With the development of the Internet economy, the group of Internet celebrities has also sprung up in everyone's field of vision. Recently, many Internet celebrities with tens of millions of fans have been banned or even arrested, which has aroused the attention of netizens.
How profitable are influencers? A live broadcast PK can easily be tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, the first and second lists are scrambling, and the carnival in the live broadcast room is swiping. There are also Internet celebrities with goods who make money faster, and the Internet celebrity Simba brought goods live that year, and sold more than 1.2 billion goods in 5 hours of live broadcast. Internet celebrity "Crazy Brother Yang" even relied on live broadcast to bring goods, with a revenue of 3.2 billion last year, and paid 50 million to employees. In addition, Luo Yonghao paid off hundreds of millions of yuan of debts with live broadcasting, and New Oriental temporarily survived the crisis with Dong Yuhui's live broadcasting.
A few days ago, the Internet celebrity "money throwing activity" that occurred in Taiwan, China, attracted attention. It is reported that the event was launched on May 10 by Mr.R, an Internet celebrity with 161,000 followers on a social platform. The location is Xinyi District, which is the location of the mansion of Da S and her current husband Gu Junye, which is mentioned many times in entertainment gossip news.
According to Taiwan media reports, the event attracted about 3,000 people to the scene and robbed wildly, and even caused a pushing incident, and even the police cars that arrived were surrounded by crowds, which caused heated discussions in the outside world after the incident was exposed.
It is reported that on the night of the event, Mr.R posted a preview of the event on social platforms, calling on participants to pay attention to safety, do not push, and do not bring children, pregnant women or elders. However, some participants frantically scrambled for the 1,000-dollar bills (NT$ bills are divided into 2,000 yuan, 1,000 yuan, 500 yuan, 200 yuan, and 100 yuan) after the event began, regardless of safety regulations, resulting in chaos and shoving.
Some witnesses at the scene said that after the crowd poured into Xinyi District, the whole event site seemed to be out of control. Someone accidentally fell and injured himself in the process of grabbing money, and the scene is comparable to a copy of the "Itaewon incident". It is understood that Mr.R carried out two acts of throwing money during the event, and even the police car was surrounded by the crowd.
Although there have been no reports of people being injured in the hospital, the incident has undoubtedly raised concerns. There are also two voices for and against the behavior of Internet celebrities throwing money.
For supporters, they believe that online celebrities are using their popularity and resources to give back to the society and transmit positive energy through public welfare behaviors. They believe that this kind of behavior can inspire more people to participate in public welfare activities, help more people, and make society a better place.
However, there are also some who are critical of this behavior. They believe that this is just a hype ploy, and the influencers are not making money out of sincerity, but to gain more attention and followers by making a presence on social media. They believe that this kind of behavior does not solve the root of the problem, but only acts in the name of public welfare, and lacks real meaning.
In December last year, on the side of a street in Jinhua, Zhejiang, a man found gold on the street, and many people queued up to receive it. Nearby merchants also confirmed the news, saying that the man who sent the money was not a local, but it could be seen that he was very rich, "often come to send money, and he has been here for a month".
But the man is not an Internet celebrity, and there is no follow-up explanation as to why he sent the money. At that time, many netizens expressed envy of the people who received the money, and shouted that they wanted to come to their cities to distribute money.
Have you ever experienced a street money campaign? What do you think of this behavior?