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124 – There Are Many Villains in This World

124 – There Are Many Villains in This World

The official name of this training I’m conducting is ‘Dealing with Malicious Users’.

However, unlike the rather ordinary-sounding lecture title, when you look at how the lecture unfolds, it’s quite a harsh situation that makes you worry about the members’ mental state.

You might think this kind of training isn’t necessary since managers block all the problematic chat anyway.

But even with managers always watching, there are many who still manage to slip through the filter and post malicious comments.

Ambiguous chats are hard to block immediately and require looking through past history, but in the meantime, the streamer might read the chat.

And those kinds of chats tend to make your head spark and throb the moment you read them, so blocking the chat doesn’t really mean much in those situations.

That’s why, as a preventive measure, I put a drop of Tabasco habanero sauce on each person’s lips and observe their reaction – that’s the purpose of this training.

Reflecting a bit on the first generation’s training about a year and some months ago…

– “I’ll come back later since you’re going to lose anyway”

– “Is it stingy meta time? Did you decide to just look at diamonds from afar?”

– “Hey”

– “Makes me want to shotgun your skull”

– “Don’t push it too far”

– “Whine whine whine whine whine whine whine whine whine whine”

– “Hey!”

– “Do you perhaps solve puzzles with items? Lol It does look pretty and colorful”

– “Can’t even understand when it’s explained, sigh”

– “Not my problem if you get pissed lol”

– “Hey answer me”

– “Looks like Komari is becoming obsolete too lol”

“Fuck this shit, if you don’t want to see it just get the hell out!! Obsolete my ass, you fucking bastard.”

While Komari has gotten more used to streaming now, and viewers like her occasional outbursts of anger, so she sometimes compromises by getting genuinely angry.

But in the early days of streaming, she tried very hard not to get angry.

The reason is that during the malicious user response lecture, she exploded in anger and cursed at my chat messages several times.

Even though she knew I was the one posting malicious comments during the mock broadcast, she said she just couldn’t hold back when she could only see the chat and not my face.

Because of this, I focused more on Rain and Komari rather than Maru, who has a weak mentality and cries easily.

Sure, if you cry during a broadcast due to malicious comments, fans will often clean things up for you. But if you start cursing back or picking fights, that’s when it becomes a real war.

You might think, “What’s wrong with calling out someone who posted a bad comment?”

But this is internet broadcasting, where even that can be turned into a controversy, preserved, and hung up for all to see.

So it’s better to be careful in advance.

That’s why you should refrain from cursing as much as possible, and if you do, you should direct it cheerfully at something else, not the viewers. For example, something like “Naore, you fucking shitty game!”

This is also why I’m focusing more on Orca while conducting the same training with the second generation.

She got high scores during recruitment for being someone who usually holds things in well.

But people like this are really dangerous when they do explode, and that kind of situation is bound to happen at least once when doing internet broadcasts.

Shall we talk about the other two first?

Miho tries to act like an insider but is ultimately an outsider, so when people around her say something, she first curls up her body tightly.

She’s the type to say “Uu, don’t do that” in a shrunken voice even if the chat gets nasty.

Plus, Miho likes deducing things, doesn’t she?

If we conduct the training by saying “Let’s think about what constitutes malicious chat and what intentions are behind such chats”, she’s the type to quickly realize “Oh, this is this and that is that!”

And as she thinks about it, time passes and she naturally ends up not being able to respond, which can look like she’s ignoring it.

There might be something I don’t know, but for now, I don’t see any major issues that could be problematic when dealing with malicious users.

Ena?

There’s no need to even mention her separately.

I really got to know Ena, who I had only known casually before, after meeting her as a team for the Combative Tournament.

Ena carried out the heavy responsibility of being the Order without a single complaint.

The chat at that time?

While managers did manage it, with the highest points in the tournament flow and being the main Order on top of that, it was an absolute mess like no other.

“The team is losing because the Order sucks.”

“They’re doing terribly with their points.”

“Are you secretly meeting Young-gun behind the scenes?”

“You’re going to hit rock bottom whether the tournament ends well or not.”

It was to the point where really nasty malicious users took turns swarming in to create a hellhole.

