The second dimension of Northeast China, dry and crushed Akihabara.
At the beginning of 2023, a small free AVG game “Northeast Summer” was released on Steam. In just a few days, it has received more than 7,000 “rave reviews”.
From the name of the game to the vertical drawing of the characters, this game reveals an “outrageous” atmosphere inside and outside. In fact, this is indeed the case. This game produced by the UP master of station B, “Zhuang Impurity”, has been regarded by many people as the best activity of the year.
“Summer in the Northeast” is adapted from a short video story collection called “Dongbai Past” by netizens. Mention it, and some strange scenes may come to mind:
“All eyes look at me”, “Specify no juice for you”, “You can bite the lighter when the anchor is dead”…
“Give him the whole job!”
This large number of highly used and familiar popular terms all come from “Dongbai Past Events”.
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“Dongbai Past” used to be synonymous with “hard work” and “bad life”, referring to a collection of live videos created by Northeast short video blogger “Tiger Brother”.
In the early days of short videos, “hard work” has become a means for some bloggers to stimulate viewers to support themselves, and Brother Hu is one of them with some reputation.
Brother Hu has done a lot of hard work, swallowing cigarette butts, swinging wine bottles, eating raw animals and jumping into ice pits, it is not uncommon to be banned. Fortunately, the crime of hard work is not in vain. Brother Hu is very popular among anchors in Northeast China. In addition, he was often greeted live by Li Gan, Sun Xiaochuan and others, which made him popular among “dog fans”. It also paved the way for the subsequent entry of the “Dongbai Past” series into Station B.
In 2017, the most classic drama of “Dongbai Past” recognized by netizens was staged on Hudi’s account. Another ruthless anchor “Shamate Tuanzhang” and Brother Hu suspected that they had conflicts because of their admiration for the same woman, and they met through video to have an offline PK in Shenyang. The two sides come and go, relying on each other to cheat and attack each other’s younger brothers. They were evenly matched in several rounds, but they never confronted each other.
It was during this period that the anchor Brother Dao from the Tiger Brothers camp created the famous line “Specify no juice for you”.
The plot of the short video is wonderful, but in the final duel, the leader of Shamate suddenly activated his metaphysical power and used a wig of the Shamate family to instantly demote Tiger Brother. At this point, the audience, who were forced to confuse their eyes with real acting skills, quickly woke up. This is not a cross-regional dispute, but a performance with a script written in advance.
This bridge section, which was later called the “Shenyang War”, ended up unfinished. What’s even more regrettable is that due to the rectification of the short video platform in 2018, Brother Hu’s original version of “Northeast Past” disappeared along with the account number, and there is no way to find it.
But no one expected that the posthumous work in the early years of the whole industry would have such a long aftertaste. Due to the intensified contradiction between the short video and the two-dimensional development of the B station, many B station users are based on the mentality of “fun people”. I moved my long-collected earthy videos to station B, and tagged them with “two-dimensional” and “classic old fans”.
Among them, the videos of Brother Hu and others have of course received key “care”, and they are even called “the godfather of the second dimension”. This back and forth constitutes an interesting phenomenon: Brother Hu’s previous work, after the short video platform was cleaned, only stayed at Station B.
Over time, under the atmosphere created by Le Ziren, the video of Brother Hu became popular among ghosts and animals, and more people viewed the story with a neutral eye. And the grievances and grudges with the head of the killing matte back then became the center of the second creation of ghosts and animals: Brother Dao’s threat, Xiao Liang’s somersaults, exaggerated behavior and arrogant accent, gradually became embellishments of human feelings and hatred entangled, abstracted, Inexplicably, it has the taste of the beggar’s version of “Once Upon a Time in America”.
As a result, “Past Events in Dongbai” became “Past Events in Northeast China”.
The real turning point began with the popularity of a second-generation video. The UP master of station B “please drink good juice” used several clips of the tiger brother’s whole life video, stitched the lines of Wong Kar Wai’s movie, and used “Summer Soseki” by the Orange Sea band as the soundtrack, and made a movie full of literary flavor fragment.
This video quickly gained a lot of attention, and the original version had more than ten million views. Among them, Brother Hu’s nonsensical kick, accompanied by the rippling melody of “Summer Soseki”, hit the heart of countless netizens, and the sentence “kicked out the whole midsummer” “Soon swept the entire station B.
The comment area is full of literary giants. The long prose and Wong Kar Wai-style lines can be seen at hand, which makes the style of Tiger Brother and the video soaring.
In the end, an off-site entanglement turned this whole job into a “good job” in the eyes of netizens at station B——”Because of you and I will remember this minute” Not long after the original video was listed as the “Treasure of Town Station”, It was suddenly reported off the shelves for unknown reasons.
Back then, the barrage of “Kicking Out the Whole Midsummer” filled the screen, together with tens of thousands of literary and artistic creations in the comment area, disappeared overnight. Those who also encountered this “poisonous hand” also had various videos related to Tiger Brothers at station B.
Some people said that this was a tragedy caused by disputes between Brother Hu and his management company. In desperation, the original author of the video “please drink good juice” and many bloggers began to fight against inexplicable forces in their own way.
Since the original video used the lines from the movie “Days of Being Wild”, “A minute before 3pm on April 16, 1960, you were with me, and I will remember this minute because of you”, Many UP masters chose the date mentioned in the lines, and every month they got stuck at 3 pm on the 16th to make up the deleted video again.
Netizens will continue to create passionately in the comment area, and then the next report will be taken off the shelves, and other bloggers who have been reported will follow suit. The word “replenishment”, together with “Once Upon a Time in the Northeast”, was once a hot search on station B on the 16th of every month.
