Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 578

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 48
18. Thorough Verification (1)
When fights break out in the community, posts like this occasionally appear.
[The real identities of those bashing A right now.jpg]
But when you actually click in, it’s just a bait post.
There’s no actual evidence of their identities, just random unrelated accusations.
Usually, they pick things with poor public images to discredit the opposing faction.
For example….
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The “Big Three Telecom Companies”
Whether the country goes to hell or not, they just keep trying to introduce “telecom fees” by framing YouTubers and Streamers’ lives as complete disasters, trying to erase any criticism
Among them, the target ~~ keeps making only correct statements, so they’re coming in as a group to bury it.
As evidence, all the IPs of those bashing here are from the Big Three Telecom Companies
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They just randomly connect things to bash the opponent.
The example post actually has a stronger intention to make people laugh with absurd logic rather than to bash the opponent.
-Telecom lol so true lol
-Lmao the evidence checks out
-Serious) Everyone writes on phones so obviously they have telecom company IPs. OP certified idiot
└Facts
-Telecom fees lololol
Most posts are this kind of absurd humor.
At some point it became a meme, and there was never any actual information posted.
So honestly, no one expected it.
[The real identities of those bashing Almond.avi]
That a post with this title would be ‘real’.
-Everyone expecting the Big Three Telecom Companies lol
└Why isn’t it? lol
└For real where’s the telecom fee?
-Wait, why is it actually their real identities?
└For real lol
-Huh??? Damn lol what if they actually get caught lol
A scene of them actually posting in the community and inciting people was captured on video.
This shocked even the community users themselves.
In fact, their personal information was captured clearly enough to be identifiable.
-Damn, aren’t those the auction guys??
-Isn’t that Dehaep?? Their clothes are Dehaep?
└For real lol
-These Dehaep bastards are typing away on their keyboards lol
└Their posture looks like they’re being sucked into the monitor
└Dehaep’s waist bent like a bow…
To anyone watching, they were the Dehaepdeul who had been at the scene.

