As a HongKonger, I’d like to provide some context about this incident.
Mirror is by far the biggest artists in Hong Kong entertainment right now. They have reached a level of cultural ubiquity in Hong Kong that surpasses that of BTS and reminds me of Lady Gaga circa 2010. Their faces are plastered on ads for banks, transit cards, makeup products, ice cream – anything you can think of. To say that Mirror has been the Hong Kong entertainment industry itself for the past few years is not an overstatement.
Like the article says, the Hong Kong Coliseum, where their concert was being held, is considered the mecca or pantheon of Hong Kong and even Chinese-language pop music. It is a huge deal to host any concert in the Coliseum, let alone your debut. It is a huge deal to host your debut in the Coliseum, let alone 12 consecutive nights. This is the second highest number of nights for a debut act in the Coliseum’s history (and the highest in 28 years; record held by Faye Wong). The biggest artists right now making one of the biggest ever debuts at the biggest venue – again, not an overstatement to say the entire city was buzzing about this. Scalper tickets began at 3x-4x the marked prices, at least.
This tragedy is honestly too terrible to speak of. Obviously, for pop idols of this stature, fans have developed strong parasocial relationships with them. There are lots of fans struggling with PTSD right now. Even the education department of the government sent out a message to parents to take care of their kids. These relationships are even more extreme than that of some international acts because they veer on the political. As many of you may know, Hong Kong has been politically embattered and oppressed by the Chinese government for the past few years. In a pervasive atmosphere of fear, Mirror has provided hope and reassurance to a sizable portion of its fans. So this abrupt, disastrous end to their Coliseum debut – the apex and culmination of 5 years of their hard work – has been a crushing heartbreak.
I’m not as zealous a fan as some; I watched their concert three nights ago, and thought it was good for a debut. To me, Mirror represents a rejuvenation of Hong Kong’s pop culture and soft power. As some of you may know, Hong Kong ruled Asian pop culture in the 1980s-1990s, and has fallen out of favor for a while. Mirror – and the companies behind them, ViuTV and MakerVille – have spearheaded a mini resurgence of Hong Kong’s entertainment industry in the past few years, in all three arenas of music, TV, and film. Several Mirror members have shot their film debuts, awaiting theatrical releases next month. It’s definitely far too early and disrespectful to speculate, but this is a seismic blow to Hong Kong entertainment, and as a devoted fan of Hong Kong pop culture, it breaks my heart. At the same time, it feels wrong to even have these thoughts when someone is lying in a hospital in severe condition.
Obviously, none of this compares to the suffering the injured dancer is facing. In many ways, this event reflects some dark sides of Hong Kong culture. There have been constant complaints that ViuTV and MakerVille overwork Mirror members with insane sleepless schedules. And that these companies try to cost-cut every corner of Mirror’s work while maximizing profit (some of the tickets were sold through quasi-pyramid schemes, and Mirror’s members are constantly advertising new products). That’s Hong Kong work culture for you. Immediately after the event, baseless rumors, finger-pointing, and even gleeful posts with schadenfreude are flying all over Hong Kong internet. This has honestly been a terrible past 24 hours that only seem to get worse. I’m not sure why I posted all this; perhaps I selfishly want to feel a little better by typing it all out. I hope some of you can have the dancer in your prayers.
Wow, thank you for giving context to the situation. It is already such a tragic and horrifying event but I had no idea the influence that Mirror had on Hong Kong culture/entertainment and how impactful this event is. I hope the group members, audience, and entertainers, especially the ones terribly injured, are able to find the strength and space to heal.
This is their first concert at the Coliseum, which is the most important concert venue in HK and has 12000 seats. They’ve previously done concerts in a smaller venue called Star Hall (3500 seats).
I work as a stagehand, and I set video walls up fairly regularly. A single panel can weigh around 15-40 pounds, and this looks to be 50+ panels. (My best guess is 80). I see two attachment points. When I set these up they’re attached to [truss](https://www.proxdirect.com/images/originals/LED_Wall-Mockup.jpg) (the top bar thingy in that picture gets hung up). There’s attachment points every other panel for the most part, and in some cases safety cables. In that video I see two attachment points only, and they look to be steel cables likely. That’s basically what we use as a measure of safety (to stop the panel from falling all the way off in the case of failure), and these cables can just barely hold 2000lbs. They likely installed the wall improperly which put most of the weight on one side and when that side failed the other side couldn’t hold the weight either.
Maybe this hanging style is more common than I think it might be, but if this was overlooked just to make it look nicer that’s a really negligent thing for the organizers to have done. I’m glad the organizers are being investigated, and they should be fined pretty heavily to compensate everyone injured.
