Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1278

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 163
50. Not Yet the Time (2)
With the Platform Championship just one day away.
Cheese’s management team gathered in one place to hold a meeting.
Given how free-spirited the platform company was, they could have met in virtual reality.
But today, everyone came to the office.
It was that important of a day.
“Finally, it’s tomorrow.”
Tap.
Dahee Chae, the CEO, spoke as she placed her hand on the table.
Her eyes gleamed with considerable significance.
One could almost sense a grim determination.
‘Is she competing herself…?’
‘What? The CEO is participating too?’
‘Damn KOSPI…’
The employees listened (?) to the CEO’s words while entertaining their own thoughts.
Then, words came that truly sharpened everyone’s focus.
“You all understand what it means for Paprika and Cheese to broadcast together, right?”
“…Yes!”
At those words, most employees’ expressions became as grim as Dahee Chae’s.
Only now did they truly grasp the situation.
‘That’s right. It was like that.’
‘Damn… we’re fighting too.’
‘Damn KOSPI.’
That was it.
It wasn’t just the streamers going out to fight.
“It means we’re throwing all the viewers into one pot, shaking them up, and dividing them among ourselves again. In other words…”
Bang!
Dahee Chae slammed the desk and stood up.
“It’s waaaar!”
A war between Cheese and Paprika.
The streamers were merely the generals.
The real war was a battle for viewers between the two platforms.
“Kim Department Manager! Show me the real warriors who will take to the battlefield!”
What could be the real warriors going to war from their perspective?
“Yes.”
One department manager stood up and displayed a PowerPoint with a grim expression.
[Platform Championship 10 Teams Promotion Status]
Now that nearly all attention in the streaming scene was focused here.
How were each team expressing themselves?
How to captivate the opposing viewers!
This was a true war.
“I’ll present our findings. First, we have Motmotmot, who commands the highest average viewership.”
[Motmotmot]
“Good. I’m looking forward to this. Their characters are solid, and they’re all seasoned professionals.”
“Yes. Their average experience as streamers is also the second highest after the Agricultural Cooperative. You can have high expectations.”
Ting.
The screen transitions.
A massive poster appears.
“Their promotional strategy begins with a movie poster concept.”
[The Wicked One]
[The Incompetent One]
[The Inexperienced One]
Against the backdrop of a Korean apartment complex’s concrete jungle at sunset, three men gaze in different directions on the poster.
Jello, Balloon Gum, and Mosol.
They were photographed with a gravitas that completely contradicted their usual images.
Below them appeared two men and women engaged in a mounted chase across a plain.
Chocosong and Dotorimuk.
A brief synopsis was written beneath them.
[Dotorimuk begins an investigation, suspecting that someone manipulated his team’s victory, and discovers a conspiracy by an organization called ‘Motmotmot’, launching a pursuit against them…]
“What? There’s even a scenario?”
“Yes. They conducted additional filming with this concept, and they’ve even prepared merchandise.”
Ting, ting, ting.
The Department Manager continues flipping through slides, displaying various concept photos and character merchandise.
The team’s identity is becoming unmistakably clear.
‘Not bad. They’re truly a seasoned team.’
Dahee Chae was pleased.
After all, with Balloon Gum, who excels at this sort of thing, combined with Jello’s distinctive character, she had no concerns.
‘Still….’
Yet she knew the truth.
What mattered here wasn’t whether she liked it, but what the viewers thought.
“What’s the public reaction?”
“Yes, let’s see. The promotional materials we seeded as viral content have ranked quite high on the trending posts.”
Ting.
3rd) Motmotmot team poster dropped kekekeke
-Kekekekekekekeke
-Their expressions lmaooo
-Mosol really looks like he’s never done this before
-With a sunset like that, sunglasses would be justified
-This is hilarious kekekekeke
-Jello and Balloon Gum’s face talent is insane kekekeke
-Ah strict and solemn kekekeke expression kekekeke
The Department Manager adds with a grin.
“There’s a certain purity in weight class that you feel from their faces, so to speak. True is true. This is branding that suits such words perfectly.”
