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It's positive on actor's side coz he will get the heat from BL fans. BL fans are more extreme than BG fans, see how WYB and XZ getting on each other. BL fans will ruin the artists. That's why the fans feared that if this BL marketing continue, Xu Kai will become a tool for this actor to get the heat he wants. Do you know what does it mean by 'reaped the CP benefits'? Once you bundled CP, fans will get in and get obsessed with you then artist (A for eg) will start another process call 'dismantled CP'. In this process, they will play passive-aggressive marketing which end up the artist A being 'victimised'. Fans will take the side of Artist A and get all the traffic they aimed for. So now their status is elevated because they got fans on their side to help them get project using traffic. This happened also in BG situation. You should observed which artists getting more CP fans on their side for each drama pairing then you know who are malicious in their operation. Xu Kai never disrespect his co-partners with this malicious operation. If he's so eager about getting popular, he could've done it. It's so easy given that he got so many hot CP in his dramas. But he keeps his original intention when in comes of acting, he takes the route of letting his works speak for him. The fans he accumulated are mostly drama fans. That's why those movement fans made, if it's out of proportion, Xu Kai will come out. He managed his fans better than others. Xu Kai is well known in douban for having reasonable fans. His fans rarely make fuss and at war with other fandoms. They never started war, they only respond to attack on him.

They (C-ent) are shameless, in order to survive in this industry. So many of them backstabbing each other despite how they smile to each other in front of the camera and public. Try watching We Are All Alone, you will see glimpse of how C-ent works.

It might be announced but just the project, no casting will be mentioned I think. Because there's no announcement from XK team about today's materials.

Yeah, you got it right there. Due to 'CEO's role' binding last year with Xu Kai, he's getting the heat. That's why he aims for this drama. Fans didn't care much but it was too much when this drama first rumoured. The bundling was malicious and what's more he is deeply supported by Mango TV, so fans were afraid Xu Kai will be taken advantage again discreetly if his team still weak.

Those who said they unfollow Xu Kai are not exactly fully fan of him. Their Weibo ID are mostly bots and unfamiliar in the Xu Kai fandom. There's no denying that not all are bots but mostly are and were sent to stir bad situation for Xu Kai's fan circle. The team came forward does not even clarify the situation, they just came to appease the fans (but fans still not convince because there's no improvement from them) For now they hope the team will uphold what they assured.

The team didn't come up to clarify misunderstanding, they came up to re-assure fans of their commitment regarding Xu Kai's interest and resources. Things that said in the clarification are those they sent to fans back in 2023. There's nothing new about the situation of this new drama. Most fans already knew Xu Kai took it and it's not a BL drama, it's focus only on 1 ML. They launched the strike because despite the team knows the situation of this new drama, Xu Kai's team didn't do anything to counter the brainwashing marketing which insinuating that Xu Kai is facing resource downgrade. What's more this double ML marketing was done by the other actor side who is not yet confirmed. Only Xu Kai is confirmed so far. With this double ML marketing, it already attracted CP fans which will help this actor increase his presence and grab the role in the drama.

I didn't know why FI didn't release material for the Investment promotion but Youku hasn't been doing well, many of posters released by them yesterday were criticized for low quality and c-netz has been saying that it's obvious Youku got no money. The conference was held online only, no offline which shows how severe Youku situation. I noticed most of the released materials were from costume dramas, and some newly wrap up drama. There's are many dramas didn't release new material aside from FI, Alaso is guessing maybe because XuKai didn't go for dubbing yet so no trailer can be shown. If you can open this link, https://weibo.com/6176801801/PqQQEvbRj you'll see FI listed under the 1st category poster. The conference was so fast, the whole Youku dramas was summarize by noon. Also, Xiao Zhan drama is about to air but they didn't release any material either for yesterday's conference.

Usually the one struggling with getting investors will make more noise to attract interest and attention. By the time the airing time comes, production will release investment material to attract merchants like today Wang Churan and Li Hongyi's drama release drama information for merchant. MR is rumored to air in July/August so not much noise heard yet while FI has not yet passed license to air.

I'm only referring to "fans at each other throat". It was the term that always being used when topic about re-cooperating resurfaced. I don't comment on your overall response.

