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Actually, I'm very ashamed, if it weren't for this incident last night, I found that I might not have entered the homepage of the Evil Society for half a year. But whether it's a coincidence or not, anyway, when I opened the Weibo post of ACFun founder Simon, it was less than eight minutes before he sent that message, so I was probably one of the first people on the planet to know about it. At about eleven o'clock last night, when everyone was about to fall asleep, Simon released a message:

Due to disagreement with the investor's philosophy, I will leave AcFun from now on. No one loves this site more than I do.

Aside from a brief statement, none of us knew what was going on. And before that, he also posted an exclamatory microblog, but it didn't attract enough attention before.

There will never be a shortage of "IT businessmen" in the Internet circle who take advantage of information asymmetry to play speculative games.

At about one o'clock in the middle of the night, that is, when I was already asleep, ACFun's official Weibo posted a note:

The main station account Mu JJ's monkey Simon, Weibo account@AcFun Simon are acfun's external contact and speaking accounts. The owner of the account in question left the company for personal reasons and made negative remarks with personal feelings. Here's a clarification,After that, any remarks and behaviors on this account have nothing to do with AcFun.,Acting webmaster position and external liaison and cooperation matters,Taken over by @chenyin nai nai micro の博 account。

That is to say, from now on, Simon's account will no longer be the right to interpret some of ACFun's official functions. took over the same veteran Chenyin Nana, and she also expressed her position on her Weibo:

If this is a paradise that the wicked seek to touch, I will defend it; If this were a scorched earth that had been pericritically corroded, I would save it. Abandoning distractions and fame and fortune, and carrying out sacrifice and dedication, is true love.

Alas. After Simon leaves, there must be someone to take care of the official Weibo no matter what. But the person who took over — whoever he was — will always be suspected of having a disagreement with Simon, so he may become the "evil side" in the eyes of some netizens. Because of this, Nana, who is certified as "Ancient Game Commentary", posted another limerick:

Who knows who is right and who is wrong. Win or lose, wait and see. If I have been, I think I am SB~

There are also many people below who compare her comments to "Nana Black Pot", ridiculing with a hint of worry.

By four o'clock, Simon also got up again, (or ** didn't sleep?) Participated in a discussion that has been transformed into a poetry fight:

The morning bell is fortunate to sing with the deer, and the dusk drum picks the Wei Liang's father; Zhaoguan ** went with his hand, I knew that I would comfort my heart.

@Ambigo Jiaming:

The complaints are full of regrets, but it can be seen that it is the beginning of the mountain lamp, and it is no wonder that the rebel does not think about it, and it is destroyed in the meat forest halfway

@会感冒的笨蛋:

Zhaoguan is ruthless, and there is no way to be Chu Ping. The white head looked at each other, folding the willow to comfort the gentleman.

Before I went to bed, I approached Jimmy and had a brief chat about what was going on. But we can't get in touch with anyone now, so we can't even find out the skin. We can only make an exclamation on this matter with the most instinctive reaction.

In fact, LJ, one of the questions I want to express the most is, if what you have worked so hard to build up single-handedly becomes someone else's, and in the end it becomes someone else's, and it is not your own intention to give it away, what kind of sadness should it be?

I think what is happening now may be another time this is happening. And this situation is the most real and vivid case. It is also worth mentioning that Li Shanyou and part of the founding team came out of the house from the cool six. This case serves as a painful lesson for generations of tech entrepreneurs.

If you care a lot about your company; If you create a company, the purpose is not to fatten it up and sell it for a small profit, but to want your name to be tightly tied to the brand, or if it has already been bundled; So, no matter how much investment you are facing, please don't give up absolute control over the company.

If there are times when you are standing at a fork in the road of choosing one or the other, and you choose the investor's money, it is possible that the future company will not be yours; If you don't choose money and maintain the independence of the company, you may not be able to survive. In fact, a lot of the next thing I say when I stand and talk without backache is - it depends on how much you want to be able to contribute to the company. I've seen a lot of examples before, so this guide makes my feelings even more complicated. Should I say that in this case, even if you borrow money from a bank, you should not touch the money of a drug investor? Or should I say - if you're short on money, just sell the company and start over? And if you do it, should I say that it's this kind of desperate, bet-like mood that is more likely to ruin your whole world? Of course, we all know that if you have enough money, if you are mentally prepared enough and free enough, and you are more able to bear failure, it is easier to succeed in what you make, but this ...... Isn't it nonsense?

That's why it's hard to start a business.

So, to be honest, when there are many, many things that we can't help ourselves and we can't change, the only thing we can change may be our own mentality.

In the past two years, in the eyes of outsiders, it is the two stations of AB that have flourished, and they have reached the most prosperous and influential time. Station B has recently received a new round of financing, and Station A should have a lot of new investors looking for it recently. But if this prosperity has to lead to people's hearts scattering, our mood must be very complicated.

