Chapter 40: YouTube Algorithm (3)

“Alright, everyone’s here.”

“Why did we have to meet in person?
Couldn’t we just have a meeting on Misscord?”

“…Tiring.”

“….”

At Hiro’s sudden summons, Hiro’s broadcast staff all gathered in one place.

The four of them sat together at the cafe where they had the interview before, but it seemed that Hiro was the only one with motivation, and they each expressed their apathy in their own way.

Cha-in was leaning against the backrest, slouching, and Yeon-i was counting the patterns on the ceiling with a blank expression.

And Ara….

She didn’t say anything with a stiff expression.

Everyone’s reaction was basically “why did you call us so suddenly?”, but Hiro didn’t care and continued to say what she wanted to say.

“Everyone knows that the Zero Two video is blowing up.”

“Why are you using honorifics, you crazy b*tch.”

“…Right?”

“Now, please look at this screen.”

Hiro turned the laptop she was looking at towards the three of them and showed them the screen.

The screen displayed the performance of the Zero Two video that Hiro had uploaded.

[Title: Zero Two Dance 50,000 won per minute…?!
Ah ㅋㅋㅋ I can’t resist this ㅋㅋㅋ]

[The video has 231,861 views since it was posted]

[January 17th (Mon) 00:00 (First 10 days) : 221,717 (Typical performance for this period : 1060-1350)]

“Wow, it’s gone up another 50,000 in that short amount of time?”

“…It’s blowing up.”

“Exactly!
So today, I called you all to talk about the next video that can continue this momentum!”

Cha-in felt a cool sensation run down her spine as Hiro made exaggerated gestures and expressions.

Having gone through thick and thin with this person for more than a day or two, she had learned from experience that when Hiro acted like that, she was planning something unusual.

“What kind of bullsht is this btch going to say this time?”

“Hey, you old lady, shut up and watch.
I’m talking right now.”

“If I’m an old lady, what does that make Ara next to me, you trash-like guy.”

“Ah, that’s right?
Ara, I’m sorry…yo?”

Hiro stuttered as she made eye contact with Ara.

Ara’s expression seemed to contain no emotion, which made her seem even more extremely angry.

Hiro thought that she must have made a big mistake and chose the words to salvage the situation.

“Um… that… Ara-ssi?
It’s not what I meant to say to Ara-ssi, it’s just that I usually say harsh things to each other when I talk to that b*tch….”

“Boss.”

“Oh, yes, yes.
Please, speak.”

Ara opened her mouth for the first time since all four of them had gathered.

The other three tensed up at Ara’s voice, which seemed to contain deep darkness, and Ara spoke once again.

“Boss.”

“Yes, yes.
I’m really sorry”

“Why.”

“Yes?”

The emotion that broke through Ara’s blank expression was deep grief.

“Why….”

With her teeth clenched so hard that it was difficult to continue speaking, Ara asked Hiro.

“Why… why do you only gather up these milk cows, boss? Huh?”

“…Huh?”

Hiro was taken aback by Ara’s completely unexpected words, but Ara poured out her resentment as if she didn’t care.

“No, does this really make sense?
It would be hard to do this even if you deliberately tried!

How can the people who are gathered as employees all be so busty except for me??

The boss herself is at a level that’s rare to find even one or two in Korea, the manager is really hard to find among ordinary people, but how can even the illustrator be so busty!!

Why am I the only flat-chested one when everyone is gigantic?

This is a conspiracy; it’s clear that the boss only picked people with big chests to f*ck with me.

There’s no way such a reality could exist otherwise!”

“Um… that, Ara-ssi, calm dow”

“This trash-like world of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer… how can such a tiny kid only have such a busty chest?
This is a scam…!”

“…I’m not a kid, you’re just an old lady.”

Yeon-i rarely opened her mouth at Ara’s words that poured out.

Whether she heard Yeon-i’s quiet words in the midst of her outpouring of resentment, Ara said one thing to Yeon-i.

“You’re, Bo-yeon-ssi, right?”

“No, I’m Yeon-i.
Hwangbo is the surname, and the given name is Yeon-i, a single character.”

“Ah, I see.
Then Yeon-i-ssi?
I am older than Yeon-i-ssi, but I’m not old enough to be called an old lady ye”

“Egg.”

“…It’s true that I’m over thirty, but Yeon-i-ssi?
No matter how young you are now, eventually Yeon-i-ssi will also be this”

“Wrong.”

“…….
I’m sorry that I was rude first, but still, you’re attacking me too personal”

“Old”

“…Hey, I’ve lived a lot longer than you, isn’t your speech too short?”

“Gum”

“This little kid really!”

