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A large number of Douyu anchors are suspended
According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, the well-known anchor "Xiao Tuantuan" on Douyu platform has been confirmed to be involved in large-scale gambling activities. Many netizens have questioned whether the anchor of Xiao Tuantuan is related to the Chen Shaojie case. Chen Shaojie was previously the CEO of Douyu. On November 22, 2023, the Dujiangyan Municipal Public Security Bureau in Chengdu issued a police notice stating that Chen Moujie (male, 39 years old) was suspected of opening a casino.
It is understood that "Xiao Tuantuan" posted a news on Douyu Fish Bar on January 27 this year to announce that it would temporarily stop broadcasting. It has been suspended for 35 consecutive days. Its personal Weibo was last updated on December 2, 2023.
At the same time, Guild Yuwan Media, which signed a contract with "Xiao Tuantuan", was recently revealed to have become the person subject to execution by the court, involving an execution amount of approximately 445,700 yuan. It is worth noting that Yuwan Media tried to apply for registration of the "Yiyi Xiao Tuantuan" trademark in 2021, but the trademark has been declared invalid.
According to sources familiar with the matter, Chen Shaojie, the founder and CEO of Douyu Live Broadcasting Platform, has been released on bail and is awaiting follow-up judicial proceedings. Prior to this, another well-known Douyu anchor, the "dog thief" known as the "Hearthstone Brother", was also reported to have been arrested for involvement in the case. His live broadcast room has been at a standstill since November last year. In addition, many top anchors of Douyu, including pdd and Da Sima, have also suspended live broadcast activities. Some top anchors such as Xuxu Baobao have moved to the Douyin platform one after another, forming a phenomenon similar to "trees fall and hozens scatter" .
Chen Shaojie may be sentenced to 5-7 years
In October last year, there were rumors that Douyu CEO Chen Shaojie was taken away by the police. More than a month after the news came out, on November 22 last year, the Dujiangyan Public Security Bureau in Chengdu officially reported that after investigation, our bureau found that Chen Shaojie was suspected of opening a casino and had been arrested in accordance with the law. The case is under further investigation. According to a report by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on April 22, some legal experts calculated based on the circumstances of his case that Chen Shaojie’s specific sentencing may be between 5 and 7 years.
In September 2020, the first brother of Douyu Outdoor, "彡彡九场", was suspected of gambling with tens of thousands of people and losing as much as 110 million yuan a year, so the police took compulsory measures. This incident attracted the attention of Ziguangge and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and was publicly heard by the Dujiangyan City Court in Sichuan Province in December 2022. The cause of the case was the case of using a live broadcast platform to open a casino. In addition to the anchors Fu Hailong and Pan Bin, the persons involved in the case also included a Douyu financial officer named Zhou.
It is worth noting that two months before "彡彡九Outdoor" was investigated and punished, Wuhan Douyu Yule Network Technology Co., Ltd. took a stake in the live broadcast guild Jiutu Culture behind it.
In addition to "彡彡九屋", there are other live broadcast rooms on the Douyu platform that have been exposed to gambling, such as the "Changsha Rural Death Squadron" live broadcast room, which is called "Douyu's largest casino" by netizens. In 2020, the revenue of this live broadcast room was as high as 177 million yuan, and the daily revenue reached a maximum of 13 million. At the 2020 awards ceremony held by Douyu, the live broadcast room also won the title of the platform's top ten top anchors of the year.
Since September last year, Douyu’s stock price once fell below $1, a drop of more than 95% from the highest point in 2021 of $20.54 per share. It wasn't until March 28 this year that Douyu's stock price returned to above $1 by merging 10 shares into 1 share. Currently, Douyu’s share price is US$8.060 per share. Compared with the market value that once exceeded US$3 billion in early 2021, Douyu's market value has evaporated by more than 90%.
’s latest financial report shows that Douyu’s revenue in 2023 was 5.53 billion yuan (approximately US$779 million), a 22.2% decrease from 7.108 billion yuan in the same period last year.
