I turned off the alarm as soon as it rang and went back to sleep.
It’s probably just the streaming alarm, but I’m not going to care about it. After how much I struggled yesterday, let’s start a bit later.
What? You’re saying I should make hay while the sun shines?
When there’s so much water coming in that I’m about to drown, shouldn’t I be draining some out instead?
Besides, even if I start a little late, my viewers will understand with their generous hearts.
I glanced at the forum and clicked on one post.
It was time to check the public sentiment.
***
[When is this bastard coming]
Hurry up and turn on the cam and either play games or just chat;;
The precious viewers are sitting in their chairs waiting just for your stream, so isn’t it inconsiderate not to show up?
If you don’t come within 2 hours, I’m going to blast music and dance Zero Two in front of Daeju’s house.
[Comments]
– Holding my breath until Daeju comes! *inhale*
ㄴ Hey why did she collapse
ㄴ Call an ambulance!
ㄴ Call Daeju first, you bastards!!
– Ah lol is he coming late because he’s preparing some big fun content? lol
ㄴ I’m already excited just thinking about it lol brb gonna do something
ㄴ What
ㄴ hehehe
ㄴ fu*k…
– Why dance tho lol
***
It was a peaceful post, as usual.
Though the comments and upvotes were higher than usual.
Maybe the number of Tgether users has increased too. I thought there were already plenty.
Unlike me, Vine must be rowing hard since early morning.
I was really surprised when Vine told me over lunch that streaming helps relieve stress. They say genius can’t beat someone who enjoys it. Vine was definitely someone who enjoyed it.
Sometimes I wondered if even I, a streaming genius, might get overtaken by Vine someday. Of course, that’s assuming there are many women who like getting cursed at.
“Ah… my head…”
Sleeping too long makes your head hurt.
The dull pain throbbing at both temples finally made me slowly rise. Like a vampire rising from their coffin. Speaking of vampires, I covered my eyes from the light seeping through the curtains.
My eyes hurt.
I leaned against the wall on my bed and checked the streams one by one.
It was fun watching my future agency streamers and junior streamers.
Maybe because it was morning, there weren’t many people streaming.
Among them, the notable ones were obviously Vine, who gained many viewers after yesterday’s face reveal, and Se-na.
“Huh?”
Vine was expected, but Se-na was really unexpected.
Her viewers had increased.
To about 50 people.
You might think it’s not much, but 50 viewers in less than a week of streaming was a huge number.
Excluding special cases like me and Vine, of course.
The difference was clear even compared to other applicants.
Except for Yeonhee and a streamer named Miyeon who was really bad at games, most others fluctuated between 10 to 20 viewers…
And even those 10-20 viewers were probably my viewers.
“Looking at the thumbnail, it’s just exercise…”
I’ve seen workout YouTubers get high views, but were exercise livestreams ever popular?
To begin with, there weren’t many streamers who broadcast exercise.
When I entered the stream, I was startled by the sudden thud sound.
“Whew! That feels refreshing!”
Se-na exhaled deeply as she put down the dumbbells.
[Oh damn lol she actually succeeded lol]
[Mission success go go]
[Are there any exercises we can do while sitting?]
Se-na clicked success on the pending mission and received the mission amount of 20,000 won.
While doing so, she sincerely answered the chat’s question.
“If you’re going to exercise, stand up and do it!… But since you can’t do that at work, I’ll show you”
You could see the trainer in her as she started out with a sharp comment but ended up teaching exercises after considering unavoidable circumstances.
The viewers seemed to find her interesting as she explained this and that.
[Is this what they call tsundere or whatever?]
[What’s that, you weeb. Is it some new exercise?]
[What’s that, you gym rat]
Unexpectedly, the stream was stable.
Honestly, she was better than me at interacting with chat.
Of course, it was natural for me to lose since most of my chat was impossible to interact with.
I glanced at my KakaoTalk chat with a viewer I talked to yesterday.
Not a regular viewer, but someone who works at an MCN company and is planning to quit soon. The viewer who said they would help me establish an MCN company.
