Chapter 38 : Good luck together_

Communication-focused broadcasts are actually quite labor-intensive.

To be precise, they require a variety of skills.

First and foremost, you need the ability to choose a topic that can attract the listener’s interest without giving them reason to complain.

Of course, even if you choose the right topic, it doesn’t mean viewers will remain interested.

Viewers constantly try to twist the topic. Either by talking about something unrelated or by constantly branching out from the original subject.

‘And if you make a mistake, you get exposed and fall into the abyss.’

So you also need crisis detection and quick thinking.

If you judge that the conversation topic is dangerous, you need to quickly change it. And do it softly, smoothly.

Intentionally trying to trip you up will only lead to worse things. Malicious viewers will try to tear you down even more. We have enough manpower to suppress the chat, but honestly, that’s not good for image building.

Anyway, communication streams are usually difficult for streamers because they require such a variety of skills.

Honestly, playing games is easier for streamers. Because some of the viewers are looking for the game itself.

So, what was my response?

I just grinded people.

From the initial topic selection, TS Media’s people are involved. They take into account the viewers’ age groups and tendencies, calculate all the factors that could lead to misinterpretations, and develop anticipated countermeasures.

Through this, I controlled the broadcast itself.

This is what happens when you grind people and money. It’s easy, right?

Of course….

[SeongWon, are you perhaps the new high-level user SeongWon who is active in V-BAT?]

Sometimes unexpected accidents happen.

“V-BAT? What’s that?”

I answered like that and used motion recognition to make a specific gesture. A call motion to send an emergency signal to CEO Cha.

[‘CEO Cha’: V-BAT SeongWon, did the Chairman use this as their ID? My god. If this is true, please give a positive response.]

“Ah, I get it. That, that old early virtual reality game, right?”

I pretended to react to the chat, subtly signaling CEO Cha, and a response came back immediately.

[‘CEO Cha’: Confirmed. Is it perhaps a face issue? If so, it’s better not to use negative language.]

Right, if I use negative language, it becomes a lie. It’s better to subtly change the subject as if it’s not a big deal.

“Hmm, but are there people who still play V-BAT these days? That’s really strange?”

[‘CEO Cha’: Well done. It’s a headache. Why hasn’t V-BAT created a system to hide faces or something… I’ll look for any videos that might have been taken. I’ll take measures to take them down if possible.]

I checked CEO Cha’s report and read the chat. It was the chat from the person who asked me earlier if SeongWon in V-BAT was me.

[Can’t you play it once?]

I immediately crossed my arms and made a gesture of disbelief.

“Huh? Play it? I heard it’s a crap game?”

With just this attitude, my loyal viewers, who know V-BAT’s notoriety, enthusiastically denounced this evil irregular for suggesting I play such a trash game.

[What V-BAT ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[The smell of shit;;;; please go away]

[Hey, are you crazy? You want to smear shit on 70% of the game time? Where the hell are you spying from?]

[What’s V-BAT?]

[It’s an old-timer game, an early virtual reality game]

The person was crushed by the countless viewers’ chats and collapsed helplessly. It hurt my heart a little to see that.

‘…V-BAT is fun, though.’

The person who mentioned V-BAT is a comrade with the same intentions as me, but unfortunately, it can’t be helped right now.

‘Sacrifice for the greater good.’

Later, someday later.

There will be a day when I broadcast V-BAT too….

So I successfully resolved the unexpected situation.

…Or so I thought.

* * *

◈ ◈ ◈

▣ People still play V-BAT these days

[Sno.1 broadcast clip, showing a viewer’s chat asking if SeongWon in V-BAT is SeongWon.]

It’s really amazing, why would anyone play that crap game

–But does SeongWon play V-BAT too?

└I don’t know? She seems like she doesn’t

└She hasn’t said she doesn’t, she just said it’s a crap game

└? That’s true

–Hmm… A virtual reality combat that implements a real battlefield… Artificial intelligence… Robots… Something suspicious…

└That’s true

└S-1000 will soon kick down your door and come in lol

└I think they’ll come in and ask you to subscribe to the broadcast ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

–But there really is, V-BAT SeongWon ㅇㅇ;;

└Really? I thought it was just a troll

└[V-BAT website, SeongWon account information link]

└It’s really thereㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ And it’s an account created before SeongWon started broadcastingㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ

▣ Isn’t it really SeongWon?

V-BAT is such an old, outdated game that there’s no customization function or anything, it just uses your body recognition information as is. Then her face would be revealed, right? So isn’t that why she tried to change the subject?

–Oh, that’s a possibility

└It does seem like that could be the case

–Oh, you’re right?

└Meanwhile, V-BAT, a crap game that still maintains the initial system and doesn’t update… my head hurtsㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└Well… It wasn’t really a gameㅋㅋㅋㅋ

▣ Hey, V-BAT? How do you watch replays?

I can’t find how to watch replays on the official site

Do you need a virtual reality device to watch it? Like Soul?

–Ah, replay? There’s no such thing

└???

└V-BAT was originally a military training program duct-taped into a game, so why would there be a replay function ㅋㅋㅋㅋ It’s a crap gameㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└Fact) It’s not even a game in the first place

–Then can’t you watch replays?

└If you dig through the videos taken by the Yankees, you might find some

└ㅇㅇ American guys play V-BAT quite a bit

└Qui?te a bit

└60% of the total is a lot, damn itㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└But that’s less than 5,000 people

▣ Hey hey hey I found a video.

But when I try to download it, it’s deleted.

What’s going on?

