Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 883

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 14
5. Touring Performance (2)
Perhaps the content turned out well?
Compared to Evening Wide, the recording time wasn’t particularly long.
It took about three hours.
“Department Manager Jang, you’re doing well, right?”
The PD approaches and asks Sanghyeon.
“Everyone’s heard about Department Manager Jang directing that fake National Team broadcast. I was shocked when I saw the final credits.”
“Ah….”
Only then did Sanghyeon remember.
Where he first met Department Manager Jang.
He was originally a PD for Evening Wide.
“Actually, I wanted to mention that too. But the higher-ups didn’t look favorably on it… Please tell him I apologize. He’ll probably be upset, but he’s still a senior I’ve always liked.”
“Ah, yes. Yes.”
For some reason, I feel like Department Manager Jang would be even happier if I passed that along.
These guys still live worrying about what the higher-ups think….
Either way, since they both like each other, that works out.
That’s when it happened.
Mingu Han chased after Sanghyeon.
He stared at his phone and said this.
“Hey, Sanghyeon. Where’s Two X?”
For a moment, goosebumps ran down Sanghyeon’s spine.
‘I’m done for.’
Mingu Han taps his back repeatedly while laughing.
“No! Man~ this guy’s broadcast time increased so much! This is hilarious, right? But you didn’t do it on purpose, did you? This didn’t get edited out and made it in, right?”
“Ah, yes. Of course.”
Mingu Han is such a heavyweight among comedy panelists that he essentially has editing rights.
“Today, since only people who don’t usually broadcast appeared, I was actually quite worried. That’s why we extended the intro a bit. But it worked out great. Really great.”
Mingu Han offers his hand for a handshake.
“Ah, yes. Thank you.”
“Come back next time.”
“Next time… what would I appear for? I don’t have anything left to win now.”
Pffft.
Kim Tru, who followed alongside, laughs and pats my shoulder reassuringly.
“No, do you only appear if you win? This isn’t an awards podium! Just come on. Just come on.”
“Aha ha.”
So that’s how it is.
From my perspective, having appeared after winning the Nanteu Tournament and then after winning the National Team Tournament, it’s understandable that I’d mistake this for an awards podium.
“Ah. Next time… you know what. The archery athletes are going to win more gold medals, right? Let’s figure out how to get you involved then and coordinate it.”
“Oh….”
Since Mingu Han said it so casually, I thought it was just a joke.
The PD’s eyes light up.
“Oh. That sounds great?”
What, is this actually going to happen?
In truth, I preferred just gaming at home, so I wasn’t entirely sold on the idea.
Still, since they viewed it favorably, all I could do was keep bowing my head.
“Thank you so much. I really appreciate you looking at this favorably.”
“Don’t mention it. By the way, next time you come by, let’s grab a drink together.”
“Yes!”
Mingu Han and Kim Tru exchanged contact information and left.
Serin stood at a distance, watching Mingu Han with what looked like envy.
It seemed she couldn’t exchange contact information due to her profession.
Instead, she found another way.
“Oppa. Let’s follow each other. Okay?”
Serin came right up and followed my Almond Rune Star account, then took a photo with me, tagged me, and posted it.
#FakeNationalTeam #ProudFan #Almond #Joseon
All of this happened in about thirty seconds, so I didn’t even realize I’d been tagged until the next day.
“Wow. Thank you so much!”
After exchanging farewells following the shoot, I headed back with the Archer Squad members.
“Wow… Almond Ham. Somehow feels different now. You’re a celebrity. Completely.”
“That’s why… you were a superstar.”
“You were always a celebrity, you bastards. Right? Hahahaha.”
“That idol guy seemed like he had personal fans coming by.”
The Archer Squad members saw me in a new light.
“Hmm, I guess so.”
When I answered while playing dumb, they all shook their heads, saying I was the same as before.
“Yeah, that’s Almond Ham.”
“Ugh. Hyung, stop using that annoying tone.”
“Grrr….”
Pfft.
Only Danggeun laughed quietly at his words.

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Evening Wide fired off a successful opening salvo for the National Team’s touring performances.
[Evening Wide live this spring?]
