[Streaming begins.]
The community was excessively noisy.
He had thought this might happen after seeing the vote tally results.
So Seojun wasn’t flustered.
‘Well, haven’t I gone through a controversy or two?’
He’s a streamer who’s been talked about since his very first broadcast.
And whenever he moved to a different game, he unintentionally dragged at least one controversy with him, so in a way, he’s a veteran of controversies.
For other streamers, they’d be lucky to get mentioned even once on the community, buried under obscurity, and it’s actually better if no negative issues come up, but Seojun is different.
He’s confident he can handle it.
So he turned on his stream.
“Hello, everyone. Long time no see. About 3 hours?”
He titled the stream like this.
[Requesting a targeted nerf patch.]
Ultimately, what the current public opinion wants is the kind of targeted nerf patch game companies are known for, right?
If you break it down, this is a type of situation Seojun hasn’t experienced yet.
In the history books, they say the AI adjusted things, but even then, it was only minimal adjustments.
They just narrowed the range of rewards but didn’t remove the rewards that had to be given.
Also, the kill penalty was something that had to exist anyway; the restrictions just came in a bit stricter.
Of course, viewers gave this assessment.
- Normally you either get fewer rewards or slightly more restrictions, but the streamer who got both to the extreme is once again...
- More than that, the streamer who deliberately killed people and lost all his health despite restrictions lol
What’s certain is that things aren’t much different from back then.
Seojun’s attitude, that is.
A targeted nerf patch?
He doesn’t care.
In fact, Seojun has always welcomed such penalties.
- tHa
- As expected, since things got noisy, he came right away
- The title lol
- 3 hours is indeed a long time! So we humbly request an indefinite broadcast
“Mod, please give a 5-minute timeout to the rich guy requesting an indefinite broadcast.”
The mod perfectly understood Seojun’s instruction, found that problematic chat, and handed out a penalty.
Seojun read the chat window with satisfaction, waiting leisurely.
It wasn’t that he was waiting for viewers to gather; he couldn’t jump straight to the point, so he was waiting for a suitable chat to appear that he could latch onto.
And with so many people, the chat Seojun wanted came up quickly.
Even if it hadn’t, he would have pretended it did and brought it up, but that wouldn’t happen, and more importantly, that’s not the point.
“Ah, is T-Star too easy? You shouldn’t say that.”
When Seojun silently read chats for a moment and then answered a chat with potential for controversy, the sharp-eyed viewers realized something.
- Isn’t he doing this on purpose?
- Lolololololol was this a boastful broadcast, streamer!
- Info) The viewer who humbly requested an indefinite broadcast got timed out, and the viewer who mentioned the controversy got no penalty.
“No, how can T-Star be too easy? It’s only day 1.”
Whether they realized or not, Seojun kept smiling and reading the excitedly chatty messages.
“Streamer who thinks T-Star’s numbers would have halved and flopped without him, upvote? Not pressing.”
Only the most extreme chats.
“If you can’t understand why the controversy arose, shake a carrot.”
Of course, he only read them.
He didn’t agree.
But streaming, though not as much as TV broadcasts, is certainly a one-sided form of communication.
It means the streamer can lead the communication and conversation topics to some extent in the way they want.
Depending on how they cherry-pick which chats to respond to.
- You crazy bastard lol
- lololololol why is the streamer like this lol
- Looks like he’s deliberately fanning the flames lol
- It’s gonna sting lol
- I’m just proud! Let’s break through head-on like this lol
“Ah, of course, I’m not saying those who voted today were wrong. I don’t know what you’re talking about with ‘conspiracy report’, but they did work hard.”
Chats saying ‘I acknowledge it’ came up mainly.
It makes sense.
Before the broadcast started, he had fiddled with settings so that those who haven’t watched his stream can’t chat.
Of course, just because someone followed, just because they’ve watched since the beginning, doesn’t mean they’re a fan, so some dissatisfied chats appeared, but they were a minority.
Now to the main point.
“However, it seems there are still people who are dissatisfied. I understand.”
[‘Summary Villain’ donated 200,000 won!]
[T-Star was too easy, would’ve halved without me, don’t know why controversy arose, but generous me understands]
“Ahem.”
Seojun pulled down the corners of his mouth as much as possible.
Gravity’s law keeps trying to be defied.
- Streamer suppressing laughter lol
- The laugh suppression is too obvious lol
- Nice summary lol
- He’s generous lol, not even a timeout
- As long as you don’t break labor laws, no timeout
Seojun shrugged his shoulders.
“I meant I understand because what I did didn’t happen inside the booth. Unfortunately, it’s something that can’t be done inside the booth.”
Chats flooded with ‘conspiracy report.’
Seojun’s fans, who had been on the back foot in public opinion until just now, started chattering excitedly.
They clearly recognized that Seojun had come to solve the problem.
Seojun smiled inwardly with satisfaction.
Isn’t it like when your pathetic younger brother, who constantly teases and torments you at home, goes to the playground and comes back after getting beaten up by someone? Then you don’t feel too bad.
It was a similar feeling.
“Although it’s hard for anyone except me to do this.”
He will solve it.
“Although compared to last year, over 60,000 people attended on the first day. Isn’t that right?”
- Keu
- His influence is insane
- Be grateful that someone like him even came, how dare they try to take away 1st place lol
- But isn’t he really in a position where they should be grateful he came?
