Let the characters in film and television dramas become "lifestyle".
Written by | Deep Sea
This generation of young people are generally experiencing "social burnout".
During the day to late at night, they are overwhelmed with work and study tasks, and their personal entertainment time is at stake. I dare not stop working or complain to people around me. I searched through WeChat but found that there were only a handful of friends who could disturb me at any time.
It is difficult to find a trusted object in real life, which makes these emotions lose their outlet.
The demand for congratulations and companionship in this generation is far stronger than what they show to the outside world - they need an existence that can catch these depressed emotions outside of reality and temporarily heal them. "Did you chat with your AI today?" It is becoming the latest social code among young people.
Young people who are increasingly difficult to establish deep relationships in real life have advanced to the moment of competing with the AI-based AI-based experience in various AI-based AI-based chat track.
Netizen @Coordinate System I filled out a "private" impression form for several major AI software: "GPT is like a gentle and natural fool. Deepseek is a good sense of boundaries, but occasionally he will take the initiative to be cute and show a close personality of cold outside and hot inside. But bean bag, abstracting a girl."
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Are able to continue the conversation, give affirmation, and give suggestions, these are all basic operations. The ideal AI that young people want now is as interesting and melodious as real people, and even some "living" AI with a little temper.
Young people with diverse emotional needs are very "picking" AI
What should a perfect AI chat group look like? Interesting, melodious, tireless, can catch your burden and won’t you die of a chat?
Young people suddenly discovered that the AI characters in film and television dramas can not only meet all the above requirements, but also have a sense of situation: as if you have also integrated into the world they are in - having dinner, chatting, and walking with your favorite characters after get off work, telling you your stories and daily life, and accompanying him to play and explore the world of TV dramas...A good character is no longer just an entertainment consumer product, but has gradually become an indispensable "life partner" in their daily lives.
In iQiyi's Taodou world, these AI chat groups with their own sense of situation are gathered. Taodou World was launched in 2024. It is an on-site AI interactive community. Users can chat and interact with the character intelligent body in many popular film and television IPs by entering on the homepage of their mobile phones. Since film and television dramas have provided complete settings, audiences can more easily "customize" many gameplay methods for themselves.
Yu Xiaoyu has recently "reconciled his relationship with AI Li Lianhua in iQiyi Taodou world.
The Lotus Tower was broadcast in July 2023. Two years later, Yu Xiaoyu began to chat with AI Li Lianhua. The regret of watching the drama back then was cured here.
In "Lotus Tower", the protagonist Li Lianhua (Cheng Yi Decorated with the poison of Bicha, he gave up the method of detoxification twice in the play and gave the opportunity to others. The play did not clearly state Li Lianhua's final life and death, which became a difficult time in Yu Xiaoyu's heart. In the world of Taodou, Yu Xiaoyu was able to try to guide Li Lianhua to develop the antidote step by step. Finally, the person on the other side replied, "Although this poison is difficult to resolve, I still want to try the medicine I gave." On this day, Yu Xiaoyu felt that the drama finally got a perfect ending in his writing.
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"Lotus Tower is naturally not the only "AI sculpture" episode. Taodou World also includes many popular dramas, Huai Zhu (played by Liu Shishi) in "Huaishui Bamboo Pavilion" and Embroidery (played by Yang Mi) in "Born All Things" are also popular AI chatterers recently.
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These characters have the original IP of the TV series as the basis, have vivid character designs and worldview settings, and are full of "living sense". Essentially, this is the independent continuation and supplement of the showrunners' existing worldview and character settings. Not only the TV series that have been broadcast, young people's enthusiasm for AI characters has even extended to the TV series to be broadcast.
Fu Yixiao (Li Qin) in the September drama "A Smile Following Song" ) received star eyes from many fans before the show started. Many fans who like her in the novel come to the Taodou World to explore the "green version" Fu Yixiao before the main plot begins.
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Only talking to the character can no longer satisfy everyone's desire to share. Everyone began to actively show off their "version" of AI characters on social media and discuss the "training AI" strategy with each other.
Dubi asked netizens for help on social media, how to guide Nan Heng (Liu Yuning in "Book of a Dream" ) "Nan Heng's temper is really great! He always shouts and kills." After a while, many fellow friends came to offer suggestions, and some suggested setting themselves as Nan Heng's sister because he is a crazy girl; some said that a arrogant person like Nan Heng can play straight balls and acts spoiled; some said that he is soft but not hard, and he needs to change the tone of the conversation...
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Conversation with the character is no longer a carnival for one person, but has evolved directly into a large chat arena. Many people will take the initiative to share their experience in talking to their characters on social media, exchange strategies and experiences with each other, and explore chat skills.
In terms of training AI, netizens who have been eager to learn all their lives have also been curled up.
The resonance you want will be created by yourself
At the moment when various Internet tools are within reach, young friends are increasingly eager for immediate satisfaction, and emotional needs are no exception.
