"After the intimate dressing room video of Link and Emma was exposed, it was the most explosive news in America's entertainment industry for two consecutive days and also a hot topic internationally."
Including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Times, Yomiuri Shimbun, Bild, and almost all world-class media outlets reported on the incident.
Even the most conservative North Korea Daily criticized this disgraceful phenomenon in the Western entertainment industry.
Online, netizens' discussions about the incident also reached an extreme height, and it was later named by Time Magazine as "one of the top ten internet sensations of 2010."
According to Twitter's data department, within 48 hours of the video being exposed, 'Link' was mentioned 580 million times in user tweets, Emma Watson was mentioned 190 million times, Taylor was mentioned 87 million times, 'scumbag' was mentioned 63 million times, and 'private video' was mentioned 58 million times.