The circumstances behind Hanami’s WeTube views exploding were as follows.
After the uproar caused by a certain old-timer, the Odinson Minor Gallery entered a lull.
The fight over whether Classic or Modern was useless had more or less come to an end.
The conclusion was somewhat absurd.
Since it had basically turned into, “Turns out all of you are useless,” one could call it an unpleasant ending.
However, the mood in the gallery was not bad.
When something is so absurd it exceeds your capacity to process it, you end up feeling nothing at all.
Classic and Modern users alike began posting Zanshin proof posts and chattering away.
For a brief moment, the atmosphere even became clean.
[Title: Where is Sigurd in Hela?]
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I need to practice Zanshin and post proof, but Sensei’s nowhere to be seen.
Sigurd-sensei is still the one who lets you practice in the new game too, right?
ㄴㅇㅇ : You write “practice” and read it as “damage meter.”
ㄴㄴㅇㅇ : Si-sensei ㅠㅠ
ㄴㅇㅇ : From Ashen Shallows, go straight northeast. Of the 3 big lakes, it’s the one on the left.
ㄴㄴㅇㅇ : He was closer than I thought. thx.
ㄴㅇㅇ : In Hela, Sigurd-sensei even tells you the Zanshin timing.
ㄴㅇㅇ : God game ㄷㄷ They really prepared a lot to hook newbies.
The newly added elements in the new game, which had been overshadowed by the heated arguments over the Modern system, were brought into the spotlight one by one.
The head mod, whose voice had been weak compared to Back in the old days—though there was no helping it when compared to Back’s FT10 reign of terror—also let out a sigh of relief.
[Title: Analyzed the Gallery Lord’s video all day]
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No-hit: Jotun Axe, Thunder Breath, One-Eyed Claw…
Landed hits: Hellfire Hammer, Thunder Step, Mirage Staff…
The weapons he humiliated while sticking to their hitboxes like gum were ones that existed in the previous game too.
On the other hand, most of the weapons that landed effective hits are new faces released in Hela.
Conclusion) Gallery Lord is from Tyr. Bang bang bang.
The only old-game weapon is Thunder Step, from Baldur, but this weapon skipped Tyr and returned this time.
ㄴShield Warrior : Guess he forgot about Thunder Step’s surprise burst damage lol
ㄴMead : But it doesn’t seem like he never played the old games either.
ㄴㄴㅇㅇ : After getting hit once, his body must’ve remembered, because he punished it right away lol
ㄴㅇㅇ : Delete Thunder Step, fuck
ㄴValkyrie20 : If he played Baldur, he must be of a certain age?
ㄴㄴㅇㅇ : My peers. It feels. good. to see you^^
ㄴㄴValkyrie20 : fuck
The old-timers who had fled to avoid the overheated atmosphere also began returning one by one.
[Title: It is weird that nobody saw him in Tyr.]
: fr lol
Gallery Lord… just what kind of accident did you cause before changing tags?
Just from looking at your face, it doesn’t seem like it was an ordinary accident…
ㄴShield Warrior : Don’t think it’s a tag change.
ㄴMead : There’s no way you wouldn’t recognize that kind of play.
ㄴㅇㅇ : Look at the form when he goes no-lock-on. How could you forget that?
ㄴfr lol : Then isn’t he an overseas user? Japan’s pretty good too, aren’t they?
ㄴㄴㅇㅇ : Japan is about the same as us now. Instead, the Middle East is rising.
ㄴㄴㅇㅇ : Feels like Europe > Middle East > Japan = Korea.
They began debating while watching the videos they had recorded in advance.
Naturally, the center of attention was Purple Guy.
There was no particular reason.
They were just bored.
The users, who had grown used to the dopamine rush of beating each other up, found themselves bored once the fighting actually died down.
And so, all the users’ attention gathered on the Gallery Lord.
That attention caught fire once a few people brought in the videos they had taken.
-Best posts are being duplicated!!
This, too, got a good response.
And so clips went to the best posts,
analysis and compilation videos went to the best posts,
and easy-to-read summaries went to the best posts.
Among these, the final summary spread to other communities and duplicated Hanami’s view count for her.
They had even kindly plastered her WeTube thumbnail on it in huge size.
This was the direct cause that made people come find Hanami’s channel.
[Title: I’m really curious about the Gallery Lord’s identity]
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(no-lock-on backstab.jpg)
Newbies treat the previous game like some mountain village backwater, but Tyr was pretty popular in its own right.
If a monster like this had been around, there’s no way rumors wouldn’t have spread.
He’s full-sprinting, then turns with a delay cancel and grabs the enemy’s back with an inertia cancel;;
ㄴㅇㅇ : No matter how many times I watch it, it’s still absurd, fuck lol
ㄴValkyrie20 : My back still tingles from when he stabbed it;;
There is an old saying that if three people gather, they can create a tiger.
The tiger grown in real time by dozens of people began wandering between communities, dragging along a dense mass of rumors.
Seeing him use old-game techniques, he’s at least thirty.
His true identity is an old-timer grandpa who’s been active since the arcade era.
Isn’t that no-lock-on style exactly that one famous Japanese player?
