Thuch Salik (沙利) is from a poor family. His mother runs a small stall, and his father is a painter who cannot sell his paintings. The family has a debt of $60,000.
has been helping the family livelihood except for going to school since childhood. There is no time to play with children, and there is no ordinary childhood Shali, but after the video goes viral, it changed his fate.
A kind Cambodian businessman helped Shali’s family to pay off their debts and helped Shali’s mother find a job managing a clothing store. And a high-end private school in China also found Shali and subsidized him to study in China for free. In order to persuade Shali and his parents,
also visited the thatched cottage. This is where Shali's study abroad life came into being.
During the interview, the school director was very sincere. What they saw was Shali’s learning ability, super high IQ and EQ, and they thought it would be a shame that such a child could not be cultivated.
However, Shali's mother was very opposed to her son studying abroad at the beginning, and said astonishing words that "reading is useless". This educational philosophy also paved the way for Shali's contract entertainment company.
In January this year, Shali went home to visit relatives. He failed to return to China to continue his classes due to the epidemic. During this period, a brokerage company came to the door and signed Shali in July.
So what has Shali been doing in the past few months of signing?
A series of dancing, speaking skills training and video editing courses, he also gave him styling, makeup, let him appear on the camera and live broadcast with fans.
I went to see the company’s YouTube channel, and it only has more than 5,000 subscriptions. It is a small company with low output and reputation. Insufficient spread of
means insufficient resources. And they are using Shali's reputation to drain and create value for their company. There is even a video titled "Why a Cambodian boy can be on the stage of CCTV?" This is not a naked heat!
When I saw the company's future plans for Shali, I took a breath. They want to make Shali a role model, live broadcast goods, or chat with fans (reward), it all sounds like money.
Shali is only 16 years old, and it takes only one year to study abroad. His vision is not broad enough, and his worldview has not been fully opened and established. If you let such a growing child be an idol to others, shouldn't you let him go to read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles? Why let him learn to dance and entertain the masses to realize traffic realization?
In the video comment section on the status quo of Shali, netizens are almost all opposed to Shali's move to the Internet.
Since the founder of the private school promised to subsidize Shali to finish his PhD (including tuition and living expenses), there is no need to give up his future for immediate benefits. It seems that everyone is worried about Shali's future and expected. Compare
with the popular Tibetan guy, Kangba man Ding Zhen, the pattern is really different.
Let’s discuss the following three aspects:
material desire
just mentioned that Shali’s family is difficult, if it’s not for food and clothing, Xiao Shali will not be taken by tourists and become popular. His starting point is related to the needs of material and money.
includes interviews with foreign media. Shali’s dream is to become a businessman or is it related to money. Z1z
has material desires is not a shortcoming, which includes the determination to change the destiny of the family, but also the kindness of giving back to good people. But this may also result in a narrowing of horizons and eagerness for success.
is very low compared to Ding's real material desire. Even if he is popular, he still wants to be a horse racing prince, and his personal signature is the first in the pony race.
is as described in the documentary "The World of Ding Zhen", the blue sky, white clouds, green grass, snow mountains, partners, simple, clean and beautiful.
Even if Ding Zhen’s live broadcast is his own business, he will stare at the picture book like a child when he opens the box of fan gifts.Do not know how to measure the price of gifts. Z1z
Ding Zhen’s family is not wealthy. He only added a washing machine to his mother after work. His preciousness lies in self-entertainment and contentment.
's popular attitude
To be honest, I'm not sure if Shali signed with an entertainment company to chase fame and fortune, but he knew this was a good opportunity.
And because of family reasons, Shali is relatively early, he may not see far enough. Faced with the support of many kind people, Shali has a lot of choice. He can study and practice, but he has chosen a self-consumption model that realizes faster.
And Ding Zhen has always been a little confused about his popularity. In addition, the online comments are not 100% friendly. Ding Zhen and his boss also decided to put out the fire and reduce the exposure rate.
is really far-sighted to take a step back to protect itself and not blindly pursue traffic in the online market where black and red are also red.
Future planning
In addition to continuing to complete his studies, he wants to become a businessman in a few years, such a general plan, Shali has little plans for the future. Including his signing with a local entertainment company in Cambodia, it was also out of some immediate considerations and did not carry out far-reaching designs.
Because he is only temporarily unable to return to China to study, the school has also provided him with the opportunity to learn online to avoid falling short of his grades.
Once Shali returns to China to study, then his entertainment company cultivation plan will be shelved. If you continue to broadcast live as a contracted artist, then it will really become money rather than cultivation.
Shali has a bad foundation, and his grades are worse than children of the same age. If he wants to grasp with both hands, he is worried that he will not chew too much. Although
is only 16 years old, the opportunity presented to him is so rare that it is inevitable that people are anxious about his future planning.
Ding Zhen’s future plans are much clearer. He is "protected" by the relevant departments instead of being signed by the company to go to the draft and go singing and dancing. This is the first step in wise planning.
includes being a hometown tourism promotion ambassador, learning Mandarin and visiting the work environment in the city. Ding Zhen worked a little bit in the career.
And the boss of Ding Zhen said that even if Ding Zhen is not popular, the vocational skills he has learned will enable him to be a tour guide and explain, and have a stable future.
, including the attitude of Ding Zhen’s family, don’t think it’s great to become popular, and there is no special opportunity to seize, just continue to be yourself. You are lucky to be selected, so work hard and contribute to your hometown.
According to the news from Sino-Singapore Jingwei today, after Ding Zhen became popular, other villages in his hometown built a study room to allow children in the village to read books and do homework.
can clearly see that Ding Zhen's popularity has driven and improved his family and hometown, and he has a clearer forecast for the future.
In fact, Shali and Ding Zhen have a different pattern, which is closely related to their growth background, strength behind and personal choices. Moreover, Shali is still young, so trying more is not a bad thing. People's concerns about his attachment to the Internet are understandable, but they cannot impose intervention.
escaped from the personal performance of Shali and Ding Zhen overnight. What we should look at is the overall situation, which is a new form of the Internet celebrity economy. Compared with those internet celebrities who have become phenomenon-level and short-lived by chance, they are eager to get food, and no one cares after the heat passes.
The story of Shali and Ding Zhen is a typical win-win case.
Shali has good educational opportunities, adolescence to laugh and play with friends, and the possibility of giving back to society in the future. As a result, the schools that fund Shali have received more exposure, and this exposure has become a long-term and stable flow as people are curious about the current situation of Shali. Z1z
Shali's performance and grades are also the best proof of the school's teaching level. Z1z
Ding Zhen is the same, studying and working in a two-pronged way. The potential business opportunities he brought to the tourism industry in his hometown, as well as the new situation and dynamics brought about by other cities after the linkage of other cities, are very gratifying effects.
is also a good drive and development of hometown educational resources, which just shows that teaching people to fish is not as good as teaching people to fish. Although
is not an educational institution,It is not an official department, but the entertainment public can also be a positive guide. I hope that in the future, the Internet celebrity contracting company can make more future plans, truly apply the phenomenal level to the actual situation, and make some positive and contributing changes. At the same time, I hope that Shali and Ding Zhen will not forget their original intentions and continue to gallop on the right path.
