▲The blogger asked his mother to cooperate in posing for the video. Picture/Internet video screenshot
Recently, the series of videos "Eating instant noodles for hospitalized mother-in-law" has attracted public attention. The blogger later admitted that the picture was staged. According to the Beijing News, on the evening of December 17, the Dongchang Prefecture Branch of the Liaocheng Public Security Bureau issued a notice stating that the blogger involved was detained by security for five days and that the online account for spreading rumors was permanently shut down.
"It's terrible to fabricate facts for the sake of popularity. Is there no bottom line?" "Publish staged videos just to gain followers?" Judging from the reactions of netizens, everyone has become increasingly unfavorable to such staged behavior.
Previously, some bloggers had their accounts banned and detained for posing for photos and making up stories, pretending to support the elderly, and giving money to children in mountainous areas. However, similar acts of posing for photos are still prohibited repeatedly. It can be said that there are always new tricks emerging, challenging the bottom line of public order and good customs. The root cause is nothing more than profit-driven. In the case of
, the blogger "put a lot of thought into it." The mother was asked to cooperate in the staged video and deduce the plot of "eating instant noodles to her hospitalized mother-in-law" as revenge for her "mother-in-law" eating instant noodles to herself during confinement. The blogger appears as the daughter-in-law and criticizes the past mistakes of the "mother-in-law", presenting a causal cycle in which there is an "evil mother-in-law" and then an "evil daughter-in-law." Its plot design fits the public's certain psychology of chasing dramas. The content of family "disputes" shown in the video is also in line with the public's mentality of watching the excitement.
To put it bluntly, bloggers want to let more people "see" them in this way to achieve their goal of "increasing fans". The blogger himself did not shy away from this. It is understandable that
video bloggers pursue the number of fans, but to do so by any means, and even blindly cater to the audience by posing for photos, is obviously crossing the line. This type of video does not indicate any plot interpretation or scene reenactment. The blogger obviously intends to deceive the audience, and the content he spreads also contains the tendency to "dark" a certain group and convey bad values.
"In order to attract traffic and win attention, they designed their own scenes and fabricated false information..." The notice from the public security agency not only focused on this specific case, but also revealed some common characteristics of similar staged photos. Many past cases of
have shown that in order to increase followers, they do not hesitate to take risks, play sideways, challenge the bottom line of public perception, and spread wrong value orientation. They will eventually be counterattacked by traffic and pay the price for their violations, which is really not worth the gain.
In addition, platforms should also perform their supervisory and review duties regarding false staged videos. It is important to realize that compared to publishing "soft pornographic", "borderline" and "yellow" content, deliberately acting ugly to attract traffic, and spreading bad information such as suicide, self-mutilation, animal abuse, etc., these short videos that look like "trivial matters" in the family do not have the same pictures. It is not shocking, and the dialogue is not "explicit". It is spread more covertly, and the potential harm it causes cannot be underestimated. The
platform in particular needs to do a good job in controlling the content of such videos, and increase technology upgrades in review and identification. It can use "algorithm + manual" dual guarantees, clarify creation standards, and severely punish violations. Don’t let those short videos that rely on staged shots to spread bad values to become hot searches. Written by
/ Commentator of Beijing News Chi Daohua
Editor / Liu Tianhong
Proofread / Liu Yue
