Dig meat, sleep with you, be deceived! The price of star chasing is underestimated by eighty percent of parents
Star chasing, we didn't do it when we were young, saved money to buy albums, buy tapes, and have the opportunity to watch concerts when the conditions are good. I told you before that Chang Dad was a group performance when he was in college, and he can be regarded as a person who has stepped into the door of the "entertainment industry" with one leg, haha.
Young people, there is always a period of dreaming days, so for the current child chasing stars, Chang Dad has always felt that it is not a big deal, isn't it just spending a little money!
But a recent police report made Chang Dad unable to sit still, and some fans fought in order to grab the position, and also alarmed the police, indicating that this conflict is really not small.
But if you think about it, it's nothing, after all, the old lady will also fight to occupy a good position when watching the play, right? But I never expected that this was just the tip of the iceberg of fan madness.
Let's start with a heavy taste.
Last weekend, because the official in order to avoid conflict with the comparison, it is not allowed to bring more light signs, it is said that in order to bring one more light sign to support his brother, someone directly attacked himself, dug up a piece of meat on the inside of his left leg and stuffed the battery of the light sign into it. The battery box leaked halfway, and he was so energized that he shivered, but he still gritted his teeth and insisted on going to the security check.
By the time she took the battery out, the meat had been electrocharred...
In ancient times, there was "cutting meat to serve the mother", and now there is "digging meat to stand at the top".
What else can I say about this, I can only borrow a sentence from director Ang Lee:
"I didn't understand, but I was shocked."
But if you think that's the bottom line for fans, you're underestimating them!
In order to get a scalper ticket, someone actually slept with and paid for it, gave the first time to the scalper, and said beautifully, "I took it for three thousand" "It hurts, but it's worth it!" ”。
To be honest, I don't know how parents with daughters feel when they read this, I really feel that I can't think about it, it's really urgent to think about it, and the liver is broken.
There are even more excesses: someone simply sold himself in order to buy a ticket.
There are also people who sell a top-level cigarette butt on the Internet, asking for 13888 yuan...
But when I knew the price of the scalper ticket, I found that the price of the cigarette butt was quite reasonable, after all, compared with the ticket price of 200,000 or even 2 million, the price of this cigarette butt is too close to the people - and it can be preserved forever.
Behind the sky-high price, countless fans do not hesitate to take out loans, advance marriage payments, and even sell cars and houses in order to buy tickets...
Sensational events are often creepy to hear. When I think that the vast majority of people who chase stars are teenagers, I feel even more terrifying.
I thought that star chasing was a pleasant little thing, and at most it would cost a little money, but it has now endangered the child's life safety, values, and even the future...
High school generates the main force of "scolding war"
Stealing money, skipping class, arguing with parents
This year, a Beijing newspaper published an article in which reporters investigated the changes that occurred after the children of several families chased stars.
Wei Ting is a 16-year-old high school girl. Since she started chasing stars, the parents feel that their daughter has become a stranger. She spends half of the day chasing stars, her grades drop from the middle to the bottom of the class, half of her living expenses are spent on chasing stars, she once deceived her mother with "paying book fees", skipped class in order to participate in the idol signing party, and stole thousands of dollars from home in order to help idols get on the list...
Feng Yuan, a 17-year-old Beijing girl, quarreled with her classmates at school and scolded others on social platforms because she did not allow others to criticize her idol. The teacher has talked to her many times to no avail, and has already regarded Feng Yuan as a "problem girl" and a "time bomb", and Feng Yuan has also begun to get tired of school and find excuses not to go to school.
Just to buy the album, Feng Yuan spent 60,000 or 70,000, and the cost of star chasing is not high. The mother is very puzzled, the family's annual income is only 150,000, where does the child get so much money? After the inquiry, the mother collapsed: it turned out that in order to make money chasing stars, her daughter did homework for her classmates while selling intimate underwear on the Internet.
Hearing this, the mother was afraid for a while: If it is not discovered in time, will the daughter do more excessive and bottomless things, and will she fall into greater danger?
Compared with the huge influence of celebrities on children, the influence of parents on children is almost negligible.
