#GQ MOTY 2022

[stardancerluv]

So this was for sure a favorite look. It’s been awhile.

Enjoy some of these now in HQ. And if I’m honest a few of these I’ve never seen before.

@jamiethebanished

[accio-victuuri]

Bojunyixiao’s Weibo night 2023/2024 🎉🎉

can you believe we’re here again. no matter how problematic sina weibo is as a platform, their awards night is a day cpfs look forward to because our boys will be attending. even if we know they won’t interact or anything, the fact that they get to attend the same event is enough for us.

i will just include the recap for the past years on here, the 2019/2020 being very short cause i feel like that has been widely speculated and talked about already. then 2021 and 2022. this post will discuss the event and stuff that happened + some commentary + cpn clownery. enjoy!!!!!

I. CPFs team building and showing strength

It would not be fair to exclude this feat that cpfs achieved with the free tickets for Weibo night. Even if we had no idea if both of them will attend, cpfs tried to grab tickets just in case it happens so we will be prepared. In the first round, we surprised all other fan groups with how we dominated and it set the rhythm for the next rounds. Trust cpfs to set the trend and make other fandoms “wake up”. lol. They can say what they want about cpfs but we all know that part of the hate is because they do not understand why we’re still here. They don’t get why we are this strong and a happy group.

My favorite thing that happened was when the top profile photos spelled out BJYXSZD + heart with a mole. It doesn’t stop there tho, the next week/round, we still dominated so Sina Weibo tried to save face by doing some tactics to suppress us. Nevertheless, every week, more of us got tickets because of the help of our little turtle fandom.

There were also efforts to get top comments on Weibo Night posts but I won’t get into that anymore cause we usually do that. But the thought of showing strength “online” as what the boys advertised is sweet.

Years later, we are still as strong as ever and shall remain that way. and that’s all thanks to each and every turtle out there who chooses positivity & makes sure our community remains a safe space.

II. The anticipation and announcements

It’s safe to say that this year, XZ is a sure attendee cause he always tops the voting at this event. However, some were still not sure cause he did not attend other public events last year like 10c starlight or NYE events cause he is busy with filming his projects. On 1/10 evening tho, a rather unsavory rumor made it on HS which was a signal that weibo night was getting desperate and wanted some noise for their event. lol. maybe there are other parties involved, but the intent is the same. I will also just mention the issue that happened on 1/9 with Chunzhen and them withdrawing lottery tickets supposedly won by certain fans. But the next day, Weibo lottery decided to honor the win and gave the tickets. I have no reaction to this tbh, and that’s why i didn’t talk about this separately and at length on my blog. It’s the brand / fandom that i have nothing to do with’s issue. As a turtle, we all know how CZ is with certain things so i’m not surprised that this happened. LOL.

I honestly feel for XZ, he is out there working hard and minding his own business but people and circumstances keep dragging him into irrelevant incidents.

As for WYB, everyone thought he wasn’t gonna attend. This is the same energy as last year. People are busier with grabbing tickets for his SDC6 finals and completely ignored weibo night ( as they should ). There was still some hope tho, cause if you think about it, he attended a lot of platform events. Tencent, IQIYI, GQ MOTY and 2 NYE shows. So why not Weibo Night? I have said it before, but one thing that I loved about WYB attending multiple events by the end of last year was it’s a show of his position and professionalism in the industry. He can go anywhere and be welcomed — he has good relations with almost everyone and that is important in their industry.

I know he is not fond of public events, but i’d like to think he says yes because of his professional relationship with these platforms/companies. I was never a fan of when people flex that their fave “will not go to xx because they did something to him etc.” LOL. That’s not how any industry works. You can’t burn bridges and I’m happy that WYB doesn’t do that. It’s also a testament of how much of a good boy he is 🤍

Anyway, back to the timeline. On 1/10, Weibo announced some winners and the boys are on there. I guess One & Only winning was a clue that WYB will go. Then a so/o account gave a tip that WYB will announce his attendance to an event on 1/11 @ 13:00. So by the evening of 1/10, it was mostly confirmed that WYB will be going.

