition, only dozens of people watched me, but after 2016, wow, it was really like a concert." In 2016-2017, he didn't quite get used to it, but gradually, he began to enjoy this scene surrounded by fans.
As for teammate Ma Long, Zhang Jike admitted in an interview with Lu Yu, "If you meet on the field, you can't be friends." "The implication is that they are competitive.
This also gives his fans a signal: it's about fighting!
Therefore, Zhang Jike's indifference to his teammates and ambiguous attitude towards fans led to constant fighting, and he turned a blind eye to all this. Not to mention being as sober as Fan Zhendong, he may still enjoy it and indulge in the feeling of being surrounded by fans.
Of course, later, if he wants to enter the entertainment industry, he really needs this wave of fans.
Zhang Jike idolized
Who are Zhang Jike's fans? Most of them are little girls who like his appearance or unruly personality, these people, who don't understand table tennis at all, don't like it, and are only interested in Zhang Jike. Most likely, these girls also like other traffic stars.
An anonymous netizen once bluntly said that Zhang Jike is too "flattering fan" compared with other members of Guoping: "I'm not sure if this is related to his overly harsh educational environment since he was a child, his father seems to have often hit him when he was a child, which may have caused him to be particularly afraid of losing his personality, but I just hope that Jike can guide fans correctly." ”
Another netizen who liked Zhang Jike said: "I like Zhang Jike very much, and I have spent a long time in the so-called fan group, but I really can't stand fans calling his name in various official competition venues like Mai." Yes, you want to express your love, but I feel very embarrassed... And doesn't that affect his game? ”
The title of the article is "To "go out of the circle" not "rice circle", be wary of "rice circle culture" invading sports", the article said that "rice circle culture" has a strong exclusivity, fans need to unconditionally support idols, do not tolerate the slightest criticism, only allow themselves to "guard", do not allow others to beak, which can easily turn the event discussion into black and white "control commentary" and "stand in line".
Indeed, fans and rice circle fans are completely different. Fans mainly focus on results, while rice circle fans only focus on private life, and turn this liking into benefits - because rice circle can bring benefits, such as station sisters can sell peripherals, sell pictures, and even private information to generate monetary benefits.
In addition, compared with the "vulgarity" in the eyes of the public in the entertainment industry, sports stars will bring a positive cycle if they are in a mild environment because they have natural halo attributes. However, after the rice circle, it is precisely because of the aura of competition that fans have no fear, no one in sight, feel that their idols are superior to entertainment stars, and after extreme alienation, they have evolved into a group that is even more terrifying than traffic star fans.
Being surrounded by fans for a long time will undoubtedly lose oneself, develop a solipsistic personality, and seriously lack the bottom line of morality - just like the group of traffic that collapsed before.
Now, Zhang Jike's house has collapsed so badly, as the originator of athlete rice circles, isn't this eaten back by fans?
Finally, is the "fruit butterfly war" going away?
![A year after the "private photo turmoil", Zhang Jike had a "new identity", and Liu Guoliang's words came true[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)