Chapter 9
[Title: Brewing Stock for a New Female Streamer, Let's Goooo]
[Author: ㅇㅇ]
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Brewing stock on an all-time scale
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ㅇㅇ: Isn't “all-time” your life?
ㅇㅇ: Go advertise in your own living room.
ㅇㅇ: This company's viral marketing is fucking out of hand.
ㅇㅇ: Scout party here. I'll report back.
ㄴ: Give us a review.
ㄴ: Why isn't this bastard back?
ㄴ: Guess he got boiled down pretty thoroughly.
[Title: Review from the Scout Party Just Now]
[Author: ㅇㅇ]
You fucking bitch, is this what you call stock?
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ㅇㅇ: But it's fun, right?
ㄴ: ㅇㅇ's room looks wrecked, so I'm going to join in too.
ㄴ: (Nodding nun emote)
[Title: Gather, Bored Homebodies with Nothing to Do]
[Author: Stream-Gallery User]
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It's Free Purge Day, folks~ Let's go in~~
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ㅇㅇ: You ad-spamming bitch, fuck off.
ㅇㅇ: Let's go in~ Let's go in~ Let's go in~
ㅇㅇ: But who is it?
ㄴ: Dunno.
ㄴ: Who cares?
***
Could this be how Zhang Fei felt when he held off Cao Cao's million-man army at Changban Bridge?
My beloved Zhang Yide. I shall carry on your legacy.
-You fucking bitch. Wanna throw hands? You tiny-ass nobody is rubbing up against a big streamer trying to get attention, you fucking bitch. Thought the female quota would save you, you piece of shit? If you're small-time, then live small-time, hunched over in your corner. Who the hell do you think you are, messing with our Haeun? You fucking bitch, I won't let you off.
(This viewer has been banned.)
-You filthy bitch.
(This viewer has been banned.)
-Is this a simp-only stream? Is this a simp-only stream? Is this a simp-only stream?
(This viewer has been banned.)
-There are sex offenders around you…
(Abridged)(This viewer has been banned.)
-This is huge~~
Give up quickly.
Fuck. This is a different pattern from earlier.
Until just now, it had been a mano-a-mano with Haeun's simps, but now a huge number of people whose home bases were obvious had invaded, as if someone had dropped a location pin.
Once they merged, the synergy was something else.
[ㅇㅇ donated 1,000 won!]
I spread your stream address all over the forums and other streams. No need to thank me. You've made it, lmao.
‘You are an honest, good child. As a reward, I'll give you all the simps and bored forum users.’
Mountain spirit, this is poop.
Looking again, I realized it wasn't a mountain spirit but a viewer.
Get out.
[ㅇㅇ donated 1,000 won!]
Emergency~~ Reinforcements have arrived! Retreat!!
-Run awaaaaay!
-G-SPY passed 500! We're going to space!
-Ogo-gok Ogo-gok Ogo-gok Ogo-gok
Having broken through the 300-person Wall of Lamentation of internet streaming, I had somehow broken through 500 already.
Is this big-streamer trickle-down? Though it feels more like sewage than trickle-down… But what can you do?
Huh. Thinking about it, these guys are pretty shameless, aren't they?
Five hundred people are watching, and they haven't paid a single thousand won.
I can't allow dine-and-dash at my restaurant.
“Domain Expansion.”
-???? Why are you suddenly speaking Japanese?
-Stop talking shit and apologize.
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
“Free grub.”
I immediately switched to emote-only chat.
- 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
-♿♿♿♿♿♿♿♿
-🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
It's not that I don't have money, but that doesn't mean I don't want to make money.
Want to curse? Pay up. Cheap rates, come on in.
[Kimushi donated 1,000 won!]
Media censorship is peak Jian.
“Thank you for the thousand won, Kimushi. Censorship? What do you mean? It's an unavoidable measure for smooth communication. Sob.”
[ㅇㅇ donated 1,000 won!]
You fucking bitch, unlock the chat.
“Thank you for the thousand won, HaeunEvenBackward. Why send it anonymously? Anyway, you can type in chat now, can't you?”
[ㅇㅇ donated 1,000 won!]
Unlock emote-only chat.
“Ah, you should've said that. You spent another thousand won. Understood. I'll pass your complaint to the store manager. Please wait a moment.”
[Cafeteria-Pot-Thief Jian donated 1,000 won!]
You have a store manager too?
“Of course. One moment.”
I stopped talking for a moment, then waited about five seconds.
“I passed the complaint submitted by HaeunEvenBackward on to the manager, but unfortunately, they say it will be difficult to implement. Anyway, I'll put the two thousand won to good use.”
Of course, since this was a one-person shop, I was the manager, owner, and employee all at once.
[Hajungddak donated 1,000 won!]
All you care about is shaking down money, you beggar bitch. Here, take a thousand.
“Thank you for the thousand won, Hajungddak. But I'm a little short, so could you tack on one more zero?”
[CollectionIsGreatJian donated 1,000 won!]
Jian, this is the moment. Squeeze them dry all the way to their retirement funds.
“Thank you for the thousand won, Daejian. Retirement funds, my ass. If I want to fill them with little thousand-won trickles, I'll have to take abuse for ten years.”
I said that jokingly, but the amount of donations piling up in thousand-won increments was no joke. Of course, most of them came with insults.
Is this big-streamer trickle-down?
[ㅇㅇ donated 1,000 won!]
Ptooey, you thousand-won bitch.
“Thank you for the thousand won. No, ‘thousand-won bitch’ is a bit much, isn't it? In that spirit, just a moment. The manager says they'll gladly accept it too. I'll raise the minimum to five thousand won.”
As soon as I raised the amount, the donations stopped dead.
