Once a factory engineer with a difficult childhood, Yuan Jiyi found late-life fame by transforming into a CEO or Taoist priest in over 100 short films.
Pan Tianhong, a 29-year-old content creator with 15 million followers and a company generating over 100 million yuan in revenue, faced criticism for his "low education" when he went undercover as a modest man at a Hangzhou Park matchmaking event.