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The next morning.
A lodging near the G-Star venue.
“Uuuugh…!”
Sanghyeon stretched and rose from bed.
I glanced around the surroundings with bleary eyes for a moment.
‘What did I do yesterday.’
I’d been so exhausted that I’d collapsed into sleep, and yesterday’s events felt like a blur.
I didn’t dwell on the fading memories and instead called out to the bed across from me.
“You sleeping more?”
Juhyeok answered while waving his arm through the air.
“Hmmmmm….”
“Okay~”
Understanding perfectly, I got up from the bed.
“I’m heading down for breakfast first.”
I prepared myself quickly and headed toward the floor where breakfast was being served.
The thick carpet lining the hallway felt warm beneath my feet. There was a certain charm to this old hotel.
As I approached the breakfast buffet area, the murmur of conversations mingled with the aroma of coffee.
“One person, please.”
“Yes~ I’ll show you to your seat.”
The employee guided me to a table with a smile.
I casually marked my territory with a few small belongings, then grabbed some coffee.
“Hmm.”
The coffee smelled wonderful.
I was beginning to wake up properly.
Now I tried to recall those fading memories.
I opened my phone and accessed the community.
Whenever there was an issue, the community had recorded it in far greater detail than my own memory.
“Wow….”
I marveled at the list of trending posts.
Even the protagonist of Memento would recover all their memories seeing these titles.
1st Place) Identity of the thugs oppressing Almond.avi
2nd place) Those damn bastards perish miserably! lol
3rd place) Breaking news! Even without doing Almond Hitman, they’re in 1st place lololololol
4th Place) Sang-hyun Yu <<< This guy's basically a god lol
5th Place) Photo evidence of the thugs manipulating community opinion in issue threads
6th Place) Analysis: The points Almond received at the final challenge booth—something's wrong with this??
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From 1st to 10th place, every single post was about Almond.
Everything from the beginning of the controversy to its resolution was documented.
"Sip."
Sipping my coffee, I pondered the situation.
If I'd earned money based on post clicks, I'd have made tens of millions of won by now. Of course, that was a pointless thought.
'Let me check them one by one.'
My thumb moved.
I tapped on the 1st place post titled [The True Identity of Those Hating on Almond.avi].
The post contained a brief description along with an attached video.
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Lol look at these people who participated in the auction stirring up the community in real-time
(video)
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I had no idea how the video was even recorded, but it showed what appeared to be Dehaep members with laptops open, actively writing posts on the community forum.
-What's going on?
-Wow, so they really do gather like this to stir things up. That's actually terrifying
-Are they using shadow clones while manipulating comments???
It wasn't just circumstantial footage—the video was shot in such high definition that you could even see the process of them writing community posts on their screens.
-The quality is like a Netflix documentary lol you can see everything
-(link) This is the post that bastard was writing in the video lol
└Wow, no way
└This got dozens of recommendations instantly and became a trending issue
└The IP shows G-Star area?? So it's real
-They must've been really desperate, doing this right there
└Timing is everything lol
-Getting caught red-handed like this?? lol
Usually, accusations of stirring up trouble or manipulating public opinion from behind the scenes
are difficult to prove with concrete evidence.
From my perspective, I was incredibly fortunate that such a video even existed.
With such irrefutable evidence now revealed, public opinion naturally flipped completely.
-So they really were stirring things up…
-(link) Check out this post lol these are the Dehaep members who got destroyed at the auction
└Wait, they're doing this because they lost the auction???
└They've lost it
-Ladies and gentlemen, you are now witnessing a cyber invasion from the North
└Why is this so funny lol
-Mond, what kind of battle have you been fighting…
└lol seriously
└From now on, anyone who criticizes Almond is basically a North Korean agent, you bastards
└lmao
Almond's image improved dramatically.
Not only did his subscriber count skyrocket, but his view counts climbed even more steeply.
Not just G-Star, but all of his gaming videos were seeing view increases of over 20%.
There had been times before when he'd benefited from controversy.
But never with such a massive surge.
Because the scale of the controversy was different, the returns were proportionally larger.
Even those who'd been criticizing him began shifting their stance, and comments like these appeared on every video.
-So you've been fighting against the world's unfair criticism all along…
-I'm sorry for criticizing you. I'll crack my own head open and give you my brain.
-Son! When you grow up, you need to apologize to Almond!? Son! When you grow up, you need to apologize to Almond!?
Sanghyeon had actually profited greatly from this controversy.
'It really… converted into cash.'
The silly thought I'd had moments ago had become reality.
Community views were literally being converted into money.
"…Jackpot."
Almond relaxed a bit, got up briefly, and brought back bread and biscuits.
Especially after bringing back a generous amount of banana bread studded with nuts, I picked up my phone again.
While I was gone, there was a notification on my phone.
[A video has been uploaded to the Almond channel.]
[Unknown: Is this good? I seriously don't know]
Jia had uploaded another video.
True to her nature of striking while the iron is hot, it seemed the storm of uploads would continue.
The video's reception was naturally positive, and the view count climbed at a crazy pace.
-The skill is insane lolololol
-Chat wtf Dehaep's back is bent like a bow what the heck lolol
-Dehaep happiness history lol
-Wait, so those guys criticizing were Dehaep?? Now I know lolololol
-Damn, Reina's bow is crazy though
Wow, I want one too ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
-It can be used in Legend Tale, that's insane???
-Doesn't Almond have Legend Tale drops too?
In a situation like this, AllTube's algorithm would continue favoring us for quite some time.
I was contentedly watching the video reactions while stuffing bread into my mouth one bite at a time.
"Um. You're Almond, right? Are you eating alone?"
"?"
A stranger had approached me.
No matter how hard I tried to remember, I couldn't place the face.
"I… gave you my business card back then. Ha ha."
He pulled out his business card again and greeted me.
"My team leader was a bit much back then, so I'd like to apologize on behalf of the company. I'm Kang-yeol Heo from Nabi Entertainment."
'So he was an entertainment company employee. This was getting interesting…'
Sanghyeon glanced at his phone screen with a reluctant expression.
Still, since the man was speaking to me, I couldn't completely ignore him and offered a polite nod.

