Chapter 49: Hako Cartel (4)

And the next day.

A guest had come to Hiro’s house.

“What are you going to do about this?”

Unlike before, Chain was asking seriously this time, and Hiro just shrugged her shoulders.

“What can I do? There’s no way to deal with it anyway, so I’ll just leave it alone.”

Chain then held out her cell phone to Hiro.

On the cell phone screen that Chain was showing Hiro, a community site was open.

[She got famous because of her exposure, so her mindset is different lololol]

[Do you believe that? That’s why you guys are virgins, you idiots lololol]

[Looking at how sh*t the gallery is, I guess SseopSseop’s broadcast is boring now]

[List of Pokemon caught on yesterday’s ‘That H Cup’ broadcast]

[She’s trying to make money from this lololololololol]

[??? : Seungmin hyung, what are you doing right now?]

[Summary of today’s ‘That H Cup’ broadcast.jpg]

[??? : That btch… She only has big tts… What can she even do… tap tap tap]

Apparently, she was really seeing it for the first time, and Hiro put her hand on her forehead after seeing the screen.

She told her to take it away, saying she was sick of it, and sighed.

“I knew it, but seeing it in person makes me dizzy.”

“What, you really didn’t see it? I thought you would definitely be monitoring it.”

“I tried not to see it, to manage my mental state.”

In fact, Hiro didn’t need to bother looking at the community.

She hadn’t been looking at communities for a day or two, and she knew exactly how it would turn out.

If there was any chance of things changing by responding, she would have actively monitored it, but as far as Hiro had seen, she had never seen a good result from actively responding.

In that case,

It would be better to not see anything and take care of her mental health.

It’s a useless thing now, though.

Hiro frowned and held out her hand to Chain.

“Show it to me again.”

“Here you go.”

Hiro took Chain’s cell phone and scanned the screen.

And she confirmed that what she had seen was not wrong.

“The recommended posts list was right.”

“Yeah.”

“Is my content almost filling up an entire page with just recommended posts right now?”

“There’s probably more on the next page?”

“This is really giving me a headache.”

This was unexpected for Hiro as well.

No matter how much Hiro’s broadcast had grown, it was still nothing compared to the real big companies.

That’s why she didn’t think it would have this much influence even if it was publicized, but the fire was spreading bigger than Hiro thought.

“I didn’t think it would be such a big deal because the person who publicized it was a small fry….”

Chain took her cell phone back and replied as Hiro muttered to herself about her mistake.

“That would be right under normal circumstances.”

“Then why is this happening?”

“Turn on Switch.”

Hiro asked, “Suddenly?” but Chain urged her to turn it on anyway.

She was puzzled, but obediently picked up her own cell phone and ran the Switch application.

What she saw when the app was running was a screen where countless streamers were sorted by number of viewers.

But Hiro couldn’t find anything strange there either, so she tilted her head.

“It’s the same as usual?”

She wondered if a major company was criticizing her, but she expressed doubt at the Switch, which looked no different than usual.

“That’s the problem.”

“What the hell are you talking about again.”

“Look at the categories of the broadcasts.”

“Categories? Why that?”

“Just look at them anyway.”

Hiro flipped through the screen and looked at the categories one by one.

“They’re playing Last Oak.”

“Next?”

“Last Oak.”

“And?”

“Hush Stone.”

“Again.”

“…Last Oak.”

“Keep going.”

By this point, Hiro could understand what Chain was trying to say.

There were many broadcasts, and there were more than one or two major company broadcasts, but there were only one or two categories.

Last Oak, Last Oak, Last Oak, Last Oak….

Last Oak isn’t a bad game.

However, due to the nature of online games, there are inevitably many boring sections to watch.

And when such online games become prevalent throughout the internet broadcasting scene, there’s a problem that you end up seeing the same game over and over again no matter where you go.

Therefore,

“These bastards were bored.”

“There haven’t been any hot topics lately, have there?”

“Well, the only thing people have been talking about lately is who got more viewers or fewer viewers.”

“So… what are you going to do about this?”

The biggest feature of the D community, which Hiro and Chain were looking at, was anonymity.

And a characteristic of communities where anonymity is guaranteed is that many people easily say things they wouldn’t normally say.

Another characteristic is that there are many users who slightly deviate from general ethics and morality and pursue visceral fun.

It sounds like I said something grand… but in the end, it means this.

It’s a group that can put their heart and soul into useless things just for fun.

That’s why it was a particularly difficult community to deal with.

