“I’ll remember you, if only out of spite”
[What’s there to remember lol just take a screenshot]
[Fr lol but isn’t it kinda lewd? A guy declaring he’ll remember a woman in her underwear… this is basically the intro to adult content~]
[Huh? Why did the screen go black?]
[??? Stream ended ???]
[Yo did this dude just get force-terminated live?]
[LOLOLOL LEGENDARY LOLOLOLOL]
While I was in the middle of taking screenshots, viewers suddenly started saying the broadcast was cut off and the screen wasn’t visible.
Before I could even check the broadcast myself as these comments began flooding the chat, my KakaoTalk kept ringing. It was my Twis manager who I hadn’t spoken to since exchanging contact information a long time ago, aside from one brief conversation.
The content?
One-day suspension.
It would normally be a three-day suspension, but several factors worked in my favor: the woman was in underwear, it was a sudden unexpected situation the streamer didn’t want, it was my first offense, and I had a clean record with no prior reports.
So the underwear factor actually worked in my favor.
I unexpectedly got a one-day vacation. With nothing to do during it. Nothing left to buy, nowhere to go.
First, I was curious about the reactions on Tgether, so I checked and found it was complete chaos.
Most of the discussions were focused on demands to kill that woman who stole Daeju’s broadcast, followed by speculations about how many days the suspension would last.
***
[It’s definitely a 3-day suspension]
All the streams I watch get suspended often, and showing women’s underwear is always 3 days suspension
Are you sure?
Stop with the clickbait title you b*tches lololol
Where in this world is anything 100% certain lol
[Comments]
– Forget the clickbait title, what kind of streams are you watching to know about ‘frequent’ suspensions?
ㄴ Must be exploring the abyss lol
ㄴ Well… Daeju is from the abyss too
ㄴ FR??? I didn’t know that…
– 3 days? Too long… Give me back my Bacchus[1], my caffeine, my protein Daeju…
ㄴ ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠHow do we spend the weekend without Daeju~
ㄴ The most painful 3 days of my life…
ㄴ How blessed must your life have been if losing Daeju for a bit is your most painful experience;;
***
“Since the Twis manager also said it’s normally 3 days, I guess they’re right”
Sometimes viewers seemed to know things better than I did, making me wonder if there were other streamers hiding among them.
Well, I did see a post the other day from someone who said they watch streams 8 hours a day. I doubted it was true, but when multiple reports came in of seeing this username in comments, confirming it was real, most of the Daeju-dan, including myself, told them to go get a life.
To prevent others from worrying too long, I decided to write a post too.
But how should I start this post?
“I’m sorry? No…”
While my carelessness wasn’t completely uninvolved, it wasn’t really my fault.
But it didn’t feel right to confidently say ‘This is what happened, guys!’ either. Or should I act wronged and blame the viewers? No, that felt like giving up too much as a streamer. They’re still my viewers, it doesn’t feel right to curse at them…
Besides, looking at the posts, they were already defending me saying it wasn’t my fault, so it seemed best to just calmly announce the situation.
Wait, who’s the person posting an obituary?
I need to post quickly before the Tgether board gets flooded with weird posts.
***
[Everyone, I’m here.]
I banned the person who posted the obituary saying I died.
Fortunately, since I’ve lived such a clean life, it was resolved with a 1-day suspension.
So tomorrow will be a day off. I’ll prepare some good content and come back.
Then, 20000[2]
[Comments]
– You scared us with that sudden stream termination, you jerk
– What’s with the 20000 at the end? Are you asking for a 20,000 won donation?
ㄴ It means ‘see you’
ㄴ Oh~ learned some terrible wordplay huh lol you b*stard
– 1-day suspension whew that’s a relief lolololol I’ll just binge this person’s YouTube tomorrow.
ㄴ What’s with your way of talking? You’re definitely not Daeju-dan
ㄴ ?? ㅠㅠㅠ Is this way of talking not allowed?
ㄴ Leave them alone lol After about 5 days on the board, they’ll naturally become corrupted lol
– Please edit this part
ㄴ lololololol that part does feel a bit off
***
“Things seem better now”
At least the rumors about Daeju’s retirement, death, and TS[3] theories disappeared.
Just the fact that such theories suddenly appeared showed the madness of my broadcast.
Well, not the death theory.
“Sigh~”
With nothing to do, I flopped onto the bed.
