It only took a year for the word "little fresh meat" to go from praise to derogatory abuse, which is almost a miracle of the efficiency of language evolution without major historical events, and our cultural world is like a speeding meat grinder, quickly devouring everything and tearing everything apart.

Young people who are crazy about pursuing idols will one day calm down, and the "smart people" who are crazy about idols seem to be forever full of anger, even if Xiao Xianrou retreats, there will be a new phenomenon rising, which can be summed up as a simple feedback -

What I am dissatisfied with, what contradicts my worldview - I will scold.

This is normal, even correct.

In "What to Do If I'm Too Popular", I define an argument titled "My favorite star is getting more and more popular, should I hack him?" The protagonist supports this phenomenon, which he interprets as cultural competition, where everyone has the right to add a hand to their own culture to strengthen themselves and attack their opponents, which is a brutal and efficient way to survive like war.

Such a narrative is inevitably redundant, but fortunately, there are many masters, and a master interprets everything more quintically-

[Every money you pay is an investment in the life you want. 】

Or to put it in numbers, that is-

[If a businessman wants to make more money, he must meet the needs of more people. 】

Under the influence of each other, the world has become what it is today, and the evolution has never stopped and continues.

With the help of high-tech, high-leverage, highly commercialized, and dazzling financial products, in today's world, any new burst of public demand can be fully satisfied, or even excessively satisfied, in a very short period of time, and the most typical example is undoubtedly shared bicycles or XX ride-hailing.

According to this thinking, "Little Fresh Meat" is undoubtedly also a typical, and the market and traffic have a huge demand for it, especially when the "movie box office business" and "video playback business" are rising, the traffic they have is like an artifact in the game, and the value against the sky is enough to crush all living beings.

It is only natural that businessmen will pursue it and use capital to increase traffic (exposure) and increase value.

That's right, naturally.

But the amazing thing is that there are not many people who really smooth it out of such a logical thing.

More often, more people just rely on their instinctive disgust to abuse "little fresh meat", and then find moral reasons, such as "ruining the film industry", "the world is declining", "bringing bad children" and other reasons, and put hats on them.

In this way, are the people who abuse and boycott Xiao Xianrou fall into some kind of irrational and instinctive paranoia like the young people who are crazy about their idols?

Of course, those who abuse Xiao Xianrou can always find all kinds of reasons to support the righteousness of their actions, just as the United States always has a reason to drop missiles in the Middle East.

What this article is going to say is that most of the seemingly correct reasons for the abuse are not supported by sufficient logic and science, but simply link the phenomenon to the result.

For example, there is an apple tree in a person's yard, and he finds that the apples are red during the day and light blue at night (because of the moonlight, maybe not blue is purple, it doesn't matter, it's enough not to be red), so he "raises" a proposition -

[Apples are red during the day and blue at night!]

Subjectively, he was not wrong, in his eyes, the apple was indeed red during the day and blue at night, although it seemed a bit absurd, but in his eyes it was true.

Objectively, there is no change in the color of the apple, just because the "light" is different during the day and at night, and shining on the apple and reflecting it to humans will lead to a deviation in human vision.

Another example, a person wants to watch a movie, but finds that all the leading actors are small fresh meat with no strength and content, and the overall quality of the movie is getting worse and worse, even less than the level of more than ten years ago, he is angry and sighs -

[These little fresh meat have ruined my country's film industry!!]

In the same way, this is true in his eyes, because these little fresh meat and the team behind them really have no ability, or do not intend to make excellent movies, such people are flooded in the film industry, causing today's evil consequences.

The above logic does not seem absurd at all, not only that, but this is actually the logic of most people who criticize Xiao Xianrou today.

But please calm down a little and compare it with the previous proposition a little -

[Apples are red during the day and blue at night.] 】

[Red and Blue] were compared by [Day and Night].

[Little fresh meat ruined my country's film industry!!]

Through the comparison of [past and present], it is revealed that [little fresh meat ruined everything]!

The reason why the proposition "apple" is ridiculous is because each of us knows that the color of the apple does not change, and that person made a stupid mistake.

The reason why [Little Fresh Meat] is not ridiculous is because most of us don't know much about the science and logic behind it, and what's even more terrifying is that there are too many people who support the proposition that [Little Fresh Meat Ruined the Movie], once the consensus is generated, it will be "self-evident", and anyone who tries to overthrow it will inevitably be attacked by the group.

We might as well calm down and change the scene.

If it was in the primitive world, I think our ancestors had reason to think that "apples are red by day and blue by night" was correct, and there was a considerable degree of consensus, and if you tried to explain to them the concepts of "color", "light and reflection", and "daylight and moonlight", you would be the unreasonable.

But if one of our ancestors, for the time being, was willing to take a moment to listen to your explanation, he might find that the world was so different that we can't argue how this will affect his future, but at least it proves that he pursued wisdom.

So let's get started, forget your position first, out of body, let's take a closer look at the little fresh meat and the glory of the king.

By the way, Xiao Xianrou and the glory of kings are basically the same thing, so almost anywhere in the whole article, you can replace "Little Fresh Meat" with "Glory of Kings", or even "web games", "Wang Yifan" and any other cultural products you hate, but they are popular, and similarly, they can also "destroy" any industry corresponding to them, such as "games", "music", "art", "literature" and so on.

We're not going to talk about apples during the day and night, but about optical reflections.