ca-book Chapter 598 It's clearly trash, so what's so terrifying about it?
Chapter 598 It's clearly trash, so what's so terrifying about it?
Huang Zhen could hardly believe the sales figures behind these short dramas.
5 people.
5.6 people.
4.3 people.
13 people.
……
How could so many people have made payments in such a short time?
I shouldn't have guessed right, but this piece of junk has already reached 13 payments.
Moreover, behind these payment transactions, the sales volume of nearly 130 million is extremely eye-catching.
The first batch of 30 short dramas released on Ershixingchen Film and Television Network have already reached over 1000 million in sales.
The key is that this has only been a short time. If this trend continues, the number could increase tenfold.
That's over 100,000,000.
Each film costs an average of over 3 million.
If it were a TV series or a movie, 3 million wouldn't be much; it might not even be enough to hire a lead actor.
However, it's obvious from these short dramas that the actors are all internet celebrities from Ershixingchen, some of whom are not even famous yet.
The plot and filming locations were also very rudimentary.
Of these 30 films, seven or eight are clearly filmed in the same villa.
Therefore, the cost is not expected to be much.
Thinking about this, Huang Zhen was dumbfounded. He never expected that anyone would watch this kind of garbage, let alone that so many people would pay for it.
Something is completely wrong.
Do audiences these days enjoy eating shit?
"Mr. Huang, this number of payments is very strange." The assistant shook his head, completely unable to believe it.
"It's probably just people online joining in the fun, paying out of curiosity. This trend definitely won't continue," Huang Zhen hurriedly said, which was the only possibility he could think of.
Otherwise, how could there be a situation where people are scrambling to buy this kind of garbage?
time flies.
Huang Zhen spent the entire day focusing on the Second Generation Star short drama.
However, he soon discovered that things were not as he had imagined, because the rate of increase in the number of people paying for these short dramas was not decreasing, but rather increasing.
The topic is being discussed online by more and more people, making it increasingly popular.
The number of payments was growing rapidly, and sales were growing at an alarming rate, just as he had predicted.
The next day, the entire internet was stunned, especially people in the film and television industry.
It really increased more than 10 times.
Total sales of 1.4 million.
This is the first batch of 30 short dramas sold in one day and one night by Ershixingchen Film and Television Network.
People in the entire industry felt like they were dreaming, wondering if they had traveled through time.
Just like the content of one of those short dramas, global culinary skills are declining, and I've become a culinary god.
Is this a sign of a global regression in film and television, with audiences now enjoying this kind of trashy plot?
While everyone was wondering what was going on, Chen Jinchen sighed, because the results weren't what he wanted. He'd already spent so much money on attracting traffic and leveraging his current popularity, yet the sales were so low.
This is even lower than the sales of these short dramas in another world.
Fortunately, the data can still grow later.
The main problem is that the short drama market hasn't developed yet. Otherwise, his series would have been incredibly popular in another world, and the viewership would have been even higher.
With the online buzz surrounding the sale of these short dramas, the total payment amount for the 30 dramas quickly reached 2 million yuan.
At this point, Huang Zhen finally couldn't hold back anymore. How could 30 such pieces of junk sell for such a high sales volume?
It's worth noting that 2 million is a box office figure that many movies can't achieve, and 2 million can be used to invest in several TV series.
"It's definitely false advertising," Huang Zhen thought of a possibility.
After all, he's in the film and television industry, and he's built Tencent Pictures to its current level. He's definitely a veteran in the industry, and he absolutely doesn't believe that such garbage could attract so much funding.
The assistant immediately reminded him, "Mr. Huang, if Second Star is engaging in false advertising, then you can report it and have the relevant departments come down to investigate and expose them. That would be embarrassing."
"Great idea!" Huang Zhen's eyes lit up.
This kind of thing is not uncommon. They've had other films and television shows inspected before. Although there wasn't any major damage, it wasn't a good look.
If Second Star is promoting itself like this, and the investigation proves it's false advertising, then these short dramas won't sell for that much money and nobody will watch them. This is enough for Tencent Penguin Pictures.
Once the decision was made, Huang Zhen began to make arrangements, not only by filing a report but also by having people post these messages online.
So, not long after, rumors started circulating online that the "Second Generation Star" short drama was false advertising, that not that many people actually paid for it, and that they were trying to deceive people into watching it.
This is fraudulent advertising.
Given this trend, the relevant departments naturally could not ignore it, so they immediately responded by forming an investigation team to investigate the Second Star.
This excited Huang Zhen and the directors, screenwriters, and actors in the film and television industry, all hoping that Er Shi Xing Chen would stumble.
However, to everyone's surprise, Ershixingchen issued a notice welcoming relevant departments to come and inspect, and stated that it would actively cooperate.
This confident attitude surprised Huang Zhen and his group. How could they be so confident at this point? Were the payment amounts still real?
That's impossible.
The relevant team quickly arrived in Linhai City and entered the Second Star Company to conduct an investigation.
This attracted everyone's attention, and soon after, the relevant departments released the review results, confirming that the sales data of the short dramas on Ershixingchen Film and Television Network were genuine and there was no false advertising.
This news infuriated Huang Zhen and his associates to the point of wanting to vomit blood.
I simply can't believe this is the outcome.
Some directors and screenwriters even directly cursed on Weibo: "The people working nowadays are all idiots and morons. Those who pay to buy short dramas are all idiots. No wonder no one watches our carefully prepared TV series. The audience's standards are so low these days."
This attack went too far, including all those who subscribe to short dramas.
This is intolerable. Many people directly attacked these people's Weibo accounts, and some even started criticizing them. Many people analyzed the dramas directed and written by these directors and screenwriters, criticizing them frame by frame.
There must be a reason why no one watches these people's shows; either they're terrible or they're too melodramatic.
Anyway, I got criticized in the end, and I lost all motivation, so I turned off the comment function.
At this crucial moment, it seemed as if the Second Star Studio was doing it on purpose, as they released data on the cost and filming schedule of the Second Star Studio short drama.
Then, an earthquake struck the entire industry.
No one could believe what terrifying thing Chen Jincheng had come up with; the plot was so rubbish... (End of Chapter)