After Li Yifeng was exposed as a prostitute, many people were asking "why", saying that he was handsome, rich and famous, why did he do such a thing?
Very simple.
Because the PC is something that you can reap a lot of irresponsible pure pleasure (extreme physical enjoyment, very little emotional and psychological burden) for just a little money.
Let's put it this way, just like the "most profitable way" written in the Criminal Code, the maximum physical pleasure that human beings can obtain in a short period of time is mostly prohibited by law, including but not limited to: violent beatings, sexual harassment, sexual assault, XD...
Remember why we broke plates and knocked down sandcastles when we were kids?
Because the act of "sabotage" is itself a vent that can greatly appease human emotions.
Every child is born with a "desire to destroy" things, disrupt things and order, and draw a little joy from the process.
To grow up is to struggle with the "destructive" nature of human beings. The biggest difference between adults and children is that the former has acquired "self-discipline", through self-control, away from those simple and crude ways of earning happiness that harm others and self-interest, and cultivates a "delayed gratification" that is truly beneficial to physical and mental health.
That is, Li Yifeng PC, because he could not resist cheap and low-grade pleasure.
And it all has to do with his overly smooth journey.
In 2007, Li Yifeng participated in the official debut of "Come On My Hero". In 2014, he participated in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" and became a first-line traffic student. Since then, he has risen to the top, and his resources are soft. At that time, he and Fan, Luhan, Yang Yang and others were called "the top four streams in the entertainment industry", and the scenery was for a while.
It is more convincing to summarize simply in actual numbers:
According to incomplete statistics, 2014 is Li Yifeng's development year. Li Yifeng, who starred in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", ranked ninth on the Forbes Celebrity List with an annual income of 69 million yuan. In 2015, he took over the ultra-luxurious lineup movie "Mr. Six" of the big IP of "Tomb Robbery Notes".
I still remember that in those years, Feng Daolian was a judge and wanted to go to the "top stream", and "Mr. Six" also went to the two major streams. In short, in those years, Li Yifeng won various big productions one after another, and his salary soared. The mainstream media has dubbed 2015 a "peak" year.
With traffic, the road to making money naturally extends in all directions. In the same year, Li Yifeng held a concert tour. How hot are the tickets? Kill them all within 6 hours.
At the end of the year, Li Yifeng successfully ranked fourth on the Forbes Celebrity List, with an annual income of 170 million.
In 2016, due to the "car accident", Li Yifeng's resources were relatively reduced, and he starred in three TV series "Sparrow", "Qingyunzhi 1" and "2" with endorsements, with a salary of about 100 million yuan.
Before the collapse in 2017, due to the decline in popularity, the previous dramas did not bless Xinglu well. His income had been declining in those years, far less than at his peak.
Most importantly, he himself came to an awkward period.
Born in 1987, 30 years old in 2017.
The entertainment industry changes quickly. Overnight, there have always been newcomers who are younger and more handsome than you. For male artists, 30 years old is not old, but shooting costumes is somewhat limited. After all, ancient costumes test the figure and face shape of male artists.
Seeing Li Yifeng mercilessly ridiculed as a "chubby fish" in "Mirror of Two Cities", you can know that "uncle" can't escape sharp close-ups no matter how he maintains it. Yu Minhong himself is very thin and still pouts in front of the camera, while Li Yifeng never maintains this state.
Photographed in 2020, when Li Yifeng was 33 years old.
His transformation in the past two years is obviously "a helpless move that cannot continue to maintain the idol path". Even the most glorious animal world now seems to be just an accidental epiphany. The truth is that he rarely has very few eye-catching characters and works since then.
An actor, after all, depends on the work to speak. "Mountains and rivers produce talents", who can win the favor of the audience, who is the object of capital chasing.
Looking back now, Li Yifeng's rise was actually very accidental, and it can be said that it was stained with the light of that era.
If nothing else, 2015 seems to be all the best. The national economy and entertainment industry are thriving, and everything seems to be rushing to the top. At that time, everyone watched the drama in a completely relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, holding more and scolding less.
This flow is like a hurricane rising from the ground. Li Yifeng took advantage of this huge wave and ate the dividends of this wave. Anyway, under the traffic, he made money lying down in those years.
But fast money won't last forever.