The goal: The first MCN with all employees working from home.
Is that possible?
Who knows…
According to the viewer, nothing is impossible, but they warned there would be drawbacks.
But they said it was possible.
There will be drawbacks, sure. But I don’t think there are any drawbacks that can outweigh the advantage of working from home.
As you can see from our KakaoTalk chat, we were getting along well.
By the way, I was also looking into my editor’s situation. You might think I’m being too thrifty with my editor, but I naturally raised her pay after reaching 100k YouTube subscribers. It was right to raise it since she was getting minimum wage until then.
I slowly set up the camera and turned on the stream.
Now the camera was proudly showing my face instead of pointing downward.
“Hello everyone”
[Oh lololol]
[Man this is hard to get used to lol]
[Still feels strange even though I saw it yesterday]
[It’s harder to curse now that we can see your face]
[I actually want to do it more]
As expected, the chat was still buzzing about my face.
Whether they saw it yesterday or missed yesterday’s stream, people were coming to the stream attracted by the drama, even though I already did the face reveal yesterday.
“Yes yes, look, this is me!”
I gave up and just positioned my face in the center of the cam, accepting the attention.
Once you get past the first time, it’s not really embarrassing or nerve-wracking anymore.
It’s not like being embarrassed will improve my looks, or make my already revealed face disappear.
Now I understood what they meant when they said giving up makes things easier.
[Will you wear tint or lipstick? Everything’s fine but your lips are really pale]
[Probably the lighting lol but I do want to see makeup]
[What’s with the lip color obsession stop the bedroom appearance evaluation!]
[Please do cosplay]
[fu*k rather keep evaluating appearances]
All sorts of conversations were happening in my stream.
Maybe it was just my feeling, but the chat seemed gentler than usual.
It felt a bit awkward, but this wasn’t bad in its own way.
“Everyone, I got a bit cocky after beating you in Tekken last time…”
[?]
[???]
[What’s this kid saying]
[Trying to get beat up again lol]
The chat boiled over as soon as I lowered my voice pretending to be serious for YouTube content.
The boiling point of our room’s viewers seemed too low. Couldn’t they tell from my tone that I was obviously acting and take it easy?
Anyway, I continued speaking while trying to maintain composure.
“I’ll show you my true self… Come in”
And I launched the game, and one of the game BGMs I heard most in my childhood started playing.
The game that’s practically the father of Kart Rider and one that everyone from my generation must have played at least once – Crazy Arcade.
This was also one of the few games I was confident in.
I understood the viewers’ suspicion, wondering why I would try to embarrass myself again in front of nearly 9,000 viewers after getting thoroughly destroyed in Tekken in front of 5,000 viewers last time. But this game was really, really different.
The Tekken I played was Tekken 7, which is relatively recent.
However, this game is 20 years old, and even with so many viewers, there would be fewer veteran players than in Tekken, and even the veterans probably haven’t played recently.
But I had recently regained my old skills after playing a bit when I happened to hear about its 20th anniversary.
Preparations were perfect.
All that remained was victory.
“Room created. Room name is ‘One-on-one experts only'”
[Room name lol]
[Honestly looks kinda tough]
[Please let some expert on a white horse come teach them a lesson]
[RIP downloading now]
The first person entered.
They looked like someone who just created their ID, but you can’t let your guard down in CA (short for Crazy Arcade).
Since it’s such an old game, there might be hidden masters who had to make new accounts after forgetting or losing their old ones.
And the result of the game was…
My complete victory.
“Not bad”
[Oh f*ck lol seeing your expression makes it 8 times more infuriating lol]
[Please just one hit. Let me hit you just once]
[B*tch play Tekken]
[Want to do real-life Tekken]
Seeing the burning chat made me want to tease them more, and I suddenly remembered Vine’s stream.
“You foo~ools~”
[Please die please die]
[How dare you imitate Vine?]
[?? I thought he did a good job why are you guys like this]
[Daeju tastes best when beaten]
I thought I imitated it pretty well but the response wasn’t good.
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(End of chapter)