Because she spent too much money, Feng Yuan's mother persuaded several times, but her daughter always went in and out of her left ear and right ear; Because of stealing money, Wei Ting and her father had a fierce quarrel, and Wei Ting smashed the cup and injured her father.
When the influence of parents and teachers disappears, scammers take advantage of it.
15-year-old Meng is a groupie. She accidentally swiped a video with a certain star's QQ number in the video, and Xiao Meng added this QQ number.
After that, Xiao Meng was pulled into the group and received 388 yuan red envelope benefits and celebrity signed photos.
Xiao Meng felt that a pie had fallen from the sky, but the next day a person claiming to be a lawyer contacted Xiao Meng, saying that Xiao Meng was a minor and that the act of receiving red envelopes was illegal, resulting in the account of the star agency company being frozen by 60,000 yuan, and asked Xiao Meng to use his parents' account to transfer 60,000 yuan to cooperate with the unfreezing of the account.
At the same time, the lawyer said that after the account was unfrozen, the money would return the same way, and a screenshot of the successful refund was sent to others.
Seeing Xiao Meng's hesitation, the lawyer said that if he did not cooperate, he would sue Xiao Meng's parents, believing that it was true, Xiao Meng had to do what the scammer said.
Then the lawyer said that the celebrity QQ number had been sold in large quantities, and that the police had been called to verify whether Xiaomeng's parents' accounts were involved, and threatened her to pursue legal responsibility if she did not cooperate.
The lawyer also said that the case should be kept confidential and that no one should be told, and that Xiao Meng should find a quiet place to turn on the shared screen and follow the instructions to operate the bank account step by step.
In two hours, she transferred a total of 9 transfers, ranging from 30,000 to 400,000, and by the time her mother found out, a total of 1.96 million had been transferred.
At this time, Xiao Meng found out that he had been deceived.
The so-called QQ star group and the so-called account freeze are all fake, but they are just scams tailored for groupies. Xiao Meng, who learned the truth, regretted it, and whether this money could be recovered is still unknown.
Poor grades, tired of school, no bottom line, deteriorating family relationships, huge losses for families... We really can't afford the price of crazy star chasing.
When her mother persuaded Feng Yuan not to play with her mobile phone in class, Feng Yuan's answer made her mother confused and helpless:
"I really can't control myself!"
She doesn't understand, why does a star let the child not control himself, why does it let the child fall into a state of madness?
At first, I didn't understand it, but when I understood the culture of the rice circle and the unspoken rules of the agency behind the stars, I knew:
Everyone who chases crazy stars is a leek who is PUA.
Self-touching under industrial saccharin
Phoenix Satellite TV once did a program called "Rice Circle Single Push King".
Rice circle is the abbreviation of fan circle.
The single push king is the fan who votes the most for idols.
The protagonist of the story is Xu Hanwei, 26 years old, an English teacher at a training institution. He cares more about his identity as a fan of a girl group and has become the single king of idols for two consecutive years.
In order to chase stars, he has spent hundreds of thousands. Every year he spends more than 10,000 just to shake hands with his idol. When the people around him reminded him that this was all a routine, Xu Hanwei said with a smile:
"You and I have no chance, and we all rely on money to meet each other. Ken routine, isn't it good, it's better than not routine! ”
He knows that supporting idols is to burn money, and he knows that his efforts will not be rewarded, but he has no regrets. Where does such "selfless dedication" and "unconditional love" come from?
If we say that we used to chase stars, we were moved by the business ability of stars and attracted by personal temperament. Today, all this is inseparable from the careful setting of brokerage companies and the exquisite structure of the rice circle organization, and everything behind this is the power of capital.
I believe that most people are no strangers to the "Star Support Association", which belongs to the fan group in the core position in the rice circle, and many of them have close ties with the agency and belong to the "big fan". Such organizations have well-established systems and high-viscosity emotional bonds.
They attach great importance to emotional mobilization and daily training, such as using system openness and supervision disclosure to highlight fairness, showing bill details, transparent selection process, clear division of labor, etc., which can gain the trust of members and increase internal intimacy. "Sadistic fans" are the most commonly used emotional mobilization, including exaggerating the pathos of idols and shouting "brother is only us" to inspire sympathy. At the same time, frequently organize interactions, such as buying gifts for idols, voting, etc., "everyone spends money, I am embarrassed if I don't spend it."
