Harassing women and watching underage films, why hasn't Huang Zijiao been removed from the Taiwan entertainment industry?

The hottest artist in Taiwan in the past two days is Huang Zijiao.

In April 2024, it was rumored that he bought child sex images from illegal clandestine photography websites. Later, according to Taiwan media reports, after Huang Zijiao was accused by two women of luring nude photos, the prosecutor found that he had hundreds of pornographic videos during the search, including underage female victims. Subsequently, the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office gave Huang Zijiao a suspended prosecution punishment for violating the "Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Child and Juvenile Sexual Exploitation".

Huang Zijiao himself posted an apology on social media and hoped that the public would give him a chance to be a new person.

And Huang Zijiao's wife Meng Gengru posted: "Mr. Huang didn't understand the source of the seller's video, and ignored the extremely scary crime behind the website", as if Huang Zijiao just made a mistake unintentionally, and some Taiwanese netizens spoke out for Huang Zijiao, saying that he just bought it for himself, and did not sell it.

After that, public opinion did not stop there, so Meng Gengru closed his social platform account.

At this time, Huang Zijiao and his wife may not realize that the public opinion environment they are facing is completely different from the one they faced when the sexual harassment scandal was exposed in June last year.

Let's do the event combing first.

The indecent video case that broke out this time is a follow-up to Huang Zijiao's sexual harassment incident in June last year. In June 23, an Internet celebrity in Taiwan Province living in France accused a male host of forcibly kissing and taking intimate photos of underage girls when she was 17 years old on social media.

But Huang Zijiao successfully avoided danger at that time and was not expelled from the entertainment industry.

He himself first drunk and recorded a live broadcast to break the news, counted his own hardships and past, and pulled in all the people he knew and didn't know in the Taiwanese entertainment industry, saying that he was bullied by his seniors, and broke the news about the harm caused to him by Big S.

After that, there was news of self-harm and he was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. His wife appeared at this time and said that the two would "face it together and make up for the mistakes they have made."

And Huang Zijiao's work partners, although they can't say that they support it, they also secretly spoke for him. First, I feel that Huang Zijiao has worked very the table for so many years, and secondly, in line with the principle that everyone makes mistakes, I feel that he should be given a chance to reform himself.

As a result, in this wave of overwhelming public opinion in June last year, although the cooperation projects related to Huang Zijiao were stopped, and all the product advertisements he endorsed were taken off the shelves, this person did not leave the Taiwan entertainment industry in a real sense, and many stars in the entertainment industry did not really "cut seats" with him.

So, why is this happening?

The superficial reason is that Huang Zijiao's table image is very good, he has developed in the entertainment industry for many years, and his mentor is the famous Taiwanese host Zhang Xiaoyan, which shows that he also has his own faction to maintain. He will not do evil at any time, and even has the opportunity to promote newcomers in the entertainment industry, which has created a very positive screen image for him, and also made Huang Zijiao have a lot of supportive voices in the circle.

In fact, even after the outbreak of Huang Zijiao's sexual harassment in June 23, the people who supported him still existed. They hold the view that people make mistakes, and they need to give people a chance to make amends.

But there are some mistakes, and there is no chance of making amends. Because every time you make a mistake, you add to your own evil.

In fact, according to the time inference, Huang Zijiao did not forget to "buy films" during his self-harm and hospitalization.

This time, it was rumored that Huang Zijiao bought underage sexual images from illegal candid websites, which was discovered by the prosecutors after the scandal broke out in June last year.

According to the police investigation, during Huang Zijiao's detention, hundreds of indecent images of women were found in his personal hard drive, including seven minors. In addition, Huang Zijiao himself admitted that these films were purchased by him from candid forums in the past 6 years.

In other words, sexual harassment of minors in reality is not the only evil thing Huang Zijiao has done. The identity of the so-called "senior in the entertainment industry" has become his best "protective umbrella" for deceiving minors. A victim of Huang Zijiao came forward to break the news, saying that he had been asked to Huang Zijiao's home to wear a bikini to take pictures, and one of the victims was only 14 years old at the time.

Huang Zijiao's method is to talk to her in the spare time when one of them accompanied Xuexing to participate in the show, and mentioned that he was looking for a graphic model for the inaugural issue of the girl's magazine, and later Huang Zijiao asked them to meet in the studio, but after the girl arrived, she found that the so-called "studio" was Huang Zijiao's residence. Huang Zijiao also asked them to try on swimsuits, including swimsuits with very little fabric.

Later, Taiwanese paparazzi Ge Siqi also broke the news on the show, in fact, he received an accusation against Huang Zijiao more than ten years ago.

Until this time, he still called Huang Zijiao "Brother Jiao".

