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Translator/Editor: Irevi
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◈ I Stream as a Hobby ◈
Chapter 2: A Secret Weapon
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I had a secret weapon.
But only amateurs pulled out their secret weapon right away.
“You’re going to be under a lot of stress. But even that stress...”
-Fuck off
-Shut your mouth shut your mouth
-Please just stream...
-What are you planning to do on Christmas...
“Everyone, calm down and hear me out. I’m not taking time off to have Christmas cosplay seggs with my boyfriend...”
-We didn’t ask for details, fuck
-I trusted you I trusted you...
-You fucking filthy whore
-I loved you...
“I’d love to do a VTuber hell week too. But something came up.”
I stopped after that one joke and opened my calendar app to start explaining properly.
I’d marked the 24th, 25th, and 26th as a business trip.
And although I hadn’t written it down, it was an overseas trip.
I didn’t want to go either. Overseas on Christmas?
-What fucking company sends people on business trips at Christmas
-USE YOUR PAID LEAVE
-You don’t even get paid leave??
-Quit the bullshit
-Guess my donations went toward booking your hotel...
-Break your legs and stream, fuck
“I really wanted to get out of it too, but it’s important...”
-Christmas with your boyfriend is an important event, yeah
-If it’s that important, go and never fucking come back
-Is this your last stream??
“Boohoo, it’s all Wayover for my stream.”
-No acting cute
-Wasn’t your stream already dead?
-Streamer Wayo.
-This person’s always liked dead streams
-Don’t try to brush this off. Explain your solution.
Honestly, in all honesty...
Why was a secret weapon called a secret weapon?
It wasn’t something you could use all the time. It was for that one crucial moment, so I wanted to save it.
But seriously.
Chat had switched to the serious font.
That meant this was a major issue I couldn’t just brush aside.
Sure, I only averaged two hundred viewers... but that made it all the more critical.
“Actually, I have a plan.”
So this wasn’t the time to hold back.
-What is it??
-If it’s not reasonable I’m shitting my pants
-You’re not just gonna post location updates or some shit, right??
No explanation could completely get rid of their doubts.
What good would explaining myself do? People generally believed what they wanted to believe.
So I had to set the mood.
A mood where believing me was the natural thing to do.
“I’ll do an IRL stream from my hotel on the business trip...!”
-??
-Fr??
-You’re not lying, right??
-Is that even possible??
-An IRL stream on a business trip lmao
Wayo was a super-rookie VTuber who’d built up an incredible average of two hundred viewers in a year.
But she’d never even done a handcam stream, let alone shown any more of her body.
And now she was offering an IRL stream where parts of her body might appear on camera.
“I’ll make it happen, even if it seems impossible!”
This was a huge sacrifice on my part.
If I accidentally showed my face, wouldn’t I become a laughingstock in the industry?
I was even in talks for an exclusive contract with Andel, a brand that had recently been gaining worldwide fame.
My contract with my previous brand had ended a year ago. This was the first big opportunity I’d had in a while, so doing a risky IRL stream at a time like this made no sense...
-Daaamn lmao
-G R E A T W A Y O
-Fr??
-Are you serious??
That was how serious I was about streaming.
My viewers were the only people who played with me anymore.
Why did people work to earn money?
Wasn’t it all so they could have fun, eat, and sleep somewhere nice?
My three basic needs were fun, food, and sleep.
I couldn’t let streaming, which fulfilled one of those needs, go down the drain.
And honestly, all I had to do was not get caught, right?
I was very confident about that.
Anyway.
“Does that make me more believable?”
-Hmm... going that far, huh
-Couldn’t you stage it??
-But can’t you just do a normal stream, though? Tsk
Maybe my firm response had worked, because the viewers seemed somewhat convinced.
They were my viewers, after all. They probably had at least a little faith in me.
Besides, I figured my honesty and the timing had helped.
There was still about a month until Christmas.
This had to inspire more trust than suddenly announcing a day off on the day itself.
“Okay... shall we play a game now?”
The mood seemed to have settled down, so I cautiously brought it up.
Nothing good would come from dragging this topic out.
-Ah, sure...
-Can’t we chat some more?
-All right, let’s leave~~
-Sigh, stream’s over already
“Yes, yes. All the Just Chatting strays, please leave.”
“Just Chatting strays” were viewers who only stuck around for a streamer’s Just Chatting segment, then wandered off to another channel.
I had a particularly large number of them. About forty of my 230 viewers left all at once.
“For fuck’s sake...”
-LMAOOOOOO
-They actually left
-Fucking freeloaders
“The remaining log-carrying gentlemen, this way.”
If the viewers who took their fill of Just Chatting and left were called the rather insulting “Just Chatting strays,” there were also those who stayed until the end.
The “log-carrying gentlemen.”
They were the ones who actively chatted even when chat slowed down, lifting the log to keep the stream alive.
-Can’t we leave too?
-I don’t wanna be a gentleman
“Hehe, you can’t.”
Where did they think they were going? They had to watch until the end.
You were my true friends, right? I’d even prepared a game for you today.
“Now, what do you think?”
A game icon appeared on the screen.
Wayo was a variety game streamer first and a VTuber second, so she played all sorts of games.
Today’s game was considered one of the greatest indie masterpieces ever made. Players chose one of 172 characters and fought battles with a different set of possibilities every time...
-Fucking Lel, you bitch
-All right, let’s leave~~
-Ah
-Do you seriously want to tank your channel??
“...For the record, I’m playing with viewers. Looking for four people for an Augment ARAM party.”
