Chapter 80 - This World’s Celebrity Rankings! (2/2)

The comments and replies seen previously were mostly yesterday's.

Suddenly, the fan, ”ZhangYeNumber1Fan”, who spared no effort in supporting Zhang Ye, @-ed him. A new Weibo post was published with a picture.

”Wow, quick look at the Celebrity Rankings!”

”G.o.dly Number1, what's the matter?”

”Didn't I attach a picture? Can't you see it?”

”Ah, I see it! Holy ****! Teacher Zhang Ye has become an E-list celebrity!”

”Is that true? It's really true! Congratulations, Teacher Zhang Ye. You deserve it!”

”Citizens of the Hebei province send their congratulations. Congratulating Teacher Zhang on making a new high!”

”There aren't many people who become E-list celebrities just from writing poems and making radio programs, right? You can count them with your fingers; there’s definitely not more than 20 people!”

”Awesome!”

”Teacher Zhang is impressive!”

They were all very lively and excited.

However, when Zhang Ye saw this, he was confused. E-list celebrity? Celebrity Rankings? What and what? Zhang Ye knew he was still unfamiliar with this world. For example, his previous world did not have the Silver Microphone Awards. Hence with an open mind, he clicked the link everyone gave into the Celebrity Rankings’ official website. Upon seeing it, he was shocked. Holy ****. He had originally thought that it was someone's personal website or some forum, but when he saw the organizing unit of the website, he was dumbfounded. It was the News, Publication & Broadcast Bureau!

This was an official authoritative website?

There were even official announcements for Celebrity Rankings?

He had initially thought it was fake. He quickly checked the website's cooperating units. There was the National Writers' a.s.sociation, Directors' Union, Editors' a.s.sociation, China Film Group Corporation, etc. Zhang Ye knew it was not fake. After a series of searches and inquiries, Zhang Ye finally manage to understand what this Celebrity Rankings was all about. This ranking was standardized internationally, and was not only effective domestically. It had a certain amount of authority even internationally. As for the ranking criteria and choices, they were partially done manually, but a large portion of it was calculated through a statistical formula. It was valid worldwide. The entire world also used this formula to give a celebrity a ranking based on his overall abilities, influence and popularity. It was most authoritative, unlike any other!

In Zhang Ye's world, there were also rankings for celebrities.

For example an international B-list celebrity, or a domestic S-list celebrity.

But over there, this ranking had no fixed formula, nor was it conclusive. It was beauty in the eyes of the beholder. It only counted if a large number of people acknowledged it. It was comparatively fuzzy. For example, some celebrity may be considered as an A-list celebrity by industry insiders, but many people would only think he was a B-list celebrity. There were also cases where people felt he was a B-list celebrity, but the professionals or other people would think that he was a C-list celebrity. Who do you listen to? What rank would this celebrity be? There was no certainty, because there were no clear boundaries!

But this world was different!

There were all sorts of scores and all sorts of rules. Over many years of refinement, a nearly-perfect set of judging rules were produced. It was acknowledged by official bodies and the people. Even other celebrities acknowledged it! It was no longer that troublesome to know a celebrity's specs; one could get it from flipping through the Celebrity Rankings!

Domestically, there were seven rankings.

S-list, A-list, B-list, C-list, D-list, E-list.

The seventh rank was not called a F-list celebrity. In this world, they were collectively referred to as ”public figures”.

After checking this out for a long time and taking a long time to absorb this information, Zhang Ye finally understood. The celebrity rankings between the two worlds were similar, but they also had their differences. For example, in Zhang Ye's world, when an E-list celebrity was mentioned, it was just an adjective. There was no real E-list celebrity in his world. The meaning of E-list meant the lowest and most obscure celebrity. There were at most the A-list, B-list, C-list and D-list. Even D-list was not something many people acknowledged. There was a lot of controversy behind it. However, over in this world, it was clearly demarcated. An A-list was an A-list, an E-list was an E-list. There was no dispute!

There was another difference.

Maybe it was because this world's entertainment industry was relatively more developed, where people crossed over more often. the rating score was an overall integrative score.

Notability was important.

Influence was important.

The fan cohesiveness strength was important.

The quality of the works were important.

Good works had to be produced over a long period of time, and had to not go out of fas.h.i.+on.

In general, no matter what industry one was in, the ranking depended on one's overall ability!

For example, the authors, Han Han or Guo Jingming, were they considered celebrities in Zhang Ye's world? Of course! Were they highly notable? Of course! But what rank were they? Probably no one could tell. There was no celebrity ranking system for people in the publication industry. At most, when they were mentioned, they would be publicly acknowledged as A-list authors in the publication industry, but this world had unified it. Be it writing novels, children's fairy tales, poems, or even university professors and wealthy businessmen who received a lot of attention, they could obtain a rating from their combined abilities and appeal using the statistical formula. Once the rating was calculated, they could be perfectly ranked!

This was this world's Celebrity Rankings!

Zhang Ye had used ”Dead Water” to go from a public figure to an E-list celebrity. This could be said to be one big step, and could also be said that this was the actual moment that he entered the entertainment industry. One had to know that be it Little Red Mushroom, the Vice President of the Beijing Writers' a.s.sociation, or Big Thunder and company, they were all considered public figures. As for Tian Bin and Zhāng Yě, they were ranked in the tens of thousands amongst public figures. They would not even be ranked.

Zhang Ye had already surpa.s.sed them!

Although an E-list celebrity was the lowest, it was still a celebrity!

However, he still had a long way to go. This was just the beginning!

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