Chapter 45: YouTube Algorithm (8)

“That b*tch is seriously a terrible person, you know?”

“That’s right, that’s right! She took all the world’s breasts for herself, is this a country?!”

“…You’re being so dramatic.”

Hiro sighed at the mess unfolding before her eyes.

“Yaaa, drink! Drink, why aren’t you drinking?”

“Okay, okay, cheers, cheers.”

The sound of full cans and nearly empty cans clinking together filled the room, and the floor was littered with empty beer cans.

“You were complaining that there wasn’t enough alcohol, so you ended up buying more and making this mess, you damn things….”

Hiro, watching the two pathetic adults who were slowly having difficulty with distinguishing right from wrong due to how much they had drunk, and Yeon-i, who was lying down using her lap as a pillow, thought,

‘I miss Yoo-jin noona, no, unnie….’

The name she thought she had sorted out in her heart kept lingering in her mind.

“Boss-nim, you’re good at drinking, aren’t you?”

“Eum… I just drink so-so.”

“Come on, cheers, cheers!”

“Okay, okay, cheers, cheers.”

“Cheers, cheers~ Cheers!”

Once again, the refreshing sound of cans full of alcohol and empty cans clinking together filled the room.

“But, boss-nim.”

“What is it now? What are you going to say?”

“Why are you streaming so hard? Even if you streamed normally, people would like it.”

Hiro shook her head at Ara’s words that one big boob was enough.

“That’s all temporary…. In the end, you have to keep doing something for the stream to be maintained.”

“No, no, no! Anyway, guys all like big breasts and pretty faces….”

Watching Ara’s voice gradually fade as she raised her voice, Hiro thought that she must have quite the complex and moved the empty beer can she was holding to the side.

“Yeah, well, they do like it, big breasts and pretty faces.”

Then she opened a new beer can and took a sip.

“But the moment they’re sure they can’t have it, they leave without hesitation.”

Hiro added, “You’re lucky if they don’t badmouth you behind your back,” and put down the beer can.

“Here you go again…You s*ck, that’s the problem…You know that?”

Cha-in, who had come next to her at some point, put her arm around Hiro’s shoulder and said.

“Hey, you worry about too many useless things, that’s the problem.”

“It’s not that I worry about too many useless things, it’s that it’s actually like that.”

“It’s going well, you idiot! You should enjoy it even when it’s going well. You’re the problem because you’re already thinking about when it won’t go well and being all gloomy and depressed, you idiot, huh? You know?”

“How much did you drink to be acting like this, you bastard?”

Hiro, removing the drunkard’s arm from her shoulder, took another sip of beer by herself.

Cha-in and Ara, who were dissatisfied with that, brought their own alcohol and reached out their arms again.

“Okay, okay, cheers. Let’s cheer, come on.”

“Cheers~”

“Cheeeers.”

The three clinked their glasses and each took a sip.

“So… what’s the rush?”

Cha-in asked Hiro quite seriously.

Her tongue was still twisted, though.

“The live streams are going well, and YouTube is going well too, right? There’s no need to rush, right?”

Hiro, hearing Cha-in’s words, closed her eyes tightly.

And after taking another sip of alcohol, she said calmly.

“My income has decreased.”

“Huh?”

“It’s as it sounds.”

“How can that be when the number of viewers has increased more than tenfold?”

Cha-in’s twisted tongue returned to normal, as if the alcohol had worn off at Hiro’s words.

Hearing Cha-in’s question, which she threw out with her now normal tongue, Hiro simply returned an answer as if it were obvious.

“It doesn’t matter whether 100 people watch or 1,000 people watch, it has nothing to do with income, since I don’t receive advertisements.”

It was the stark reality of the internet broadcasting scene.

No matter how small the broadcast scale, even if there are only twenty viewers, you can earn 2 million won if all twenty of them give 100,000 won each.

On the other hand, there are cases where even large broadcasts with over 1,000 viewers fail to earn 100,000 won a month and end up quitting broadcasting.

The income of a streamer who does live broadcasts is determined not by the number of viewers, but by the number of sponsors.

“In the end, the people who used to sponsor have either left because they couldn’t adapt to the changed broadcast, or they can’t sponsor because they’re feeling pressured.”

“So, has the broadcast gotten bigger and actually become a loss?”

“That’s not it. Broadcasts that only survive on the sponsorship of a few big hands can collapse in an instant.”

In the end, Hiro explained that it is ideal for no one person to have a large influence on your broadcast if you want to do your own broadcasting.

Cha-in, who was thinking about something after hearing Hiro’s words, tilted her head as if she had a question.

“You earned a lot by wearing a Santa outfit and shaking your booty at Christmas, and you earned a lot today too. But you’re saying your income has decreased?”

“Ah, that’s calculated without that.”

“You can’t calculate without that, you crazy b*tch, I was so surprised and thought it was a huge problem for no reason.”

