I May Be a Virtual Youtuber, but I Still Go to Work - Chapter 98
Absolutely Doubt… — — Parallel (VTuber) Gallery — — —…
[Magia’s actually pretty good at singing?]
But seriously, why is she singing trot?
She has so many good songs.
That one, uh?
That… you know!
Sing that one!!!!
[Comments]
– Paralle1994: True
– Parallel329: True
– Parallel281: Wasn’t it cute, like watching a baby in a trot competition?
└ Parallel852: Yeah, but that’s not what I wanted…
└ Parallel362: True, I agree lol
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… — — Parallel (VTuber) Gallery — — —…
[You guys are misunderstanding something lol]
Didn’t you feel anything after seeing your streamer sing “Slow Train”?
I felt a huge sense of incongruity.
Anyone who’s seen Fantasia knows Magia is seriously addicted to VTubers.
But she ignored all the VTubers’ original songs and covers and sang trot.
That must be her favorite kind of music.
And
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Most importantly, she kept doing that annoying thing while singing.
That’s when I knew for sure.
Magia just doesn’t want to sing the songs you want to hear lol
She never wanted our attention in the first place.
She’s a working adult, so don’t treat her like a VTuber, okay?
[Comments]
— Parallel088: Ugh, you bitch
— Parallel741: Can I make a meme out of the GIF?
└ Parallel578 (Author): Go ahead
– Parallel751: Too bad, I thought her working adult roleplay was ending since she’s been streaming often lately.
└ Parallel898: It was never an RP to begin with lol
└ Parallel654: It wasn’t an RP?
└ Parallel654: She’s really a working adult?
└ Parallel009: So many new people, you don’t even know this.
└ 🟦 Parallel02:Ugh, just read the announcements.
└ Parallel581: This is becoming a template lol
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… — — Parallel (VTuber) Gallery — — —…
[I got a huge dose of reality while browsing the gallery]
I only watched Loopko before, but I got curious after seeing the trot video and came here.
Magia isn’t a VTuber???
I thought Parallel was a VTuber lol
[Comments]
– Parallel014: There are so many guys.
like you.
– Parallel225: Were there this many people from the competition?
└ Paralle1901: The finals had 250,000 viewers.
└ Parallel225: Was it that many?
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Magia sang trot without much thought, but there was one thing she didn’t realize.
She played a big role in the competition, becoming the MVP.
It wouldn’t have mattered if she hadn’t done a post-competition stream, but she even participated and sang, so even if it was trot, wasn’t it obvious she was a VTuber?
Of the 250,000 people who watched the competition finals, the Parallel fandom made up less than 30%.
As people who didn’t know much started flowing in, the Parallel fandom, who also watched Parallel’s streams, started to be outnumbered.
As a result, stupid questions and answers continued in the community.
Wasn’t it a working adult RP?
It’s not an RP!
So she’s not a streamer with a working adult concept?
No! She’s a working adult!
This was somewhat amusing, so it became a template for the purpose of harassing the mods and old-timers.
And as that back-and-forth was captured, reproduced, and spread to the community….
[(🔴Live) <GaeMo Competition> Auction Day | Parallel Command Center] 👨👨👦9,422
#KnightOfLegend #Parallel #Dora #Komari
Magia started the Command Center with nearly double the viewers, just one day after singing trot.
Unfortunately, most of the new people were ‘clueless newcomers’ who came after hearing Magia’s trot clip.
As a result, a collective action occurred, as if one person was spamming.
– Sing
– Sing
– Sing
– Sing
– Sing
– Sing
– Sing
In a way, it was proof that the topic of Magia’s singing ability was rolling around the Parallel-related community.
But there was no special response.
Magia was busy doing her own thing, alternating between Parallel members’ channels on the main screen as usual.
“There are a lot of people who haven’t read the chat rules today.”
As a former manager, Magia had even developed the skill of watching the stream with one eye and looking for troublemakers with the other, because she didn’t want to miss a second of the boss’s stream.
With the addition of Gong Seung-yeon’s support in the office, it took less than 10 minutes for the chat to stabilize.
A lot of people got banned, though.
Originally, in internet broadcasting, if you don’t follow the rules, you have no excuse even if the stream owner cuts off your head.
“Today, let’s focus on Dora. It’s auction day.”
It’s ambiguous to ban them, and it’s also ambiguous to leave them alone.
