[Text/Observer.com columnist Xinchao Guanyu]
"Auntie no longer wants to mention such sad things. She keeps bringing them up to me over and over again, and (I) feel really uncomfortable."
The mother of the late star Qiao Renliang said these words with tears in front of the camera. As long as you have simple empathy, you can feel the pain behind it: After experiencing the untimely death of their son from depression, the old couple gave the white-haired man a gift to the black-haired man. After the tragedy, Qiao Renliang's parents once again entered the public eye in the past two years and became Internet celebrities in the food area. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that they have found something to "get busy" for themselves. The public's attention and interaction have made them no longer lonely. The humorous food videos in each issue gradually brought them out of the shadows, which also brought economic benefits.
But the "truth revelation" and "justice" of the "righteous netizens" dragged them back into the abyss again. They had to repeatedly read the descriptions and photos of their sons' "tragic death" by netizens, and read those pictures of their sons. As the protagonist of a short essay about "a bad young man torturing an artist to death", he also endured the accusations and abuse of "taking money to shut up and chill the hearts of netizens, allowing his son to live with his injustice to death" - this kind of crime can be called the highest level of spirituality for a parent. attack. That's why Qiao's mother shouted in the video: "How can you imagine?"
The picture shows Qiao Renliang's parents
The working environment of artists is high pressure, high ups and downs, high intensity, full of uncertainty and various gray areas. This is a recognized fact. Depression, a disease that is no longer new among ordinary young people, is even more common in the entertainment industry. Of course, the various rumors and conspiracy theories surrounding Qiao Renliang have continued to intensify for so many years, involving many external factors and related news, but the script formed by collaging facts, coupled with a large number of fictional stories and emotional incitement is not rare.
These scripts find a lot of glue to connect the facts - the power of hands and eyes, the exaggerated romance, the murder and threats of life and death, the most evil people who break the bottom line of human ethics - combined with the already formed in everyone's mind. Many novels, movie templates, and superstitious metaphysics have turned a relatively simple incident into a shocking scandal and conspiracy.
No, the various death conspiracies and battles for inheritance surrounding the "disappeared princess" some time ago made the Aixinjueluo family of the Qing Dynasty in Zheng Xiaolong's lens and the Windsor family of Great Britain hundreds of years later in "The Legend of Zhen Huan". A "high degree of consensus" was reached on the horse-catching story. Similarly, there are such things as the "wife and son" behind the artist's divorce, "a certain artist went to a certain hospital for medical treatment late at night, and the doctor was surprised to find xxx"... "Rumors only stop at the wise" does not apply to such stories, no matter how you refute the rumors How many times have I said "I don't have it", but I still get my head pressed and said "No, you have it", and then the next round of scripts will be written to make the whole story consistent.
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Is there truth behind the rumors? The opposite of rumors is actually people’s inner desires.
No matter how fake or illogical the stories of "Don't bully young people into poverty" and "Cinderella meets Prince Charming" seem, everyone will always love to read them because they reflect the inner desires of ordinary people. The creation of conspiracy theories will always go on, because people are naturally eager for excitement, curiosity, and the desire to see the "unfathomable malice" and "omnipotent power" beneath the surface of the peaceful world.
Similarly, as ordinary people, we also long to be heroes, eager to show our strength in the collective, so as to help the wronged people redress their injustices, and help the weak and kind-hearted people change their lives against the will of heaven - once we have this sense of belief, ordinary people Ordinary people are transformed into endless energy and enthusiasm.
And once this enthusiasm and sunk costs are heavily invested, no matter what the final truth is, once they are told "all this is meaningless", some people choose to remain silent and escape, while others will burst out with great malice, Bite back at those who tell you the truth. Qiao Renliang, Princess Kate, Jiang Ping, and many, many similar things in the future will all develop according to this script.
The public figures who serve as "actors" in these scripts, as living people, have become unimportant in the eyes of the public. If you come out and say you want privacy, personal space, and a peaceful life, you will only get doubled attacks and comments. For the people at the top, they are "escaping responsibility", evading being an actor in this collective creation, evading being a doll in a doll's house - the game has begun, can you quit if you want to?
I often saw a saying before, "Stay closer to his works and stay away from his life." Indeed, apart from working on his work, being a "hermit" the rest of the time is the best way for an artist to avoid such a tragedy. But it is becoming increasingly impossible today.
Artists need scripts, and they need to live their real lives into a "reality show" to maintain popularity and traffic. Young stars need to create a persona of "a talented weakling who is suppressed and bullied" in order to make people who feel sorry for you Fans "come up" and devote themselves to you at all costs. Even as a fan, you have to write some vivid scripts in order for your idol to mobilize as much "passerby popularity" as possible. Corresponding to this is the excessive intrusion of the new generation of fans into the lives of artists, especially some idols who are even underage. "Career fans" and "mom fans" can help you debut at all costs, and they will also help you when you fall into depression and cannot work fully. Sometimes, he uses the most vicious words to make you fall into a darker abyss.
fans sometimes seem so humble, but at the same time so domineering; "passers-by" can sometimes be so passionate, but at the same time can be so cool.
Sometimes we often see netizens ridiculing celebrities for their "glass hearts" on the Internet - I earn 2.08 million a day, and I can bear whatever you scold me. What qualifications do you have to say that it is not easy for you? Even for ordinary people to sympathize with artists is a sign of "self-contempt". However, from another perspective, we might as well think about why we should pay attention to artists and chase stars. Although we don’t know exactly what these people are like, when appreciating them, we actually hope to gain positive The energy hopes to reflect a self who is beautiful in appearance, interesting in soul, talented, and whose efforts are rewarded, rather than a "trash can" that amplifies our negative emotions and allows maliciousness to be dumped.
An entertainment industry that allows artists and fans to maintain a good mental state is a benign entertainment industry.
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