[Almond ID screencap.jpg]
[Serin & Almond (warning: malicious shipping)]
True to a major channel’s reputation for securing diverse viewership across all demographics, posts like these began appearing in communities of every conceivable interest.
Korean dramas, male idols, female idols, fishing, and so on.
It was nothing short of indiscriminate bombardment.
-Serin lol must be a concept right?
-Wow today’s outfit coordination is insane
-Almond’s hair is perfect lol
Miho’s biggest rival appears ㄷㄷ
-The Archer unit members look way prettier and more handsome than in the matches lol
-Spam’s got such an impressive presence~
The edited version of this shoot came out incredibly quickly.
After this edit was released, the response was even better.
The true strength of a major channel lies in its editing.
#Trending Video 1st Place
The AllTube video also showed explosive view counts, shooting straight to 1st place in no time.
-This is hilarious lol
Back when I appeared with some idol before, it was so awkward lol, they were crazy talented, totally solo-level material.
“Ugh, I’m so overwhelmed with emotion.”
The reactions at this point were largely dominated by the changed treatment toward Sanghyeon.
This was actually something the production team had meticulously intended from the intro.
And it seemed to work quite well.
-Mingu Han shook, look how fast he bows when meeting state power lol
└State power lol
└Son Heung-min, Kim Yuna, BTS, Song Kang-ho, and Almond let’s go
-Info) Among the panelists, only Serin maintained consistent behavior from last time
└This guy makes no exceptions for women… Sanghyeon
└Just~ face ID
└Serin couldn’t have done better there lol
└If Serin did any better there, she’d have to leave the group
-Mingu Han is also helpless in front of the You Know Club lol
In fact, Evening Wide was just the beginning.
Across both major and minor channels, fake National Team members appeared on nearly every large broadcast, with at least two per channel.
[Ppulranem Interview Seat]
[Fake National Team Interview “This is real to me”]
Almond and Cookie appeared here instead of the Archer unit, and I remember it being quite entertaining thanks to their good conversational skills and hosting.
I remember it being quite entertaining because the storytelling and hosting were good.
As expected, we exchanged numbers and discussed doing archery-related content again next time. Was the title ‘Archery Briefing’ or something?
Anyway, after this video was uploaded, it racked up considerable views and the comments poured in.
Wow, Hee-chul really speaks so well.
└An educated young man
└You can tell he’s read a lot of books and is well-learned
└No wonder his business succeeded lol
-“War Maniac Guk Hee-cheol”
└He goes crazy whenever war history comes up lmaooo
└He literally sacrificed his body for war so he’s definitely obsessed;
Cookie gained the epithet “War Maniac” after appearing on this channel.
He seemed quite pleased with it himself.
Most of all, he said he loved being able to dive deep into strategy discussions on this channel.
-Wow, hearing Cookie talk strategy is seriously insane lol
└I thought it was a mistake, but after hearing the explanation, I’m wondering if this tournament is just for crazy people
-The shop owner is a medieval game enthusiast so he receives it well
-Hee-cheol said the Anto match was the hardest, but honestly I thought it was easy since he was dominating the entire finals;
└The results and the process are different though.
└It’s actually pretty nerve-wracking to those who know what they’re watching.
-Ppulranem’s form was insane
Ppulranem actually became famous through medieval strategy games and Three Kingdoms games, so the two of them got along incredibly well.
-Almond in silent meditation lol
-Ah the strategy talk is so good~
-Where did the smart young man go?
Of course, Sanghyeon didn’t have much to say at that moment.
But he himself insisted that was also content.
Of course, there were also quite a few comments worrying about Cookie’s physical condition.
Cookie, are you getting treatment? ㅠㅠㅠ
-I hope you’ve been healed.
-Wishing you well, Cookie.
The broadcast with Cookie, where we talked strategy for nearly 4 hours straight, wasn’t an easy one either.
But if I had to pick the most difficult broadcast for Sanghyeon, it would be this one.
[Know a Noona]
[K Legolas, Woo-ju Pretty Boy, Joseon’s Savior “Aamond” Appears!]
First of all, the energy was quite high and there were many panelists, but I went out alone.
