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On the 204th day of writing an article on Threads, I selected Liu Zhenyun on my personal page: “In a world without God, people can only search all their lives, looking for someone, and saying an intimate word to him, the torrent in a person’s heart, in fact, It’s enough to flood the whole world.” Others said something in a whisper after his words: “You can’t find someone to talk to when you are traveling in the world. When you were young, falling in love was about working hard on the same bed. Later, It’s really just covering up with quilts and just chatting.”

There was only one reply to this post and 38 likes, which was deserted.

At the same time, someone on the river held a public trial of Huangshan materials with 75 responses. Someone started a debate about electronic paper and physical books, with 187 citations. Some people also used Zhang Ailing to tell some quotes from women’s magazines, Chicken Soup for the Soul, which were forwarded 49 times. Regarding literature, everyone on Threads has a lot of opinions to express and a lot to say.

Please read on…

On July 5 last year, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, launched Threads, which exceeded 100 million users within five days of its launch. It has users writing short articles and sending short videos. Its functions are similar to Twitter (X). Obviously, Mark. This time Zuckerberg is going to fight Elon. Musk did it. Taiwan and the United States went online at the same time. It was too hasty. Taiwanese people are not used to pressing the tip of their tongue against their teeth, and they cannot pronounce the beautiful sibilant th sound. Crisp, ear, and sleep death are all one Threads, and they can be expressed separately. However, the inconsistent pronunciation has not affected the global traffic of Threads in the first half of this year. Taiwan accounted for 10.09%, ranking second in the world after the United States.

I am user number 5804537. On the first day of writing an article in Threads, I went to Youth Park to swim in the outdoor pool in the rainy night. There were only three people in the eight waterways. The summer night was as cold as the pool water. I thought about the annual royalty settlement. The more I traveled, the colder I became. I went ashore to take photos. Posting the article “The Summer Night No One Knows” was both a coincidence and a deliberate one. The writer’s situation is also such a deserted swimming pool. Two people liked the post, fewer than the number of people on the waterway.

“The value of writers has become less valuable than the Japanese currency.” On the 282nd day of writing an article on Threads, I wrote this sentence on the page. 17 people liked it, but no one responded.

With this sigh in mind, I was interviewed by a magazine that day, and the topic was about the situation of writers in the Internet generation. In the past two decades, he has worked for mainstream print media such as Apple Daily and Next Weekly. In the heyday of print media, newspapers saw circulation of more than 500,000 copies in a single day. A report can determine the life or death of a food stall or a female celebrity. famous festival. Words can be as important as Mount Tai, but in less than ten years, social media such as IG and YT have replaced the four major newspapers, and words are as trivial as a feather. Presidential candidates would rather shoot videos with Internet celebrities, eat cake and tell jokes than accept interviews with magazines. They do not believe that conscientious reporters can convey their beliefs in words.

I have no right to be sad, because I was the first to write an article on a news station. I first had readers, then I had works, and then I was asked to work in the media. No matter what I say, I am a vested interest in the Internet era. I joined Facebook in 2010. At first, I wrote about my reading experience or daily trivial observations on Facebook. I only had about one or two hundred friends (still the same today). Later, I opened a fan page and posted interviews about my work, which served as a kind of data warehouse. I post my own posts and don’t take it seriously if an article receives hundreds or thousands of likes. Someone left a message, and everyone responded with a thumbs up. I don’t know who it was, but I first saw their webpage writing some tasteful music reviews, movie reviews, or life essays. Is this an era of universal writing? When the four major newspapers were prosperous, you could not see the prosperity of such masters among the people by looking through the newspapers.

Therefore, with the rise of IG, I don’t feel the need to join in the fun. Writing articles on the Internet is to be retained. Who wants to post limited-time updates! You can do whatever you want, I will just live my own life quietly on FB. However, one day, I discovered that a random KOL on IG who was followed by 20 to 30 thousand people could write a few hundred words of film reviews and post two or three articles on the social media. The remuneration was equivalent to the price of 300 yuan for a contemporary writer to write a book. The royalties are 10% and the profit from printing one thousand copies will be earned. Is a writer such a mean person…?

So when I found out that Threads showed off the “Text version of IG” flag when it went online, I was very excited. Is it the turn of the word lovers to deal again? “The person I thought to myself after masturbating must be that person. At the moment of ejaculation, we are all the same humble and happy people.” An article should not exceed a hundred words, and post seven or eight erotic articles in a row Text, it should be okay to use it as a serial novel, right? 17 likes, no response.

“The elder brought me an amber bracelet as a gift from Poland. He said in a twittering voice, “I have already passed the test in the temple. Amber is very precious and it is one of the seven Buddhist treasures. Do you know what the seven Buddhist treasures are, right?” Before the elders could finish speaking, , I said leisurely, gold, silver, glass, coral, amber, clam, agate. The elders were inexplicably shocked, thinking that I was some kind of good man and layman. The elders had no idea that as long as I was a wandering young man who was familiar with palace fighting dramas, I was It’s impossible not to know what Qibao is. It can distinguish between agate and carnelian.” If you check Zhen Huan and Ruyi’s flow, you should be able to win, right? 3 likes.

I wrote articles on Threads for 372 days and followed 1,258 people. On average, 30 to 40 people liked each article.

