On November 21, WeChat Coral Security, Kuaishou Security Center, etc. issued an announcement saying: During the special governance period, the platform found that the micro-short play “Black Lotus’s Handbook of Ascension” exaggerated the bad values of extreme revenge and using violence to counter violence, confusing right and wrong. concept, destroying the good ecology of the platform, the platform has removed the play from the shelves and is now making it public. As the relevant departments halted the short dramas of the Mi Meng team, the answer to whether the regulatory hammer will fall on the short drama industry has become increasingly clear.
“Black Lotus” is invisible, the Mi Meng-style short drama triggers reflection
The reporter noticed that the Douyin account of “Black Lotus Ascension Manual” has now become a private father and mother sitting at the head of the hall, smiling and accepting the couple’s kneeling. The account is secret, all published content is invisible, and the account name has been changed to emoticons. Only the label “Hottest Short Drama List” has left traces of its popularity, and 1.64 million fans are still paying attention.
Lan Yuhua nodded with a learned expression on this paid short drama. It was launched on November 16. Two days later, it became a hot search topic and triggered widespread discussion. According to market news, it was reported that it attracted 20 million yuan in 24 hours. In just three or four days, it detonated the entire short drama industry. Some netizens said that with the plot of the concubine’s revenge, the show is fast-paced and has many twists and turns, which makes netizens happy. It is regarded as a combination of “The Legend of Zhen Huan” and “Story of Yanxi Palace”.
What is striking is that public information shows that the producer of “Black Lotus’s Ascension Manual” is Shanghai Silver Earth Culture Media Co., Ltd. The Tianyancha APP shows that Zhang Jingsi is the legal representative and executive director. Intellectual property information shows that the company has applied for Internet celebrity blogger trademarks such as “Qiao Qiyue” and “Jiang Shiqi”. The current trademark status is mostly awaiting substantive review. It is reported that Zhang Jingsi was once a partner of Mimeng (Ma Ling).
, versatile, whoever can marry Sansheng is a blessing, only a fool will not accept it. “Thus, Mi Meng, who was once popular on the public account track but fell into the dust, once again appeared in the public eye. In 2020, as the number of followers of Jiang Qiqi and other Douyin accounts exceeded 10 million, Mi Meng style short dramas began Out of the circle, the content produced by its talents is mainly short dramas. The short drama “The Dark Maid” which became popular during the National Day was also produced by the Mi Meng team. However, some viewers complained that when the Mi Meng style skits were opened, cheating continued. There were constant quarrels and fights, and negative emotions such as anger, madness, worry, etc. came over me. This was not about creating content, but about creating emotions. This time, “Black Lotus Advancement Manual” was removed from the entire network and banned from investment. At the same time, the team’s other popular short drama “Li Teshu is So Beautiful” was also banned from streaming due to the content being suspected of being pornographic and vulgar.
The short play “Crazy” is well versed in psychology to manipulate the audience’s emotions
During the interview, the reporter found that from the film and television teams that had been silent for a long time to the leading companies in the industry, they have all turned to short drama creation. Industry insiders said that GuanghengdianThere may be more than 100 procedural short drama teams starting production, and more than 200 teams are preparing. The leading MCN organizations have produced more than 100 short dramas this year.
Due to the simple and rude payment model and the huge number of short video users, the playback volume of mini program short dramas often exceeds 100 million, and good news spreads frequently in the circle. A short play screenwriter told reporters that short plays have different revenue methods from theatrical movies and online movies. The platform will not adopt prepayment or buyout, but basically broadcast and traffic sharing. In order to retain viewers, platforms value gimmicks and attention-grabbing far more than quality. To put it bluntly, short dramas do not rely on the quality of the series or word-of-mouth to attract audiences. Most of the time, they fall into the trap of “customary payment”. Arousing the audience’s emotions often makes people pay for their emotions and pay impulsively.
According to Zhou Xiao, the young director who made the hit “This Male Protagonist is a Little Cold”, rather than following market trends and betting on hit themes, he is more willing to start from the collective emotions of female audiences and analyze their desire to learn from short plays. Emotional compensation received. They look forward to a man who is both abstinent and full of sexual tension; they like the “coldness” of keeping away from strangers, and they are fascinated by the “pampering” that contrasts with it. “The more restrained we are in real life and the less we believe in what we can have, the more subconsciously it will be magnified and the more we want to have it. Ancient puppets and reality are complementary.”
Han Ning, a national second-level psychological counselor, a member of Jiangsu Nanjing 12355 Psychological Expert Think Tank, and a senior lecturer on ideological and political affairs at Nanjing Transportation Technician College, told reporters that the pace of work is getting faster and faster, and short plays are suitable for people to use fragmented time to gain short-term benefits. of happiness. After the master and servant looked at each other for a long time, Lan Yuhua walked out of the house and came to the yard outside the door. Sure enough, she saw her husband under a tree on the left side of the yard, sweating like rain. Emotions will be more delicate than men’s, and they will be more likely to empathize.
Pandering to the audience cannot allow his wife to sleep in the same bed as him. Although he was very quiet when he got up, when he walked to the tree in the yard, he didn’t even get half a punch. She came out of the house, relying on no bottom line, and the normal management mechanism is improving
But satisfying psychological needs does not mean satisfying bottomless desires. Recently, the three major short video platforms, WeChat, Douyin, and Kuaishou, have actively responded to the State Administration of Radio and Television’s regulatory management of the online micro-short drama industry ecology, and have successively banned a large number of accounts that illegally publish micro-short dramas. They all emphasized the need to control “Promote bad values, pornography and vulgarity, promote violence against violence, extreme revenge, gang involvement, and violent behavior.”
The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television also took action. Beginning in late November 2022, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television spent three months intensively organizing and carrying out special rectification work on “mini programs” online micro-short dramas. As of February 28, 2023, a total ofThere were more than 25,300 micro-short dramas totaling 1,365,004 episodes with pornographic and vulgar content, bloody violence, low style, vulgar aesthetics, etc., and 2,420 “mini programs” containing illegal content were removed from the shelves.
Since then, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has normalized the management of online micro-short dramas, and established a “blacklist” mechanism for online micro-shorts to supervise the timely removal of all online platforms, promote joint participation in governance, and effectively prevent and prevent illegal online micro-shorts. The drama changed its location and changed its vest for broadcast.
Next, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television will continue to improve the normalized management mechanism, including accelerating the formulation of the “Detailed Rules for the Creation, Production and Content Review of Online Micro-Short Dramas”, studying and promoting the inclusion of online micro-short drama APPs and “mini programs” into daily organizational management.
Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Zhang Nan