A technical secondary school student made a blockbuster hit worth over 100 million yuan, and people on the fringes of the film and television industry changed their lives through AI

“AI changed my life” Among the elite narratives in the AI era, there are stories of grassroots turnarounds. In May, Liu Ziyu, a technical secondary school student from the real estate industry in Yuxi, Yunnan, created "Zombie Scavenger", which has been played over 100 million times online and is known as the "domestic love death machine". As a result, he received a cross-ocean offer from a Hollywood producer. The short film has English subtitles, but a practitioner who has contacted Liu Ziyu said that his English is not good and he "can't even climb over the firewall." A month later, Liu Ziyu, who was born in 1997, was named "Douyin's new future director" on Douyin Movie Adventure Night. Under his account, a netizen named "AAA Yunhuanlu** Building Materials Wholesale Fa Ge" commented, "Awesome, I have boarded AIGC's Noah's Ark. When will we wage earners be able to stand up?" followed by a crying emoticon. "Zombie Scavenger" poster, the picture comes from Liu Ziyu's Xiaohongshu account. Meng Ke, who was born in 2004, also "turned over". He recently won the AIGC Best Director at the Beijing Film Festival for his AI short film "Mold" made in an Internet cafe. Meng Ke, who is not a professional, said in an interview, "Without AI, I might not be able to touch the film festival stage in my life." "AI has changed my life." Meng Ke has a team of more than 20 people, almost all of whom are born after 2000, and even many college students. He said that if you work hard all your life just for a house worth one or two million, it is too worthless. In the past, if you wanted to become a director, you were rarely allowed to make a wrong step. First of all, he can almost only graduate from the Beijing Film Academy or the Central Academy of Drama. During this period, he has to constantly participate in competitions, win awards, and gamble on the possibility of building a relationship, so that he can get the chance to join the team, and there is a high probability that he will play a small role such as a set manager. Even within the circle, directors and directors are completely different species. The chief content officer of a leading domestic video platform said bluntly at an internal occasion that without the hit short drama "Summer Findela", the film and television industry would not have any possibility of cooperation with its director Zhang Dama - Zhang used to be just an advertising director. The domestic film and television industry has high costs, high risks, and long return cycles. Project approval increasingly relies on famous directors, editors, and distributors.