The daily training focuses on the two themes of "how to become a real fan" and "what a qualified fan should do", educating fans that it takes money and effort to qualify and enjoy rights, guiding fans to voluntarily pay for idols, and establishing a community for idols, playing lists, retweeting, and controlling reviews. Those who have not done anything for their idols are considered "white" and will be collectively ostracized.
"As a fan, I want to give him the best."
"To love him is to spend money for him."
"If you're not willing to do it, you don't deserve to be his fan."
……
Looking at these common phrases in rice circles, have you ever smelled a strong smell of MLM?
While brainwashing fans in the rice circle, the agency is not idle.
On the one hand, they set up various activities, such as launching lists, voting, meet-and-greets, etc., and find various reasons for fans to take money; On the one hand, it manipulates the rice circle and encourages fans to spend money on idols.
The star support group seems to be independent, but the overall control is still the star's agency.
In order to enhance the popularity and commercial value of stars, some agencies took the initiative to encourage fans to tear each other apart and start a scolding war. In order to obtain traffic, Internet platforms turn a blind eye to this behavior, and even take the initiative to make celebrity topics the main source of traffic, further aggravating mutual tearing.
Teenagers are easily agitated, driven, and dreamed. They project their dreams and ideal selves onto idols, and the essence of maintaining idols is to maintain their beliefs. And capital is looking at this, mass-producing stars that meet the appetites of teenagers, cultivating fans, serving fans, and harvesting a large number of fans.
Xu Hanwei was very happy to see the successful counterattack of the idol he had been supporting, he said: "They are ordinary people, ordinary people like me, they touch their ideals with their eyes. You participated in the trajectory of her life and wrote such a good story together. ”
In order to write this story, in order to vote for idols, he worked 12 hours a day for a week. Later, he simply ran from Beijing to Shanghai, rented a small house near the theater, and prepared to look for a job in Shanghai.
However, when he really entered the core layer of the rice circle, he sadly found that the idol did not develop as he expected, and there were contradictions between the two.
The idol landed and the aura broke. Only then did Xu Hanwei realize that perhaps the "idol dream" he was obsessed with and supported was just a trap carefully designed by capital.
Through ingenious design, the agency makes fans feel that they can participate in the life of idols, feel that their efforts can determine the fate of idols, and feel that they as ordinary people seem to have the "hand of God".
After waking up from the dream, Chen Hanwei said: "It is his right to provoke you, it is his job. But if you believe, you are not on the way. ”
"You have to understand where the boundaries are," he said. ”
Star chasing is not entirely a bad thing, some people study hard because of star chasing, and some people become astronauts because of star chasing. Chasing stars gives children enthusiasm and gives children clear life goals.
But we must tell our children that star chasing has "boundaries" and star chasing has "bottom line". As parents, we must also be vigilant and always observe the star-chasing status of our children.
Here are three "red flags" to keep in mind:
spending money on idol albums or peripheral products like obsessive-compulsive disorder, resulting in excessive spending;
Spending too much time with idols, especially on mobile phones or online;
Imitate idols by getting tattoos, dyeing your hair, or wearing heavy makeup.
If these phenomena occur, parents must not sit idly by. You can talk to your child about star chasing, but please note a few things:
Do not belittle the child's idol, otherwise it will cause the child's disgust and the conversation will not be able to continue;
Recommend positive idols to children, such as scientists, sports stars, etc., and share their values;
Participate in your child's life as much as possible, arrange colorful activities for your child, and let your child get rid of the psychological dependence on star chasing.
In short, providing a positive supportive environment for children to make them feel understood and tolerated by their families will help them divert their attention from celebrities.
("My True Friend" stills)
In the face of artificially created idols and well-designed rice circle mechanisms, it is difficult for children not to fall. And this can be the beginning of falling into a trap, being violated, being deceived.
Do your kids chase stars? How did you cope? Are there crazy star-chasing kids around you? What do you think about this? Welcome to share in the comment area!