The next day, 1/11, Weibo Night account started posting emoji clues for the remaining celebrities to be added in their guest lineup. A few hours later, both the boys announced their attendance. What’s different this time tho is aside from the usual copy-paste caption, there is a reminder for everyone to not do any fan activities at the venue. more details was also added in the comment. I guess they don’t want a repeat of what happened last year with the crowds. It caused a delay & cancellation of the red carpet. Both XZS and YBO reposted with more guidelines to follow like no gatherings and light signs etc.

i know weibo dictated the posting time but the 13 kadian is sending me! yizhan! 🫶🏼

The BJYX ST mods also sent out a message to not do any offline support.

There are more fandom drama after the announcement with other groups but i won’t add that here anymore cause it will only rot our brain. && it’s so much better to focus on the boys!

III. Pre show discussion

On the eve of Weibo Night, GG attended an awards show and it gave us some sweet candy. The most interesting to me is the choice of Alexander McQueen and the first two celebrities tagged by the brand on their weibo in 2024. This is giving me Dsquared vibes. Also how it almost mirrors the wedding-ish vibes they had last Weibo night. I know we as cpfs are somehow programmed to seeing connections but honestly, they don’t make it hard.

Late at night too, Weibo started showing opening screens of attendees and of course they didn’t put them in the same group/frame. This is understandable cause they wouldn’t put the top male celebrities together and knowing how both their fandoms hate each other. Also, how the grouping went, WYB’s was more of the “movie group”. That won’t stop me from being a bit better tho. lol. Cause if they can’t put them in the same frame like that, there is just no way they will be on the same stage or even sat remotely close to each other.

A photo from inside the venue also showed the projected commercial on stage is WYB & Chunzhen 😂😂😂😂😂

I can just imagine XZ smiling when he sees.

There were also talks of the both of them being on the second row. XZ was already seated way before the ceremony started, and their names are so close but cpfs were anticipating since WYB was not inside yet. We were all waiting to see if it will happen. WYB is supposedly next to YZ but then we see that Jackson sat there. We joked that he should stay there so WYB’s place will be taken and he will have no choice but to sit next to XZ 😂😂😂

IV. Red Carpet shenanigans

🟢 WYB’s red carpet walk

I honestly didn’t get the whole look tho when some people pointed out that it’s the glam version of what he wears when he plays golf — i kinda got it. For his past platform events like GQ, IQIYI & 10C, his red carpet were really casual. I guess that’s what he wants — to be comfortable walking the carpet. There were also some praising him for going against the norm. Well, I have to say tho that his face really stood out. Minimal to no make up look. He was so handsome! 🫶🏼

🔴 XZ’s red carpet walk

I love his outfit! It’s black but still got that something special to make him stand out. &&& I honestly love the hair! I thought I would cry because of how short it is now but it suits him. I mean, he looks gorgeous in anything but you know what I mean ☺️

CPN: XZ signed his name beside/very close to WYB. granted, there are so many signatures there but i’m wondering if he recognized his husband’s signature. lol. In this simple way, they can be next to each other!

V. Weibo night links

XIAO ZHAN

Photoshoot for red carpet look

Photoshoot for second outfit

Xiao Zhan winning Outstanding Actor of the Year

WANG YIBO

Photoshoot for red carpet look // Photoshoot BTS video

Yibo winning popular filmmaker of the year

Yibo-Official post for Weibo Night

* This is incomplete cause we still don’t have ( at the moment of posting ), the BTS for XZS photoshoot + their photos while receiving the awards.

VI. THE SUGAR RUSH 🍭🍬

• WYB’s personal post of him and the caption. The freakin caption. Look, i know that WYB’s brand is all about being the “cool guy” so maybe that’s why he said in the caption that he likes the HS about him. But the thing is, it’s totally out of character. How many events did he attend with him going so high up the HS with much more interesting tags but he chose this? Also, he really needed to do so that he used his own account??? For a couple of years now, yibo-official is the one that posts for him when he is at an event. So the speculation is this one is personal and amused him so much, seeing that their HS for the same event they are both at matched! Also, when WYB posted that, CPFs flooded the top comments! Understandably so. 💛

• The signed photos which i’m not sure about. I actually saw someone post that earlier and people were clowning about how it can’t be real.

But then, an account posted a giveaway with all the other attendees and it included the couple photo. I’m putting this down as clownery, cause on their end there will always be deniability. The autographed photo was also deleted by the account a bit later, which is actually expected cause it will bring trouble. lol.

