As the first actor of the new generation in Hollywood today, Lan Li Hall's super popularity is undoubted, from the sales of "Don Quixote" to the box office of "Edge of Tomorrow", and then to the hot discussion after "Hypegate", the peak status of this top superstar can be felt in all aspects.

However, all this is just a general vague impression, everyone knows this, but it has never been able to be concrete, quantified and realized, until today, I have witnessed the history of Lan Li.

On Twitter, he is the person who has the shortest time to surpass 10 million followers, and on Instagram, it takes the shortest time to surpass 5 million followers and 10 million likes. A set of numbers, presented concretely through social networking platforms, really gives people a sense of the crazy super popularity, and these numbers continue to soar rapidly.

Lan Li, who has always shown a mysterious and low-key image, has almost no superfluous news outside the work, and this time it appeared on the social network platform, which undoubtedly ignited the enthusiasm of all netizens. According to the statistics of Twitter's official website, in just 72 hours, there were 300,000 tweets asking questions, setting a new record for Twitter.

It's not just amazing, it's terrifying, it's unparalleled.

However, such a momentum, such a momentum, and such a posture have not been able to further detonate the enthusiasm of the news media and further spark the discussion of ordinary audiences, because there is something more worthy of discussion in this wave, that is, the "ice bucket challenge".

After the Ice Bucket Challenge, launched by Blue Rite, which went viral through Paul Walker, Ryan Gosling, Jake Gyllenhaal and the crew of Edge of Tomorrow, Blue Lane's industry connections were revealed to all the public for the first time:

Starting with Scarlett Johansson, the actors of the Marvel series of films actively participated, with Jennifer Lawrence as the starting point, the young actors of the "Hunger Games" series also joined the challenge, and the actors of the comedy circle such as Alan DeJanis, Jay Reno, Kristen Wiig, and Rose Byrne spontaneously began to promote it.

Subsequently, following Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran also took the initiative to help promote it on Twitter, and after being named, he completed the challenge as soon as possible, leaving no effort to call on more viewers to join this ice bucket challenge. The addition of these two super popular singers tore the barrier between actors and singers, and really opened the key to social networks.

Interestingly, in addition to the actors and singers, directors such as Paul Greengrass, Tony Kaye, Steven Spielberg and others have also retweeted Lanli's tweet about the Ice Bucket Challenge for a more widespread promotion.

Even Alfonso Cuarón, who has always been low-key, retweeted the tweet, but in the vigorous news wave, no one noticed the incident, and no one further questioned why Alfonso, who had never cooperated, also retweeted Lan Li's tweet, thus missing the opportunity to dig up the news in advance.

It wasn't until later, when Warner Bros. officially released an official article confirming that Lan Li would join the filming of "Gravity", that people reacted at this time, and found Alfonso's previous tweet about the ice bucket challenge, babbling that the matter had already been clued.

In just one week, the Ice Bucket Challenge has spread across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other major social media platforms, surpassing the "Avengers" and "Edge of Tomorrow", surpassing the hype of "Today Show", and the ongoing London Olympics, becoming the biggest annual hot topic since 2012.

From TV to print media to radio and the emerging online media, all eyes were focused on the Ice Bucket Challenge, and it broke away from the entertainment industry and began to spread rapidly to other fields, truly forming a viral spread.

The first to join the ice bucket challenge was the sports industry, as the saying goes, "sports are not separated", and it is also true, first rugby, then basketball, then ice hockey, swimming, football, etc., those professional sports players who are in full swing have actively expressed their support with practical actions.

This year happens to be an Olympic year, London is hosting the quadrennial Olympic Games, and the level of activity and attention of athletes is unusual. Coincidentally, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a condition that gradually leads to the loss of athletic and life skills, which forms an intertextuality with the way athletes use their bodies and minds to compete, which also makes the athletes' ice bucket challenge more realistic.

As a result, all sorts of ice bucket challenges began to spread, detonating all the spotlight from all sides.

