Sometimes, when you hear something, you don't know whether to classify it as entertainment news, sports news, or rule of law news.
On April 6, some netizens broke the news that table tennis player Fan Zhendong's room was broken into privately, and then Fan Zhendong called the police. Immediately afterwards, some netizens reported the receipt of Fan Zhendong's case to the police.
It can be seen from the receipt of the case that the reason for Fan Zhendong's report was illegal invasion of the house.
The rooms of famous athletes have been illegally invaded, and there are still many spaces and directions for people to associate with, and no one knows what the situation is.
That evening, Fan Zhendong issued a statement through the account "Fan Zhendong Fan Club - Skyline Fan Xing", confirming the authenticity of the police receipt. In the statement, Fan Zhendong said that his room was not only invaded, but also invaded many times, as evidenced by cleaning staff and surveillance.
According to Fan, the woman first determined the room number through multi-day tracking, and then obtained the room card from the hotel front desk. As for how she obtained the room card from the front desk, whether there were other actions after entering the room, the police need to further investigate.
At first glance, this news looks like legal news, and because of Fan Zhendong's identity as an athlete and recent competitions, it has also attracted the attention of fans and the sports world. However, a second look at Fan's statement reveals that it is still very much like an entertainment news.
In the statement, Fan Zhendong called on fans to maintain sanity and boundaries, boycott the words and deeds of rice circles, and said that the invasion incident hurt him a lot.
Although the police investigation has not yet been completed, it can be inferred from Fan's response that nine times out of ten women who break into the room are avid fans, at least it seems.
It is clear that this group of people is spilling over from the entertainment industry to more and more fields.
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In fact, before the room was invaded, Fan Zhendong had issued statements many times to ask fans not to engage in these messy behaviors.
On October 17, 2021, Fan Zhendong issued an announcement saying that he opposed the bad atmosphere of "rice circles" that seriously invade privacy such as obtaining other people's itinerary information through special means, following the camera, and taking proxy photos, and "I sincerely ask everyone to resolutely resist with me, and absolutely do not track and photograph my personal itinerary and private occasions."
On November 15, 2022, in the face of the problem of "chasing and secretly taking photos", Fan Zhendong once again said: "For some irrational people, I also want to ask for respect again, please understand my deep discomfort every time I am violated in privacy and be chased and secretly photographed, and do not bring the bad habit of rice circles into competitive sports." ”
Under his constant appeals... Things finally got to the point of directly invading his personal room.
The female fan who broke into Fan Zhendong's room should be called "illegitimate rice" according to the rice circle. This word originally came from the Korean entertainment industry, mainly referring to those fans who like to spy on the privacy of celebrities, stalking, voyeurism, and secretly filming everywhere.
Of course, neither celebrities nor other fans are willing to admit that these people are fans, which is quite consistent with the word "illegitimate".
The reason for their reluctance to admit it is because their behavior is so outrageous.
Invasion of rooms, for example, may be rare among sports athletes, but in illegitimate meal circles, it is not news.
In April 2021, netizens broke the news that an illegitimate meal entered the hotel where the artist stayed to take photos and check in, not only flipped the remaining snacks in the room, posed for selfies on the bed, but also took away the mask used by the artist, and also sent a circle of friends afterwards saying, "XX's mask perfume smell is not so sweet."
Let's not mention that the mental state of the party is abnormal, as can be seen from the photo, the room has not been cleaned up, even if it has been checked out, it is just checked out. So how did the fan find and enter the artist's room in such a short time gap? Or did someone deliberately let them in?
Even if they don't enter the rooms of public figures, they may block people directly in front of their homes.
In 2017, singer Yang Kun posted several surveillance screenshots on Weibo, a woman sitting cross-legged in front of his house playing with her mobile phone, "Squatting in front of my house every day, it's really about to collapse!" ”
Then he uploaded a video of the woman knocking Yang Kun's door, chanting "Yang Kun I like you". According to Yang Kun's description, this man also took advantage of his absence to pry the door of his house, and even moved directly upstairs to live with him, and then shoved photos into the door in the middle of the night.