Since buying the bed, sleeping had definitely become the happiest time. My weird habit of having to use my phone for an hour before sleeping had recently decreased to 30 minutes, and lately I’d been exercising a bit more too, so it felt like I was sleeping more deeply.
“What should I do tomorrow?”
I wrote in the post that I’d prepare content diligently, but I already had content ideas written down in a notepad from viewers’ suggestions, and I wasn’t foolish enough to spend a rare day off only preparing content. I wonder what other streamers do on their days off. On the surface, they say they’re going to the hospital or somewhere, but they probably don’t spend the whole day doing just that.
“Come to think of it, I only ended up buying one, no, two sets of clothes.”
One set bought during the broadcast, and one set that came with the VR device, so two sets total.
It felt a bit insufficient. Originally I planned to buy at least 2-3 sets through the broadcast, but who could have predicted getting a 1-day suspension in the middle of the stream?
And I think I read a chat like this
[It’s more accurate to try on clothes before buying them]
“Should I go clothes shopping?”
I asked the empty studio apartment a question with no return.
The things that kept increasing while living alone were laziness and talking to myself. I thought living alone would increase my life skills, like cooking or laundry. But in reality, I just ordered delivery because washing dishes was annoying, and laundry was handled by the coin laundry and washing machine working overtime.
Anyway, I had to answer my own self-talk.
Have I gone clothes shopping before? Nope.
But what to do tomorrow? Nothing planned either.
I searched for nearby clothing stores on my phone.
There were blog posts saying if you’re going clothes shopping, you should go to areas with lots of clothing stores, but I ignored them.
Please don’t give such difficult tasks to someone like me who suffers mental damage just from going out.
Let’s just look around three nearby clothing stores. After that, I’ll need to replenish the mental energy spent on clothes shopping with something else.
“Wow, did I really fall asleep?”
For better or worse, this had been happening a lot since buying the bed.
Situations where I fall asleep without knowing if I actually fell asleep or got knocked out by a boxer’s punch to the chin.
It was already 8 AM, I won’t bother calculating how long I slept but it was definitely a lot.
The clothing stores probably weren’t open yet, maybe one out of the three would be open, but I wanted to go when they were all open.
With nothing particular to do and feeling bored, the timing was perfect to indulge in my own interesting hobby that I used to occasionally enjoy in a gloomy way.
All I needed was one thing: a window.
I opened the window slightly and looked down at the street.
Then I could see people going to work or school with gloomy faces.
My unpleasant personal hobby of feeling a strange sense of security from not having to go to work or school while watching them.
I don’t understand why I had such a hobby. It wasn’t fun at all now. When I wasn’t streaming, I didn’t work much, so maybe I comforted myself with this kind of mental victory.
I could feel the ugliness of my past self.
“What’s this smell?”
I was about to close the window when some kind of smell that made me wrinkle my nose seeped through the slightly open window.
An unfamiliar yet familiar strange smell, as I traced my memory of where I’d smelled this before, I finally remembered one place. The smell from an old PC bang[4], or from some middle-aged man in his 40s on the street, in other words, the smell of cigarettes.
I don’t even know what kind of person it is, but sure, I can understand smoking.
You might crave a cigarette when work is tough. But did they have to smoke right in front of an apartment building with windows clearly visible?
Let me see the face of this shameless person, I thought as I looked down.
“What the…”
Then I saw a group of female students in school uniforms boldly smoking cigarettes.
Just looking at them gave me some kind of PTSD-inducing delinquent vibe, and as I was about to close the window, afraid of making eye contact, a brave soul appeared.
“Why is Geum Taeyang here of all places…”
How that person ended up here, well she probably lives nearby since we met through Daangn Market, but it was really unexpected.
And the interesting part was that the group of four delinquent-looking female students started getting agitated.
No matter how delinquent they tried to look, they just switched their school uniforms for hoodies or coats, but their opponent was Geum Taeyang who looked suspiciously delinquent with a tank top showing off her body, blonde tanned skin, tattoos, and piercings.
I’m not sure, but I feel like I need popcorn right now.
* * *
(End of Chapter)
T/N:
- Bacchus – A popular Korean energy drink.
- “20000” -> “이만” (iman) – This is a Korean wordplay. “20000” in Korean is “이만” which sounds like “이만” meaning “goodbye” or “see you”
- “TS” means Transgender for those of you who don’t know
- PC bang – Korean internet cafes
