On April 13, the sensational "Qin Lang Paris lost his winter vacation homework" incident that caused a sensation on the whole network finally ended with "Thurman Cat Cup" being banned from the whole network.
I have to say that banning this kind of Internet celebrity who spreads rumors and poses just to win traffic is really happy, let's review the whole story together.
A few years ago, the blogger posted a video saying that he was in a toilet in Paris and scissors Qin Lang's homework in the eighth class of the first grade of a school, and then a netizen who claimed to be "Uncle Qin Lang" appeared in the comment area and said that his mother didn't know that he had bought homework to visit. And said that the school of "his nephew" is "Xichang Elementary School". A number of Xichang elementary schools responded that there were no students named "Qin Lang" in the school. At the end of the month, the relevant departments intervened to investigate the "Qin Lang Paris Lost Operation Incident". In early April, the netizen who called himself "Uncle Qin Lang" was punished by the Jiangsu police. A few days later, the Hangzhou police reported that the incident was completely fabricated by the two and had been administratively punished.
On April 12, "Mao Cup" released an apology video, but the punishment given by various platforms was only a "phased ban". Due to the fierce criticism of the whole network, the major platforms reacted quite quickly, and in order to "conform to public opinion", they added punishment the next day - directly banning the account.
There are three questions behind this incident that we need to reflect on: 1. Why did an ordinary incident of losing homework cause multiple departments to intervene in the investigation? 2. Didn't some of the official media that frantically forwarded it at that time not be responsible? 3. Before this incident, "Mao Cup" was a big blogger with millions of followers, why did he bother to make up such a thing?
First of all, the first question, it stands to reason that the blogger picked up a primary school student's homework at the beginning, found someone and returned it to him, even if the blogger has millions of followers, why can it cause a response from many elementary schools and multiple departments to intervene in the investigation. The reason is that the Ministry of Education made it clear as early as 2021 that there will be no written homework in the first and second grades of primary school. And what the blogger picked up was a first-grade elementary school student's winter vacation homework. If this is true, then the practice of the relevant schools is contrary to the policy. It's no wonder that some schools responded quickly and even posted a list of students.
The second question, didn't the major official media that frantically forwarded and fueled the flames at that time have a little responsibility?
In fact, many people know that this incident is not concerned about this blogger, but that it was forwarded by many self-media, marketing accounts, and official media as soon as the incident came out. A large number of regular news media also followed the trend and forwarded a large number of them without verifying the authenticity, adding fuel to the fire behind the scenes, and there is also a major suspicion of rubbing traffic. If these official media had less traffic, this matter would not have such a large amount of traffic, and it might be regarded as an after-dinner conversation and forgotten soon. However, some state media should be held accountable for spreading rumors that occupy public resources and disrupt social order without verification. I also hope that both self-media and official media will abide by the bottom line and not blindly follow the trend and rub traffic.
The third question, before this incident, "Cat Cup" was a big blogger with millions of followers, why bother to make up such a thing?
At the end of the day, bloggers are all about two words: traffic. In the Internet era, whoever gets the traffic and masters the traffic password is like getting the "money printing machine". Just like the "dark horse couple" that exploded on the Internet before, the more than 10 million views of a video let them know what netizens want to see, and they also set up relevant personalities, constantly attracting traffic, and the mix is booming. Netizens also expressed their views on this traffic-oriented social phenomenon.
The blogger "cat cup" incident is not the first case, and it will not be the last case, we hope that both the platform and the blogger should strengthen supervision and improve their own self-cultivation, and it is understandable to want to get traffic, but the fans and traffic obtained through improper means and inappropriate content will eventually become a fire, and people who are overly dependent on traffic will eventually be eaten by traffic, and when the house collapses, there will only be chicken feathers left.
As netizens, in the era of information explosion, what we need is not lies and posing, but more things that are true and can stand the test of time.