–The Soviets unleashed hackers to protect the artificial intelligence

└ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ

└They use people to protect artificial intelligenceㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

–Does SeongWon have an agency? They’re quick to respond

└I don’t know about the agency, but where does she get all that money?

└Seriously, she donates a million won every day, is this for real?

└Even the agency she was in would run away

–So how does SeongWon look in the video, tell me quickly

└Wait, I’ll organize it and post it again

└?? Where did this guy go, he said he’d organize it and post it

└Damn it, say something and go

└The KGB must have come

▣ But seriously, where does SeongWon get her money?

[Pictures of the amount SeongWon donated at the end of the broadcast]

The total amount of donations so far is almost 100 million won?

Apart from the donations from viewers, multiplying that and donating it ㅇㅇ; Including viewer donations, it’s close to 200 million

–200 million?

–Crazyㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

–Donation angelㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ

–Isn’t she really like an illegitimate child of a chaebol family? Or maybe a youngest daughter ㅇㅇ; Maybe she’s just enjoying her hobby

└That’s a possibility

└Even if she’s a chaebol’s daughter, it’s not easy to donate 100 million in two monthsㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ

–Is she really a chaebolㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ

└It doesn’t make sense, the fact that she’s enjoying her hobby means she’s pushed out of the succession line, so she wouldn’t have much money;;

└Still, wouldn’t she have at least 100 billion?

└100 billion is nothing to sneeze at ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└The third daughter of Chairman SeoSeong is ignoring corporate succession and just drawing as a hobby, and her assets are less than 100 billion won ㅇㅇ; And that’s mostly stocks, and it’s only possible because it’s SeoSeong

–Then what the hell is she?

└I don’t kn?ow

–She inherited the Romanov gold that the commies stole during the Soviet era, and Stalin hid it away ㅇㅇ

└That’s a great setting

* * *

It was an eventful two days.

It’s a good thing the issue broke out on Sunday, the day before my regular day off, otherwise it would have been a headache if I had to turn on the broadcast.

Of course, my day off is also a day off for TS Media employees, but I just decided to pay overtime and call in all employees to deal with this situation.

“What happened?”

At my question, CEO Cha reported the collected information.

“First of all, the issues are divided into two.”

CEO Cha wrote two words on the whiteboard.

“Face, and money.”

“The face is, the first issue, the V-BAT one, right?”

CEO Cha nodded at my question.

“Yes, of course this issue will soon subside. All the videos taken were taken down, and it was suppressed before it spread. There’s no evidence, so even if they want to burn, there’s no firewood. As long as the Chairman doesn’t play V-BAT for the time being.”

I clicked my tongue at that. My fun is being taken away….

“Instead, the money issue has newly emerged.”

“Hmm, right.”

Stories about my donations.

Actually, this was something that had been talked about before.

It’s not just a day or two, and I’ve been donating money continuously, so the amount of donations has accumulated considerably.

No, before that, the very fact that I’m donating all the donations I received was a huge aggro factor.

The issue, which had been just a question until now, has been ignited by the spillover from this face-related incident.

I fiddled with my fingernails and threw a word to CEO Cha.

“I heard there’s talk from other broadcasters too?”

I’ve already heard.

Because broadcasters have their own community.

Of course, I’m outside of it, but it’s because I’m an outsider that I can see some things. Plus, TS Media keeps poaching related personnel, so there’s information coming in.

“On the surface, they praise the Chairman, but they don’t seem to like it very much. First of all, because viewers have started asking them to donate their donations.”

CEO Cha said that and smacked his lips.

“Actually, I don’t think it’s necessary to donate the donations received from viewers… that’s what I think.”

“I have over 30 trillion won in assets, what am I going to do with that money?”

“Of course you’re not doing it for the money. But, in the end, the business needs to be sustainable, right? Leaving that aside, it’s attracting too much attention. Just looking at it now, there’s too much talk about assets, isn’t there?”

“Hmm.”

I crossed my arms and thought.

First of all, there are two breakthroughs that CEO Cha brought.

Actually, it should be considered four, but anyway.

“Either ignite a new issue, or remain silent. In addition to this, there are options to reveal the face or reveal the assets?”

Declaring non-communication is easy. Just dance with swords in the chat window, wait for the bait to cool down and new bait to come out.

But it might not go out, and first of all, I’m annoyed that my broadcast career is being tarnished.

Revealing the face would be a bad move. It would overturn the plans I’ve already made, but it wouldn’t have a negative effect.

Money… I should never reveal it like this.

This is absolutely forbidden.

“Are there no issues?”

“The staff is grinding and constantly meeting. But I think it will be difficult to create a new issue during the off-air period. It seems like time….”

“Hmm….”

Is there no choice but to reveal my face?

At that moment, Team Leader Lee Jong-han, who manages the ego-searching team, opened the door to the broadcast room and shouted.

“Ch, Chairman! Ac, accident! An accident happened!”

At the team leader’s sudden words, CEO Cha and I both tensed. What kind of incident happened here again?

“Accident? What happened again? What is it?”

“What are you talking about? What kind of accident happened?”

“Th, that…!”

Then Team Leader Lee Jong-han shouted with a bright face.

“Th, the president’s son was recently caught using date rape drugs and went to a club! It’s breaking news right now!”

Well, this is an accident.

I turned to CEO Cha.

“This will bury it, right?”

Then CEO Cha said with a dazed expression.

“…Well, most of the issues will be crushed for the time being.”

Well, anyway, isn’t it good for us?

I don’t know about the president’s son.

Who told him to do drugs.