Tag 9 people you want to get to know better - thank you @failed221b-chill for the tag!
Three Ships:
YiZhan, ChongYun (Ji Chong x Xie Yun), NinoAi
First Ever Ship: EunHae (they ship themselves)
Last Song: Wanna Be - The Internet
Last Movie: Last movie I watched at home was Hero (the 2002 Zhang Yimou film - such gorgeous cinematography, as to be expected)
Last movie I watched in theatres was Wakanda Forever
Currently Reading: nothing, I miss reading 😥
Although I am in a 魔道祖师 reading group, so I guess that’s what I’m currently reading
Currently Watching: Winter Begonia
Currently Consuming: Coffee and preserved plum from the giant Xiao Zhan LiuLiuMei package that I got 😅
Currently Craving: Since CNY is coming up, I’m craving dumplings
Tagging the following (please feel free to ignore as I know not everyone likes these):
@xiaosean @accio-victuuri @zhansww @gege @yibo-best @muiiruen @jalpari @manhasetardis @steppingonyourshadow
Another week of them being suspicious in scheduling when their projects/works are released. Our best example so far is the timing of Bobo’s 3 films released vs GG’s 3 dramas so far. Look, we know that these things are planned out, especially for films and dramas — there are people who decide on that and ZZ & WYB’s don’t give the last word. Once they are done filming and all, it’s basically in the hands of other executives.
9/19 in the evening, around 7:00 PM fans noticed that Wind & Waves weibo account has updated and it went on hot search. Then XZS posts a bit later, a goodbye post to Shengyang + SBMS. So it’s like, Goodbye to SBMS era and it’s time for something new from WYB.
The next day, 9/20 : XZ had a livestream show for Loreal Pro in the evening. Nothing much on WYB’s side, only that Wind and Waves weibo shared IQIYI’s post, generating more excitement for it.
9/21, Redmi Note 13 press conference. WYB did not attend that in person but it’s still interesting that this is sandwiched between XZ’s “live events”. 9/20 = loreal and 9/22 = dove.
Anyway, the big thing for 9/21 ( and the reason that pushed me to make a post ) is the IQIYI conference. We already knew beforehand what time Wind & Waves material will be out. 10:30 and 10:35. They did post it on time and who posted after??? XZ. for Gucci. He had to, because Gucci will have a show in the evening.
For those who don’t follow posting times a lot, and in particular, XZ this may not make sense. But to those who do you may be one who 👀 on this. ZZ usually posts on his Weibo, when related to brands, during his birthday kadian 10:05 or 10:10. Sometimes 10:30. But he shared it by 10:45, making sure (allegedly) that he doesn’t coincide with the posts from WYB’s drama.
And well, 9/22 GG will have the Dove Chocolate appearance and I think Liuliumei on 9/24. If something comes up about WYB on 9/23 I will 🔪🔪.
This kind of pattern sometimes break for other things, especially with brands, since they endorse alot. Those cannot always be in sync but when it matters— we notice the timing.
When I think about it, I sometimes feel like we’re speculating too much but there’s been so many times it happened. not just this year or week. Maybe there is something going on behind the scenes in the industry where they don’t let certain people “compete”. Who knows. Since i’m a cpf, I will take this as candy. LOL. It’s an unspoken agreement between their teams. Bjyxszd. ❤️💛💚