Chapter 41: The Elves Appear
(Book friend group: 460719545, everyone joins the group to be lively together)
Los Angeles & Hollywood (LAH), the largest local public forum, is one of the most influential city pages in Los Angeles, filled with Reuters and gossip from Hollywood stars, attracting the attention of netizens from all over the United States.
Jenny, who works in the service department of a retail company, is the administrator of the "LAH" social anecdote section, and the forum is not profitable, so the administrators are all unpaid part-time, and Jenny can sneak up to see the situation during working hours because of the nature of her work.
Jenny glanced at the new posts on the board, for posts involving racial discrimination, murder, drugs and other taboo remarks, she has the right to delete, of course, that's all, the United States is a place that values freedom of speech, although you say it and no one will necessarily listen, even if the superior speaks of the voter as God, but when they get the position they want, will they practice those sweet words, then it may be uncertain.
She only swept it through last night, and now there aren't too many new posts, and the social anecdote section is not as lively as the Hollywood stars section, and the administrator there is also the head of the forum, which is a position with interests involved.
"Don't be funny, the New Zealanders say they have elves there."
Jenny was amused and clicked in to see the contents. The poster is obviously a seasoned Internet person who knows how to make his point with interesting and cave remarks.
The post begins with an introduction to the elves as a creature, and then describes the recent elven events in New Zealand in the most sarcastic and bitter terms, almost almost directly referring to the stupid birds in New Zealand.
After Jenny finished reading it, she couldn't help but reply to the first floor: maybe they really saw it, it wasn't necessarily an elf, maybe some kind of primate.
Primate? You're saying they see hairy monkeys as elves? It's even more ridiculous.
Soon someone replied to Jenny.
Jenny was speechless.
This post has become the hottest post of LAH all morning, and even the rumor that Drew Barrymore is suspected of being addicted to drugs again has been suppressed by this rumor.
The people were divided into several groups, and those who believed in supernatural powers were convinced of this, insisting that the description of the events of the elves was very clear, and that the dense discovery of many people did not conform to the conventions of creating mysteries. Secondly, New Zealand is full of woodlands and grasslands, which is one of the favorite living environments of elves, and even if elves appear, it is understandable. And the so-called elf is a name given by human beings, maybe it is just a humanoid creature, people have not yet recognized, hastily denying and ridiculing, it is like a clown performing.
This wave is a very small minority, although many people in the United States have faith in God or some other deity. But people who grew up with a scientific education find it hard to believe that there is a species of elves in the world - intelligence and beauty coexist, and even natural skills.
Most people will be skeptical - they are keen to find loopholes in the poster's material and bring it up, hoping that someone else will prove the rumor for themselves.
A small group of people insisted that this was a farce, including some racial elements.
The discussion quickly heated up, and many people reposted the post on public forums, blogs and personal pages in other cities, and rumors of the New Zealand Genie incident began to ferment in the United States.
When Jenny returned home in the evening and turned on the computer, Channing, the head of LAH, sent her a message using the forum mailbox.
Channing asked her to pay attention to deal with a little radical remarks, in fact, as long as it is not an obvious violation, she can't do anything, which is why Channing himself does not deal with it, he has the right to delete the entire forum, but these cannot be abused, once you deal with things unfairly, it is very likely that both sides of the argument will start to criticize you - the so-called I can disagree with your opinion, but I swear to defend your right to speak, which is a rule that must be flaunted for these keyboard warriors on the Internet.
Jenny replied to him with a message, indicating that she would keep an eye on him.
The words of the American people circulating on discussion boards were quickly reposted on New Zealand websites.
The war of words between the two countries started immediately, but the United States is a big country, and the number of netizens is much larger than that of the whole of New Zealand. New Zealand is clearly a failure, and even though some Americans have helped them, New Zealand netizens are still mad.
The photos of the elves that were taken were reprinted, and the people who saw them with their own eyes were also convincing.
Newspapers and periodicals also began to report on it in their social sections, and news of supernatural powers was very popular in every corner of the world, and people were always interested in these things.
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Fred flipped through the pages and enjoyed his results.
Then he dialed out and said, "Kusa, I think it's time." ”
Kusa answered, and began to use his connections to push the Genie affair into more print media, and in fact, as Daniel's newsworthiness grew, and it is conceivable that it will continue unabated over the next two years, Cusa's network spread to many places. This is somewhat similar to Philip's situation after Matt Damon and Affleck won the Oscars, where agents often used Guò's clients to extend their power when they were not well known, and when that power was strong enough, agents became important figures in the circle - such as Tracy Jacobs, or Brian Rohdes, who had good friends Brad Pitt and George Clooney.
Daniel was Cusa's first newsworthy star, because Cussa was still trying to expand his network, and now some medium-sized and even large media outlets were willing to give him a little bit of thin face - they demanded that Daniel be paid enough for his subsequent promotional trip, not money, but news.
The Los Angeles Times has already enjoyed several exclusivity treatments, such as Daniel's first interview, and this one for the response.
After the media hyped up the New Zealand elf incident, many Americans began to wonder about what happened in New Zealand, a small Pacific nation.
The Los Angeles Times published another piece of news with a "discerning" eye, and an entire page of the entertainment section was devoted to the Elf incident, and the editors sorted out the entire context of the event, and then wrote out the location shooting route for the crew of The Lord of the Rings - it was obvious that all the places where the elves were claimed to have been found were in the dozens of locations, although only a few, but without exception.
The Times had taken Daniel's make-up photos from Francis, and this time they took them out again and compared them to the image of the elf taken in Entslow.
There is no doubt that the truth is revealed.
New Zealand was laughed at at this time - he actually took an actor who ran out of the crew as an elf.