Sohu Entertainment Special Article (Shanjin/Text) Wei Daxun's out of the circle once again confirms the "explosive money metaphysics theory".
Half a month ago, probably no one would have imagined that a half-hour "special appearance" in ten episodes of an idol drama overwhelmed the handsomer and more popular traffic male number one, and even became the most out-of-the-box character in the summer season.
Wei Daxun's "flashy crush" on Yang Yang is not only the victory of the supporting role and the loss of traffic, but also a profound warning to the industry - behind the immoral literature that doesn't care about Wei Daxun and the drama is that the audience is really voting with traffic.
1 Who is praising Wei Daxun?
Wei Daxun's exit from the circle began with the second creation clip at station B.
In a second-creation video titled "I'm getting fierce, I saw Wei Daxun playing a pseudo-orthopedic department", through the appropriate soundtrack and exquisite filters, several keywords were extracted from the story of Meng Yanchen and Xu Qin: childhood sweetheart, unrequited love, poignant BE.
The audience followed the clues to make up their ideal love story.
Today, this video has been played nearly 3 million times on Bilibili. Afterwards, Meng Yanchen had many second-generation videos with more than one million views, and more and more passers-by also took advantage of the opportunity to participate in this "star-making movement". Behind the
male trio going out of the circle this time is a double meaning of to set off .
In the play, Wei Daxun's acting skills are more prominent than Yang Yang's.
Among the various temptations, entanglements and extreme tension between the male and female protagonists, Yang Yang did not show his forbearing and entangled love for the female protagonist. He plays the adult Song Yan, who often expresses various emotions with frowns, but he really looks like he is frowning.
It is precisely because Yang Yang did not perform the feeling of "forcing himself not to love, but actually loves very much" in the early stage, many audiences will describe the heroine's pursuit as "reversed", which also led to "CP is hard to beat".
Wei Daxun is not recognized as an acting school, but his performance in "Fireworks in My World" is sufficient and accurate .
He performed his love for the heroine, which was forbearing, complicated and painful. Wei Daxun can express emotions with his eyes. Even without frowning or exaggerated facial expressions, the audience can still read the character's state and emotions from his eyes.
At the same time, Meng Yanchen's character design is also better than Song Yan's.
Song Yan seems to be a male lead that was popular 20 years ago. On the contrary, Meng Yanchen is like the "dominant president" who has been improved in the new era. Having money and power is only a prerequisite. What's more important is that he is emotionally stable and respects the heroine.
The contrast between acting skills and character design is fully demonstrated in the hotly discussed "Supermarket Shura Field" scene.
Even when encountering a rival in love, Meng Yanchen maintained a basic emotional stability.
Song Yan looked very irritable, not only was angered by Meng Yanchen's few words, he yelled loudly in public, but also got the heroine to return to the team with him through his working relationship, and turned around to provoke his rival in a victorious manner.
is another layer of peer support, and the expectations from 's summer file fell short of .
The summer archives are always a battleground for military strategists, and all major platforms are gearing up, preparing to sacrifice their most topical works to compete for traffic. "Long Wind Crossing", "Can't Hide Secretly", "Jade Bone Yao" and "An Le Biography" have all been brought up, and the most topical top streamers and Xiaohua Xiaosheng who are on the rise in their careers have also come.
It's a pity that the summer season of drama series with big IPs and top streams has already passed halfway, and the hotly discussed blockbusters in the true sense have not yet been born.
But audience demand has always existed, Meng Yanchen just filled this vacancy .
When the word-of-mouth of many projects to be hit is not up to expectations, here is a character with good acting skills and lovable characters. It just so happens that there are not many scenes, and the space left in the series is enough for the audience to make up the best and most perfect love story by themselves.
In such a comparison, it was an easy decision to choose Meng Yanchen.
2 Viewers use traffic to vote
The phenomenon that the supporting role is more popular than the main character is not the first time in the past two years.
Sang Yan, the supporting role in "I Can't Hide Secretly", which is also in the summer, has been well received for its non-greasy performance and character design; Ye Bingshang, the supporting role of "Long Moon Ember", has received high attention and discussions because of the extreme character design;
these supporting roles "turned the table", became popular, and went out of the circle, with a strong expected gap behind them.
From "Long Moon Embers" to "Secretly Can't Hide", "You Are My Fireworks", and even earlier "Long Song Xing" and "Mrs. Dendrobium Pearl", they are all big IPs and top stars that have attracted much attention in the early stage.
already has the best resources and the greatest attention, but the finished product is far from the quality that a large project should have. Among these five works, except for the two that have not been scored, the other three works have an average score of 5.5 on Douban.
received a lot of attention in the early stage, but the protagonist couldn't meet the expectations of the audience, and even a normal supporting role was on the stage naturally.
Gao Qiqiang, Ye Bingshang, and Meng Yanchen's "Tipping the Table" became popular, and behind it was a certain change in the audience's value orientation-it was difficult for routines and perfect protagonists to attract audiences, and those complicated, real, and alternative characters became more and more popular.
In fact, the protagonists who have been out of the circle for the past year actually have a pair of perfect disenchantment . For example, Dongfang Qingcang in "Canglan Jue" is a demon king who cuts off love and love, and is BKing. Wen Dongen in "Dark Glory" is an unforgiving avenger.
At the same time, there are some differences in Wei Daxun's departure this time.
Wei Daxun's crush is not a well-produced high-reputation work crushing a cliché idol drama, nor is it a well-accumulated acting school crushing a traffic star without acting skills.
is in the same routine idol drama, is an entertainer who used to be labeled as "resource cafe", "variety show cafe" and "funny man", and he overwhelmed the traffic star.
If the former is still somewhat "reasonable", then the latter is an industry warning that viewers vote with their feet.
From the self-healing of CP fans in the early stage to the participation of more and more "unscrupulous and fun people" in the later stage, Wei Daxun's outing of the circle has gradually taken on the rebellious mentality of the audience "suffering traffic for a long time" .
An obvious phenomenon is that Meng Yanchen's outing of the circle was not driven by the popularity of the series, and it did not feed back the series . Wei Daxun gained fans, word-of-mouth, and popularity from passers-by, but the drama itself was still tepid.
On Maoyan's popularity list, the ranking of "My Fireworks in the World" did not rise with Meng Yanchen's departure. was able to rush to second and third when it first aired, but now it is stable at around fifth. Similarly, on the Yunhe Dominance List, the popularity of the series is also ranked around fifth.
Even though the film studio took the opportunity to increase the marketing efforts of the main line CP, due to the acting skills of the protagonist and the quality of the series itself, most of the viewers were not converted into fans of the series, and they didn't even care about the performance of the series itself.
(both are screenshots taken on July 17)
(both are screenshots taken on July 17)
The popularity and traffic flowed to the supporting actors themselves, and to the second-generation video clips made by fans. is an ideal idol drama chosen by the audience spontaneously.
The audience is voting with traffic, what kind of stories and actors are everyone's favorite. If the industry does not respond and change, may appear more frequently in the future as .
