Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 598

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 68
24. The Devil in the Interview (3)
Last year, at the end of the year.
It was a story from less than two months ago from now.
“Ahhhhh! F-finally, right now all Korean clubs are… stuck at the quarterfinals…! They fail to cross the threshold of the quarterfinals!”
The Rildcup standings crumbled miserably.
Every club from the Korean league was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
“An unprecedented situation, right?! Two years ago was the first time there were no Korean teams in the finals! This year became the first time there were no Korean teams in the semifinals!?”
“And since we couldn’t win the championship last year either, this must be a huge disappointment for domestic fans…”
“I think the shock will be significant not just domestically, but internationally as well… I’m in quite a state of shock myself.”
The shock to domestic fans went without saying, and internationally, this incident was so shocking that people called it ‘LAK Bottom’.
It was truly a situation that showed the rock bottom of the Korean league.
Even if you don’t win the championship, you get cursed in the Korean league.
Since they didn’t even make the semifinals, let alone win the championship, public sentiment was utterly devastated.
[In the end, we got completely overtaken by China… Can’t help it if we’re losing in capital?]
[Hwang~sammer~ni~ Hwang~ Sa mer~~ni!]
Look at what the Chinese kids are doing and learn from them. You can’t just keep avoiding fights all the time.
[Korea wasn’t strong, it was Jeon-ja-pa who was strong…]
Why the hell did our country’s top laners become like this??
At this point, experts made their assessments.
They said this current state of public opinion was the most dangerous moment in Rilpro esports history.
Because people were cursing the players harshly?
Or cursing the coaching staff?
Or holding protests to overturn the entire industry?
It would have been better if that were the case.
You can only curse and scream when there’s a will to change something.
You can only do it when there’s interest.
When people truly lose interest, they simply stop watching.
In other words, Rilpro’s view counts began plummeting rapidly.
[Wow the community views dropped so much]
Is it true that you can go big just by hitting 15 bigs?ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Get rid of the ad spammers—did the mods quit too??]
All the phenomena that occur when view counts drop sharply were appearing.
Most notably, cliquishness between advertisers and users.
[The board died because Rildcup died]
[It’s just people doing clique stuff…]
“Did Reel Pro f*** up? They’re just sitting around doing nothing, ugh…”
They called each other by nicknames, knew each other’s histories, and filled an entire page of the board with their own conversations.
It was no longer a community, but rather becoming like a group chat.
When it gets like this, the view counts drain away even faster.
[Wow… I never thought I’d see camaraderie on Rilpro.]
-Yeah, this place is ours now~ Get lost~
Hahaha, for real
-Your fault for coming to the community
Camaraderie was something you’d never see in communities where many people used Rilpro together.
But those days were gone now.
More than half the bulletin board was filled with nothing but chatter as people called out each other’s usernames.
[Want to see Kim Chungsun’s face]
[Changed Lane Fake Win<<< Why this bastard is a gimmick]
[Changed Lane Nuel, where do you live?]
All of this happened in an instant after the Ril Cup.
There were only posts lamenting how the community was ruined by camaraderie and advertisements.
"Apology TV legend lol kids who haven't seen it are really pitiful hahaha"
I want to kill those bastards.
[$$$$Safe Playground Dirty Play$$$ <>>> M-bul]
“Want to watch the national team match? ‘Neck out'”
[And starting 1 hour later lol]
Who wants to see a former national team trainee fondling the championship trophy? haha
Why are you talking about some random game on Reel Pro, damn it?
[Honestly, Civil Empire talk is better than Rilpro becoming a camaraderie group chat, thumbs up~]
Rather than having Rilpro flooded with camaraderie talk, they judged it better to keep bringing up Civil Empire even if it was a different game.
Is it true that even Big can’t go? ㅠ
[Wow… These camaraderie people are relentless]
[Cancer bastards]
However, most Civil Empire talk couldn’t reach the Big board.
The Big board was still dominated by camaraderie users.
Eventually, most people just evacuated to M-bul.
[Sigh, why do this on Rilpro, let’s go to M-bul]
[Let’s go to M-bul]
[We’ve evacuated~]
M-bul’s traffic was already skyrocketing.
With Rilpro’s refugees pouring in, the situation had escalated to an unmanageable level.
Eventually, the Korean team claimed victory, and just as Almond was about to give an interview.
[ERROR]
[Crash! We apologize. Server not found.]
M-bul crashes.
Damn, he’s back again lol
As soon as it started, it’s exploding lol
Did Emvul actually burst? lol
[Wow, legendary match]
[Almond Interview is hilarious lol]
After that, the refugees who had fled to M-bul naturally began gathering back at Rilpro.
The afterglow of victory hadn’t faded yet, so there was plenty they wanted to discuss.
This energy translated directly into recommendations and views….
Big) Esports makes a damn comeback
Finally, a proper ‘Big’ post appears amidst all the networking and advertisement spam.
In a way, a historic moment.
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We hereby declare that Rilpro has been liberated from the era of networking ads, advertisement spam, and illegal gambling sites!
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-Ahhhh~
-Long live Korean independence!!!!
Ugh, those bastards who used to mess with me are all dead now lolololol
-Let’s normalize this place~
-Jesus sports makes a damn comeback!
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Jesus Sports
-It’s good that we’re alive again… but I heard we were revived through a contract with the demon of interviews. Is this truly a righteous revival?
└Why are you nitpicking about that
└As long as we’re alive, that’s what matters…
Hahahahahahaha (laughing)
└The demon’s talent for real
Haha, that’s hilarious!
Starting with this post that received an enormous number of recommendations, the Big recommendation threshold gradually began to rise.
