Living in a Room Becomes Easier When You’re Handsome - Chapter 4

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‘Should I have bought a good camera for this?’

The praise for my current physique was substantial enough to make me think that.

I had received over 5 messages telling me ‘don’t act cocky just because you’re pretty’ and similar things.

When I did some ego searching, the results were all compliments about my appearance.

A good flow.

To continue this flow, I had to do camera streaming.

‘But unfortunately, I spent all my money.’

Chroma key and camera.

As a result of unexpected expenses buying these two things.

My bank account was completely empty.

Usually when I see people broadcasting with cameras, they have lighting set up and use good cameras too.

‘It’s impossible right now.’

Unfortunately, at this stage I had no choice but to give up.

But it wasn’t completely hopeless.

The 5,000 viewers who came for the apology broadcast.

If about 1/10 of them stayed and casually donated around 10,000 won each.

‘Quick mental math… roughly 50 million won!’

I’d be sitting on a pile of money all at once.

Then I could immediately escape from this small Monthly Rental Room,

buy a good camera, give my parents some spending money, and even get a girlfriend.

‘Feels good.’

I was the one who attracted a whopping 5,000 people with just my looks.

Starting today, I was making a fresh start.

The moment I turned on the stream with such high expectations.

[Current Viewers: 0]

“Hmm.”

Life’s unchanging reality came into view.

Even though 5,000 people had definitely watched my broadcast yesterday.

The actual increase in followers was 10 times the previous amount.

Which meant about 90 people had followed me.

But naturally, those 90 people weren’t very interested in me.

[Current Viewers: 1]

The biggest interest of those followers was precisely.

– You bastard you crazy bastard you cocky bastard is it true you dissed Lera relying on your looks? That apology broadcast too, you deliberately ruined the concert didn’t you? I don’t know how a bottom-tier bastard like you came up with such thoughts but do you really want to die? /Ssak-ssaki has detected inappropriate language.

“The broadcast is fucked.”

They were Lera’s toxic fans.

Click click click click click click.

For an hour, I couldn’t proceed with any content and kept putting the toxic fans into the ban storage.

Meanwhile, people who regularly watched my broadcasts started trickling in.

So how much did the viewer influx increase after the apology stream?

[Current viewer count: 16 people]

“…?”

It increased by about 6 people.

Huh? The effect was this weak? Does this even make sense?

That doubt was short-lived.

– So why did you turn on the camera to apologize and make a fuss? If you lived as Durahan, you should keep living as Durahan

I immediately responded to the following chat.

“How is this my fault? No, when you apologize, you should show your face…”

– Since your opponent is a VTuber, you should’ve bought an avatar skin too lol

“Where would I get that kind of money.”

– This broke bastard trying to get lucky with Lera-nim lol is he really crazy, snap out of it and just quit streaming /Inappropriate expression detected by Ssak-ssaki.

“I’ve banned about 50 people today with this, but usually when you see stuff like this, it’s the same person right? There are people who have like 20 accounts.”

– Yeah that’s right, they exist

– For real

– So you’ve been doing nothing this whole time until now?

“I’ve been banning for an hour straight, what else can I do? My content needs to be done in a quiet environment to be enjoyable.”

– Quiet environment (3 years bottom-tier, 10 concurrent viewers lol)

– Main content: Tetris, Civilization, Work maps nobody knows, Runeterra, Steam indie games

– Why are you leaving out the part about terrible controls?

– Why are you leaving out that Tetris is the only thing you’re decent at?

– Do you even have any intention of growing your stream?

– Now that I think about it, for 3 years you never played any trending games and just kept your mouth shut complaining

“I’m not cut out for streaming, it takes me a long time to talk to myself and stuff…”

– If you’re not cut out for streaming, quit quickly. Why maintain bottom-tier life for 3 years lol

– Why aren’t you mentioning that you abandoned streaming for months to work part-time because you couldn’t pay rent?

– You lived with that mindset and when it didn’t work out, you tried to leech off our Lera? Crazy bastard really /Inappropriate expression detected by Ssak-ssaki.

“…”

While blocking malicious chats coming in between the criticisms.

I recalled something someone said long ago.

‘Hate comments are better than indifference, was it?’

After experiencing it myself, that wasn’t true.

Indifference is just better.

They completely ruin the chat to the point where I can’t even conduct the stream, seriously.

At least if they spent money while cursing, I’d think it’s a donation storm and just stay quiet.

‘Damn, these cheapskates who won’t spend a single 1,000 won really make me want to stomp on their heels.’

These crazy bastards who get so pissed off when blocked that they create new accounts to come back.

‘I even apologized, so what’s the problem? Is this really something to get this angry about?’

I was trying to just take it lightly to some extent.

Every time I saw a few chats crossing the line, I got heated and felt wronged at the same time.

– Wow but even when his face is scrunched up he still looks handsome lol

– Look at how his face still has good angles even when he can’t manage his expressions lol

– Have you ever gotten someone’s number on the street?