Ge Siqi's program broke the news

This incident also completely tore off the hypocritical veil of the so-called "give him another chance" by colleagues in the entertainment industry, except for Huang Zijiao's wife Meng Gengru, who still wants to advance and retreat with her husband, other artists are cutting seats with him.

Zhang Xiaoyan, the aforementioned Huang Zijiao's master, was attacked by netizens because of Huang Zijiao's scandal, and he was also hit hard.

Zhang Xiaoyan text messages with friends

Some people also found that Huang Zijiao had already been in the show, and he clasped his fingers with a girl in front of Zhang Xiaoyan, and Zhang Xiaoyan stopped her directly at that time, speculating whether she had known about it a long time ago.

After that, Zhang Xiaoyan expressed regret for introducing Meng Gengru to Huang Zijiao, and said, "I don't know a lot of things", completely dissociating the relationship.

There are still many people who are actually parting with Huang Zijiao under the pretext of feeling sorry for Zhang Xiaoyan, and some artists have put their voices on the channel to call for legislative reform to protect the privacy and safety of minors. Of course, there are also voices that publicly condemn Huang Zijiao.

Compared with the ambiguous attitude of Taiwanese artists in June last year, the public bombardment of artists today is very revealing. Even Huang Zijiao's apprentice came forward to bombard him, obviously knowing that this matter could not be passed by just an ambiguous attitude.

Until this time, the general attitude of the Taiwanese entertainment industry towards Huang Zijiao has become - Huang Zijiao is difficult to turn over, and he dies socially.

But the most important question to ask is, why did Huang Zijiao not "die socially" until 24 years when the minor film was exposed?

It's easy to say. It is not difficult to see that unlike the mainland entertainment industry, the circle culture of Taiwan's entertainment industry is very heavy. Whoever is the "big brother", who is the "little brother", and "who is brought out by whom" can be selected according to the map, and who is brought on the show to carry it up, it does not mean that this person is capable, but that this person is lucky and worships a good big brother.

At the same time, the entertainment industry in Taiwan Province is also characterized by clear hierarchies and family antagonism. As mentioned earlier, Huang Zijiao's master is Zhang Xiaoyan, and he, Zeng Baoyi, Tao Jingying, etc. all belong to the Xiaoyan family. Huang Zijiao won the Golden Bell Award, and the headlines of the media were "Xiaoyan family is beautiful".

Earlier, a writer from Taiwan Province broke the news, saying that Zhang Xiaoyan said that she was born as a child star and has been in the entertainment industry for 70 years, and Huang Zijiao can deceive reporters and the media, but he can't deceive Zhang Xiaoyan at all. But the main thing is the close master-apprentice friendship between him and Zhang Xiaoyan, in the early years of Zhang Xiaoyan and Wu Zongxian's "family struggle", Huang Zijiao was pushed out as a shield, and their master-apprentice friendship is indeed very deep.

Taiwan's media and artists are interdependent, and the big brothers and sisters in the entertainment industry also have good media relations.

When a "little brother" makes a mistake, the media will not only ask about this "little brother", but also about his master, seniors, and classmates. At this time, the words of this senior or other colleagues can determine the future of this person to a certain extent. If the eldest brother and sister help to say two good words in front of the media, then basically this person will have less work, but at least he will not disappear in front of the public, and the media will also "save a little face" for him.

For example, when Huang Zijiao's sexual harassment scandal broke out in June last year, he recorded a video to expose the dirtiness of Taiwan's entertainment industry, and directly attacked Wu Zongxian for having a chaotic relationship between men and women and not paying back the money, but Wu Zongxian did not respond much at that time. But when he was on the show in January this year, he broke the news that Huang Zijiao took indecent photos of girls in the show, but he was directly silenced by the TV station.

This seems to be difficult for mainland audiences to understand, after all, the media should be traffic-oriented, and there is a precedent for Huang Zijiao's sexual harassment, so why would the TV station silence it? It can be seen that at that time, the TV station still intended to reduce the controversy over Huang Zijiao.

And this time, the Huang Zijiao incident intensified, and it really affected Zhang Xiaoyan, and someone immediately stood up and said that Huang Zijiao "changed to be responsible".

Without each other's help, Huang Zijiao's wave of "social death" naturally came more violently. The silence from earlier has been released, and the old things have been revisited by countless people. Huang Zijiao finally ushered in the judgment of his actions.

However, under the circle culture of Taiwan's entertainment industry, even if an artist publicly condemns it, the first reaction of insiders is not positive. For example, an actress condemned Huang Zijiao after the incident was exposed, and a Taiwanese agent immediately jumped out and said that she didn't know why she put this matter on the table, thinking that she might be "hyped".

But perhaps, only by increasing the number of "hype" voices in this way can the perpetrators get the punishment they deserve.