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that commenter was notoriously leaving slut-shaming comments about the FL during the earlier episodes, I would be wary of their opinions.

it just occured to me that he was similarly bashed during Ashes of Love. People were saying he created drama for himself to get more screentime. All I can say is, it's not his fault the camera loves him lol.

I've watched a bunch of her reviews and while I mostly agree with her callouts on the technical side, the rest is usually a shallow reading of things. It's just very reactive critiquing so I wouldn't go to her if I wanted a nuanced take on dramas.

Anyway, there's a user on reddit who says that an investor sheet was leaked and that's where all this is coming from but they haven't produced a link to the source so we'll see.

I remember people talking twitter about LYX being bashed on weibo for making a lot of suggestions in the BTS clips so maybe rumors spiralled from there and she just ran with it. and yeah he has a tendency to be dramatic sometimes but (1) it's a collaborative medium, it's literally his job to make suggestions, and anyone with a background in production work like she says she does would know this; (2) there's absolutely nothing wrong in an actor investing in their own work. it's why a lot of hollywood actors now are also executive producers but again, that does not make them the only voice in the room; (3) she's acting all snooty when in this business, the goal is to make money. (Like we all know her petty rants earn her more youtube engagement. If she really cared about being a critic, her reviews wouldn't be so shallow.) TTEOTM undisputedly made a TON of money. If LYX was indeed the loudest voice in the room, well then, he was right.

TTEOTM is the #3 most watched cdrama on Netflix between January to June 2023 (a big achievement since it only got put on there in May)

https://www.reddit.com/r/CDrama/s/aJtcEDDIXQ

*edit for the stats, in hours viewed*
1. Meteor Garden 2018 24.3M
2. LBFAD 20.9M
3. TTEOTM 20.4M
4. Who Rules the World 15.2M
5. Falling Into Your Smile 15M

hmm checked the data group, and their 9.3 data does have LUF at #2 now but at 69.69M (with some comments predicting it'll reach 80M by the end of hot broadcast.) I do remember seeing at least 2 charts (one for the hot broadcast period with TTEOTM at 68.11M and the other one that I assume is total average that's probably the 75M) but I'm using google translate so maybe someone else will be able to clarify in the future.

https://www.douban.com/group/topic/280632783/?_i=4047684a7hhTBy

Delurking to say I've been an IMDB user for years and I checked the voting stats and there are 2k 10 votes vs 153 1 votes. IMDB has weighted average that supposedly factors in user history and vote spamming so a flood of new users voting 10 might not impact the rating at all. In fact the unweighted mean is now 9.1 but the weighted one is still 8.4, a big gap that means they're probably pulling more weight from the middle votes.

They don't disclose their algorithm so it's hard to say why the average got pulled down but what fans can do that might help: 1) rate other shows so that they don't disregard your vote as spam, don't rate just 1s or 10s either; 2) get more high middle votes probably. even Lie to Love has a higher weighted score because the middle looks more even.