Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 152 A rare unity of left and right ideas
Now it is 2005, and local satellite TV stations have achieved great development.

The number of households that can receive satellite TV signals has increased, and accordingly, the audience of satellite TV stations has increased a lot compared with previous years.

This resulted in increased advertising revenue, increased investment, and improved program quality, creating a positive cycle.

In terms of TV drama ratings, they may still be a little behind, but variety shows are showing a trend of catching up.

All major TV stations now have their own variety shows.

Programs like "Happy 100" on Southeast TV and "Happy Camp" on Mango TV have a large audience across the country.

Before 2000, when Chen Linfeng participated in the promotion of "The Sequel to Journey to the West", most of the publicity was based on newspaper media.

In terms of television publicity, it only appeared on a few programs of Yanjing TV, and its effect was slightly better than nothing.

Things are different now.

Before a TV series is broadcast, powerful producers will often let the actors in the series participate in popular variety shows on several satellite TV stations.

This time, "The Lotus Lantern" is like this.

In Chen Linfeng's opinion, today's variety shows really have an old-fashioned flavor.

Not only are the venue and stage decorations rather simple, the format of the show is also mainly based on dialogue and communication.

The celebrity guests who participate in the show will often show their talents at the beginning, and then the host will start to flatter the guests.

But the audience still enjoyed watching it. They were very satisfied to see the stars move.

Originally, Happy Camp was a good program choice during this period.

However, this month, Happy Camp is making trouble.

The early version hosted by He Jiong, Xie Na and Wei Jia could no longer be maintained.

So Mango TV organized a vote-gathering session, where the audience decided which of the three hosts would stay in the end.

As expected, He Jiong received the highest number of votes.

After canvassing for votes, Mango TV organized a thank-you concert. The show was so sentimental that it almost made people think that they were really leaving.

The subsequent time is now.

Mango TV is organizing auditions to select new shining anchors, with the intention of selecting new hosts.

And then we all know what happened next.

The three shed tears on the spot as if they were saying goodbye, and in the end no one was missing. In 06, two more people were added to form the classic five-member group.

It's simply a celebration of weird behavior.

Fortunately, the audience had good tempers at that time, otherwise, in the era of mobile Internet, the program team would have been frustrated.

When Chen Linfeng promotes his TV series on variety shows, he also takes the opportunity to promote his new book "She".

This was discussed in advance with the program team and the crew.

In fact, the new book is already on sale.

The main promotional strategy for the new book is to lower expectations.

It was announced in advance on the Internet and in newspaper media that this new book is not like the previous styles, but contains more of the author's thoughts on the future society.

Taking movies as an example, this work is not a commercial film, but more of an art film.

Some readers like Chen Linfeng's books because they like his writing style with novel stories and compact plots.

Now that I hear the publishing house promoting it this way, I naturally have doubts.

So after the new book was released, the sales volume was obviously not as hot as before.

But precisely because expectations were lowered, readers who had thought they would read boring or extremely obscure content actually found the new book quite good after reading it.

At least the conversation between the protagonist and artificial intelligence is quite interesting, and the description of the future society is also very fresh.

Some people on the Internet are wondering what this chatGPT is, and whether it will be possible to let computers do drawing, writing, etc. in the future.

Some people are still discussing whether China can really reach the level described in the book in the future. The conclusion is naturally impossible.

It will take China at least 20 years to achieve the same level of technological and social development as Japan.

Xiao Chen is still too simple, and sometimes even a little naive.

The situation on the Internet is like this, and it is not something that Chen Linfeng alone, who is optimistic about the party, can reverse.

In fact, on the whole, most readers’ perception of the new book is not as bad as Chen Linfeng had expected.

After being influenced by the literary trends of the past 20 years, many people in China are still able to read serious or literary works.

After all, this is the style of physical published books, and most people are already accustomed to it.

What's more, Chen Linfeng's book was specially adjusted to make it as interesting as possible.

This is also a regrettable point for most people in the literary circle.

Xiao Chen is still trying too hard to please the audience, and there are some points that can be explored in depth.

For example, how did so many drawbacks in future society arise step by step?

Why didn't the government play any role in this process, especially on issues like whether to provide support or not? These things would definitely not happen if it happened abroad.

Of course, overall, they couldn't be more satisfied.

Such a best-selling author who has been deeply involved in popular literature suddenly turned to the exploration of society and institutions, and paid attention to profound humanistic thoughts.

Chinese literature is winning big and is moving in a positive direction.

It’s not that no one is dissatisfied with some of the descriptions in the article.

The book contains some news about Japan and the United States, using some funny words and groundless deductions and guesses.

Shootings are rampant, flour is legalized, sexual minorities...

How could such a thing happen to humanity's beacon and ultimate social form?

However, this small amount of discordant remarks was immediately suppressed.

Our camp is about to have a new general join, so we cannot say things that will undermine our unity at this time.

I can only say that I think too much.

Some left-leaning people are also very satisfied with his work this time. After all, the bad behaviors described in the article are only a small part of the future society he deduced.

In fact, if you look at it more carefully, you will find that the work is full of confidence in the future of China.

The protagonist's company is a mobile game company that mainly targets overseas user groups.

This company is described in the book as a small company that could no longer survive in the domestic market and had to make money abroad.

If you can’t make it in China anymore, you can still go abroad to make money.

Ok……

The protagonist finally resigned in frustration because of endless overtime at the company and a terrible girlfriend.

But after resigning, he can still earn a living by drawing commercial illustrations for others on the Internet.

According to the description in the book, this phenomenon is not an isolated case, and there is a large group of people who rely on the Internet to make a living.

This is the scene that only appears after society has become highly developed.

Such descriptions of China's advanced features occur more than once or twice, and seem to be a common setting in the book. The characters don't care about it, and even the author himself doesn't really care about it.

The most important thing is that the author does not bluntly set China as an advanced country, but reflects it in the details, in the news, online discussions, and topics between people.

What else can I say since Xiao Chen has such expectations for his country? He is clearly my comrade.

So the peculiar thing is that people, both left-leaning and right-leaning, have high opinions of Chen Linfeng’s new book.

(End of this chapter)