For the virtual up owners of station B, the biggest pain in the world is not that no one watches the live broadcast, but that when you work hard for a year to broadcast live and are ready to withdraw the gifts you received, you receive a notice of refund from minors.
Many young virtual up owners still don't know the power of underage.
So, at the end of February, the underage refund turmoil at station b taught these difficult sisters a lesson.
Underage refunds are nothing new, as Article 19 of the Civil Code, which came into force on January 1, 2021, provides for them.
Usually, you can often see the news that the bear child recharges the game and the parents ask for a refund.
And in 2022, Station B also broke out a juvenile refund storm, involving amounts ranging from a few cents to hundreds of thousands, which also caused widespread discussion at that time.
Since then, Station B has put the underage refund option in the customer service center - live broadcast section - user consumption and refund, and the first option is to click in. It's not obvious, but it's not very hidden.
If you want to apply for a minor refund, in addition to describing the problem, you also need to provide the identity certificate of the minor consumer and guardian, as well as the consumption record, etc., in the form of **and**, which seems to be very strict.
But what exactly is the specific process review and determination, it is still the same as the answer during the 2022 underage refund turmoil, but it is very strict to reassure you.
As a result, two years have passed, and the juvenile refund storm has come again.
However, this refund turmoil is a bit different, it is an ordinary B station user, set off by himself.
Its striking surface is huge, covering a number of virtual up masters of station B, some people have been refunded tens of thousands, some people have been refunded five cents, and the main thing is that it is a rain and dew even.
Usually the paper people who are held in the palm of the screen by the audience and shout "wife" and "mother" up the masters, after a year, all of them were blown up gold coins, and they couldn't tell if they were bitter.
What's even more outrageous is that this old brother who has withdrawn dozens of Ws from station B in the name of underage refunds, making the virtual up owners gossip, seems to be an adult.
According to the evidence provided by netizens, this brother who refunded money has started a live broadcast a few years ago, and claimed that he was over 19 years old in March last year.
Since there is no official information at the moment, the user's nickname will not be revealed.
The most unfortunate thing is that this brother who returned money doesn't look like a rich brother, and he has had a lot of developments last year.
Not only that, but in the past, he seemed to be a bad guy who traded digital collectibles.
In September last year, for unknown reasons, all the digital collections were released, and since then they have been withdrawn.
However, although Brother Hui Qian said goodbye to the digital collection, he was "hooked" with the live broadcast.
Back in February, Up Lord Blessing Kiyou discovered that a new viewer had taken a captain on the first day of watching her livestream.
At this point, she didn't realize what she was going through.
At that time, she didn't feel anything weird, because a captain's ** was 198 yuan, and if she had a continuous monthly subscription, it was 138 yuan.
It's not too much, it's not too much, it's not too much to say less, and it's not very rare for adults who often watch virtual up masters to become captains after a few glances.
But a few days later, the new viewer gave her another admiral.
The Admiral's ** is much higher, costing 1998 yuan. What's even more suspicious is that the viewer watched the live broadcast of Qiyou for only a few minutes.
Although she already felt that something was wrong, she still felt that she might have met a domineering president who was not bad for money, and sprinkled a thousand dollars with water.
As a result, within a few days, the cruel reality taught her to be a human being - the former big brother on the list has become a minor, and half of the gifts she eats have to spit out.
Yes, the audience who made her feel bad was the brother who returned the money mentioned at the beginning.
Since it is said that it is a refund storm, of course, Kiyou will not be the only one who overturned.
In this juvenile refund turmoil, Brother Refund didn't specifically focus on the big up master, as long as he ate the bowl of rice of the virtual up master, he was the target object.
The virtual up master Zi Belle official, who is certified as the food up master, is also the unlucky guy in this underage refund turmoil.
Although she has nearly 150,000 fans, as a virtual up master who does food content with a two-dimensional leather case, she is so niche that she can no longer be niche, and she was also slaughtered by Brother Refund Money.
She claimed to be the biggest victim in this incident, and Brother Qian directly returned 110,000 yuan.
According to Zi Belle, when Brother Refund gave her a reward, it was the first time she had seen so much money in two or three days.
She reminded the other party that if you are a minor, please don't consume, but Brother Hui said that he is not a minor, it is 03 years. So when he gave the gift later, Zi Belle didn't care anymore.
She also followed the usual practice to give two boxes of goods to Brother Qian.
Later, the other party also found her and asked her to help charge more than 100 into the Genshin Impact account, and she did not refuse.
As a result, I received a refund notice for minors, and Zi Belle almost graduated on the spot.
However, in the past two days, Station B has issued a new notice.
After mediation by the court, these unlucky anchors who were affected by the disaster only need to return 70% of the amount that the anchors should be refunded.
It's not a lot, but it's a relief.
Some friends may have doubts, since there is a minor refund, then return the money.
But friends, it's not that simple.
What you can understand at present is that the income of virtual anchors during live broadcasts is mainly divided into three parts. The first is the traditional virtual gift, which is the familiar "thank you boss for sending a super fire".