Even if you respond rationally and logically, they often pretend not to know for the sake of their own fun.

So Hiro’s response was the same in the end.

“Leave it alone.”

“Leave it alone? Really?”

“What are you going to do if I don’t leave it alone? Post an official statement or something?”

Frankly,

All she could do right now was write and post an official statement on the community.

What happens if you write and post that?

The sentence

[Hello, this is Hiro_0, broadcasting on Switch.]

Is changed to

[It’s me, you f*ckers]

And the sentence

[I would like to explain the suspicions and misunderstandings about me.]

Is changed to

[I didn’t think I’d get caught, but I got caught and I’m pissed off.]

The situation doesn’t change, no matter what the truth is.

No, it only gets worse.

Because the truth is not fun.

So, for Hiro, the best thing to do was to lie low.

“The best thing to do right now is to not give them any fuel.”

“Well… I don’t know.”

Chain didn’t know much about the community, so she showed a lukewarm reaction, but she thought that Hiro would do well, so she didn’t add anything else.

“But it’s a bit like that.”

“What is?”

“You used to do a lot of collaborations and were very close, right? Even though you cut ties, it’s a bit… yeah, because they’re trying to bury you like this.”

Chain looked at her cell phone, soothing the bitterness in her mouth.

She was Hiro’s manager, but at the same time, she was also her oldest viewer, so she seemed to be sad about the current situation, which was so different from the old days.

However, contrary to Chain’s feelings, Hiro only spat out cold words.

“They’re trying to bury me because I cut ties.”

“…Is that so?”

“If someone you cut ties with is doing well, it makes you feel like you were wrong.”

Of course, there were many people who weren’t like that.

There are many people who completely cut off contact with the person they cut ties with, and there are many people who don’t bother to do harm, even if they hate them.

Therefore, although her words were short, what Hiro said was only about one person, ‘Shung’.

“…Well, whatever.”

But the expression on the viewer’s face was bitter.

[What a real piece of trash, wow]

[Shung must have had a hard time too]

[Hang in there!]

Inside a room in a house.

There was someone who was frantically typing on the keyboard, reading the messages in the chat room that kept going up.

[I guess I don’t have an eye for people… It’s so disgusting that I was involved with someone like that….]

[No, don’t blame yourself too much, Shung.]

[Everyone’s on Shung’s side, so don’t worry.]

[Wow lololol So you’re saying she pretended to be nice all this time and acted like that behind the scenes?]

[Originally, the ones who are dirty in the back pretend to be clean in front lololol]

“Yeah, that’s right, really? That trashy b*tch really needs to be kicked out of the internet broadcasting scene.”

The monologue that came out of her mouth was full of anger.

There was a knock on her door as she was chatting with fingernails that were deeply marked with bite marks.

“Our daughter~ I cut up some fruit, would you like some?”

“Yes, Mom, do you have apples too?”

“Apples, pears, and strawberries.”

The mother who opened the door and came in was holding a plate of fruit in her hand after she went out of the room for a while.

She picked up a strawberry with a fork and put it in her mouth, and continued chatting with the fork in her mouth.

[When she was in our crew before, she was really flirting a lot, you know?]

[Really???]

[When women ask her to do a collaboration, she barely does it even once after we ask her several times, but she was always making collaboration schedules with men.]

[Did she start broadcasting to meet men lololol]

[What a total sl*t lololol]

[I’m glad we got rid of that sl*t quickly, really.]

[The crew atmosphere was chaotic when she was there… Ugh]

In fact, Hiro had avoided collaborating with female streamers because she was afraid that her netkama identity would be exposed if she collaborated with women, but there was no way these people would know that.

So, Hiro’s actions looked like that to them, so they couldn’t have a good impression.

[Shung, Shung]

[Yes?]

[ 【Isn’t this a seam line lololol】 ]

[Take a look at this post lololol Honestly, this is obvious.]

She followed the link that was posted in the chat room and checked the post.

In the post, there was a photo of what looked like a seam line on the breast prosthetics.

[As expected lololololololol]

[lololol Did she really think she wouldn’t get caught?]

[How much would a bird-brained b*tch have thought lololol]

She thought as she looked at those kinds of posts that had just been posted in the chat room.

And looking at the posts on the D community.

She was bound to win this.

[Everyone, give it a recommendation ㅋㅋㅋ]

[Let’s go to the recommended posts lololol]

[Justice is served]

[We really need to kick those kinds of people out of the internet broadcasting scene quickly]

That’s what she thought.