Study System: I'm a 38-Year-Old Student-Chapter 355 - 239: Vengeance Achieved!
A person like Yang Xijin obviously doesn’t only have a Weibo account; he also has an account on Kuayin, but it’s newly registered, and the followers are fewer than on Weibo, currently over 700,000.
Seeing his Weibo account banned, he uploaded the video to Kuayin.
But on Kuayin, he didn’t even get the chance to upload. After opening the app, he found his account was already banned, not only unable to publish new works but also unable to follow others.
At this point, Yang Xijin finally realized the severity of the problem. If it were just Weibo where he couldn’t upload his work, it might be a platform issue. But when two major social media platforms won’t allow him to post, it indicates it’s not just a platform issue but rather a problem with him personally!
Similar situations have occurred many times with fallen celebrities and internet personalities. As a media person, Yang Xijin was even too familiar with this process.
Without surprise, he might have been banned across the entire internet!
The thought made Yang Xijin break into a cold sweat instantly. If he was indeed banned across the internet, his good days would be over!
As a big influencer with nearly three million fans across the web, his income was significant, not to mention he often took on controversial "statements," which were even more lucrative.
If he’s banned across the internet, then that income would be gone, and ongoing collaborations would have to stop. Considering the precedents of celebrities and internet personalities falling out of favor, current work contracts include force majeure clauses. If the collaboration can’t proceed due to Yang Xijin’s personal issues, he’d have to pay compensations three or even five times the breach of contract amount.
Take his current job, for example. Yang Xijin was prepared to fly to a brand’s headquarters for a live product endorsement. The advertisements were already out!
But now he’s banned across the internet. Clearly, tomorrow’s live endorsement is likely not happening!
At this moment, Yang Xijin’s phone rang, and it was the brand he was supposed to work with tomorrow.
He answered the call, and unsurprisingly, the brand informed him he didn’t need to fly to the headquarters anymore; tomorrow’s live endorsement was canceled.
Although the other party maintained a polite attitude over the phone, Yang Xijin knew he’d surely receive a legal letter from them later. After all, this live event was canceled because of him, and he’d have to cover the promotional costs incurred, return the deposit received, and pay compensation!
In an instant, Yang Xijin felt dizzy.
The sky was really falling!
He tried to recall in his mind his recent comments. As a media person known for his commentary style, offending people or groups was normal, but Yang Xijin usually had a sense of limits and was quite sly, knowing well not to cross certain lines.
He thought of who might have been offended, and eventually, the name Shen Qiushan came up!
The one he criticized most recently was Shen Qiushan!
But does he have that kind of background?
He’s just a writer. What’s so untouchable about that??
Yang Xijin was very puzzled.
However, what’s most important for him now is to find a way to see if the banned account can be unblocked!
After all, he’s been in the media circle for quite a while and has some connections.
He immediately started scrolling through his contacts, making calls for help.
At the same time.
While drafting articles at his company, Ding Dasheng also discovered all his social media accounts were banned.
As a "sharp-tongued" musician, he had considerable popularity on the internet, with fans in numbers no less than Yang Xijin’s.
With his internet influence, Ding Dasheng founded a network marketing company, undertaking many projects and collaborating with numerous artist teams.
He was currently planning to rehabilitate a "little flower" with a poor public image.
But it turned out he was banned across the internet!
Ding Dasheng was stupefied, knowing well the severity of being banned online.
It means he can no longer openly earn money from the circle!
And 80% of his marketing company’s business would cool off, as artist teams collaborated with him because of his popularity—in today’s entertainment circle, if he hadn’t criticized them, they couldn’t even be considered popular.
With that image, he was able to receive many variety show invitations and marketing jobs for artists!
Now that he’s banned, variety show invitations are definitely out of question.
Without his fame and voice, artist teams naturally wouldn’t collaborate with someone banned across the internet!
"Brother Ding, your account shows it can’t be followed anymore."
A staff member from Ding Dasheng’s team suddenly exclaimed, apparently just discovering.
Upon hearing the exclamation, several other employees who were either working or slacking off also looked up and checked Ding Dasheng’s Kuayin homepage.
Sure enough, his account couldn’t be followed.
"Continue working. I’ll go find out what’s going on."
Feigning calm, Ding Dasheng walked into a private meeting room, first calling platform customer service but didn’t get any valuable information, then he called a senior executive at the Kuayin platform.
The result was a desperate message: his account was banned under orders from above, and platforms were just carrying out instructions.
This....
Ding Dasheng collapsed onto the sofa, utterly stunned.
Banned by name from the higher-ups!
Which powerful figure did he offend?
Quickly he recalled the celebrities he criticized recently and checked all his posts, seemingly nothing infringed. After all, as a "professional critic," he knew what to avoid.
The most heavily criticized recently was Shen Qiushan!
Due to "Voice of Hua Country," Shen Qiushan’s hype was exceptionally high these past two days. Plus, his identity itself generated traffic.
Criticizing him was basically a traffic code. Ever since the "Voice of Hua Country" finale ended, Ding Dasheng had released three videos attacking Shen Qiushan, each gaining very high view counts, clearly capitalizing on the hype.
Could it be because of criticizing him?
No, when did a writer have such power??
Though it seemed unbelievable, Ding Dasheng couldn’t think of other reasons at this point.
Meanwhile, the news of Yang Xijin and Ding Dasheng’s account bans quickly surged on Weibo and Kuayin’s double trending searches.
Seeing the two accounts banned, netizens were ecstatic!
"Old Yang with that crooked voice should’ve been banned long ago!"
"Well done! People like Yang and Ding Dasheng should’ve been banned long ago; it’s people like them who spoil the internet environment!"
"Finally Ding Dasheng is silenced! Couldn’t stand him for a long time!"
"Which angel rid of these pests? I must give 10,000 likes!"
"Just got a slap in the face and then banned — they deserved it! Serves them right for insulting Teacher Shen!"
As the incident of their accounts being banned fermented, Shen Qiushan’s Kuayin comment section also became lively, with most comments saying just four words: Revenge achieved!