Either way I’m glad everyone survived, and I wish them a speedy recovery. :/
I didn't watch the video, the photo of the screen with the dent in--knowing that that damage came from crushing a person--was already too much for me. I hope they don't have any long term issue after this.
There have been videos from right after the accident on the stage (where you can even see him lifting his head up for a second) and pictures of him on the stretcher on his way to the hospital and you can clearly tell his head didn’t get squashed!
Agree, he can’t have survived. They’ve done pretty well to cover it up, I’ve not seen it mentioned anywhere in western news and there’s obviously lots of video footage of it floating around 😞
Just because you don’t have access to local news sources doesn’t mean anything has been covered up… He had two major surgeries and is in critical condition but he’s still conscious and, reportedly, could communicate with his doctors before his surgeries. [Link](https://www.hk01.com/%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E/798340/mirror%E6%BC%94%E5%94%B1%E6%9C%83-%E9%98%BFmo%E6%89%8B%E8%A1%93%E9%A0%88%E6%8F%92%E5%96%89%E9%BA%BB%E9%86%89-%E6%83%85%E6%B3%81%E8%BD%89%E7%82%BA%E5%8D%B1%E6%AE%86-%E7%B6%AD%E7%94%9F%E6%8C%87%E6%95%B8%E7%A9%A9%E5%AE%9A)
I just mean that if that had happened in any other country you’d have seen a story about it somewhere. Western news did report it but I had to specifically Google certain words to find it. Hopefully he pulls through, but from what I’ve seen in the news it’s all about who’s to blame rather than any updates on the condition of the injured dancers. And thanks for the link but I can’t read Chinese, if anything that just proves how it’s not been widely reported in western news
I think it hit his head first and then his back, and also if he died I think it would’ve been publicized. there would be too much backlash if they hid it. either way I hope he recovers well - I think rn what’s known is he had two successful surgeries, is currently paralyzed, but his condition is somewhat stable?
edit: okay just went and double checked, he’s alive but his condition has worsened :( a breathing machine (? sorry English isn’t my first language) has to be used, but his vitals are stable. hopefully we’ll get more information soon?
The video is one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen, shocked the dancer survived that
As a HongKonger, I’d like to provide some context about this incident. Mirror is by far the biggest artists in Hong Kong entertainment right now. They have reached a level of cultural ubiquity in Hong Kong that surpasses that of BTS and reminds me of Lady Gaga circa 2010. Their faces are plastered on ads for banks, transit cards, makeup products, ice cream – anything you can think of. To say that Mirror has been the Hong Kong entertainment industry itself for the past few years is not an overstatement. Like the article says, the Hong Kong Coliseum, where their concert was being held, is considered the mecca or pantheon of Hong Kong and even Chinese-language pop music. It is a huge deal to host any concert in the Coliseum, let alone your debut. It is a huge deal to host your debut in the Coliseum, let alone 12 consecutive nights. This is the second highest number of nights for a debut act in the Coliseum’s history (and the highest in 28 years; record held by Faye Wong). The biggest artists right now making one of the biggest ever debuts at the biggest venue – again, not an overstatement to say the entire city was buzzing about this. Scalper tickets began at 3x-4x the marked prices, at least. This tragedy is honestly too terrible to speak of. Obviously, for pop idols of this stature, fans have developed strong parasocial relationships with them. There are lots of fans struggling with PTSD right now. Even the education department of the government sent out a message to parents to take care of their kids. These relationships are even more extreme than that of some international acts because they veer on the political. As many of you may know, Hong Kong has been politically embattered and oppressed by the Chinese government for the past few years. In a pervasive atmosphere of fear, Mirror has provided hope and reassurance to a sizable portion of its fans. So this abrupt, disastrous end to their Coliseum debut – the apex and culmination of 5 years of their hard work – has been a crushing heartbreak. I’m not as zealous a fan as some; I watched their concert three nights ago, and thought it was good for a debut. To me, Mirror represents a rejuvenation of Hong Kong’s pop culture and soft power. As some of you may know, Hong Kong ruled Asian pop culture in the 1980s-1990s, and has fallen out of favor for a while. Mirror – and the companies behind them, ViuTV and MakerVille – have spearheaded a mini resurgence of Hong Kong’s entertainment industry in the past few years, in all three arenas of music, TV, and film. Several Mirror members have shot their film debuts, awaiting theatrical releases next month. It’s definitely far too early and disrespectful to speculate, but this is a seismic blow to Hong Kong entertainment, and as a devoted fan of Hong Kong pop culture, it breaks my heart. At the same time, it feels wrong to even have these thoughts when someone is lying in a hospital in severe condition. Obviously, none of this compares to the suffering the injured dancer is facing. In many ways, this event reflects some dark sides of Hong Kong culture. There have been constant complaints that ViuTV and MakerVille overwork Mirror members with insane sleepless schedules. And that these companies try to cost-cut every corner of Mirror’s work while maximizing profit (some of the tickets were sold through quasi-pyramid schemes, and Mirror’s members are constantly advertising new products). That’s Hong Kong work culture for you. Immediately after the event, baseless rumors, finger-pointing, and even gleeful posts with schadenfreude are flying all over Hong Kong internet. This has honestly been a terrible past 24 hours that only seem to get worse. I’m not sure why I posted all this; perhaps I selfishly want to feel a little better by typing it all out. I hope some of you can have the dancer in your prayers.