When someone first named then-President Barak *****, things began to stop the car.

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim-Cook and other CEOs showed up to complete the Ice Bucket Challenge, and the wave spread throughout Silicon Valley and further to the general population of Wall Street, universities, blue-collar workers, office white-collar workers, and civil servants.

Out of control.

The whole vigorous wave was so strong that the entire North American continent was completely ablaze, as if the scorching flames were burning with the naked eye. In this incredible heat wave, Lan Li, as the initiator, took a back seat and became an insignificant part of the huge social wave, which once again made people feel the unchanging truth:

A spark can start a prairie fire.

In fact, it's a good thing for Lan Li. The focus shifted to focus on the West End and to continue to hone herself.

Now, this prairie fire is leaving North America and crossing the Atlantic, with Britain as a bridgehead, lighting up throughout Europe, and at the same time across the Pacific Ocean, with China, South Korea, and Japan as the center, causing ripples in a circle, and the whole of Asia is beginning to feel the trend.

Even Australia and New Zealand in the southern hemisphere are no exception.

In just two weeks, the Ice Bucket Challenge has dominated the summer, stealing all the topics and becoming one of the most successful charity events ever, "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis", the name "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis", which has truly entered the lives of ordinary people with the Ice Bucket Challenge, no longer strange and no longer alienated.

Although the Ice Bucket Challenge began to cause a lot of controversy, many people questioned the original intention of this event, but now it has gone off the rails and gradually become a gimmick and topic for celebrities to hype themselves, but it has lost the original intention of charity, and the hype has become more significant than the public welfare.

However, no one can deny that this event has achieved incredible results, bringing the characteristics of the Internet age to the extreme, and then giving a lot of inspiration to all walks of life, which is an event with social reality significance, and even completely subverts people's perception of social networking platforms.

As the initiating organization of the event, the Heather Cross Foundation publishes real-time data on its official Twitter every day, including the number of participants in the event, the activity on major social media platforms, the number of charitable donations, etc., to transparently and directly present the results of the event.

This has further pushed the craze of the ice bucket challenge to the extreme, calling on and stimulating more and more ordinary people to participate in it, and those patients who are suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis have also joined in with practical actions, completed their own ice bucket challenge, and uploaded the video to the tubing, showing people the original appearance of this disease in life in an all-round attitude.

The social significance of such charitable activities has gradually become different.

One week, two weeks...... A month, in the blink of an eye, a month of time flew by.

In real life, a month, not too long, but not too short, the performance of "Les Miserables" in London's West End has officially come to an end.

The show lasted 93 days, with 468 hours and 78 performances at a single venue at the Almeida Theatre, attracting more than 43,000 attendees, all tickets sold out, setting a new record since the turn of the millennium, and truly 100% attendance.

What's even more rare is that after each performance, Lan Li appeared at the back door, completed the autograph and group photo, and truly established its own fame and reputation in London's West End.

The Almeida Theatre has officially confirmed that the recording of the Blue Rite version of "Les Miserables" has been completed and will be broadcast on BBC television this year's Christmas schedule. At that time, the audience who missed the live viewing can sit in front of the TV and enjoy this drama with zero negative reviews.

In just one month, the midsummer is moving towards the end of summer, and the appearance of the world is completing its transformation little by little, but on the Internet, it seems that it has gone through a whole century, the vicissitudes of life, the earth, and completely transformed into another appearance, and the ice bucket challenge is now gradually coming to an end after a "century" of boiling and boiling.

The voices from Lanli, from the patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and from the disadvantaged groups have really spread and listened to the ears, and the effect has increased by a hundredfold or a thousand times compared to the event of "Today Show".

Riding on the tail of this turbulent wave, Lan Li left London and returned to New York, about to take the stage on Broadway, performing John Cod's version of "Les Miserables" on the North American continent, and being tested by North American audiences, but when arriving at JFK, you don't need to walk to the reception hall to feel the completely different atmosphere.