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[bizarrequazar]

GJ and ZZH Updates — April 14-20

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This is part of a weekly series collecting updates from and relating to Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan.

This post is not wholly comprehensive and is intended as an overview, links provided lead to further details. Dates are in accordance with China Standard Time, the organization is chronological. My own biases on some things are reflected here. Anything I include that is not concretely known is indicated as such, and you’re welcome to do your own research and draw your own conclusions as you see fit. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or additions. :)

[Glossary of names and terms] [Masterlist of my posts about the situation with Zhang Zhehan]

04-14 → Gong Jun filmed an episode of Go Fighting!. (blue track suit)

→ The scam's "August" documentary was released. - The documentary mentions 813 in the vaguest sense, describing it only as cyberbullying. - Much of the voiceover is pushing the "poor sad man who can't take care of himself" narrative the scam has been using, and only focuses on Zhang Sanjian's music with barely a mention of Zhang Zhehan's career. - Almost none of the names listed in the credits are the full names of real people, with a lone exception being Xie Yihua; many are just generic or comedic nicknames that cannot be easily linked to a specific individual. [screenshot] - The YouTube link that whalers have been passing around is on an unofficial channel, with all ad revenue going to YouTube rather than the uploader. Whalers seem to be either ignorant of this or are ignoring it. There is speculation that it is so the scam can claim a financial loss on the project.

04-15 → Gong Jun filmed an episode of Go Fighting!. (clown mask)

→ PRSR posted a short commercial featuring Gong Jun.

04-16 → Gong Jun posted a promotional image for the upcoming Go Fighting! season. Caption: "Use your own unique way to awaken people's enthusiasm. This time I really refuse to accept it. I'm back with full firepower!" This was reposted by his studio with the added caption, "Go forward bravely, fearlessly! Starting from April 21st, @ Gong Jun Simon returns with firepower!"

→ The Instagram posted a video of "Zhang Zhehan" playing guitar.

→ PRSR posted a short commercial, a short behind the scenes video, and a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

04-17 → The Instagram posted seven photos of "Zhang Zhehan", advertising the "August" documentary.

→ PRSR posted a promotional video and a short commercial featuring Gong Jun.

→ Gong Jun's studio posted nine photos of him from the Fresh livestream. Caption: "Elegant, soft, and noble. @ Gong Jun Simon portrays a sharp demeanor, and his style is not stereotypical."

→ PRSR posted a video featuring Gong Jun. (minor flashing lights cw)

04-18 → PRSR posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ PRSR posted a short behind the scenes video featuring Gong Jun.

→ Yang Yang posted three photos of himself and Gong Jun from the previous day's livestream.

04-19 → Neil Gaiman reposted a BlueSky post that a whaler @'d him in linking the "August" documentary. He later deleted the repost after a number of us responded to him about it. In a small silver lining, his response to the whaler's post communicates that he still remembers what happened and thinks positively of Zhehan. (This humble post writer asks that no one bother Neil about this or Zhehan in general, Neil has already been bombarded by whalers on BlueSky over it.)

(Context: Neil's book Smoke and Mirrors became a bestseller in China back in July 2021 after Zhehan referenced the book in an Instagram post, and Neil tweeted positively about it. Later after 813, some people @'d him about some of the smears and Neil responded in Zhehan's defense, but quickly deleted the tweets after people let him know that the situation was delicate. The topic of Zhehan has not come up from him since aside from this new incident.)

→ Gong Jun posted a commercial he did for Zhenguoli.

→ PRSR posted two photos of Gong Jun, promoting the livestream half an hour later.

→ Gong Jun attended a livestream for PRSR. [full video]

→ At the same time as Gong Jun's livestream, the scam tried to hold a livestream of the "August" documentary on YouTube and an app funded by crypto currency. Prior to the stream, just over 100 viewers were waiting to watch. The YouTube stream reportedly got shut down for copyright infringement not long after starting.

→ Gong Jun's studio posted nine photos of him from the PRSR livestream. Caption: "Embark on a journey and embrace the comfort of summer, @ Gong Jun Simon is not afraid of the scorching sun, and has his own 'little treasure' to protect him!"

04-20 → Gong Jun's studio posted a behind the scenes video of his photoshoot for Zhenguoli.

→ OK! magazine posted a teaser image for their May issue featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)

→ PRSR posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

Additional Reading: → Blue has organized a charity fundraiser for Zhang Zhehan's birthday, this year for the Ching Tien Foundation! Giveaways offered by other fans are available for those who show proof of donation before 05-08. → I finally escaped the Chromebook hell I've been in since November that's been making it much more difficult to collect the info for these posts. Rejoice!

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[handlersandhumans]

Handlers and "Humans" Mechanics Masterpost

Here's a relatively complete masterpost of the mechanics/technologies of Handlers and Humans, as well as a few of the new players.

SPOILER WARNING for Handlers and "Humans" and Armored Core 6

C Wave Mutation: General term for sapient consciousnesses within the Coral, spontaneously generating from it.

Coral Flow: A phenomenon where the Coral microorganism was altered in the circumstances surrounding Rubicon III and Raven. Poorly understood, but hypothesized to be a link between as-of-yet uncounted disparate universes.

Coral Colony: A self-sustaining source of Coral, filtering in material from its surrounding environment and producing new Coral. Rarely forms C-Wave Mutations unless connected to larger bodies of Coral.

Liquid Coral: Coral that does not self-propagate unless connected to a living Coral Colony. Can still be used as fuel.

Inert Coral: Coral that has expended its energy, hardening into a crystalline substance that can be extremely toxic if inhaled or touched with bare skin. Hypotheses suggest that certain ways of burning Coral may cause harmless variants of Inert Coral.

Coral Combustion: The process of burning Coral to generate power. Can be done with liquid Coral, but with a Coral Colony it can be performed indefinitely provided that the Colony can access the necessary materials to grow.

Coral Siphoning: An alternative Coral Energy Source, generates power from the growth of Coral Colonies. Less powerful energy output than Coral Combustion, but considerably more humane.

Coral-Augmented Human: A human that has had their capabilities enhanced by Coral-sourced technology, allowing for a vast variability of enhanced capabilities. These include: Enhanced data processing, piloting aptitude, and memory recall; longevity due to replacement of organic tissues with more stable elements; theorized telepathy.

C-Weapon: Any weaponized vehicle or regular weapon made possible by the use of Coral. Does not have to be Coral-firing or Coral-based (Ex: Weevil Drones and Ghost/Antigen/KITE mechs) but merely has to incorporate Coral-sourced technology.

Stomata Facility: Clandestine facilities built by the Rubicon III Research institute for the storing of specially designed C-Weapons and for operational command.

IC Craft: A C-Weapon created with a similar design ethos to the modern Armored Core, designed to function piloted and unpiloted.

Interconnected Human: A project by Hal Schrafer, former head of the RRI. Stated goals were to create highly-augmented humans/humanoids suited to various high-criticality tasks related to the defense of Rubicon III. In actuality, the Interconnected Humans were designed to "tap in" to the Coral Flow phenomenon, theoretically allowing abilities such as precognition and analysis of alternate timelines.

IB-C02-MMP (Manned Mobile Platform): The 2nd set of IBIS series crafts, possessing high levels of airborne prowess and large loads of ranged weaponry. Bears a red-black design schema, oftentimes abandoning any humanoid shape.

IB-04-LLD (Last Line of Defense): A custom-built IBIS series designed for IH-18 Percolozoa. Bears a chrome and blue-silver color scheme, often employing stylized designs intended for use over long periods of time. Interestingly, the 04 line was never built, yet it exists in Stomata Facility Iota, including two that are modern ACs in everything but internal design. Radiocarbon dating suggests they were built before the modern parts that make them up were even designed.

IB-06-ECHO (External Coral Handling Operations): An odd set of IBIS craft, consisting of pink-white frames and an Ephemera headpiece on each. None of these crafts possess cockpits, and close analysis of the internals may cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness, stroke, internal bleeding, [DATA REDACTED ON ORDERS OF DR. SCHRAFER], reddening and peeling of the skin, open sores, acute Coral Exposure even while wearing proper PPE, and purpura in the eyes. IB-06: ECHO-4999999999999999999 possesses an anomalous resistance to damage and the strange property of creating 9-based imagery in areas around it. Further study required.

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Characters unique to Handlers and "Humans":

Hal Schrafer: Ex-head of the Rubicon III Research institute and father of Walter Schrafer, now Walter Nagai.

Celyria: A C-Wave Mutation encountered by Hal with knowledge of alternate timelines.

IH-04 Columbidae: An Interconnected Human with less invasive augmentation/design than the others. Possesses significant abilities in the departments of: Debate, Societal Planning, Social Interaction, and Infrastructure management. Nickname: Loverboy.

IH-09 Mantodea: An Interconnected Human that was never human in the first place. Instead a complex, Coral-based Artificial intelligence has been built into an android with realistic human features. Designed for Espionage, Assassination, Corporate and Governmental Warfare, and Advanced Planning. Nickname: Ghost.

IH-18 Percolozoa: An Interconnected Human blending human and mechanical parts, gone beyond the measures of standard human augmentation. Designed for Long-Term Combat, Tactical Command, Psychological Warfare, Advanced Hacking, and Piloting Skill. Nickname: Sweet-Tooth.

IH-27: Eurypharynx: A Coral Colony that has had human neurons grafted into it, housed within a humanoid robotic suit/shell/android. Designed for Advanced Combat Planning, Advanced Piloting Skill, Advanced Martial Capabilities, and Team Tactics. Nickname: Firebrand.

For Members of Overseer, that list will be created another time.