Since Ena endured such a situation, I’m not worried about her.

As she’s a reincarnated VTuber, related malicious users might flock to her, so I’ll focus on watching her responses to that, and if it’s at an acceptable level, I plan to let it slide.

On the other hand, as I mentioned earlier, Orca needs to be carefully watched.

We need to see her when she’s properly angered and burning up the most in order to determine how we should manage her.

“The order will be Ena, Miho, and then Orca. If feedback for one person takes too long, it might get pushed to the next day. That’s why the training is scheduled for the whole week. If there’s time left, I’ll also show you sample videos of what kind of malicious users there were in the seniors’ broadcasts and how they dealt with them.”

The reason I don’t show the video materials first is because they might just copy what they see.

We want to see how the members react without any instructions, so we proceed with as little foundation laid as possible.

After hearing the explanation, Ena raised her hand.

“But Jia, don’t you get training?”

“I’m the instructor, so I can’t teach and take the class at the same time.”

“That’s true. But I was thinking you could find someone else to act maliciously for you.”

Seeming interested in that idea, Miho giggled and said:

“Sh… should we do it?”

As Ena nodded in agreement, it was only natural for Orca to follow suit and nod as well.

Since everyone seemed to want me to experience malicious users too, I set a condition.

“Well, seeing how I respond could be helpful too. Okay, let’s do it. But only after we’ve gone through all of your training and prepared materials, if there’s time left. In a way, it’s not much different from watching videos of how seniors respond.”

The three nodded in agreement.

Hmm.

I’m not someone who gets easily scratched no matter how much they try to scratch me anyway.

But you never know.

Maybe they’ll learn something by becoming malicious users themselves.

Since I’m conducting this training on the Boss’s orders, it would be good to try anything that could improve the curriculum itself.

I should hope the kids finish their training early.

–

Today, the second generation prepared individual content as Majiya had requested in advance for the lecture.

The topic was “What you most want to do” or “What you like the most”.

There’s nothing more upsetting than malicious users who appear during such content, and it’s also when streamers are most likely to explode properly when scratched, since it’s content they like.

We can use Komari as an example for this too.

Nothing made Komari angrier than the malicious chat that came in when she was playing her favorite game, Naore.

So what content did Ena prepare?

[Request Karaoke]

#Parallel #Ena

It was a slightly modified version of the confession content she ran when she was Serena.

Viewers would submit stories, and she would sing songs that matched them.

The three people entered a chat room temporarily set up to look like a chat window.

Miho and Orca were in charge of normal chat.

And Majiya was in charge of bad chat.

For new VTubers, many struggle at this stage with handling the broadcast program and proceeding with content step by step, but since it’s Ena, the progression itself was very smooth.

Because it’s smooth, normal chat doesn’t show anything particularly dramatic.

At most, they might say “dgdg” while beating a drum, or respond with “yes”, or react with “ooh”.

But malicious chat is different.

– “Are you reincarnated?”

– “It’s definitely smooth, probably because you have experience”

Miho and Orca were shocked as soon as they saw that chat.

The two looked at Majiya and asked “Is this right?”, but. This is what Majiya is supposed to do today, so.

Without even glancing at the two, Majiya continued with the next chat.

– “Answer”

– “Can’t you hear me?”

– “Strange, the Saint used to respond to all of this”

A flood of spam.

As Ena glanced at the chat window, still calm for now, Majiya turned up the heat a little more.

– “As expected, escape is in order of intelligence lol”

– “My colleagues were left behind but I survived so I’m happy!”

Miho swallowed a scream as soon as she saw it.

Orca started carefully watching Majiya and Ena.

But as mentioned repeatedly, this is what this training is like.

Majiya had warned in advance that she would show the worst of malicious users.

Just as vaccination aims to strengthen immunity by introducing the virus to the body in advance, this training aims to build immunity and responsiveness to malicious chat.

Fortunately, Ena passed Majiya’s first trial well.

Originally, anything related to a VTuber’s past life should be ignored no matter what happens.

For other things, the streamer can respond, but in this case, it must be ignored until the managers handle it.

