I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 10
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Episode 10
“Right now, the right side of the B1 Theater is the Box Office.”
The scattered fragments of memory began to piece together like shards.
‘That’s right, the Blue Art Center was incredibly small around this time.’
A few years later, thanks to the production and success of the drama 〈Will the Wind Blow?〉, they were able to buy out the entire first floor.
‘Still, it’s fine. I can naturally brush it off as a mistake-.’
“And that thing you acted out on the first day of class. That was the director’s cut dialogue. You didn’t miss a single word either.”
…I couldn’t.
Intube
@Movie Trailer 2.1K subscribers
[Freshman Welcome Party GV] 30:27
10K views
“Yes. Actually, I thought the director’s cut version might… resonate more with all of you. Here, the female protagonist begs to skip class and says ‘If you don’t skip, you’re a traitor!’ right? Betrayal is something you can only say when you’re on the same team, when you’re on the same side.”
“Ah-. So the two of them were already on the same side? It means their hearts were connected from this point.”
“Yes. But at first, I thought I should emphasize the cute image a bit more, so I went with ‘Hurry up. Am I going alone?'”
Later, the director’s cut became much more famous as it circulated in short-form videos, and with cute music mixed in and even challenges going around, I had forgotten.
That what I said wasn’t the original dialogue.
‘Shit, I’m screwed…’
Even I can see there are more than one or two strange things.
〈Freshman Welcome Party〉 is a movie that hasn’t been a hit for long. It’s been at most 2 weeks since its release.
‘So there’s still a long way to go before the director’s cut comes out…’
Usually, director’s cuts of successful movies only come out two or three months later. But right now, I’m memorizing even the director’s cut dialogue of the movie, understanding the geography of an art center that won’t expand for years, and reciting theater dialogue that was just uploaded today.
‘…Wait.’
But how does he know all that?
Bzzt-. Bzzt-.
“Ah, I got a call…”
Myeong Jeha picked up his cell phone that was on the table with a regretful expression.
Myeong Jeha prepared to pack up his laptop.
Only then could I finally breathe.
‘Thank goodness. Hurry up and leave.’
As soon as Myeong Jeha turned his back, I was planning to open the status window.
“I have something scheduled after this. I’ll head out first then.”
It was the moment when Myeong Jeha got up from his seat and turned his back.
Stats I couldn’t have imagined appeared.
‘How on earth…?’
3-Network Acting Grand Prize?
‘Myeong Jeha is only in his first year since debut right now?’
Those are titles that could only be attached to Myeong Jeha 10 years from now…
Ding-! Ding-! Ding-! Ding-!
As soon as I thought that, with a sharp sound effect that seemed to tear through the air, cracks appeared in Myeong Jeha’s status window.
Bright red letters began to error out and grow larger.
“Ah, right.”
And at the same time, Myeong Jeha turned around and smiled at me. His long, folding eye corners looked gentle.
“I’ll listen to the lie you’ve prepared next time.”
As if he knew my answer would definitely be a lie.
Left alone like that, I helplessly rubbed my goosebump-covered arms.
“…What?”
What exactly are you, Myeong Jeha?
* * *
“Sis!”
“….”
After staying up all night through countless hypotheses, I came to an answer.
“What are you doing?”
“….”
Myeong Jeha is a regressor.
“I’m going to school, so when the washing machine finishes, hang up the clothes. Don’t just leave them again! You need to dry them properly.”
I nodded my head briefly to conclude my speculation.
“You nodded. Don’t forget, really.”
I’ve seen plenty of scenarios, script books, and bestsellers.
So I could quickly think of the one setting that would explain this bewildering situation.
‘Myeong Jeha’s existence is a kind of cliché.’
There’s no law saying I’m the only regressor in the world.
‘But there’s a problem…’
That’s the reason why he bothered to hint that he’s a regressor.
“It’s definitely not on the positive side.”
Remembering the moment I fell for Myeong Jeha’s natural probing gave me goosebumps all over again.
‘He didn’t even prepare just one question.’
I felt like a hamster in a maze that Myeong Jeha had prepared.
In contrast, Myeong Jeha seemed like a giant transcendent being. Every time I tried to turn and run, he drove me into a dead end.
‘Those eyes looking down at me were really… scary.’
Getting involved with such a dangerous person carried too much risk.
I thought I should avoid catching Myeong Jeha’s attention for the time being.
‘Connections or whatever, he seems as dangerous as Do Gyeoul.’
