Streamer Crazy About Slaughter - Chapter 79
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The second round of voting proceeded again.
This time, instead of showing all the videos, it was limited to approximately one minute each.
Perhaps feeling that it was taking too long to show everything or not wanting to drag it out any longer, Lin seemed to conduct the broadcast quickly.
And thus, the voting continued once again.
[!Vote 10]
[!Vote 9]
[!Vote 10]
[!Vote 7]
[!Vote 4]
[!Vote 9]
The video lasted about 10 minutes, and after a 5-minute voting period, the announcement of the results was approaching again.
Ha-yoon simply stared blankly at the entire situation.
“—I’ll send a pizza gifticon to the remaining editors who weren’t selected this time. So please don’t be too disheartened.”
Ha-yoon listened attentively to Lin’s voice, which sounded gentle and comforting.
With a pounding heart, she gazed only at the voting screen filled with question marks.
She wanted to watch the screen calmly with her mind, but it was difficult to think that way with her heart.
Just a moment ago, she had ranked second in the voting results.
And now the second round began, excluding the first-place winner.
“Don’t get your hopes up.”
So she murmured to herself, trying to calm her excited heart.
She was afraid of getting her hopes up and then being disappointed.
Yet, as the feelings of anticipation continued to take over her, Ha-yoon kept shaking her head.
Swaying.
As she continued to shake her head, Ha-yoon eventually realized how impossible it was to not have expectations.
Ah. This won’t do.
How can I not expect anything?
Checking the voting chat again, she felt like the number 10 was appearing quite frequently.
With number 1 excluded from the voting list, naturally, her number became 10, making it stand out even more.
Tap tap.
[!Vote 10]
And cautiously, Ha-yoon typed in the chat, voting for herself.
While it felt embarrassing and hesitant to vote for herself, she had no choice but to do it.
She wanted to cheer for herself.
She hoped that it would be herself who was chosen, not anyone else.
The moment she confirmed that the first vote had been decided by a margin of 20 votes, even 1 vote felt precious.
So Ha-yoon voted for herself.
“…”
After a few minutes, the voting closed.
“—Then closing! Thank you to everyone who voted. In fact, this was a sudden content, and I felt that picking the NewTube channel editor without much time was quite disappointing, so leaving one person out was a big regret.”
[LOL]
[How much will Lin pay the editors? LOL]
[They probably won’t go into detail about money on the broadcast. LOL]
[You shouldn’t talk about money outright, LOL.]
[Seriously, Lin telling people not to donate, but isn’t she actually rich?]
[For real.]
Ha-yoon, hearing Lin’s gentle voice, carefully clasped her hands together and closed her eyes.
Usually not believing in a higher power, it was her first time praying.
To be chosen.
To be the one who receives the most votes from the viewers.
She wished for it so dearly.
“—Then I will immediately reveal the voting results.”
Lin’s voice was heard.
Thus, the voting results screen was unveiled.
“…”
Slowly opening her eyes, Ha-yoon tried to check the results.
Her hands trembling slightly.
Her unfocused eyes.
Endlessly.
She simply stared blankly at the screen where the results appeared.
Afraid that if she closed her eyes, the results would vanish like a dream.
She just stared blankly.
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1st: 521 votes.
2nd: 571 votes.
3rd: 543 votes.
……
9th: 777 votes.
10th: 779 votes.
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It was a reality hard to believe.
The result she hoped for and wished for had actually appeared for the first time.
After continuously failing as a new YouTuber and streamer, she had gradually lowered her expectations of herself.
But amidst all the other applicants, she had been chosen.
As Ha-yoon gazed at the screen, she blinked in disbelief.
“Ah…”
Yet the voting results in her sight remained unchanged.
It was not a dream.
The highest votes.
‘Reality.’
Yes, it was reality.
Along with receiving an answer from someone for the first time, she realized that she had been chosen. And it was just a 2-vote difference that made her laugh blankly.
Even excluding the one vote she had cast for herself.
Ultimately, she was destined to be chosen.
And she was overjoyed.
So very… happy and joyful.
While she continued to smile, Ha-yoon unconsciously covered her face with her hands.
“Thank you. Really… really… thank you so much.”
Her deeply suppressed voice resonated in the space for several minutes.
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“—Then I will immediately reveal the voting results.”
The results of the second vote were even more tightly contested.
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1st: 521 votes.
2nd: 571 votes.
3rd: 543 votes.
……
9th: 777 votes.
10th: 779 votes.
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“The person who received the most votes in the second round of voting is… person number 10.”
As she spoke those words, Serin felt a strange mix of emotions.
‘Does this make sense?’
The fact that first place was decided by only a 20-vote margin with 6,000 votes was already astonishing enough.
But the results of the second round voting were even more shocking.
The vote difference between video 9 and video 10, which determined first place, was only 2 votes.
Just 2 votes.
That determined the first place, making it feel almost like a joke of fate.
[Wow LOL]
[Crazy LOL]
[Is the 2-vote difference for real?]
[I really thought video 9 was good while watching just one minute of it LOL]
[For real, if I were number 9, I probably wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight.]
[10 definitely deserved to win, though.]
[What’s with the vote difference? LOL]
Since the viewers were only shown a short clip of about one minute rather than the full video, the focal points of the videos changed naturally.
