Backstage.
After coming out, Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai did not turn around to return to the venue's seating area, as it was meaningless. They went straight to the dressing room to change their clothes. They took off their overalls and changed back into their own attire. Even though they were so far away, they could still hear the shouts coming from the venue clearly.
"Zhang Ye!"
"Teacher Yao!"
"Champion!"
The next round still had not started. The audience did not seem to want to give the next group of performers a chance to go on stage. They only had eyes for the two of them!
Yao Jiancai sighed. "Today's scolding was so satisfying!"
Zhang Ye smiled. "I had a good time too. I didn't come here for nothing!"
Yao Jiancai laughed and said, "That's right. Although we won't have the chance to enter the semi-finals and won't have the chance to be broadcasted live on TV, with so many people supporting us, it was the right decision to come!"
Zhang Ye stood up. "Let's go."
Yao Jiancai smacked his lips. "It's just a pity that our scolding joke today can't be heard by anyone other than the live audience."
Zhang Ye did not say a word. He felt that there was still time.
"Huh?" Yao Jiancai suddenly said, "Why is there a burnt smell?"
Zhang Ye sniffed, "Yeah, I smell it too. Don't tell me there's a fire?"
Walking out of the dressing room, the two of them looked in the same direction and saw a lot of staff going in and out. A few of them had dark expressions on their faces and looked like they had lingering fears. Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai looked at each other and understood. So there really was a f * * king fire?
…
The other side.
A group of people kept surging forward!
"What happened?"
"Leader, the power bank exploded. It's on fire!"
"What did I say? Huh? What did I say yesterday? Don't go wrong! Don't go wrong! Why are you causing trouble again? Ah! "
"We don't want to either, but …"
"No buts! Take a look at the live broadcast signal for yourselves! "
"Live broadcast signal?"
"We've already released the advertisement."
"Yeah, there shouldn't be any impact. The fire wasn't big. It only burned a cabinet and a few pieces of clothing. It didn't burn any equipment. The equipment's operation is … Ah! How did the live broadcast signal reach the venue?! Who … who touched the switch? Why was Bai Jian pushed up? Who did it? "
"Heavens! Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai's crosstalk has been streamed online again? "
"What the hell is going on? These three days have been like seeing a ghost! "
Seeing a few angry Central TV Leaders rushing over, the person in charge felt his heart turn cold. He knew that the matter had blown up. The first time was still fine, but the second time had been fended off. This was the third time. Their National Crosstalk and Skit Competition had repeatedly given banned artists a live broadcast. This matter had already exceeded the scope of their program team's control. Even Central TV's Department 11 might not be able to handle it. In the eyes of others, this was clearly challenging the policies of the higher-ups!
But only the insiders knew that they really didn't have the intention to face them head-on. Even if they were given a hundred guts, they wouldn't dare!
He had misunderstood the first time!
The second time was a signal error!
The third time was when he accidentally pressed the wrong button due to the fire!
Again and again, it was all an accident. The program team staff no longer knew what to say. They did not have a good impression of Zhang Ye to begin with, but now they hated him even more. This fellow was really a jinx! Furthermore, there was something strange about his entire body! It left everyone speechless!
The Central TV Leaders no longer cared about scolding them. After assigning a few tasks, they immediately went to clean up after them and urgently communicated with the higher-ups.
......
Outside the dressing room.
Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai also found out about this matter from the conversations of a few passing staff members.
Yao Jiancai, "....."
Zhang Ye also smiled. Luckily, the Difficulty Adjustment Die had a duration of six days. Today was only the third day. If not, if he had rolled a Difficulty Adjustment Die that only lasted for one or two days, it would not have been enough for him. Hearing this, Zhang Ye knew that the Difficulty Adjustment Die had worked again!
In front, the program team's person in charge rushed over with a few staff members. When he saw Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai, his face sank, "I was just looking for you!"
Zhang Ye looked at him, "What's the matter?"
The person in charge said with a cold face, "I am now officially informing you that your crosstalk works have violated the policy by using vulgar, vulgar, and kitsch methods to disrupt the normal proceedings of the crosstalk competition. You misled the audience, conveyed bad information, and affected the other contestants. As of now, your votes have all been voided and you have been disqualified from the competition. Please pack your things and leave immediately!"
