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=="Online Big Movies" in China==
In the mid-to-late 2010s, low-budget [[B-movie]]s that are made exclusively for [[Streaming media|digital streaming]] became a trend in China; these films are called "Online Big Movies" ("OBM"; 网络大电影 in Chinese, or simply 网大).<ref name=quan/> The word "Big" in the name was meant to be [[sardonic]], as most of these films are often made on a very low budget<ref>{{cite news|url=https://kknews.cc/zh-my/entertainment/qy2evvg.html|title=低成本网络大电影的制作秘籍|access-date=2021-04-14|archive-date=2021-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414024242/https://kknews.cc/zh-my/entertainment/qy2evvg.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and featuring mostly unknown cast members and sometimes nonprofessional actors.<ref name="quan">{{cite news |title= |script-title=zh:你可能没注意到的网络大电影正在崛起 |url=https://ent.qq.com/original/guiquan/g216.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512101625/https://ent.qq.com/original/guiquan/g216.html |archive-date=2016-05-12 |work=qq.com}}</ref>  However, increasingly, the budget for these films have been slowly climbing up, due to the success of these films on digital distribution platforms;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://ishare.ifeng.com/c/s/7mS5GiTekeJ|title=预算占比30%，投入近百万：网络大电影进入"营销时代"}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sohu.com/a/74199257_247520|title = 网络大电影"爆发" 市场规模有望达10亿|website = [[Sohu]]}}</ref> the budget for these films can now range from less than 1 million yuan to upwards of 10 or 20 million yuan.  Although these "Online Big Movies" rarely feature well-known actors, in recent years, many "Online Big Movies" have hired veteran actors from [[Hong Kong action cinema]] and [[Cinema of Taiwan|Taiwanese cinema]] to join its cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sohu.com/a/253476110_437262|title=他们曾经都大红大紫过，如今沦落到拍网络电影令人唏嘘|website=[[Sohu]]}}</ref>   These movies are also to be differentiated from films that are made for theatrical release but were later acquired by digital streaming services, in that these "Online Big Movies" are produced by internet companies with the sole intent of digital release.

In additional to the digital distribution of these films in China, many of the "Online Big Movies" have also been released on digital platforms outside of China, such as on [[YouTube]].  Several YouTube channels, such as Q1Q2 Movie Channel Official<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU5qmd5NvJljDBeM1sD-D1A/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid|title=Q1Q2 Movie Channel Official|website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> and YOUKU MOVIE<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE2UHXGOlqotRJgEWl_tiMw/videos?view=0&sort=p|title=YOUKU MOVIE|website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> are popular channels that distributes these "Online Big Movies".