If ESO intentionally plays funny games when imitating stars on short video platforms, and everyone still has a playful attitude, then when they officially appear on mainstream variety platforms in the name of shanzhai, they rub the enthusiasm of others and pursue behaviors such as "judging ugliness", infringement and grandstanding, which makes people particularly unhappy. As the netizen said: I am not a fan of EXO and Lu Han, but this "riding on it" ethos really stinks.
Star imitation shows have a long history. Many TV stations have held them before, but they usually explain which star to imitate. This is also a kind of public entertainment. There are also many fake stars, who make money everywhere by their looks and imitation skills, but it is difficult to be elegant after all.
But now, eye-popping star imitation shows are full of short video platforms. Compared with the imitators of the previous generation, many people even have no talent at all. They only rely on makeup and filters to imitate stars, and seek to add powder with the so-called "earthy taste" that is close to the people, catering to the audience's bottomless ugliness and curiosity. When fans accumulate to a certain amount, they begin to seek the mainstream stage. This kind of behavior is tantamount to occupying a nest, which is extremely unfair to many stars who have worked hard to cultivate before their debut.
Of course, some people will say that many idols have no real skills and nothing to delay. This is very unreasonable. Although in the eyes of many people, traffic stars are just lucky and well-funded, to be honest, the entertainment industry is fiercely competitive, and it is really not that easy to become popular. Even the lucky ones like Lu Han, Z.TAO and LAY who got on the "traffic east wind" went through many selections and hard training for their early career. In any case, they should not be used to make fun of and ridicule.
Moreover, it is illegal to mislead the audience, make malicious imitation, highlight or exaggerate the defects of imitators and distort the image of imitators in the name of shanzhai stars without authorization. It's just that many stars care about public opinion and don't want to look too small, so they turn a blind eye. However, the fact that stars don't pursue it doesn't mean that the public can pursue it and publicize it. Otherwise, infringement and grandstanding alone will make you superior. As long as traffic is king, who else will try to be original, just imitate others, increase the heat and be a clown?
The root of "appreciating ugliness" is spiritual emptiness. There are always some empty people in the vast sea of people, which gives these fake stars the illusion that they are "very red" and "can debut". This may be a chronic disease in human society, which is difficult to cure. However, the mainstream communication platform should have a choice, pay attention to value orientation, and call on everyone to respect the law and protect originality. As Yang Di said in his apology: "Hard power should be respected and valuable."
If the recording of the storm of variety shows is a test of public opinion by the capital behind ESO, then everyone's attitude has been fully and clearly expressed: shanzhai is shanzhai, which can't be true, and making a living is not an excuse to vilify others and fool the public. Treating the audience as fools actually exposes their utilitarianism and ignorance. Living in the shadow of others' aura every day, even if fans skyrocket, they will eventually be abandoned and forgotten after losing themselves.
The short video platform should also be sober, and don't add fuel to the fire for this kind of cottage behavior, so that these young people who have been confused by profiteering and touting are intoxicated in the ugly appreciation, taking the cottage as the right path and the heat as a shortcut. Otherwise, they will not only be criticized and reviled by the normal audience, but also bear a heavy blow from supervision and law.