[zhongwans]

more wenzhou/LLD brainrot idk what the hell is going on anymore tbh: (PART THREE)

1. Jiangxi's Fire Department (from Zhang Zhehan's hometown) wished Gong Jun a Happy Father's Day on their official weibo. What is the context, you ask? It's likely a reference to one of Gong Jun's many nicknames within the fandom. And yes, the supposed "mother" is exactly who you think it is.

You'd think that after the end of all official promotions for WOH, their chaotic hometown weibo accounts would finally run out of excuses to make all these wild posts, but it's been months now. Apparently, peace was never an option.

2. ElleMen Magazine posted a feature about male celebrities and their "heart-thumping moves". For Gong Jun, they used his interactions with Zhang Zhehan as an example.

"In order to match the height of the other person, he lowers his head and slightly bends down. Just thinking about this picture, one's heart jumps out! For this, we have to cue Gong Jun. Although their height difference is just a few centimeters, he always bows his head everytime he listens to what Zhang-Laoshi has to say,"

"And the whole process is very natural, a completely subconscious reaction. During the recording of the variety show Ace Actress, Zhehan simply tapped Junzi and Junzi automatically lowered his head to listen to him,"

"Let's take a look at how the two usually look at each other. Well, the background music should be: "I smile as soon as I see you! Your elegant demeanor is so wonderful~"

If you have any questions don't even bother asking because nobody knows what the hell is going on.

3. Marie Claire's official weibo accidentally posted a photo of Zhang Zhehan in Gong Jun's supertopic. They realized their mistake half an hour later and corrected it, but it was too late and people were already clowning them in the comments section. #Marie Claire tags wrong supertopic trended on weibo.

People were trolling them nonstop in the comments, helpfully posting pictures of the two and pointing out "This is Gong Jun. This is Zhang Zhehan,"

Hundreds of variations of the same comment flooded the post's comment section. People were also tagging them in posts with the same joke. It seemed that Marie Claire's mistake managed to spawn a new meme.

Finally, to everyone's amusement, Marie Claire deleted their post. People assumed they couldn't take the thousands of people clowning them. Marie Claire, however, came back with a vengeance and straight up posted photos of GJ and ZZH together and captioned it "This is Zhang Zhehan, this is Gong Jun,"

Following the usual timeline of dangai dramas, everyone should be treating these two as "strangers" who should never appear in the same frame by now, but it seems that the brainrot is just too strong for these two.

c-ent industry: "ahahaha actually there are standards in place for things like this-"

everyone else: "YA'LL HEAR SUMN"

4. It seemed that Ifeng Entertainment caught a whiff of the newly spawned meme and decided to join in on the clownery. They tagged Zhang Zhehan's supertopic on a post calling him out for spraying sunscreen over his shades. They attached pictures of him, but one of those pictures was.......not like the rest.

Anyway, rules no longer apply. The brainrot has taken over. Everyone is confused. I'm confused. These people have all gone nuts.

[jeriafterdark]

Hello! I stumbled upon your account not long ago... I can't 😣🤲 I would like to read some candies or melons but I don't know where to find them. I would like to know if you plan to publish some... Or maybe you could recommend some accounts or something like that ❤️❤️❤️

Hi there! Welcome to the JunZhe/LLD fandom xD There are literally HUNDREDS if not a thousand candies involving them, so even I don't know them all lol. Of course, these are all observations from fans or facts on a timeline. They are unconfirmed, fun tidbits of what fans think happened between ZH and GJ and their true intentions are unknown and private to their own lives :). NOT that I'm saying some of these candies are not HARD candies, like, just no heterosexual explanation for them, but that's my disclaimer haha.

Here are some sources:

Xiaobabiiwawa's account lists a lot of candies, you can search through their twitter history by using advanced search on twitter and keywords, or go by dates. (I think she's moved onto the KinnPorsche fandom, but her history is all there). This is a link to their original list of candies from the Rainy Night group (one of the first LLD groups). Many of these candies, btw, ended up being confirmed such as ZZH staying in GJ's trailer during that rainy night. They are just SO sweet, I love re-reading this list every so often.

2. I go through a few June 2021 candies here.

3. This is from Feb 2022, Valentine's day candies from GJ.

4. Amber's twitter also compiles a ton of candies, I just went backwards on their timeline to see them :).

5. There was also a recent Twitter Space hosted by Blue/Flora where they discuss a lot of candies esp from the CN side! It's also very fun to listen to other people fan about JunZhe/LLD hahaha. They and Naanthots/88qilin on twitter tend to host a lot of twitter spaces for the fandom / for ZZH's case, I recommend those as well bc they're so interesting to listen to!

6. There's currently a LLDFest happening on twitter/tumblr right now, and we are all participating sharing what we love about them, sharing candies, sharing inspirational songs and such, it's very wholesome and positive! This is my twitter if you'd like to drop by, come check it out!!

My personal list of candies are organized into folders, but I have a folder for every month from like 2020 WOH filming to Now, so it's JUST SO MUCH lol. I can't list them alllll it would take me ages!

Thanks for asking, hope you to see you around!

[jjheejz]

About Internet Water Army in the case

This is an ongoing update about the case from start to development. List of all related posts can be found on this blog's pinned post (link provided at bottom of each post as well).

19 August 2021 update: Added the scale of his success for reference, before bonus below

18 August 2021 update: Added timeline of events, orange title in post, found out the official English term for Immoral Media = Internet Water Army)

Major updates since first draft: Added bonus, added disclaimer, certain info details

Originally posted on 16 August 2021

[The purpose of this post is to provide a perspective as to why the Media is raised/blamed regarding the issue. Especially for international fans, as all the encounters happened on Weibo. Also, those who were on weibo, do read through if you will. So although it's lengthy, do try to read all, at least if not the last two parts].

The Media referred by most, is not the common perception of the Entertainment Industry (celebrities, directors, shows, channels, staff etc), but the dark side of the Entertainment industry: Antis, toxic fans, toxic marketing accounts. They are called Internet Water Army💧.

Toxic Marketing Accounts is one of the things they do, these accounts on Weibo has millions of followers, each of their post likes are in the hundred thousands (buyable) to give credibility to passer-bys. Some use similar names to Official accounts, some use similar logos. Their posts are usually subjective or aims to steer view points of a certain celebrity/movie/show. Before the latest update of this post (18.08.21), I just group them all together and term them as Immoral Media*.

*Below is my original post using my original term because at point of first draft, I did not know the official term (so have changed/added the term from Immoral Media to Internet Water Army in content below but retain the content based off first draft).

If you have chased before celebrities, or just simply passed by an article about certain celebrities, recall how some title that caught your attentions were like. Clickbaits is one of the many things they do. If GZ is your first and you do not have Weibo, then this read(link) is good enough.

Just as the term Immoral Media (Internet Water Army), it’s immoral and unethical, but they exists because they are paid to do so. Who pays them? Entertainment Companies, and maybe other Organisations

Normal Media/Marketing vs Immoral Media/Toxic Marketing/Internet Water Army

When a show or movie comes out, the normal Marketing department will generate outreach and buzz so that people know a show is airing soon/know the show exists etc. Official announcements are not enough, because there isn’t much context (limited content to put up as well) so having some other Marketing accounts do the buzz in a planned period to gain awareness through posts, some articles about the casts, the plot summary, the production details etc is normal. This is Marketing, bigger companies will probably have stronger Marketing departments (aka influence) and can hire more Marketing accounts to generate buzz. Celebrities (aka casts) themselves, are also Marketing point.

Then we have the Internet Water Army/Immoral Media, these are what they mainly do:

Create Fanfiction-rumors: Creating rumors about celebrities to shift audience perception of them. [eg. XX was seen with XX leaving a hotel, XX was drunk on Event Y and did ZZZ to AA, XX is dating BB and has been in a relationship for N years etc]

Honing their brain degrading skills: Come up with titled clickbait headings/ trending topics with negative written contents. For articles, exceptionally out of heading content related to the celebrity. [Refer to Baidu, it’s a winner of these, feel free to Google Translate]

Regressing their common sense and understanding skills: Take everything a celebrity does completely out of context in a negative way and create a topic out of it [eg. XX said AA is a ---, “XX raised his finger, a sign of ---?”, XX pushed BB aggressively on Variety Show Y - A competition variety show, XX is in beef with CC because XX was caught giving CC the eye]

Using their fingers to stir shit and bathe each other in it: Escalate all smallest form of possible tension created by fans/themselves into a huge thing by acting as the fandom's fans/lurk in fandom chat groups, and voicing their disguised opinion to spread tension/exaggerate severity of the issue [eg. XX fans mocked AA - in groupchats: tbh I've never liked AA before, AA just gives off a vibe that I dont like and now this? It just disgusts me even more > Yea, i feel this way too. AA has problems / XX Lurkers expressing views on XX about NN, slowly to NNMHFXW - XX did NNMHGT - I cannot accept NNmHfHw, I'm leaving = multiply by 1000++]

Epitome of a self-deteriorate: Creating something out of nothing and react to that something negatively to gain massive attention/reaction [eg. “XX raised his hand on show Y” - dk what XX fans are thinking, are they literally blind? XX fans are tasteless just like XX hahaha / “XX did community service” - they are acting / “XX breathed” - From the start, i thought XX was NN, but I am so ZZZ that XX breathed. Goodbye fandom, i’m leaving. Those who still want to stay I urge you to rethink your life choices] - if I may add, Xiao Zhan’s fanfiction case as well. 

Metaphor - Ability to use bare hands to collect paychecks from the urinal/toilet bowl where their boss/client peed in: Doing all of the above.

Apologies for any term offense, but not apologetic of the term context. This is what they do for a living. Any normal human being who do not like anything, will generally not be interested at anything about it in the first place, so to have some antis/toxic fans knowing certain things and inside jokes/references in their posts questions their goal.