To be honest, don't say that Yang Kun does not dare to go home in this face, even Yang Guo has to be afraid when he sees it.
Basically, even if the various behaviors of illegitimate meals are not illegal, they are not far from breaking the law, including but not limited to secretly taking pictures, tracking, slipping through the door and picking locks, stealing things, harassing the phone and even installing trackers.
Some people may say that I am neither star-chasing nor interested in the entertainment industry, and these people do not influence me. It's a pity that they do affect ordinary people.
In 2019, the China Youth Daily Social Survey Center conducted a survey of 1,873 young people aged 18-35, and 52.4% of the interviewed young people said that they had "illegitimate meals" around them. 57.2% of the interviewed young people believe that improper star chasing behavior of "illegitimate meals" will undermine public order and safety.
Thinking about the things that affect the travel of normal people, it is not surprising that even more excessive illegitimate meals will disrupt public order and safety.
The point is that these behaviors have been industrialized and are rapidly spreading elsewhere.
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As mentioned earlier, there are indeed many extreme fans, and the most famous should be Yang Lijuan, who has been chasing Andy Lau for 13 years. Not only wasted her studies, but also let her parents sell houses and kidneys to support her to chase stars, and the day after she finally met Andy Lau, her father jumped into the sea and died.
But what about those fans who are not so mobile and have the same strong demand? Of course, it is to spend money to let others help you chase stars.
The innermost and most typical is proxy shooting, that is, taking photos at the event site instead of fans, usually abbreviated as "dp" in the circle.
These people are not commissioned by a fan to take pictures, usually as long as public figures attend the event, or even do not attend the event but they know the itinerary, the photographer will run to the scene to forcibly shoot, anyway, there will definitely be fans to pay.
Now if you search for proxy photography on social platforms, you can find many accounts engaged in this line.
"Hongqiao Sister", who once took crazy photos with various celebrities at Shanghai Airport, wrote on Weibo: "If you want to see which idols photo, you can tell me, there is no chase, only you can't think of it." "Some fans say that Hongqiao Yijie does not fight alone, but has a professional team.
Obviously, whether it is an individual or a team, it is not for the love of power generation.
Some of these people are because they are chasing stars, by the way to earn a sum of extra money to return the blood, "I am with love to shoot, not particularly hard, unless the machine sometimes can not return the book, other times the cost and the money earned are basically the same, if you work hard, you will definitely earn."
Some college students work part-time for a year, not only enough for their daily living expenses, but also save 50,000 yuan in savings, "I am just a newbie to the industry, the equipment and resources are not sufficient, and the income is not high."
Generally speaking, these transactions are carried out through Moments, Weibo and QQ groups. After people who want to buy pictures see the preview of the pictures, they will ask for the price, and after negotiation, they can pay with one hand and the other hand. The price is often determined according to the quality of the picture and the popularity of the star, "about 10 small bags at the airport are about 50 yuan, and hundreds of large bags are about 300 yuan."
But there are not many part-time proxy photos, and more photos come from those "station sisters" who manage support clubs or operate entertainment accounts, "The original intention of station sisters to do 'proxy photography' is to maintain a station, if the credibility of a station is to be done, it should be covered by every activity."
So many times the sisters will buy photos from each other, "I will help others take pictures when they don't arrive, and I will buy them from others when I can't arrive."
It's just that they usually keep the best photos themselves, and "the best pictures keep themselves." Keep it yourself to produce more, the picture is sold is sold, there will be no follow-up benefits." These pictures will be made into "PB" (photo album, short for "photo book") and the like, if they are popular stars, they can earn four or five hundred thousand at a time, in the words of the circle, "one night to mention the sea view room".
Another industry that complements agency photography is the sale of personal information, "3 yuan a piece, 200 yuan packaged sales, if you are not troublesome, you can check your own flight according to the star identity information." These people are considered the "upstream" of proxy photography.
