Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 601

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 71
26. WANTED (1)
“Uuuuugh!”
Jia let out a strange sound as she stretched.
“Phew. Finally caught up.”
All the footage from when she went to G-Star had only now been fully edited and uploaded.
“Since I can’t touch the Civil Empire tournament… I’ll have some breathing room for a while.”
The Civil Empire national championship tournament footage was edited first by the channel holding the broadcast rights.
Almond and other personal channels could only touch off-the-record footage prepared outside of the matches.
This wasn’t unique to Civil Empire—all sponsored tournaments operated the same way.
If she thought only about immediate earnings, it might have been disappointing, but since Jia had to edit all the G-Star footage herself, she felt a weight lift off her shoulders.
Ding.
When the notification sound rang from her computer indicating the upload was complete, Jia picked up her phone from the bed.
“Let me check it out.”
Visiting the Almond channel directly was the most reliable way to verify.
[Even the Developer Was Shocked by Almond’s First-Game Skills]
Jetpumped—You Do It Developer Challenge.
Confirmed.
[Almond Reveals the Story of Fighting 40 Against 1 During School Days]
Zombie School Multi Mode.
Confirmed.
[???: How many? These clones, I mean.]
Battle Large Ninja Mode included.
All confirmed.
Now there would be no more G-Star-related footage to edit.
As the upload completed, views gradually increased and comments began pouring in.
-Even the Developer Was Shocked <<< This is actually real lol
└Why are all these titles actually true lol
-???: 38! When a skilled ninja master uses clone technique, there are 38 clones.
└???: There's no 0?
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (laughing/lol)
└Oh lol
└Correct! Almond!
-Finally the edited G-Star footage!!
Almond ham 40 to 1, that's crazy.
-Wow… I can't even beat 1 person in their 40s, so 40 vs 1 is impressive
hahahahahahahaha
└Looks like you've fought people in their 40s before?
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (laughing)
While contentedly watching the comment reactions.
A message arrives on her phone.
Ding.
[Juhyeok: Check this out.]
[Juhyeok: Almond interview]
[Juhyeok: (video)]
Jia tilted her head in confusion.
An interview?
She had been so absorbed in editing that she was completely unaware of the current situation.
So when she tapped the interview video, she couldn't help but be shocked.
"Ah."
Only then did Jia sense it.
The work wasn't finished yet.

* * *
Sanghyeon asked blankly.
"…How?"
How on earth could he mess with this Spanish guy?
Before the game even started?
"This guy clearly wants attention."
"Attention?"
"Yeah. Look at his Runstagram."
Juhyeok tapped through photos one by one as he spoke.
"Photos with all kinds of women, luxury goods, cars—everything that could draw attention on Runstagram, he tags it all."
"Isn't that just their culture?"
Sanghyeon shrugged.
Juhyeok continued.
"But he deliberately tagged you in it. Because your video went viral. He's trying to ride on your coattails."
That was it.
Tagging Almond was both a provocation and an attempt to draw attention.
"He wants to share some of the attention that's focused on you."
"Ah…."
Almond nodded, but asked again.
"So?"
The question circled back to the beginning.
"How does that relate to messing with him?"
"Once you know what your opponent wants, you take it away. That's how you mess with them."
Juhyeok held up his phone and waved it.
It was a message exchange with Jia.
[Jia: Got it]
[Jia: It should blow up soon]
I wasn't sure what Sanghyeon was uploading, but something was definitely in motion.
"He tagged us to get attention faster. But that was his mistake."
Juhyeok chuckled as he spoke.
"We saw his video when it had zero views."
"?"
It seemed like he'd just revealed something momentous, but I still had no idea what Juhyeok was planning.
'Just stay quiet.'
In situations like this, things always went smoothly when I simply stayed silent, didn't ask questions, and didn't interfere.
Sure enough, Juhyeok started getting excited and talking more.
"We're going to upload a video too. His entire interview. And our video will get way more clicks than his. In our video, nobody will even know if he's Tres or trash."
It was essentially algorithm hijacking.
Creating a copy that surpasses the original.
If Juhyeok's plan worked, at least throughout Korea and the English-speaking world, everyone would see Tres's video as the one Jia uploaded.

* * *
The editing didn't take long.
It wasn't particularly difficult editing. Just splice Almond's interview with the Spain interview, add subtitles, and give it an unusual title.
There was barely any cut editing, so it was quick.
[International Tournament Trash Talk: Korea VS Spain]
The video was created with this title.
The video was immediately uploaded to Almond's Runstagram account and OlTube.
This was less than an hour after Tres's video went up.
[Views: 15,000]
[Views: 50,000]
[Views: 108,000]
.
.
.
OlTube was breaking past 100,000 views in just an hour, and Runstagram was also surpassing 50,000.
However…
I tilted my head in confusion.
"But… our view count is falling behind?"
We were far from catching up to their view count.
In Spain, the international tournament had firepower comparable to the domestic Rildcup.
And since Tres, an Assistant Commander, uploaded a video taunting his opponents, it was getting quite a few views.
It wasn't a huge gap, but there was a difference of around 100,000 to 200,000 views.
"Ah, this? We're holding a bomb, so it's fine."
"…A bomb?"
Juhyeok picked up the phone I'd been holding.
As if it were the detonation button for that bomb.
"Look. This tagging feature has something like this. It was created because so many people kept harassing celebrities."
When someone tags you on Runstagram and posts something, they're supposed to get your permission first. However…
In reality, the notification comes after the post is already uploaded.
Getting permission every single time a post goes up would clog the traffic.
Because of that, people often tagged others without permission and caused problems.
Especially for celebrities.
So the feature that was created was tag rejection.
[Tag Rejection]
When you reject a tag, the post becomes inactive.
[Private Request]
"…!"
Sanghyeon's eyes went wide.
Tres's post had disappeared.
It wasn't just the Runstagram post that vanished.
The post on the connected OlTube account also disappeared.
To be precise, it had been set to private for the public.
"There. Now the only interview with Tres in this world is our video."
Juhyeok chuckled with delight.