On involved in Internet Water Army/Immoral Media 💧

Fans on weibo during these few months witnessed many of the above on GZ. From rumored girlfriend (spammed with articles) to mean and nasty comments on trending topics, to bouts of insults and fake emotional cryouts by certain fan accounts that GZ's office has to release a number of Lawyer’s letter to them. 

Aside from WOH there were also a few other BL adaptation films that were actually released this year but they did not reach exponential success like WOH. BL adaptations are so highly followed by because this is the key to wealth. Literally. Successful BLs like The Untamed and  Dao Mu Bi Ji saw the amount of wealth fans are willing to spend on the celebrity as compared to say BG or idols (younger fan groups). This is why when WOH shot up exponentially, Immoral Media start to sweat.

Major anticipated adaptations were supposed to air this year eg. Hao Yi Xing(HYX), Sha Po Lang(SPL) etc but was severely held back due to the stricter change in BL adaptations submitting their scripts for approval regulations (WOH manage to submit earlier before the change). Because of this, most final films were rejected and they have to keep re-editing, by then WOH was already months into reaping tonnes of major brand endorsements, shows/movie casting, variety show appearances etc, something that is seen as too successful in the Immoral Media’s eyes, because they have to create buzz for other celebrities, some are specific celebrity oriented and thus circulate rumors about having endorsement opportunities shifted from celebrity X to GZ (think fanfiction-rumors and shit stirrer) causes tension in celebrity fandoms. - A real event just in July:

The Untamed’s cp fandom is called BJYX which had always been in the Top 1 of Cps for 2 years dropped for awhile to Top 2, over taken by LLD. Both of them had a war and hated each fandom, one fandom is somehow not allowed to like the other fandom even casually after everything broke out because it started out with some BJYX toxics photoshopped GZ on of portraits .

Also another case of which he wore the same costume as WYB did in a previous photoshoot and it became a useless comparison of who wore better, who looks better, degrading the other. (Finger stirring shit).

Now apply all of the above things the Internet Water Army do and we have them earning money, while both fandom reacts and hate each other.

In LLD, our own fans started suspecting each other on who is a spy from BJYX and what not.

The first few months of Internet Water Army saw LLDs mostly mocking them because the average age is 30-40s, they know and see through all of their intentions so nothing was big. They were trumpeting and LLDs didn’t even care, what with all the doing tedious stats was not even important to them.

Over time, as the issues they create became more and more serious LLDs did start to care, reporting Toxic Marketing accounts/toxic fans became a daily task, go vote for GZ at certain polls etc, solo fans, and LLD fans also split apart. Solo fans think cp fans use GZ to furnish their fantasies, and cp fans thinks they are the ones furnishing their dreaming-girls fantasy with (aka my boyfriend).

There was also a period where LLD had a habit of continuously mentioning “we are in the 30-40s so we can see through everything about the media, we are all fans for the first time, we are good at spending money (because of purchase power compared to other fandoms)” it was prevalent for so long it felt odd, ‘chasing celebrities the first time’ in particular sounds more vulnerable as a weakness than a strength / sth to be proud of.

Gradually, more secretive/insider confirmed ‘sweets’ were flying around. Fans advised each other to not circulate, and the mindset of “if you know, you know, dont tell.” (This is a problematic mentality, of which fans will still be curious to know and search for it themselves, but this secretive hook is unhealthy. Over the long term, it becomes hard for existing fans to know a lot of things properly to judge for themselves, especially those who knew and publicly reacted, but blasting those who ask and telling those who know to keep quiet, this did not help some to understand why on certain things, even so for international fans, dont know and dont understand, causing misunderstandings. Yes, certain information should not be shared, so why should you react about it publicly in the first place? - Internet Water Army effect)

The last few months (for example the July fan war) created a tonne of seriousness and anger. A period even broke out with a tonne of ‘insider confirmed sweets’ (which is LLD’s daily dose of happiness), it was hard to tell what was real and what was fake. Trending topics became negative and everyone warned each other not to enter because it will give the trends ‘views’ and trend statistics, in reality entering there is to enter an exhibition by the self-deteriorates, collecting the fandom's traffic data (it's a sure lose for fans each time they enter the topic). Everyone even starts thinking that the trend’s popularity was caused by each other (it's true but it can be bought daily and not caused by fans). There was a raise in the number of fans who were getting emotional because they want to protect but Internet Water Army kept coming and got worse, because fans, tbh, not just GZ fans, every other celebrity’s fans are always fighting with an Army, getting played and plotted in that Army's calendar.

Even so, despite all of these, LLD is actually a fandom Internet Water Army may find the hardest to break because they understand GZ so much, they could tell what are fake news regarding GZ, because among everything above, there are still plenty of logical fans to stop many fans from drifting too far and debunking them. Why? 30-40s are grown up adults.

Why 13.8.21 and the Japan issue is plotted?

First of all, in the political climate of China, there are many political dates in a month that is NO-Entertainment news. Because it’s the honoring of certain important political events. It’s like Remembrance Day, thus the sensitivity is higher. On these days, there are usually no news and even the Internet Water Army zip their pants. This year also marks the 100th year of the Chinese Communist Party(link)

Secondly, he had no work schedule on 13 August 2021. A great full day to focus on any other news (because if he had schedules, everyone will turn their attention to his events, what trumpeting outside is just bird chirps). 

Thirdly, when the news broke out, especially about the shrine, the reception was actually quite serious within the fandom so the scale of this might be big but to what extent in reality?

Lastly, 15.8.21 marks the 76th anniversary of the announcement of surrender of Japanese in World War 2(link). Also a day of NO-Entertainment news. 

Timeline of events:

13.8.21 - [His rest day, Eve of Chinese Valentine's Day, Japan News broke out] His rest day, no schedules = increased attention about him online. Lowered guard among fans because they are getting ready for tomorrow's Chinese Valentine's sweets = Caught off guard = Huge break out of fans' reactions

14.8.21 - [Chinese Valentine's Day, Eve of the 75th Anniversary of the announcement of Japanese surrender] Keep a wishful and happy demenaor to not destroy the mood, suppressed thoughts about ZZH's Japan news

15.8.21 - [75th Anniversary of the announcement of Japanese surrender, Official announcement of ZZH's boycott and all China social media account ban] NO-Entertainment news day, Solemn day, not allowed to voice anything so the fandom can only wait for tomorrow to start voicing out/debunking but before they can wait out, the boycott and social media ban happened, every official accounts about him was gone overnight, fans had no time to react

17.8.21 - [All official fandom accounts related to ZZH and JunZhe were locked/removed]

Forced to be silent since the day his matter broke out, over the course of official news release with everything taken down in a day because of the Japan correspondence, his accounts banned overnight across the Chinese media and the overnight cancellation, fans could not speak anything about it. Overnight cancellation like this scale happened for the first time in China, leaving no time to react by the fandom, by the time they can, they are silenced.

When the period of events occured within a set of special dates, it’s not coincidence.

Conclusion

Because he was too successful and had many actually honorable past things, and a hard to influence fandom, Internet Water Army view him as a huge threat enough to want to destroy him, because it’s hard to defeat. With a chance they have, they will hold it till the end, bringing up this issue to the Government during this period also shows a sign of how scared they were of him and perhaps his fandom to plot something like this.

Updated on 19 August: Here's a screenshot of assumed calculation on the scale of GZ success for reference while chatting with a fellow fan, assuming GJ also has 27 brands, and there are 1000 brands. Rationale of numbers used: Only big brands can hire big celebrities.

Bonus

Mentioned in the first post, will mention again in case. After the news broke out within 2 days, there was a drop on his weibo followers from 18.9mil to 18.7mil. 200k+ drops, if the politics was such a big national issue, there should at least be a huge drop, even at least a million right? Because weibo is a China-Chinese majority right? Nope, we get a puny 200k drop.

What's funny? The self-deteroriates:

Translation: "Are his fans bought? Why didnt he drop fans? Those people got brainwashed to this point?" / "I've never entered his weibo and today i feel like having a look yet it showed I've followed him. All his fans were bought right? It disgusts me, i immediately unfollowed. This kind of process is worse than WYF..." / "i dropped fans because of him...no...I just reposted 2 posts and I've dropped 4 fans?"

Isn't the tone and regressing brain cells, all too familiar and same?

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Added above, will remind again to read this link. It has an even more in-depth knowledge on who are paying them.

So what should we do? Link here

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[shandian-go]

March 2022 Arrivals

Status: Please wait until AFTER both the 'Sorted' and 'Packed' statuses are at 100% on the Status spreadsheet before contacting me to ask about your arrivals. If you haven't received your second payment e-mail yet and the status hasn't reached 100%, it just means your orders are in queue for sorting/packing

Heavy items (expect higher shipping costs): All LLD photobook sets, TGCF Vol 3-4 (Taiwan Version), SHL Wu Style photobook

Large items (expect higher shipping costs): MDZS Minidolls, MDZS Qing Cang figurines (New Year + Moon Festival), TGCF Minidoll travel pillows, TGCF Xie Lian Birthday set, CQL Moon Festival set, SHL Wu Style box set

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The Unlisted Fandoms Challenge continues!

There have been 10 new fandoms written in since the last UFC update -

Ace Attorney series

Band of Brothers

Enchanted Forest Chronicles

Fairy Tail

Fire Emblem Awakening

LLD

Magnificent 7

Prodigal Son

The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune

Timeless

- bringing the total number of write in fandoms to 131.

No change in the top spot, but SK8 the Infinity has nabbed second place by one signup. Lucifer has jumped up into the mix for third place, and both London Spy and Omnicient Reader's Viewpoint have joined the four-way tie for fifth place.

With 4 days left to sign up as a creator for FTH2022, there is still time for one of these fandoms — or some other unlisted fandom — to shake things up!

