Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 364

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 84
30. What Did You Say?! (3)
At that moment, inside Triby’s headquarters.
The office bustled with preparations for the year-end event drawing steadily closer.
“We’ve completed the recruitment of all the invited performers.”
“Good. Good.”
“The group called Patisserie that Cutie Pie belonged to is included in this lineup, but there is a potential issue with it.”
An issue?
Sohee Oh, who had taken on the role of Team Leader for Triby’s event planning division.
She pulled her hair back tightly and furrowed her brow as she asked.
“What is this issue you’re talking about?”
“It’s… a scandal, ma’am.”
“So what kind of scandal? That old club drug incident that burned through the headlines was a scandal too, wasn’t it?”
Frustrated, Sohee Oh tapped the desk repeatedly.
The employees flinched at her display.
‘She certainly lives up to her reputation—quite the temperament.’
‘Here we go again.’
‘Did she fight with her husband?’
Her mood today appeared decidedly poor.
The employee tasked with presenting on this unfortunate day wiped cold sweat from his brow and adjusted his glasses.
“Ah… no, of course not a serious crime like that. It’s more of a dating scandal? Something along those lines….”
“In this day and age, why should we concern ourselves with dating scandals? This is an entertainment platform. While not quite as chaotic as the competition, all sorts of things gather here.”
“That’s… I understand that, of course. But this time, there’s a love triangle involving a member of the boy group we’re also inviting….”
“!?”
At those words, everyone at the table momentarily stiffened.
Wasn’t that an uncommon rumor in the idol industry?
“A triangle?”
“Yes. Between Cutie Pie, Muffin… and Bin.”
“Bin? Who’s that? The capital of Austria?”
“Ah….”
In an era where tastes have become increasingly diversified.
No matter how famous an idol might be, or whether they’re a trot singer, rapper, or whatever else.
If someone simply isn’t interested, they might not know anything about them.
“Whatever. It’s fine. We’re not hosting a state event, are we? As long as it’s not a serious crime, let’s move on~”
And so Sohee Oh dismissed it like that.
“But still….”
“If it’s a love triangle situation, shouldn’t we be thanking our lucky stars? This year-end awards ceremony is being broadcast, after all. We’ve selected a proper production crew for it.”
“That’s right. There’s… Department Manager Jang, who came from a major network….”
“Ah yes. A love triangle, you say. That person will season it up quite spicily. Oh wait, since the ingredients are things like Muffin and Pie, maybe spicy doesn’t quite fit the metaphor?”
Giggle.
Sohee Oh laughed at her own joke.
Then, suddenly hardening her expression, she turned to the next chapter.
“Have we finalized everyone receiving awards?”
“Yes. We’ve already decided on all the basic awards we initially nominated—Rookie Award, Excellence Award, Outstanding Award, and so on.”
“Mm.”
Rustle.
Sohee Oh simply nodded while flipping through the documents.
“Beyond that, there are several special awards. We’ve narrowed it down to this list.”
“Best Team Balloon Stars. Best Couple Miho and Almond… Best Performance Almond…?”
“…Ah, yes. They’re just candidates, candidates.”
“No, but if there are this many nominations even as candidates, it feels like we’re pushing too hard. Especially if we put him at the very top, that practically makes it his, doesn’t it?”
“Doesn’t the nomination order not matter?”
A reasonable question. After all, candidate number one isn’t ranked higher than candidate number two. I couldn’t understand why she would worry about such a thing.
However, that was the case in ordinary circumstances.
At the naive question from the employee, Sohee Oh laughed again.
“Where did you come from, some other planet? For special awards like these, the executives hold the highest voting power. They usually just click on whoever’s at the top. It’s their implicit way of leaving the award selection to us.”
“Ah…”
Most executives were specialists in how to allocate talent within the company, but they didn’t understand the actual content as well as the employees working in the field.
That’s why it was common for them to simply vote according to the order the employees had arranged. In a way, that was a courtesy to the practitioners.
So if Almond was nominated first in the report, there was a high probability he would win.
Sohee Oh was taking this into account, trying to prevent one person from accumulating too many awards.
Someone raises their hand.
“But Almond deserves to be listed first, doesn’t he? He was the most talked-about newcomer on Trivia this year.”