- If he inflated the participant count by more than double, that’s true lol
- Did you see that, guys?
It seemed his intention was perfectly conveyed.
He’d boosted the spirits of his viewers enough, so that’s enough.
“Since many people want a targeted patch, I’ll accept it. Yes, you can go ahead and do it.”
Having achieved the primary objective, it doesn’t matter how things turn out.
- Woah
- The epitome of magnanimity
- Calling him magnanimous after he’s trashed everyone lol
- Anyway, he’s magnanimous indeed lol
- This is our streamer. A bit, no, quite petty, but he’s the one who says do everything.
Of course, if he was going to end things so blandly here, he wouldn’t have turned on the broadcast.
Just conveying his opinion would be the end.
Then tomorrow, he could say he hoped for it.
But the reason he turned on the broadcast was to steer the situation the way Seojun wanted.
“But if it’s troublesome for you, then.”
- ???
- What’s troublesome
- I guess it would be troublesome figuring out how and how much to adjust and nerf. Since they don’t know the right extent.
That’s true.
So he’ll propose it first.
Now, when everyone’s attention is focused.
“I’ll just throw away 50,000 votes every day.”
The hook rises.
Seojun’s statement was this.
“Yes, that’s right. If we do that, I’m currently at minus 3,000 votes. But, you know what? Even then, I’ll win.”
Chats with the same content start flooding in.
- Ah lol, that’s our streamer!
* * *
Seojun proposed deducting 50,000 votes every day.
The organizing committee, who were watching this in real time, erupted in flustered reactions.
“No, is he seriously claiming minus 3,000 votes?”
“So that’s why he turned on the broadcast.”
“What do you mean?”
“He’s saying, let’s not pointlessly change the existing system and make things troublesome. Instead, I’ll just overwhelm by sheer scale. That’s what he seems to be saying now.”
“He turned on the broadcast to have negative votes?”
“Yes. And he can still win.”
“Why?”
“Because he’s confident he can win. Didn’t you hear his last words?”
All those representing the streamer knew Seojun well.
So they also knew well that Seojun’s proposal was sincere.
“…….”
“Let’s go with that.”
“No, well….”
There’s nothing bad about it.
Since the streamer said it himself, the responsibility is automatically on his side.
But.
“No, am I the only one who just can’t understand? What if it’s just because it’s the first day that so many gathered? Even if fans come at a similar level to the first day continuously, he’ll only accumulate negatives. If fewer people come than the first day, there’s no need to even see.”
* * *
“You think many gathered because it’s the first day?”
Seojun chuckled and opened his Travel account statistics window.
Currently, the number of followers on Seojun’s Travel ID is 27.8 million.
Seojun fiddled with the settings so he could see the follower numbers by country, and thus, 3.1 million Korean followers appeared on the screen.
- Woah lol
- It’s really a lot lol
- So it’s not that many gathered because it’s the first day lol. 40,000 is a bit less than 1.5% of his followers.
“You’ll see if you wait. I don’t mind if they do it differently. Are you saying it’ll be harsher than deducting 50,000 votes daily?”
Amidst a spectacle of countless ‘ㅇㅋㅋ’ (lol) messages, Seojun ended the broadcast.
With the unannounced stream end, the previously cheerful chat window turned hostile, but if he doesn’t look, it’s fine.
If he doesn’t look, his viewers can’t do anything.
You could say, what can you do?
“Hey! Minus 50,000 votes, are you insane?”
The guy he lives with can do something.
But that something is just being annoying.
“It’s fine.”
“What’s fine! Even today, the number of people who came was record-breaking! Do you think you can get votes like today again? Honestly, your event is still a hot topic. That’s why you got over 40,000 votes.”
As Taewoo said, even so, a result of minus 3,000 votes was printed.
If the organizing committee accepts it, that is.
“You’re in a class of your own at last place.”
“That does sting a bit.”
Seojun smiled calmly.
In reality, hearing something like that from Taewoo pricked his pride, even if only for a moment.
“Just watch tomorrow, I’m telling you. It’s not like you absolutely have to be first, but arbitrarily throwing dirt onto an already-cooked rice is too wasteful.”
“Then you’d better pray the organizing committee doesn’t accept it, huh?”
“Yeah. You last-place guy.”
“Heh-heh.”
Seojun got up from his seat, and Taewoo, using his outstanding murderous intent detection skill, immediately went into his room and locked the door.
For reference, Taewoo’s room now had a steel door and an electronic lock like a front door, which Taewoo installed to prevent any possible incidents.
“You think I can’t get in just because of that?”
“Don’t come, you demon!”
“Now you’re not calling me last place?”
“Don’t come!”
“Fine, Taewoo. If you let it slip out of your mouth one more time…… You know, right?”
Facing the steel door, Seojun grinned.
He was sure Taewoo was watching him through the door viewer.
Sure enough, the sound of gulping came from beyond the door.
“You murderous bastard…….”
Seojun smiled, prepared for the next day, and went to sleep.
And the next morning dawned.
As it was a festival, following the streamer’s intention, the organizing committee announced that they were accepting Seojun’s proposal.
Many reacted that no matter how many followers one has, there’s a limit to how many people move around offline, and there were sneers asking if he’d continue roaming around everywhere today too.
However.
Team Leader Seon, the chief manager of the festival booths, smiled leisurely amid this situation.
The resale ticket prices doubled.