Pffft.
At those words, the other employees barely suppressed their laughter.
“Cough, ahem.”
“Y-yes. Face is talent.”
There was another reaction shown there as well.
5th Place) Motmotmot Team’s shorts also came out kekekeke
“…Shorts?”
This was content I hadn’t seen in the earlier slides.
“Yes. Let’s watch.”
Motmotmot’s shorts were a very short video of about 20 seconds.
Chocosong dressed as Terrorist Boni stood there giggling, and below her, a beaten-up Dotorimuk glared at her and asked.
[The Mad Mushroom… I can’t believe it! W-why did I lose!? What are you guys!? What is Motmotmot!?]
[Ahahahahaha!]
Chocosong mocked Dotorimuk mercilessly.
[Why did you lose? You think it’s because of me?]
[…What? You’re saying no?]
[Look to your side!]
Doodung!
The face of Balloon Gum, who had been watching from the side, gets a close-up.
[Code name. The Incompetent One.]
[What… K-Kkeom was on your team!?]
[No.]
The Mad Mushroom, Chocosong, corrects him.
[He was on your team. That’s why you lost.]
The video ends as it zooms in closer and closer on Balloon Gum’s face.
Ting.
The comment reactions were quite decent.
-kekekeke surprisingly high quality
-Ah kekekeke
Gum-shaped ㅠㅠㅠ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-What kekekeke
-They did this too
That’s championship-level skill, no joke.
-Why does he even have a code name when he’s not a spy kekekekeke
CEO Dahee Chae clapped her hands.
“Good. I can feel the sincerity. Who’s the person in charge?”
“Yes, sir!”
“Okay. Well done.”
“Yes!”
Thus, the commendation passed lightly, and the next team’s promotional materials came up.
Most of them were posters or concept photos designed to solidify the characters further.
Overall, it felt unremarkable.
What stood out among them was the Agricultural Cooperative.
“The Agricultural Cooperative made a promotional video with day trading as the main content concept for training to boost the physical abilities of the three middle-aged men… but the training method is somewhat brutal.”
“Huh? What is it?”
“Day trading stocks.”
“?!”
Doughnutz had repeatedly trained the three middle-aged men through day trading investments to increase their reaction speed, and it was uploaded as a video.
[Now! Sell now!]
[Now!]
[Is it now!?]
Doodung.
After showing the middle-aged men sweating profusely while day trading.
[Continuing in the platform championship….]
The videos just ended like this.
These simple yet stimulating videos received an overwhelming response.
People who are out of their minds lol
-If your reaction is slow, your money flies away lol
The difficulty adjustment is also messed up lol, starting with Nasdaq and then moving to Kospi coins lol
Lol wtf, didn’t like 10 million won just fly away with that horn ramen???
-Middle-aged Detective suddenly got so good?
That’s crazy lol
Stocks react that fast? Lol
Donuts is making money regardless of reaction speed anyway lol
lol lol lol lol lol lol
Yeah, that’s right lol
Just making mad money lol
That’s so damn petty lol
Cheese’s employees also watched their training video in a daze.
‘Wow.’
‘Crazy… how much is that.’
‘I envy Doughnutz….’
‘Damn Kospi.’
Though the response was positive, the CEO and all the employees quickly moved on, as if they didn’t even want to look at stocks.
Ting.
“Ahem… next is the Magical Girl team. They uniquely used the ‘LikeTok’ platform.”
The Magical Girl Team, which included Cutie Pie, uploaded several videos to RikTok, a shorts platform.
“Hmm. Since there’s a former idol in the female team, dancing shorts videos should draw the most attention.”
“That’s correct.”
With Cutie Pie, who was originally an idol, and Miho, a model, they attracted considerable interest.
-Miho is seriously so pretty for real
-Miho is outshining everyone
-Shu Cream is trying hard kkkkkkkkk so cute
-Wow
-Why won’t the video end? Why won’t the video end? Why won’t the video end?
“While their beautiful appearance played a significant role in the initial attention, the real viral breakthrough was largely due to one mysterious spy.”
“…A spy?”
