Living in a Room Becomes Easier When You’re Handsome - Chapter 58

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Buy it for me

 

Mukbang videos had become one of the extremely common types of videos nowadays.

 

But that also meant there was a large fanbase for them, and it also meant there was a certain guaranteed demand.

 

‘One of the important things in YouTube videos is the language setting.’

 

There were often cases like that.

 

Korean YouTube channels with millions of subscribers that you’re hearing about for the first time.

 

These cases happen because their target audience is overseas, not Korea.

 

By setting the language to English instead of Korean, or not including any audio at all.

 

They expand the YouTube algorithm range to the entire world instead of just Korea.

 

A method of getting into the global YouTube algorithm by not setting a language.

 

Naturally, Jung Jin-hyeon, no, Mungop knew this very well.

 

But the reason he hadn’t done this while uploading Mung-tube videos was simple.

 

‘Mungi wants to succeed in Korea, and he’s broadcasting in Korea in the first place.’

 

Because the target audience was clear.

 

But for this mukbang leftover video he was uploading, he judged there was no need to set a language.

 

He just made it lightly focused on eating well and uploaded it.

 

He wanted to try various experiments to break through the stagnation period.

 

But there were two things Mungop overlooked here.

 

One was that YouTube’s algorithm is truly unpredictable.

 

And the second was Mungi’s appetite.

 

Mungi eats well.

 

To what extent? Without any exaggeration, he eats similarly to renowned mukbang YouTubers.

 

He just doesn’t make it his main content, doesn’t deliberately set up and eat.

 

He just continuously orders food and eats rice like snacks while gaming, so he didn’t get the spotlight.

 

If you properly measured his food intake, 10,000 calorie challenges would be nothing to him.

 

With his height of nearly 190cm and triple-digit weight.

 

To maintain that, he naturally had to eat a lot.

 

But what if he seriously and intensively compiled that into leftover footage?

 

And on top of that, it suddenly spreads through the global algorithm?

 

And finally, the video’s protagonist is ridiculously handsome?

 

Wow so yummy!!!

 

I’m happy to watch you eating

 

Always watching from Philippines♥

 

What? What’s this all of a sudden?

 

What the hell is happening to our YouTube?

 

Are you trying to become an international male prostitute;;;

 

The reaction was bound to be explosive.

 

He wasn’t just eating deliciously either.

 

He was eating deliciously and a lot.

 

Not greedily, and not making slurping sounds.

 

Just eating plainly and simply, but this ridiculously handsome guy keeps putting food in his mouth.

 

How should I put it, it’s kind of like a mukbang but because of his face, you end up watching it like staring at a campfire.

 

Moreover, since it was a mukbang video, the camera being turned up large also played a part.

 

His face, which was originally positioned at 5 o’clock in game videos, was now planted right in the center.

 

It was producing video power that was truly unexpected.

 

“No way, to this extent?”

 

Even Mungop, who had risen to his current position by riding the wave of success well, was flustered enough.

 

He judged that controlling this situation alone would be too much.

 

Watching the video already racing toward 1 million views, he immediately contacted Mungi.

 

Or rather, he was about to.

 

> Editor-nim, Mung-tube’s view count suddenly went crazy!? And with a mukbang video too?!

 

If only Mungi hadn’t beaten him to the punch.

 

‘Hmm, I like that.’

 

Mungop felt quite a bit of satisfaction from that part.

 

There’s that type among bosses – the kind who really does nothing and pays no attention once they get a capable subordinate.

 

The type who delegates even the minimum checking and management, acting like it’s none of their business.

 

They probably weren’t like that from the beginning.

 

You could say they were the type whose tendencies changed as soon as they got capable people and a comfortable environment.

 

And Mungop disliked such people.

 

‘Still, the part where he tries to do everything himself to the end is good.’

 

Even now, when I tell him there’s no need to leave editing points for replays.

 

He always marks editing points and sends them, which is really nice to see.

 

Anyway.

 

< I set the language settings for the leftover mukbang video to worldwide, and suddenly the view count shot up

 

< But this video doesn’t match Mung-tube’s existing direction

 

< So I think Mungi-nim needs to make a decision about this

 

Mungop immediately got to the point.

 

> A decision?

 

< Yes

 

< I expect this will get at least 30 times more average views than existing videos

 

< If that happens, we might need to just leave everything we’ve uploaded so far as traces of the past

 

< And use the current channel as a mukbang channel, or else the algorithm gets messed up

 

Whether to change the channel to focus on the skyrocketing video or not.

 

This was extremely important.

 

If you try to catch two rabbits by uploading mukbangs and game videos, you end up with neither.

 

In the first place, doing that could mess up the channel algorithm itself and prevent video exposure.