"The fans are at each other throat" itself is the brainwashing that has been circling around as to why they never re-cooperated. And this statement always end up with conclusion that XK fans are the bad guys when in fact XK fans never start fanwars. They only defended when attack arrives at him. Those who cause trouble has long left because they want a powerful idol, not like XK who didn't chase traffic. Also, fans can never dictate XK's choice whether they like the FL or not.

I never heard about the cousin but I heard somewhere about his mom. Yeah, with so much negativity, he's doing well in facing the situation.

It's hard not to know about this interview. It's everywhere. Her marketing is powerful. Just open weibo, douyin, xhs without login you'll be recommended with BL contents. This interview is also being shared everywhere by her fans.

We are criminal police. It's really good.

Sorry, I missed the "not including" remarks. I doubt her drama with Wang Xingyue will be romance-free. Before Moonlight Mystique air, the marketing direction is heavily heroine-centric with theme immortal cultivation and her fans has been telling everyone about this. but throughout the airing, they heavily market CP. This shows that she need to return something to the investors and she's not ready to let go the idol theme drama. This is kinda contradict with what she said. Like UEbe mentioned above, to transition, you have to let go everything like marketing, popularity etc. As for Monkey King 3, yeah, I doubt they will ever air it. It's very old drama, releasing it might jeopardize the IP reputation.

Yeah, and Xu Kai rarely defined or classify type of dramas. His views more on the roles or characters. His definition on transitioning is not about the theme of dramas he took, more on the level of presentation of roles. He understood that for some of roles, particularly fantasy theme, the base of character does not exist in real world, he would like to get in touch with roles where it's more relate to the surrounding of real world. The challenge of these types of characters is there's no outstanding trait to impress the audience. You have to rely on your understanding and delivery of acting to capture audience's interest.

Zhao Ge was filmed back in 2016 and she's a supporting role, Monkey King 3 was filmed in 2017 and the story probably about ML. These are the dramas that got stuck to air. So, regardless of the theme of these dramas, it had nothing to do with her interview on not taking idol dramas. The one she mentioned in interview definitely refers to future project.

"Do you know since when Kai Kai has been talking about transitioning, doing serious roles?" - you're right, he's been preparing himself since the start. Because he could have been big traffic since Yanxi explode and have another chance to cemented it during The Legends, AMA, FIYS, but he didn't do it. He didn't go down the path of massive marketing and CP frying (he took off CP for Yanxi and TL/AMA). The journey he took of swallowing nasty comments, constructive feedbacks without shutting audience mouth is his way of preparing himself to improve his acting for more complex path. Enduring himself with mediocre projects but still finding ways to deliver his roles, all these are transitioning journey.

Her interview about not taking idol dramas anymore giving gist that she has the non-idol project ready at hand (given by capital) whether audience approved it or not. She hasn't yet proved that she can carry mainstream themes, so how come she can surely says she won't take idol dramas anymore. Even ZLY/LYF couldn't ensure that.

I think in AiMi/LXY's case, industry/capital in need of introduction of young people as the seniors are transitioning but latest rumour I heard, it's no longer AiMi. Casting in C-ent relies heavily on connection of companies, resources exchange and investors' choices. It's hard to get what the audience want.

Cannot compete from marketing pov only. The quality is yet to be discovered. You look at how "explosive" the hype and you already look down on Xu Kai's work without evaluating the quality of work. That's why you said cannot compete, because you already saw how MM can win with just the hype. You always look down on Xu Kai because he has no hype. You think he's not popular and declining and being rejected by audience. But with no hype, people still look at his work means he delivered his presence through his drama, not through external business like variety show, hot search selling personality etc. The result of drama is not from 1 pov such as popularity or hype only. If through popularity only, he would have out of job long time ago. There are investors, industry, platform, word of mouth etc consideration for the success of drama. These people saying you're a hater because it's not his talent that you see, it's his face and achievements that you see. They didn't insist that Xu Kai is at the top, they are just saying there are more to it than what is visible. Most who came to be his fans in the past 2-3 years are those who likes his portrayal in the dramas, those who came for "what is visible" already left long time ago.