When the hot search entry #Return My Happy Friday# was frantically swiped on social media, countless people suddenly realized that the original running men's group that once contracted our weekend laughter had long been separated in time.

The camera swept over the now slightly deserted recording scene, and the cheers that erupted in the audience seemed to echo Deng Chao's magical "We are tired of logging".

Time back to 2014 years, in a conference room in the Lantai Building, director Cen Junyi was meditating on the rules of the game of "tearing off the brand" on the whiteboard.

At that time, no one expected that this group of stars without idol baggage would create a ratings myth in the next five years, let alone that after the director team change in 2019, the show would experience a painful transformation.

Flipping through the minutes of the internal meeting of Zhejiang Radio and Television Group for 2020 years, the instructions of a high-level "must be younger and reformed" were highlighted in red.

It was this decision that made the program team start to frantically increase high-risk projects such as high-altitude suspension bridges and extreme rock climbing. Li Chen's medical report on the recurrence of three back injuries during the recording is in stark contrast to the producer's press release of "creating a hardcore variety show".

When we retrieved Zheng Kai's special filing file for 2021 years in the record database of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television - "Application for postponement of joining the group due to excessive intensity of variety show recording", we suddenly understood the deep meaning of his joke in "Wuha": "Now that we run the man's game, we old bones can't play anymore." "

The follow-up diary of a station sister in Super Talk revealed more details: In a certain water breakthrough session in 2022 years, the program team actually filmed for seven hours in the cold pool in early spring in order to create the effect of "wet temptation".

After the end of the day, the accompanying physiotherapist of Deng Chao's team went straight to the artist's RV with a full set of cupping equipment.

What made it more difficult for the first generation of members to adapt to the physical overdraft was the content shift. In a certain unbroadcast tidbit, Chen He smiled bitterly at the lockbox that needed to be solved to open the ternary quadratic equation: "Is this a running man or the strongest brain?" "

And classic projects such as "spy war" and "family inheritance war", which once created countless famous scenes, were gradually replaced by talent shows of traffic stars.

When we retrieved the itinerary data of the seven original members, we found an amazing coincidence: the three months of collective absence in 2023 coincided with the recording period of the S+-level talent show on a video platform.

這或許解釋了為何製作方會在聲明中強調"尊重成員個人發展規劃"，畢竟比起每期60萬的通告費，能帶新人入局的資本遊戲顯然更具誘惑。

Flipping through the statement document of Angelababy's studio, behind the official statement of "suspending cooperation due to the incompatibility of variety show concepts", there is a sensitive time node for the expiration of a brand's VAM agreement.

And Wang Zulan's agent's sentence of "I hope to try more cultural programs", compared with his later performance in "China in the Classics", seems to imply a certain awakening.

Now that the barrage pool of the video website is opened, tens of thousands of new calls are added every day for the "Resurrection of the First Generation Special". A well-known entertainment critic wrote in a column: "When the program team shifted the audience's positioning from "family carnival" to "Generation Z", they forgot that those children who followed their parents to watch running boys are now the main force of Generation Z. "

Perhaps, as a former screenwriter revealed in an anonymous interview: "The current director team always plays the latest season of South Korea's "Running Man" in the conference room, but no one wants to click on the first season they made." "

When the producers equate "innovation" with "subversion", this collective exodus has long been countdown.

Looking back at 2025 years, we suddenly found that the fate of the first generation of running men had already been written into the opening sentence - the five words "Run, brother", after all, failed to outperform the tide of variety show iterations under the influence of capital.

And the dusty phrase "We are tired of logging" may continue to tear open the happy seal of Friday night in some parallel time and space.