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A woman with long pink hair is sitting in front of a computer, sighing while looking at YouTube community posts.

“How many times has this happened?”

It was Lee Da-yeon, the streamer that Do-hyun had been following for over a year.

It’s already been three years since I started doing the job I’ve dreamed of since I was a high school student.

The scale has grown quite a bit, and the profits are now stable, earning enough money even with two editors and a thumbnailer. Recently, she has had one big worry.

“So, three people have already quit.”

“Haa..”

The reason for the headache was the frequent retirement of editors.

We wanted an editor who could work with us for a long time due to the fact that we had to match YouTube’s editing style and the nature of the industry itself made it difficult to find a good editor, but editors were often leaving the company before even completing six months.

“We have to send that person out.”

The person grumbling in front of Dayeon was Jung Eun-chae, currently the only thumbnailer on her channel.

Eunchae and Dayeon have been close friends since high school.

As such, when Dayeon first started working as a streamer, Eunchae used to take charge of all the thumbnails and simple editing.

“It was comfortable back then, when I was working with you.”

“That’s right. Unfortunately, a strange person came in and things continued like this.”

In fact, it was true that it was most convenient when the two of us worked together, but the strange person they were talking about.

Even when Park Woo-jin came in as editor, there were definitely things that bothered me, but it didn’t bother me this much.

Park Woo-jin was a senior at the university Eun-chae was attending for quite a long time.

When the channel grew in size and a full-fledged editor was needed, Eun-chae looked into the department to see if she could find a good person. Among them, she recommended Park Woo-jin, who had the best editing style and was a senior with a very gentle image at school, to Dayeon.

That could be said to be the beginning of this tragedy.

“Sorry, sister. I really didn’t bring that person with me.”

“Did I know it was you? The department said they didn’t do that.”

Park Woo-jin, who had a fairly gentle image in the department, quickly showed his shyness when they started working together.

Although he pretended to be friendly to Dayeon and Eunchae, neither of them paid attention to the fact that he used to act as if he was a Cheongiljeom or something and that they could just ignore it.

The most problematic thing was when the size of the channel grew and additional editors had to be hired.

The second editor who came in for the first time was a man of similar age to Park Woo-jin, and he quit the company after less than three months because he knowingly or unknowingly belittled people and made them feel bad.

“I should have cut Park Woojin back then.”

“..Because I didn’t know at the time.”

Woojin Park’s bullying was so intelligent that at first he didn’t even realize why the other editors were quitting.

But when it happened twice, Dayeon and Eunchae had doubts.

After this third incident happened, I became more confident.

Eunchae didn’t say anything, but she was even more convinced after seeing things that were subtly touched several times.

“I wish you had just said that it was because of that person.”

In any case, I was completely sure that it was only after the third editor had already quit that it was impossible to cut Park Woo-jin right away.

“Let us protect the editor who came in this time! Then, if you secretly get another editor and replace Park Woo-jin…”

“The problem is how to find an editor secretly.”

Anyway, considering the size of Dayeon’s channel now, two editors were absolutely necessary.

Park Woo-jin said that he could do it alone, but he was going to quit soon anyway, so why hire more people?

There were repeated situations that his speed and skills alone could not handle.

“Anyway, I hope there are more good applicants. The last editor had a hard time finding it too.”

Even if your editing skills were good, whether you could match Dayeon’s editing style was another problem.

No matter how many applicants there are, if it takes a long time to match the style, there may be a problem with the number of views right away.

“Anyway, go and work. If you think Park Woo-jin is acting strangely, record it or take a video.”

“Yes, I’m still aiming for it. Fighting too, sister. There are a lot of fans who are worried about broadcasts these days.”

Even if you tried not to show it, if you had deep concerns, it was inevitable that it would reveal itself.

Dayeon was a streamer, not an actor, so she couldn’t completely hide that.

“Ha, let the fans worry. I feel really stupid.”

After Eun-chae left, Da-yeon took a deep breath and sat down in front of the computer to log on.

“Uhm, when you’re in a bad mood, the best thing to do is read fan cafe posts.”

It was his fan cafe, which was quite cute and beautifully decorated.

The communication between fans was very active, and the upload speed of posts was fast, so it was also nice to be able to get a glimpse into the fans’ daily lives just by looking at them.

“Now that I think about it.. I can’t see Sense these days.”

There were a few things Dayeon would look at whenever she was in a bad mood.

One of them was a fan cafe, and one of the things I saw as often as the fan cafe was a fan video posted by a fan with the nickname ‘Sense’.

“Have you defected?”

A large streamer.

As the inflow was large, the number of people leaving was also quite large.

It may not be possible to pay attention to all of those aspects, but it doesn’t mean that there aren’t fans who remember the names, so I felt a pang of regret every time I couldn’t see the fans I remembered.

In particular, in the case of Sense, I felt that way because he was someone who uploaded fan videos every day, at least three times a week.

“Phew… this is not the time. Gotta turn on the broadcast, broadcast.”

However, it was impossible to forcibly catch a person who had defected just because he felt regretful.

She hid those feelings as much as possible and went on air with her usual bright appearance, but today she just played games and communicated with viewers as usual.

***

Eunchae was like an old friend with Dayeon, but she was also an avid viewer who admired Dayeon.

“You look pretty today too, my sister.”

There was one thing she was dreaming about.

“Ah, it would be nice to have a male friend who likes my older sister.”

The goal was to find a male friend with whom she could share her virtues.

Of course, I didn’t want an ordinary male friend.

‘…Oh my, that kind of guy friend who can do this and that…!’

She, who has a strong sexual desire, wanted a male friend who could introduce her to a new world.

“Haaaa…”

In fact, most of Dayeon’s viewers were men, so it might not have been difficult.

The problem was that viewers were prohibited from socializing with each other.

Of course, social gatherings are also prohibited in fan cafes.

‘Where can I go and meet him?’

Moreover, Eunchae is a homebody who doesn’t like to go out.

The only place where I could meet people was the studio where Dayeon, who was working, was broadcasting.

And the only man I meet there is Park Woo-jin.

“Phew.. There is no answer, there is no answer.”

Eun-chae and Park Woo-jin used to work together at Dayeon’s broadcast studio.

It was a broadcast studio, and except that Da-yeon’s room was a completely soundproof booth, it was an ordinary three-room home.

‘What kind of person is the editor we are looking for this time? ‘I hope someone who likes Dayeon comes in.’

However, Dayeon did not pick most of the people who seemed to be her fans.

The first reason was that fandom alone was not enough to get the job done, and the second reason was that there were no people among fans who seemed to have a desire to improve or genuinely work hard at editing.

Since most of the fans applied just to see Dayeon’s face, they had quite negative thoughts.

‘If someone like Sense applied, I would have chosen him right away.’

The only fan she recognized as an editor she could work with was someone with the nickname Sense.

“Hmm..”

Actually, Eunchae didn’t think so.

The sincerity was good, and the fan video made by a person called Sense was very well edited and fun.

But since it’s a fan video, it’s worth watching.

The skills to actually create and post an edited video were quite low.

‘Is that person… a man…? ‘Do I look good?’

My hands were busy drawing and creating thumbnails, but delusions were running wild in my head.

Although it is true that negative thoughts are stronger when working together.

Apart from that, if he is a man, if he is someone who can share his admiration for Dayeon…!

Moreover, if you are someone who can treat yourself like this to your heart’s content…!

The same delusions started running wild.

“…Ha, I can’t do this anymore. I can’t stand it.”

That runaway delusion made Eunchae unbearable.