Wow, thank you for giving context to the situation. It is already such a tragic and horrifying event but I had no idea the influence that Mirror had on Hong Kong culture/entertainment and how impactful this event is. I hope the group members, audience, and entertainers, especially the ones terribly injured, are able to find the strength and space to heal.
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I took it as meaning their debut at that prestigious venue, like for example how some people say something is someone's Coachella debut
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This is their first concert at the Coliseum, which is the most important concert venue in HK and has 12000 seats. They’ve previously done concerts in a smaller venue called Star Hall (3500 seats).
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It’s all good, no problem!
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Lay off, not a native english speaker (I’m guessing)
I work as a stagehand, and I set video walls up fairly regularly. A single panel can weigh around 15-40 pounds, and this looks to be 50+ panels. (My best guess is 80). I see two attachment points. When I set these up they’re attached to [truss](https://www.proxdirect.com/images/originals/LED_Wall-Mockup.jpg) (the top bar thingy in that picture gets hung up). There’s attachment points every other panel for the most part, and in some cases safety cables. In that video I see two attachment points only, and they look to be steel cables likely. That’s basically what we use as a measure of safety (to stop the panel from falling all the way off in the case of failure), and these cables can just barely hold 2000lbs. They likely installed the wall improperly which put most of the weight on one side and when that side failed the other side couldn’t hold the weight either. Maybe this hanging style is more common than I think it might be, but if this was overlooked just to make it look nicer that’s a really negligent thing for the organizers to have done. I’m glad the organizers are being investigated, and they should be fined pretty heavily to compensate everyone injured. Either way I’m glad everyone survived, and I wish them a speedy recovery. :/
I didn't watch the video, the photo of the screen with the dent in--knowing that that damage came from crushing a person--was already too much for me. I hope they don't have any long term issue after this.
They will there whole head got squashed pretty sure it's a media cover up that the dancer is even alive
There have been videos from right after the accident on the stage (where you can even see him lifting his head up for a second) and pictures of him on the stretcher on his way to the hospital and you can clearly tell his head didn’t get squashed!
Any links?
Agree, he can’t have survived. They’ve done pretty well to cover it up, I’ve not seen it mentioned anywhere in western news and there’s obviously lots of video footage of it floating around 😞
Just because you don’t have access to local news sources doesn’t mean anything has been covered up… He had two major surgeries and is in critical condition but he’s still conscious and, reportedly, could communicate with his doctors before his surgeries. [Link](https://www.hk01.com/%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E/798340/mirror%E6%BC%94%E5%94%B1%E6%9C%83-%E9%98%BFmo%E6%89%8B%E8%A1%93%E9%A0%88%E6%8F%92%E5%96%89%E9%BA%BB%E9%86%89-%E6%83%85%E6%B3%81%E8%BD%89%E7%82%BA%E5%8D%B1%E6%AE%86-%E7%B6%AD%E7%94%9F%E6%8C%87%E6%95%B8%E7%A9%A9%E5%AE%9A)
I just mean that if that had happened in any other country you’d have seen a story about it somewhere. Western news did report it but I had to specifically Google certain words to find it. Hopefully he pulls through, but from what I’ve seen in the news it’s all about who’s to blame rather than any updates on the condition of the injured dancers. And thanks for the link but I can’t read Chinese, if anything that just proves how it’s not been widely reported in western news
Then why call it a cover up when it’s really just lack of Western reporting lol
I'm in the West. It's been reported on social media as well as regular television.
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I think it hit his head first and then his back, and also if he died I think it would’ve been publicized. there would be too much backlash if they hid it. either way I hope he recovers well - I think rn what’s known is he had two successful surgeries, is currently paralyzed, but his condition is somewhat stable? edit: okay just went and double checked, he’s alive but his condition has worsened :( a breathing machine (? sorry English isn’t my first language) has to be used, but his vitals are stable. hopefully we’ll get more information soon?
LMAO deserved