After the Hangzhou police announced the investigation results, the farce "Qin Lang, your winter vacation homework fell in Paris" that lasted for several months finally came to an end. It was finally proved that the blogger Mao Beipipip posted false news.
Maobeipip also released an apology video on Douyin and other platforms. I originally thought that the matter would be over, but who would have known that today many people discovered that multiple platform accounts of Maobeipipip have been banned.
So is Mao Bei’s ban unfair or not? In fact, those who often play short videos will know that at least more than 80% of the videos on these platforms are plot interpretations, and there is a lot of bottomless content. For example, some accounts deliberately stage conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, conflicts between father and son, etc. There are also some that deliberately play out the ambiguity between a female boss and a male colleague. There is actually a script behind this.
So does this count as spreading false news? Originally, if it just made people laugh, it would be nothing. It’s just that some anchors now have too much influence. As a result, some false things eventually become social news, which is a complete waste of public resources. For example, this is the case with Cat Cup.
If every big Internet celebrity is like this, then our social credibility will definitely be free of charge. Traffic has now become blood buns. For the sake of traffic, a person almost has no bottom line.
recently read some data. The number of professional anchor accounts on the entire network has reached 15 million, and the number of short video accounts has exceeded 150 million. Seeing this number is really jaw-dropping. We can’t help but ask, does China really need so many Internet celebrities?
Now that China has entered an aging society, our labor force has begun to be seriously insufficient. In the past, China was able to gain a place in the world precisely based on our abundant labor force. Now that China's economy has developed, it has faced two major difficulties.
First, traditional mid- to low-end manufacturing industries are facing rising labor costs and insufficient labor. Second, industrial upgrading requires more high-end talents.
However, our short video industry has attracted so many young people and so many labor forces. This is definitely not a good phenomenon.
Some time ago, a Peking University internet celebrity with 8 million fans came to my hometown and received extremely high-level courtesy from the locals. A master's degree from Peking University does not devote himself to national scientific research, but instead goes to become a travel Internet celebrity. Is this a waste of time and money?
But being a travel internet celebrity can bring him wealth, status, and reputation, so who is willing to go to work and do scientific research? When we see more and more young people taking shortcuts to become Internet celebrities and becoming successful, more young people will join this industry.
It is not bad to make short videos. For example, there are some in-depth accounts that spread history and culture, analyze current hot topics, spread positive social news, or share their own interests and hobbies. These are very good.
But nowadays, with the increasing number of Internet celebrities, the entire industry has also formed an involution, so we see more and more sensationalism. The female anchors who do justice finance and economics all wear black silk skirts; those who do gourmet food They are also fighting to buy more, buy more expensively, and eat more; there are also many marginal accounts that dance.
A large number of curious accounts appeared, attracting more netizens to stay on the short video platform and unable to extricate themselves. Nowadays, almost everyone is watching short videos. The large amount of novel content, coupled with the blessing of algorithms, has almost become the "opium" of the new era.
Now you can see people ranging from 70 to 80 years old, and children as young as 4 or 5 years old. Almost everyone just sits down and picks up their mobile phones to watch short videos. This matter is really scary to think about. If a lot of time is wasted in these places, then who will do scientific research, who will produce, and who will do construction?
What’s even more frightening is that everyone watches short videos, and coupled with the dilemma of the algorithm, everyone can only see the things they like, and the things you don’t dare to be interested in are completely invisible. Everyone Trapped in your own information cocoon.
Today we see a phenomenon, that is, many netizens have completely lost their most basic thinking about some things, because the world they can see and the information they can obtain are all what they want to see and what they want acquired, so they have extreme thinking about many things.
A few years ago, someone selected one of China's four new inventions, namely high-speed rail, mobile payment, shared bicycles, and e-commerce. After seeing it, I really laughed out loud. Apart from the core technology of high-speed rail, what other core technologies do the other three have?
Your mobile payment, bicycle donation, and e-commerce are not just apps, and all of these apps are built on other people's mobile phone chips. Our Internet has indeed developed very rapidly in recent years, but e-commerce and short videos are only superficial prosperity and have not promoted our basic science at all.