“Wow, amazing. Raising the amount to five thousand won stopped the donations. So you were all trembling as you donated that one thousand-won bill you'd been crumpling up and hiding in your panties? Jiani is totally moved. For reals~”
All sorts of emotes, from wheelchairs to fire, appeared in the chat, but…
Yeah, I can't see them. If you're mad, speak through donations.
***
Haeunhaeun, a variety-game streamer. A big streamer with 830,000 YouTube subscribers, whose live streams average 5,000 viewers just by being left on.
After finishing an overnight collab the night before, she slept until evening and turned on her live stream. The first donation came flying in immediately.
[Haeun's First Sword donated 1,000 won!]
Haeun, some small-timer named Jian got into trouble. You know about it?
“Thanks for the thousand, First Sword. I don't know? We did a collab all night yesterday. I turned the stream on as soon as I woke up.”
And mentioning other streamers gets you banned.
The donation was appreciated, but rules were rules.
It's not as if trouble in a small-timer's room was a once-in-a-lifetime event.
The internet-streaming scene was effectively becoming a closed pond.
Even just looking slightly downward, there were too many streamers with fewer than ten viewers to count on both hands.
She was a case of a YouTube video getting lucky and blowing up, which she then used as a foundation to succeed in streaming too.
She had never lived as a small-timer, and perhaps because of that, she had never had any particular reason to get involved with one, so she knew nothing about them.
So it was very strange for someone to report news about a small-timer to her.
‘Why donate money just to tell me that?’
Honestly, for a small-timer, getting embroiled in a scandal could be an opportunity in its own way.
Small-timers with so few viewers that you could count them on one hand often never even got such an opportunity and died out without anyone knowing.
But trouble big enough for a cuckoo to fly to a big streamer? They must have done something incredibly serious.
If viewers were flooding in like that, someone who could truly turn it into an opportunity and succeed would somehow tame them and take flight.
Of course, nine out of ten—no, ninety-nine out of a hundred—would simply follow the usual path toward quitting, but all she could do was hope they did well.
“Guys. Stop mentioning other streamers and talking about things unrelated to me. Talk about what we're doing today.”
-Gasp
-It's about you, idiot.
-<<< The root of all evil
-It's big-streamer tyranny!! Save the mom-and-pop shops!!
-Breaking news) A small-timer dying isn't my problem.
-Ladder-kicking is low-tier behavior lol
“You mean me? Hey! Did you guys cause another incident while I was asleep?”
-Why assume it's us?
-You blame us for everything.
-Then he did it.
“Wasn't it you guys?”
They said it wasn't? That couldn't be right.
-It was us, though lol.
-Hehe.. sorry;; lol!!
There was never a quiet day. What kind of trouble had they caused this time?
“Hey. Someone post a summary. Keep it simple, three lines.”
Reading the post someone uploaded, I found myself in a rather awkward situation.
The ID of the person who had caused it belonged to one of my viewers.
I remembered him because he occasionally posted creepy messages, but he had never crossed the line, so I had let him slide.
‘He wasn't in yesterday's stream, but he was over there? How am I supposed to fix this?’
Apparently, until recently, it had been a small-timer's room with around twenty viewers. Would things only get worse if I went there?
I shook my head.
Still, it seemed as though my viewer had deliberately done that, so I should apologize.
While I was worrying, my viewers kept cuckooing away, enthusiastically telling everyone it was related to me.
[EunkinDonut donated 1,000 won!]
(A video of someone shouting the name of a technique from a curse manga while putting the chat in emote-only mode)
“Who is this? Is this the person? How did things get this fucked up?”
-It was…
-At first, it was the usual WWE.
-The usual WWE (killing a small-timer).
-WWE (bullying a small-timer to death).
-Choking the small-timer.
-Hey, hey, you know it's a joke, right? Smile, bitch^^
“Hey!! You guys are making it look like I incited this! And I told you not to pull that shit. Fine, we're going to do some disciplining for the first time in ages.”
-Screeeeech
-Run for your liiiiives
-Mu
-bing
After checking the chat logs, I banned several of them and entered the stream of a streamer named Jian.
My first impression of the stream was… huge. I hadn't been able to see her properly in the donation video because she had been reaching out her hand.
“Wow. Fucking huge.”
-?
-??
-What a genuinely no-filter bitch.
-Are you insane, bitch?
-Polar bear slaughter is Great Haeun.
“Ahem. My honest thoughts slipped out. What're you gonna do about it? Say one more thing and you're banned.”
-^^7
-Mmmph mmmph mmmph
Let's apologize first.
***
A generous donation came in while she was imposing sanctions—not media censorship, but measures for smooth communication.
But.
[Haeunhaeun donated 100,000 won!]
Jian, I'm sorry about my kids.
“Haeun again? How many Haeuns are there, anyway? The whole world is Haeun. Is it you again, Great Haeun? Still, thanks for the 100,000 won donation. No, well, you're viewers too, so what do you mean, ‘our kids’?”
A hundred thousand won, jackpot. Business was booming today. Even if the money came with insults, getting paid still felt good. Should I turn this into content?
[Haeunhaeun donated 100,000 won!]
I'm the real one. Check it yourself.
What? No way, they must be joking… Why is this real?
‘I'm the boss of the Haeun Pirates. But if you apologize, the money-copying event ends. Please don't interfere with other people's business.’
I peeked at the chat.
Wow, the chat's firepower. It's on a whole different level from earlier. Huh? Why are there more than a thousand people now? Whoa? How far is this going?
[ㅇㅇ donated 5,000 won!]
JianJian, what on earth are you talking about?
Yeah… Huh? Did you actually say what you were thinking aloud?
Ah.
Ah.
Waaah. Baby Jian needs saving.야.
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