Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 492

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 212
74. The Festival Begins (1)
Almond had charged straight through the controversy.
After that, Rilpro was consumed by nothing but heated debates—or rather, fierce arguments—about what countered Sori.
Posts discussing Sori’s performance disappeared entirely.
More precisely, people didn’t have the leisure to write such posts.
When Almond visited Rilpro, fans flooded the site so intensely it nearly crashed.
[Almond! Take me with you!]
[Nut love ^^7]
[Boss. We’ve secured this territory.]
These posts weren’t merely attention-grabbing—they actually went viral.
Viral) When I grow up, I’ll become Sori
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Only Sang-hyun Yu can handle me, right?
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hahahahaha
And he’s acting crazy lol
-Is this some kind of Nut Clan call-out?
I never thought you’d actually visit this place in person lol
Haha, honestly it’s so funny, Big Dream.
lol that’s funny
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It wasn’t easy for a post about a Streamer to go viral on the popular Rilpro community, nor should it happen.
The drawbacks outweigh the benefits. You could end up making unnecessary enemies.
“Everyone. Please stop the attacks now.”
Stop~! ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-If you were gonna stop, why start in the first place, CEO!? Huh!?
-It’s already too late… We… can’t go back to how things were
Almond tried to calm them down.
But once the Nut Clan had started rampaging, even their leader couldn’t stop them.
The Rilpro bombardment only ceased when Part 2 began.
In other words, it stopped at the broadcast’s end.
“Now we’ll begin Part 2~”
Beginning Part 2….
Though calling it a beginning, it’s really an ending.
I’m crying / Sob sob sob
Starting to end lol cry
-It’s the broadcast ending, dude!
-We’re~~~ beginning~~~ the broadcast end~~~~~
Part 2 is a Civil Empire national championship scrim.
Broadcasting was impossible anyway, so I ended the stream here.
“See you next time!”
I’m crying so hard
Ugh, Dad ㅠㅠㅠ
-Take care!
-Fighting!
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Juhyeok, who had been monitoring Rilpro’s situation, wiped his forehead for no particular reason.
“Phew. Things are finally normalizing.”
If the Rilpro bombardment had continued, Almond would have been the one getting criticized instead.
“Entering the community directly is risky.”
Thinking he’d need to stop this next time, Juhyeok leaned back in his chair.
He removed his frameless glasses, which followed him around like they were part of his body.
The tension drained from his muscles, and stray thoughts flooded in.
“Sigh.”
When I’m focused on work, I don’t think about it much.
But I’m only human—it keeps nagging at me.
Sang-hyun Yu.
I know this person well, yet I don’t know him at all.
How did we become close at the company?
Isn’t that how it sometimes happens? Everyone else says it doesn’t happen to them, but I just find this person comfortable.
Sang-hyun Yu was that kind of person for me.
I suppose it was his self-centered yet eccentric personality that appealed to me.
For someone like me who’d only ever seen people confined by convention, that kind of person felt refreshing.
Even if he was odd and sometimes did strange things. He was consistent. He seemed like someone with a solid center.
That’s why, if he were employing me out of human affection, I thought he’d tell me directly. Or at least it would show.
‘But… maybe I don’t really know him after all.’
This thought suddenly occurred to me.
If everyone else sees it as him using me because of his friendship with Sanghyeon,
then isn’t that the truth?
Isn’t that more objective than what I see from this narrow first-person perspective?
Maybe Sang-hyun Yu is just weak to sentiment.
Maybe I don’t know Sang-hyun Yu as well as I thought…
Smack.
Juhyeok slapped his own cheek for no good reason, then straightened his posture again.
“G-Star. Let me just think about G-Star.”
Either way, while I’m working as a manager, I need to give my best and deliver maximum efficiency.
Whatever my employer thinks, I’m receiving payment and I have a contract.
Juhyeok set aside his thoughts for a moment and examined the G-Star schedule and participating companies.