There are still a lot of people who know how to ride the line, like Magia in her troublemaker days.
– Read the chat
– Is anyone here?
– Gurgle
– I want to hear anything!! Sing this and that!!
— Magia is ignoring us πππ
Does this person not usually look at the chat??
As mentioned earlier, does Magia, who came from a troublemaking background, not know what these guys are thinking?
Unlike the guys who spammed to sing, these guys would quietly wait for the next opportunity if they thought it wouldn’t work.
Just maintaining the usual stream stance of communicating with people who talk about the members made them quiet down on their own.
:: Anonymous donor donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: How much will Dora be sold for today? ::
“She’ll be unsold.”
:: Anonymous donor donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: I’ve been watching Extremely Angry Komari all week and her skills haven’t improved…::
“I think Komari needs to rest her voice for a while. She was screaming a lot.”
:: Anonymous donor donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: Lol, it was so funny that Dora was playing games peacefully in that situation ::
“Dora probably thinks Komari’s screaming is like a lullaby now.”
– You get used to it
– If I heard it all week, it would be like a lullaby lol
– Sis! Sis! Sis! Sis! Yabal!
More than anything, she responds to 1,000 Cloud donations when it comes to stories about the members.
Those in the know were already happily communicating with Magia through 1,000 Cloud donations.
Of course, some viewers who hadn’t given up yet were using subtle methods to induce Magia to talk about singing.
:: Anonymous donor donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: When will the next Maru cover song be released? ::
“We can’t answer about cover songs until they’re scheduled to be released on YouTube.”
:: Anonymous donor donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: Speaking of cover songs, what’s your favorite Maru song, Jia? ::
“I like <The Curtain Falls, and the Curtain Rises Again>. The one she sang crying live, rather than the cover she released.”
– What a terrible person lol
– She picked the worst one lol
– But isn’t that true?
– I’m a Dongle, and I totally agree
– The people who are saying something are not Dongles lol
:: Anonymous donor donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: Now that I think about it, will the first generation managers sing trot like you did? That would be fun ::
But you have to use tricks on people who will fall for them.
Magia had used this method on the boss’s stream many times.
Of course, she ignored it coldly.
The funny thing is that Magia would quickly accept any interesting ideas that were thrown out there.
:: Anonymous donor donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: But it’s almost Lunar New Year, aren’t the members doing a Lunar New Year singing contest? ::
“I don’t know about that. I’ll ask the boss.”
She usually waits for content from a fan’s perspective, so she usually asks the boss and doesn’t go all the way to the planning team to check.
She’s still awkward with Ra Seung-hyun, the team leader of the planning team.
Still, she sent a DingTalk to Dohee while she was thinking about it, and a reply came back soon after.
[Boss: Do a singing contest]
[Boss: Last day of Lunar New Year holiday]
[Me: Oh, that’s a substitute holiday]
[Boss: Yeah, Wednesday]
This Lunar New Year is a golden holiday with five days off in a row, including Wednesday, the substitute holiday.
When the holidays are long, people want to relax and naturally look for ‘things to watch’.
It was a schedule aimed at people who were lying down or sitting comfortably and watching internet broadcasts.
The Parallel planning team is working hard.
But on the other hand, I also think that.
It’s the last day of the holiday, and some people will be busy with family events and forget.
If you hold a small event the day before to remind people, it might help the event on the day of.
‘The aggro has already been pulled enough….’
She didn’t fully understand why people wanted her to sing.
But as always, Magia was good at using the attention she was getting.
“Everyone, should we try to promote a karaoke session on the official channel during the Lunar New Year holiday?”
-?
– Huh?
– What
– ??
– Really?
– Seriously?
– Really?
The chat room, which had been heating up, cooled down again with a few donations.
:: Anonymous donor donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: You believe this lol, as if lol::
:: Anonymous donor donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: It’s a karaoke session, but Magia won’t be singing lol ::
– Wow, I almost fell for it
– Always be suspicious
– Ugh, you devilish bitch
– (The chat bot has detected inappropriate language)
– Always be suspicious
Watching the chat room full of complaints made the corners of my mouth twitch.
They say they don’t believe it, but just looking at the number of chats shows that everyone’s body is honest.
I contacted the boss right away.
[Me: Boss]
[Me: Can I do a content on Tuesday evening?]
[Me: The day before the kids’ Lunar New Year singing contest]
The boss’s reply was very fast, unlike before.
