The "drift bottle" satisfies people's curiosity about the world. Why did you suddenly go offline?

Zhang Xiaolong's monologue about fanfan many years ago is a profound annotation to the products he designed. Drift bottles are also one of the products that point to human nature.

The drift bottle was first launched as a small application of QQ mailbox on 20 10. Many post-80 s and post-90 s users who "surf the Internet" once stuffed their worries into bottles and gained friendship from strangers. For those who "catch the bottle", every time they press the button, it seems that they are really crossing the ocean and looking forward to an unknown new world.

In the period when social tools are not particularly developed, this small function placed in QQ mailbox is like a pen pal tool in the electronic age. It is an extension of our curiosity and an attempt to communicate with the world, which can bring different stories and perspectives from those around us.

This non-instant messaging function met people's needs for calling and anonymous society, and it was one of the most popular functions of QQ mailbox at that time. However, as Zhang Xiaolong quoted kevin kelly's point of view in Out of Control:

After the application is put up, it will have its own life and interact with a large number of users. What kind of interactive results and group effects will eventually form is beyond our control.

Nowadays, with the changes of major communication products, the function of drifting bottle extended to WeChat has been laid the foundation by pornography.

Wechat issued a notice last night saying, "After user complaints and media reports, it was found that there are still cases where users use functions such as drift bottles to publish pornographic content or pornographic advertisements. In this regard, the WeChat team has carried out a special clean-up and will temporarily go offline for WeChat drift bottles and QQ mailbox drift bottles related services. 」

The porn industry chain of drift bottles

Wechat's suspension of rectifying the function of drift bottles is not without warning. China Youth Daily published two reports about the "erotic secrets" on drifting bottles.

According to the China Youth Daily reporter's test, when the gender of WeChat account is set to male, seven of the 25 bottles picked up in four days are pornographic advertisements. Unscrupulous merchants enter the group by scanning the code, encouraging group friends to join the group to "watch movies for free", which brings fission effect to communication. At the same time, these groups will also provide paid pornographic movies.

There are also pornographic advertising groups that have developed to a certain scale and changed to "gambling groups" for another illegal operation. These groups usually have a short life span because of reporting, so "group secret" often sends out new group QR codes and shifts positions.

At the same time, in order to "develop business", these businesses have also developed a mature part-time training system for "throwing drift bottles" on the Internet, and most of the applicants are college students.

According to the reporter's investigation, these "advertising" part-time jobs are often hidden in various WeChat and QQ groups established on the grounds of finding part-time jobs.

Candidates need to change the gender of WeChat account to female, start "throwing bottles" at 10 in the afternoon, greet strangers according to a specially selected "drifting bottle high response speech" full of sexual hints, and then throw corresponding hyperlinks and group QR codes.

Just like in porn groups, part-time administrators also encourage on-the-job part-time employees to "go offline": for every 0. 1 1 yuan paid to offline users, Racine's online users will get a commission of 4 cents and can "earn money while lying down".

The development of this industrial chain is not only the demand of online pornography, but also the factor of low illegal cost. Managers often tell part-time workers that even if they are reported, the worst case is to disable the function of the drift bottle and not block the account.