Zhang Ye chuckled, "If you want to disqualify us from the competition, I have nothing to say. But if you insist on saying that our works violated the policy and that we disrupted the other contestants and misled the audience, then I can't pretend that I didn't hear that." He blocked the group of people's path, "Which eye of yours saw me mislead the audience? Which eye of yours saw me disrupted the other contestants? A bunch of them are boycotting me online. Am I affecting them or are they affecting me? Old Yao and I were only performing crosstalk. We did not provoke anyone at the beginning, but now, a bunch of people are jumping out to scold me. How the f * * k did I affect them? Affect your grandpa! "
A staff member stared, "You dare scold us!"
"Zhang Ye!" The person in charge nearly blew his top. He was the person in charge of the National Crosstalk and Skit Competition. He was the person in charge of this month's national viewership ratings champion. He was also quite famous in the industry. If a typical celebrity or actor saw him, who would dare speak to him in such a manner? Who wouldn't be polite to him? What did celebrities rely on to survive? By popularity? How could they gain popularity? Of course, they had to rely on a platform. Hence, typical celebrities would not dare to offend the people from the television station. However, this Zhang guy in front of him did not play by the rules. He scolded as he pleased and did not take him seriously at all!
Of course, Zhang Ye did not take them seriously. This was because he had nothing to lose, so he was not afraid of them. He had already been completely banned, so what was there to be afraid of? Even if he was polite to them, they would not let this bro go on television. So why should he be polite to them? Who did they think they were!?
The scolding began.
Yao Jiancai tried to stop them, "Forget it, old bro. Don't be angry with them."
......
On the internet.
The crosstalk and skit competition's program team's notice was released. They had disqualified Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai from the competition. When this notice was released, although everyone had already expected it, it still made them furious!
"That bunch of grandsons!"
"I will never watch the crosstalk competition again!"
"Zhang Ye said it so well! Are you bunch of people blind? Can't you tell the difference between good and bad! "
"The value of crosstalk is to make the audience happy, but you guys insist on making crosstalk elegant and educating people? We f * * king need you to educate us! Who do you think you are!? "
"You even use the excuse of misleading the audience? What a joke! I think you bunch of program team people and the crosstalk world are the ones who are misleading the audience! The audience likes Teacher Zhang and Teacher Yao's work, but you guys don't like it. Yet you guys are forcefully disqualifying Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai from the competition, claiming that they are treasonous and will bring disaster to the country! I want to ask, who is the one misleading the audience!? "
"I like Zhang Ye so much!"
"If Zhang Ye doesn't participate, then there's no point in watching this crappy program!"
"Right, they are boycotting Teacher Zhang? Then let's boycott the crosstalk competition! "
"That's right!"
"Count me in!"
Instantly, countless people began scolding on the crosstalk competition's official website!
......
At the competition venue.
In the contestant seating area.
A youth waved his cellphone, "Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai have gone down. The program team has made an announcement."
Another middle-aged crosstalk actor nodded, "Hur Hur, we've finally gotten rid of the troublemakers."
A rookie crosstalk actor whispered to his partner, "With Zhang Ye gone, the attention that was left on him will shift to us."
His partner whispered, "When Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai were around, the audience had already gone to watch them. We can tell just by looking at the votes. Now that he's gone, those votes will definitely be distributed to us. Our popularity will definitely go up a notch."
There was no such thing as profit. This bunch of people had charged forward to attack Zhang Ye, so they would definitely benefit from it. Many of them had this thought in mind.
The next group of contestants had already appeared on the live broadcast. They were Tang Dazhang's two disciples, Zhang Xiao and Liu Yuan. However, what was surprising was that after the host announced their names, there was not much applause. Even if there was, it was sparse. Most of the applause was from the crosstalk world's people in the front row.
The two of them went on stage and began their performances.
However, not many people in the audience were watching. Their appetites had been raised. After listening to Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai's work, how could they listen to others? It was simply unbearable!
It was the same on the internet. No one was watching it anymore.
When Zhang Xiao and Liu Yuan were performing on stage, they could clearly feel that the audience was not paying attention. Many of them were looking down at their cell phones, while others were chatting with their friends beside them. There were not many who were paying attention to their crosstalk performance. Zhang Xiao had brought out a burden that he was very proud of and was waiting for the audience's response. However, there was not much laughter in the audience and it was even a little chaotic. There was only chatter and the atmosphere of the competition was very bad. When Zhang Xiao and Liu Yuan saw this, they were also seriously affected and could not carry on!
"It's like this."
"So the moon..... uh, so the sun....."
Zhang Xiao and Liu Yuan made many mistakes.
