Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1247

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 132
41. The Red Pill (2)
There’s a saying.
When five humans gather, one of them is always trash.
This maxim isn’t always true.
But there’s a place where it operates like a categorical imperative.
It’s Rilpro’s battlefield.
As if determined to prove this saying, Rilpro had set team sizes to five across every mode.
Especially in battle royale genres typically led by Battle Large, teams usually consist of around four members.
Yet Rilpro uniquely insisted on five for survival matches as well.
It seemed he believed the game would only be entertaining if one trash player was always included.
That belief appeared to be spot-on.
At least King Gul thought so.
“Sigh. Seriously… I told them exactly this…”
*Click.*
He scrolled through the community and found himself speechless.
Rilpro.
[Choi Sa-rang is seriously so arrogant]
[Those two are totally in on it together]
[There’s a verified strategy and she’s trying to rebuild from scratch kkk hipster syndrome in front of all the pros lol]
[How is she gonna reassemble in such a short timeframe?? This arrogance is killing me]
Once she’d earned their ire, countless players were now attacking Choi Sa-rang.
In a way, such criticism meant they were deeply invested in the game and tournament.
In other words, they were enjoying it.
Like viewers who watch morning dramas religiously while cursing at them.
But the problem was these weren’t actors.
This was a real situation, real criticism.
“What? Even after I explained myself, they’re still doing this?”
King Gul wondered just how rudely Choi Sa-rang must have spoken to cause such an uproar, so he watched the video himself.
“…Hmm.”
Her tone was certainly rigid, but she maintained proper courtesy throughout.
If you actually compared her to a real coach, she was neither mild nor spicy.
Just perfectly medium.
Moreover, unlike typical coaches, her voice was female, which naturally made it sound more pleasant.
Similar to how most counselors are women or maintain higher-pitched voices for that effect.
So why was she receiving such backlash?
There was one thing different from a typical coach.
If anything was the problem, it was probably that.
‘She’s incredibly confident.’
Regardless of reality, to the listener’s perception, her words carried tremendous conviction.
Ril isn’t a game with a single correct answer. There’s only what comes closest to correct.
That’s why coaches typically refrain from speaking with such certainty, unless their abilities are exceptionally high.
Especially on a broadcast like this.
What was strange, though, was that King Gul didn’t find it awkward at all.
‘Everything she’s saying is right.’
Well, it was all correct statements anyway.
The results showed no problems, and she was only hitting the right points, so the tone of her voice was completely irrelevant.
That was the world of professionals.
Results proved everything.
But most viewers weren’t professionals—the majority didn’t even play Ril.
Even those who did play Ril absolutely didn’t have the depth of Ril knowledge that King Gul possessed, nor could they distinguish whether what Choi Sa-rang was saying was correct or not.
So they just poured out massive criticism based on the impression they got.
This was exactly when the saying “ignorance breeds courage” applied.
“…Geez.”
King Gul scratched his head.
It felt like he’d made a shield for her and only added fuel to the fire.
More than anything, he was curious about who that person really was.
“But who exactly is she… to know so much? And to be so confident about it, no less.”
Knowing something and being confident about it were two different things.
She was supposedly a player whose name wasn’t known at all.
Unless she was in the top 10 amateurs at minimum, her confident demeanor didn’t make sense.
‘Is there even a woman in the top 10 amateurs…?’
Among the top 10 amateurs, there was one player who hid their identity.
If she were a woman, she would have received enormous attention, but there was no such rumor.
So it was hard to think that she was definitely that person.
“If I shield her again, it’ll only make things worse.”
King Gul was troubled.
If he said everything she was saying was correct, that she was doing well, it would actually cause an even bigger uproar.
But then─
“Huh?”
A certain post’s Big score was rising rapidly.
[Almond Choi Sa-rang Red Pill feat. King Gul]
“…What?”
King Gul was startled.
His name was right there next to that title.
“What, what the—Red pill?”
Red pill was a meme derived from the scene in The Matrix where you choose between a blue pill and a red pill.
If you take the blue pill, you accept the false world surrounding you as it is.
If you take the red pill, you awaken to the truth.
And you realize this entire world was a lie.
In other words, Choi Sa-rang, Almond, and the red pill might actually be something false that the two of them had fabricated.
And on top of that, King Gul was entangled in it.
“Ugh… what now!”