Back then, we always thought that the unique art form of barrage, potatoes should make their own bean bubbles, and the outcome was already doomed, and we were secretly glad that our homeland might have commercial value and the meaning of continuing to exist. I even dreamed of Monkey Mountain appearing on Wall Street with a slogan like "China's Dwango" ringing the bell......

However, perhaps neither you nor I expected that the power of commerce would rush to devour this qiē before we were strong enough. Who doesn't have a little naivety when they develop from a hobby to a career?

The two websites, no matter what the purpose and original intention of the establishment were, no matter what grievances they had, have gathered a lot of popularity, and the users of the two websites have become good friends. After rounds of heavy punches by the state and copyright owners, users were hit just as hard as the operators.

Users expect both sites to be their safe havens. And when this home itself encounters a crisis, as users, and people who are attentive to it, we need to restore as much truth as possible, and at the same time, we are full of confidence in the future and always believe that there will be a good ending.

Title image: AC anonymous version

If someone wishes to provide a clue (anonymously), they can comment or answer this Zhihu question:

AcFun webmaster Simon announced that he left due to disagreement with investors, what is the hidden story behind this matter that has not yet been disclosed?

A song that was written when the single was looping: WhereIsTheLove?

===Appendix===

Thank you (though I don't know why many people think I'll know about it.)

Simon himself has an account on Zhihu, so it's better for him to answer this question himself.

Although I think he must be talking about it from his point of view

===Dividing line===

I think it's not that big, although I feel very uncomfortable, Luo Dayou has a song about the orphans of Asia, about Taiwan, at that time Taiwan was made out of the United Nations, Taiwanese people don't know where they belong, now I am actually the same, I know that a website as their spiritual sustenance is a very lacking thing, I always hope that AC is what I hope to be, but AC is AC, he is what he looks like, not and will not be what people and people want.

Residents always feel that nothing will change in the world, but in fact, everything is changing, and among them, it is already a rare thing to be able to keep themselves the same.

Simon's departure is just a symbol, a contradiction between the otaku culture that Simon wants and the direction of ACFUN's general development. Judging from what Simon said in various groups, this is nothing more than an internal contradiction, but being a man and leaving a line, seeing each other in the future, since you still have love for this website, why do you still say those words? What's the difference between that behavior and when Hank left?

ACFUN and Bilibili are different.,I always think so.,Or,Bilibili actually had some of its own culture in it before 2012.,But after the old and the new alternate.,After the eldest lady left,The direction of bilibili's development is actually the current direction of ACFUN.,It's just that every website has to go through this change.。 Simon's idea is good.,Simon wants to keep ACG's culture.,I want a feeling of seeing the world with my eyes at home.,But what I think above is that profit is to return to the cost.,What Simon wants is a website of otaku culture.,What you want above is to promote it is to make a profit and to be a port for the game (just like the lovelive promotion done by station b now(ps:Because of this matter, iQiyi has withdrawn all the new ones, it's really a joy to run 2333). Even Simon is a Dota fan, but the videos with the highest clicks on AcFun are lol.

So, boom! Isn't it good to split up and do your own work?

It's just that this internal contradiction was taken to Weibo to say, whether it's acfun's official blog speech, or Simon's complaining nonsense in the group, it's actually inappropriate.

is still the same sentence, it is good to see each other in the future, and I hope that it is best to do what I really like after Saimen runs away.

=== Dividing line of dividing line ===

It's rare for someone to invite me, so let's just share my thoughts on acfun.

ACFyn is not Simon's ACFUN, nor will it be ACFy of @acfun Video Barrage.com, nor will it be ACFyn of Alpha Animation, which is the investor Aofei Animation, ACFun is everyone's ACFUN.

As long as AcFun will still open submissions, 90% of his videos are contributions from the up master, then this AcFun is still everyone's Acfun. So you see, whenever something happens, you can see someone going to top up "AC Niang's Rebirth" and loop it to play unlimited punch in, because this is everyone's ACFUN.

ACFUN is not ACFUN because there is one person and two people leaving, Mr. Zawen and I said "everyone will leave ACFUN, I will never", it will always be too far, but I am willing to believe it.

The important thing about any website is people, and for websites like acfun and bilibili, the aggregators of this website are the most important. And I've always felt that acfun is a humane site, because even if I'm disappointed in some things, I can still see Qingjun's check-in, I can see Lelouch's video, I can see the update of Q Dehua, I can see the gentleman's death, I can hear the finished Dota 2 cross talk, and these won't disappear because someone leaves, even if the former friends leave, as long as the people here still have this kind of human smell, ACFUN is still ACFUN. People will come again, and they will gather.

Of course, when is there no such human flavor here, it makes no sense to stay here, even if those up masters are there, it's not interesting to be on this impersonal website.

I'm sure no one likes ACFUN more than Gamegate, but liking it doesn't mean owning it, Xilin doesn't own it, Simon doesn't own it, investors don't own it. ACFUN belongs to everyone at ACFUN.

I wish AC Sailman good luck.