A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 580

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 580

“Our theme right now is an internet gambling eradication and addiction prevention campaign-.”

The identity of the public service announcement was revealed from the staff member’s mouth, delivering the final blow once again.

Damn it, they say “what you fear most will happen,” and our ancestors’ words were never wrong.

I looked at the storyboard once more. Only then did the letters clearly come into view.

‘High school student touches gambling game on smartphone’

‘Background music: Double or Nothing’

‘Slogan: Gambling leaves you with nothing in the end.’

I slowly closed my eyes and opened them again.

My dream of a wholesome young man image… There’s safe driving, suicide prevention, child protection, energy conservation, but why gambling of all the many public service ads out there?

“Um… do I look like someone who would gamble?”

Do I look like someone who would gamble?

When I carefully asked the staff member, they waved their hands dismissively.

“Eden, you’re currently trending with DTB fashion. It’s not just because of the song, but considering your image and issue appeal, we judged you’d be perfect for this campaign’s target audience of teenagers and young adults.”

Still, I don’t think I can make gambling prevention trendy. Gambling prevention isn’t fashion, is it? What, should I wear some gambling prevention look for the public service ad?

Even for someone like me, it would be hard to make a t-shirt with “GAMBLING PREVENTION” written in large gothic font trendy.

“And the song 【Double or Nothing】 fits well with our public service ad’s purpose too.”

Right, it would fit well. The music video background was a casino, and it’s a song that used gambling as a motif.

I barely overcame the urge to tear at my hair. How on earth did my solo song become a public service ad copy?

This must be the government striking me down for releasing a gambling glorification song.

Otherwise, there’s no way they would have cast me for this kind of ad scenario. I screamed internally while looking at the 30-second ad scenario that was more horrifying than a 60-second ad.

Since I had shouted an unconditional okay, I couldn’t back out now. It was all my karma.

After the meeting, I returned to the dormitory completely drained, and questions poured out at me. I shouldn’t have bragged about getting a public service ad.

My life’s beat solo song becoming a public service ad campaign song…! Me becoming a gambling eradication ambassador…!

“Hyung hyung hyung, what kind of public service ad is it?”

“Smoking cessation? School violence?”

“A school violence prevention public service ad would make sense, right? Eden Hyung has a history of clearing his name from false school violence accusations and becoming a dark knight.”

Since they were so curious, I just told them honestly. They just didn’t need to know the content.

“It’s an internet gambling eradication ad, okay? Don’t ask anymore.”

It was even more infuriating that everyone’s faces showed understanding expressions.

“It suits you well.”

What does that mean?

And on the day I returned to the dormitory completely exhausted after finishing the public service ad filming.

“From now on, watching TV is banned in our house.”

When I solemnly declared this at the dinner table while holding my spoon, Kim Dobin, who had his spoon in his mouth, was the first to ask.

“Why?”

“Why do you think, Dobin? He’s worried that the public service ad he filmed will air on TV.”

Seo Yehyeon, who solved Kim Dobin’s curiosity instead of me, raised his index finger and waved it annoyingly.

“There’s a saying: if you want to make someone really want to see something, forbid it-“

“Exactly. Since hyung is being like this, it makes me want to see it even more, you know?”

“Are you a contrarian?”

“But when you say our house, do you mean hyung’s family home or the dormitory?”

“Read the context! What else would it be! Obviously the dormitory!”

While I was grilling Kim Dobin for asking such an obvious question without tact, Gyeon Hajun, who seemed inwardly curious, casually asked.

“But what kind of role is it? A role treating addicts?”

Hmm, calling it treatment is a bit ambiguous. I shrugged my shoulders in response to Gyeon Hajun’s question instead of answering.

“Treatment… the treatment Eden Hyung does seems like it would end with being dragged to a truth room.”

Even you, youngest member…! Ryu Jaehee, who had finally achieved number 1 on the music charts with his solo song, said with a sour expression.

“Probably an addict. Won’t it become a meme as a gambling promotion ad while showing off amazing hand skills?”

“I said it was internet gambling.”

How do you show amazing hand skills with smartphone touches? Huh?

For now, they said it would take about 4 weeks until TV broadcast due to broadcasting station review, so I could let it slide until then and somehow protect the remote control after 4 weeks.

But there was one thing I had overlooked.

To meet the demands of teenagers and young adults who now access YouTube and SNS more frequently than television, this internet gambling eradication and addiction prevention public service ad was released online first through the official YouTube channel and SNS before going through broadcasting station review and airing on TV.

Moreover, YouTube could naturally expose public service ads through pre-roll ads before video viewing, even without directly searching for videos.

And that public service ad brought about unexpected results.

* * *

-That’s the polaroid photo from the photocard music video, right?

-Crazy, I love all of Yuje’s solo album songs including the B-sides, the design is legendary refreshing…

-This might be wishful thinking, but what if Rev has internal fighting at this year’s award ceremony lol

-Looking for any photocards where even just a little bit of Dobin’s arm is showing ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Another bombshell was thrown at Daydream, who were quietly enjoying youngest member Yuje’s solo comeback.