From a certain point on, it was drenched in all kinds of memes, but the bored Odinson kids gladly joined the overkill.
And so, the “Gallery Lord,” burdened with all sorts of baseless rumors, was transformed into crudely made composites.
When that crude quality spread through the communities, it instead drew a cult-like response.
The new game was already drawing attention with things like Overwhelmingly Positive and Metacritic.
That attention caught fire.
It was a level of attention Odinson, which was originally a niche fighting game, had never received before.
And then.
[Title: The Big One Has Arrived]
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Tonight at 8 PM
Gallery Lord appears on stream
Pls show interest
ㄴㅇㅇ : As if.
ㄴㄴㅇㅇ : Go check the announcement ㄱㄱㄱㄱㄱㄱㄱ
ㄴㄴShield Warrior : ? What the hell, why is this real?
ㄴㅇㅇ : Why is this real
When a post appeared saying that the person at the center of the inflated rumors would be appearing, the attention it drew was incomparable to before.
“…?”
And the pressure she felt after belatedly visiting the gallery and learning what was going on was likewise incomparable.
***
Odinson. No, now it was Odindoti.
This series was not a game that had achieved mainstream success, but if you were a variety game streamer, it was a famous game you couldn’t not know.
That was even more true for a streamer like Hanami, who did a lot of just chatting.
Because Odinson was a game with unrivaled individuality, both in good ways and bad.
-YOU DIED
-”Wow… did it just wait behind the cliff and push me off?”
-This game’s level lol
-”How am I supposed to deal with that?”
-Don’t deal with it. Feel it.
-If you don’t know, you deserve to get hit lololol
If you ran a fan cafe and even did reaction content, you would inevitably encounter all kinds of memes.
There had even been a time when she cackled while watching a video of a famous overseas streamer throwing his keyboard and mouse.
Wow, I guess I could never play a game like that.
Perhaps that was why.
From the moment she half-forced herself to start Odindoti, she had already been looking for an angle to abandon it.
The fact that she had not been all that dejected while getting beaten up by the boss all day was in the same vein.
She was going to delete it anyway. She just had to suffer for a little while.
…In the end, she had reinstalled it like this, so life was truly impossible to understand.
-Na-ha
-Open the door!!
-LFG
-Owner!! Open the door!!
-Viewer count is insane lolol
-Naspi about to break 10,000!!
-Is it up?!
-Haha (means Hi Hanami)
-Hanami (means Hi Hanami)
-Kya!!
-Nami-nim!! The room’s too small!!
-What is this? What’s going on?
-Gallery Lord, come out!!
Just looking at the chat made her feel like she could not breathe.
The first three minutes, with the opening music flowing calmly.
For now, she held her tongue and assessed the atmosphere.
The chat was going wild.
It had not even been long since she turned on the stream, yet more viewers than usual were pouring in.
The speed at which the chat was scrolling down was no joke.
Even with the dynamic visual acuity trained through years of streaming, it was difficult to keep up.
-xxx donated 1,000 won.
[Is this the site of the festival?]
-xxx donated 1,000 won.
[Owner, come out!!]
-xxx donated 1,000 won.
[Let’s go! Attempt 1!! Let’s go!! Attempt 2!!]
It felt as though every floating viewer on the platform had entered her stream.
‘They’re just having the time of their lives.’
At a glance, they were people who had seen it on communities and flocked over.
The chat was starting to stutter.
‘I’ll have to see how the mood goes and maybe freeze it.’
After first adjusting the donation amount, she went over emergency measures in her head.
Then, with the heart of a condemned prisoner awaiting execution day, she opened her mouth.
“Na-ha!! Hello, Rumis!!”
For all the whining she had done, her voice was lively.
That was right. Hanami was, in the end, a streamer.
It was not that her whining had been empty words.
It was true that at first she had felt helpless.
Had there ever been a VTuber exposed to Korean communities on such a large scale before?
It was only natural that the president had made such a fuss.
There had been a lot of noise about how today’s result would affect the VTuber scene and whatnot.
She could not help worrying about what kind of public opinion today’s stream would bring.
But once the worry passed, excitement slowly began to rise as well.
Who cared about the future of the VTuber scene?
The one who had thrown his savings into this was the president, not her.
“Everyone saw the announcement, right?”
-I believed in you!!
“Yes. That’s how it turned out.”
It was not her first time experiencing this kind of spillover.
In the past, she had trembled in fear that she would be flattened if stepped on by a dinosaur-sized megacorporation, but now she had become a veteran before she knew it.
Nami calmly began communicating and methodically subdued the chatroom that had turned into a mess.
The personnel she had secured in advance (from Ruka and Uri) moved in perfect order.
“I didn’t want to do it either!!”
-? Who held a knife to your throat?
“If I didn’t, you guys were going to hold knives to my throat!!”
The chat was so fast that it was overwhelming, but as she somehow exchanged banter with them, the atmosphere also settled down.
By the time the game screen appeared and they entered the loading screen, she was already skillfully steering the broadcast.
It was a relief.
Even though the viewer count had grown to nearly three times the usual, this much could be called a good defense.
Since things had come to this, she would end the stream cleanly and milk every last drop of editing material from it, down to the marrow.