Chapter 27
After joining the Large Server.
No, more precisely, after making a highlight video with Mr. Steelix.
Naturally, quite a lot of viewers flocked to me.
I was pretty surprised at the time.
The viewership numbers right after I'd even abandoned my car and fled the city….
I could almost understand how Yeongukno and that Haega bastard felt, clinging to the Large Server.
As they say, when a person is born, send them to Seoul; when a horse is born, send it to Jeju.
And when a streamer is born, send them to the Large Server. There's a reason people say that.
Didn't I suck up all the viewers Mr. Steelix had cultivated over his entire life in one fell swoop?
Anyway.
After hitting that peak.
Naturally, viewers drained away like the outgoing tide,
-If I hadn't fished..
-This bastard just doesn't know how to retain viewers
-Just stay a small-time streamer for~everㅋㅋ
In a way, it was only natural.
Weren't these people who'd come in after seeing a blockbuster-level scene?
But huh? They switched channels after watching the trailer, only to find a day in the life of Pohang fishermen, who didn't eat dinner until they'd finished hanging all their gwamegi.
So they had no choice but to hightail it out.
On top of that, honestly, I think the most critical factor was taking a day off.
I took a day off from streaming because I had work, so what did I expect?
I should have been prepared for viewers to leave.
Well, if I'd visited Mr. Steelix every so often and accepted that League duo invitation he'd made last time, I might have gotten another influx….
Why bother?
I'm satisfied with the increase as it is.
Anyway, although the viewership dropped again, there was still one positive effect.
Namely, my name recognition had gone up.
[Hello, Mr. Wayo. I'm a streamer on Chzzk….]
[How about we do a collab sometime….]
You could tell just by looking at all the collab offers piling up in my email these days.
It used to be nothing but dust, but now I was actually getting some offers.
For the record, I turned them all down.
Honestly, I didn't do collabs before either, did I?
I'm not an isolationist Heungseon VTuber who absolutely refuses to collab,
but it would still be awkward to suddenly play a game with someone I didn't know.
And above all….
“Fuck!!”
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Wow, he fucking lost thisㅋㅋ
-That must suckㅋㅋ
-Even Wayo-ryong can't win solo queue..
I was a little busy raising my rank.
Just as I'd announced back then.
It was the second week since I started climbing my Gold alt.
Though I took days off here and there, I devoted a fair amount of time to streaming,
and as a result.
[Emerald 4]
My alt had reached the same tier as my main.
“Why isn't my score going up.”
-Well..
-Because that's exactly your skill levelㅋㅋ
For the record, I reached Emerald three days ago.
Yes, I've been stuck in this tier for three straight days.
“Matchmaking rigging…!!”
-It exists!!!
-Isn't this really rigged??
-???:He has started ranked
There was no doubt the game company was manipulating my matchmaking.
To make my win rate converge on 50% for the sake of fairness among users.
In fact, the win rate I'd built by breaking the wrists of children in lower tiers had flattened right back out.
“Okay… I'll stop here for today.”
So I stopped playing Rell.
If I'd been caught by the matchmaking-rigging radar, there was nothing I could do.
Sometimes, giving up is what makes a great VTuber.
Well, it took me two days to admit it, but yesterday was my day off, so technically it only took one day.
And even I was getting tired of playing nothing but Rell.
Especially since I'd gone win-loss-win-loss-loss-win-loss lately, my score wouldn't rise and all I got was stress.
-Wow, finally
-Kyaㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Are you playing a new game now?
“No, I'm ending the stream.”
-..?
-?
-Has Wayo gone crazy
-Fuuuck
“I'm kidding.”
-ㅋㅋ
-Has Wayo gone crazyㅋㅋ
-Fuuuckㅋㅋ
It was a shame to see my great challenge fizzle out a little,
but it was about time to start a new game.
Still, I hadn't played only Rell over the past two weeks.
I'd look for games whenever I had a schedule to attend or was taking a break.
“So, how about this?”
With that in mind,
I opened the game store's cart and showed them one of the games.
It was a war simulator game.
You started as an obscure family in medieval Europe and built it up into an empire.
-?
-??
-(Potato emote)
-I'm already getting sleepy, f~uck
Of course, it probably looked a little boring from the viewers' perspective, but it seemed just right for me to play…
[Wayo Love Squad has sent you a game.]
“Huh?”
…just as I was thinking that it looked like a suitable game.
A gift arrived through the game store I'd left open.
“Why are you sending me a game?”
-They actually gifted a game to this bitch;
-That username looks like Wapoti, kick them??
For the record, you could send games even without being friends.
Because of that, I occasionally received game gifts.
I'd had experiences receiving some pretty fun indie games this way,
so I opened the gift window with a grin, wondering what they'd sent this time….
[Walking Simulator]
[Gift comment: Play that game fo~rever]
...It was a threat disguised as a game gift.
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Let's go for a walk~~
-Play it alreadyㅋㅋ
-Looks like the Emperor's all done forㅋㅋㅋ
“Okay….”
No, I wasn't playing it. I wouldn't, because it was filthy.
What kind of threat was this?