• XZS and YBO matching again! Look at how they arranged the photos. How a few of the snaps are not in theme with the rest. Nothing new here!

• The same song and dance of them missing to see each other. As soon as XZ was gone, WYB came in to sit down. Good thing he had Jackson to talk too a bit and he was gone again after 10 mins! Hopefully they could spend time together backstage away from the cameras. 📷

People are pointing out that XZ was checking his phone lol. probably checking if WYB is giving him a signal to leave so they can do their usual operation. These two! Honestly!

• Not really CPN, but a similarity. In the red carpet, both of them didn’t do the “activities” that others were supposed to. If you watched the red carpet, there is a point where they have to choose something from a wall with numbers. there is also a choice to take a photo from one of the “themes” by they both bypassed it. I was rolling my eyes cause a WYB anti was trying to make a big deal out of it, but then XZ did the exact same thing. Some people just don’t understand how celebrities like them operate. Not to say that they are above everyone else, it’s just that they do things differently.

• ZSWW fake rumor account posted at 19:21. At this time the red carpet was already finished. It doesn’t say who is saying which line. I’m interpreting this incident to be something that happened today backstage 🤡🤡🤡

"A kiss, a kiss...

"Oh, okay, let's talk about it later when we get back.”

"There will be a surprise when I go back 😏”

"What?"

“You'll know when you go back”

Then they posted again, at 21:05 with a much longer one but it doesn’t seem be pertaining to today’s events.

• There is a photo/video of XZ talking to Huang Bo! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! and now we’re thinking about how they haven’t cooperated with each other but seem familiar. Yes, we don’t know all their relationship and friends off camera but my mind immediately went to the SDC 3 clowning. That’s most likely when they became close. lol.

• Heaven’s choice cause WYB was sat at #23 ( Love Zhan )

• This time, both of them left the venue after they received their awards. XZ didn’t stay like he did the previous years. Good for them! It’s better to spend time together 🤍 I know that most of us expected what happened today, them not being in the same place at the same time. Tho some may see that in a negative way, I actually see this as an example of trying to keep their private life separate from the public. Tho a big part of their lives are on camera and that’s how they met. I think what they are doing is really to reserve the time they have & are seen together in private. Maybe some can’t see it that way and will be frustrated but at the end of the day, we have to respect their choice.

• XZ’s 2nd outfit is by Balmain! He tends to wear this at events that they both attend 🥹🥹🥹

• It’s now XZ’s turn to see the cpf headband light signs! Lol. I hope he saw it. We all know that he is near sighted sooooo….

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If there are post event CPNs, i will do a separate discussion. See you in the next Weibo Night! ✌🏼

[bumble66]

Alt-theory: Is Chris Evans being used as a merkin?

For people who don't know what a merkin is. It means a man who covers a lesbian celebrity's homosexuality.

Here is an old list of celebrity gay rumors for more information regarding merkins. The list is from 2003. So some of those people are already dead, yet it still shows that gay people on average have always been attracted to the arts and that's why lgbt is overrepresented in Hollywood: https://accountant247.tripod.com/gossip.html

Chris' fake wife is from Portugal and her name is Alba. When you look her up online it shows plenty of articles about her being in a romantic relationship with her best friend Justin, who is according to lipstick alley's Chris Evans fans a gay man because in the "Chris Evans Relationship Theories Part 10" thread, they claimed that in Alba's instagram post about the GQ MOTY awards, you can see his boyfriend tagged by her under "Styling".

example: https://thefamilynation.com/alba-baptista-justin-amorim

Her gay best friend Justin is a not-well known movie director. For what does he need a beard? It looks more that she was in need of a merkin. I mean, why else did her team post all these articles about her and Justin all the time in the past?

Another example:

(BTW, @ Chris and Alba's teams, I've already archived these articles online. So don't waste your time deleting them.)

