Chapter 10: Invasion (1)

Many of the fuses that later become major online incidents are often not so noticeable from the beginning, like a small pebble thrown into the sea, who would have thought that it would cause a tsunami?

However, there is indeed an undercurrent surging in this sea area where the game circle and the fan circle meet, and in the short history of the Internet in my country, there have been a few examples of small pebbles stirring up the storm.

When an idol group from a neighboring country came to visit, due to the lack of preparation of the organizers of the event and the large number of fans in our country, a crazy fan insulted and beat the armed police soldiers who maintained order at the scene. This aroused the anger of many netizens. Of course, this is not the first online mass incident, but the particularity of this event lies in the fact that it is the first online incident of "fan behavior, rising idols".

As a result, in a popular terminal game post bar, netizens began to call on the organization to carry out large-scale revenge on the idol group and its fan group in various ways, and they called this spontaneously organized action "holy war". Once the seeds of anger were ignited, they were out of control, and once the idea of jihad was proposed, it spread from the post bar of the terminal game to the major online communities, and finally even some hacker teams with sophisticated technology participated in the jihad.

Its main behavior is to blast all the interactive communities of the idol group with a crushing numerical advantage, and hack the idol group's related websites with technology.

Due to the great influence of the incident, after the incident ended, it naturally aroused reflection and review from all parties. Supporters see it as a meaningful patriotic action, while opponents see it as nothing more than a bunch of college boys looking for stubble from middle school girls.

However, the most bizarre part of the incident is why the origin and main force of the holy war is a post bar of an online game?

It is said that these two circles are actually incompatible, and there is no direct interest relationship. It's impossible for a celebrity idol to suddenly come over and win the championship of an important event, and it's impossible for a game development company to suddenly invite an idol to endorse it.

Netizens who play terminal games do not chase stars, and groups that chase stars do not play terminal games. The two circles have no intersection at all, and it is really strange that an offline incident triggered a "large-scale war" online. Therefore, there are also many people who think that the time of the holy war is too "ambiguous", and it happens to be the day after the end of the college entrance examination, and it is not ruled out that the game operator planned this incident in order to hype up its own popularity. But even if there is a pusher, it doesn't explain why gamers suddenly burst into such enthusiasm for an event outside the circle.

Many people start from the way men and women think and behave, and think that due to the increase in the closure of the Internet, the gender contradictions that already exist but will be ignored in reality have intensified. The other is from the perspective of the collective unconscious, which believes that most men will show some so-called "gentlemanly demeanor" when facing girls alone, whether on the Internet or in reality. And once they are together, they can attack another group without fear.

Xie Liuying and I discussed this issue specifically during the holidays, but based on my years of gaming experience, neither of the above statements is valid. The NBA incident six months ago has shown that a male-dominated fanbase is no more rational when it comes to the things they love than a female-dominated fanbase. And men are naturally territorially minded animals, so the motivation for jihad back then can be simply explained as "I've long been unhappy with what you like."

In fact, most people can't tell the difference between good and bad and right and wrong, and just blindly follow the trend. They will also selectively ignore the fact that there are sane people in any circle, and there are also brain-dead people, and it is not wise to kill a boatload of people with a stick. You chase foreign celebrities and idols, and I play foreign games, and there is no such thing as who is "more patriotic" than whom.

In the Internet era, everyone's hearts are even more empty, and the sense of identity that cannot be found in reality naturally needs to be found in the virtual world. For most ordinary people, it is not possible to make others agree with their insignificant achievements, so they can only make others agree that what they like is good. Increase your sense of being recognized by "what I like is better than what you like", and then prove that you are "better" than the other person. It's as if the national scolding is not really about having some kind of ulterior relationship with the other party's elders, but just to indirectly gain an advantage over the other party's seniority through the occurrence of this relationship verbally.

In recent years, with the creation of the idolization of e-sports players, the e-sports circle, as a circle that originally belonged to the game circle and later intersected with the sports circle, has inevitably merged and even homogenized with the fan circle.

Practitioners in the fan circle envy that the e-sports circle has a clear evaluation system, which can make really powerful people stand out, and the practitioners in the e-sports circle envy the fans in the fan circle who are more loyal and have a higher payment rate.

After the first race, everyone returned to base for a short rest and ready for the next race. Unexpectedly, as soon as I returned to the base, I found that my fan base exploded.

Yes, I forgot to report to you, when I was still playing in the minor league, I had my own fan base, and as the team's results soared, my fan base also went from a crowd of 200 to a thousand people, and now I am planning to open a second group.

But maybe I'm a boring person, not much topical, and the whole group is quiet most of the time except when I'm bubbling. I thought that today's game might be more valuable for discussion, so the group was temporarily active, but when I opened the group chat, all the people involved in the discussion were discussing one thing to "catch the ghost".

I didn't know what this "inner ghost" meant, and I didn't dare to show my head for a while, so I flipped through several pages of the chat history to understand what my fans were talking about.

said that this afternoon, almost before the start of my game, a person took a screenshot from our fan group and ran to a celebrity's Weibo to touch porcelain.

In the offseason, in addition to the online event, Luna also took us to participate in some other charity activities in order to create a good image of the team.