In other words, I had to handle all the questions and conversations by myself.
-You’re going into a jjimjilbang looking like that? You’re dead today, Sang-hyun Yu lol
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (laughing/lol)
└Scary lol
└Lmaooo
This place had a concept where female comedian panelists sat in a jjimjilbang peeling eggs and chatting.
Exceptionally, on this particular day, a bowl of Almond was prepared instead of eggs.
The filming lasted a whopping seven hours.
Of that, they spent about one hour and forty minutes just describing Almond’s face.
-These noona’s descriptive skills are literary-grade lol
└If this were Joseon era, they’d at least pass the state exam
-Minimum physiognomists
-Kyaa lol
-I think I get why these noonas only called Almond lol
└If they’d called other people, it would’ve been sarcastic lol
└For real lol
-These noonas are like runaway locomotives lol
Fortunately, Lilzandi (surprisingly, it was actually her) who happened to pass by joined in, and the attention shifted for a moment.
-Lilzandi lol doing that weird butt dance again
-Ugh, so awkward;
-Look at Almond’s expression lol
-Haha lol I love seeing Almond suffer lol
Of course, Lilzandi also ended up performing freestyle rap about Almond while dancing.
So in the end, she was just as exhausted.
But Sanghyeon just laughed it off, thinking, ‘At least she didn’t ask me to shake my hips…’
He really wasn’t confident in dancing.
Still, the effort paid off.
[Ran Story Mode broadcast—make sure everyone knows. Almond becomes a sheep]
[Baaaa~ Did Almond really become a sheep?]
[Sheep-mond (Ril)zandi eating grass]
The Almond sheep-head meme was being continuously uploaded and spread as shorts by the production team, and nearly every single one of these shorts had views close to two million.
It was a massive hit.
Especially the clip where Lilzandi twerked wildly while Almond kept chewing looked exactly like she was plucking out Lilzandi’s green hair, which gave it a cult-like popularity.
-In that situation, just keep lol munch munch lol so cute lol
-(Making money is hard…)lol
-Crazy lol Lilzandi stop flailing your hair lol
-No lol it’s really the expression of chewing solitude.
As I cleared the touring performance quests that Juhyeok had assigned one by one.
Before I knew it, a month had passed.
It felt like just yesterday I was worried about not being able to broadcast the capsule game.
Far from not being able to broadcast, Almond had actually been broadcasting more than ever.
“Phew.”
I finished the last broadcast schedule and returned home, collapsing onto the sofa.
“Wow, it’s really over.”
“Hey. You worked hard.”
“Uh… you too. But have you thought about what game we should play? You said you’d look into Legend Tale.”
Now it was time to decide which game to stream.
Since I could finally do a sponsored broadcast, I needed to choose carefully.
“Ah, Legend Tale… they said it’s in closed beta so streaming isn’t allowed. They call it beta testing, but it’s basically alpha testing. Seems like there are a lot of issues.”
My first target was Legend Tale, which streamers called Ril RPG.
I actually wanted to play this first since it might be related to Sanghyeon’s arm.
But it seems there are some problems with broadcasting it right now.
“So anyway, you’re a game streamer, right Almond?”
“Ah, yeah.”
“Then among all the advertising offers that came in, shouldn’t we start with game advertisements?”
An advertisement on my first day back?
“That’s not the right call—that’s the wrong call.”
Almond extended his palm and shook his head vigorously.
“No. Seriously, this offer is actually decent? The conditions are… well, maximum… about this much?”
Almond’s eyes fixed on the numbers for a moment.
A moment later.
Almond closed his eyes and nodded.
“Heh. What’s wrong with an advertisement? If it’s fun, that’s all that matters.”
“Right?”
A few days later, Almond’s followers received this notification.
Ding.
[Game Return! Ghostwo Busters]
Ghostwo Busters.
The advertisement game Juhyeok brought was a two-player cooperative exorcism game called ‘Ghostwo Busters’.
So this advertisement was also one that two people received.
“This title works well.”
Tap tap tap.
Juhyeok edits the title.
[Genius Gamer Returns! Ghostwo Busters (feat. Balloon Gum)]

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