* * *
"What!? What is this!?"
Tres, who had been checking his account eagerly to see how many likes he'd gotten, was startled.
"Damn!"
Bang!
He slammed the table hard in frustration.
"What happened!? The momentum was so hot! The post got set to private!"
"…?"
Uno glanced over from beside him.
He was also curious whether Tres's interview had actually upset the Koreans or not.
'It seems clear that Tres is the one who's upset.'
All Uno could confirm was an upset Tres.
What happened?
After looking into it briefly, Uno spoke.
"Hmm. Looks like you got your tag rejected."
"Tag… rejected?"
"Yeah. You know, the stalking issue thing where if you tag someone they can reject it and it goes private."
"That doesn't make sense. It worked fine until now. If they were going to reject it, they would've done it long ago!"
"Not everyone stares at Runstagram all day like you do. They probably didn't even know they were tagged, and when some foreigner tagged them, they just hit reject."
Uno himself couldn't even imagine that they had deliberately timed the rejection.
It didn't matter.
Even in this situation where there was no intentionality in the timing, Tres was furious to the tips of his hair.
"F-f-fuck!"
Tres shot up from his seat and cursed at the empty air.
"Is this guy a total coward!? He rejected the tag? That's legitimate trash talk!?"
"Legitimate trash talk… doesn't that sound contradictory?"
Though Uno spoke in a provocative tone, he found it strange too.
'It is odd. Wasn't he the one who enjoyed doing that sort of thing?'
If he himself had made comments about an invincible fleet or whatever, shouldn't he let it slide if the opponent said similar things?
Of course, he could be angry, but at least there seemed to be no reason to reject the tag.
Or was he more petty than he thought?
"Damn it… I'll just remove the tag and reupload it. There were so many comments. Hell."
Well, removing the tag and reuploading would solve the problem.
It wasn't really something to be this upset about in the first place.
Tres just had some kind of mental issue.
There was over a 90 percent chance the other person didn't even know what video they were being tagged in and just rejected it. Anyone would do the same if some foreign account tagged them.
Uno was about to move on with that thought.
"Wait…"
While checking his Runstar account, he was startled.
"Your interview video. It's on Runstar again?"
"…What?"
Tres rushed over and thrust his face forward.
It really was there.
It was Tres's interview video.
It was showing up as a recommended video on Uno's account.
"This is definitely that video, right? Who reposted it so quickly?"
It was definitely the same video.
But there was one thing that was completely different.
"But… why is his face blurred out!?"
If the video spread like this and Tres himself became known, that would be good… but Tres's name and face were both obscured.
Why?
"Because it's not your account—it's Aamond's account."
Because Aamond was the owner of this video.
"…!?"
Tres's expression became one of disbelief, and Uno couldn't help but admire it.
Even rejecting the tag was part of the psychological warfare of trash talk.
"Hahahaha! That's hilarious! He rejected the tag right on cue!"
You could see Tres's resolute determination not to let even a single bit of traffic go to Tres.
In fact, that determination manifested effectively. Now all the related views were being funneled to the other side.
And those views became meaningless to Tres.
People couldn't tell whether the person being interviewed was Tres, Trash, or anyone else.
"Ahahaha! You think uploading it now will do you any good? Huh?"
They'd already monopolized the relevant algorithm, so even if I removed the tags and uploaded it again now, it wouldn't gain traction in English or Korean-speaking communities.
It was a perfect counter punch.
Uno was delighted, laughing so hard his sides hurt.
Watching that attention-seeking bastard Tres suffer such a catastrophic defeat was simply too enjoyable.
"C-crazy… This… Did you bastards do this on purpose!? On purpose!?"
"So what, your hand slipped and accidentally rejected the tags, then slipped again and covered your face, and you re-edited and re-uploaded the entire video by accident!? You idiot! Think for once!"
Ahahaha!
Uno laughed uproariously with his mouth wide open.
"Damn it!"
Tres threw something into that gaping mouth.
A cigarette butt.
"Ptooey!?"
Uno jumped up in shock, spitting and cursing profusely.
"Hey! Hey! Stop right there!"

* * *
The butterfly effect rippled outward, and what Almond had angered wasn't just Tres anymore.
Tres had been causing chaos throughout the team.
"Arghhhhhh!"
"W-why is this crazy bastard like this!?"
"It's… because of the interview."
Not just Uno, but everyone learned what happened.
"He's been getting views off our interview!? How inconsiderate!"
"Aamond is in that kind of relationship with the Runstagram CEO!? So he pulled strings behind the scenes!?"
"Aamond's father is from England, so that's why he said those things!? These damn pirates! No wonder they were pirating the video too!"
The rumors spread from mouth to mouth, with sensational false information added along the way.
Eventually, such a post even appeared on the Civil Empire community in Spain.
[WANTED]
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Aamond
DEAD or ALIVE
Bounty: Currently being raised
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It was unclear whether it was a joke or serious, but one thing was certain—Spanish players now all knew who Aamond was.
And the next day.
[Spain VS Joseon]
Finally, the day the match began.
One thought occupied the minds of most Spanish players.
'I'll take his head.'
I would become the hero who slays the Devil in the Interview!

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