G-Star was a festival with the character of a game exhibition.
If you compared it to film, it was like a film festival.
Just as filmmakers often submitted their works to film festivals to gain opportunities for international distribution.
G-Star served a similar purpose for Streamers, game companies, and various industry professionals.
And….
‘For me too.’
It was a major opportunity for Juhyeok as well.
Because G-Star was precisely where my Manager could truly shine.
Game companies could promote their games and catch the eyes of investors.
Streamers could secure advertising deals from game companies.
Landing these advertisements.
The Streamer’s Manager played a crucial role in this process.
In sports terms, it was like becoming the agent of a free agent player.
‘Though it’s not quite that grand.’
Of course, if I truly compared it to the sports industry, this side paled in comparison.
Still, it was the biggest opportunity a Streamer Manager could hope for.
‘I just need to prove myself.’
An opportunity to demonstrate my capabilities as a Manager was approaching.
This was perhaps a sign.
A call to prove myself.
Juhyeok chose to believe this.
Or rather, he believed that choosing to believe was advantageous.

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The night grew dark.
Jia began editing the livestream that had aired today.
Since Almond had openly set up the perfect YouTube angle, the editing seemed like it would be quite smooth.
[Juhyeok: This part was pretty funny. It’d be good to include it.]
In fact, Juhyeok had sent her a message.
He’d captured a few community posts and sent them to her.
Juhyeok occasionally sent her posts like these that could help with her editing.
When he did this, it was quite convenient for Jia.
She didn’t have to go into the community herself and painstakingly review unwanted posts, and thanks to the reactions Juhyeok had curated, the video’s concept often came together better.
‘So this is….’
As expected, the post Juhyeok had sent this time was quite entertaining.
It was good enough to build the entire video’s concept around.
‘It would be nice to add this concept to the discipline scene.’
The content was already good, but with a solid concept added, the view count was bound to skyrocket.
The results could be seen the next day.

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The next day.
A video was uploaded to Almond’s channel, which had been quiet due to filming schedules for the Avatar of Rilpro.
It wasn’t a video about the Avatar of Rilpro. That video would be uploaded to the production company’s channel.
[The Peculiar ADC Almond]
That was the title of the video.
The thumbnail had “Haters Get Their Just Desserts” written in large letters.
The video began by showing posts from the community.
[It’s all fabricated]
[Sori is trash]
[Why Sori is garbage]
[Look at these idiots saying Almond’s Avatar of Rilpro isn’t fake]
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Posts that would make any of Almond’s fans furrow their brows.
Over them, a caption appeared.
[Our beloved Nut Fans, constantly facing baseless accusations…]
Soon Almond’s face appeared on screen, showing the broadcast.
[He is now selecting his sacrifice.]
A close-up edit showed Almond’s eyes darting toward the chat.
A moment later….
[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?]
Boom.
With the sound effect, one of the countless hateful comments enlarges and appears on screen.
-So you’re saying it’s not rigged?
-So you’re saying there’s no rigging on sponsored broadcasts?
You’re saying you beat Popcorn with a new character?ㅋㅋㅋ
-Honestly, I’d probably win too if I came with a new Avatar
A caption rises above it.
[Such uniformly captivating chat messages with not a single flaw….]
With the middle process skipped over, Almond speaks.
[I’ll clear up the misunderstanding for you. Please call out an ID.]
With this, the confrontation between Almond and the hater begins.
And the result was exactly as everyone who watched the live broadcast knew it would be.
[Chiki-cha!]
[Chiki-cha!]
With two Chiki-chas, the opponent couldn’t last three minutes and got eliminated.
After that, the video’s ending shows Rilpro’s situation, which had changed 180 degrees.
[So, if Jen lands all her combos while Sori is moving via rope, would a one-shot be possible? Let’s calculate.]
The video ends while displaying the full text of this post.
The response was quite good.
AllTube subscribers started excitedly leaving comments. The number of comments was unusual.