 

There was a reason why major channels kept creating sub-channels.

 

> Creating a separate mukbang channel wouldn’t work either, would it

 

> Because the current influx came from the channel’s mukbang videos, there’s no guarantee that mukbang videos uploaded to a newly created channel will take off again

 

< That’s correct

 

‘Oh, what… Mungi has this kind of insight.’

 

Mungop was surprised by Mungi’s sharp judgment that followed.

 

This kind of keen perception from someone who shoots projectiles at the monitor and smashes it when scared?

 

He thought that there was indeed a reason Mungi had endured being a small creator for 3 years.

 

‘I’d like to tell him he can take his time deciding if it were up to me.’

 

The problem was that the next video to be uploaded was a gaming video.

 

If they were going to change the channel’s identity, they’d have to upload only mukbang videos from now on.

 

The existing gaming videos? Those would just be like vestigial organs.

 

But that’s how YouTube channels originally were anyway.

 

Uploading various content hoping for just one video to blow up.

 

Then when something finally hits, grabbing onto it and seriously digging deeper to grow it.

 

So it would be better to make a decision before uploading the next video at the latest.

 

> Then

 

What decision would he make?

 

Just as that curiosity was building, Mungi’s reply came.

 

> Let’s just create a separate mukbang channel

 

> I feel bad about abandoning the gaming channel

 

> What’s happening now is really like a miraculous probability, and it’s amazing

 

> But we still have all the content we’ve uploaded so far, and I think it would be too regrettable

 

> And I was originally planning to do mukbang separately anyway, like introducing restaurants and stuff

 

> I’ll consider this current video as confirmation that I have the talent to succeed with mukbang

 

> That’s what I’ll do haha!

 

“Oh.”

 

An unexpected decision.

 

Honestly, I thought he’d abandon the existing channel direction and pivot to mukbang.

 

‘I was hoping he would too.’

 

It only looked like he was kicking away an opportunity for viral success.

 

But still, I didn’t argue with the channel owner’s decision.

 

After all, Mungi was the captain.

 

“But don’t you feel it’s a waste?”

 

What incredible mental strength.

 

Mungop was once again amazed by Mungi’s mindset.

 

++++++

 

After sending a reply to the editor.

 

“It’s such a waste… damn waste… I’m going crazy! I got over a million views with mukbang, and… ah… if I maintained the channel direction with this, wouldn’t I make serious money?!”

 

I was going crazy with regret over kicking away the opportunity for viral success.

 

Should I change my mind even now? Should I act crazy and just ask him to keep uploading mukbang?

 

Buy a slightly bigger dining table, lay out a bunch of food, and switch to communication broadcasts while eating?

 

But I didn’t want to do that.

 

Because.

 

“Then my channel would become a corrupted non-virgin.”

 

My channel that used to do game videos and pure love content.

 

I felt like it would be defiled by the sudden intrusion of golden spoon eating broadcasts.

 

Average views of 100,000, honestly that’s incredible for a YouTube channel that just started.

 

But the feeling of some golden spoon bringing a Ferrari or Lamborghini going ‘Uwahwww game views so cutewwww hehe taste my superior and magnificent eating broadcast genes!!!’ and ravaging my channel.

 

I didn’t want to experience that.

 

I know it’s a pretty pointless stubbornness.

 

But if I started as a gaming channel, I wanted to maintain that purity and just continue as a gaming channel.

 

‘I could start a separate eating broadcast channel… though I’d need to hire another editor for that.’

 

Besides.

 

‘If the channel direction suddenly changes, I’d feel bad for the people who’ve been enjoying my channel.’

 

Just because things suddenly went well, I couldn’t abandon everyone who had been watching Mung-tube.

 

Subscriber count increasing due to overseas viewers, views increasing.

 

‘I’m selling out my channel… I’m selling out my channel direction…’

 

It might be good from an income perspective.

 

But I don’t just do YouTube, I also do internet broadcasting.

 

This could crack the trust with viewers.

 

‘When you get popular, you can just abandon what you were doing and do something else anytime, right? Like that…’

 

I didn’t want to receive that kind of misunderstanding.

 

It’s true I’m materialistic and like money, but I didn’t want to pursue profit by abandoning existing relationships.

 

It might sound like a privileged complaint.

 

Maybe it’s because I already starved a lot living as Hakko for 3 years.

 

‘I’m good with how things are now. I can always make money later. Trust is hard to rebuild.’

 

I decided to adopt a bit of a world-class mindset.

 

The kind of sentence you’d find in a self-help book naturally came to mind.

 

Before more random thoughts and regrets could set in, I immediately started broadcasting.

 

“Mungi is here!”