The second is SC, which is Super Chat. Make your words more visible in the barrage through the money ability, and pin them to the top of the scrolling chat bar for a while.
These two are not surprising, but the main one worth mentioning is the third type of income, which is mentioned aboveCaptains, admirals, and governors worth nearly 20,000
This is similar to a monthly subscription service, and streamers will also pay more attention to these long-term support viewers.
Most streamers will also give gifts of different values to captains, admirals, and governors.
Some are physical gifts that can be seen and touched, and there are many virtual gifts, such as accompanying the captain to play black games, helping the captain to draw cards for liver games, etc.
It's like the soft riu who was also hurt by Brother Refund Money, and her February captain gift was a customized acrylic stand, and if she missed it, it would be gone.
Why is it terrible to say that underage refunds are terrible, terrible is terrible at this point.
When a viewer applies for a minor refund and successfully passes the review. All the streamer can do is watch the money be deducted after receiving the refund notice.
And the gifts they gave out became meat buns and dogs, and they never returned.
Moreover, during that time, their related live broadcast content, such as singing to the captain and helping the captain score games, was tantamount to doing it in vain.
This is equivalent to receiving your salary at the end of the month, but the other party suddenly takes advantage of the loophole and asks you to return it for some legitimate reason, and you lose not only your salary, but also a whole month of working as a cow and a horse.
In other words, you will probably have to be angry, and then hang it out anywhere you can hang people, and let people avoid this company while scolding.
Now that we've talked about it, some of you may have found a problem - eh, are you ignoring taxes?
When the anchors are refunded by minors, they are not directly refunded in cash, but have to refund the balance of the hamster account.
You can think of the Golden Hamster account as a currency pegged to cash, and 1000 Golden Hamster** is 1 RMB.
When a minor refunds, what is required to be refunded by the anchor is not the amount after tax, but directly from the Golden Hamster account, deducting the amount of the anchor's pre-tax income.
So here is another problem, after receiving the tip, the anchor has withdrawn the money to use, and the gold hamster account is empty, so what should I do?
That's right, there is only one way, and that is to wait for others to tip you enough money in the subsequent live broadcast.
Then the money goes to the Golden Hamster account and pays off the amount you owe, otherwise your account balance will always be 0.
Of course, refund related questions can be submitted at a specific time through the Individual Income Tax app.
However, before you can apply for a tax refund, this money is a dead amount of money, and you can only watch it.
As for the IOS recharge, it is also a confused account, and the customer service of station B does not explain how to deal with the 30% that Cook took away.
In other words, if the anchor withdraws all the money from the audience, and then receives a refund from a minor, then she basically means that she is ** imprisoned before she receives enough gifts.
It may be good to say for some anchors whose monthly turnover is okay, but the money earned in the next month will be used to refund minors.
But for some small up owners, the huge amount of underage refunds is actually equivalent to a broken capital chain, which is no different from the sky falling.
Hanama Nailu Yo is a small transparent with 2,000 fans on station B, and the war of the underage refund turmoil has also spread to her live broadcast room.
At the end of February, she received a notice requesting the return of nearly twenty thousand actual earnings.
For Yo Hanama, who is a person with a disability, sitting in front of the computer every day is her way of supporting herself.
However, this underage refund broke all her life plans.
Because as a small-scale anchor, if she wants to fill the hole of 20,000 yuan, she needs to receive a gift of 40,000 yuan, which takes almost unimaginable time.
It can be expected that for a long time in the future, she will live broadcast in the form of day jobs, and her income** will also be cut off directly.
Maybe some people think that since it's all like this, it's better to break the jar, directly cancel the account, and open a new account for live broadcast.
Let's not consider the legal issues first, for the little anchor, this way of reincarnation is very unrealistic.
Canceling the account means losing money, the virtual image that was customized by spending money is lost, and the fans that have accumulated so hard are directly zero, and fan gifts also need to be re-designed with money...
In addition, they also have a lot of emotions invested in their accounts, and it is difficult for them to accept the cancellation of their accounts.
Just like many people who get out of the game, they are reluctant to sell their accounts, even if it is a decoration, a footnote to prove their youthful traces.
So there are still many people, after receiving a notice of a huge underage refund, they did not cancel their accounts, nor did they open new accounts, they simply disappeared and became a transparent person who will never start a live broadcast again.
The current virtual up main live broadcast room has become a dark forest.
Suspicion arose between the streamer and the fans, and no one dared to be sure whether the person who paid for the reward was the prey or the hunter who took out the gun and shot.
When the big brother on the list and the anchor connected with the microphone, and said that I was an adult with a immature accent that had not yet changed his voice, did the anchor really dare to believe it?
In the eyes of onlookers, the underage refund turmoil in 2024 is nothing more than a hurricane that suddenly rose up, overturning the glossy shell of the virtual anchor anchor circle, revealing the chaotic unspoken rules.
In fact, the storm about underage refunds has never stopped.
A few years ago, the first person successfully applied for a minor refund, opening a new chapter in the protection of minors.
It's just that for the anchors, the other side of the screen they face is still a world full of unknowns.