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in china live streaming has become a massive upgrades and a booming multibillion dollar business they live online to an extent to which people in the west would find it difficult to imagine coming up all those years or so. there's big money for the country's cyber superstars to get any attention from somebody is just a sign that you exist in a very difficult environment and endless hours of entertainment for millions of diehard fans sure hannity yes we should believe you because you didn't live. because you had a. great popularity can bring serious repercussions controversial

life streamers attract the attention of the chinese government which is already shut down three major internet platforms and thousands of individual accounts i'm steve on this episode one on one east meets the cyber celebs behind the great chinese firewall. october that. yes well that's. not. enough to.

tell you i'm. ok with that. it was a measurement on your tenure i didn't know. what your. cell phone but yes i sent. mail together. and. surely even will call. and i mean a hard drive and video and i don't know it will be then the new year was here. budaj a good long olivola drink the water to go from here yes it is my good friend. sorry girlfriend my girlfriend she's your girlfriend.

this self-confessed unemployable young man a fortune without me because. he won't say how much but it's enough to buy this apartment and a couple of others. are all b.b. baby i buy you get the baby when i say i think it's only you on the one aisle as a live stream hundreds of thousands of people tune in to watch him talk sing and play the full making him one of china's unlikely superstar. on the album my. face. alan and they don't bring the point in trying out. i'm just going to. it's

a high pressure act enhanced by a large dose of canned laughter. so what are. you worried at all. that's what i wanted to kind of all along on. thanks to this so-called great fire wall the chinese experience the internet differently to the rest of us. it's not facebook or twitter or even google connecting them to the rest of the world. stripped of everything from politics to point. hundreds of millions of chinese turn to live streaming platforms for the entertainment world for them it's worth paying for the millions of people have

taken to these platforms as sort of new social boat a way of communicating. as a way for the sort of lonely hearts these lonely young people to connect. the live streaming phenomenon has been an irresistible story of modern china for the los angeles times beijing bureau chief jonathan cayman so it's a technology story it's a business story it's a social story and it's a political story all wrapped into one and it's and it's very it's unpredictable. streamer and comedian one show you want has over five million fans. i. did tuning in to his foolish antics in the same way we would consume hours of cat videos on social media so a lot of it was. one of his biggest fans stops work every afternoon to watch

how much time would you spend watching streaming every day. let's out. talk. on. the chinese have a special term for streamers and their fans. who hate on these. originally applied to online gamers who may not have many social skills but who are in their element online so. it turns a community of nerds into superstars order to hold on while they're out of work for it if you're not happy when they see you know the whole scenario if you were to look at. them all that he was lazy survive. but that still bothered. me.

as well that the night of the toolbar where the one that is are built in that it will be what it is should i assume that all that has. well the twelve percent off the hook to the top of our. show you one earns a living thanks to the generosity of his fans by him. using an online currency equivalent to china's one child the rules of war the rules of war. and really. really. got to be that i thought i had to deal with. this was. a letter to the. today show you one fans will buy him four and

a half thousand virtual lipsticks worth about eighteen thousand dollars. around two thirds of that money goes to the streaming platform from the wrist to show you one six thousand dollars isn't bad for a couple of hours work mr wong probably doesn't need your supporters and of course you can watch a live streaming without paying anything while you buy things. she revealed at his . review it was worth it in the you don't negotiate they really have to wonder the null pointer value or the goal and the other you look what you're there to see so you. just run to the side or is it over there with only bondage in it. in china countless small acts of generosity by fans and up to a billion dollar industry.

it'll be a part of the out the out. so you know. parts are all i need. one show you one enjoys the trappings of his success he's got an assistant who chauffeurs him from his new apartment to the one he's bought for his mother from the void. that's added over there are our. treasures on the. but i do.

show you one had a humble upbringing his parents worked for factories before being made redundant. they'd hoped their only son would take care of them in their old i never imagined it would be like this. yeah. so even though i never have enough time. you'll have your daughter you know that's how i see that. how did you feel about getting involved his wife's training when he was first starting out actually. i know you're looking for her to hear how one. what if. you're going to. actually. is it. that one day and then only because it's. militant so nothing and nothing you know we.

