Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1139

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 24
8. The Purge (1)
From Almond’s perspective, synthesizing the various circumstances painted a clear picture.
A donation from someone claiming to be a famous Paprika streamer.
Upon investigation, the nickname matched someone he’d actually played with before.
But that game was against bots.
A bot had sent the donation.
‘Does that even make sense?’
Of course it didn’t.
And then there were the constant provocations that appeared during the bot match.
-That’s a person, I’m telling you lol
-AI is people too!
-It’s not a bot. It’s a living person.
Radical AI rights advocates.
The fake Jeonggi who’d donated at the start of the broadcast.
The puzzle pieces fit together.
Into a single truth.
“Ah…!”
Snap!
Almond understood.
“Another provocation.”
It was impersonation.
-?
-???
-…?
What?
Whoosh.
‘Jello-tier toxic moderation.’
Almond drew his sword without hesitation.
And so Almond banned Omelette.
[Omelette has been banned for 1 hour.]
At 100,000 won, it seemed he’d given him about an hour.
“That was fun. Come back after an hour.”
Almond waved goodbye to Omelette with the expression of someone who’d just enjoyed a good mystery game.
“Mystery?”
Hahahahahaha
Lol seriously banned hahahaha
-Haha
-Almondil! Almondil! Almondil! Almondil!
-This is what Almondil is all about
-Ugh…
[Loyal Supporter donated 10,000 won.]
[Almond, you’re really not a bot—you’re a person! Tutorial isn’t bot matches, I’m telling you!]
The desperate cries of my loyal supporters.
But I tilted my head in confusion.
“No. If it’s not bot matches, how am I winning everything by myself?”
-lol for real
-if that’s not a bot, what is
-but it’s tutorial, what do you mean people lol lol what game is like that lol
-this is ridiculous lol
[Died a Hundred Times to Fix It donated 10,000 won.]
[Got any proof it’s a bot?]
In fact, there was far more evidence pointing to bot matches than evidence against it.
“The leader bot explains everything, the avatar draws exactly what I want, and if it wasn’t a bot, they would’ve cursed me out when I blocked behind them with my shield, but they didn’t curse at all.”
-for real for real
-give us proof it’s not a bot
-they would’ve known to curse lol
-lol but they did curse?
-so it makes sense? if it were a person, it’d be flooded with insults by now.
-I’m tired of the bot debate…
The viewers’ unity was remarkable.
And finally, I blurted out something astonishing.
“No. If it’s not a bot, then just prove it, right? Isn’t that easier?”
-lol this is ridiculous
-lol for real
-why not? for real I don’t get it
-so like lol come donate and talk to me~ then I’ll admit it~
-don’t you know the presumption of innocence~
-hear hear!
Now I’m being asked to prove I’m not a bot.
A conspiracy theorist label that drives the final nail in the coffin.
[Snake donated 30,000 won.]
[It’s just a trending conspiracy meme that “bots are actually people.” Don’t get mad.]
-lol for real
-true
-like the flat earth thing oo
-Reina is alive! Reina is alive! Reina is alive!
I nodded deeply in agreement.
Don’t feed the trolls.
“I get the meme. But if you keep baiting like that, it stops being fun. Consider this a warning.”
No matter how entertaining a topic is, having the same subject plastered across the broadcast repeatedly doesn’t do anyone any favors.
-Haha
-Quick and decisive
-Terrifying
-This is the taste…!
-All hail Almondil! All hail Almondil! All hail Almondil!
-Real talk, boring bait lol lol lol
-A bot’s a bot, why’s he acting human? Seriously confused
-Omelette? From now on your name is Intermediate Bot
Hahahahaha lol hahahaha
The viewers cheered at his witty response.
Boom!
[BotJaBae donated 50,000 Won.]
[As expected of Daegam, who once ran a past authoritarian nation~ Your work efficiency is truly refreshing~]
Haha, seriously though lol
Hahaha
-BotJaBae lol lol lol lol lol lol
-Haha lol
-Is Bot lower than Byeong?
-Is PangJaBae higher? Or is BotJaBae higher?
Man, you guys are really going at it haha. I told you from the start I’m not a bot ㅠㅠㅠ
“Now I’m going to go play games with real people, not bots. I need to fill 10 normal matches to rank up. I’ve got a long way to go.”
And so Almond started his normal games.