“Mm. Still, you know. At least for the Best Performance award… if I recall correctly, it was someone else…”
Sohee Oh, flipping through the pages, points to someone’s face precisely.
“Orange. Shouldn’t he be the one receiving it?”
The employees examine their materials and murmur among themselves.
“Orange…?”
“Who’s that?”
“Ah. The Knight that came out this time. First kill.”
“Ah, world first kill!”
The employee facing off with Sohee Oh asks again.
“Is Orange the one who got the first kill or something in Real RPG?”
“Yeah. There was all this talk about national pride and whatnot.”
“Real RPG isn’t a particularly successful game domestically or globally, is it?”
“Still, it had its moment of glory, didn’t it? Everyone knows this game.”
“So what? Recently, it’s not even mentioned in any community…”
Real RPG.
This isn’t actually the official name.
The official title is Legends’ Tale. As you can guess from being called Real RPG, it’s an RPG game created based on Riel’s stories.
When the capsule market first emerged, it enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity, but as the season progressed, interest plummeted dramatically.
The actual gameplay and story didn’t align, and there were countless setting errors and other issues.
Some characters even had their gender identity change three times.
For these various reasons, there are rumors that a large-scale remake is currently underway.
In short, the game failed and they’re rebuilding it from scratch.
“A tiger without teeth is still a tiger. For a game with high global recognition, the fact that a Korean player achieved the world first kill is….”
“That’s right. It’s an impressive performance. It did generate quite a bit of buzz….”
Someone seconded the Team Leader’s opinion.
“Exactly. Orange is consistent, after all. Almond hasn’t had any notable achievements since he stopped playing Reel….”
“That’s because he’s a rookie. It’s too early to say he hasn’t had any notable achievements yet. Zombie School did become something of an issue.”
“I don’t know. There was barely any growth momentum from Zombie School onward?”
“That’s because it was an advertisement!?”
Tap. Tap.
Sohee Oh tapped her pen on the desk as she interjected.
“Does it even make sense to compare a Nant Tournament championship with a world first kill?”
“Even if it’s a world first, most Reel RPGs are practically failing….”
The back-and-forth continued.
But the consensus gradually shifted.
“I’m a bit concerned about the heavy focus on Reel myself.”
“It’s an achievement limited to the domestic market… and it doesn’t look good for a rookie to receive so many awards.”
“I think it would be fine to give the award to Almond after he proves himself with a more diverse range of games.”
The first nomination for Best Performance seemed to be leaning toward Orange.
“Alright. Our country loves national prestige anyway. We’ll go with Orange for the world first kill rather than the Nant Tournament? Next….”
Sohee Oh made the decision just like that.
No one had any major objections.
The world first kill certainly seemed like a higher-tier achievement than the tournament championship.
The problem came next.
“Almond is in the Best Trending Topic category too?”
“Yes. That… he gained nationwide recognition for a brief moment due to the archery-related story.”
“I know that too.”
Almond was also in the Best Trending Topic category. This time, he wasn’t first place but second.
“Isn’t that overlapping too much with the Rookie Award?”
“That’s true. But when you’re asked to pick the person who became a trending topic….”
“And you know what. We need to consider the diversity of games that serve as judgment criteria. Right now it’s all~~ Reel, isn’t it? No matter how popular the game is. We should show some love to domestic games too, right?”
“So the first place is ‘Ueongbueong’.”
This is how Almond’s nomination rankings gradually began to drop.
“These awards, you see. They’re not really about giving them to the person who did the best, but rather spreading them around a bit while saying thank you for working hard, right?”
Perhaps Sohee Oh understood the true nature of award ceremonies best.
“Especially special awards are given internally. The main awards are the ones chosen by viewers. There needs to be a distinction between those and these.”
That was her argument.
There are awards given based on actual skill, and awards given based on popularity—they’re separate categories.
Special awards are distributed to console those who didn’t receive recognition and to encourage them to do better.
That’s why it was important that awards didn’t overlap.
“The executives think this is good. National pride. Right? National pride!”
The employees exchanged glances and nodded reluctantly.
‘Well, Almond’s performances are concentrated in Reel, after all….’
‘There’s the Rookie Award and the Best Team Award….’
‘Yeah, domestic games are great. National pride is great.’
There was almost nothing wrong with what Team Leader Sohee Oh was saying.
Except for the fact that she didn’t know what was currently happening.