 

– Yeah yeah you’re here

 

– Mung-ppo *3*

 

– Deep Mung Kiss =3=

 

– Mung-tube hit it big didn’t it, congrats??

 

“Mung-tube hit it big, thank you. But I’m going to keep the channel direction focused on games. It would be weird to suddenly just upload eating broadcasts.”

 

– Agreed

 

– Right

 

– Just continuing like this is better

 

– But what happened with Merk? The server?

 

“Ah, Merk… honestly I basically abandoned it while raiding because of the Mud War, and I heard the server ended too?”

 

– It’s been a while since it ended lol

 

– No wonder uploads to Mung-tube kind of stopped

 

– After that, totally dominated everyone by winning the mud fight lol

 

– So you abandoned Merk and did Mud War – Super Coward Club fighting tournament?

 

“That’s right, I was a prize money killer. Made over ten million won from Mud War and the fighting tournament.”

 

– Yeah, bought a monitor with that

 

– Still, buying a monitor with prize money is pretty sweet

 

– Did you just buy it?

 

– Seeing how late you are, seems like you just bought it?

 

“Just bought it, that’s why I’m streaming fine now. Want to see? I bought something expensive.”

 

After briefly turning the camera to show off the newly bought monitor and mouse.

 

I immediately announced that I wouldn’t be playing horror games for a while.

 

“Horror games… I think there’ll be major financial bleeding with monitor and mouse costs… so I won’t play them.”

 

– Big scaredy-cat

 

– Mung is a coward

 

– Welcome to the Super Coward Club

 

– Mungi should join the Super Super Coward Club

 

– Coward lol

 

– But didn’t you play something too scary? There are plenty of mild ones

 

Then.

 

“Ah, I’ll probably be shortening my streams a bit due to personal matters.”

 

Leaving out the 【Love Code】 story completely, I announced as subtly as possible that streams would be shorter for a while.

 

Content about trying to stream consistently, but there might be breaks, and focusing mainly on solo broadcasts.

 

Of course, as soon as the viewers heard this.

 

– Oh is that so

 

– How about just taking a break instead of shortening them?

 

– Just rest forever~~~~~~~ Just rest forever~~~~~~~ Just rest forever~~~~~~~ Just rest forever~~~~~~~ Just rest forever~~~~~~~ Just rest forever~~~~~~~ Just rest forever~~~~~~~

 

– If you’re gonna do that, why even stream?

 

– What’s the point of saying you’ll shorten streams?

 

– Did you get a girlfriend?

 

– If you get a girlfriend, you die and I die

 

– You’re probably gonna take Christmas off right? And New Year’s?

 

– Yeah yeah mm-hmm yeah yeah mm-hmm

 

– Male streamer taking Christmas off early, Mungi’s physique… how are we supposed to interpret this?

 

They actively listened to my opinion and showed lively reactions.

 

So just as I was about to seriously get the stream going before filming started.

 

– Thank you Lera for the 500,000 won donation.

 

[ Mungi, if you have time, could you help me with a mission just once? No reaction needed ]

 

Suddenly a collaboration request from a Major Corporation member came in.

 

“Huk… You declined the reaction, but I’ll still do five Deep Mung Kisses!”

 

– No, you said you declined

 

– Service is up to the owner’s discretion

 

– Deep Mung Kiss =3= x5

 

– With 500,000 won, it wouldn’t be strange if a new reaction came out

 

– How about this one I made: Mung Lump :3

 

– Hey you

 

– Ugh

 

– Is that Game Teacher in disguise?

 

– Not easy

 

– I’m the treasure of our house so I should only see good things while growing up

 

The Chat Room was in chaos.

 

I immediately subdued the Chat Room by doing 5 Deep Mung Kisses in a row.

 

“A mission? I should help with the mission right away, but what kind of mission is it that you need me?”

 

– Lera† is doing Golden Ring quest and needs one person to help with multi ㅜㅜ please

 

– Lera† But they say only beginners can do it ㅠㅠ…

 

– Lera† Viewers say Mungi doesn’t really touch major games so it would be his first time, is that right?

 

I immediately heard the mission details.

 

Golden Ring, speedrun.

 

‘But from what I remember, Lera isn’t particularly good at games.’

 

The fastest way to clear it might just be to kill Lera and clear it alone.

 

With that thought.

 

“Souls-like, let’s go conquer it.”

 

– Let’s go!

 

– Hahahahahaha

 

– Let’s go

 

I immediately connected to Golden Ring.

 

No, I tried to.

 

“Ah… Lera, but I… don’t have Golden Ring.”

 

– You crazy bastard

 

– Now he’s just saying it outright

 

Ah, I’m sorry.

 

I didn’t buy the game, ah…

 

Buy it for me.

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