Jiang Ling closely followed the matter.
She knew that for "Tian Jian Qun Xia" to become a classic, it wasn't just because Guan Suyia, a wealthy young lady, had leveraged her connections.
A more significant reason was the official tendency to compromise and avoid decisive action when handling problems.
This was particularly evident in matters of transportation.
When an elderly person fell and a passerby kindly stepped forward to help, they were sometimes falsely accused of staging an accident. Even after surveillance footage proved their innocence, the authorities often took a conciliatory approach, citing the elderly person's age to downplay the situation and avoid further investigation.
Similarly, the General Bureau saw how fiercely the parents had united to boycott the show, while a large number of young netizens had retaliated with their own actions.
If the authorities had shown too much favoritism towards the parents, the young netizens would undoubtedly have caused a stir, making sarcastic remarks online and accusing the officials of being inactive and merely puppets of the parents.
Conversely, if the matter were left unaddressed, the parents would certainly not back down.
Thus, the only option was compromise, a fifty-fifty split where "Tian Jian" would not be removed, but similar themed productions would be denied approval.
It was laughable that these capitalists believed they could manipulate public opinion and sway public sentiment.
They failed to realize that human nature was complex, with each party having its own considerations of interest. In the end, the results of repeated rounds of negotiation were often unexpected.
The now-classic "Tian Jian" was the product of such multi-faceted negotiation.
Although Jiang Ling offered no personal opinion on the matter, merely forwarding some meme emojis to express her anger, she harbored a simmering resentment.
These capitalists were like rats hiding in gutters, launching sneak attacks.
Lacking the ability to produce good dramas themselves, they could only churn out mass-produced, saccharine, cliché-ridden melodramas that disgusted people. They couldn't stand to see others succeed.
It was fortunate that Guan Suyia was the one producing "Tian Jian Qun Xia." With her wealthy background and a powerful husband, she hadn't been crushed by the capitalists.
The reason the entertainment industry deteriorated year by year, and good dramas became increasingly rare, was due to these people.
Jiang Ling knew that with her own strength, she couldn't possibly contend with so many capitalists simultaneously, yet she wanted to teach them a lesson.
If there was one genre that was most saturated with capital in the film and television industry, it was undoubtedly idol dramas.
The entertainment market was dominated by women, and female audiences were most fond of fantastical idol dramas.
The tropes of handsome men and beautiful women, the domineering CEO and the Cinderella, although cliché, remained enduring, attracting generation after generation of viewers.
And idol dramas were precisely where capital could intervene most effectively.
The core of an idol drama was its handsome and beautiful leads; acting skills were secondary. The key was that the male and female leads had to be attractive.
If the leads had satisfactory appearances, the drama was already half successful.
Conversely, if the leads were too unattractive, no matter how brilliant the plot, the audience wouldn't be able to watch it.
Capital's greatest strength was its ability to mass-produce handsome men and beautiful women through the trainee system, then cast them in idol dramas to gain fans and attract traffic.
The proliferation of youth idol dramas had resulted in a mixed bag of quality and abysmal acting.
Jiang Ling thought that after acting in so many historical dramas over the past two years, if the system could arrange a contemporary youth idol drama for her, she would definitely use her acting skills to severely strike these unscrupulous capitalists.
As she was contemplating this, her mind suddenly buzzed, and the system's mechanical, cold voice sounded.
[A classic has appeared, locking onto a character!]
[Ding! Character locked successfully. Congratulations to the host for obtaining the role of Ye Tianyu, the female lead in "The Prince Who Turns into a Frog."]