Full list of write in fandoms under the cut -

12�� SVSSS (Scum Villain's Self Saving System)

6  SK8 the Infinity

5  Lucifer (TV)

5  Rusty Quill Gaming Podcast

5  The Terror (TV 2018)

4  Anne with an E / Anne of Green Gables

4  Bleach

4  Hunter X Hunter

4  The Maze Runner

3  House M.D.

3  London Spy

3  Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint

3  Roswell New Mexico

2  9-1-1 Lone Star

2  Cosmere - Stormlight Archive (Brandon Sanderson)

2  Eerie Indiana

2  Gilmore Girls

2  Grace and Frankie

2  Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie

2  Musicals

2  Parasol Protectorate

2  Pokemon (Games)

2  Red White and Royal Blue

2  Spartacus

2  Succession

2  Tamora Pierce works

2  Ted Lasso

2  The Green Hornet

2  The Hour

2  The Last Kingdom

2  The Lone Ranger

2  Tortall

2  Tower of God

2  Transformers Prime G1 IDW and Animated

2  Trash of the Count's Family (Lout of the Count's Family)

2  Yu Yu Hakusho

1  Ace Attorney series

1  Actor RPF (any combo of Luca - Marwan - Ale - Matthias)

1  All American

1  Ballet Canon (eg Swan Lake/Giselle/La Sylphide)

1  Banana Fish

1  Band of Brothers

1  Bioshock 1&2

1  Black Sails

1  Black Summer

1  Cowboy Bebop (Netflix 2021)

1  Death Note

1  Destiny 2

1  Dice Punks

1  Digimon

1  Dimension 20

1  Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

1  Dragon Ball

1  Dragonriders of Pern Series - Anne McCaffrey

1  Enchanted Forest Chronicles

1  Erha /2ha /Husky and His White Cat Shizun

1  Euphoria

1  Fairy Tail

1  Fear Street

1  Fire Emblem Awakening

1  Formula 1 RPF

1  Fruits Basket

1  Generation Kill

1  Giselle (ballet)

1  Golden Kamuy

1  Greedfall

1  Grimm

1  Gris (Video Game)

1  Hamilton

1  Happiest Season (movie)

1  Hot Fuzz

1  Inuyasha

1  Jujutsu Kaisen

1  Jurassic Park/Jurassic World (movie trilogies)

1  Justified

1  LLD

1  Lord Peter Wimsey

1  Magnificent 7

1  Major Grom

1  Malevolent (podcast)

1  Megamind (2010)

1  Minecraft: Story Mode

1  Miss Marple/Marple

1  Mob Psycho 100

1  Nancy Drew (TV 2019)

1  Naomi Novik - Temeraire series

1  Nine Worlds - Victoria Goddard

1  October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire

1  One Direction

1  Order of the Stick

1  Outlast games

1  Pacific Rim

1  Pathologic

1  Peaky Blinders (BBC)

1  Prodigal Son

1  Sanditon (TV 2019)

1  Shadow and Bone (TV)

1  Slayers (Hajime Kanzaka)

1  Smallville

1  Smile For Me

1  South Park

1  Spinning Silver (Naomi Novik)

1  Spiritpact/Ling Qi

1  Stargate: Atlantis

1  Suits (TV) - Marvey

1  T. Kingfisher Clocktaur Duology and Paladin Romances

1  The Disastrous Life Of Saiki K.

1  The Goblin Emperor

1  The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune

1  The Iliad/The Song of Achilles

1  The Legend of Drizzt

1  The Man From UNCLE (TV)

1  The Murderbot Diaries

1  The Penumbra Podcast

1  The Queen's Thief

1  The Walking Dead (TV)

1  Tianbao Fuyao Lu

1  Timeless

1  To the Moon (video game series)

1  Umbrella Academy

1  Undertale

1  Veronica Mars

1  Wander over Yonder

1  What We Do In The Shadows

1  White Collar

1  Wynonna Earp (TV series)

1  X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)

1  Yakuza/Ryuu Ga Gotoku

1  Yona of the Dawn

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Basic Information About C Language [Updated]

Do you want to learn basic information about the c Language?

Yes!

That’s great.

This article is the right choice for you.

Here, I will provide you all the basic information about C language.

Introduction Of C Language

C is a high-level computer programming language.

Usually, this language is designed to be compiled with a relatively simple compiler.

It provides low-level access to memory.

So, it requires minimum runtime support to process instructions.

It is also known as:

Mother programming language

System programming language

Mid-level programming language

Procedure-oriented programming language

Structured programming language

If you learn this language, another programming language is easy to understand for you.

History Of C Language

It is interesting to know the history of the C language.

Here, I discuss a brief history of the c language.

It was originally invented by Dennis Ritchie in 1972 at AT & T’s Bell Laboratory in the USA.

It was primarily developed to writing UNIX operating system.

Gradually, it becomes a very popular programming language in the worldwide.

It has been standardized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) since 1989 and subsequently by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

Timeline of C language development

Version NameYearDeveloperC1972Dennis RitchieK&R C1978Brian Kernighan & Dennis RitchieANSI C1989ANSI CommitteeISO C1990ISO CommitteeC991999Standardization CommitteeC112011Standardization CommitteeC182017/2018Standardization Committee

Features Of C Language

There are different types of features are available in the C language.

All the features are not possible to mention in one article.

Although, some of the key features are mentioned here:

Fast and Efficient

Easy to Extend

Procedural Language

Simple and clean style

Middle-Level Language

Low-level access to memory

Libraries with rich Functions

Rich set of built-in Operators

A simple set of keywords

Support memory management

These features make C language suitable for system programs like an operating system or compiler development.

Later programming languages have borrowed syntaxes and features directly or indirectly from C language.

Java, PHP, JavaScript, and many other programming languages are mainly based on C language.

Note: C++ is almost a superset of C (very few programs can be compiled with C, but not with C++).

Data Types

Each variable contains a specific data type.

Data types are used to define the data storage format.

Each data type requires different amounts of memory space and has some specific features.

There are mainly 4 data types that are mostly used in c programming.

Those are described here.

int: It is used to store an integer type value (numbers).

char: It stores a single character (alphabets).

float: It is used to store decimal numbers (floating-point value) with single precision.

double: It is also used to store decimal numbers (floating-point value) with double precision.

An int is signed by default.

It means it can represent both positive and negative values.

On the other hand, an unsigned int can never be negative.

All data types are listed here.

Data TypeMemory (Bytes)RangeFormat specifiershort int2-32768 to 32767%hdunsigned short int20 to 65535%huunsigned int40 to 4294967295%uint4-2147483648 to 2147483647%dlong int8-2147483648 to 2147483647%ldunsigned long int80 to 4294967295%lulong long int8-(2^63) to (2^63)-1%lldunsigned long long int80 to 18446744073709551615%llusigned char1-128 to 127%cunsigned char10 to 255%cfloat4%fdouble8%lflong double16%Lf

You can also use the sizeof() operator to check the size of any variable.

Variables

A variable is a simple word or letter that allocates some space in memory.

Basically, a variable used to store some different types of data.

Different types of variables require different amounts of memory and have some specific set of operations that can be applied to them.

/* example of declaring variable*/int a; //Here a is integer type variablechar b; // Here b is character type variablefloat c; // Here c is float type variable

Rules For Defining Variables

A variable can have any alphabet, digit, and underscore.

A variable name must start only with the alphabet, and underscore. It can’t start with a digit.

No space is allowed within the variable name.

A variable name can not be any reserved word or keyword. (e.g. int, void, etc.)

Arrays

An array is a data structure that contains the same types of data items.

A variable can carry only one data item at a time.

If you want to store multiple data items in a data type, you need to use an array.

You can not initialize an array with more elements than the specified size.

The specified size is declared to the left of the variable between the third brackets.

A one-dimensional array is like a row list.

On the other hand, a two-dimensional (2D) array is like a table.

Arrays consist of contiguous memory locations.

Array Declaration

1. Array declaration by specifying the size

int a[5];

2. Array declaration by initializing the elements

int a[] = { 10, 20, 30, 40 };

3. Array declaration by specifying the size and initializing the elements

int arr[5] = { 10, 20, 30, 40 };

Note: You can use While or For loops to add values in the variables.

Pointers

A pointer is a variable that stores the address of another variable.

For example, an integer variable stores an integer value, however an integer pointer stores the address of an integer variable.

We use the unary operator & (ampersand) that returns the address of a variable.

#include <stdio.h> int main() { int x; printf("%p", &x); return 0; }

Here, &x print the address of variable x.

Keywords

Keywords are specific reserved words in C which attached with a specific feature.

The list of keywords includes almost all the words that can help us to use the functionality of the C language.

C does not contain very large number of keywords.

However, there are 32 keywords are available in C98 language.

autobreakcasecharconstcontinuedefaultdodoubleelseenumexternfloatforgotoifintlongregisterreturnshortsignedsizeofstaticstructswitchtypedefunionunsignedvoidvolatilewhile

C99 reserved five more keywords.

_Bool_Imaginaryrestrict_Complexinline

C11 reserved seven more keywords.

_Alignas_Atomic_Noreturn_Thread_local_Alignof_Generic_Static_assert

Most of the recently reserved words begin with an underscore followed by a capital letter.

Because identifiers of that form were previously reserved by the C standard for use only by implementations.

Operators

C supports a rich set of operators, which are different types of symbols.

Each operator performs a specific operation with a variable.

All operators are listed in the following table.

