Connie - 💚 Yibo

Retired and loving it. Favorite author - John Connolly. Favorite food - anything Chinese.

[Zee @Zeexyo]

To become truly irreplaceable, you have to do what #WangYibo did: build a path where passion & career become one. By stepping beyond the traditional C-ent model, he expanded his audience far beyond the usual fandom circle, reaching a level of influence that few artists can match.

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

@ibowangzhaboom As he should. There are no shortage of leeches plaguing him; just look at that shameless hag, 6 years on and still making a nuisance of himself. 😒

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

🤝 Wei Ruolai will always be standard.

#WangYibo War of Faith.

[Snow Leopard- 王一博 •YIBO💚 @SnowPart2]

War of faith so GOATED it did not need it a re-shoot to add more romance... I'm just saying

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

@SnowPart2 Happy birthday, girl. 🥳🎂🍾🥂

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

Hear hear. 🗣️ Louder for those in the back.

[claudius @cylyl10]

WangYibo in 2023 was practically a newcomer to movies as a lead.

Yet, the industry didn't treat him as a newbie.

While others were busy participating as newcomers in that Starry Oceans project, Yibo was in the main Golden Rooster award event to introduce an accolade to a veteran artiste. And only after then, he rushed back here, to take the allocated C position.

Yibo took top honors at the SIFF for the prestigious "Best Leading Actor with Most Media Attention" award for his debut movie Hidden Blade & Born To Fly against more established 90 & 80-ers actors . While that other guy, only a yr apart from him in Born To Fly stood in as a newcomer.

It feels bittersweet that he was his own resource, and that he had to do the double hurdle just because he is good, while others get to cruise through with backers' resources and less onerous bars.

Yibo won in shaping his own personal IP. Any lesser artistes would have faded into the sea of ordinariness under the circumstances.

Proud of him... immensely so.. but also, an undefined ache for this talented young man.

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

@hat3radeguzzler Is he flipping people off? That’s not a good look. 😒

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

@weiruolais Damn 🤣🤣

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

LV did not become hated in China because it won an intellectual property lawsuit.

Foreign companies have sued Chinese companies before.
Chinese consumers understand trademark protection.
They understand intellectual property.

But this case crossed a different line.

LV did not merely protect a brand.

It exposed a much uglier logic:

take ancient Chinese motifs,
register them as private property,
turn civilizational memory into corporate assets,
then sue Chinese companies for touching patterns rooted in their own cultural soil.

That is why Chinese people are furious.

LV has registered 45 Chinese-style ancient patterns.
Patterns that came from Chinese decorative traditions.
Patterns that appear in Tang-era art, Dunhuang murals, Suzhou garden windows, Fujian floor tiles, and everyday Chinese aesthetics.

And now a French luxury house acts as if these symbols belong to Paris.

This is not ordinary trademark protection.
This is cultural occupation through paperwork.

Ancient people did not have trademark offices.
They could not file applications.
They could not defend their heritage in modern courts.

That does not mean dead civilizations are free for corporations to loot.

If this logic stands, anyone could repackage Hanfu patterns, Terracotta Warrior imagery, Dunhuang murals, Buddhist motifs, or even classical works like Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, register them, and then tell Chinese people they no longer have the right to use their own cultural inheritance.

That is absurd.
That is dangerous.

And that is why LV won the lawsuit but lost China’s face.

The tea brand used a jasmine flower because it sells jasmine tea.
The cultural soil is Chinese.
The public emotion is Chinese.
The backlash is Chinese.

On the day the ruling came out, Molly Tea gained massive public support because Chinese consumers understood exactly what this was:
not a French brand protecting creativity,
but a Western luxury house privatizing Chinese heritage and biting the people whose civilization made the pattern possible.

Even more humiliating for LV:

while Molly Tea was facing millions in damages, its home region was hit by floods, and the company donated 1 million yuan for disaster relief.

So the contrast became clear.

One side took from Chinese culture and sued.
The other side bled money and still gave back to Chinese people.

LV may have won US$1.5 million.
But it reminded 1.4 billion people what Western luxury often means:

steal civilization,
monopolize beauty,
sell it back as status,
then sue the original owner.

This has never been about luxury art design.
This is colonial property logic in designer packaging.

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

What a debut role! Mr. Ye will always rank first with me.

#WangYibo

[Snow Leopard- 王一博 •YIBO💚 @SnowPart2]

Yibo been nominated to Asian Film Award AFA (the real ones) in the Newcomer category with his debut movie will never not be ICONIC

#WangYibo

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

@saignementhe @AllYiboWang I remember that photo shoot. I especially remember thinking he’s the only person I know who can make that hideous coat look good. 🤭 Sorry, I was not a fan of that 🧥.

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

@yibosgeek They NEED to each make dozens of alts so they can mass vote the hag for everything, otherwise he really will be a 0. 😉

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

@YiboGeographic Body rolls and chest pumps, nobody does it like him.

#WangYibo

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

@SnowPart2 @nice_guy2021 Good grief, wtf is wrong with all these 🥔 stans!? Always complaining about something. If that hag isn’t giving you what you need, unstan and move on. It’s not that complicated. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

@SnowPart2 Yay. I’m ready. 🤙😌

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

@SnowPart2 Don’t mind them Dear, this 💩 will come back around and work its cosmic magic. ‘May they all be as barren as mules!’ 🪄

[Snow Leopard- 王一博 •YIBO💚 @SnowPart2]

Listen you dumb beech. You literally wrote on the most derogatory way possible. Against someone that is not your friend. Literally assaulting them.
This is BEYOND Twitter stan this is YOU abusing/assaulting my friend. So sit the fck down and literally apologize to them.
Becuz wtf is wrong with you?!?!

[Connie - 💚 Yibo @morrison_tong]

So, the most disgusting post of the day award has just been won by a #XiaoZhan fan, again. Yes, we are not surprised. 😒

[🦋 @nuhuangisme]

0 #xiaozhan fans pretending to be shocked by someone calling xiao zhan a who/re?? all those "resources" without any talent or recognition AND flops should be a deadass giveaway that xz who/res himself away for those projects 😂