Recently, a friend gave me an animated movie "Invincible Destruction King 2: Big Trouble on the Internet", at first I didn't think much of it, because from the perspective of painting style, it was relatively low, and it was not a genre that I was particularly interested in.
However, idle, sink down to look at it, only to find that fortunately I did not completely ignore it, otherwise it is likely to be lost with an Internet workplace inspirational movie.
That's right, it's a workplace inspirational film, Internet practitioners, especially practitioners in the game industry, I especially recommend you to watch this film.
If "Ready Player One" is a love letter from the past, using countless Easter eggs to awaken our initial good memories, then "Invincible Destruction King 2" is an offer sent to the future, making people can't help but think about whether they should step out of their comfort zone and give up their longing for a career.
On the other hand, it can be regarded as an Internet documentary with a bit of realism, which truly shows the phenomenon that traffic is king on the Internet video platform today, and likes are profitable. At the same time, we also discussed such a topic with us:
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The confusion after suddenly losing their jobs, I believe many people have had. In particular, this job has been done for many years and has a very deep feeling.
In the film, Vanellope's encounter is like this. In her arcade racing game Sweet Rush, the steering wheel was accidentally damaged. Because the game company has been out of business for many years, a substitute can only be found from Yibei. The only steering wheel left on the whole network has a starting price of 200 US dollars, which is more than the money this game console makes in a year. So the boss immediately decided to disassemble the game machine into parts and sell it to the scrap collectors.
I felt the same way about this scene. Because he was a game planner, he had been involved in the production and maintenance of games for 9 years, because he was replaced by new games that were rising, more and more unappreciated, less and less invested, and inexplicably shared a lot of costs that should not belong to it, and finally became unable to make ends meet. Finally, last year, it was decided to stop regular monthly updates, stay until it can't afford the cost of the server at all, and let it fend for itself.
So I can understand Winnie's mood at this moment. Although she often complains about the boring game, she feels that the track is too monotonous and not challenging. But one day I suddenly lost it, but suddenly lost myself, and I can no longer clearly position the meaning of my existence.
How similar is this experience to those of us who love our work too much and pour too much enthusiasm into our work, but suddenly lose it overnight.
I don't know if anyone has had this experience, but when I learned that my game was terminated and all updates were terminated and I had to wait for my own survival, I thought exactly the same as Winnie.
It is true that it can be quickly placed on other projects, and the work can be seamlessly connected, and it can be said that it will not be affected financially, but I still feel deeply damaged inside.
Especially when I saw players in the chat area saying that this issue of fashion was beautiful and agreeing to buy it, I couldn't help but lie on the table and cry. Because there will be no new fashion in the future, everyone's memories will always be fixed here, theirs and ours.
The original direction of the movie was that Ralph took Winnie to the Internet to make a lot of money, buy back the steering wheel, and save "Sweet Rush".
But the reason why I think it can be called a workplace movie is because the story does not end with Vanellope's return to the game hall, but instead allows her to enter a racing game called "Furious Racing" in the process of working for money to buy a steering wheel, and rediscover the career direction she really aspires to.
Unlike Sweet Rush," which is full of candy, this is a hot-blooded adult game world full of dangerous challenges.
There are sharks that can eat people out of the sewers, players who will be wiped out by flamethrowers, and NPCs dressed in various wastelandpunk styles. Among them, the most envious of her is the flash sister who is a lot and sassy, and her priceless red sports car.
After seeing all this, Vanellope does not want to return to the world of the little girl's home, she wants to stay here, wants to drive a cool sports car like Sister Shan, and become a free and unrestrained real racing driver.
Originally, when they bought the steering wheel, they could save the game, return to the former workplace, and continue all the quiet but calm life.
But this was not what Winnie wanted, once the treasure box full of hope was opened, it was difficult for anyone to bear to close it again; once the enthusiasm for chasing dreams was ignited, it could no longer be easily extinguished and returned to the past.
For this reason, Yun ni is also very distressed - on the one hand, it is her old friend who has been waiting in the same place at all costs, and on the other hand, it is a new and challenging track that she finally has at her fingertips.
How to choose?
Sister Flash's words are very reasonable, "No one stipulates that the best friend must have the same dream."
As a result, they had a misunderstanding and eventually relied on each other's sincere trust to reach a reconciliation.
Medals can be one and a half, even if we are not in the same world, not in the same track, we can continue to chase our dreams in our own way and together.
This section of Ralph buying a steering wheel for Winnie to save the game and becoming a "pop video" Internet celebrity in order to make money gives a certain irony to the impetuous Internet celebrity economy.
People will not pay attention to what content Ralph outputs, only because he brought extraordinary popularity in the early stage, was favored by the algorithm queen Zanjie, vigorously supported, according to the keywords of the algorithm's highest popularity, created a lot of traffic explosions, but the content is extremely empty and boring video.
"Likes are money, honey, your boom account, you can convert likes into money." How, do you think this sentence is very familiar? Yes, in today's Internet era, on major platforms, traffic has long become the first productive force driving all kinds of creations.
So not only can liking become money, black and red are also red, and many times, controversy can also become money.
From the previous Weibo Cai Xukun fans sticking to the traffic position, the battle with Jay Chou's sunset red fan group, and then to the 227 incident that stirred up most of the Internet at the beginning of this year. The appearance seems to be completely different, but which one can be separated from the word "traffic" behind it?
Just as the so-called world is bustling for profit, the world is bustling for profit. Most conflicts on the Internet may initially be only because of the incompatibility of the three views, but as long as there is heat to be calculated, in the end, it will often be escalated into a traffic game, deviating from the original intention of the parties.
It is true that Ralph made a lot of boring videos in order to make money, but he did all this only to save Winnie's racing game. He never forgot this, so after seeing a tidal wave of bad reviews and experiencing a short period of sadness, he quickly perked up again.
Because he knows very well what he wants, this is just a springboard for him to fulfill his wishes. He never lost himself because of his identity as an internet celebrity, and after making enough money, he first thought of informing Winnie that he could take the steering wheel and go home.
Friendship is the most precious thing for him, and only where Vanellope is, is his real home.
Internet celebrities like Ralph do exist in reality. They strive to output content, not only for traffic and money, but also to achieve their true value.
From Zhu Zhiwen, the coat brother who became famous and did not forget Ben, to the Chaoyang Winter Swim Monster Pigeon that made a sentence of "Ollie give" fire all over China, to the thousands of ordinary but positive life content on the video platform, encouraging everyone and gaining the Internet celebrities who are truly loved by netizens, they are worthy of being truly praised.
They never pride themselves on being Internet celebrities, and they will not get lost in the flower world of the Internet. In real life, we still live every day down-to-earth, passing on exciting positive energy for us.
Criticizing reality is not the ultimate goal, let people reflect from criticism, consider how to fake the truth, make full use of traffic to create positive value, this is the real purpose of the film to depict the economic bridge of Internet celebrities.
As Zanjie said, the Internet also has benefits.
"The first principle of the Internet is to never read reviews, and here you can see the worst part of some people's hearts", but in the same way, "here, you can quickly find only one steering wheel on a web page, and you can also make enough money to buy it." ”
"Capital is inherently profit-seeking, there is no distinction between good and evil, where it is profitable, it will flow to wherever it goes", and the flow is actually the same.
Therefore, the algorithm technology itself has no distinction between good and evil. The only people who can make good and evil choices are those of us who invent algorithms, who are being used by algorithms, and who at the same time try to use algorithms, reconcile with them, and strive to make ourselves better off.
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