“Yes. Right here.”
Ding.
The Department Manager paused at the section with the most comments like these.
-Something weird seems to appear in the middle?
-??
-At 00:31 is that a magical girl…?
-00:31 is this a spirit photo?
Haha, seriously/damn it lol
-If a man appears at 31 seconds in this video, absolutely don’t comment or ask—just type lol for real. This video contains only ‘girls.’
└lol for real
└lol for real
└lol for real
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“Ohhh….”
The CEO reluctantly clapped his hands together.
“Well done.”
“Now I’ll show you the evaluation data for each team’s promotional viral score.”
Cheese had assigned a ‘promotional score’ for each team for internal viewing.
It was a quantified score measuring the level of virality and the degree of attention garnered.
“Currently, the Magical Girl Team is in 1st place with approximately 17 million total views, while the Agricultural Cooperative is in 2nd with 8 million. Motmotmot is in 3rd with around 6 million.”
“…Hmm. So the Magical Girls are overwhelmingly outperforming? They can’t keep up with RikTok’s pace. With an idol too, the international click counts are substantial.”
Dahee Chae nodded along, then suddenly noticed something was missing.
“Wait. What about the Knight Order?”
“Ah, well….”
The Department Manager explained the situation.
They apparently hadn’t done anything in particular.
“What?!”
Dahee Chae stood up in disbelief.
“Ha! Playing the role of Daegam, are we? Have you lost your mind!? Does that even make sense? Who’s in charge!”
“That… that would be me…”
Tr Daeri hesitantly raised his hand.
“Why is there nothing ready!? Today is the day before! How can there be nothing prepared until now!? It’s war! Tomorrow!!”
“That’s… well, I’ve tried to bring that up too…”
“What are you saying!?”

* * *
Juhyeok waves his hand dismissively, telling him to stop.
“It’s not time yet.”
Macaron found this absurd.
“…Pardon? But tomorrow is the Platform Championship. If we don’t upload our promotional video, how will we manage? Will anyone even pay attention to us tomorrow?”
Macaron was trying to persuade Juhyeok.
Even Macaron was desperate!
But Juhyeok waved his hand again.
“It’s. Not. Time. Yet.”
And just like that, the next day arrived.

* * *
The long-awaited Platform Championship day.
[Platform Championship]
[D day]
Numerous gaming and streaming communities were buzzing with excitement.
You could feel how thrilled people were.
Especially Paprika’s viewers.
1st Place) Paprika vs. Cheese Betting Status kkk
2nd Place) If Paprika’s gonna tear it up, upvote kkk
3rd Place) The revenge of Cheese Village begins…
Paprika’s viewers were in high spirits, saying it was finally time to give them a proper beating.
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Yesterday, all of Paprika’s streamers witnessed the humiliation that Paprika’s streamers suffered in Cheese Village.
Everyone was angered by the tyranny of the Non-selected Personnel, Almond, and Aseng.
It had an almost independence movement atmosphere—solemn and determined.
(Photo)
Cheese… just you wait.
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The photo was a group shot of Paprika’s streamers.
They’d converted it to black and white and edited it to look incredibly solemn.
-Kekekekekekeke Are we really going this far?
-What’s with the Rocket Squad acting so serious? Kekekeke
-Almond’s golden age? Now America’s coming~
└Kekekekekekekeke
└Lolololololol
└Paprika’s military strength is basically America-tier
└???: Who hit our Huchoo!?
-Now let’s finally see him taste some real bitterness, Almond lol
└For real though
└Let’s see him actually get hit for once, real talk
They were united by their hostility toward Almond.
Perhaps it was because everyone was focused on the Knight Order?
While everyone was absorbed in the match itself, surprisingly, this post had made it to the trending section.
5th Place) But why doesn’t the Knight Order have any promotional activities?
-Huh? You’re right
-What’s going on?
-Are they preparing something big?
-Danmuji Goguma said they were filming something…
└Hong-cha and Lemon had shoots too
└But why hasn’t it come out?
└Mixnuts can’t get the job done, seriously
-When’s it coming out???
-Right?

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