[ SECRET POST #6338 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6338 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's complicated. Fandom over on mainland China seems a lot more viciously toxic re: criticizing actors for their appearance, weight, etc. and nitpicking every little thing. Yang Mi's criticism stems from a few factors:

* Up until recently, she tended to play young female lead ingenue type roles where her characters might be teenage girls to mid-20 somethings, rarely older.

* She is a high traffic actor, which means she's hugely popular... but at the same time, she's not considered a serious actor. She takes roles in idol dramas that are very samey and fairly limited range, but recently seems to be trying to transition into more serious roles, which have a different audience and different demands.

* That means a few things: her acting flaws are a lot more conspicuous in serious acting roles, she's not being glammed up in full make up and soft lighting, with post-production skin smoothing, etc. etc. employed. This is a common thing in idol cdramas. She's trying to do her own dialogue (as opposed to being dubbed by a professional voice actor) which is revealing some shortcomings in her Mandarin delivery, which further makes her look like a mediocre actor.

So some people are being very vocally unkind about how "old" she looks, i.e. like a beautiful woman in her late 30s, exacerbated by her unimpressive acting and delivery.