In addition to selling information directly, these people also post to recruit "apprentices", but the more appropriate title should be subordinate agents. These "apprentices" will first become the downline of the poster, buy information at a low price, and then resell it to those who need it, earning a difference.
Of course, their customers are often proxy photographers, "I got the flight information is bought, it is also very cheap, and it is troublesome and time-consuming to check them one by one."
These people who take pictures and sell information don't feel that there is anything wrong with them: "It is said that the agent shooting is black, isn't the official photographer (official photographer) of the crew darker?" ”
But this is clearly not a question of whether to cut the leek.
In the Capital Airport T3 terminal alone, there were 20 recorded fan alerts in 2017. On April 20, 2019, the escalator glass at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport was directly squeezed. Among these chaotic people, I don't know how many of them specially ran over to take pictures, but ordinary passengers definitely don't want to appear in the same place with them.
On December 5, 2019, Wu Jing was chased by a large group of people who took pictures and live broadcasts at the airport. These people only cared about shooting, and almost ran into the child next to them, which suddenly made Wu Jing can't help it: "Look at the child, do you see it?" It's really bad for you guys to do this, what if you bump the child! ”
Fortunately, there were not many people at the scene at that time, and if the child appeared at the scene where the glass was squeezed, it would be impossible to think. The problem is that ordinary people will not pay attention, will they happen to appear in the same place as the star, how do you hide?
It is simply impossible to say that this does not give them a charge of endangering public safety. Lawyer Wang of China State Advisory Law Firm said: "If the bridge is blocked in order to take pictures, airport managers should take measures to stop their photography, eliminate the obstruction, and maintain normal public order." If they do not obey or do so repeatedly, they are suspected of disturbing public order and violating the relevant provisions of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Punishments for Public Security, and may be handed over to the public security organs for handling. If airports tighten their management of this behavior, flight delays can be avoided. ”
It's just that if someone asks or makes too much noise, these proxy shooters will immediately pretend to be fans of stars to clear up the relationship, "If someone asks, we will say that we are star fans." For them, the more chaotic the situation, the more they can fish in troubled waters.
It may not be that the scene is chaotic enough, and some people will mix in the proxy shooting to scam. In 2019, a woman looked for people who needed to take celebrities through Weibo and WeChat photo groups, saying that she could help take photos of celebrity concerts and at the airport, but she had to pay the agency fee in advance. As a result, after collecting the money, the woman immediately disappeared from the group, and no one could be contacted.
So far, this chaotic scene including illegitimate meals, proxy shooting, scalpers, etc., has involved invasion of privacy, illegal intrusion, fraud, disturbance of public order and other behaviors, if the extreme illegitimate rice behavior is a crime, then large-scale, organized activities are more serious?
On the other hand, in addition to interfering with ordinary people and public order to make money, these behaviors are rapidly spreading from the entertainment industry to other fields, and the invasion of Fan Zhendong's room is the best example.
In January 2023, the special action of "Qinglang 2023 Spring Festival Network Environment Rectification" specifically proposed to prevent the "rice circle" problem from spilling over to other fields such as sports and e-sports, and it was not long before Fan Zhendong's room was broken into.
Now the situation can be said that you don't mix rice circles, but rice circles are coming towards you.
Even if you don't chase stars, you always have to watch sports games, even if you don't watch sports competitions, you will play games, if the favorite team members or teams affect their results because of these messy things, it is estimated that many people will scold their mothers.
In fact, when Fan Zhendong's room was broken into, he was about to participate in the 2023 World Table Tennis Professional League (WTT) Xinxiang Championship, if this affected the performance of the game, who should be counted?
It's a relief that there wasn't a serious impact this time, but the question is, what about next time?
Resources:
China Youth Daily: Rice circle "proxy shooting", the secret business behind beautiful pictures
Beijing News: Star agency photography industry chain: from trip tracking to agent photography to attract fans for profit
CCTV News: Buy itineraries, squat hotels, sell photos... Why is celebrity "proxy shooting" normalized? Uncover the industry chain behind it