Chapter 43: YouTube Algorithm (6)

“Alright~ Everyone, you’ve worked hard!”

Hiro finished the broadcast, completely shut down the computer, and turned around to see the three people who had been called today collapsed in a state of devastation.

“Worked hard my as, you must have made a lot of money, you dog-like btch….”

“My heart hurts… my heart hurts so much….”

“…Everyone, you’ve worked hard.”

Only Hwangbo Yeon-i, who wasn’t mobilized to dance, could say that they had worked hard, but even Yeon-i was quite tired just from doing the broadcast together because of her personality that made it difficult for her to interact with people.

“What are you going to do?
If you’re going straight home, I’ll call a taxi, or I can order something.”

“I’m going to die.”

“Call a taxi?”

“Don’t be ridiculous, order something expensive.”

Hiro looked at Cha-in, who had already taken a seat and lay down, and asked the other two for their opinions.

“Ara and Bo-yeon-i?
What are you going to do?”

“I’m going to rest a bit and go… I’m too tired right now.”

“If you want to sleep over, you can sleep over.”

“Is that okay?”

“There’s no reason why not.”

As Ara was about to stay, Yeon-i fidgeted, looking at the three people’s faces.

It seemed that many thoughts were crossing her mind.

“Bo-yeon-i?”

“I’m….”

“You don’t have to do that just because the other people aren’t going, so don’t worry and tell me, it doesn’t matter.”

Yeon-i shook her head as if that wasn’t the case.

“Is that so?
Then I’ll have to order for four people.”

“…!”

Yeon-i’s eyes widened slightly at Hiro’s words.

It seemed like a dog’s tail that shouldn’t be behind Yeon-i was wagging.

“Then what do you want to eat?”

“I want jokbal.”

“How about chicken, it’s easy?”

“…Tteokbokki!”

“You’re full of it, how can all four of you be different?
I want pizza.”

Hiro thought that it would be ambiguous to vote since all four of them were different, so she said that she would take care of it and went outside.

The boss left, and only three employees were left alone.

“She’s getting more and more crazy, I understand, but.”

Ara asked Cha-in, who was muttering while looking at the door where Hiro had left.

“Manager-nim… is the boss always like that?”

“Like what?
She’s crazy in all sorts of ways, that one.”

“When I first met her, she seemed very rational and… intelligent?
But the impression is gradually becoming something….”

“I don’t know about intelligent… or is she?
She has a good head when she’s scheming.
Anyway, she is rational, right.”

“Yes?
No, no, not the first impression, but now.”

“So, now.”

Cha-in added when Ara made an expression that she didn’t understand.

“She’s crazy, but she doesn’t do crazy things spontaneously.”

Cha-in said that and recalled a past event.

It was probably a little over a year ago.

It was when she was doing content with the condition of 10 squats for 10,000 won.

At the time, the content received more response than expected, and a total of 1,300 squats were accumulated.

However, Hiro said that she would do 300 of the 1,300 squats separately and only completed 1,000 squats before ending the broadcast.

“Ah, I know that.
That’s the story that she did the remaining 300 the next day and ruptured her muscles and had to use crutches, right?”

“…Are you stupid?”

Yeon-i rarely expressed her opinion, but Cha-in shook her head and corrected Yeon-i’s opinion.

“You shouldn’t say stupid, you should say idiotic.”

“Still, she’s the boss….”

“I don’t think she cares at all?
Anyway, well, that’s not the important thing.”

Cha-in told them the behind-the-scenes story of the episode that everyone knew.

“Huh?
What is it.”

A message came from Hiro while I was watching the broadcast.

[If I can’t end the broadcast, please end it for me.
Go to this link, enter the ID and password I posted above, and you can enter]

“…What bullsh*t is this?”

I thought she was squatting hard, but does she have time to send messages like this?

Only the illustration was displayed on the broadcast screen, and I couldn’t tell what Hiro was actually doing at all.

Therefore, I could only guess what Hiro was doing from the voice coming through the microphone.

【Forty…fiiiiive…!!】

The voice coming from the broadcast sounded like she was about to die at any moment.

But seeing that she was sending messages like this, it seemed like she wasn’t as tired as I thought.

Maybe she had exercised a bit before?

Actually, it doesn’t matter.

The important thing is that the voice I’m hearing right now is acting.

“Her acting is amazing.”

I was a little disappointed, but I decided not to argue in the chat.

As long as it’s fun, who cares?

So, around the time Hiro had done about seventy squats

“…Or was it eighty?
“Seventy or eighty, it’s the same thing.”

“That’s true.
Anyway, let’s say it’s seventy.”

So, around the time Hiro had done about seventy squats, Hiro’s scream was heard through the microphone.

Then I heard no sound.

As silence continued, the chat was filled with question marks, and I also wondered what was going on, but after about 5 minutes, Hiro’s voice was heard again on the broadcast.

[I’m sorry.
I’ll end the broadcast for now.
I’ll tell you the details tomorrow.]

The chat was filled with question marks once again.

In the meantime, I left a line of text.

[She’s running away ㅋㅋㅋ]

Honestly, isn’t it too obvious?

It seemed quite ugly that she had the leeway to send me messages like this, but she was acting like something big had happened.

