Small wanghong can value craft over fame and wealth

Evidence

Me… I count as an up-and-coming wanghong. There are a lot of people that started following me, and of course I want to become influential, but I still haven’t become popular, I don’t know if I can become popular, because the songs I make, my goal is not… my goal is to write music every day, sing songs, make videos, publish them. I’m already happy with this life, I want to keep performing, this is my wish, I don’t want to get a lot of money and become a celebrity… (Interview, 2016) Abidin, C. — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe, 542

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: success in attention economies — what happens when practitioners aren’t chasing the endpoints we assume, existing aspiration alongside precarity.
• XREF: connects to: Papi Jiang’s fame rests on perceived independence from management — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe:…, 537