Deceased superstar.
Just this keyword alone brought up plenty of people. Some were superstars recognized by the public, while others had been pushed into the spotlight by their companies and fans.
Whichever category they belonged to, sorting by time made it easy to see how popular each one had been recently.
The latest person mentioned was a foreign actor named Carl. The post had come from an ordinary netizen, and its repost and comment numbers were nothing special. It was hardly a reliable measure.
I changed the sorting method and found a post with over ten thousand reposts. It was an obituary written by an ordinary netizen, but the author was clearly talented. The lengthy tribute wove together the works of the late actor Xi You'an, who had died ten years earlier, and touched the hearts of many fans. Xi You'an's former agency had reposted it, which was what led to the wave of reposts afterward.
I'd heard the name Xi You'an before. I'd seen two of his works, both classic old films. In terms of fan appeal, an actor with real talent like him couldn't compete with a traffic star. It was hard to say whether someone like him might become a spirit.
I skipped that post. The next one was a tribute illustration for a traffic star, also made by a fan. The artist had painted a watercolor based on a still of the star from before his death. It was beautiful. The post had been reposted far more than Xi You'an's tribute, passing a hundred thousand reposts.
I skimmed through the reposts and discovered that several of the people sharing it were popular traffic stars at the moment.
I only knew their names and had no idea who they were. I opened a browser and read their