‘Hmm…?’
Even if not intellectually, his keen senses made him dimly aware of something.
‘They’re too similar to bots…?’
These players weren’t much different from the tutorial bots.
‘Hmm….’
But the suspicion didn’t last long.
He was too busy playing!
That day, Almond completed a total of 7 normal games before
ending his broadcast.
-See you
-That was fun~
Bye bye ㅠㅠ
-Wow today’s broadcast was a masterpiece lol lol
Though the first game had left an enormous impact,
after proceeding through seven more games afterward, naturally the earlier memory gradually faded away.
That was the nature of live broadcasting.
Memories were continuously layered over in real-time, and things meant to be forgotten simply were.
Of course, this was merely a characteristic of ‘live broadcasts’.
Edited videos were different.
Even a fleeting moment could be preserved eternally.
Just like Omelette’s video uploaded the next day.
[Regarding How I Switched Genres and Turned Out to Be a Bot]
-LMAOOOOOOO
-What the heck HAHAHAHA I’m dying HAHAHAHA
-Almond HAHAHAHA Isn’t he insane? HAHAHAHA
-The switched-genre bot is insane HAHA
-I was reborn in survival matches… and I’m a bot!?
-Siege Warfare Grandmaster = Survival Match Bot
└They say he’s Grand Silver in Nuts Punk though
└LMAOOOOO
└Grand Silver LMAOOOOO
└Haha this is hilarious, it’s been forever
└Honestly, Silver rank is easy to mistake for a bot
-Did you betray siege warfare for this? Omelette?
-Make Silver Great Again

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The foundation of being a streamer is your live broadcast tier.
But just because live broadcasts go well doesn’t mean YouTube videos always do.
The two were completely different in nature.
Many streamers performed far worse on YouTube compared to their live broadcast tier.
Omelette was one of them.
[Subscribers: 2.21 Million]
It appeared to be an impressive YouTube tier.
‘But honestly, my view counts have been declining for a while now…’
There was a significant gap between the subscribers I’d accumulated during my peak and my current view counts.
[Make Ril Great Again]
[251K Views]
[Sss──Cringe]
[128K Views]
[Serious Statement) Survival Matches Suck]
[387K Views]
My view counts were consistently far lower than my subscriber count.
‘At least the survival match controversy got decent engagement.’
That’s why I’d attempted to expand into survival matches this time.
‘So today was supposed to be important…’
But it had devolved into Almond viewing content, and I’d spectacularly botched it.
Rilpro saw his moment and began pummeling Omelette.
Big) Omelette crying lol lol lol
Big) Botmelette lol lol archived video lol lol
Big) Almond wedging in the kill steal
Those thirty-something survival match players who had once been notorious Ril demons bared the fangs they’d hidden beneath the veneer of social life.
-Damn, these old guys’ firepower is insane
-Survival match geezers community center festival lmaooo
-Omelette picked the wrong day
-But today’s first Tutorial match was pretty legendary lol lol lol
-He was doing fine until Reina just brutally murdered him, feels unfair
The predatory assault of these survival match demons, feasting for the first time in years, far surpassed the current generation of demons.
Big) Why Omelette is actually just hype
Big) That “garbage” Challenger Manager suspicion lol lol
Big) The birth of “Bot Belly” in real time
Big) Let’s see the real skill of that bot, the ADC
Big) The PC gaming era skills that claim “that bot” is the foundation lol lol lol
They began tearing down every Achievement Omelette had built up in the meantime.
Like a Jenga tower with its base removed, Omelette’s reputation seemed to crumble down.
“Damn it.”
The day of the incident.
After turning off his stream, Omelette watched Rilpro’s reaction and resented Almond.
“Why of all times!”
Why did we get matched together in Tutorial queue!
Why does everyone know they’re all bots!
Why at all!
“Why did you even force quit me!”
Why do they still believe I’m a bot even after seeing me with their own eyes.
“Why did you ruin my life!”
Omelette didn’t know it yet.
That Daegam had ruined his life, but not his broadcast.
The next morning, when Omelette woke up and received a message from the Editor, he blinked in shock.
“…What?”
[About how I switched roles and turned out to be a ‘bot’]
“What what what what!?”
Omelette shot up from his bed like a rocket.
#Trending Video 1st Place
His video had climbed to the top of the charts.