That’s what I thought.

Until the next day when a notice was posted with a picture of a hospital receipt.

I was so dumbfounded after seeing the notice that I sent Hiro a message.

[Is this b*tch crazy for real?]

[Hey, no]

[Sh*t hey]

[I’m going to call you, pick up the phone, sh*t]

I thought that I wouldn’t be able to convey everything I wanted to say with just a message, so I suddenly called Hiro.

Looking back now, I think I called a phone that she wouldn’t answer without any plan, thinking about how special our relationship was….

【Hello?】

That day, Hiro answered my call.

“Hey.”

“What, you were a woman?”

“Are you a crazy b*stard for real?”

“What?”

“What do you mean what, you sht.
Are you an idiot?
What kind of bstard in the world does it until their muscles rupture, you crazy b*tch!”

Hiro was silent for a moment.

And what Hiro said when she opened her mouth made me even angrier.

“People told me to do it.”

“Are you going to do everything people tell you to do?
If you think it’s going to fck up, you should stop in the middle, you sht, don’t you have a head?”

Hiro sighed at my words.

“In the first place, I said, ‘I don’t think I can do it today, so can I postpone it to the next time?’ at the beginning, right?”

“Yeah, that’s true… but still, you should have stopped in the middle, aish, I’m so frustrated.”

“If I stopped?”

“Huh?”

I could only make a stupid noise at Hiro’s question.

Because I couldn’t understand the intention of the question.

When I didn’t say anything, Hiro answered herself.

“If I stopped, what would have changed?

It would have been the same as the beginning.
They would have said, ‘Why are you stopping?
Keep going.
Are you going to eat and run…’ That’s what they would have said.

It was already a predetermined ending at the point where I couldn’t persuade them at first.”

I was dumbfounded at Hiro’s answer.

I couldn’t understand it with the thinking of a normal human being.

“Even so, you should have said something, right?
Why didn’t you say anything and shut up until your legs were like that?”

“It would have been worse for me if I had said something?”

“What are you talking about?”

“If I kept whining and saying that I couldn’t do it, or if I said something right before my legs got like this and this happened….”

Hiro was organizing her thoughts, so she stopped talking for a moment and then continued.

“Then, people would have blamed me?

The words that they encouraged me with before I started squatting could be self-rationalized by saying that they didn’t know my physical condition.

But it’s different if they encourage me to keep going while clearly seeing me struggling while squatting.

They’ll feel responsible themselves, or they’ll fight while blaming the person who led the encouragement.”

I didn’t not understand what Hiro was saying.

But, if that’s the case.

“Then just make them feel responsible and sorry, what bullsh*t are you talking about.”

Hiro chuckled on the other end of the phone after hearing my words.

“Is this work?”

“Huh?”

“Is watching my broadcast work for those people?”

Hiro said incomprehensible words, and continued to say incomprehensible words.

“People who come to my broadcast to watch the broadcast and chat aren’t coming because it’s their duty.”
Just.
Just sh*t, they’re coming to see it as a hobby, using their free time.

But if you ask them to take responsibility for something that happened while doing a hobby, I bet they’ll feel responsible.”

“They’ll just run away.”

Hiro’s voice saying that was mixed with self-deprecation.

“After all, my broadcast is just a hobby, a pastime… if I’m lucky, that’s all it is.

And I’m just a small fry.

Whether the viewers are wrong or not, if I make them feel responsible, they’ll all run away.

Then who will be left on my broadcast?”

“I have to broadcast tomorrow too, and I have to broadcast tomorrow to pay the rent and hospital bills, so what can I do.”

I couldn’t say anything after hearing those words.

I had walked what people call the beaten path, so
I had no words to scold that idiot who was desperately struggling.

As I couldn’t say anything, Hiro said.

“Well, it’s not just those gloomy reasons, there were some calculations of my own.”

“Calculations?
What calculations?”

Laughter was mixed in the Hiro’s voice that came to my ears.

“With this, won’t people trust me no matter what I do?”

“What nonsense.”

“No, look, in a situation where I’m broadcasting with an illustration on the screen anyway, how can you trust what I’m doing behind the illustration.

But with this time, I’ve got proof that I was actually working hard while my legs were being ruined like this, right?

At this point, they’ll trust me from now on out of guilt.”

I was dumbfounded.

That she was saying such things seriously, with a smile.

“You crazy b*tch.”

So I cursed at her.

At that idiotic friend.

“…What are you saying?”

“So it’s roughly like this.
If I say I’m having a hard time, it’s really hard, so don’t think it’s an exaggeration and believe me, otherwise, I’ll really do it even if my body is ruined again- that kind of feeling?”

“Are you threatening people with your body?”

“Yeah, something like that.”

Cha-in said that after telling the story.

“No matter what the reason is… how can a person do that?”

“I told you, she’s not human.”

The door to the room opened at the same time as Cha-in’s words.

“I leave for a moment, and you’re gossiping behind my back.”

“What did you order?”

“Pizza and chicken as a side dish, and tteokbokki.”

“There’s a place that sells all of that?”

“There is.”

Ara thought while looking at Hiro, who was taking a seat.

What on earth made that person like that.