The Entertainment Industry Is Done for, but the Full-Dive Party Is Just Beginning

I've run out of steam. The story is on indefinite hiatus until the paid chapters are unlocked. Do not enter!!!

[Entertainment is dead!]

-- Yan Wei, entertainment-industry Cthulhu, ruler of the full-dive world, owner of a cyber-villain persona.

What's wrong with the half-feudal, half-capitalist, half-dead entertainment industry?

208: resource-backed stars who don't deserve their status; creators whose shoddy work mocks the audience's taste; capitalists ruining the ecosystem, raising cutthroats, and making money.

Is this right? Are we viewers really that easy to fool?!

Yan Wei: Send them all packing! The domestic entertainment industry is dead, full-dive entertainment shall rise! Whoever wins the audience wins the world. Watch me take down this vast entertainment industry for you!

I'm going to make the stories I want myself. The age of everyone chasing their entertainment-industry dreams is here. Without me, the purple star of destiny, the domestic entertainment industry would languish in eternal darkness!

Beauty fans say nothing, simply obsessively licking the screen over a real beauty with a stunning, high-precision full-dive model.

Resource-backed trust-fund kids with ugly faces lose their carefully crafted aura and are driven out of the idol-drama market. Their fans despair and wail everywhere.

Web novel authors say nothing, simply reclaim their copyrights and remake their female-led IPs that were butchered in adaptation.

Veteran screenwriters and directors in the industry are devastated: How are they supposed to force the investors' precious boys into the cast, steal the lead billing, and completely rewrite the story around a male lead now?!

Audiences say nothing, simply bingeing Chinese-style horror, urban cultivation, wuxia and xianxia, farming and development, pure-love school life, cyberpunk, infinite-flow stories...

The entertainment Cthulhu is still at it, going all out! Cultural creation goes global, cultural exports hit like nuclear bombs, and the entertainment industry blooms in every direction. Films and TV, music, games, and variety shows all thrive~

The status we lost has truly been reclaimed. Returning to the position of civilization's leader is as easy as breathing. Our dependent states come to us again, weeping and declaring they can never repay their suzerain's kindness. We dominate global culture, go international, reach for the stars, and leave the solar system!

And in our lifetime, full-dive games finally get their moment in the spotlight! Immersive full-dive dating sims become reality, and fujoshi who love fictional characters get a legendary upgrade!

A woman of fierce power descends upon domestic entertainment. An iron fist of judgment is detected on an intercept trajectory, ready to strike down upon your loyal entertainment industry.

Yan Wei: It's about time~^^ (loads gun)

[Tech scammers who tout AI will destroy human art!]

[Full-dive technology could cause widespread unemployment in traditional film and television. The ruthless expansion of capital must be stopped!]

[Have conglomerates from the cyberpunk world already appeared? Cold technology, please wait for the people.]

[Full-dive technology is rapidly spreading throughout global cultural and artistic creation. A renowned overseas director publicly praises the coming of the "Virtual Tower of Babel."]

[Technology empowering the people has ignited their passion for artistic and cultural creation. People from all walks of life are joining the cultural marketplace, and works of every genre are appearing in a great wave.]

[The Full-Dive Culture Development Council was founded today, with Ms. Yan Wei as its first chairwoman. It will vigorously foster the prosperity of China's cultural industries and build a new era of civilized values!]

Daily discussion thread in the xx entertainment group:

"It's settled!! The abandoned heiress rises to become the purple star of destiny, unites the domestic entertainment industry, and ascends the throne! She sweeps across the six realms and builds her empire! Long live our empress, long live, long live! May the purple star bless us with career success!!"

"Let's dig into the harem of [ ]. Does the Yan family have a gene for marrying into the family? Will the crown prince, with his lovesick husband-brain, regret helping his childhood sweetheart pursue her grand ambitions? Was he played? The empress's position is only nominal, and that little Lu is a vixen who enters the palace to steal favor, shamelessly acting out sister-in-law romance. He has to turn a blind eye, a truly long-suffering husband"

"He regrets helping [ ] pursue a title. The two Lus are tearing each other's hair out, but they never expected [ ] to rescue a beauty in distress. What a bewitching green-tea mistress! Tang really lives up to being voted the world's top seductress by netizens. The palace's official account has announced her as the Noble Consort, favored above all the other consorts. Even during her packed world tour, she calls to act cute and asks [ ] to postpone meetings and fly over. Who dares say she's not spoiled by favor?"

"Palace insider news: The overseas Chinese CEO, headhunted back with a huge salary, has completely lost sight of his place. He controls the court and still wants to disrupt the harem, even offering himself to the two Lus. What a lively back-and-forth! Place your bets, who will win this palace struggle?"

"No one's talking about the big-busted, dark-skinned bodyguard with mechanical implants at [ ]'s side? I say she's bound to get promoted sooner or later. I'm buying shares."

"I'm officially leaving this group. I've had enough. This is an entertainment group, not the imperial harem!"

Theme: Increase the vitality of cultural creativity throughout society