In the end, Ara, who was thirty-one years old, couldn’t stand the provocation of the much younger child and rushed in to pull at her cheeks.

“Hey.
No matter what, there’s a line you shouldn’t cross, you little kid.
You’re acting up like that just because you have big breasts, if you get hit once, will insurance cover it?
Huh?”

“It want that meanth.”

“It wasn’t that meaning?
Then what does ‘gum’ mean, tell me.”

“That… hurts.
It just meant cheap.”

“…What do you mean by cheap then?”

“Chest.”

Until just now, there was reason enough to only pull at her cheeks, so no one was stopping her, but this time Hiro and Cha-in rushed in at the same time to grab Ara.

“Hey, hey, hey, hey, calm down!
It’s a nuisance to the store!”

“No, come on, calm down a little.
She’s a kid.”

“Let go, let go, bth of you fck off!
Don’t push those dog-like ttties on my arm!
I’m going to kill that btch and go to jail, let go!”

“Isn’t this crazy?
I’m sorry!
I’ll calm her down quickly, boss, I’m really sorry!”

The strength that was emanating from the 178cm tall woman was overwhelming, and it was difficult for even Hiro and Cha-in to hold her down, but after desperately holding on, the two were barely able to calm Ara down.

“…Are you a little calmer now?”

“I’m sorry, boss….”

“I thought I hired an editor, but I hired a security guard, I’m going to die trying to stop her.”

“…I’m sorry.”

A commotion had occurred, but Yeon-i, the person involved, was drinking her share of the drink as if nothing had happened.

“Bo-yeon-ah.”

“My name is Yeon-i.”

“I know.
Anyway, you did something wrong too, so you should apologize.”

“She started it first.”

“That’s true, but… no, never mind.”

Ara seemed dissatisfied with Hiro, who quickly gave up persuading her, but Hiro didn’t care.

“Yes, well… okay.
Anyway, let’s not pick on each other’s complexes.
Let’s not do that in the future.”

“Okay.”

“Yes… I understand.”

“Originally, everyone has a complex, right?
So don’t get too hurt.
Okay?”

“…There’s someone who’s tall and has big breasts, though?”

“She has a flaw in her personality, so it’s okay.”

“You b*tch, is it my turn to fight you now?”

“Yeah, shut up and… everyone focus!
We didn’t come here to fight today, we came to have a meeting.
Alright, everyone look at the laptop.”

Hiro, who had finally returned the story to the starting point, pointed to the laptop screen once again.

[Title: Zero Two Dance 50,000 won per minute…?!
Ah ㅋㅋㅋ I can’t resist this ㅋㅋㅋ]

[The video has 246,198 views since it was posted]

[January 17th (Mon) 00:00 (First 10 days) : 221,717 (Typical performance for this period : 1060-1350)]

“What, it’s gone up 10,000 in that short amount of time?”

“The YouTube statistics are a bit slow to reflect, so it goes up all at once.
Anyway, that’s not the important thing, let’s look at the shape of the graph.”

Hiro pointed to the view count change graph on the screen.

The graph was in the shape of a ‘丿’, rising steeply.

“Overall, it’s in the form of accelerating and going up like this, which means that YouTube is showing my video to more and more types of viewers, right?”

According to Hiro’s explanation, when a video is uploaded to YouTube,
it initially shows the video to a narrow range of viewers,
and if it fills the quota,
it recommends the video to a wider group, and if it fills the quota there as well,
it recommends it to an even wider group.

“You can’t see it when you look at the whole graph,
but if you change the period and look… you see this section that rises steeply and then flattens out?

This is the section where all the viewers within the recommended range have already watched it.

If this happens, YouTube widens the viewer base to the next section.”

“Yeah, so what?”

“In short, the current trend isn’t likely to be broken anytime soon.
If it does well, won’t it go up to 1 million views?”

“Your boasting is enough, so why did you call us?
You didn’t call us to brag, did you?”

“Of course not.
I’m thinking of filming a video taking advantage of this momentum….”

Hiro turned the laptop towards herself, searched for something, and then turned the laptop back to the three of them.

A video was playing on the screen.

“Uh… Boss, isn’t the level a bit high?
The dance?”

“…What is this.
Are we dancing to this?”

“It’s hot….”

“Right?
But it’s not to the point where the video will be cut, right?”

The video showed a four-member idol group dancing a pretty suggestive dance.

It was a dance that all three of them knew well because it had recently become a trend on YouTube as a challenge.

Hiro said to the three of them with a bright expression, with eyes that were completely clear, and with a truly pure voice.

“Let’s dance together and upload it!”

“…Yes?”

“Did this b*tch get shot in the head?”

“Nah.”

Everyone has complexes, but she’s not even human.

The three people’s thoughts were generally the same.