It was when I was making that firm resolution.
Ding-!
…Another mission appeared.
“It hasn’t been that long since I completed the last mission.”
Why are you giving them so frequently? And suddenly it got way too difficult.
“100,000 views… 1,000 shares?”
I swallowed a sigh and held my head.
What do I do about this?
But no matter how much I worried, there was only one answer anyway.
“What do you mean what should I do.”
I have to do it.
* * *
Click, click, click.
I briefly scanned the current Intube market. Various Intubers filled the laptop screen.
“Seeing that million-subscriber Intubers aren’t common yet, there’s a decent chance.”
If there were tons of influencers, the amount of comments would be limited, but now it’s different.
“Looking at it, videos with around 50,000 views easily get a hundred comments.”
The answer key flickered in my head.
“…There’s only one answer. Web drama.”
Web drama.
Content dramas distributed through new media like Intube.
‘A few years ago, when Acebook was at its peak, short situational skits were all the rage.’
[Village Video] Female friend and male friend acting out each other’s ideal type situation lol
[JC Dia Contents Lab] New semester relatable situation skit
At first they only produced 1-minute, 3-minute, or at most 5-minute situations, but the scale gradually grew.
“Later they even did early releases through membership systems.”
It was a solid market that did Intube collaborations, easily handled advertisements, and even created private stories by gathering subscribers through memberships.
“And companies started producing them earnestly too, and there were quite a few famous works.”
There were cases where international fans got attached too. You could call it snack culture that was good for idols to lightly try once on their path to becoming actors.
“…Huh, but…”
But there was one thing I overlooked.
“…It hasn’t… grown in earnest yet…?”
The current web drama market was barren.
* * *
This was truly an era when the term influencer was unfamiliar.
-It’s me, Ssen!
“What’s that? On the billboard… is that a celebrity?”
“No, an Intuber? I heard.”
The period when beauty bloggers were becoming Intubers one by one, transitioning from Acebook to Yoosta.
Newly established MCN (*agencies for internet broadcasters and influencers) companies that gathered influencers were sprouting up like mushrooms.
[Sandbox/ Recruiting passionate creators]
[Millions Different/ We’ll help you grow according to suitable concepts]
Companies joined hands with influencers on the rapidly growing platform and steadily pulled in view counts.
Of course, among them, there were separate MCNs for ‘aspiring actors.’
[RudassulTV: Story of educating a friend who only acts weak in front of men]
[Toto Fiction: Two-timing boyfriend, what if the other person was my sister?]
…The problem was that it revolved around provocative stories for view counts.
The most famous were the ‘friend education series’ targeting teenagers with lots of time, and the ‘Toto Fiction series’ that directly adapted relationship advice episodes for people in their twenties.
[HOT / That scene you’ve probably seen on YouTube lately ㅋㅋㅋ.jpg]
Immortalizing stories of friends who cheated with my boyfriend or slapping scenes
(Web drama capture.jpg)
If you think you definitely saw it, you didn’t, and if you think you didn’t see it, you did
Anonymous1 ah that’s so fucking funny lololol it’s really showing up all the way to Yustaro and keeps appearing ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
Anonymous2 Really my guilty pleasure… I end up watching even though I know all the content
˪Anonymous 9 The content is all copy-pasted though lol
Anonymous3 But why do they make stuff like this? Not trying to start anything, just genuinely curious
˪Anonymous 5 Because it’s popular? The comment firepower is insanely good too, easily breaks a thousand
The current image of web dramas was literally ‘killing time’ or ‘guilty pleasure.’
“No, seriously, this is really too much even for what it is!”
This was the new building of JC ENM, an agency located in Cheongdam-dong.
“Auntie! One more Iseul here!”
-Actually, it was a nearby Grilled Pork Restaurant. A woman who was chewing meat grilling on the sizzling grill lamented.
“On top of everything, huh? They’re giving something too difficult to a kid who’s new to acting. This is basically telling me to get screwed once.”
“It’s a web drama, right? What’s there to really act in that? The runtime’s short.”
It was Team Leader Seong, an employee of JC ENM.
“I had a feeling from the moment I was assigned to the newly formed ‘web content’ team that wasn’t movies, dramas, and certainly not musicals or theater!!!”
It was obvious that the higher-ups would start this business just for show.
Sure enough, problems arose from the first chapter.
“This is-. Really, even if you do well it’s mockery, and if you do poorly it’s rock bottom…”
“What about the male lead? That’s the most important thing.”
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