“I haven’t gotten anyone’s number yet, I don’t really go out much anyway. I’m a guy who gives his all to broadcasting, a broadcast-devoted man.”

– Broadcast-devoted man bullshit

– Why are you abbreviating such a fucking stupid sentence?

– He’s really talking all kinds of shit trying to act young

“Early twenties is young, you crazy bastard. Just how old do you think I am.”

The bans I handed out were definitely worth it.

Once the chat became normal, I could finally communicate with viewers to some degree.

But that was only temporary.

Pababaak!

[Current viewer count: 300]

The viewer count suddenly exploded.

What’s going on? What the hell happened?

That question was short-lived too.

– Thank you Ttaranta for the 10,000 won video donation.

[ Lera Mungi Apology Broadcast Clip Reaction ]

{“Oh, really? You even apologized? In a video? Someone who doesn’t turn on their camera even turned on their camera…?}

{“No, ah… anyone can make mistakes, didn’t you guys just make a fuss and demand an apology for no reason?”}

{“I’m really totally fine with it, it’s okay. I’ll definitely accept the apology! From now on, if anyone tries to stir up controversy with this topic, it’s an instant ban!”}

{“If you go there and post malicious chats, I’ll ban all of you.”}

{“And Mungi! I’m really fine so you don’t need to worry about it! This is fate too, so let’s do a collaboration stream later!”}

The video that caused my viewer count to suddenly increase 30-fold appeared.

“Ah Ttaranta, thank you for the 10,000 won donation. Since I turned on my camera today, I couldn’t make a separate reaction. I’ll make a 10,000 won reaction as soon as possible.”

First, I bowed and expressed my gratitude to the person who gave me money.

“Ah, um… As expected, a bottom-tier streamer like me lives under the ocean-like grace of a major corporation. Thank you so much for accepting my apology, and if there’s a chance, I’d definitely love to do a collaboration!”

I absolutely didn’t miss the opportunity to leech and responded similarly on my own broadcast.

Just because the major corporation responded, should I go directly to their broadcast without reading the room?

That would be crazy.

Bottom-tier streamer rule #1: Don’t act up.

Bottom-tier streamer rule #2: Never forget rule #1.

Feeling this.

‘But why isn’t anyone talking when the count increased 30-fold?’

Looking at the chat room that was quiet compared to the viewer count, I felt something was off.

Don’t tell me.

“So right now… since Lera told you not to post toxic chats… you’re not chatting at all and just coming here to watch?”

– Gasp

– Gasp

– You said that out loud?

– No way, that’s the kind of thing that should stay in a thought bubble lol

– Hahahahaha

– Got some nerve

– You really think a piece of shit like you could actually collab with Lera? /Ssak-ssaki has detected inappropriate language.

“Now 299 viewers… I’ll be taking screenshots of toxic viewers’ usernames and sending them to Lera’s email. Please keep the chat respectful.”

– Gasp lol

– The power of big corporations is insane

– Egen hiding behind a woman ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ

– Just naturally sucking up to the Major Corporation

“It’s not sucking up, I’m just faithfully following the Major Corporation’s orders… She told me not to.”

– But your viewers increased 30 times, what are you gonna do? You’re not planning to just play Tetris again, right?

– 300 people is actually a decent size, but it’s probably just a temporary spike anyway ㅇㅇ

– Still, shouldn’t you do something famous and well-known now?

Something famous and well-known.

I nodded at the advice from my loyal followers who had consistently watched my stream.

I had turned on the camera and my viewer count had increased.

But the viewers who increased now were just temporarily inflated due to the Major Corporation’s trickle-down effect.

They weren’t my core viewer base, my concrete foundation.

‘It would be amazing if I could turn even half of these 300 into concrete.’

To do that, I needed to come up with content that would satisfy the majority.

What I’d been doing so far wouldn’t work. That would just take me back to the 10-viewer days.

So what I could do right now was.

“Have a relaxed talk show while looking at my handsome face, then do a mukbang…”

– That’s bottom-tier level, right?

– You just proved firsthand why you’ve been stuck in double digits for 3 years, didn’t you?

– Ah

– ;

– Are you trying to kill the vibe?

– Broadcasting isn’t your main job, is it?

– Are you doing this as a hobby?

“…is what I won’t do.”

My mind races quickly.

What should I do?

Rift? Lumia? Street? Bad?

I’m torn.

I need to satisfy 300 viewers by providing the most optimal answer.

The biggest crisis in my 3 years of broadcasting!

At the very moment when I had absolutely no idea what answer to give.

Ding!

Ding!

Ding!

Only audible to me.

The notification sounds that kept coming even at this moment awakened my brain.

‘The only content that only I can do at this point in time.’

The one and only material that others could never do.

“I’ve got a lot of emails from you malicious viewer bros, so I’ll do content reading these.”

Slaughtering the viewer hams.

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