The market is changing, and so are the demands of the audience. With the gradual increase of barriers, top streamers like Li Yifeng urgently need to change, but the truth is that his transformation path is not smooth, but people who are used to lying flat to make money have long forgotten the posture of hard work or do not want to work hard at all.
Think about it too. In the past, you could earn several times more money than others. Now you may not earn even a fifth of what you used to when you run. Even harder than transformation is accepting that you fell from the top of a mountain, accepting the cruelty of "starting from scratch."
Li Yifeng couldn't get by.
Idols are not so easy to make, especially Li Yifeng, a plastic idol that can only be made by eating people.
Andy Lau is also an idol, but what everyone admires and likes about him is "dedicated", talented but still dedicated for decades.
Li Yifeng has no talent, is unwilling to work hard, and because of the influence of the "salary limit order", maintaining the "idol" to continue to make quick money and fall in love is absolutely self-defeating. But people are social beings after all, and they need to have normal emotional vents. If nothing else, physiological needs are a reality that cannot be ignored.
It can only be said that Li Yifeng cannot strike a balance between work requirements and his own satisfaction, cannot make due efforts in his career, and cannot achieve self-discipline. These troubles also haunted him intensely, making him desperately need an outlet for his emotions. This may be the root cause of his first slide into the abyss by falling into the PC.
The thrill of being free of any constraints and responsibilities can be imagined. Man, how painful it is to restrain oneself from procrastination and gratification, how blissful it is to release darkness and humanity.
Just like riding a bike without stepping on the brakes and rolling with your eyes closed, a complete glide is fatal.
In addition, it has become more and more difficult for ordinary people to make money in recent years. The stimulus of "daily salary of 2.08 million" came first. Traffic stars raise their hands and blink to earn money that 99% of the world's people can't make, but they still don't love themselves. People are more and more unwilling to endure, PC is a crime, let alone tolerable.
It doesn't matter what "the wall falls and everyone pushes", they are all adults, and they must admit that they are wrong.
It was only when I looked at Li Yifeng that I discovered that a self-indulgent person, no matter how tall he once stood up, would one day fall.
As a deformed product of the "top era", if an idol is not clean, he will inevitably be found swimming naked after low tide.
As for why not love yourself?
Because self-love has a threshold, you have to pay a very high price, such as holding your heart and never being tempted (sex, violence, etc.). Such as day-to-day effort and high levels of self-discipline.
The simplest thing is that everyone knows that going to bed early and getting up early, eating and exercising on time, and getting less angry is good for the body, but how many people in this world can do it?
As an idol, I have a great reputation, and I make more money than 99% of the world. I should be strict with myself and be more motivated.
But I can also "understand" Li Yifeng's depravity, because not everyone is keen to race against time to be cruel to themselves. It is not difficult to imagine that even if he wants to find a stand-in to film, he may not be keen on being an actor.
To put it bluntly, we stood so tall and earned so much, but in the end we were willing to be ascetics. We only have one Andy Lau.
I even thought of Li Yifeng's reputation declining in recent years, and he couldn't get good resources and works. His agency team may also be in a hurry, and they have tried all kinds of ways to make Li Yifeng stand up, but how to say, just like you can never wake up a person who pretends to sleep, some people's lifelong pursuit is "not to work hard".
To put it bluntly, there are always some people in this world who do not want to be motivated, but paradoxically, he wants to stand at the center of the universe and stand in the top C position.
Without the ability to be an idol, he can only be asked to be an idol, let himself survive in this paradox, and finally watch himself step by step towards destruction. Perhaps this is the only way to go back in time.
What can he teach us?
It's PC or even depravity, but it's not far from the lives of ordinary people.
In 2015, Pan Suiming, a professor of sociology at Renmin University and China's first sexologist, judged that the rate of prostitution among major groups between the ages of 18 and 40 was 22.3 percent.
That is, 2.2 out of every 10 people have prostituted.
In 2021, this figure increased again, reaching 25%, that is, one in four people has been engaged in prostitution.
Alas, people fall so fast, it's like going downhill much easier than going uphill.
For example, now KTV called escort is actually very common, men and company groups will also go to bathing places with special services.
The most thrilling one was heard on a show. A man and his colleagues got drunk on a business trip and took his lady back to the hotel. He couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. Four people play "stones, scissors, cloth" together, and then the loser takes off his clothes in public ...
Anyway, don't overestimate your ability to bear. In order to live a stable life, there are some things that must not be touched in this life.
