Yu Menglong Incident: Smear Campaign, Failed Rescues, and Gong Jun's Fate in Chinese Entertainment

The Yu Menglong Incident Unfolds

• 💡 The Yu Menglong incident is described as increasingly bizarre, with deeper investigations revealing a four-step smear plan.
• 🎯 This plan allegedly involves fake videos, AI face-swapping, betrayal by old friends, and PR whitewashing.

Yang Mi's Failed Interventions

• 🔑 Actress Yang Mi made three unsuccessful attempts to rescue Yu Menglong, trying to sign him to her company, JWalk Studio.
• 📌 Her efforts were thwarted by Yu's harsh contract with Tenyu, which included a priority renewal clause effectively locking him in for life.
• ⚠️ Yu Menglong was reportedly shelved for three years after refusing a female producer's "unspoken rules" and expressed distress and fear through messages and social media posts.

Gong Jun: The Next Target?

• 🚨 Rising star Gong Jun has been identified as a potential next target, with companies linked to him also registering weapons-related trademarks.
• 💬 His habit of avoiding crew banquets is seen as both a relief and a potential marker for the "demon group."

Orchestrated Cover-Up and Smear Tactics

• 🛠️ Authorities are accused of deploying a four-step strategy to erase Yu Menglong, including destroying physical evidence and making whistleblowers vanish.
• 🔍 Tactics involve smearing his private life, fabricating videos with AI face-swapping, and using a planted woman to blacken his name.
• 👻 Yu's mentor, Sun Durang, experienced a sudden illness before a paranormal show, believing it was Yu trying to urgently convey something.

Public Resistance and Broader Implications

• 👏 Despite the challenges, Chinese netizens are resisting by relaying truth, signing petitions, and using creative forms of protest.
• ⚖️ The tragedy is seen as a mirror reflecting fear and helplessness under CCP rule, with calls to speak out for Yu as speaking out for oneself.