I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 89

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Episode 89

Aetami felt something extraordinary from the font embedded in the thumbnail.

“…What is this quality?”

In that moment, Aetami realized who handled the production, investment, and distribution. This was all the result of JC ENM’s experience forged as music professionals. It was truly moving.

“Perfect…”

Here’s a question.

A company that churns out official goods like a factory several times a month, draining otaku wallets, versus a company that maybe releases goods once a year, protecting otaku wallets.

Which one would be more resentful?

“Take all my money-!”

In Aetami’s case, it was the latter.

Idol fans with concerts, fan meetings, and official goods, theater and musical fans who buy tickets over and over again. Watching those fans cry about becoming broke every time, actor fans shed tears.

“Finally…”

Because actor fans had to wait and wait, wondering if they’d see their actor in one work per year.

“Yeoreum’s first goods…”

Aetami, who was the most starved for content among the three, covered her mouth and scrolled down the funding page.

“This is really different from what we could buy before, isn’t it?”

Aetami’s heart pounded – she who could only buy Season’s Greetings released once a year, magazines with occasional photo shoot pictures, and things like ‘frequently used perfume’ revealed in interviews.

▶︎Runtime

Main content approximately 120 minutes / Bonus content 180 minutes included

▶︎Contents

DISC 2 + Behind-the-scenes Photo Book + Complete Script Book + Unreleased Photo Cards + Student ID Photo + Name Tag + Melon Soda Keyring…

“What’s going on. Why is this so generous? And this feels exactly like those kits from the idol scene, doesn’t it?”

Her mouth, which had dropped open at the page quality and goods design, wouldn’t close. Even the contents were excessively generous. Aetami especially covered her mouth while looking at the unreleased selfie photo cards.

“This is it…”

Though blurred out, it clearly had the feel of a basic camera without any photo editing apps. The funding manager seemed to really know what they were doing.

“This is something even non-fans would want to own as a collectible, right?”

Aetami checked the rapidly rising funding amount. The fact that she wasn’t the only one refreshing and waiting was evident.

“Right. If the Blu-ray is priced at 60,000 won, I should just buy it.”

The Blu-ray price was reasonable, matching the much shorter runtime compared to existing dramas. Aetami clicked the highest amount and immediately participated in the funding.

“At this rate! It’ll definitely be achieved within a week, 100%!”

Aetami predicted the future with the big data she had accumulated. And most of the time, everything Aetami was confident about turned out to be correct.

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“This is it-! This is it!”

Manager Ma couldn’t contain her joy and stood up, swinging her fists. This wasn’t enough to call just a success. It was truly a huge success.

“100% in less than a week!”

〈Parfait on Top〉 Blu-ray was ranking first on the funding site.

The exhilaration of breaking the prejudice that web dramas couldn’t produce Blu-rays and opening a new market was incredible.

Drama fan accounts were also talking about this Blu-ray quite frequently.

Haru@Haru1daily

(Parfait on Top funding page capture.jpg)

Actor agencies making ugly goods should reflect. I condemn the act of making terrible value goods just relying on looks. Condemn condemn

RT 7.8K Likes 10K

Otaku who had shed tears while opening their wallets because their bias was held hostage, even though the quality wasn’t worth the money, were unanimously praising 〈Parfait on Top〉’s funding page.

“That’s right! Who am I? I’m Ma Suyeon!”

It was quality that made you pause even while mindlessly scrolling, so it was understandable.

“Since actor fandoms haven’t become mainstream strong yet. It has to work even better!”

Ma Suyeon branded Han Yeoreum by selecting only the advantages of idol culture. Among them, the most useful seemed to be ‘goods culture.’

“Truly the era of great SNS.”

Taking pictures of newly bought clothes, photographing freshly served food, capturing places you visit.

“Everyone lives holding their phones all day.”

The proportion of overseas travelers increased 20% compared to last year, and per capita clothing consumption increased by 700 billion won.

Most importantly, the K-POP goods market grew from 75 billion won to 100 billion won. It kept growing bigger every single day.

Manager Ma read the trends from all this to figure out how to develop Han Yeoreum.

“It fits perfectly!”

Now is an era crazy about consumption. An era wanting to buy anything. An era where products arrive the next day just by entering a password on your phone! It wasn’t just the market that was good for growing bigger. It was even better for raising celebrities.

“A storm is~ going to~ come~.”

Manager Ma hummed while scrolling through the funding page. It was worth putting her soul into making it. Even if you weren’t a passionate fan of 〈Parfait on Top〉, just enjoying it would make you want to buy it. The scroll continued downward.

-Chocola participated in 66,000 won [Basic] funding

-Rune participated in 79,800 won [Standard] funding

-Sugar Sugar Sugar participated in [Special] 100,000 won funding

This industry seems emotional but sometimes is excessively rational. The strongest measure becomes visible numbers.

〈Parfait on Top〉 hit ten million views and gained public recognition. It needs to go one step further than that.

▶︎Project heroine

The Cherry on the Parfait Belongs to the Heroine

>>> 230% achieved

Like this. Han Yeoreum becomes someone who sold drama Blu-rays, which supposedly only ‘real drama fans’ buy, to the ‘general public’ at 230%.

As Intube grows bigger and threatens TV’s influence, MBS already gave a proper taste of this danger with early cancellations.

“Yeoreum~ will be the starting point of that storm.”

From now on, in earnest,

Viewers will start leaving like crazy.

“Dramas? Don’t watch them.”

Now there will be more people watching interesting videos at times they want rather than people watching dramas that air at set times.

“Movies? Even less.”

There will be more people lying in bed watching interesting parts and endings of movies rather than people going to crowded theaters to watch movies.

“It can’t be helped~. It’s natural~.”

Money is telling the story. Current broadcast advertising costs about 3.9 trillion won, and online advertising costs about 3.6 trillion won.

The advertising costs that caught up neck and neck will soon be dominated by the online market several times over. The online market has no choice but to become a monster.

“Because it’s convenient and free.”

A time when the public scattered in all directions. But Manager Ma thought in reverse.

“If Intube took them, we can take them back through Intube, right?”

She spoke as if it was nothing special. It was easy. She just needed to know ‘why’ the public was on Intube.

Because it’s convenient and free.

Because they don’t want to regret spending long time and money watching something boring.

“Then we just need to focus on regret.”

Verification from others confirmed through comments, trendy image, algorithms visible when scrolling, solid acting ability, unconscious experience of enjoying content Han Yeoreum appeared in, even if not dramas or movies requiring long time investment.

“It won’t be difficult to reach the answer that following Han Yeoreum won’t lead to regret, right?”

The heart that loves becomes money, and the heart that’s curious becomes influence. Professional-level Acting Ability becomes a masterpiece, and the public’s choice creates society’s flow.

“What if one person had all of that….”

If they grasped more than they could even handle? We decided to call that a top star.

[A web drama getting Blu-ray? 〈Pacheci〉 breaks prejudices as funding surpasses 100 million won….]

And as if to prove that very point, 〈Pacheci〉 had risen to funding amounts that rivaled those of Terrestrial Broadcasting dramas.

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