live streaming has created its own fan driven economy but in the west it's often used very differently. to broadcast protests or police shootings. you know he had you thought to get it. there's no citizen journalism in china. but it turns out that even online silliness worries the government what. bothers the communist party about live streaming. is first and foremost how popular it is how many people are on it it's about people having the ability to interact. using channels that are beyond the

government's control. the industry doubled in size last year and the chinese government is grappling with how to control it. in the last eighteen months there's been a crackdown on live streaming focusing on morality first in the senses sides. see banana isa's there was one woman who gained a following for eating a banana in a sort of sexually suggestive manner and so the government issued a new edict banning the eating of banana on that's a specific edict it was a specific edict from china from china's media watchdog that you can't eat a banana while you're streaming you can't eat a banana suggest you can't eat a banana and i suggest of manner wall live streaming. since then thousands of streamers have been banned and strict new regulations introduced in july three

major internet platforms were ordered to shut down a streaming service is impossible to overestimate the degree to which the communist party will go to maintain its grip on the discourse the government itself has teams of sensors and forces internet companies have their own teams of censors that the number in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands that are tuned to the government's demands they know they have an idea of where the red lines are and it's their job to shut things down. to keep streamers on line and the money rolling in the industry has taken. self-censorship you know time i actually wasn't i wasn't in the safeguard are not going to tell me that is out i have to go i feel that. young is

co-founder of red media company that's a kind of factory for live stream as. long. as in their own. home that's what it was that was. sometime in may that's and yeah sometimes is which is such a. tough question to me that's what's not a hobby yet. so. that's what a what a how yeah. so a woman to go try not to get that hard to track the sort of instant i have one goal . how can play are.

in that. entails. that it would have this week. so you know that during the week how do you want to have. to find. me. which it was hoped. that made the hyatt howling at say the wizard and have the same

guts was on their own with thought. does not come until the. stream is done just have big government breathing down their necks i also have family on a to worry about. this or that. form want untenable me. i want to come i'm a young lady behind in the in all of them will. call that even when you know tomb. of the town the from when i sing with a friend. in the industrial city of tongue shun shall shenlong is struggling to support his wife and young son as a taxi driver. but he dreams of riches and celebrity.

all things go. on until six months ago he had a thriving career as a live stream and made these little comedy sketches with his wife. but it's hard for a jew so full sun to pursue a career in streaming if his parents disapprove. of the way form or law for offering you a you know there. have been the to ben you've been. at the been. of a healthy been the other i mean the one. the hunted down the minute. i asked shenlong if he could take me back to his village to meet his parents they lived through the cultural revolution when individual expression was suppressed.

how do they feel about their son's ambition to be an internet star why didn't you want him to be live streamed it. that's the way it was that. pushes it it was all thought out there are so diminished hard evidence yet that you probably asked about yes i said. i know. you know. what is there for your ass or you like to do. this in. order to get it. from his parents point of view shenlong might as well be from another planet but he knows china has changed and he's determined to embrace the future. into weather for a while because it wears out all of the divine. with wings and the young. gun

indignance and whether the year one stands in year. nomo one zero. hour for. some with only a hole with a mark on them but dream your after a six month break shenlong is going to have another crack at live streaming. no. it wasn't. the year. from. now i think. he realized that being himself wasn't enough to attract an audience. nor a low. nest. is alter ego needed to be more confident and spontaneous. what about. the need when

leno twenty leno singer. that. there are planning a. year and then name of the year and i will make of the yes i will need to enter. in long can make more than two hundred dollars streaming for a couple of hours compared with forty dollars a day as a taxi driver. no wonder he sees live streaming as a ticket to a better life. whether they're from the countryside or the city anyone can become a streamer and find an audience. but can they hold on to their stardom and stay

within the government's boundaries at the same time. it doesn't want to do things the way. to do it all the legally under your roof off. the back confidence and spontaneity can get you more fans. going too far can mean fall in foul of the senses. that salacious and show you one learned the hard way when a live stunt brought his career tumbling down. he got drunk and then started streaming for you know in the end you know yeah and that's all. they are and there you go about a good trip with. breaking the government's regulations on morality shall you one got caught with his pants down.

on your. son is full it was really you know it was there is no one on your hands or . so if i was there to the human. it's a little bit of a city then the results were that. many of his fans would devastated. with their favorite stream and gone it was a whole lives now until my mind you know you know your odds are good. that i see on a pile on the hard. liners or the new you're the one. show you one spent a year in limbo wondering whether he'd ever be allowed to stream again.

although all. runs a gun you know monkey and. some of the dogs are there as a whole for the whole with a. homestead holiday the family about here is on the. wrong . which is. back on line with one show you won and they usually confident streamer seems to be a little camera shy he knows self-expression is a double edged sword message to go to trial that. that boundaries exist even if he doesn't always know where they are.

it's almost as the technology offers a promise of freedom that can never quite be realized. yes i mean people say in china that people live in a cage here and yet the walls of the cage for many are the bars of the cage are so far away that people don't know they exist or don't know where they are and i think the metaphor holds true for the live streaming phenomenon. mian mars commercial capital yang gone is a symbol of its rapid economic growth but in its slums families struggle to survive borrowing money from merciless loan sharks is their hold inside this cycle of debt when east on al-jazeera.

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