Operator NameOperator SymbolArithmetic+, -, *, /, %assignment=augmented assignment+=, -=, *=, /=, %=, &=, |=, ^=, <<=, >>=bitwise logic~, &, |, ^bitwise shifts<<, >>boolean logic!, &&, ||conditional evaluation? :equality testing==, !=calling functions( )increment and decrement++, —member selection., ->object sizesizeoforder relations<, <=, >, >=reference and dereference&, *, [ ]sequencing,subexpression grouping( )type conversion(typename)

These operators tell the compiler to perform specific mathematical or logical operations.

Memory Management

The most important function of a programming language is to provide facilities for managing memory and objects that are stored in memory.

C language provides 3 unique ways to allocate memory for objects.

Static Memory Allocation

This is an allocation technique that allocates a fixed amount of memory during compile time.

Dynamic Memory Allocation

This is also an allocation technique that manages system memory at runtime.

Automatic Memory Allocation

When you declare an automatic variable (such as a function argument or a local variable), then it happens.

Libraries

Library functions are inbuilt functions in C language that are grouped together in common files. This file is called the C standard library.

Each library provides specific functions to perform specific operations.

We can use these library functions to get the pre-defined output instead of writing your own huge complex code to get those outputs.

All C standard library functions are declared in header files which are saved as filename.h.

We are including the library in the header files in our C program.

#include<filename.h>

The command allow to use of the functions that are declared in the header files.

Basic Structure Of C Program

A set of rules is defined for the C programs that are called protocols.

The protocols help us to design the basic structure of a program.

Here, I mentioned the basic structure of a C program.

Documentation section

Link section

Definition section

Global declaration section

Main function section

Sub-program section

All C programmers must follow the protocols when writing any program.

Let’s discuss all the basic structure sections of a C program.

Documentation Section

The documentation section is a part of the program where the programmers provide the details about the program.

In this section programmers usually give the name of the program and the details related to the program.

This code gives an overview of the program.

//program name/*This is aC Program*/

Link Section

This section is used to declare all the header files that will be used in the program.

It tells the compiler to link the header files to the system library.

#include<stdio.h>

Definition Section

In this section, we can define different types of constants.

The keyword define is used to define a constant value in this part.

#define PI=3.14

Global Declaration Section

All the global variables are declared in this section.

User-defined functions are also declared in this section of the code.

int a,b,c;

Main Function Section

Every C-programs must have the main function.

The main function contains 2 parts.

1. Declaration Part: All the variables are declared in this part.

2. Execution Part: This part starts with the curly brackets and ends with the curly close bracket.

Both the declaration and the execution part are writing inside the curly braces.

int main(){int a=5;printf(" %d", a);return 0;}

Sub-program Section

All user-defined functions are defined in this section.

int add(int a, int b){return a+b;}

Hello World C Program

This is the source code of a basic “Hello World” Program.

#include<stdio.h>int main(){/*First basic C Program*/printf("Hello World.");getch();return 0;}

After compiling the source code the output will be the following:

Output:

Hello World.

Explanation of “Hello World” C Program

Here, I explained each line of the “Hello World” C program.

#include <stdio.h>

This is a preprocessor command that includes the input header file from the C library before compiling a program.

int main()

This is the main function of executing any C program begins.

{

It represents the beginning of the main program.

/*First basic C Program*/

If any words exist inside the command /* and */ in any C program that won’t be considered for compilation and execution. This is also called a comment line.

printf(“Hello World.“);

The printf command displays the words in the quote on the screen.

getch();

This function is used to hold the output screen and wait until the user gives any type of input. So that we are able to see the output on the screen.

return 0;

Here, the return is a keyword that is used to return some value from a function.

The main function returns an integer value, therefore here we are returning 0.

It means our program has been run successfully and we terminate our main function with this return statement.

}

It represents the ending of the main program.

Create a C Program

Are you want to create and execute a C programs yourself?

Then you need to follow the instructions:

At first, you need to install a C supported IDE (Integrated Development Environment) on your computer.

Once the IDE is installed on your computer, you can open and create a C program.

If you don’t want to install the IDE on your computer, you can use an online compiler or IDE.

The good thing about the online compiler is it can compile C, C++, C#, Java, and many other programming languages.

We also provide some links to the online and offline IDE in this article that can help you to create and execute your C program easily.

Best IDE For C

You can create and edit C programs with any code editor or even a general editor.

Yet, it is very important to choose the best IDE for beginners.

If the IDE is integrated with the C compiler, the process of creating and compiling the C program will be easier.

Anyway, we collect some best IDE for c program that can help you to write and execute any c program easily.

Here are some collection,

Run C Program Online

Onlinegdb IDE

Tutorialspoint IDE

Rextester IDE

Run C Program On Android Phone

TruboCdroid

Cxxdroid

TurboCPlus

CppDroid

Run C Program On Windows

Turbo C++

Dev C++

Code::Blocks IDE

Run C Program In Mac OS

Turbo C++

Code::Blocks IDE

Run C Program In Linux

Code::Blocks IDE

Choose the best IDE that makes you comfortable to create and edit the C program.

Thus, your programming skills will increase and you will be able to create any program within a few minutes.

Advantages Of C Language

It is one of the most useful programming languages when the system requires quick and direct access to the hardware.

C is the most commonly used system with limited resources (such as memory).

Where performance is the most important attribute, C is the best choice for programmers.

Disadvantages Of C Language

C does not support OOP (Object-oriented programming) concepts, that’s why C++ is developed.

There is no runtime checking ability in the C language. It only does compile-time checking.

It does not support the concept of the namespace. We cannot declare two variables of the same name without namespace.

It does not have the concept of constructor and destructor.

Uses Of C Language

There are different types of uses of C language in programming.

Some uses are the following:

C mainly used to develop system software, operating systems, BIOS, Embedded Systems, Real-time systems.

To develop application software like databases (MySQL) and 3D software (Autodesk Maya).

Used to create graphical related applications like computers and mobile games.

To evaluate any types of logical and mathematical equations using c language.

UNIX kernel is completely made in C Language.

The language is used to design different language compilers.

Conclusion

The C language doesn’t seem to have an expiration date.

It has a closeness to the hardware, great portability, and deterministic usage of resources.

For these features, it is the ideal programming language for low-level development of things like operating system kernels and embedded software.

Its good performance, efficiency, and versatility make it an excellent choice to develop highly complex data manipulation software like MySQL, 3D animation, and more.

C is still unsurpassed where performance is the main priority.

I hope now you know all the basic information about the C language.

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Liquid handling pump selection: a guide for lab automation engineers

From the perspective of a lab automation systems engineer, specifying the optimal liquid handling pump and associated fluidic components is often central to the design process, especially for products that will be used in a clinical lab or other highly regulated environments. What questions should you ask in order to select a pump that can handle all of your system’s intended applications? Here’s what our liquid handling experts from Tecan's OEM Partnering team have to say.

Liquid handling pump technology is central to growing life science and diagnostics markets

These are exciting times for human health and the diagnostics markets. Over recent years, advances in science and workflow automation have enabled the transition of assays from manual processing to automated solutions placed in laboratories and, increasingly, to the physician’s practice. In the US alone, the existing IVD market is expected to expand by a 6.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2018 and 20251, while within the same time frame molecular diagnostics and next-generation sequencing (NGS) markets are anticipated to expand by 12.1% and 20% CAGR, respectively.2,3 Liquid dispensing and fluidics are at the heart of many of today’s most critical diagnostic applications and laboratory workflows. Consequently, when it comes to systems design and integration, the choice of liquid handling pump can often make or break the success of a lab automation project. If your product will be used in a clinical lab or other highly regulated environment, the right pump choice becomes even more crucial.

Choosing the right pump for automated liquid handling is all about asking the right questions

During the development phase of a lab automation project, it is key for engineers to venture into the scientific aspects of the application in order to understand the workflow requirements and the characteristics of the fluids in use. Once equipped with this knowledge, selecting the right pump for your application will be much easier. But knowing which questions to ask to get to the heart of your pump requirements is not always an easy task, especially when it comes to automating complex and sensitive life science applications. To make that job a little easier, I’ve curated some of the top questions and tips that automated liquid handling systems engineers should take into consideration when developing liquid handling solutions for applications such as NGS and clinical diagnostic testing.

Fluid considerations

1. What are the characteristics of the fluids that will be used?

Chemical compatibility of the fluids that will come into contact with the “wet parts” of the system is an important consideration. Read our previous blog “Six tips to help match your liquid handling components with chemical compatibility” to learn more about how to mitigate chemical compatibility risks.

2. What is the viscosity of the liquid?

Viscosity influences system design and pump selection due to its impact on throughput and liquid handling parameters.  Liquids with high viscosity require slow pump speeds and dwell time after every aspiration or dispense to allow the fluid column to completely settle.  Additional washing or priming may also be required between samples.  Care should be taken during pump integration and system testing to define liquid class parameters such that pressures generated during pump operation do not exceed specified or functional limits.

3. What are the volumes that will be dispensed?

Consider the smallest and largest volumes to be pipetted. In general, smaller syringes maximize accuracy for small volumes. If your application requires multiple aspirations or multiple dispenses, a larger syringe will allow more aliquots. NOTE: For optimal precision and accuracy, the syringe size should not exceed 100 times the smallest sample volume. For example, a 10 µL sample should be limited to a 1,000 µL syringe or smaller.

4. What is the source vessel?

Is your sample aspirated from a vacuum-capped collection tube or an open tube? Aspiration from a closed source vessel may require use of a vented tip and careful tuning of pipetting parameters to optimize liquid handling performance. Pipetting from a septum-capped collection tube will require slower aspiration speeds.

5. How much volume will be passing through the pump? (μL, mL, L)?

In general, syringe pumps or piston pumps are used for discrete or routine pipetting. For operations involving large fluid volumes, tubing priming, or wash procedures, high-velocity membrane pumps push liquid through the tip at a flow rate of 100-200 mL/min, providing fast and effective washing to enable faster processing times.