Their master, Tang Dazhang, who was sitting in the audience, had a sullen expression when he saw this. He was so angry that his hands were trembling. How could this be? What was this bunch of audience doing!? Do they even know anything about art!? My two disciples were obviously a level higher than Zhang Ye's, yet not many people were listening to them?
This scene was extremely embarrassing!
The seniors of the crosstalk world looked very bad. They had lost all face!
When the program team staff saw this, they began to panic. This..... The audience was not interested, and the performers were affected by this and kept making mistakes. If this carried on, how could they continue competing!?
Ten minutes later, another group of contestants appeared on stage.
The third group...
The fourth group...
However, the situation did not turn for the better!
There were even a lot of audience members who had left early. They left the venue in a hubbub. Some went home, while others went to eat. They did not want to watch anymore!
The program team staff had a drastic change in expression. They had a bad feeling about this!
Those crosstalk competition contestants who had boycotted Zhang Ye and called for Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai to be disqualified felt their hearts turn cold. They had thought that without Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai as rivals, they would be able to split the votes among themselves and each of them would have a chance to advance further. Hence, when they saw the crosstalk world's masters boycotting Zhang Ye, coupled with the calls made at the crosstalk world's conference, they all joined in to denounce Zhang Ye. This was because if Zhang Ye was disqualified, they would all be the beneficiaries. But now, the reality was completely different from what they had imagined!
Zhang Ye had gone down, but not only did they not go up, they did not receive any more attention. Instead, they were abandoned by the audience. Zhang Ye's life and death scolding performance today had scolded them all down!
Only now did a lot of people truly understand that Zhang Ye's unprecedented rise to the top of crosstalk was greatly beneficial to the crosstalk world. Zhang Ye had used his amazing talent to attract countless viewers. Those who did not watch crosstalk or were already disappointed with it were all pulled over to pay attention to the art of crosstalk and the crosstalk performers. Zhang Ye was expanding the pie so that everyone could have a piece of the pie. This was a great thing for crosstalk and a great leap in development for it!
However, they did not see this clearly. They actually saw Zhang Ye as a thorn in their side, causing Zhang Ye to completely break off relations with the crosstalk world. The audience naturally felt this as well. At this moment, even those who liked crosstalk had abandoned them and chose Zhang Ye!
Zhang Ye's withdrawal from the competition actually did not affect Zhang Ye much. This was because his fame had already spread and his work had already been recognized by the people! So with Zhang Ye's withdrawal, the crosstalk world was the one who was suffering. With Zhang Ye's departure, he had also ruthlessly cut off a piece of meat from the crosstalk world. It had caused the art of crosstalk, which was not a popular entertainment culture, to lose a large number of diehard audience members!
When someone opened the official Celebrity Rankings Index, they also discovered this shocking fact. This was no longer a guess, but the real data that spoke for itself!
Tang Dazhang's popularity had dropped. In the past, he was ranked first on the D-list rankings and was about to be promoted to the C-list. But now, he was only ranked fifth on the D-list rankings. He had dropped four spots!
The crosstalk artist, Master Xu Wenxiang, had also dropped in the rankings. He was very experienced and famous, but that was all in the past. Now that he was no longer performing crosstalk, his rankings had already dropped to the top of the D-List rankings. But after this incident, after Zhang Ye's crosstalk performance, Xu Wenxiang's ranking had dropped again. The attention he received was getting less and less, and he was slowly moving towards the middle of the D-List rankings!
Even the other mainstream crosstalk actors of the crosstalk world, the contestants, and the newcomers had all dropped by varying degrees!
The crosstalk world's collective popularity had shrunk!
This was a shocking scene that no one had expected!
As for Zhang Ye and Yao Jiancai? From the beginning of the first crosstalk performance, their popularity had soared. By the time the second and third performances were over, it could be seen on the second page that Zhang Ye had left the bottom of the C-list rankings. With just three crosstalk performances, his popularity had skyrocketed to the middle of the C-list rankings. It wasn't even below the middle, but above the middle of the C-list rankings! He had gone from the bottom of the C-list rankings a few days ago to above the middle of the C-list rankings. This rise was quite shocking. With this momentum, as long as he put in a little more effort, he would not need to wait until the end of the year to reach the B-list rankings. He might even have a chance to do so in the middle of the year. Of course, this was only possible if his ban was lifted, or else he would not have any chance at all.