Hiro, hearing Cha-in’s words, stared at Cha-in intently before throwing out a word.

“Hey.”

“Huh?”

“Then, are you going to come and dance next month too?”

Hearing those words, Cha-in could finally understand why Hiro had talked about today’s income without including it.

“…That’s right, I have to exclude it.”

“Right? In the first place, even if we do it every month, the effect will gradually wear off, so we shouldn’t do it.”

“So, that’s why you’re so obsessed with YouTube?”

“It’s relatively stable, and advertisements will only come in contact if YouTube gets bigger.”

Hiro sighed and supported her half-reclined body with both arms.

“To do that, I have to avoid controversies or anything like that as much as possible. It’s okay once in a while, but if I’m always doing sexually suggestive dances, I’ll get strange adult product ads.”

“Well… you’re having a hard time.”

“Whether you’re an office worker or a broadcaster, it’s all the same when it comes to making money.”

Hiro and Cha-in clinked their beer cans together in silence, leaving the two people who had already passed out from being drunk.

“What a complete mess.”

My head hurt as I was cleaning up the aftermath of the mess that the four of us, including me, had made the night before.

Or was it? Maybe it was just a hangover.

I held my head, which felt like it was about to break, and cleaned up the drunken mess that had been made last night.

Ah, what are the other three doing, you ask?

Let’s see….

“…Ttdeuk” (onomatopoeia for grinding teeth)

One of them is sleeping and grinding her teeth, and

“….”

I can’t tell whether one of them is sleeping face down or lying down properly.

“…….”

And one of them is sleeping curled up like a puppy.

In short, it meant that everyone except me had passed out and was sleeping.

I definitely only bought six cans of beer, but these guys said they were going to finish it all and bought more, making this mess and then sleeping.

I’m supposed to be the boss, but I was thinking, why am I taking care of my employees….

Well, what can I do? The one who is thirsty digs the well.

I rationalized myself that way, but as I was cleaning up the beer cans piled up in the room, I kept having an existential crisis.

Huh?

Wait, an existential crisis?

“Ah.”

Come to think of it, there was something I had thought about trying yesterday.

Just in case, I looked around the room where the three were sleeping, but it didn’t seem like anyone was about to wake up….

I quietly closed the door and entered the soundproof booth for broadcasting.

And I sat down on the chair and quietly took out my phone.

“What idols are there these days…?”

I didn’t really care about idols when I was young, so there was no way I would have any interest in them now that I was old enough to eat my age, so I didn’t know anything.

I think I’ve heard of some of them, but I don’t know any group names exactly….

Oh well, I guess I can just search for “male idol.”

“Male… idol… um?”

My search term changed when I noticed “male idol abs” in the related search terms.

And a variety of male idols unfolded before my eyes.

Topless.

F*cking hell.

“Ugh…s*ck….”

It felt like the alcohol I drank yesterday was coming back up.

Even though my body has become a woman, the physiological discomfort that occurs when a man looks at a man’s body is still there.

Well, it’s only been about three months since I became a woman, so it would be strange if my body and mind were already becoming a woman.

….

Wait a minute.

Then what about female idols?

Suddenly, I had that thought, so I searched for videos of female idols on my phone.

【~♪♬】

“….”

Um….

What should I say.

They’re pretty.

Yeah.

….

No, f*ck, I’m just recognizing that they’re pretty as information, but I don’t feel any excitement or anything like that at all?

A state of panic that was incomparable to when I saw the topless photos of male guys came over me.

Am I.

Am I, becoming impotent?

“No, what is this, me… f*ck!”

I feel uncomfortable when I see men.

I don’t feel anything when I see women.

What does this mean?

Suddenly, I remember a TS genre manga I saw a long time ago.

The protagonist, who has become a woman, shows a strong rejection in order to deny the fact that she was excited about a man, but in the end….

“Should I bite my tongue and die before that happens?”

Hoo.

Well, what can I do.

I have to live the way I am.

It was a stroke of luck that there were absolutely no men around me to be excited about.

The phone-holding, which I started while cleaning the room, continued.

“What day is it today… It’s Sunday, what webtoons have I been putting off?”

I also read webtoons

“Huh? What is this? It’s so cool.”

I also watched YouTube videos

“These guys are starting again.”

I also patrolled the communities related to internet broadcasting.

While I was engrossed in surfing the internet, the title of a certain post caught my eye.

[Lololol KingVernote entered ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

Nevernote….

It was a site mainly used to make things public when there was something to be publicized on the blue bird site.

But the fact that Nevernote was mentioned meant that someone had been publicized again.

Even if the person who was publicized was someone I didn’t know at all, there would definitely be people who would mention such an incident since the broadcast had grown, so it was impossible for it not to have an impact.

At least I should grasp it to avoid making the wrong response, right?

I opened the post to check what the problem was.

[I am publicizing Switch Streamer Hiro_0]

What the f*ck.