6. Is sample cross-contamination a primary application concern?

There are two common approaches typically used to eliminate or avoid carryover.

Fixed tips are commonly used in pipetting, diluting, and dispensing applications such as sequencing, LC-MS, microfluidics, flow cytometry, and surface plasmon resonance (SPR). With fixed tips, wash cycles can be added to eliminate carryover. This requires careful protocol design, implementation, and validation to ensure success.

Disposable tips ensure zero carry-over for applications such as molecular diagnostics and cell culture. With disposable tips there is no need to wash between samples; simply dispose of the tips after each use.

7. What is the conductivity of your liquid?

Liquid level detection (LLD) is important to ensure accurate aspiration of liquid and to minimize carryover. If liquid adheres to the outside of the tip, those droplets may contaminate the next liquid or the sample that the tip touches.

Since LLD is generally based on detecting capacitance changes, the conductivity and volume of the liquid as well as the lab ware used can all influence detection. The detection speed and range of the sensitivity used for detecting these liquids are also dependent on these factors.

8. Is your application vulnerable to pulsation?

Some applications such as SPR, flow cytometry, particle counting, particle sizing or digital PCR are based on real-time analytical measurements or monitoring of samples passing by a detection device. They require a liquid handling pump with steady liquid flow with very low pulsation to deliver fluids to slow fluid columns. For these types of applications, consider using a pump that has a high-resolution drive mechanism and micro-stepping drive electronics that enable flow rates at the nanoliter-per-second scale with low pulsation.

Designing for reliability

9. How much routine maintenance downtime is acceptable?

Integrating reliable and durable components into your system is always essential to minimize downtime and timelines for clinical development projects. Read our previous blog “How to secure long-term performance of OEM components for automated liquid handling” to learn more about this topic.

Rapid advancements in clinical diagnostic testing tools are driving the need for ongoing innovation in automated liquid handling technology. Careful selection of the best pump for your application can simplify your development process and help speed up your time to market in this rapidly evolving environment.

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GJ and ZZH Updates — May 12-18

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This is part of a weekly series collecting updates from and relating to Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan.

This post is not wholly comprehensive and is intended as an overview, links provided lead to further details. Dates are in accordance with China Standard Time, the organization is chronological. My own biases on some things are reflected here. Anything I include that is not concretely known is indicated as such, and you’re welcome to do your own research and draw your own conclusions as you see fit. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or additions. :)

[Glossary of names and terms] [Masterlist of my posts about the situation with Zhang Zhehan]

05-12 → Gong Jun reposted a post in memory of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Added caption: "I have never forgotten it in the past 16 years. Bless Wenchuan with everlasting life." The same was also reposted by his studio, added caption: "Remember the pain and pay tribute to the new life. May the world be well and the country and the people be safe."

→ Gong Jun's studio posted fourteen photos from Go Fighting! episode 4. Caption: "Unlocking the limited baby-raising day! The clown brother @ Gong Jun Simon battles wits and courage with the kid brother, slaying the whole audience~ 😎 Please look forward to more exciting things"

→ Go Fighting! episode 4 aired. [full ep with subs]

→ Gong Jun Outdoor Office posted three memes of him from the Go Fighting! episode.

05-13 → Za posted a commercial featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)

→ The Instagram posted ten photos of "Zhang Zhehan" running.

→ PRSR posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

05-14 → Nothing of note.

05-15 → Gong Jun posted a commercial he did for Messika, announcing himself as their new spokesperson. (1129 kadian) Caption: "Delighted to join forces with Parisian fine jewelry brand @ Messika. Please follow me to explore the charm of sliding diamonds and experience the 'new attitude of diamonds' together." He also posted this to his Instagram, caption: "Shine bright like a diamond." (originally in English)

→ Messika posted two photo ads [1] [2] featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian on the first)

→ The Instagram posted five photos of "Zhang Zhehan" running and two photos of feet, because Hewitt can't resist sharing his fetish.

05-16 → Gong Jun posted four photos from his ad campaign with Messika to his Xiao Hong Shu. Caption: "Ouch See you at Cannes, the next stop for work photos ✌️" One of these was also crossposted to both his and Messika's Instagrams.

→ One of the antis sued by Gong Jun is currently being restricted from high consumption (ie. not allowed to use first-class public services) for not complying with court orders. The anti in question had been running over 20 different accounts that he used to promote Zhang Sanjian and other associated people, and to harass and post malicious content about Gong Jun. No prior history of him being a Zhang Zhehan fan has been found, strongly suggesting that he was paid to run these accounts.

05-17 → Two photo ads Gong Jun did for Tissot were crossposted both both their Instagram and his.

→ The Instagram posted five photos of "Zhang Zhehan" and five of scenery.

→ Gong Jun attended the Cannes Film Festival, where he walked the red carpet for Kinds of Kindness. Fan Observation: At one point some fans in the audience yelled "Ba!" In videos, you can see Gong Jun smile and wave at them. 🥺

→ Jia Nailiang posted a silly douyin of himself and Gong Jun. Caption: "Why is our transition by clinking glasses different from others?"

→ Gong Jun posted nine photos of himself in Cannes. Caption: "Encounter with a widdle pubby." These were also posted to his Instagram, caption: "Wandering in Cannes. 🐶🐶🐶" (originally in English)

05-18 → Gong Jun's studio posted another six photos of him in Cannes. Caption: "A classic suit style paired with a unique hand-made corsage (feat. Children of the Stars), @ Gong Jun Simon's inspiration is unfettered, warm and healing, listening to the sound of every lonely universe turning."

→ L'Oreal posted a video of Gong Jun arriving in Cannes.

→ Za posted a promotional video spoken by Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)

→ Gong Jun's studio posted six photos of him in the red carpet at Cannes. Caption: "Red carpet moments! The beautiful southern France and the gentle breeze illuminate the character of the gentleman @ Gong Jun Simon."

→ Gong Jun's studio posted a behind the scenes video from the photoshoot at Cannes. Caption: "The beach? The market! @ Gong Jun Simon’s citywalk has its own ideas 😎"

Additional Reading: → The novel This Time It's Real by Ann Liang was discovered to include several mentions of Gong Jun, specifically in the context of him being an example of a beautiful man. → Something I'm able to include here because I'm late lol: It has been announced that Gong Jun's drama Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Red Moon Chapter will premiere on iQiyi on 05-23.

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ERROL

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TAYBANK STABLES

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ERROL CHURCH

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CHURCH 2

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HILL OF EARL

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http://www.errolpark.co.uk/ https://archive.is/erJ97

http://www.errolpark.co.uk/photos/ https://archive.is/ZSftv

http://www.errolpark.co.uk/house/timeline/ https://archive.is/uZQxA

Errol Enterprises Estate http://www.errolenterprises.co.uk/

Managing Director: Jamie Heriot Maitland

http://www.errolenterprises.co.uk/contact-us/ https://archive.is/3l8Yh

Timebomb that left Kat blind and in a wheelchair at just 28: A mother’s moving account of a disorder that affects one in 100 20 December 2011

Kat Heriot Maitland with husband Jamie & son Louis

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2076286/Kat-Heriot-Maitland-left-blind-wheelchair-just-28-stroke.html https://archive.is/TYbR2

Aristocrat found with stash of illegal ammunition 10th June 2015

“Heriot Maitland, 36, Errol Park House, Errol, admitted having 51 .22 rounds of ammunition when his firearms certificate was limited to 500 .17 calibre bullets at his home on 6 September 2014.

He denied having cocaine at Perth police station, and behaving in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear and alarm by repeatedly shouting and swearing and behaving in a disorderly manner in South Street on the same day. The Crown accepted his not guilty pleas to those charges.

Solicitor Scott Flannigan, defending, said his client had been “forgetful” and asked the court to consider a testimonial from Heriot Maitland’s cousin, the Earl of Dundee.“

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13412365.Aristocrat_found_with_stash_of_illegal_ammunition/ https://archive.is/njbY5

Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee 3 May 1902 – 29 June 1983 https://archive.is/1v043

A Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician. Dundee was the elder son of Colonel Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, de jure 10th Earl of Dundee, and Edith, daughter of John Moffat. He was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union in October 1924. He graduated with a Master of Arts degree in 1926.

Having left Oxford he joined the army, rising to the rank of Captain in the 7th battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment). Dundee was elected Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for West Renfrewshire from 1931 until 1945. He was appointed to be PPS to the President of Eden’s board for two years before moving to the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1935 he was PPS to the Secretary of State for Scotland before being promoted as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland until the outbreak of the war. He served in the Second World War as an officer with the 7th Battalion, The Black Watch from 1939 to 1941, leaving with the rank of Captain.

Lord Scrymgeour was wounded so returned to London politics. He was briefly Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1941 to 1942. He was chosen as a member of the parliamentary delegation to China just as Japanese soldiers stormed Singapore. The delegates promised to offer the Chinese military support in a broader alliance to fight the occupation of Manchuria.

On 31 July 1952 the Scrymgeour family’s claim to title of Dudhope and Scymgeour in the Scottish peerage were accepted by the Lords Committee for Privileges; and again on 18 May 1953 his claim to the earldom of Dundee and Lord Innerkeithing was affirmed. On 30 July 1954 he was created Baron Glassary, of Glassary in the County of Argyll, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, giving him an automatic seat in the House of Lords (not guaranteed by his Scottish peerages).

Macmillan chose Dundee minister without portfolio from 1958 to 1961 owing to a wealth of experiences at home and abroad. Dundee was successfully promoted to number two in the Foreign Office as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1961 to 1964. Simultaneously he was Assistant Deputy Leader of the House of Lords from 1960 to 1962 and as Deputy Leader of the House of Lords from 1962 to 1964. In 1959 he was appointed a Privy Counsellor.