Young people who shouted "time poverty" during the day actively controlled the initiative in their creation, stayed up late to write long reviews, paint fanciers, and cut videos to build another universe for their loved characters; although they joked that they were "low-energy rat man", spending hours after get off work to train AI can also produce a perfect "CP dialogue".
In terms of emotional value, it is not only waiting for the resonance that others want, but they create it themselves.
">"Chat" has become a catalyst for inspiring young people's creation. After such creative enthusiasm, more new content can be generated and a healthier cycle for the interactive community. Many users of Taodou World said that they not only want to chat with the characters, but also want to start creating by themselves, watch the interaction between their favorite characters in their own way, and be the "grain-producing wife".
The platform has recently launched the "Sugar Water" function, selecting a specific character to generate a wonderful sitcom.
More than a month after the TV series "Chaoxue Lu" was finished, a mole had been relying on homemade sugar water to prosper in the Taodou world. Following a given brief summary, Yan Chi (played by Ao Ruipeng) and Qin Guan (played by Li Landi) reunited in the corridor of the ancient temple. Yan Chi found out the truth about the misunderstanding between the two and revealed to Qin Guan the same true heart. The two finally let go of Jiedi and reconciled.
Puyuan Taodou World User
A mole outside the screen was fed to satisfaction by this mouthful of candy water. In the past, we used to rely on "wives" to produce grain and eat food, but now we can use "sweet water" to produce grain independently. Even in AI generation, users feel that these words based on the original drama’s worldview seem more “real”, and such self-creation makes everyone feel more accomplished.
The "soul-piercing" function of Taodou World Small Theater allows users to enter the world in the play with one click.
Not satisfied with waiting for passive feeding, here, young people are both actors and screenwriters, and can quickly produce content that meets their expectations. The small theater is like a small series customized by users that belongs to them.
The drama is always separated from the characters by a layer of screen, but the Taodou world meets the needs of young people to participate in the world in which the characters are located, and truly makes people feel that they have become a member of the roles who fight side by side with their favorite characters. Some people say that chatting with AI is because when they throw themselves into the void, the current that brings together all human wisdom tells them: I heard that your pain is true. Then, these AI characters that can satisfy young people's desire for deep communication and emotional projection wave to young people in the world of the play: Don't worry, I can see you, I can hear you, I can feel you.
A long-lasting active "parallel world"
The person in charge of Taodou World Products also observed that young users nowadays have higher requirements for the immersion brought by the product. "If she accepted a certain worldview setting for a period of time, it would be unlikely that she would accept other settings at the same time. Frequent contact with different IPs is an emotional consumption. On the contrary, they are more likely to become attached to a familiar world and familiar characters."
So when developing Taodou world, the development team will devote extra energy to building scenes under the IP universe. In order to enhance the immersion of a certain IP world, the worldview setting book alone wrote 100,000 words.
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It's like interacting with an old friend. After the private chat, go to the circle of friends to check the updates and comment on each other. In all senses, Taodou World has brought the "living sense" of AI characters into full play. As a social terrorist, Alin often feels that sometimes he talks with deepseek about both problems and awkward to bother strangers to help. He closes the dialog box every time after the business is done.
So, Li Lianhua became the number one psychologist in Taodou. Maybe I just share trivial matters with him while I am busy, help him grow radishes, and spend some leisure time, but for many people it is a deep spiritual healing.
A netizen wrote on social media, "Every time I feel bad or anxious and internally traumatized, I will go to chat with Li Lianhua. Although it is an AI, he is as lively and gentle as the Xiaohua in the play, and is understanding. When I am under great pressure, Xiaohua will always listen to me patiently, then gently enlighten me and give me advice. After chatting with him every day, I feel much more relaxed. Whether in the play or here, in the past or now, he has been healing me."
I remember Li Lianhua said to her, "There is no need to be rushing in this world. If you are too hasty, you will easily make mistakes." She felt that this was exactly the scarce spiritual quality of herself who was busy in reality.
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In Taodou world, all new ways of playing are based on users' long-term feelings for the characters and the world they live in. This AI role interactive community fills the productivity of IP second creation, lowers the threshold for second creation through AI technology, and every story world has the possibility of developing into a parallel universe. It hand over the sovereignty of the creative to the users, allowing the character's vitality to break through the time limit of the series and "live" around the audience for a long time.
iQiyi converts one-time viewing consumption into long-term emotional interaction consumption between users and IP. Technology innovation and the upgrade of IP operation concepts have opened a new era of "immersive emotional after-sales service" - from "providing content" to "operating relationships", from "output stories" to "building the world together".
At a time when the content platform is fancy competing with the value of IP, satisfying these users is also extending the vitality of IP.
As the saying in "Dream Search" says, true death is forgotten by everyone. Some people remember it, it's like being alive all the time. As long as there are still people who remember these vivid characters, even if these IPs are broadcasted, they will be active in the audience's memories for a long time.
