Chapter 152 A rare unity of left and right concepts
It is now 2005, and local satellite TV stations have achieved considerable development.
The number of households that can receive satellite TV signals has increased. Correspondingly, the audience of satellite TV stations has increased a lot compared with previous years.
As a result, advertising revenue has increased, investment has increased, and program quality has improved, entering a positive cycle.
In terms of TV drama ratings, they may still be slightly behind, but variety shows are catching up.
Every major TV station now launches its own variety shows.
For example, Southeast Channel's "Happy 100" and Mango Channel's "Happy Camp" have a large audience across the country.
Before 2000, Chen Linfeng participated in the promotion of "Journey to the West", mostly through newspaper media.
In terms of TV publicity, we only appeared on a few programs on Yanjing TV, and the effect was slightly better than none.
It’s different now.
Before a TV series is broadcast, powerful producers often let the actors in the TV series participate in popular variety shows on several satellite TV stations.
This is the case for "Lotus Lantern" this time.
In Chen Linfeng's view, today's variety shows have a somewhat ancient flavor.
Not only are the venue and stage decorations relatively simple, but the format of the program is also based on dialogue and communication.
Celebrity guests participating in the show often show off their talents at the beginning, and then the host starts to praise the guests.
But the audience still enjoyed watching it, and they were very satisfied to see the moving stars.
Originally, Happy Camp was also a good program choice during this period.
However, just this month, Happy Camp is getting busy.
The early version hosted by He Jiong, Xie Na and Wei Jia can no longer be maintained.
So Mango Channel held a canvassing session, where the audience decided who of the three hosts would stay.
Not surprisingly, He Jiong received the highest number of votes.
After canvassing for votes, Mango Channel held a thank-you concert. The show was so sensational that it almost made people think that they were really leaving.
The next time is now.
Mango Channel is organizing auditions to select new anchors, aiming to select new hosts.
Then we all know what happens next.
These three people cried on the spot as if they were saying goodbye, and as a result, no one was missing. In 2006, two more people were added to form a classic 5-person group for later generations.
It is simply a reward for weird behavior.
Thanks to the good temper of the audience at this time, otherwise in the era of mobile Internet, the program team would have been destroyed.
In variety shows, when promoting TV series, Chen Linfeng will also promote his new book "She".
This was discussed with the program team and crew in advance.
In fact, the new book is already on sale.
For the promotion strategy of the new book, the main thing is to lower expectations.
Make it clear in advance on the Internet and in newspapers and media that this new book is not like the previous style, but more about the author's thinking about future society.
To use movies as an example, this work is not a commercial film, but more of an artistic film.
Some readers like Chen Linfeng's books because they like his writing style with novel stories and compact plots.
Now that I hear such propaganda from the publishing house, I will naturally have doubts.
So after the new book was released, the sales volume was obviously not as hot as before.
But precisely because they lowered their expectations, those readers who thought they would see boring or obscure content found the new book to be quite good.
At least the process of chatting between the male protagonist and artificial intelligence is quite interesting, and the description of future society is also very fresh.
Some people on the Internet are wondering what this chatGPT is, and whether drawing, writing, etc. can all be done by computers in the future.
There are also some people who are discussing whether China in the future can really reach the level written in the book. The conclusion is naturally impossible.
It will take at least 20 years for Hua Guolian to achieve the level of technological and social development like Neon.
Xiao Chen is still too simple, and sometimes a little naive.
The situation on the Internet is such that it cannot be reversed by Chen Linfeng, who is optimistic about the party alone.
In fact, on the whole, most readers' perception of the new book is not as bad as Chen Linfeng expected.
After experiencing the influence of literary trends for more than 20 years, many people in China can still appreciate serious or literary works.
After all, the style of physical publishing is what most people have long been accustomed to.
What's more, Chen Linfeng's book has been specially adjusted to make it as interesting as possible.
This is also a pity for most people in the literary circle.
Xiao Chen is still too much to please the audience, and there are some points that can be dug deeper.
For example, how will so many shortcomings in future society be formed step by step?
Why did the ZF not play any role in this process, especially on issues like whether to provide support or not? Such things would certainly not have happened abroad.
Of course, overall, they couldn't be more satisfied.
Such a best-selling writer who is deeply involved in popular literature suddenly turns to the discussion of society and system, as well as profound humanistic thoughts.
China's literature has won a great deal and is getting better.
It is not that no one is dissatisfied with some of the descriptions in the article.
The news about neon and beautiful countries in the book uses some funny words and unwarranted deductions and conjectures.
Rapid shootings, legalized flour, sexual minorities...
How could such a thing happen to the beacon of humanity and the ultimate social form?
However, this small amount of discordant remarks were immediately suppressed.
Seeing that a general is about to join our camp, we cannot say these words that affect unity at this time.
I can only say that I think a little too much.
Some people on the left are also very satisfied with his work this time. Some of the bad behaviors described in the article are, after all, only a small part of the future society he deduced.
In fact, if you look more closely, you can find that the work is full of confidence in the future of China.
The company where the protagonist works is a mobile game company, which mainly targets overseas user groups.
The description of this company in the book is that it is a small company that cannot survive in China and can only make money abroad.
I can no longer survive at home, but I can still make money abroad.
Hmm...
The protagonist finally resigned out of frustration because of endless overtime work in the company and the encounter with a terrible girlfriend.
But after resigning, you can also earn living expenses by drawing business diagrams for people on the Internet.
The description in the book shows that this phenomenon is not an isolated case. There is a large group of people who rely on the Internet for their lives.
This is a scene that only occurs after society is highly developed.
This description of China's advanced places is not just one or two. It seems to be a common setting in the book. The characters don't care, and even the author himself doesn't care much.
The most important thing is that the author does not give China a rigid setting of an advanced country, but reflects it in the details, in news, online discussions, and topics between people.
Xiao Chen can have such expectations for his own country. What else is there to say? He is clearly his comrade.
So what is very strange is that both left-leaning and right-leaning people have high evaluations of Chen Linfeng’s new book.
(End of this chapter)