This actually caused Jiang Siming no losses at all. On the contrary, it became a textbook example of how public figures should respond to online harassment, earning him a large number of high-quality fans.
The incident also once again exposed to the authorities the chaotic state of China's online keyboard warriors.
Blindly attacking and blindly stirring up trouble—no matter how well you had behaved in the past, as long as there was even the slightest rumor, they could immediately drag you through the mud.
It was true that every country had keyboard warriors, but China's keyboard warriors were definitely the most hateful and shameless.
They believed that online, they could say whatever they wanted without having to bear any responsibility.
They would vent all their dissatisfaction with life, work, and studies onto the internet.
They treated the protagonists of various news stories as punching bags, commenting on them however they pleased.
How vicious, filthy, and malicious their words could be—every Chinese netizen had surely seen it before.
Regarding this malicious smear campaign against Jiang Siming, not only were Bai Song and Yang Ma furious, even the elders had become exceptionally enraged.
A purge targeting online keyboard warriors was already being quietly planned by the Cyberspace Administration.
But Jiang Siming had gotten far ahead of those keyboard warriors in dealing with them.
Before the truth had come to light, before Jiang Siming had even been subjected to online harassment,
he had already had Gulu Weibo hold a poll.
The content of the poll was: "Those of you who keep shouting that you will never buy Jiang Group products again—if you have the guts, leave a comment here."
Unexpectedly, many keyboard warriors really did leave comments beneath the poll, and some even aggressively insulted Jiang Siming and the Jiang Group.
They figured