This star is going to the moon

Chapter 487 The entertainment industry continues to exert its influence; online streamers evade billions in taxes—enough to build countless rockets!

[Great news! Finally, Chinese animated films aren't just about Sun Wukong and Nezha!]

Yes, "The Lion Boys" is the true root of our traditional culture!

Lion dancing is the essence of traditional culture, and "Lion Boys" is a fantastic film!

[We should make more animated films like "Lion Boy" in the future; this is how the domestic film market can develop!]

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What the heck? Are we watching the same "Lion Boy" movie?

[Yeah, with that awful plot, is it even written by a human?]

Wow, you actually went to read the plot? I saw the poster and the main character is ugly and has squinty eyes, so I definitely won't watch it!

[It was absolutely the right decision not to watch it. I felt like my eyes were going blind halfway through, but I'd already paid for it, so I had no choice but to finish it...]

【What do you mean? Do you really like watching anime characters with those cookie-cutter faces that much? You say "Lion Boy" has squinty eyes and Down syndrome, but the people around you look like that!】

[Exactly, this is high-level aesthetics. "Lion Boys" even won awards at international film festivals, and the organizers praised the main cast's faces for fitting their aesthetic standards—very sophisticated!]

[High-class my foot! This is just something foreigners use to insult you, and you're actually happy about it, thinking they're praising you?]

Okay, okay, you think it's high-class? Then I wish your whole family grows up to be like the main characters in "Lion Boys"!

[Let's have a proper discussion. Why are you swearing? Your whole family looks like that! Your whole family looks like that!]

Hahaha, so you do know what beauty and ugliness are, and what insult is? Then what are you pretending for...?

The controversy surrounding "The Young Lions" didn't arise out of nowhere; it's mainly because this is one of the common tactics used by foreign countries to insult China in recent years.

If you have squinty eyes, fine; if you have upturned eyes, that's fine too. But you can have "upturned squinty eyes"!
Just like when you turn a car, you can turn left or right.

As a result, you chose "or" and just rammed it into the utility pole!
"Slanted eyes and squinty-eyed eyes" is one of the signs of foreign insults against China, and people are actually eager to do it.

It can only be said that some self-righteous so-called cultural workers and artists are truly beyond redemption.

This is the hardest thing for many netizens in the south, because the lion dance performed by the main characters in "Lion Boys" is from their region.

Even disregarding the main characters' appearances, the plot logic of the lion dance is simply...

史！
What's even more difficult to accept is that this terrible movie was wrapped in a veneer of "promoting traditional culture," and the local government supported it without any regard for the consequences, even promoting it vigorously after its release.

The propaganda department is really something...

Fortunately, another film, "Sheep Without a Shepherd 2," was released at the same time. It starred Xiao Yang, whose acting skills were getting better and better, and more people chose to watch this movie.

With the matter causing such a stir, Lu Yun, an "outsider" in the entertainment industry, naturally took notice as well.

Compared to the netizens' anxiety, he was much more at ease, after all, he had seen it in his past life.

In the end, "Sheep Without a Shepherd 2" easily surpassed 10 billion yuan at the box office, while "Lion Boys" grossed over 2 million yuan.

That's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that some fans of "Lion" emphasize that the movie is popular with audiences and that making more than 200 million at the box office is a huge profit.

As a result, after the release of the second film, the audience's "popularity" dropped by two-thirds, and it couldn't even retain its so-called "base" audience, only earning tens of millions of yuan at the box office.

It's clear that many viewers were tricked into going to the cinema after the first film grossed over 200 million yuan, only to realize they'd been fooled after buying their tickets, and naturally wouldn't go to see the second one.

The film's producers weren't giving up. When the film was only grossing tens of thousands of yuan a day, they postponed it for several months, hoping to grind the box office to over 100 million yuan.

The result was still not satisfactory.

However, that didn't stop its fans from demanding a delay when "Ne Zha 2" still had tens of millions in box office revenue, and then complaining in the comments section.

I've never seen a movie delayed for six months. They'll do anything for box office revenue. You might as well just delay it for a year.

[Idiot, go look at how long Avatar's release was delayed and how many times it was re-released!]

Things are different now; netizens aren't so easily fooled anymore.

Previously, online public opinion was almost always one-sided, but now netizens can form groups to fight back. They can also post the truth, influencing more people and preventing others from being misled.

In this life, things are even better. Thanks to Lu Yun's efforts, the box office and ratings of the good movies have improved, breaking various records. Movie fans have seen it all before.

With Lu Yun as a role model, the contrast is stark, causing many idol stars to tone down their behavior considerably.

Those who are motivated should study hard to enrich themselves, while those who are not should shut up and stop talking nonsense.

Of course, there were still plenty of surprises.

But it's slightly better than the previous life.

Then... the livestreaming hosts who were selling products went bust.

The most famous one is Weiya, who was found to have evaded nearly 6.5 million yuan in taxes as the top live-streaming e-commerce host!
Then the amount of confiscated funds and fines approached 14 billion!
He was subsequently stripped of his title as "Ambassador for Internet Integrity Promotion".

Yes, she used to be an "Ambassador for Online Integrity Promotion".

The connection between the beginning and the end is a bit too comical...

[Just checked, the account has been banned.]

Wow, I only knew that celebrities made a lot of money, but these live-streaming e-commerce hosts make just as much!

Exactly! They evaded over 6 million in taxes alone. How much money did they actually get in their pockets?!

It must be at least several billion, right?

[This is just one streamer; I saw the published list, there are dozens of people, and together they evaded billions in taxes!]

These people earn so much money and still evade taxes; they should be shot!

Yes, if they flee with billions, how many rockets could the country build with that much money!

To put it simply, the Long March 5 rocket cost only a few hundred million yuan, while the Chang'e 5 lunar sample return mission only cost 3 billion yuan in total. This includes the investment in rocket launch, tracking and control, and the probe itself.

[Hey, I don't really understand anything else, but when you tell me we can collect lunar soil from the moon and bring it back, I suddenly get the hang of it!]

If that's the case, then the taxes evaded by these livestreaming e-commerce hosts alone are enough to cover a small portion of the funding for a manned lunar landing project?

[Damn it, this isn't just simple tax evasion; it's impacting the nation's space strategy!]

[Back in the day, Old Bear died because he lost the space race!]

[Hiss—I support executing these tax evaders!]

Although Lao Xiong didn't die for this reason, or at least not entirely, I still support the execution of these tax-evading livestreaming hosts.

Why can't these people learn from Lu Yun?

[Obviously not. If everyone with the ability were to emulate Lu Yun, our country would have been number one in the world long ago, and humanity would have already ventured beyond the solar system. But looking at the current situation, it's clear that there are far too few "Lu Yuns" and far too many people like him.]

On the bright side, at least we have Lu Yun now!

Yes, at least we now have Lu Yun, which has not only made us number one in the world in manned spaceflight, but also allowed us to keep pace with the US in the manned lunar landing program!

What started as a news story about tax evasion has now shifted to focus on Lu Yun.

There's no way around it, it's that time of year again for year-end reviews.

At such times, Lu Yun's figure would appear in various places.

In particular, this year the country launched the "legendary mission" of manned lunar landing!
Lu Yun is the backbone of this mission; no one can do without him.

Of course, the entertainment industry can't do without him either; many platforms need to ride his coattails to boost their own prestige.

For example, this year's Golden Rooster Awards sincerely invited the crew of "The Wandering Earth 2" to hold a press conference on-site to introduce the film's release during the Spring Festival!

"Mr. Lu Yun, please make sure you attend!"

(End of this chapter)