This is because most of the broadcast viewers also know about the past life, but there’s an implicit agreement that pretending not to know is the right thing to do.

When Majiya took initiative again during Ena’s main content, singing songs that match stories:

– “You sing even better after getting out of prison dd”

– “Follow that corporate affiliation!!!”

Ena didn’t react this time either.

There was no movement from the avatar that suggested she was paying attention to the chat window – a perfect response deserving 100 points.

Majiya nodded, saying “As expected of Ena”, and started typing up the relevant details in the evaluation form displayed in Word.

Afterwards, Ena cleanly passed difficult tests one by one.

She responded well to comparisons with her past self.

– “To be honest, I prefer pink haha”

“Oh really? I do like strawberry flavor too. But lately I’ve been craving vanilla a bit more. Come to think of it, my hair color is vanilla too. Oh, is this a coincidence…?”

She strictly dealt with ambiguous mistakes – in this case, the streamer mentioning that someone got banned itself becomes a reference to reincarnation, so it must be left to the manager.

– “Serena”

[Unban request: I accidentally called the wrong name, please forgive me ㅠㅠ]

Finally, she cleanly handled a request to sing an original song released by her past self.

:: Anonymous donor has donated 1,000 Clouds! ::

:: Do you have any plans to sing Pure White Saint? ::

“I’m not taking separate song requests. Please submit requests on the official cafe when there’s a dedicated content for it.”

This response was even more impressive to Majiya because it showed knowledge that Parallel VTubers take song requests through the cafe in advance to filter them when doing karaoke request streams.

As expected, the preparedness and judgment of a well-prepared VTuber.

In the end, Ena’s final evaluation for malicious user response was A+.

A completed evaluation form stating she could debut with no problems at all.

Since this will be reported directly to Cheon Do-hee, Ena won’t have many restrictions when streaming from now on.

It far surpassed Dora’s previous highest score of B+.

“Well done. Your response was perfect, so I have nothing more to say.”

“Really? Thank you. Phew… But it really wasn’t easy. I felt like I was losing my mind even though I knew it was a simulation.”

“It’ll be even harder in real situations. But for now, you pass.”

Well, up to here was as expected.

The problem will be what comes next.

Miho and Orca need to receive at least a B, or they’ll have to repeat the same training.

The malicious user response lecture is scheduled for 1 week by default, but if scores are low in each evaluation, it gets repeatedly inserted into the curriculum.

This could delay their debut a bit.

And, as expected, both of them are highly likely to score below B.

Even among the first generation, everyone except Dora, who got B+ from the start, got C+.

It’s not that Serena was exceptionally good, but rather everyone was new to streaming back then.

If this was Serena’s first broadcast too, there probably wouldn’t be much difference.

And so, that afternoon, after lunch, it was Miho’s turn.

The content she chose was fully voice acting a story game without existing voice acting.

It seemed she chose this because she had some confidence in voice acting, given her short career as a voice actress.

The game she chose was also acclaimed for its story and gameplay.

A work hailed as the GOAT of its time.

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But this too was a very tasty prey for Majiya.

When playing a game acclaimed for its story, god-game fanatics, spoilers, and backseat gamers are sure to follow.

So while Miho was introducing the game, Majiya repeatedly posted spoiler-like chats.

– Don’t focus on the dialogue between the protagonist and heroine

– Don’t focus on the dialogue between the protagonist and heroine

– Don’t focus on the dialogue between the protagonist and heroine

It might seem like preventing spoilers in advance, but this is ultimately part of the spoiler.

Thinking Miho might get extremely angry since she likes deducing things, Majiya threw this out, but as expected earlier, her answer was quite delayed as she seemed to be trying to guess the psychology of malicious users.

The proof was that the broadcast itself came to a halt.

Majiya quietly nodded.

Thinking to herself that Miho would get quite a high score if it ended like this.

However, the situation that was expected to pass naturally as the response was delayed suddenly turned into UFC as Miho muttered quietly:

“…Fucking spoiler bastards. Fucking spoiler bastards. Fucking spoiler bastards…”

What the.

This is scary.

Author’s Note (Afterword)

It’s not that I don’t hold back, it’s that I can’t!!!!

Sob sob sob