This time, Zhang Ye's popularity had skyrocketed by too much. The C-list rankings were two completely different concepts from the D-list rankings. This was because the higher one went, the fewer celebrities there were. Every level had a fixed number of people, and the higher one went, the harder it would be. Zhang Ye had once gone from the bottom of the D-list rankings to the middle of the D-list rankings, but it was on a completely different level from going from the bottom of the C-list rankings to the middle of the D-list rankings!
Why had it increased so much?
It was because of the audience.
In the past, Zhang Ye would talk about the Three Kingdoms, talk about the "Dream of the Red Chamber", write poems and lyrics, write couplets, write ghost stories, write fairy tales, etc. All of these styles had a small audience, and many people paid attention to them. They also had a very good reputation, but not everyone could watch them. As for talk shows, even in Zhang Ye's previous world, the development of talk shows in the country had not reached the pinnacle. It was not something that most people could accept, much less in this world where there was no audience for talk shows. If he wanted to do it, he had to take it step by step. Hence, ever since Zhang Ye's debut, his popularity had been steadily built up step by step. Things like becoming famous overnight had not happened to him, nor could it have happened.
But this crosstalk competition had made Zhang Ye explode in popularity!
Decree # 43's ban and Zhang Ye's participation in the competition had given the audience a lot of anticipation and attracted a lot of attention. In addition, even if crosstalk was not a popular art, it was definitely not a niche. It had a large audience base in this world and the market had already been opened up. The National Crosstalk and Skit Competition had also received a lot of attention and was even being broadcasted live. Zhang Ye had even brought out Guo Degang's work from his previous world and had gone head to head with the crosstalk world, so the topic of discussion and popularity that it attracted was already immeasurable!
As a result, Zhang Ye's popularity increased by leaps and bounds. He was getting closer and closer to his dream of becoming a B-list celebrity. This was a matter of time, place, and people. It was not something that could be achieved just by having a good work. For example, Guo Degang from his previous world had used more than a decade to go from an unknown crosstalk actor to the top of the crosstalk world. But Zhang Ye had only used three days to have a small success. He should be thankful for this and was very fortunate.
As for Yao Jiancai, his popularity was also rising rapidly. Old Yao had already reached the top of the D-list celebrity rankings and was not far from the C-list!
......
A lot of people on Weibo saw the statistics.
"Wow!"
"Teacher Zhang's popularity is too high!"
"Holy sh * t! It increased by so much? "
"This is the pace of him flying towards the B-list celebrity rankings!"
"Old Yao is not bad either. These two old bros have gained quite a bit of fame this time. Although they were disqualified, they still earned a lot!"
"The eyes of the masses are sharp. Look at those other crosstalk actors and contestants like Tang Dazhang. Haha, their popularity has dropped! Serves them right! "
"The audience is not stupid! They can tell good from bad! "
Suddenly, at this moment, the crosstalk competition's live broadcast was cut off!
Many of the audience did not understand. "What happened? Why did the live broadcast stop? Did something happen again? "
Following that, the SARFT made an announcement. It directly halted this year's National Crosstalk and Skit Competition. The entire program was halted!
"Halted?"
"What?"
"Hahaha! Well done! "
"That's what you get for scolding Teacher Zhang!"
"Well done! If Zhang Ye doesn't say anything, then none of you should say anything either! "
The netizens were gloating!
Central TV's Department 11's program team and the entire crosstalk world felt like they had been struck by lightning. They were all dumbfounded. The program had just begun, and it was only the preliminaries! Halt the broadcast? Halt the broadcast now? They knew that the higher-ups could not tolerate it any longer. This was a disaster brought on by Central TV's repeated live broadcasts of banned artists' works!
The person in charge of the program team, who had just been scolded by Zhang Ye, slumped into his chair!
Zhang Xiao, Liu Yuan, and the other contestants were all devastated. With Zhang Ye removed from the crosstalk competition, not only did they not receive the share of the popularity they were supposed to receive, they also lost the right to participate in the competition. This made them feel like they had been struck by lightning. They were all going crazy!
The one who was going crazy the most was Tang Dazhang. He was determined to get into the C-list celebrity rankings, but he was always pushed down by Zhang Ye. The semi-finals were coming up soon, and Tang Dazhang was the judge for the live broadcast of the semi-finals. But now, he did not even have a chance to appear in the crosstalk competition? He did not even have a chance to appear on live television?
Zhang Ye!
It was all because of that Zhang Ye!
At this moment, everyone thought of this jinx's name!
On this day.
The contestants were in pain!
The people of the crosstalk world were in pain!
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