“This… this is insane, what is this.”
At first, all sorts of thoughts crossed his mind.
“Am I involved in some controversy?”
Could it be that some past statement I made became controversial?
‘What, what was it?’
Truth be told, I’d made so many potentially problematic statements that I couldn’t even figure out which one it was.
But checking the message from my editor clarified the situation.
[Ppeondoli: Bro lol lol our video went viral lol lol]
[Ppeondoli: Being treated like a bot is hilarious lol lol lol]
[Ppeondoli: Bro your first broadcast luck hit the jackpot lol lol]
[Ppeondoli: Surpassed Lilzandi’s collab view count lol lol]
It wasn’t a controversy at all.
The video had blown up because being treated like a bot by Almond was so funny.
It was simply a massive success, nothing more.
“This, this can’t be real.”
My and Ppeondoli’s constant worry had always been the view count on AllTube.
The editing itself was never the problem, yet Ppeondoli would always apologize.
Even new viewers had come in.
-I only watched Almond, but Omelette’s cute too lol lol
-I thought he was just a loud guy lol lol this is fun lol lol subscribing lol lol
-Omelette’s blowing up with survival matches lol lol
“Oh… oh shit….”
I realized I couldn’t just leave things as they were.
So I went to my AllTube channel and checked the video.
Looking at the video content, Ppeondoli had indeed nailed the entertaining moments.
Especially since I’d coordinated with Almond’s side to do cross-editing, making it even more entertaining.
But this time, editing wasn’t really the key factor.
“This is… this is….”
I could only express my ‘respect’.
“This too must be the Daegam’s blessing….”
Tap tap tap.
I pinned a comment on my video.
-This too must be the Daegam’s blessing…
└The Daegam’s blessing lol lol this here lol lol
└God bless the Daegam
└You strip bots of their rights but save the broadcast~
└lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
└This bastard’s grateful lol lol lol lol lol
└What’s the Daegam??
└We almost went down the drain lol lol but laughs saved us lol lol lol
└Bow to the Daegam three times a day
└These insiders laughing at their own inside jokes again ugh

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Meanwhile, Sanghyeon woke up the next morning, oblivious to everything.
“Yawwwn….”
He’d played eight games during yesterday’s communication broadcast and crashed immediately, only now waking up.
Especially since yesterday, wasn’t he still nursing the hangover from Tribby’s funeral?
He was utterly exhausted.
‘Ugh… I’m so tired.’
He rubbed his drowsy eyes and reached for his phone.
Out of habit, he entered the Streamer Café that Cheese had set up.
It was a system similar to Tribby’s old Streamer bulletin board, the ‘Tseugae’.
A dedicated community board where fans communicated with streamers.
[Yesterday’s broadcast legend: Almond didn’t realize he was being fooled until the end lol lol lol]
[Baegi Yesterday’s collection of bot-like moments.jpg]
[Found the thank you post Baegi the ‘Leader Bot’ uploaded to the community yesterday lol lol lol]
This was where viewers shared stories about what happened during broadcasts or things Almond’s viewers wanted to discuss with each other.
The more I read through these posts, the more my eyes wavered.
“…Huh?”
My hazy, drowsy eyes suddenly snapped wide open.
“Hmm?”
All the puzzle pieces that had seemed slightly off yesterday began fitting together like magic.
‘The bot….’
If I accepted just one single premise.
‘Wasn’t actually a bot?’
Doodung.
I bolted upright from the bed.
‘Then… Omelette is real too?’
I hurriedly logged into Rilpro.
“Insane.”
The Big board was plastered with posts about Omelette.
Tap.
I pressed my forehead.
‘They’re tearing into Omelette because of me?’
Rilpro was gleefully ripping apart Omelette for having the skill level of a bot.
‘Honestly, I wasn’t even sure if he was a bot or not… wait, no.’
My mind spun rapidly to rationalize things.
And the true culprit behind all of this came to mind.
Just one person.
The one who knew everything but stayed silent.
The one who practically orchestrated all of this.
The one whose snickering I could hear from outside right now!
“Ugh….”
Tap tap tap.
He rushed out of the room, shouting.
“Hey, Juhyeok Kim!”
Following the manager, he recalled the next targets for purge.
‘And Gaji-bokkeun and several others…!’
Today’s Almond broadcast would be drenched in blood.

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