So two of SM's (former) idols helped destroy kpop in China
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Changes and new regulations were in action before Lucas' scandal. He ain't that popular or powerful in China, bro. lol
Edit: Actually, these regulations were being talked about EVEN before Kris Wu's scandal. He was prolly the final straw.
"The measure on Friday was the culmination of a two-month-long campaign that has been gaining pace since June to “rectify” celebrity fan culture, leading to the purging of 150,000 “harmful messages” and over 5,000 accounts and groups it said were rule-breakers.
It also came amid a growing number of celebrity scandals rocking the country.
Police last month arrested Canadian-Chinese pop star, Kris Wu following rape allegations. His fan groups leaped to his defense on social media. Most of these fan accounts, along with Wu’s online accounts, were later shut down.
Earlier this week, the name and details of billionaire actress Vicki Zhao Wei, brand ambassador for Italian fashion company Fendi in China, vanished from the works she starred in for unspecified reasons. Another actor, Zhang Zhehan, also recently got de-platformed after a three-year-old photo of him posing at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo resurfaced online.
The regime’s escalating crackdown on entertainers and fan culture has sent a chill through the country’s “idol economy,” which is projected to be worth 140 billion yuan ($21.6 billion) by estimates from Chinese streaming platform iQiyi.
Mango Excellent Media, a state-backed multimedia firm in south-central China, saw its stock value dropping by 14 percent at one point on Friday in what some Chinese media described as an aftershock from the “entertainment circle earthquake.”
Dozens of actors have rushed to issue statements expressing their support for the regulator’s campaign, a gesture that has become commonplace in China as companies and artists seek to avoid being caught in Beijing’s crosshairs in its widening crackdown on the private sector.
A day ahead of the Chinese regulator’s announcement, iQiyi, a Netflix-like platform, halted popular “idol competition” programs that allowed viewers to vote for contestants by purchasing products."
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i dont wanna start a fanwar but..
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Changes and new regulations were in action before Lucas' scandal. He ain't that popular or powerful in China, bro. lol
"The measure on Friday was the culmination of a two-month-long campaign that has been gaining pace since June to “rectify” celebrity fan culture, leading to the purging of 150,000 “harmful messages” and over 5,000 accounts and groups it said were rule-breakers.
It also came amid a growing number of celebrity scandals rocking the country.
Police last month arrested Canadian-Chinese pop star, Kris Wu following rape allegations. His fan groups leaped to his defense on social media. Most of these fan accounts, along with Wu’s online accounts, were later shut down.
Earlier this week, the name and details of billionaire actress Vicki Zhao Wei, brand ambassador for Italian fashion company Fendi in China, vanished from the works she starred in for unspecified reasons. Another actor, Zhang Zhehan, also recently got de-platformed after a three-year-old photo of him posing at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo resurfaced online.
The regime’s escalating crackdown on entertainers and fan culture has sent a chill through the country’s “idol economy,” which is projected to be worth 140 billion yuan ($21.6 billion) by estimates from Chinese streaming platform iQiyi.
Mango Excellent Media, a state-backed multimedia firm in south-central China, saw its stock value dropping by 14 percent at one point on Friday in what some Chinese media described as an aftershock from the “entertainment circle earthquake.”
Dozens of actors have rushed to issue statements expressing their support for the regulator’s campaign, a gesture that has become commonplace in China as companies and artists seek to avoid being caught in Beijing’s crosshairs in its widening crackdown on the private sector.
A day ahead of the Chinese regulator’s announcement, iQiyi, a Netflix-like platform, halted popular “idol competition” programs that allowed viewers to vote for contestants by purchasing products."
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SM is the root of all evil
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