More than 100 fans of Wang Junkai celebrate the singer's birthday in front of a building with a giant screen showing pictures of him in Chongqing Air Jordan 10 For Sale Online , Wang's hometown. Photo: IC Subway trains in Chongqing are covered with posters of Wang Junkai on his birthday. Photo: IC
On September 21, if you happened to be passing by New York's iconic Times Square, you could not help but learn that it was the birthday of Chinese teenager Wang Junkai, as more than 10 huge screens celebrated him getting one year older.


Wang Junkai, a member of boy band TFBoys, has over 18 million mostly female followers on Sina Weibo.


Having a fan kingdom about the same size as the population of the Netherlands, Wang was probably the world's most praised boy that day. He received more than just a birthday party Air Jordan 12 For Sale Online , but also countless presents way beyond expectation.


Presents worth millions


In today's China, a 17-year-old boy usually celebrates his birthday with family members or some good buddies. Spending a few hundred RMB on a fancy dinner with a big cake, followed by karaoke until late in the night is common.


But Wang Junkai had millions of yuan spent on him by his loyal fans, with some claiming that the overall expenditure on the celebrations may have topped 50 million yuan ($7.49 million).


Though denying more extreme claims about the expenditure, Wang's fans have remained close-mouthed about the amount of money they have donated to the cause of celebration.


Xie Mei (pseudonym), a 29-year-old fan of Wang, speaking to the Global Times four days after Wang's birthday Air Jordan 11 For Sale Online , said that 33 celebration events were held. She was not willing to even speculate about the cost, but did admit that it was very expensive and the cost of public screens and billboards made up most of the spending.


Based on the goal of "letting the world know Wang Junkai's birthday," Wang's fans prepared a series of celebrations of various kinds.


Xie Mei sent a list to the Global Times detailing some of the celebratory events including but not limited to 11 LED screens playing videos of Wang in Times Square, six in Tokyo, 32 along expressways in Paris, 533 televisions along the subway in Taipei, 42 digital billboards in Changsha airport Air Jordan 1 For Sale Online , a light show in the Olympic Water Cube in Beijing and many billboards in cities like Seoul, Melbourne and Reykjavik.


They booked a deluxe suite with the room number 9210 (his date of birth) on the cruise ship Super Star Virgo heading from China to Japan. Also, they advertised on Chongqing's Light Rail Line 3 and the No.7737 and No.273 buses in Seoul.


His fans even rented a helicopter, decorated with posters and stickers, and had it hover over Changsha, Central China's Hunan Province, where Wang stayed on his birthday.


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Apart from putting advertisements on transport, giant digital screens and billboards, Wang's fans bought advertisement spots on Youtube and Icelandic online newspaper Morgunbladid.


"Junkai has mentioned Iceland many times in his interviews, saying that he really wants to visit this country but has been too busy to go, so we simply want to make a carnival celebration of his birthday in his dream place," Xie Mei explained to the Global Times.


Fan economy rocketing


It used to be the case that putting up a poster on a bedroom wall, collecting albums Jordan 10 For Sale Online , writing fan mail and going to concerts were all a fan could do to show their passion.


It would have been quite impossible for Chinese pop fanatics to celebrate an idol in this fashion just a few years ago.


But China's swift economic growth has made such miracles possible.


The International Monetary Fund rated China as the number one economic power in the world, surpassing the United States in terms of purchasing power parity-adjusted GDP terms, the Huffington Post reported in 2015.


"In this birthday supporting events, the funding comes from every fan club, we didn't raise money. And those who are able to operate a fan club are mostly people with well-paid jobs," Xie Mei said to Global Times.


Other fans also said on Zhihu, a Chinese question and answer site Jordan 12 For Sale Online , that they don't mind that people don't understand their ambitions, but they want to let producers and investors know the size of the fan economy that Wang Junkai can generate.


But Xie Mei said, "Money is not the most important part, all these celebration events are just meant to show our love to Junkai and let more people know about him."


The deep feeling held by fans toward these idols may explain why a fan from Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province was willing to spend seven hours walking over 44 kilometers, longer than a marathon, to draw picture for the TFBoys on a route recording app Jordan 11 For Sale Online , according to the China News Service this March.


Idol factory


If making more money allows people to spend their dough on celebrities, then the idea of making a star shine all the brighter is the impetus that drives fans to create all these events voluntarily.


"Wang Junkai is among the first generation of 'cultivated' idols in China," Xie Mei told the Global Times. "He was first exposed to the public at the age of 12, and his fans witnessed him growing up, this built a more solid connection between the fans and the idol," she adds.


As Xie Mei said, unlike popstars created by traditional idol agencies who manage everything for their idols Jordan 1 For Sale Online , the TFBoys are allowed to be more like "wild horses."


Thanks to the development of the internet and social media, fans are able to take over the responsibility of promoting their beloved idol.


According to rough estimates, Wang Junkai has over 70 fan clubs, and each of them has its own way to help promote their idol.


JD (pseudonym) is a 27-year-old fan of the 17-year-old idol. JD works in a media-related company in a southern

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