Niu Lai: The Bad Cartoon Everyone Wanted to See
Chinese animated film Niu Lai was mocked for its rough animation, but online jokes made people curious. Ticket sales then rose from almost nothing to millions of yuan a day.
Niu Lai is a Chinese animated film. At first, very few people watched it.
Many people thought the cartoon looked bad. The characters looked stiff. The story was also hard to understand.
The film made only about 10,000 yuan in its first ten days. Then people started sharing pictures and jokes about it online. Some people bought tickets because they wanted to see how bad it was.
Soon, the film became popular. Its daily box office reached millions of yuan. A film that looked like a failure became a surprise hit.
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