Spectating
Nov. 10th, 2019 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailietOver the course of two days, I spent 40-odd minutes watching Zhu Yilong eat hotpot, smile, and look confused. I regret none of that time.
Occasionally, it felt a little strange. He’s not exactly an exciting live-streamer, and I was surprised that his team just seemed to go with it, instead of imposing more of a structure to the whole thing, so he’d have something to work off. However, what he does is obviously effective, since he supposedly had about 120 million people (?!?) watching, and I doubt I was the only one beaming fondly at the screen. It was strangely relaxing, like watching a very meta nature documentary. Watch Zhu Yilong eat while he watches other people comment on watching him eat.
In contrast, there’s the live stream he just did with Li Jiaqi, promoting L’Occitane. (This channel is a gold mine of subbed interviews.) In a very ‘it’s a small world’ moment, I’d read an article mentioning Jiaqi just a day ago, about the rise of influencers in China, so my first thought on seeing him was “hey! it’s the guy who got a fried egg stuck to a nonstick pan while selling it live!” Not perhaps the ideal reaction, but it was a memorable moment. The two of them have totally different styles, with Li Jiaqi going a mile a minute in a very Home Shopping Network way, and Zhu Yilong... not. Spur of the moment responses aren’t really his specialty (“How would you describe the product?” “Fragrant.”). Given the time to settle in, he’s certainly capable of giving thoughtful answers to questions, but quickfire interviews seem to slow down his network connections, so to speak.
Occasionally, it felt a little strange. He’s not exactly an exciting live-streamer, and I was surprised that his team just seemed to go with it, instead of imposing more of a structure to the whole thing, so he’d have something to work off. However, what he does is obviously effective, since he supposedly had about 120 million people (?!?) watching, and I doubt I was the only one beaming fondly at the screen. It was strangely relaxing, like watching a very meta nature documentary. Watch Zhu Yilong eat while he watches other people comment on watching him eat.
In contrast, there’s the live stream he just did with Li Jiaqi, promoting L’Occitane. (This channel is a gold mine of subbed interviews.) In a very ‘it’s a small world’ moment, I’d read an article mentioning Jiaqi just a day ago, about the rise of influencers in China, so my first thought on seeing him was “hey! it’s the guy who got a fried egg stuck to a nonstick pan while selling it live!” Not perhaps the ideal reaction, but it was a memorable moment. The two of them have totally different styles, with Li Jiaqi going a mile a minute in a very Home Shopping Network way, and Zhu Yilong... not. Spur of the moment responses aren’t really his specialty (“How would you describe the product?” “Fragrant.”). Given the time to settle in, he’s certainly capable of giving thoughtful answers to questions, but quickfire interviews seem to slow down his network connections, so to speak.