After the meeting ended.
Two employees whispered to each other.
“But… it’s been a while since Almond did Reel, right?”
“Yeah. That’s what I know too.”
“But… do you know why Reel Pro is a trending search?”
“Huh?”

* * *
“Done.”
I clenched my fist tightly.
[Japan in shock and the world collapsing from impact… (literally)]
[Views: 51,000]
The video had surpassed 50,000 views in less than 30 minutes of being uploaded. The comment reactions were explosive.
-Crazy, already a short video?
-I was shocked lol the Japanese person’s expression lol
I thought it was Trouble Tube from the title lol
This situation had actually realized the kind of clickbait titles you commonly see on YouTube. It couldn’t be anything but entertaining.
The video was reproduced multiple times in the community in a short span of time.
Especially the scene where Whiskey reacted with ‘What!?’ in shock.
[Almond video is so funny lol]
Posts like this began dominating community issue threads. Reel Pro was no exception.
Even the rough-talking Reel Pro users began responding with their own wit.
A Japanese person saw nuclear weapons? Of course that’s their reaction lol
I can’t translate this as it appears to be random Korean characters/keyboard mashing rather than actual Korean text.
I was wondering what you were talking about lol
└”That bomb”
-Hacks and a Japanese person…? How could anyone hold back!?
└Even General MacArthur would pop the lid and jump up—such a honey combo
Am I crazy lol
Thanks to their reproductions, the view count continued to climb.
[61,000 Views]
The view count was climbing by the tens of thousands in real time.
[Jia: Wow, the response is great. This video will be fun to edit]
[Juhyeok: Once Reel Pro’s firepower concentrates, it looks like the algorithm picked us too?]
The view count suggested we’d hit 100,000 before an hour passed.
It was genuinely impressive progress.
But what was even more surprising….
[Juhyeok: Subscribers are going up too!]
The subscriber count, which had been stagnant for a while, was climbing.
[527,000 Subscribers]
It had been virtually fixed at 500,000, but suddenly jumped by 20,000.
“This means….”
I grasped it instinctively at that moment.
The single scenario I’d envisioned was working perfectly.
“A new demographic is arriving.”
A new audience segment had mixed in.
I didn’t even need to check the data. The comments made it crystal clear.
-Korea’s archery is the best in the world. Historically, we stood shoulder to shoulder with Mongolia.
-Oh, you’re the person who appeared on Evening Wide. I cried so hard hearing that story… and you’re still bringing honor to our nation. Thumbs up!
-Ah, watching that Japanese guy’s jaw drop makes me feel sooooo satisfied~~~
That person is innocent though…lol
-Filling my patriotic spirit again today ^^
-This is the bow of Joseon, you Japanese bastards~~ Surprised?~~ You should stop with bows and go swing around that iron-mixed garbage of yours~~~
└Sir, please calm down…
└But Whiskey likes him…
That middle-aged guy going full throttle is hilarious lol
Viewers who clearly appeared to be from an older demographic.
‘This is the game’s real strength.’
Unlike fantasy-based games like Reel, Civil Empire’s combat was rooted in actual historical concepts, making it easy to understand with just basic historical knowledge.
So this age group could watch easily. More than anything, it was the perfect game to showcase a Korean excelling on the world stage.
Of course, I hadn’t only captured the older demographic.
In an instant, Almond’s name—someone who didn’t even stream on Reel Pro—appeared in the search rankings.
6th) Almond Korean Bow
12th) Almond Japanese
15th) Japan Shocked
They too found the Japanese person’s reaction entertaining, and thought the parody title mimicking typical nationalist YouTube was funny.
Just for a moment, but generational unity had been achieved.
When everyone was happy.
There was one person who was becoming increasingly vulnerable.
-Wait, but isn’t this video proof that he’s not a hacker? He’s playing to prove it?
That’s right ㅠㅠ
Almond is being labeled as a hacker. Does that even make sense?ㅠㅠ
└Seriously
└I mean, how is something so ridiculous even possible;
-Someone posted a phone number there lolol A guy named King Moo-sae
└For real? I’m calling him right now
└Observer’s done for today lolololol
└I’m going to set his phone on fire. Observer should grab a fire extinguisher instead of a phone.
└Monster call lololol
└This is a nuclear missile for us! This is a club for us!
It was Observer.

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