Not long ago, a person who claimed to be a "delivery boy" posted a number of short videos showing his salary slips on the video platform. "A friend recommended this special gift and said that it was easy to get away with for 10,000 yuan. I was really convinced! In the end, I was given 2,551 yuan, which was just for food and rent, and another month of work was in vain." In the video, he frequently complained " The income as a delivery person is low” and “the platform’s deductions are too high”. The content of the
video has aroused heated discussions among netizens. Within a few months, more than 70 short videos had a total of nearly 5 million views, and a large number of likes, comments and reposts.
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However, the takeout site on the pay slip shown by this "takeaway guy" did not exist at all. The takeout platform company involved in the video was forced to call the police, and the police took away the video publisher Zhang for investigation. Through investigation, it was confirmed that these short videos, including the salary slips appearing in them, were all fake.
Zhang is not currently engaged in food delivery, so why did he fabricate and publish a false video of "a food delivery boy showing off his salary slip"? According to Zhang, he found that some videos related to delivery boys were very popular, so he came up with the idea of pretending to be a delivery boy to "complain" about his salary and income, attracting attention and gaining traffic, and then monetizing it to gain income.
In recent years, new employment forms such as delivery boys and online ride-hailing drivers have attracted much attention from society. Zhang acted in a "painful drama" under the guise of a laborer and provoked a confrontation between the delivery boy and the platform company, which earned Zhang the attention of netizens. Although the income was not much at the beginning, Zhang couldn't stop making money by this way of making money without leaving home and without having to put in too much hard work. So he started fabricating and posting more similar videos. As the number of views and comments on these videos gradually increased, Zhang's income also increased.
In fact, Zhang’s video is full of loopholes: it is impossible to settle wages multiple times in a short period of time; the salary slip is from a food delivery platform, but the name and job number are different; the speech is basically the same, and the video starts with saying "I am convinced" Okay, wages have been paid on a certain platform, and then what happens. The
case has strong practical warning significance. On the one hand, netizens are once again reminded not to just enjoy short videos, likes and comments, but also to remain vigilant and rational, distinguish authenticity from falsehood, and resist false content. On the other hand, an effective joint disciplinary mechanism should be established and a "zero tolerance" attitude should be established for behaviors such as impersonating workers such as delivery boys, fabricating and spreading online rumors, and inciting antagonism to generate traffic without a bottom line.
In this era of information flooding in, a clear cyberspace requires the joint efforts of many parties to create and maintain it. Internet platforms such as short videos especially need to take responsibility and cannot allow rumors to be "realized" for the sake of traffic.
(Shangguan News)
