Since I Became a Woman, I’ll Do Cosplay - Chapter 76
As someone with modeling experience, Hayoon taught Hong Seo-hyun how to pose, and Hong Seo-hyun seemed to follow along well.
She had taken a lot of selfies before, so maybe that’s why she knew how to make a variety of expressions.
“Not bad.”
“Hmm, if it’s not bad, what does that mean…?”
“The expressions themselves are good. I can tell that the facial tracking is capturing what you intended.”
When Hong Seo-hyun smiled, Scarlet smiled.
When Hong Seo-hyun frowned, Scarlet frowned.
When Hong Seo-hyun looked sad, Scarlet looked sad.
The facial tracking itself was fine.
It was to the point where she could tell that Choi Arin had done a great job, even though she was a beginner at rigging.
“The question is whether you can maintain this while streaming.”
“Uh, um….”
Hong Seo-hyun made a sour face, as if she understood what Hayoon meant, and Hayoon nodded in agreement.
A virtual avatar doesn’t show one’s real face, but the emotions are clearly conveyed through the avatar.
What if there was some trolling in the chat, and Hong Seo-hyun responded verbally but her virtual avatar showed a deep frown?
“People will talk behind your back, saying you’re two-faced. It’s obvious.”
“I guess so…”
Once she had a large enough audience, she could be openly spiteful, but if she acted that way in the beginning, new viewers would think, ‘Why is she so difficult?’ and never come back.
So, until she had a decent following and a solid fanbase, it was important to be gentle and build up her image.
But if she was gentle with her words but had a scowl on her face from the start, the viewers would all run away.
“First, let’s watch these recordings of messed up chat rooms I brought, and you can practice responding in your own way.”
“M-messed up…?”
“Well…. There’s no other way to describe a messed-up chat room….”
Hayoon placed her tablet on the stand and played a recording of a game that had taken place a few days ago.
The game was League of Legends.
She had scraped a video from a YouTube channel, a cesspool of toxic comments, known for its malicious chat.
The recorded chat started scrolling up on the right side of the screen at a crazy pace.
-Wow.. The support died again. What the f$%^!!
-The ADC probably wants to kill that guy. What can he do when the support is like that?
-They said the 2nd team support was good, why don’t they bring him up?
-Seriously, the parents who made that guy a pro…….
Of course, this was a relatively tame part.
Usually, there were tons of cases where people spammed random numbers for no reason.
She had brought the most intense chats that Hong Seo-hyun could possibly understand.
“You know what League of Legends is, right, senior?”
“Well, I know of it? I think I’m level 3?”
“Level 3, you wouldn’t even have Flash yet, um….”
If she played ranked, she’d be lucky to be in Bronze.
Her teammates would be awful, and there would be a lot of intentional trolling.
“You have to assume that the chat can get that bad when you play League of Legends on stream.”
“Uh, uh…?”
“It’s a popular game, so there are a lot of nasty people. If you just do song requests all day, you’ll ruin your voice, so you need a game to play while killing time….”
And that game is League of Legends.
The viewers know it, and if she gets better, she can participate in streamer competitions.
It’s a good game to play on stream occasionally.
“The only problem is, since it’s so popular, everyone and their dog knows it, and the people chatting are also just everyone and their dog.”
So.
“Now, let’s look at these chats and practice managing your expressions while doing some simulations.”
“Uh, um…. Okay.”
Hong Seo-hyun nodded, cleared her throat, and began the streaming simulation in earnest.
“Isn’t it possible for a support to die? It’s not like that person did it on purpose.”
It wasn’t a bad start.
She maintained a neutral expression, and her tone was sympathetic.
But.
“Why are they cursing at his parents… I mean.. You can die sometimes…”
Perhaps the spicy chat, typical of YouTube live streams, was too much for her.
As soon as she saw profanity beyond what a normal high school girl could handle, she rapidly lost her composure.
Her facial expression became a deep frown.
At this point, one thing was certain.
