Ren Zeping's team responds to the dissolution of the VIP group.

Recently, the internet celebrity economist Ren Zeping has been embroiled in controversy again. This week, Ren Zeping's team has disbanded their VIP group chat. On July 18th, it was reported by an assistant from Ren Zeping's team that the group chat was disbanded because "it was found that someone was using our group to send fraudulent links and privately add members to share inappropriate information, in order to ensure everyone's safety, so we will no longer use the group to send out information notifications". Subsequent classes can still be attended as normal, and the rights of the members will be delivered as usual. According to several VIP students, the dissolution of the group chat occurred around the 15th, but the courses are still being delivered normally. One student revealed that after the dissolution of the chat group, daily updates and views are now posted in a new link, but the webpage only shows content from the current day without previous views. The original dynamics within the group have been deleted, but recorded courses can still be accessed. According to data from third-party platforms, just this year, Ren Zeping's knowledge payment course sales on a single platform have reached 20 to 100,000. Among them, the top five courses are all part of the annual membership priced at 2980, with a total of over 8800 sold. Conservatively estimating based on the list price, this income alone is already over 26.22 million RMB. Currently, this membership service can still be purchased on platforms such as WeChat Mini Programs.