A Glitch in the Entertainment Industry

Chapter 35: The Most Hilarious Fans in History

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

This group belonged to the official An Wen Supporters’ Association and there was no administrator. Jiang Yiwen posted a public announcement in the group that read, “Create and share original Weibo content to promote An Wen on the trending searches!”

Then, An Wen Supporters’ Association shared several beautiful photos in the group. Comments from members started flooding in right away.

[Oh gosh, she’s too beautiful. Where are these photos from?]

[She must be a fairy]

[This girl belonged in Heaven, but we’re fortunate to have her here.]

…

Members of the group immediately shared their newly created Weibo content using these photos in order to raise An Wen’s popularity.

It should be simple for the official account of An Wen Supporters’ Association to appear on the trending searches because it was already verified with a blue tick. Hence, Jiang Yiwen shared another post again.

[An Wen Supporters’ Association official account: #AnWen# #AnWenstyle# #AnWenQingSha# For those drowning in Miss An Wen’s beauty, welcome and join us in the An Wen Legion!

An Wen Official Fan Club

An Wen Legion

Ageless Beauty

Go beauty!

Our fandom name will be chosen out of these four options. Join the group to vote on the new name!]

Attached below were nine candid photos that Jiang Yiwen secretly took without An Wen’s knowledge. There was one with her in a long white dress and her waist-length hair fluttering in the wind, whereas the other one was her walking in the street in her school uniform…

This content garnered a huge amount of attention as soon as it was shared in the group. A short while later, the post was met with hundreds of reposts and comments and was trending on the most-searched list.

Various people suggested different names underneath the post.

[How about Mosquito Coil? Safe, non-toxic and takes good care of you] (TN: The fans came up with the suggestion because the Mandarin character for mosquito (Wen) shares the same pronunciation as the actress’s first name – Wen.)

This particular suggestion initiated a string of comments.

[Hahahaha! Is this an advertisement?]

[Effective, non-toxic and odorless. Life is interesting]

[A mother’s love is everywhere]

[New technology, warm experience, the heart’s choice]

[I’m laughing to death because of An Wen’s fans hahahaha! Free advertising for mosquito coil on trending searches!]

…

[What about ‘Angel’? We’re all An Wen’s guardian angels]

The official account replied [Hard pass, we tough men are not to be called angels]

Someone wrote [The Big Brother has spoken]

[I’m a male fan and I, too, strongly disagree with this suggestion!]

[I refuse this fandom name at all costs]

…

[Condom] (TN: The fans came up with the suggestion because the first Mandarin character for a condom (An Quan Tao) is the same word as the actress’s last name – An.)

To which someone replied [I’ll hit you till you see stars. Trust me.]

[No comment on this]

[Go go go!]

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This large-scale voting process attracted large numbers of netizens to suggest what they thought would be the best fandom name. “This is the most amusing story since the dawn of time. I’ve seen people promoting celebrities on trending searches, but never to promote fan groups or nominate fandom names,” one netizen exclaimed.

[These are some of the silliest fandom names I’ve ever come across. I’m crying with laughter!]

There were also several people fawning over An Wen’s pretty appearance at the comment sections. For instance, someone wrote [Sister’s a true beauty. I’m going to be a fan.]

In the end, the popularity of these trending searches attracted more extremely-amusing netizens to join the official group. The number of members reached its maximum quota of four thousand shortly after. Hence, Jiang Yiwen went ahead and created four more groups.

The groups’ traffic was unexpectedly high even though it was already past midnight. There were hundreds of messages and comments being left at every minute.

The other fandom group thought this was rather hilarious, while some thought it was lowly of them to have attracted fans using the trending searches feature.

Despite others’ judgment, this was Jiang Yiwen’s first time being in charge of a fan group, and he was determined to do it his own way.

In his opinion, the best way to come up with a fandom name was to pool wisdom from the public and pick the option favored by the majority!

At 1 a.m., Jiang Yiwen published the below post in each of the groups.

[An Wen Supporters’ Association official account: #AnWen# An Wen fandom’s naming poll ends at 2 a.m. The top five suggestions with most reviews will proceed to the next selection.]

Due to the numerous traffic brought in by the trending searches, this post was shared and liked over a thousand times in a few minutes. This post was also shown to have been seen by more than fifty thousand people.

Those eight different fan groups were joined by some hysterically funny netizens. Not only did they come up with all sorts of weird fandom names, some even started campaigning on the groups for votes.

They selected the five most preferred fandom names about thirty minutes later.