Networking posts that barely received 40-50 recommendations at most gradually disappeared from Big, replaced by posts about international competitions.
And so, when Sanghyeon finished his interview and wrapped up the strategy meeting with his teammates before entering Rilpro….
“Oh. Wait. There’s no talk about this kind of thing on Rilpro?”
“What? Why are you looking for Civil Empire talk on Rilpro!?”
“Huh? No, it’s all Civil Empire talk?”
Rilpro had changed significantly.
“Even Big is all Civil Empire…?”
Not only was everything about Civil Empire, but there were also numerous reactions about the interview, exactly as I had hoped.
Juhyeok’s face paled with shock, but Sanghyeon chuckled softly as he scanned through the titles.
Big) France and Spain’s first reactions to the Interview Demon lolololol
Big) Interview Demon “Contract Complete”
Big) Invincible (Not Really) Fleet TMI
Big) Today’s Joseon Strategy Breakdown for Civil Empire Newbies
Big) Ball possession rate. Not a single zero. Invincible (Not Really) Fleet
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“Oh….”
For Sanghyeon, who had wanted interview reactions, these posts seemed impossibly fascinating one after another.
I decided to click through them one by one from the bottom up.
At that moment, my lips were curved up to my ears.
Big) Ball possession rate. Not a single zero. Invincible (Not Really) Fleet…
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This guy’s literally the GOAT of interviews lol +1 lololol
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-Did all that really come out of one guy’s mouth?lololol
-NUT right?
└Nuts… fr this guy’s insane lololol
-Lmaooooo
-Stop letting Almond do interviews omg lololololol
-MVP gets awarded so much he has tons of interviews to do… yet he destroys every single one…
After reading up to here, Sanghyeon’s expression turned puzzled.
“Hmm….”
Is this praise or insult?
This can’t be right. I read further.
-Ball possession rate after so long lololol
-Ten Million Won is a real legend. If you don’t know the context, he honestly just looks like a total idiot lololololol
└fr lololol
-But Ten Million Won was totally fooled lololol
Right. Ten Million Won was fooled by you guys. Holding back these words, Sanghyeon moved to the next post.
“Hmph. This is fabricated. Fabricated.”
“…?”
The next post was about the Interview Demon and something or other.
Probably saying my interview talent is demonic. Sanghyeon wore a satisfied smile.
Big) Interview Demon “Contract Complete”
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???: I’ll spare Rilpro. In exchange, watch all of my interviews.
(Video)
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The video attached below contained Sanghyeon’s interview titled “There’s Not a Single Zero.”
If only I could feel shame and be reborn…
I never knew making a contract with the devil would be this difficult ㅠㅠ
I can’t laugh that hard lol
-“Demon Grand Duke”
-Oh… Now I finally get it! Why the shame fell on us! It was all to save Rilpro!
That’s so funny lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
Hahahahahaha (laughing hard)
Oh, so that’s what it was lolol
No, these bastards…
They’re talking about deals and contracts like watching my interview is such a chore?
Sanghyeon’s cheeks began to puff up with irritation.
‘When they were excited saying it was good, where did that go?’
More than anything, it was shocking that the chat reactions he’d seen during his broadcast were almost identically reflected in the community posts.
Wait? Hold on?
Identical?
‘The reactions being identical means….’
Sanghyeon’s mind spun rapidly to rationalize the situation.
“What do you think?”
Juhyeok asked casually.
“I think this is all rigged too. Everything here seems orchestrated.”
“!?”
Sanghyeon reached the conclusion that these people were no different from their viewers.
Juhyeok’s expression became utterly bewildered.
“What? Are you serious?”
Is the interview really that important? Come to think of it, the only footage that remained from the archery tournament was the interview!
“The only thing I can trust is foreign media….”
Domestic media is corrupt.
I need to check international reactions.
“Foreign media?”
Not superstition?
Juhyeok swallowed that comment and said nothing.
Sanghyeon was clicking on the top post with a rather serious expression.
Big) Spicy warning! French and Spanish locals’ reactions seeing the interview devil for the first time lolololol
Unlike the previous posts, this one was quite lengthy.
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[French Reactions Translated]
-There’s still one match left!
-Who is this gentleman? His mouth is spicy. His face is sweet.
-They say Koreans eat dogs, and sure enough, dog sounds come out of his mouth
└France has Nazis too 😀
-He’s skilled enough to have essentially killed two Royal Knights. Show him the respect he deserves
-France deserved to lose. Everything he said was spot on. Their past victories are just like the Invincible Armada’s reputation
-Send that guy to Squid Game
└He’d probably come back as the winner
└└Agreed
-He’s handsome. Is this the country of BTS?
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The French reactions were a mix of aggressive comments and self-reflective ones.
It seemed they’d become more humble after taking a hit.
Spain’s reaction was different.
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[Spanish Reaction Translation]
-Who is this Chinese guy to speak about the Invincible Armada?
-If Joseon had been near our lands, they would’ve shared the Aztecs’ fate.
-Show some humility before we turn you into well-cured jamón
-Compared to those slow-headed turtle ships, we truly were invincible
-Primitive archers, meet guns and gunpowder!
-Spain’s rival: the British Empire /// Korea’s rival: North Korea
└Facts!
└I’m dying laughing!
-This is trash talk for the next match. I love it. This is what makes it fun.
└But it’ll get boring soon. Korea.
-He’s cute, so I’ll give him a pass.
-Can you give me Runestars’s address? I want to get close to him.
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“Wow….”
Aside from a few traitors dazzled by Sanghyeon’s appearance, Spain seemed to have taken Almond’s provocation hook, line, and sinker.
And so, in this unintended manner, the fervor surrounding the Korea-Spain matchup continued to heat up.

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