The Chinese fan group of Park Ji-min, a member of south Korea's "Bulletproof Youth League", announced on September 1 that to celebrate his birthday, it raised more than 2.3 million yuan in one hour, customized "an exclusive plane" and released photos of the plane.
This act is not only crazy, but also stupid. Sure enough, when a blog post for Park Ji Min's birthday was posted on Weibo, Sina Weibo issued an announcement and made a decision to ban Park Ji Min's account for 60 days.
An exclusive plane for fans to help Park Ji-min's birthday
The reason given by Weibo officials is that the blog post has "induced fans to compare content and misguided it". This characterization is very accurate. The so-called "customized aircraft" is not really buying an airplane, but chartering the plane, re-painting and setting the theme in the cabin, which has no practical significance, but is nothing more than "showing off" and showing their "strength" to the fans of other stars.
Park Ji-min's birthday falls on October 13, and the celebration of his fan group begins in April. In Baidu Park Ji Min Tieba Bar, someone organized a fundraising, "up to 1 million yuan in 3 minutes, more than 2.3 million yuan in 1 hour" On October 13, fans will also wrap up new York Times and Times page ads to show the world their love and blessings for Park Jimin.
Both the "Bulletproof Youth League" and Park Ji-min himself are controversial. Once, after winning the award in the United States, the "Bulletproof Youth League" said in its acceptance speech that it "will always remember the history of suffering experienced by the two countries (South Korea and the United States)", and this ignorance of history has made many Chinese netizens dissatisfied, and the spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has also responded to this matter. And Park Jimin himself was even more exposed by the media as a "nightclub incident", which also caused mutual attacks among fans.
Park Ji Min
Born in 1995, Park Ji-min was praised by fans as "God's best gift to mankind in the fall of 1995", in fact, he and the "Bulletproof Youth League" are just one product packaged by the Korean entertainment industry. They debuted as children, "harvesting" fans of Korea and across East Asia. Their fans range from the "idol cultivation" category that they have accompanied since childhood, as well as adults with considerable spending power, and these adults are at the top of the "rice circle culture".
The celebration of Park Ji-min's birthday was launched in April this year, when the relevant Chinese departments had not yet made efforts to rectify the rice circle culture. This birthday celebration can be seen as the last madness of the "rice circle culture", providing us with a comprehensive, detailed and real case of "rice circle culture".
Compared with the "idol cultivation program" in China, which is still in its infancy, Korean stars and the capital and fan groups behind them show transnational and cross-cultural characteristics. Such a "mature" rice circle, including the cooperation of various "types of work", also has unimaginable chaos. In the whole incident, the minor fans are the biggest victims, they are at the bottom of the industrial chain, they have no income, and they have to ask for money from home to "provide for idols".
"Raise 1 million in 3 minutes, more than 2.3 million in 1 hour", behind such "achievements", it is obvious that there is a strict "organization" and mobilization ability. It includes publicity and publicity in the "circle" in advance, and the act of fundraising itself is actually a kind of "comparison" and "showing off". The funds raised will be pooled together with the funds of Park Ji-min's Korean fan group for "custom aircraft".
From the perspective of bystanders, the supervision and use of funds of such a scale have become problems, but for its fan groups, there is no problem of "transparency" or "confusing accounts", because this is itself an industrial chain. Ignorant teenage fans ask for money from their parents to chase stars, while the manipulators at the top of the "rice circle" profit from it.
Park Ji-min's Weibo was silenced
Park Ji-min's Sina Weibo has been banned, and the relevant "super talk" will also be cleaned up, but this is far from enough. In fact, this birthday celebration also provides an opportunity for the relevant departments to conduct more investigations, at least around the fundraising, use and management and operation of fan groups, to disclose more information to the public, so as to help people understand the "cannibalistic truth" of "rice circle culture".
Red Star News special commentator Zhang Feng
Edited by Li Jie
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