Video 9 seemed appealing in the first 2-3 minutes, so unlike the previous evenly distributed votes, this time it was a concentrated vote format leaning towards specific videos.
Notably, 9 and 10.
Both had showcased highlight scenes in the early intro and the first few minutes.
It made sense that the rise in votes for number 9 and the strong performance of 10, with its added voice recording in the intro, were expected results.
In fact, moments before the voting closed, Serin had even input a small, personal vote in the chat.
[!Vote 10]
Personally, she thought the video itself was attractive—she felt that way. Since the first editor chosen had a clean and polished editing style, she hoped to pick a more unique person afterwards.
Yet she had typed her vote just before the closing, wanting to make sure it wouldn’t influence the audience’s voting.
But Serin couldn’t help but be surprised that her vote was one of the two votes that determined first place.
‘…Still.’
She felt relieved that her presence hadn’t changed the result itself.
If she had been deciding just based on her thoughts, the viewer’s votes might not have been considered at all. Even though she intended for the results to align, the coincidence of her vote matching the viewers’ felt like a shared sentiment with them.
[Didn’t Lin type a chat at the end? I saw her vote for 10.]
[I saw it too LOL]
[So one of the two-vote differences is Lin’s vote?]
[LOL then it’s actually a 1-vote difference, that’s crazy.]
[Why is this so entertaining? LOL]
[For real, it’s a 1-vote difference??]
Looking at the chat, there were messages about the 1-vote difference.
‘That’s a relief…’
It made her grateful to think that there could have easily been a result where videos 9 and 10 received the same votes.
If 9 and 10 had received the same votes, it could have led to the result that she had dropped video 9 herself. She would have felt truly sorry for that person.
As she took a moment to sort her thoughts, she opened the files neatly organized beside video 1 and video 10. These were individual files, excluding the video portfolio.
—Video 1: Park So-yul.
—Video 10: Kim Ha-yoon.
At the very least, she wanted to mention their names in terms of being chosen.
“To summarize the results, the person who received the most votes in the first round, Ms. So-yul from video 1, and the person who recorded the most votes in the second round, Ms. Ha-yoon. These two have been selected as editors to work with Lin Tube.”
As Serin finished speaking, she announced the end of the editor selection segment.
“After today’s broadcast ends, I will email both of you with the details. And to all the others who weren’t chosen, thank you as well. Ah, as mentioned earlier, for the 9 who didn’t get selected among the 11, I’ll be sending pizza gifticons as well, and I’ll select some relatively expensive pizzas to send after the broadcast.”
Considering that video production takes a long time, it felt right to give something to the other 9 even if just a little.
[Pizza!?]
[Give me some!!!]
[Expensive pizza gifticon?]
[OMG, give it to me.]
[What’s with Lin taking care of those who didn’t get picked? LOL]
[For real, what’s going on?]
[Why does it seem nice that she’s being considerate? LOL]
[I’ve never seen a streamer promise pizza gifticons instead of chicken.]
[Usually, they give chicken, but why is it funny that they say it’s expensive pizza? LOL]
[Each of the videos showed a lot of dedication, so it was a pity.]
Looking at the chat, it seemed like the finances were more generous than she had initially thought.
Though she hadn’t been particularly aware of money matters, not feeling a burden with spending, she had a bit of leeway when it came to giving something to someone else.
Feeling that it was regrettable to choose just one editor ultimately led her to be able to pick an additional one. She had no hesitation in showing goodwill to others who regrettably didn’t make it either.
As Serin considered all of this…
—Ding ding ding!!!
“Yoon Eunha has donated 1,000,000 won!”
“Although it’s a small amount, I hope you can use it to take care of others.”
Along with the massive notification sound, a large donation came in.
“Yoon Eunha has donated one million won… thank you very much. Then, to ensure that no one else feels left out, I’ll be sending the pizzas as a combo with the gifticons.”
Unlike yesterday when she was flustered and struggled to respond to the first 1 million won donation, she was able to respond relatively calmly now, though still a bit surprised.
When she had met Yoon Eunha in Another World, she didn’t feel that there was any grand intention behind it.
At least she didn’t have the feeling that the person was thinking of doing something to her; rather, she even felt like there was a kind of goodwill towards her.
So unlike yesterday, she wasn’t feeling burdened, plus her eyes caught the phrase “small amount” in the donation message.
In this world, there are people who spend hundreds of millions, if not tens of billions, on things like watches, so she thought that if someone truly had that kind of wealth, donating one million won could just be a trivial matter.
Another World nickname, Joan of Arc.
‘The rich saint.’
So she thought she might as well leave a short thank-you message in Another World soon.
Since she donated a million won each time, she felt she could afford to give a special treatment.
[Donating 1 million won and calling it a small amount. LOL]
[What kind of crazy chairman is this?]
[Isn’t that the same person who donated 2 million won yesterday??]
[For real, that’s insane.]
[Calling it a small amount is really LOL.]
[LOL WOW, does Lin already have a chairman?]
[What kind of combination comes with the pizza set?]
[Going by her nickname, she seems to be a female viewer.]
[She’s probably rich LOL.]
[Give me some pizza too!!]