Chapter 544 - The Most Popular Celebrity Awards! (2/2)
Only then did he remember that people of this world had not heard of this great name, so Zhang Ye vaguely said, ”It's just a figure of speech, forget it, you wouldn't understand anyway.”
His second younger sister positively added, ”Then let's hurry up and use this time wisely to pull for votes. It's almost 11:50 AM now and there are only 10 more minutes before it begins!”
”Alright.” Zhang Ye logged in to Weibo on his phone and browsed through the awards poll.
Although it was just a poll organized by Weibo, the scale and momentum of it was still very adequate. Weibo was promoting it via the main page and had positioned it in a very conspicuous location. The trending topics indicated that this awards poll had already been discussed more than 10 million times, but whether that was true or not would be another matter. On the list, a few thousand names of public figures was displayed. As the voting had not started yet, the numbers following each name showed 0. They were ordered according to alphabetical order and with Zhang Ye's name starting with Z, his name was also all the way at the back and not on the first page. But Zhang Ye was already satisfied with this as he knew that if his ban hadn't been lifted, he might not even have a chance to partic.i.p.ate in this poll.
He browsed through the Weibo accounts of other celebrities.
Heh, there were quite a few people that he knew and friends who were trying to garner votes for themselves.
Yao Jiancai's Weibo was inactive, probably because he knew that he didn't stand a chance of getting voted into the top 100. But Zhang Ye's university cla.s.smate, Dong Shanshan, was very active.
Dong Shanshan's Weibo: ”'Online Talents' will be ending soon! Did everyone feel satisfied with my hosting? If you are, then please vote for me. Little Shan thanks everyone for their support!”
Below, countless supporters left their messages.
”Ah, G.o.ddess!”
”My s.e.xy G.o.ddess! I'll support you fully!”
”Go, go, go, Teacher Shanshan! We are supporting you!”
”'Online Talents' is great and you're too beautiful! Too s.e.xy!”
”I'm salivating! I love you, Shanshan!”
Looking at the Weibo IDs of her supporters, he could see that Dong Shanshan's fans were generally males since her debut.
After Zhang Ye browsed through her Weibo, he found out that Dong Shanshan's program was also coming to an end soon. Back then, her ”Online Talents” had started its run together with ”Zhang Ye's Talk Show.” But to avoid certain policies from the SARFT, ”Zhang Ye's Talk Show” had to expedite its broadcast run to several per day and thus ended its run much sooner than her program.
Following that.
The Hallyu star, Lee Parkwoo: ”Please give me your vote, thank you!”
A newly debuted actor: ”It's time for this year's Weibo Celebrity Awards, need I say more? Let's go!”
The crosstalk actor, Tang Dazhang who was currently mired in a lawsuit: ”Friends who support crosstalk and traditional arts, please let me see your support!”
Countless celebrities were trying their best to pull for votes.
But Zhang Yuanqi was missing from all of these. Clearly, her name was so famous that she did not even need to ask for votes and support. Or perhaps to her, this platform was not in her sights as she was no longer looking to conquer the domestic market but rather the international one. She was clearly on a different level.
Anyway, the slew of activities relating to the awards poll was very pompous and had attracted a lot of attention.
”Brother! You better hurry up!” his second younger sister nagged at him anxiously!
His eldest younger sister seemed like she was even more anxious than Zhang Ye. ”Quickly ask for voting support! It's about to begin!”
Zhang Ye nodded and logged into his own Weibo account. After hesitating for a long time and considering his own status, he felt that if he wrote the same thing as others like ”Please give me your support and votes”, then it would be too disgraceful and wouldn't show his bearing as a literary person and artist!
Got it!
He'll use that!
He quickly typed in something on his cellphone and posted it onto Weibo.
Follow your own course,
And let people talk!
This quote* came from Zhang Ye's previous world's Italian writer, Dante, and his representative work Divine Comedy. If he remembered it right, it should be a verse in the part of the work called Purgatorio! It was a quote that anyone would know in his previous world! This sentence was also the best response for Zhang Ye, who had been banned for some time. It was also a follow up to his The Road Not Taken that he had recited on the live broadcast previously!
See me?
Or not?
There will I stay, to let the others talk!
Translator’s note: The quote is actually a paraphrase by Karl Marx of the original Dante’s quote for the conclusion to the preface for his book Das Kapital as a motto to live by. “Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti.”
The full Dante quote translation says, ‘Come after me, and to their babblings leave’ which is found in the poem Divine Comedy: Purgatorio, in Canto V, line 13.
You may want to research more about this matter here:
/20/ (Divine Comedy)
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