“Should I just make Do Jin-ho the chat manager….”
“Uh, huh?”
It was clear that Hong Seo-hyun had little to no immunity to profanity.
There are people who can curse but freeze up when someone curses at them.
Since she had no streaming experience, it would be good to have someone to strictly moderate the chat, especially in the beginning.
“It wouldn’t hurt to give someone you trust a mod and have them manage the chat. Vtubers with RPs need to carefully manage their chat in the beginning, anyway..”
Assuming there weren’t many bugs.
Do Jin-ho seemed like a good candidate for a chat moderator.
He had long since distanced himself from his studies, was gaining experience in his major through practical work, and had a lot of free time.
“It might be worth asking him if he’s interested in being an unpaid mod.”
“An unpaid mod…”
Hong Seo-hyun unconsciously empathized with Hayoon’s concise summary of a chat moderator’s role.
After a short break, the facial tracking test continued.
“Let’s practice with a version of the chat without any cursing this time.”
click
Hayoon showed a chat filled with comments like, “So cute~” and “What a voice….”
It was an ordinary Just Chatting stream, and the streamer in the video would later become a Vtuber, but…
“Ah, yes, thank you. In that case, should I sing a song?”
Hong Seo-hyun, who was following along with the streamer’s chat.
“The song I’m going to sing this time is called ‘Let’s Go, Ghost Ship’. Almost no one has covered this song in Korean. But since I’m a Korean language expert, I’ll adapt the lyrics and give it a try.”
She was quite adept at streaming.
She seemed to have prepared a few templates to transition into a song request.
She seemed immune to comments like, “So cute~” and “What a voice….”
This meant…
“It would be best to go with the so-called girly stream.”
“Girly…?”
“You know foundation? People call it ‘applying foundation’.”
“Right?”
“It means a stream that smells like a made-up woman.”
“Uh-huh…?”
“It’s what people call a feminine stream. You don’t seem fazed by comments like ‘cute’ or ‘what a voice’, so you should be fine with this.”
“Oh, um….”
Hong Seo-hyun tilted her head, as if to say, “Is that so?”
Then she nodded.
“I guess I don’t really feel stressed by those? They’re both compliments.”
“That kind of personality is good. You have to be obsessed to make money, and it’s important not to get stressed by those obsessed viewers. Some people get panic attacks or depression if they don’t have the right temperament.”
“I don’t have that kind of personality.”
Whatever it was, being positive was a good thing.
There are plenty of people who can’t take a compliment at face value and twist it in their minds.
Being able to accept a compliment as a compliment is beneficial for mental health.
“Still, if it gets too much, tell Do Jin-ho to cut off the really bad grooming comments. Tell me right away if you get stressed.”
“Uh… Is Do Jin-ho just confirmed as the chat manager?”
“Wouldn’t he just say, ‘Vtuber chat manager? Oh, sure!’ if you asked him?”
“Hmm, I guess….”
This was a guy who used an overtly otaku illustration of a female character as his laptop background, even in the club room with three other girls.
It was unlikely that he would refuse the position of a Vtuber’s chat manager, a position many people wanted but couldn’t have.
“Alright, then, shall we check your streaming skills a bit more, senior?”
“Uh, uh…?”
Hayoon grinned and brought up the third chat and stream screen.
This time, it was an ordinary Just Chatting situation.
No profanity, no excessive fawning, just a clean chat.
In other words, this kind of stream was where the streamer’s abilities were truly tested.
“Alright, alright, let’s focus on the stream. Scarlet? I’m recording your facial expressions, so if you make any weird faces, there will be deductions.”
“Ugh, uh….”
Hayoon’s hand naturally started to feel up Hong Seo-hyun’s shoulder.
Actually, it was more like a massage than feeling up…
‘Ugh, it’s ticklish…?’
The unique lack of strength of a woman’s hand.
The strange effect of the God’s Hand trait was activated.
Scarlet’s virtual avatar gradually started to blush.