Faced with a never-before-seen doxxing threat from the walking-dog viewers, I threw up both hands and both feet.
“But what do you want to see?”
-Will you do it if we tell you??
-Just spin the roulette, ffs;
-You won't do it even if we tell you
“Ah, I'll do it. I do have love for my viewers.”
-?? You have that?
-You'll do it??
-For real?
“Of course.”
Yes, this Wayo had lost.
Three straight weeks of nothing but fishing, followed by two weeks of the Rell Era.
On top of that, wasn't I a terrible VTuber who even took days off here and there?
…I'm a truly terrible bastard, aren't I?
I paused for a moment to reflect on myself.
Forget the game; I really had taken a lot of days off this month.
‘Ahyeon~ You know your pictorial contracts are backed up, right?’
‘Huh?’
‘? You said you'd do them.’
‘Ah….’
The reason, if I had to say, was that my pictorial contracts had been delayed.
And they weren't just anyone else's contracts—they were the ones I'd pushed through myself, so I had no excuse.
‘The pay? It went way up~ Exclusive contracts really are nice, huh? They handle the branding for you.’
‘How much did it go up?’
‘About this much?’
‘Gasp!’
What could I do about my pay shooting up after signing with Andel?
You have to make hay while the sun shines….
Because of that, I still had quite a few schedules left.
Which meant I was taking another day off tomorrow.
-Horror game go???
-Shall we continue Phone World?
-How about shooting guns for old times' sake?
-Can we play Wuxia War??
-Let's go to Russia?
Whether they knew how conflicted I felt or not,
the viewers diligently typed their desired games into chat.
Their reactions were as innocent as if Santa Claus had asked them what gifts they wanted in a dream.
Still, one good thing was,
Santa Claus ignores their wishes and dumps them on the children's parents,
but this Wayo definitely sticks a gift into at least one person's stocking.
Of course… they would have to go through a little process first.
“Hold on.”
I raised both hands while looking at chat.
Then Wayo's tracked hands appeared on-screen too.
-?
-It's been a while since you raised your handsㅋㅋ
-What
-Why?
-You told us to recommend one
As much as I wanted to give everyone a gift, there were too many children asking.
But wouldn't it be unfair to choose at random?
Everyone's wish would be different in size.
For some, it would be a lifelong wish.
Others might have just typed a random line in chat.
Wayo, the ideal VTuber for their viewers, had a duty to distinguish between them.
“Ah, this~ the screen won't turn off.”
-??
-Just turn it off
-Ah, this bastard, surely..
Right.
“The game gift window is blocking my view….”
-This fucking bastardㅋㅋㅋ
-Hey, you fucking bastard
-Are you even human??
-Buy the damn game with your own money, ffs;
-Wow
First, I had to check how big their wishes were.
“I won't accept games worth 30,000 won or more.”
29,900 won is okay, right?
Who wants to skip a day's living expenses to make their dream come true?
-ㅗㅗㅗ
-Fuck off, you bastard
-You money-grubbing bitch
-Why am I paying for a game you're playing??
-Being a streamer is a cushy job, you fucking bastard
-You poisonous toad bastard..
Naturally, words like these were easily misconstrued,
and a flood of shout-outs came pouring toward me.
It was a familiar reaction.
They were the kind of things I always saw during giveaway draws.
Honestly, I was enjoying it.
After reincarnating, when did I ever get cursed at?
Those kinds of words brought back the nostalgia of my day-labor days.
“Guys, I'm not doing this because of the money.”
And honestly, they weren't seriously cursing me, either.
Wasn't this just how people had fun?
-What do you mean, you're not?
-Then donate the revenue, fuck
-You have plenty of money, bitch..
Most of the usernames actually cursing me belonged to log gentlemen who didn't care what game I played.
The people who weren't visible right now were probably competing behind the scenes.
"I donate every year. I can't prove it because it's under my real name."
-Why can't you??
-Just show it with your name blurred
-Liarㄴ
A winner should be emerging soon….
[You Fucking Bitch sent you a game.]
[Wuxia War]
[Gift comment: Money-grubbing bitch...]
Ah, yes, like this.
"Oh my, a gift already."
The winner of the behind-the-scenes competition had emerged.
**
Wuxia War.
After reading the description of the game that had ultimately won, I summarized it for the viewers.
"Well, it's a wuxia dating sim."
At a glance, it was a game where you joined a dying sect, saved it, and flirted with female masters.
-That's true, but..
-It's not just some simple dating simㅇㅇ
-It does have romance.
“How much freedom does this game have? Are there a lot of routes?”
-Yeahㅇㅇ
-A fuckton
-A single choice changes everything
Since I don't like games with predetermined stories, I asked, and got an encouraging answer.
There are lots of branches, and things change with every choice?
Hmm… I see why they recommended it.
I like it quite a bit.
“Shall we get started?”
Besides, there was one major reason this game had become the final winner.
-Go go go
-This is the one for farming game gold bb
-Still better than Rellㅋㅋ
-Please give us a harem ending
-You have to choose a sect in this, right? Do you know anything about the sects??
“Let's go to Haenam.”
I do like wuxia novels too.
Men love wuxia.