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While Almond was leisurely enjoying breakfast at the hotel.
G-Star continued its relentless pace today as well.
Though not quite as intense as opening day, just look at the long lines of people waiting to enter.
G-Star remained packed with passionate gamers burning with enthusiasm.
"Wow! G-Star's open tournament is already heating up today, isn't it?"
On this cold day, there was someone else besides gamers breathing out visible vapor while burning with passion.
"Hello! Would it be possible to get an interview?"
It was a rookie journalist doing on-site reporting.
She was making her rounds through the entire G-Star venue, conducting interviews with gamers every single day.
"Oh, yes."
"Where are you from?"
"I… came from Gwangju."
"Wow! You came from so far away! What brought you all this way?"
"Oh, I'm pretty good at adapting to new games. I came to try the challenges, win some prizes, and see some good games…"
"Ah! The challenges! You came for the challenges? Do you have a goal for this challenge?"
"My goal is Almond…"
The man trailed off with a slightly embarrassed laugh.
"Wow. Almond set some incredible records this time. Do you think you can do it?"
"No way. That guy's impossible."
His friend interjected and cut him off.
The journalist laughed and asked his friend.
"What's your goal?"
"You know that gun game Almond did? I'm going to try that."
"Oh…? Hitman Simulator! Why?"
"First, I need to do that properly before I can even think about catching up to Almond or not. I'm actually pretty good at gun games."
"Wait, so you're also thinking of following Almond's score? But you just said your friend couldn't do it…"
"He can't, but I can. I'm better than him."
"Ah. Ha ha ha. You two must be best friends. That's great."
The journalist gave them words of encouragement before moving on to conduct other interviews.
She asked them all similar questions.
"What brought you to G-Star?"
The answers varied. There were developers who came to research new games, and people who simply came out of curiosity about how the new games turned out.
However, the answers from those who came to take on the challenge were all remarkably similar.
"I came to try the Hitman challenge."
"Ah. To be honest, I thought I could do it too."
"That game Almond played…? I want to give it a shot."
"Today I'm going to try and match Almond's points."
Many had come rushing in, hoping to either catch up to Almond's points or attempt the game he'd played.
But they didn't know.
That challenges at this booth today were fundamentally impossible.

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When Almond became a trending topic due to his challenge points.
Most people remembered the scene of his acceptance speech asking for a tenfold increase, his Hitman Simulator gameplay, and his overwhelming score, among other things….
Only these sensational elements.
That's why they missed this information, which had been mixed in ever so slightly among the posts on the community forum.
「…We can't even operate tomorrow and the day after because of how much was given out….」
Since few people carefully examined the usual rumors circulating in the community, such minor incidents often went unnoticed and passed by.
Aren't there plenty of people who skim even major news and only read the comments? It was only natural.
Even if they'd glanced over it carelessly, it wouldn't have been a major problem.
It simply meant a few people found themselves in an awkward situation.
"M-Manager? They're asking to open the challenge!?"
"What? No, we're not doing it today. Just have them watch a game demonstration and leave."
"B-But there are so many people asking…."
"…!?"
A crowd of people swarmed in front of the Hitman Simulator booth.
The employees, who had never imagined such a sight.
Had come to work thinking they'd just meet with industry professionals and chat, so their eyes went wide.
"What… why are there so many people? There weren't this many yesterday. And we can't even give out points…."
"They're saying it's fine if we don't give points! They just want to do exactly what Almond did!"
"…?"

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