🎬 Okay so this actually happened

A Chinese animated film called *Niu Lai* came out on August 5th with some of the roughest 3D animation people had ever seen — viewers were calling the characters "ugly", "eerie", you get the idea. For its first ten days it was pulling in 200 yuan on a bad day. That's like thirty dollars.

Then it got memed. Hard.

Suddenly everyone wanted to go see the disaster in person, and on one Monday alone it sold nearly 300,000 tickets and made 8.2 million yuan. By the time the Associated Press picked up the story, the total gross had hit $2.5 million — against a budget that was clearly a few thousand dollars at most.

So yeah, the movie made over a thousand times its budget because the internet made fun of it. That's just how things work now I guess.

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