After Justin, she was in a PR relationship with alleged gay man and actor Lucas Bravo. People claim he pings and I have to agree. Just watch some interviews of him on youtube. Lucas' gay rumors started when French Lucas fans read Alba's French wikipedia article because they were in a show together and prbly wanted more info about his co-stars:

TRANSLATION:

It confuses me though because unlike others of #TeamPR, who hates her guts and say she looks mid and compare her to a trout 🐟 because of her apparently fish-like looking mouth, I on the other hand find her pretty attractive. She is definitely a young hot chick men would like to date or hook up with. Sorry folks, I am just not in denial. Straight men find young women hot and that's why I don't buy the theory that a hetero-Chris would be ashamed of being seen with her publicly. LMAO which straight man would be ashamed of showing off a hot young woman as a wife??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 are you all high?

Anyway, in the wiki article above it mentions her movie roles, of which 6 of them are bi/lesbian roles. Coincidence?

I mean, even if you don't like her, you have to admit that a girl her age and with above average looks would have no problem finding a boyfriend of her own, yet she dates gay man after gay man and it could mean that Chris was just chosen as another meat shield.

Remember, she was supposed to be pushed too with her warrior nun show. When Chris and her had the New York pap walk in November 2022 when season 2 of her WN show premiered. So netflix apparently wanted her to make an A-lister too evidenced by the fact that they chose former A lister Chris Evans as a merkin for her. And through my blog you have found out that Hollywood is still homophobic so she needs to be presented as a heterosexual to the public.

I came up with that thought when an industry insider called Janet B on lipstick alley claimed she is a lesbian:

They call Alba Alabama because they don't want to give her google algorhythm points.

I have heard there have been lesbian rumors about her from more than a year ago. Does someone know more?

Everything above is alleged based on links and screenshots provided.

Edit:

Also, would Chris allow his wife to be so touchy-feely with her "ex"?

[vanimeiy]

#LinYun in second look for GQ 2023 MOTY Awards

#LinYun wearing Ronald van der Kemp 2022 autumn/winter haute couture dress for 2023 GQ MOTY event.

[tonin-terets]

Our tribute to Ukraine from Olga Studio on Vimeo.

A year of war has passed. It is difficult to deal with such impotence on all humanity facing this kind of scourge generated by a few inhuman people. In this way, we decided to pay our tribute to this misfortune country - Ukraine. The context of this piece had already been planned by Olga Studio as soon as the tragedy was confirmed. It was however, after a request from GQ Portugal to create a message in the form of a tribute to the Ukrainian people that we decided to carry out the project. The piece was formerly made for the GQ MOTY Awards 2022, which we now adapted for a general purpose. Our message is simple: a country is made of its people, not of buildings or pieces of land. And that's why we believe that, although such destruction, "it will always be Ukraine".

Минув рік війни. Важко впоратися з таким безсиллям для всього людства, яке стикається з таким лихом, породженим кількома нелюдськими людьми. Таким чином ми вирішили віддати належне цій нещасній країні – Україні. Контекст цього твору вже був спланований Ольгою Студією, щойно було підтверджено факт трагедії. Але після запиту GQ Portugal створити повідомлення у вигляді данини пам’яті українському народу ми вирішили реалізувати проект. Твір раніше створювався для GQ MOTY Awards 2022, а тепер ми адаптували його для загального використання. Наше послання просте: країна складається з людей, а не з будівель чи шматочків землі. І тому ми віримо, що хоч і такі нищення, але «завжди буде Україна».

[arquettecooke]

Custom type and layout - Josh Heuston for GQ Australia MOTY 2022 issue

[marvelouslizzie]

Charlie Cox’s perfect speech for Andrew Garfield at British GQ Men of the Year 2022 (x)

[rainbowsky]

[unsolved-duvall]

he’s my favourite person ever. look at him.

[lrwhalien]

[dorothy16]

britishgq GQ cover star Andrew Garfield takes a walk inside the House of MOTY.

[thatwasmyperfectending]

Wang Yibo - GQ Men Of The Year 2022

So gorgeous and cute 🥰

[esmew9785]

Wang Yibo

GQ Men of the Year 2022

15.12.2022

Cr.: 今夕时雨丨王一博

[vanimeiy]

#LinYun wearing Ronald van der Kemp 2022 autumn/winter haute couture dress for 2023 GQ MOTY event.

[mylittleponygrrl]

Bring the stars, bring the moon, bring the sun, and bring all the sparkle on you to be worthy of the starlight of a big star ✨💎

Wang Yibo GQ Men of the Year 2022

[arquettecooke]

Custom type and art direction for GQ Australia, Moty 2022 issue