This situation continues until March 2022. The newly supplemented “Because of You and I Will Remember This Minute” was finally not taken off the shelves again, and the protracted see-saw basically came to an end. Station B left a lot of works called “Supplementary Documents”. Some netizens blurted out the line “Once Upon a Time in the Northeast”.
The truth behind the supplementary video and the report, true or false, false or true, is no longer important. It’s just that the new work is far from over. During this entanglement period, those who witnessed the passage burst out with new inspiration and did more good work.
This is the origin of “Northeast Summer”.
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The UP owner of station B, “Zhuang Impurity”, also witnessed this incident of reporting and making up files with a rebellious attitude. After Hudi’s videos gradually stabilized, he conceived a new idea that netizens had never imagined.
Zhuang Impurity is a typical two-dimensional blogger. His creative content involves multiple pan-ACG fields, and he has hundreds of thousands of followers. In April last year, he asked someone to draw two-dimensional girly looks for the protagonists of “Dongbai Past”. After the video was uploaded, the jaws of netizens dropped.
Based on “Tiger Girl” created by Tiger Brother
Although the image of these voluptuous Northeast girls and the prototype characters is really scary, a large number of netizens in the comment area welcome this approach, and suggest bloggers not to waste their images, and simply use “them” as a game.
The idea was quickly put into practice. Zhuang Buchun recruited several voice actors from his hometown in Northeast China, and released an interactive video as a pre-play version, which immediately received more than one million views on station B.
But making a complete game is not that simple. Impurity Zhuang, who didn’t want to make things easy, hoped that the production of the game could follow a more professional standard process, so he launched a similar “one-off crowdfunding” event on the fan sponsorship platform “Aifafa”, intending to use the funds raised Funds seek professional help.
On Love Power, a total of more than 2,000 people participated in this fundraising event
Many fans simply recommended themselves to participate in the development—it turns out that Zhuang Impurity’s fan base is indeed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Many developers who worked for major game companies volunteered to participate part-time. room”. Zhuang impure also assured fans that the game will be released for free, and he will not make a profit from it. The game development process that lasted for more than half a year began in this way.
But “Summer in the Northeast” is not just a 2D version of “The Past of the East”. Zhuang impure went to the live broadcast room of the “leading actors” such as Brother Hu and Dao, spent money to exchange rewards, and then got in touch with them directly, and verbally obtained the creative copyright of “Dongbai Past”.
In order to restore the original appearance of the city of Shenyang as much as possible, Zhuang Impurity also made a special visit to the local holy places, from the Hanting Hotel on Changjiang Street, to the corner where Xiao Liang flipped back, and then to the “I don’t have good juice for you” scene. With the red painted wall in the background, he walked as far as he could. When he went to Shenyang to shoot the scene, he also learned some exclusive behind-the-scenes stories from the parties involved. Captain Matt.
Now this section of the wall is often visited by people
Zhuang Impur also visited local landmarks, learned about local delicacies, and popularized science about the glorious past of Northeast industry’s “blood transfusion” to the whole country in the last century-although the name “Northeast Summer” comes from “this kick kicked out the whole midsummer”, But when Zhuang Buchun named the game, he rejected the word “Dongbai”. He said in his video, “As long as there is a Northeast person who hates this word, I will not use it.” He also hopes that the game is not limited to the reappearance of classics, let alone the stereotype of the Northeast on the Internet.
Shenyang Heavy Cultural Square hand-painted by Zhuang impure studio
After the new screenplay was written, the programmers designed the framework for the game, the artists drew a 10-meter-long red wall street background, and the voice actors provided lines for Hu Niu, the leader, Dao Jiang and others. The game has experienced Bounced a few times. Everything is ready, except for the song “Xia Ri Soseki”, which failed to become the last piece of the puzzle to complete “Dongbai’s Past” because of the high copyright fee.
Fortunately, Zhuang Impurity obtained the free right to use another classic song “Red Mountain Fruit” from the singer, and the singer An Yuqibing also gave UP’s creative encouragement
Finally, at the beginning of 2023, “Northeast Summer” was released—the “rave reviews” with a 98% positive rating on the Steam homepage proved that it was indeed a good job.
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The Tag on Steam of “Northeast Summer” still continues the tradition of adhering to the good work of “Dongbai Past”, although there may be some “suspected fraud” in the content.
Huniu Daojiang is still leading the younger brothers on Shenyang Street clamoring to decide the outcome with the head of Shamate, the past of Dongbai is still being played out here, and Zhuang Buchun wrote the truth he learned into the game: It’s just a script, a script that Hu Niu discussed with the group leader a long time ago.
Hatsune Miku’s blue double ponytails, the group leader, pay tribute to the original sentence “You are the singer”
You may suddenly feel nostalgic, or be recalled by a familiar Shenyang landmark. Zhuang Buchun gave this false “Dongbai past” a story that makes people’s eyes moist: Huniu is not only a person who works hard to make money, but also a righteous partner who goes out of his way to help his brothers. Fake scripts are not grandstanding, but more gentle reasons. After gamification, a former “bad job” landed in the second dimension in a romantic way.
The characters in “Dongbai Past” back then have their own dissatisfaction now. Brother Dao landed on station B, and was banned due to dissatisfaction with the environment; Brother Hu, after changing the platform, is far less popular than before, and some netizens who have followed him for a long time claim that Brother Hu used the money he earned all those years to do business. During this period, they all lost money.
It is said that the “Dongbai Past” that year will soon have a sequel. But the red-painted wall on Shenyang Street was painted white shortly after Zhuang’s impure holy land tour. The appearance was left in the second creation and ghost animal clips at station B.
Fortunately, after the end of the era of hard work, some bad jobs are no longer bad jobs, and good jobs are not limited to good jobs. One day people will think of it again, maybe they will always remember it as a good job.
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