No, that’s not how Threads works. Maybe the expert is shaking his head and sighing after reading this. Social software already hints at the rules of the game literally. Thread means “thread” in English. You say something and I say something in the community. Threads are the threads that connect the entire conversation. Interaction, interaction, the secret of its business always lies in interaction. If any KOL is unhappy, he will immediately choke. Big data will help you slap him on his page. If any internet celebrity starts a topic, go to his page and reply, which is equivalent to directly taking away his traffic. Its attributes are faster, shorter and more concise, and more suitable for immediate and large-scale exchange of opinions. Therefore, silk thread can also complement the propaganda and information of the Blue Bird Movement, and connect the entire social movement.

On the 300th day of writing an article on Threads, I reposted the summary of my interview with Lin Xi. The article included the lyrics of Thirty-Seven Songs by Master Xi. I selfishly thought it was the happiest interview I had written this year. Some unknown person left a message on Lin Xi Olympics and wrote “Beijing Welcomes You”. She was pro-China and couldn’t get away from Hong Kong, so she came to Taiwan. Upon seeing this, I simply deleted the entire article because you have already soiled my page. Threads is the ultimate practice of Bakhtin’s “noise of voices” argument. However, with so many people talking and the high decibels, the content of the appeal is easily drowned out. They do not investigate and shoot when they see a shadow. Only loud slogans are left. All that’s left is sound and anger.

At the same time, someone on the river is humiliating Huangshan Liang. This is nothing new. From FB, IG, to Threads, no matter how popular he is, he attracts more resentment. However, the new algorithm uses hatred to gather everyone in One piece. He is a celebrity in the fitness industry, and the lyrics he writes are a celebrity in the music industry. Mountain food has become a dirty word.

On the 114th day I wrote an article in Threads, I visited Huangshan Materials. The opportunity was precisely because I wanted to ask for advice. I am a writer. Why have you been on the ranking list in 2018 and never come down? Being a best-seller is never an accident. After he writes each chapter, he will post it page by page on the wall of the publisher’s office, ask the editors for their feedback, and then go back and revise it. The font of certain paragraphs in the chapter will be bold and black, or it will be separated into a page. He said that sometimes readers may not need to read the entire book, but a shining golden sentence, just like signing a poem, they can turn it over at will. When you arrive, you are touched, that is enough. A few Chinese writers will optimize readers’ reading experience like him. He cares about the market and everything is calculated accurately. As he chats, he will lower his head and open the computer APP on his mobile phone, add, subtract, multiply and divide, and then raise his head proudly. He said that within a few years, the royalties of several books have created tens of millions of profits. He reads Juheng.com every day and likes the feeling of his team making money with him.

Writers who care about traffic will eventually be swallowed up by traffic, but I have no intention of writing about it on Threads to protect him. The emotional cost of communicating one thing on Threads is really high and tiring. He didn’t pay me, why should I do this?

The next day, on the 301st day of writing articles in Threads, Lin Junping published “Seventh Uncle Returns to Hometown” in “Freedom Supplement”. The beautiful Taiwanese text of “My Unspeakable Nostalgia” has been upgraded again, and the text is classical. , the imagery and rhetoric are modern, the entire article can be read out loud, and the ups and downs of the words are like a clear spring gurgling through the heart, which is very comfortable, and every sentence can find the corresponding Chinese characters, this time is like a typesetting worker , pieced together word by word, the whole work is like a Japanese kintsugi craftsmanship, so beautiful and beautiful, but the text is written like this, there is a threshold for reading, it cannot be visualized, and it cannot be translated internationally. 73 people liked the novel after it was published , shared by 3 people. On Threads, whether it is Lin Junying or Lin Junying, there are only five discussion threads about the lineup of the art camp. It is really lonely.

But Lin Junying won’t care about this kind of thing. If you complain about this kind of thing to him, he will probably sneer and feel that words give you everything, otherwise what else do you want. This senior man was like a monk, turning his back on the whole world, walking into the dense forest of words. He went so deep that he couldn’t go any deeper, and he went as far as he could go. Internet celebrities are Internet celebrities, and writers are writers. Writers’ complaints can only be saved with good works. After reading a great novel, I look back at Liu Zhenyun’s sentence on Day 204 of Threads. Every word shines. : “In a world without God, people can only spend their whole lives searching, looking for someone, and saying an intimate word to them. The torrent in one person’s heart is actually enough to flood the entire world.”

Writing in this era is to find a unique sentence, one sentence is worth ten thousand sentences.

The era of wandering and writing for traffic cannot be resisted. There is nothing wrong with relaxing and drifting with the wave for a while. There is no guarantee that you will not find a unique tone to describe the world. Break the defense, be EMO, and stand on the wave of the times. , become the next Huangshan material. But it’s okay to stay in the pool on a summer night where no one knows.

On the 370th day of writing Threads, on a heavy rain night, I ran to the swimming pool to hide from the rain (there was no thunder, so it was ok). The rain hit my skin in small pieces, like a pulsation that echoed my heartbeat. The same swimming pool, the same On an unknown summer night, swimming alone, you suddenly think of Whale Xianghai, and the words that hold you up gently are still the words: “Light up the seal oil lamp/I am back in this hut/humming to the thin cold wall / The trembling tourists watching from the outside / how could they know / that the loneliness here is actually very warm.” ●

■Li Tonghao won the second prize of the 7th (2011) Short Story Award and the first prize of the 9th (2013) Short Story Award. Born in 1975, graduated from the School of Journalism, Fudan University. Reporter of the People Team of “Mirror Weekly”. He is the author of “Non-Homicide Novel”, “How the Times Turned” (co-author), “The Red Room” (first prize for non-fiction at the Taipei International Book Fair Awards), “Alibi”, and “Breakup Travel on the Silk Road”.

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