[Boss: What?]
[Boss: Is there something you want to do?]
[Me: Yes]
[Me: A viewer participation illegal duet content]
[Boss: …?]
[Boss: Sorry, I don’t really understand what you want to do, can you explain it in detail?]
When a streamer plays a completed cover song or original song video in the background and sings along to it live, it’s called an illegal duet.
It’s called that because they don’t go to the recording studio together to complete a song, but sing together as they please.
What I’m trying to do is this viewer participation illegal duet karaoke.
The purpose is to gather Parallel viewers who are bored on Lunar New Year and create an atmosphere like they’re at karaoke with the members.
But there’s a condition.
That is, to participate ‘anonymously’ while thoroughly concealing their identity.
This is to prevent specific viewers from becoming famous and for me to secretly join in.
You can just sing with a nickname, right?
That’s boring.
[Boss: So you’re not going to rank them separately and give prizes through viewer votes?]
[Me: Yes]
[Boss: I understand]
[Boss: Select about 20 people in advance through recommendations in the fan cafe, and those people participate in the main performance]
[Boss: One viewer vote, you select one person to determine the winners]
[Boss: Give the winners a set of goods, and the members will do an illegal duet with the winners’ videos the next day]
[Boss: Right?]
[Me: That’s right]
[Boss: That’s good, it’s cost-effective for promotion]
The boss’s reaction was very positive.
The final decision was made quickly, as she didn’t think about it for long.
[Boss: I’ll have Team Leader Ra attached to you tomorrow, so create a proposal and upload it, I’ll check it and revise it]
[Me: Okay]
[Me: And it’s okay if I participate, right?]
It took some time for the next message to come.
[Boss: ?????????????]
There were the most question marks I’ve ever received in a message.
[Boss: No]
[Boss: Suddenly you’re going to sing?]
[Me: I sang yesterday too]
[Boss: Oh]
[Boss: Wasn’t that something you prepared separately to look good to Keugemang?]
[Me: No]
[Me: And it’s a content that uses the aggro that’s focused on me, so I can’t be left out]
I said it yesterday.
If you sing the members’ songs in a public place, it could diminish their value.
But that’s when you haven’t practiced enough.
Since there’s the weight of an official event, I wanted to show it only when the practice was completely done, even if it was a cover.
I practiced the rapid-fire rap I showed in “Find Rain” for days to perfectly imitate it.
[Boss: That’s true, but]
[Boss: It’s too unexpected, that’s all]
[Boss: No, if you were going to be like this, why not at our company dinners…]
[Me: It’s nice for the kids to be all cozy with each other, but it’s a bit much for me to join in, right?]
[Me: I have some sense.]
[Boss: ……?]
[Boss: Okay, well… do as you please.]
Anyway, that’s the end of that conversation.
I told the viewers some of the finalized details.
“I talked to the boss, and he said it’s okay. I’ll make an announcement when it’s confirmed.”
– Hmm…
– Hmm…
– Hmm
“You don’t have to believe me, but please check Z frequently. Even if you complain later that you didn’t see the announcement, I won’t know.”
Some people who thought it would be like the members’ solo karaoke might be disappointed.
But still, I’m singing one song, right? Isn’t that enough?
:: Anonymous donor has donated 10,000 Cloud! ::
:: You’re just going to sing some weird song anyway, why are you acting like it’s a big deal… ::
“No, they’re going to sing their songs.”
– Yeah yeah
– Yep yep
– Sure, go ahead
Even though I conveyed my sincerity, the viewers’ suspicion didn’t easily subside.
That’s probably why donations like this started coming in.
:: Anonymous donor has donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: If you actually sing it, I’ll donate 1 million won that day ::
“If you don’t donate, can I ban you for the day?”
I thought they’d back down if I mentioned a ban, but what do you know.
:: Anonymous donor has donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: Deal ::
:: Anonymous donor has donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: 500,000 won bet ::
:: Anonymous donor has donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: 10,000 won ::
:: Anonymous donor has donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: Woo-woo, Pal-bu and Geo-bu, I’ll only bet 100,000 won ::
:: Anonymous donor has donated 1,000 Cloud! ::
:: I bet 100,000 won ::
– What, should I bet too lol
– Safe asset
– Investment geniuses, wow
The number of people who were willing to be banned if they didn’t donate continued to increase.
… What is this, are they donation angels?