Lord Dundee was also the Hereditary Royal Standard-Bearer for Scotland, a right established by his father before the Court of Claims in 1902. He was decorated with the award of Order of the Brilliant Star of China (with Special Cravat). He was awarded an honorary LLD bySt Andrews University in 1954.[1]

Lord Dundee married his sister-in-law Patricia Katherine Montagu Douglas Scott, granddaughter of William Henry Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch on 30 October 1946. She had previously been married to his brother. She was in fact the widow of not one but two soldiers, both of whom were killed-in-action: Lt.-Col. Walter Douglas Faulkner MC of the Irish Guards (k.May 1940), and Lord Dundee’s younger brother David Scrymgeour-Wedderburn DSO of the Scots Guards (1912–1944), with each of whom she had two children.

Lord and Lady Dundee had one child. The current 12th Earl of Dundee (born 5 June 1949). Lady Dundee died on 3 Dec 2012 at the age of 102.[2]

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F21821

Sir William Ogilvy Dalgleish of Errol Park (1832–1913)

Lady Ogilvy Dalgleish of Errol Park (d.1922)

ERROL, PERTHSHIRE ERROL TAYBANK STABLES ERROL CHURCH CHURCH 2 HILL OF EARL

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GJ and ZZH Updates — March 3-9

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This is part of a weekly series collecting updates from and relating to Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan.

This post is not wholly comprehensive and is intended as an overview, links provided lead to further details. Dates are in accordance with China Standard Time, the organization is chronological. My own biases on some things are reflected here. Anything I include that is not concretely known is indicated as such, and you’re welcome to do your own research and draw your own conclusions as you see fit. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or additions. :)

[Glossary of names and terms] [Masterlist of my posts about the situation with Zhang Zhehan]

03-03 → The whaler MistyRose posted a screenshot of account stats that can only be seen by the account holder for the official Ranyi Music YouTube channel (associated with the Zhang Sanjian songs.) This suggests that at the least she has some insider connection with the scam that allowed her to receive the screenshot personally, and it's possible that she's the one running the account herself.

→ 361° posted two photo ads featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)

→ Za posted another teaser photo ad featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)

→ The Instagram posted six photos of "Zhang Zhehan" and "Zhang Mama" and four of an aquarium.

03-04 → Gong Jun posted a commercial for the makeup brand Za, announcing that he is their new global spokesperson. This was reposted by his studio.

→ Za posted five photo ads featuring Gong Jun. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] (1129 kadian on the first)

→ The Instagram posted a video of the most recent scam concert.

→ Za held a livestream to promote the new endorsement with Gong Jun. During this, a number of people with obviously CPF usernames won several giveaways, and the streamer reportedly said "Oh [you're] also a fan of Zhehan" to one of them. Sources: [1] [2]

→ 361° posted a promotional video featuring Gong Jun. Fan Observation: The video shows him colouring flowers in with red. In the final shot one flower is still left uncoloured, recalling Zhou Zishu's plum blossom mural in Word of Honor.

03-05 → Za posted a promotional video (1129 kadian) and two photo ads [1] [2] featuring Gong Jun.

→ 361° posted three photo ads featuring Gong Jun.

→ Za posted three wallpapers featuring Gong Jun.

03-06 → Gong Jun posted five photos ads of himself for L'Oreal.

→ Za posted a promotional video featuring Gong Jun.

→ Some of the old essays posted by Zhang Sanjian at the very beginning of the scam (early 2022) were reposted, but edited to remove the implications against Gong Jun and CPFs. It's been discussed quite bit by now that trying to appeal to solo fans at the expense of CPFs so early on was the scam's biggest mistake, as it caused CPFs to become sceptical and begin investigations. This is not the first time that the scam has shown signs of wanting to backtrack on that move.

03-07 → The Fox Spirit Matchmaker Weibo posted a promotional image of Gong Jun's character to celebrate the show reaching 4 million viewer reservations. Caption: "Refreshing and clear, with eyebrows like poetry. Dongfang Yuechu @ Gong Jun Simon seems to be the person in the painting."

→ Gong Jun posted a short commercial for Za to his Douyin. Fan Observation: The product is called Magnetic (贴贴, tietie) Powder, the same word fans use for how Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan would often bump against each other when they were working together. I could be wrong, but I couldn't find any evidence of this product existing prior to Gong Jun's endorsement.

→ Gong Jun's studio posted a little video celebrating Fox Spirit Matchmaker's milestone. Caption: "Pure fire is invincible🔥Candied haws never leaves the hand✌️ #Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Red Moon Chapter has more than 4 million reservations#, @ Gong Jun Simon's new mission props are now distributed!" The same was also posted to the studio's Douyin.

→ Za posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

03-08 → Gong Jun posted four photo ads he did for L'Oreal to his Xiao Hong Shu.

→ GXG posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ 361° posted a video voiced by Gong Jun for International Women's Day. (1129 kadian)

→ Za posted a behind the scenes video of their commercial featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)

→ Gong Jun posted four photos of himself. Caption: "Happy holidays! Also share my half-day leisure 😌"

→ Za posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ Gong Jun posted a silly video of himself to his Douyin. Caption: "I heard that this is how millions of people move their mirrors 🤳" BGM is What You Won't Do For Love by Bobby Caldwell.

03-09 → The scam announced a short film entitled "August" directed by "Zhang Zhehan", using footage that the scam gang took during the bike trip in August 2022. The intention of this is very obviously to have search results for the film come up with information about 813.

Additional Reading: → N/A

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GJ and ZZH Updates — April 28-May 04

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This is part of a weekly series collecting updates from and relating to Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan.

This post is not wholly comprehensive and is intended as an overview, links provided lead to further details. Dates are in accordance with China Standard Time, the organization is chronological. My own biases on some things are reflected here. Anything I include that is not concretely known is indicated as such, and you’re welcome to do your own research and draw your own conclusions as you see fit. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or additions. :)

[Glossary of names and terms] [Masterlist of my posts about the situation with Zhang Zhehan]

04-28 → Flora posted some findings regarding an account that the Instagram recently started following. The account is one that looks legit at first glance, but upon closer inspection is deep into scams itself.

→ The Go Fighting! Weibo posted a solo image of Gong Jun from the episode that would air that evening.

→ Yang Yang posted five photos of himself and Gong Jun from the previous day's 361° live event.

→ Gong Jun posted six photos of himself from the filming of Go Fighting! episode 2. Caption: "I haven't been a big brother for many years."

→ Gong Jun posted a douyin from the above photoshoot. Caption: "Is this what it smells like? #My spring collection# The joy of spring starts from going out."

→ 361° posted a video from the previous day's live event. Fan Observation: The audience members visible in the video are almost exclusively solo fans, with the one shot that includes CPFs having them blurred out. (see 04-27 for additional info)

→ Gong Jun's studio posted fifteen photos of him from the filming of Go Fighting! episode 2. Caption: "Cross the sea of ​​fire and protect the forests and farms. Lock in on Go Fighting! at 9 o'clock tonight on Dragon TV @ Gong Jun Simon will return for a limited time to experience an ordinary day as a forest fire fighter."

→ Episode 2 of Go Fighting! season 10 aired. [full ep with subs]

04-29 → GXG posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ Gong Jun posted a behind the scenes video from his ad campaign with Tissot. (1129 kadian) Caption: "Summer is here! ... Let’s ride the wind and waves together and be trendy all summer"

→ Tissot posted four photos ads of Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)

04-30 → Gong Jun filmed an episode for Hello Saturday.

→ The Instagram posted a video promoting the scam's "August" documentary.

05-01 → 361° posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ PRSR posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ The Instagram posted a video of "Zhang Zhehan" playing instruments.

→ The movie Formed Police Unit, which Zhang Zhehan was cut from after 813, premiered in theatres to largely negative reviews.

05-02 → Nothing of note.

05-03 → Colorkey posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ Gong Jun's studio posted a photo of Gong Jun's silhouette, teasing his performance at Li Ronghao's concert shortly after. Caption: "A preview."

→ Gong Jun posted seven photos and two live photos his pre-concert photoshoot, later editing it to add two photos of him on stage with Li Ronghao. Caption: "@ Li Ronghao Hello, mentor, I am trainee No. 888, please turn around for me." Li Ronghao reposted this with the added caption, "Full marks for Xiao Gong's debut 🤗🤗🤗", to which Gong Jun replied, "Xiao Gong is happy again"

→ Gong Jun's studio posted six photos from the same shoot. Caption: "It dropped! @ Gong Jun Simon's one-day idol experience card!"

→ Gong Jun's studio posted a video of him singing off stage at the concert. Caption: "Xiao Gong @ Gong Jun Simon is singing hotly🎤"

→ Gong Jun Outdoor Office posted four live photos from the photoshoot. Caption: "A blast for Xiao Gong trainee No. 888 @ Gong Jun Simon!🤗💙🤗💙🤗💙"

→ Gong Jun's studio posted fourteen photos of him performing at the concert. Caption: "Your sweet smile is just like dark plum sauce~ @ Gong Jun Simon's bling bling singing wishes everyone a good night 🤗💙"

→ Gong Jun Outdoor Office posted a five minute video of Gong Jun's performance. Caption: "The lark Xiao Gong @ Gong Jun Simon raises his voice and shoots directly (star chasing winner version)"

05-04 → Gong Jun posted a douyin from his pre-concert photoshoot. Caption: "I woke up laughing, hahahahahahaha!"

→ Li Ronghao posted photos from his concert the previous day, including three with Gong Jun. Caption: "Thank you Harbin. We have all received your enthusiasm so highly. Thank you also Gong Jun for accepting the invitation to sing "Dark Plum Sauce" with me. He is really a simple and clear boy who leaves a impression. See you next time, Harbin.​​​" Gong Jun commented on this, "Happy, thank you ge, see you next time"

→ Gong Jun posted eight photos from the pre-concert shoot to his Xiao Hong Shu. Caption: "I made my debut! Yesterday only!"