-Daaamn lmao
-Ooooh
-BashWayosHeadWithMissingPings kr2
-NIIIIICE
-ShoveWayoOffACliff kr1 < please
“For free?”
-?
-??
-You’re getting way too fucking spoiled
-Ha lmao
[WayoGaram, thank you for donating 1,000 won!]
Here, take it. WayoGaram kr1
“Ah, WayoGaram, thanks for the thousand won. I should send you an invite right away, shouldn’t I?”
-What do you mean, shouldn’t you?
-Why are you asking
[Anon, thank you for donating 1,000 won!]
Deduct WayoGaram
“Ahh, a deduction.”
-LMAOOOOO
-LMAOOOO
-This sly bitch...
-Waiting for someone to deduct it is so fucking scummy lmao
-A thousand won isn’t the going rate lmao
[WayoGaram, thank you for donating 5,000 won!]
Fuck
“Ah! Our first customer.”
I saw the five thousand won and hurriedly sent an invite.
Wow. That was a whole half of the minimum hourly wage.
It might not mean much to Ahyeon the model, but it was a big sum to Wayo the VTuber.
[BashWayosHead, thank you for donating 5,000 won!]
BashWayosHeadWithMissingPings kr2
[IsThisTheGoingRate?, thank you for donating 5,000 won!]
WaDumbYoAss kr222
When I sent the invite right away, the viewers figured out the going rate and hurried to send donations.
These quick-witted little bastards.
They hadn’t even given me time to raise the price, so I obediently sent their invites.
“All right, one game and we’re done~!”
-??
-?
-You bitch
-Who do you think you are, some huge streamer?
“One loss and we’re done~!”
-Let’s goooo lmao
The announcement stream had been full of complaints and trouble.
But in the end, our merry Augment ARAM party got underway.
* * *
It was early morning, after Wayo had finished having fun on stream.
At this hour around dawn, when most people weren’t active, posts poured into one online community as though it were the middle of the day.
[Is Wayo seriously taking Christmas off??]
[RuliUpdate]
Fuck, Empress Wayo, I didn’t think you were like that
-??fr?
-No, she said she’ll do an IRL stream
ㄴ Can’t even imagine an Empress Wayo IRL stream lmao
-Is she only taking Christmas Day off?
ㄴ The day before and after too
ㄴ Ah...
[Goodbye, Empress Wayo lmao]
[Anon]
A year was a good run~
-Wayo’s only been streaming a year? Fuck lmao, from how much this board talks about her you’d think it’d been five
ㄴ That’s because the Wayodogs make such a fucking fuss
-She said it’s not a boyfriend and she’ll do an IRL stream, fuck
ㄴ Babe~ Hang on a sec~
ㄴ 🖕🖕
-Wayodogs in shambles lmao
[Why is Empress Wayo called Empress Wayo?]
[Anon]
She only averages 200 viewers
-Well...
-Even that’s part of being Empress Wayo
-Fr why is she Empress Wayo lmao
[Sick of people overhyping Wayo lmao]
[Anon]
She’s fucking tiny but the Wayodogs base their whole identities on her, fuck
-You think Empress Wayo’s a fucking joke? She grew through her own appeal without joining a single big event
ㄴ Still a small-timer lmao
-Even getting hate like this is part of being Empress Wayo
ㄴ Wayoshit lmao
[(Sent via web) You must respect Empress Wayo]
[ExclamationDrifter]
Empress Wayo knows the names and skills of no fewer than 172 champions, as well as all 3,078 possible type matchups arising from Pookymon’s 18 types. She is the clear and undisputed queen of indie VTubers, and the reason she hasn’t joined an agency isn’t that no agency will accept her, but that no agency can handle an individual greater than the agency itself...
-You again lmao
-Get the fuck off this board already
-I know the Pookymon type matchups too, fuck
-Wayodog lmao
-Can someone permaban this fucker
-Your precious master’s taking Christmas off lmao
[Has Wayo seriously never used a camera?]
[Anon]
These cartoon skins usually turn one on for birthdays or anniversaries these days
-Wayo’s a pure-blood VTuber, she doesn’t do that
ㄴ Pure-blood, my ass lmao
ㄴ Judging by her design, she’s definitely a pure-blood RuliTuber lmao
ㄴ (Picture of Wayo’s avatar)
ㄴ She really does look like Ruli bait;
-Public opinion’s gonna flip when Empress Wayo turns on her camera lmao
ㄴ Isn’t it just gonna be a handcam? Fucking Ruli overreactions
ㄴ Fr someone needs to line up the Wayodogs and beat them with a bat
[Wayo < Can you stop talking about this fucker?]
[Anon]
She’s not even a big streamer. Some small-timer averaging 200 viewers is taking over the whole board;
-She’s the VTuber board’s idol lmao
-Can’t help it, she’s the pride and joy this board raised
ㄴ She started here?
ㄴ Word spread here and she blew up
ㄴ Blew up (averages 200 viewers)
[Wayodogs aside, Empress Wayo really is a super rookie worth talking about]
[ExclamationDrifter]
Yeah;
-🖕
-Don’t feed the Wayodogs
-Not even logging out first?
[We’ll find out about Wayo on Christmas Day lmao]
[Anon]
If she does a ten-minute IRL stream and turns it off, she’s dead that day lmaooo
-Fr
-Let’s see how long she streams
-I’ve made ten alt accounts, she’s fucking dead lmao
-Let’s go, mass extinction of Wayodogs lmao
Footnotes:
Lel and Pookymon are playful stand-ins for League of Legends and Pokémon.
The “You must respect Empress Wayo” post parodies a Korean Cristiano Ronaldo copypasta that piles up statistics to demand respect.
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