Starting from the star to shoot the industrial chain: 50 photos of Xiao Zhan sold for 2000 yuan, and 300 photos of 600 yuan in Esther Yu.
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Li Xian shouted to the photographer: Please stop.
Karry Studio issued a document to boycott stalking fan.
Yang Mi was shot maliciously on behalf of others.
YiBo thundered against stalking fan.



From May 11th to today, four celebrity artists boarded the hot search one after another in four days. Under the influence of stalking fan’s malicious acting, the private lives of celebrities were frequently harassed.
What is a substitute? Who is driving the growth of the agency industry? What kind of gray industrial chain is hidden behind the star generation? Today, we will talk about the agency industry in the entertainment industry.
Behind the professional shooting:
Xiao Zhan has 50 pictures of 2000 yuan, and Esther Yu has 300 600 yuan.
Before understanding the industrial chain, let’s popularize the slang of rice circles.
Instead of taking pictures, the abbreviation DP is often used in rice circles. Acting as a substitute is a popular career in rice circles in recent two years. Many stars have their own fan groups and stations, but sometimes these fans may not be able to go to the activities attended by the stars. At this time, they will find people who can go to the activities and pay them to help shoot their favorite stars. These photos and videos will be used to maintain the operation of the stations, for fans to lick the screen and bring more traffic exposure to idols.
Stalking fan: An extreme and crazy person among the fans of artists and stars. In order to satisfy their own selfish desires, they like to follow, peep, and secretly photograph the daily and undisclosed trips (airports, hotels, etc.) and work of stars, harass their favorite stars, and affect the private lives of artists (and their families). Illegitimate behavior will cause great trouble to the idol himself, and at the same time, it will disturb public order, bring hidden dangers to public safety, and often deal a blow to the idol’s reputation.


We can often see such videos on social media such as Weibo and Tik Tok. When stars appear in public places such as airports, they are often chased and photographed by a large number of people. There are many fans among the people who take pictures, but more likely they are "professional photographers".


As a matter of fact, there has been a long history of the phenomenon of substitute filming. In recent days, Yang Mi, Li Xian, Karry and others have taken the initiative to denounce this chaos, which shows that the substitute filming industry is rampant. Since last year, many stars have been harassed by substitute filming and boarded the hot search.
For example, Jason Wu was angry when he was forced to take photos, Angelababy fans were beaten when they were forced to take photos, and Sean Xiao fans were crazy about taking photos and disturbing the order of the airport.
Many people may be curious, how do professional substitute photographers get the travel information of stars and shoot them? What’s the use of taking these photos? Who will buy it? How does the agency industry work from top to bottom?

The reporter’s investigation found that there are many sellers selling celebrity privacy itineraries on the Internet, and the privacy of a large number of celebrities such as Jackson Yee, Karry, Arqie, YiBo, Adam and Esther Yu is sold in the circle of friends, including flight information, ID number, passport number, mobile phone number, micro-signal, website account and even playlist of listening to music APP.

In order to avoid security risks, reporters were told that sensitive words should be expressed by abbreviations during the communication with such sellers.
For example:
Brush off-SG household registration map-HJ flight-HB/
High-speed rail-gt/address-DZ ID card-SFZ

This kind of sellers are the upstream practitioners in the industrial chain of professional proxy photography. They provide the basic guarantee for proxy photography by providing the privacy itinerary of stars.
After obtaining the itinerary, the work of taking pictures on behalf of them began. In addition to professional shooting equipment, they also need to have excellent technical acumen. Take the airport as an example. Professional agents will specially buy air tickets to go through the security check with artists, and then refund them after filming, so as to minimize the work cost.
If you get a first-hand photo, you will resell it to fans or a third-party seller, and then the seller will sell it to fans at a higher price to earn the difference.


The reporter interviewed a number of sellers and provided the reporter with the price of the corresponding star.
Take Esther Yu, a popular trainee in "Youth has You 2", for example, 100 pictures start as a small bag, and the price is 260 yuan; 160 pictures are big bags, and the price is 330 yuan; The whole package starts with 300 pictures, and the price is 600 yuan.

In addition, the quality of photos, the clarity and the popularity of artists will all determine the selling price. For example, only 30 pictures in Jackson Yee are sold in 260 yuan, and the price of substitute photos in Sean Xiao is much higher than that of ordinary stars, and 50 pictures can be sold for 2,000 yuan.


To put it simply, acting as a proxy means that groups mainly in stalking fan take photos by tracking stars, and then resell them to fans to earn money.
Invade privacy and disturb public order
The chaos in the auction industry is frequent.
Where there is demand, there is a market. Driven by interests, the agency group is growing. Searching for "selling pictures dp" on Weibo, we can find that everything related to substitute photography can be done in it, from information selling to photo trading. It can be seen that as a product of the development of fan economy to a certain stage, Daipai has now formed a complete industrial chain from top to bottom.

Nowadays, the development of the agency industry has gradually lost control. According to previous CCTV news reports, there were 20 recorded fan alarms in 2017 only in Terminal T3 of the Capital Airport. From January to July 2018, there were 7 recorded fan alarms. In the process of filming, it not only causes inconvenience to artists, but also seriously affects the operation order of the airport, brings inconvenience to airport staff, and even brings congestion to the airport, causing certain security risks.
In addition to disturbing public order, there are many kinds of chaos in the agency auction industry, such as invasion of privacy, which leads artists to file complaints one after another.
As early as 2019, the People’s Daily published an article criticizing the agency auction. The People’s Daily said that Hugh and Jason Wu angrily denounced the agency auction, and Sean Xiao was blocked by the agency auction, resulting in flight delays … In recent years, the agency auction business has repeatedly been out of order and ignored social rules, which seriously disturbed social order. No interest should override the public interest. Only by correcting the traffic direction with rules and leading the fan economy with order can the traffic economy return to rationality and go further.

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Original title: "Starting from the star to shoot the industrial chain: 50 photos of Xiao Zhan sell for 2,000 yuan, and 300 photos of 600 yuan in Esther Yu"
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