-I suddenly heard Double or Nothing in a YouTube ad and stopped trying to skip it, then Eden suddenly appeared??

-What? Yoon Eden appeared in a YouTube public service ad

-It’s a 1-minute ad but it’s the first time I watched it all without skipping, but the atmosphere is kind of scary…

Since the ads were random, the video uploaded on the official YouTube channel was shared, and the internet gambling eradication public service ad featuring Yoon Eden became known to the world.

The ad started with split screens accompanied by the shoulder-moving BGM of 【Double or Nothing】.

On the left, a figure presumed to be a student wearing a school uniform accesses a gambling game on a smartphone, their face invisible due to white-reflecting glasses and dark lighting.

On the right, Yoon Eden quietly digs dirt with a shovel in a wasteland with an expressionless face.

As the student touches the screen, point coin accumulation animations appear in one corner, and the dirt pile on Eden’s side gradually grows higher.

The student bets more boldly, accumulating bigger points, while Eden continues shoveling expressionlessly.

Suddenly Eden stares at the camera as if looking at the audience, creating brief silence and strange unease.

At the same time, the student makes their final bet.

With a ‘click-‘ sound, the screen transitions and the student sits on top of a high pile of point coins.

‘LOSE’

Instantly, the coin pile the student was sitting on turns into a dirt pile, and a pit as deep as the dirt that was piled up appears on screen.

As the point coins on the phone screen rapidly crumble, the dirt pile begins to shake unstably, then collapses at the center as the student falls.

The student falls into the pit that Yoon Eden had dug, and dust rises.

Amid the flying dust, light briefly passes by, shortly revealing the student’s face. The student is also Yoon Eden.

The camera switches to the student’s perspective at the bottom of the pit.

Looking up, Yoon Eden with a shovel quietly looks down. Their eyes meet, and after a moment of silence, a ‘rumbling’ sound is heard.

The dirt pile collapses with a time delay, striking the pit.

As dirt covers the lens, the screen darkens and goes completely black, then flickers once and closes up on the student’s smartphone screen fallen on the ground.

The main screen of the gambling game with ‘Double or Nothing’ written largely.

Yoon Eden picks up the phone and swipes away ‘Double or’ with his finger.

The smartphone screen with only ‘Nothing’ remaining is closed up again, finishing with Yoon Eden’s narration and subtitles.

[The end of gambling leaves nothing behind]

[Youth Internet Gambling Prevention Campaign]

This 60-second anti-gambling public service announcement was quite serious and carried weighty meaning, but because the protagonist happened to be Yoon Eden, it received reactions different from its intended purpose.

-Is it saying gambling is life’s tomb or that if you gamble, Eden hyung will personally bury you

└If it’s the latter, wouldn’t that be an industry award

-There was a reason he appeared on DTB wearing the madman’s cloth

-Yoon Eden-style life guidance

-Yoon Rida’s digging talent shows even in public service announcements

-As expected from Dark Knight lololol

-It just seems like our kid heard that when you meet your doppelganger one of you has to die, so he struck first and buried the doppelganger…

Useful memes were also born from the 60-second advertisement.

-Should I eat ramen at this hour

└(Yoon_Eden_Public_Service_Ad_Direct_Stare_meme.jpg)

└Okay I won’t eat it…

Not only the direct stare meme but also the digging Yoon Eden meme was used very usefully.

The Yoon Eden digging meme was used by changing the slogan subtitle to “If you gamble, I will bury you,” or as a replacement for classic digging memes, or as memes to post under DTB villain participants’ posts, etc.

But compared to the 30-second short version of the internet gambling eradication public service announcement released two days later, that was really nothing.

With 【Double or Nothing】 playing as background music.

A high school student in school uniform gambles on their smartphone.

Every time they win money with a single touch, Yoon Eden in tiger pajamas appears on the high school student’s left side, right side, and behind them, clapping with a smiling face.

-Wow, you hit the jackpot again today? Try one more round.

-You’ll lose out if you stop now. You’ll regret it for life if you miss this timing.

-You’ve come this far, and you want to stop? Just one more time, really the last time.

The high school student becomes more addicted due to Yoon Eden in tiger pajamas’ disgusting cheering and encouragement.

But when they lose all their money and the accumulated money instantly drops to negative.

A hand lands with a thud on the shoulder of the high school student who has their head hung low, and when the high school student slowly lifts their head…

The background music cuts off abruptly.

Yoon Eden is nowhere to be seen, and a ‘Real Tiger (CG)’ standing only as a silhouette appears in the front of the screen. Eyes flash and the screen shakes before cutting to black.

-Double or Nothing

Along with the last lyrics of the chorus, subtitles appeared on the black screen.

[The real face of internet gambling is destruction]

[Gambling problem counseling: 1336 without area code]

-Are you saying that if I gamble, Yoon Eden becomes a real tiger?

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