Can’t even last 3 minutes? lololol
-Who was that guy saying his instant ramen won!
That’s hilarious lol
└If you get three-minute killed, it’s snack noodles or no one can beat it~
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (lol/hahaha)
Many people were ecstatic about the opponent losing a one-on-one in just three minutes.
But there were also many subscribers making parodies of the final post and playing comment games.
And most importantly, this fact was revealed.
-That person’s a streamer. I didn’t know because I’m a casual, but if you search the ID, they’re a streamer. A Starlight Priestess specialist.
└Whoa, chills
He deliberately tried to provoke a reaction.
└Scheming Snow White…
That’s not a translatable phrase – it’s a Korean emoticon/ASCII art representing a person lying down or collapsed, often used to express exhaustion, despair, or finding something hilarious.
It was revealed that Snow White was a streamer. AllTube had so many viewers compared to the live broadcast that almost everything got exposed.
With this, viewers grew even more angry, and the view count continued to skyrocket.
-She’s a streamer but left hate comments
-Inferiority complex…
-Hey. Scheming Snow White. You first beat “Spring Day’s Belly Fat Balloon Gum”
“Why did Gum hyung suddenly ㅋㅋㅋ”
What the heck, you’re crazy lol
I didn’t know it was Bok Nal (dog days of summer) lol
The belly fat on Bok Day lololololololololol
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“Wow. This video’s getting a great response.”
Around lunchtime.
Sanghyeon sat on the sofa, looking at his phone as he spoke.
It wasn’t exactly talking to himself.
But there was no answer coming back.
“…?”
Sanghyeon felt awkward about speaking up and turned to look at Juhyeok.
He was rummaging through the kitchen cabinets.
At least, that’s what it appeared to be on the surface.
He’d simply opened one cabinet door and was standing there blankly, staring into it without doing anything.
“Looking for something?”
Even when asked, there was still no answer.
“Hey!”
“Ah… Huh!?”
Only then did Juhyeok turn around.
“What are you looking for?”
“Ah… I was just thinking about G-Star.”
Tap. Tap.
“I was looking for ramen. Let’s eat something simple.”
For once, it was ramen instead of rice.
A moment later.
A bowl of ramen with a bright red broth appeared on the table.
“Seems like you have a lot on your mind about G-Star.”
Sanghyeon asked casually from across the table.
Juhyeok nodded and slurped a mouthful of ramen with his chopsticks.
“Yeah. A lot.”
Whether it was because he was eating ramen or not, his answer was unusually brief.
Usually Juhyeok became more talkative when his interests came up.
‘Is he really thinking about G-Star?’
Sanghyeon felt doubtful.
And worried.
Perhaps Juhyeok had seen those management employees who had approached him earlier to talk. Or maybe he’d overheard something.
If he seemed different from usual, that was the only thing that stood out.
If it wasn’t that….
“How’s Jia doing?”
“Jia? Of course she’s doing well. You saw the video she uploaded today, didn’t you?”
Slurp.
Juhyeok was absorbed in eating his ramen again.
‘So Jia’s doing fine? Then it really is because of me, isn’t it?’
While I was thinking it was my fault after all, Juhyeok’s expression suddenly darkened as he ate his ramen.
“…Ah. Sigh.”
He suddenly remembered an incident he’d forgotten about.
‘What was that check card about? Could he have spent it all himself?’
Clunk.
He’d lost his appetite, so he took the ramen bowl and put it in the sink.
“I’m done eating.”
Sanghyeon, who had been watching him, became even more confused.
‘What is this. Seriously.’
It felt like he’d done something even bigger wrong.
After that, several days just passed like that.
I played games, Juhyeok managed the chat and scheduled advertisements, and Jia uploaded videos.
Everything was flowing along as it normally did.
Yet the awkward feeling between Juhyeok and me still wouldn’t go away.
And so….
“Welcome to G-Star!”
The day G-Star began had arrived.
“VIPs are this way!”

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