* * *
“…Kekeke. It’s going up.”
Bontovi laughed wickedly.
Juhyeok was the same.
“Kekeke. Of course it’s going up. How much experience do I have.”
“The red pill is going to hurt a lot. Kekeke.”
“When you get hurt, you apply red pill. These guys got their heads hurt, so we gotta apply red pill to them.”
Juhyeok was interpreting the definition of the red pill meme in a completely different way.
But this was merely a joke—he knew exactly what title he had created.
[Almond Choi Sa-rang Red Pill feat. King Gul]
Looking at it this way, it seemed like he was exposing the relationship between Almond and Choi Sa-rang.
But in reality, this was the red pill that shattered the Matrix world inhabited by those who wanted to believe these two had something going on.
In other words, it was indeed medicine applied to those whose heads were hurting.
“I never would have imagined there’d be a video of Almond bombarding King Gul with questions about splits.”
Evidence that I thought would never exist was right there, plain as day.
I was so curious how these evil spirits would accept this.
-?
-Is this deepfake or something?
└Kekekek just run a check
└These days the detector catches everything what are you talking about kekekek
Those still wanting to live in the Matrix claimed this was an “AI-manipulated video.”
But as much as AI had developed over the past decade, so had the AI that detected it.
Talking about manipulated videos and such was essentially like grasping at straws at the edge of a cliff.
In the end, public opinion was bound to shift before perfect evidence.
-Kekekekekekek fake bastards getting destroyed lol kekekek
└For real kekekek
-Wow…
-This is insane dd
-Huh?
-What is this kekekek did Almond already know?? kekekek
-Rilpro Season 1080 defeat
-Rilpro always losing kekek
Surely mixed in here were those who, just five minutes ago, had been insisting that Almond and Choi Sa-rang were fakes.
But Juhyeok had already transcended such concerns.
He simply smiled contentedly as he watched public opinion shift.
As his lips curved upward, the Big Board changed bit by bit.
Big) Almond, Choi Sa-rang, Red Pill feat. King Gul
Big) Fake bird thugs getting destroyed like dogs kekekekeke
Big) “Clever Youth”
Big) Yeah, that’s right, you’re from Aseng~
Big) Red Pill hurts so much, the Rilpro ghosts give it a thumbs up kekekeke
Juhyeok spreads both arms wide and laughs like a villain.
“Uh, ahahahahaha!”
Through the office window, the evening sunset was descending.
Juhyeok’s shadow stretched long, taking on the shape of a demon with two horns.
Bontovi quickly captured the moment on camera.
The figure of the man who conquered Rilpro.

* * *
A dark studio.
A man scrolls through the feed, clicking his tongue.
“Tsk….”
What he’s looking at is the Rilpro Big bulletin board.
He alternates between clicking various posts and reading through all the comments.
The rapidly moving scroll stops upon seeing one particular comment.
-But didn’t the Fake Identifier say he’d come at Fake? Why isn’t he doing anything?
└He’ll probably do something kekeke
└Wouldn’t he just back out after seeing this come out?
└Once Fake shows up, the whole board flips. Just wait.
I still haven’t given up… ㅠ
The man starts to type a comment but stops himself.
Instead, he gazes at the videos reflected on his other monitor.
Screenshots of Almond’s videos are scattered across various windows.
“Ugh tsk… It would’ve been huge if it was fake.”
The verification wasn’t complete yet, but there was no room to claim it was fake.
“It was completely legit.”
The other side had brought out complete evidence.
When the scales tipped this far, I had no choice but to back down.
“What a shame.”
Click.
I delete all the evidence videos.
Fake sighs.
I’m now looking at comments asking why I haven’t uploaded a fake verification video.
“These bastards don’t even care about the truth anyway.”
They’re not angry because I didn’t upload a fake verification video—they’re angry because I’m not claiming it’s fake.
I’ve been through this a time or two before. I know how it works.
In the end, the answer they wanted was already predetermined—they simply hoped for a foundation upon which to vent their frustrations.
Few among the viewers actually paid close attention to the verification process itself.
Maybe around fifteen percent of them?
Regardless, it wasn’t fake—that much was certain.
Instead, I began creating different content.
[Why Almond Is Genuinely Clever]
I knew this wasn’t the kind of video people wanted from me at all.
“Tch… this title doesn’t look like it’ll get any views.”
Still, I couldn’t bear to waste the basic materials I’d already prepared, so I pushed forward to finish it.
Since I already had the evidence locked down, the difficulty of making the video dropped significantly.
My instinct as a Fake Identifier told me this.
As the difficulty decreased, so too would the video’s popularity.
But I had no way of predicting it.
That a completely different variable would intervene.

* * *
The next day.
A video was uploaded to Fake Identifier Fake’s channel.
True to having a moderately sized viewer base, people flooded in without even knowing who Almond or Choi Sa-rang were.
The initial comments were utterly mundane.
-Kekekekeke so Rilpro did Rilpro things again
-Streamer fans and their theatrics never change lol
-Like that could possibly be fake kekekekekeke
-Wow but what would’ve happened without that video?
In the end, it wasn’t fake.
These were exactly the kind of comments one would expect from a video reaching such a conclusion.
The thugs who had screamed so loudly about it being fake vanished somewhere, leaving only the reasonable people behind—this bizarre phenomenon.
It was something I’d experienced countless times.
“Hmm… the view count should comfortably reach around 100,000.”
100,000 was the break-even point Fake considered for views.
Even if no new information emerged from the video’s content, Almond had a fairly substantial fanbase, so without being greedy, 100,000 seemed reasonable.
That’s all Fake was hoping for.
But then—
“?”
A comment appeared that made me genuinely doubt my own eyes.
Actually, it wasn’t so much the content of the comment itself, but rather the entity that had posted it—the situation made no sense.
[Police KR Official]
[Thank you for the video. Fake. Would it be alright if we used this as reference material for our own content?]
└Why is this real?
└It’s real, upload it.
└Gasp
└Is Pollis really here???
└If this fake got startled thinking the Police KR Official finally came to arrest him, that’s hilarious~kkk
└Police KR Official kkkkk
└Shocking
└Something big just arrived
└”Raise it higher!”
Something far too massive had descended upon this small channel.
“W-what… what is this situation?”

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