→ Gong Jun's studio posted a behind the scenes video from the pre-concert shoot. Caption: "Pink holiday, unrestricted dreamy moments from @ Gong Jun Simon~" They later posted another to their Douyin, caption: "Gong Jun loves to change things and bring surprises, open @ Gong Jun Simon’s card (idol version)🪄"

Additional Reading: → A reminder Blue has a charity fundraiser going for Zhang Zhehan's birthday! Giveaways are still available for those who show proof of donation before 05-08.

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GJ and ZZH Updates — January 28-February 3

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This is part of a weekly series collecting updates from and relating to Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan.

This post is not wholly comprehensive and is intended as an overview, links provided lead to further details. Dates are in accordance with China Standard Time, the organization is chronological. My own biases on some things are reflected here. Anything I include that is not concretely known is indicated as such, and you’re welcome to do your own research and draw your own conclusions as you see fit. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or additions. :)

[Glossary of names and terms] [Masterlist of my posts about the situation with Zhang Zhehan]

01-28 → Nothing of note.

01-29 → 361° posted two photo ads featuring Gong Jun.

01-30 → L'Oreal posted a promotional video spoken by Gong Jun.

→ BEAST posted a commercial featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)

→ Gong Jun Outdoor Office posted a behind the scenes video from Gong Jun's shoot with BEAST. Caption: "Whose eyes are locked on yours?"

→ The Instagram posted a video of "Zhang Zhehan".

→ Gong Jun's studio posted a behind the scenes video from the same shoot. Caption: "The flowers are in full bloom and the gold is flowing. @ Gong Jun Simon presents auspicious spring colours in the garden, and everything welcomes the new year."

→ Vogue posted a photo of Gong Jun.

01-31 → 361° posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ Gong Jun posted a photo from the BEAST shoot to his Instagram. Caption: "Bright love from BEAST."

→ Fresh posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ The Instagram posted two photos of "Zhang Zhehan".

→ Not directly related to anything, but a good comparative: A couple convicted in 2021 for the of the deaths of two toddlers were executed. Immediately following the execution, the mother of the toddlers posted a video where she talked about receiving online harassment because of the case for the last three years, stating that she had maintained her silence for sake of not interfering in the trial, and that she will now be suing those responsible for the cyberviolence.

02-01 → Gong Jun posted six miscellaneous photos. Caption: "Photos taken casually." Fan Observation: The first among these has become the latest photos that people are comparing silhouettes to, owing to the ear in it looking distinctly larger than Gong Jun's.

→ PRSR posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ Gong Jun reposted a post announcing the premiere of My Special Girl, which stars Song Yiren whom he costarred with in Flavour It's Yours.

02-02 → The scam released another song.

→ The BL drama The Spirealm (aka Kaleidoscope of Death) was suddenly released on streaming platforms only to be pulled shortly thereafter due to competition interference. #There's a light on you, I want to catch it and see#, the line from Word of Honor, appeared on Weibo hotsearch in connection to the show including the first half of the line in one of its episodes; the hotsearch was likely bought to draw attention to the show, and the original novel does not include any line similar to this. Whalers tried to post photos of Zhang Sanjian to the tag; these were reported down en masse by CPFs, who then flooded the tag with positive content.

→ Zhang Sanjian wandered conspicuously around an airport again, this time in a knock-off of the Alexander McQueen suit Zhang Zhehan wore to the 2021 Weibo Night awards. A reminder that even if it wasn't hilariously obvious that it's not the same suit, designer outfits worn by celebrities are almost always rented for single events.

→ China Literary Art and Volunteers posted a video featuring Gong Jun giving New Years well wishes.

02-03 → Gong Jun's studio posted four behind the scenes photos from the vampire-themed photoshoot back in November. Caption: "Behind-the-scenes footage dropped~ @ Gong Jun Simon Open your eyes + close your eyes = super bright eyes 📸"

→ Rare posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)

→ Gong Jun posted a commercial for Fresh to his Instagram.

Additional Reading: → N/A

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GJ and ZZH Updates — December 31-January 6

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And we're back! Sorry for the break between posts, thank you all for your patience.

This is part of a weekly series collecting updates from and relating to Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan.

This post is not wholly comprehensive and is intended as an overview, links provided lead to further details. Dates are in accordance with China Standard Time, the organization is chronological. My own biases on some things are reflected here. Anything I include that is not concretely known is indicated as such, and you’re welcome to do your own research and draw your own conclusions as you see fit. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or additions. :)

[Glossary of names and terms] [Masterlist of my posts about the situation with Zhang Zhehan]

12-31 → Gong Jun's studio posted eleven photos of him rehearsing for his performance that evening. Caption: "The lark @ Gong Jun Simon shines, see you tonight"

→ Deeyeo posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ 361° posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)

→ Dragon TV posted a short video with footage from Gong Jun's rehearsal.

→ Chinese whalers who bought the scam's photobook (the one that was being sold on a soft-core porn site, see 10-26) started posting photos from it. The content includes such things as Zhang Sanjian shaving, eating, etc. and feels very voyeuristic, so 100% it's aimed at dreamgirls. Photoshopping quality is on par with the scam's usual stuff.

→ The Instagram posted six photos of "Zhang Zhehan".

→ Gong Jun performed at Dragon TV's New Year's Eve show, performing his song 明天晴空万里. [performance video] [on stage with Justin and Johnny] [backstage interview]

→ Gong Jun's studio posted nine photos of him from a New Years photoshoot. Caption: "The blue sky is thousands of miles away, and the clear waves are vast; whatever your heart desires, you will go wherever you go. @ Gong Jun Simon is gilded with colour and feels the beauty of the past."

They later also posted a video from the same shoot. Caption: "The sound of pressing the shutter, and the smiling expression was frozen. Waiting for the update of the four seasons, enjoy the clear sky with @ Gong Jun Simon."

01-01 → Gong Jun's studio posted four photos of him holding balloons spelling out "2024". "Starting a new journey in 2024, @ Gong Jun Simon wishes everyone a happy New Year and a fun and promising new year!"

→ Gong Jun posted a douyin of him doing a little dance with Justin and Johnny Huang (two of his costars from Go Fighting). Caption: "Dance with your brothers! Happy New Year 🎉" BGM is Stay by The Kid LAROI feat. Justin Bieber.

→ The Instagram posted ten photos of "Zhang Zhehan" at a New Years fanmeet in Thailand. During this fanmeet, Zhang Sanjian reportedly said that he has been less active(???) recently because his mother has been in and out of hospital due to a viral infection, and has gone blind in one eye. The post he later made about this was worded in a very impersonal way. A reminder that the real Zhang Zhehan was very private about family matters like this, including never mentioning his father's death in 2016 until his post-813 interview with Li Xuezheng.

→ 361° posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ Gong Jun posted two photos of himself with a puppy. Caption: "Wishing everyone a prosperwoof 2024!" This was reposted by his studio with the added caption, "@ Gong Jun Simon and everyone will be prosperous in the new year!" He also posted these and two more photos to his Xiao Hong Shu, caption "Woof woof woof! Happy New Year!", and his Instagram, caption "2024 woof woof woof!"

→ Gong Jun's studio posted a year in review video for 2023. Caption: "Annual report, please check it out! In 2023, cultivate 'Ye' morally, be meticulous in every 'Si', and interpret various forms and postures with ingenuity. In 2024, actor @ Gong Jun Simon is 'modest' and a 'beginning' of a brilliant generation, running towards the ideal 'rank' with enthusiasm."

→ The Instagram posted four photos of "Zhang Zhehan" holding an apple.

→ For New Year's Day, Gong Jun changed his Weibo auto-reply to "Happy New Year, I send you a song of wealth, Do re mi fa fa fa fa fa!" The following day, he changed it back to the "Now that you're here, won't you stay?" auto-reply that he's had it set to since the Word of Honor concert. [screenshot]

01-02 → One of Gong Jun's lawsuits against an anti was announced to have been settled in Gong Jun's favour. It's worth noting that it was closed in September but could not be made public until now.

→ 361° posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)

→ Gong Jun's studio posted a video of Gong Jun with the puppy. Caption: "@ Gong Jun Simon: Is it warm? 🐶: Warm, but want to escape."

→ Gong Jun posted a commercial he did for 361°. [subbed video] Caption: "Put down your endless work and trivial matters in life, go out, and you will discover the big world. In the new year, let’s go wild with me and @ 361degrees."

→ The Instagram posted five photos of "Zhang Zhehan" and one of a bedazzled music note.

01-03 → Gong Jun posted a commercial he did for L'Oreal. [subbed video] Caption: "This time, [L'Oreal] and my care are not just about the scales of the hair, making the hair smooth and shiny; they are also extended to nature to jointly protect the strange and rare scales and life of pangolins. Let's 'protect your skin and shine' with @ L'Oreal Hair Care."

→ The Instagram posted five photos of "Zhang Zhehan" and one of clouds.

01-04 → Nothing of note.

01-05 → 361° posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

01-06 → Gong Jun's studio posted a behind the scenes video of a photoshoot he did with Tissot. Caption: "Behind-the-scenes footage drop TIME! @ Gong Jun Simon rode on his beloved motorcycle"

→ LaLaTV re-aired the first five episodes of Castle in the Time.* They previously aired these on 12-27, but people aware of the Zhang Sanjian situation have been avoiding bringing attention to it. *Zhang Zhehan's old drama that is suddenly and suspiciously being aired in Japan, see [here] for info.

Additional Reading: → N/A

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