Source: business people (ID: biz-leaders)
No one will criticize an entertainer’s college entrance examination score, but when Ma Jiaqi of Time Youth League apologized that his college entrance examination score failed to pass the cultural course score, it attracted an angry voice. Netizens dug up Ma Jiaqi’s past "personal design" and found that if it were not for the college entrance examination, this handsome teenager might still be playing the role of a schoolmaster.
Ma Jiaqi is the boy who sang "What is a Happy Planet". He was born in 2002 and began to participate in TV variety shows in 2011. At the age of 12, he was said to have been lured by his mother with a bicycle, and he successfully got into the "Happy Planet" crew to play the leading role. In 2017, he became a trainee of "TF family".
The TF family, which owns the idol group TFBOYS, aims to recruit young trainees. This "family" belongs to a company named Times Fengjun. TFBOYS is the first generation of this family, and Ma Jiaqi belongs to the second generation of this family. In 2018, Times Fengjun started the training of the third generation of trainees in the family.
Teenagers trained in the peak of the times are all handsome and handsome. In addition, Ma Jiaqi also loves reading very much. He holds photos of books on various occasions and is labeled as # Self-disciplined people are really terrible #, and topics related to Ma Jiaqi include # Finding a schoolmaster as an idol #.
Ma Jiaqi studied doctoral thesis and A Brief History of Mankind. According to "VogueMe", Ma Jiaqi is a perfect child from other people’s families in his parents’ mouth, and a proud pupil with excellent academic performance in the eyes of teachers. When speaking under the national flag, the noisy crowd always quieted down at the moment when he spoke, and studied by himself at noon. Both boys and girls would scramble to borrow his math notes.
As a result, Ma Jiaqi took the college entrance examination, scored 25 points in mathematics and 44 points in English, with a total score of 307. Before the college entrance examination, in Zhengzhou No.47 Middle School, where he was located, Ma Jiaqi’s photo of high-five with his teacher was sent to the official Weibo.
Zhengzhou No.47 Middle School is a public school in Henan Province. Ma Jiaqi once appeared in the school’s propaganda film and the enrollment brochure. After the Ma Jiaqi incident was fermented, the education group affiliated to Zhengzhou No.47 Middle School was questioned. In addition to No.47 Middle School and No.47 Middle School, the group also has two private middle schools and the International Department of No.47 Middle School. The existence of Ma Jiaqi is likely to become a living sign of the school’s income-generating projects.
Times Fengjun was founded in 2009 with a registered capital of 10 million yuan, and its founder was named Li Fei. According to the enterprise investigation, the major shareholder of Beijing Times Fengjun Culture and Art Development Co., Ltd., Wen Sufen, holds 80% and the second shareholder, Li Wen, holds 20%.
According to a large number of network data, Wen Sufen is Li Fei’s mother, Li Wen is Li Fei’s sister, and Li Fei himself was originally named Li Fei. Li Fei graduated from Central University of Finance and Economics with a master’s degree in research institute of Ministry of Finance, and once worked in securities investment. Later, he discovered the opportunity of idol industry and built TFBOYS in one fell swoop.
With the popularity of artists of Times Junfeng, Li Fei himself has enjoyed some star treatment. He has his own super talk on Weibo. He is often photographed surrounded by fans at the airport. Fans shout at him at the airport, be nice to such and such artists!
If fans think that their idols have been treated unfairly, Li Fei will be the first to be scolded. Can’t grab the concert tickets, scold Li Fei, idol didn’t stand in position C, scold Li Fei, # Li Fei has no heart # topic, once there were 126,000 discussions.
Li Fei was in charge of a peak era, which was once regarded as the "light of cultivation" for attaching importance to artists’ academic education. For example, Jackson Yee in TFBOYS was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama, Karry was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy, and Roy applied to the Berkeley Conservatory of Music.
After Ma Jiaqi’s college entrance examination results were exposed, his fans were first dissatisfied with the result of spending 300,000 yuan to make up lessons for Ma Jiaqi. Later, Ma Jiaqi’s support club official Bo Fa wrote a complaint against Times Fengjun, saying that in July 2019, fans raised 7 million yuan and handed it over to Times Fengjun, hoping that the company could train Ma Jiaqi well. As a result, Times Fengjun failed to fulfill his promise, and "now he still stabbed him."
Later, "Fengjun Culture" responded, stating that "Times Fengjun guides fans to raise funds" and "Times Fengjun illegally raises funds" are not true, and the company has repeatedly asked fans not to participate in any fund-raising activities.
The statement also mentioned that "in 2019 and 2020, our company adopted the method of selling virtual products to fans to help its artists or songs, and restricted the participation of fans in fund-raising by setting a single ID help ceiling", which Times Fengjun called normal business operations.
Ordinary people may find it hard to imagine how much money "mom powder" or "sister powder" is willing to spend for these cultivated idols.
Last year, two other members of the Times Youth League, Song Yaxuan and Liu Yaowen, performed a famous rock song "A piece of red cloth". The stage style and dance movements caused controversy at that time, but it was impossible for rock fans who were dissatisfied with this adaptation to think that this stage was made by fans of two teenagers and spent 5.5 million yuan on "crowdfunding".
The way of "crowdfunding" is through fanclub, which is also one of the main profit methods of Fengjun Times.
Fans join fanclub, pay membership fees and buy idol photos, music, videos, tickets, collectibles and so on. Fans spent 55 million "little sunflowers" (10 yuan =100 little sunflowers) in the fanclub to see A Red Cloth, which is 5.5 million yuan.
And this is only the second place in Krypton. In that competition, the fans of Time Youth League invested more than 15 million yuan. Last month, the physical album of Time Youth League exceeded 100 million yuan in sales after 119 hours of pre-sale.
If Ma Jiaqi crosses the line in the cultural course of the college entrance examination and ranks sixth in his professional course, he is likely to be an asset with more selling points in Times Fengjun, and the school tyrants created by Times Fengjun for him can be regarded as gambling in the right direction.
However, the establishment of schoolmasters in the entertainment circle often ends badly. Dr. Zhai Tianlin didn’t know why HowNet faded out of the film and television circle, but Jiang Yiyan, a talented woman, boasted that she had won the architect award. In the end, she could only apologize, saying that she would return to being an actress and "be a simple person".
The collapse of Ma Jiaqi’s schoolmaster may not make Ma Jiaqi bid farewell to the entertainment circle. Because for Times Fengjun, as long as the fans are there, this business will be established and it can continue to operate. In the days when TFBOYS were flying solo, people often asked, can Times Fengjun create a second TFBOYS?
This time, the confession of Ma Jiaqi’s fans responded well to this point: "Never abandon Ma Jiaqi, never give up ourselves, never leave him in a gloomy black life, and no one cares."
* The title picture is a video screenshot.