episode_0409
by admin
According to community opinion, the users currently criticizing Awaken are some Hako streamers who failed to sign a contract with them.
However, they were not the only ones to be wary of Awaken, who was drawing fire and rapidly rising in weight class.
Of course, it was true that the hackers were jealous of Awaken’s creators, but the ones who were truly feeling the crisis were the so-called large corporations.
The large corporate streamer referred to here basically means a large-scale streamer with 10,000 followers and thousands of live viewers worthy of its name.
These are the real whales of the Internet broadcasting industry who, based on a solid existing viewer base, color the relevant community with their stories even if they are running content that is not that special.
The work started with Jinsu Lim, one of Twatch’s major streamers.
Unlike YouTube, Twatch was a streaming site that went all-in on live streaming. It could be said that it is a site with many streamers who mainly broadcast games, and whose main audience is the younger generation.
And Lim Jin-su, who broadcast there, was also a streamer who mainly played general games, commonly called general games.
“Haaam… ”
Jinsu Lim opened his eyes only when it was almost evening. The sun had already set and the sky was getting dark.
It wasn’t anything very special. He always started broadcasting in the evening and ended at dawn. The broadcast time was chosen because relatively few people watch the stream during the day.
Of course, other streamers have similar thoughts, so there are cases where they broadcast during the day to avoid the fierce competition of evening broadcasts, but Jinsu Lim thought that there was no need to do that at his level. In fact, it was true to some extent.
Until just yesterday.
[Just Chatting/ Jinsoo Lim is broadcasting!]
‘Okay then, shall we continue what we did yesterday? ‘I’ve beaten about half of the chapters, so I can finish it today.’
Im Jin-soo, who started streaming after familiarizing himself with broadcast preparations, soon noticed something strange.
“Oh… ?”
When he starts broadcasting, he leaves the standby screen on for about 10 to 20 minutes.
The idea is to display something like prepared fan art on the screen, play music, and wait for a certain number of viewers who saw the notification to gather.
Most viewers who come in early anyway start their first chat with a greeting, and this was to prevent cases where viewers who started their comments too quickly and came in a few minutes later were unable to follow the conversation.
In broadcasts with a lot of people like Lim Jin-soo, most people used similar methods, although there may be differences in waiting time.
But now, even though it has been 10 minutes since Lim Jin-soo started broadcasting, the number of viewers is only a little more than half of the usual number.
‘… What is it, the viewership is slow today?’
Im Jinsu tilted his head and decided to wait 10 more minutes. He smoked a bit during his spare time and then came back.
And what he saw upon his return was a further decrease in the number of viewers.
‘what… ?’
Now the audience has been reduced by half.
He was confident that the number of viewers would recover once he switched to the standby screen and started broadcasting in earnest, but he could tell that something was strange about the situation.
Im Jin-soo first switched the screen and started broadcasting. If it took longer, there was a possibility that viewers would feel uncomfortable.
“Hello everyone!”
-ㅎㅎㅎㅎㅎ
-Jinha
-Are we going to the next chapter today?
-What do you have for dinner?
Light greetings and not very nutritious questions were posted in the chat window.
“Yes, that’s right. First of all, today we will continue the game we played yesterday. I ate beef jerky for dinner.”
‘Tsk, where have all the unemployed or unemployed people gone anyway?’
Lim Jin-su smiled somewhat awkwardly and clicked his tongue.
He originally broadcast with a somewhat arrogant attitude, but that only applied to opponents he met in games and other streamers, and he did not show that attitude even to the viewers who could be said to be his breadwinners.
But now, he was unable to completely hide his displeasure at the chatting speed, which was noticeably slower than usual.
At that time, a notification rang in the messenger program that Jinsoo Lim uses to contact his manager. Unless it was something very urgent, the notification didn’t sound during the broadcast, which was strange.
Jinsoo Lim continued to chat with viewers about everyday things and checked the messenger.
-older brother. The atmosphere among streamers right now is unusual. Apparently, the content planned by Awaken this time… … .
And Jinsoo Lim found out from his manager why there were so few viewers today.
‘Awaken? Real Minecraft? ‘Dungeon exploration?’
These were all stories that were hard to believe. However, since Lim Jin-soo’s manager suddenly turned around and there was no reason to lie like that, I had no choice but to believe it even though it was hard to believe.
‘Maybe the viewers were quiet because it was a story from another room.’
According to broadcasting rules, talking about other streamers and MCNs without context in the chat could result in a timeout, so it seemed that information could not be obtained from viewers.
The fact that Jinsoo Lim was the type of person who did not usually watch other streamers’ broadcasts was one of the reasons why he only found out about the situation now.
The manager’s message continued.
-Now, those streamers are sucking up viewers. Among them, Lee Min-ho is already being watched by nearly 100,000 people.
“100,000… ?! Breathe… !”
-?
-What did you say?
-100,000?
-Are you asking me to go on a mission?
-The game hasn’t even started yet!
“Ah, no. haha… ”
Im Jin-soo, who almost screamed in voice without realizing it, turned to the viewers.
‘100,000?! What on earth are those… !’
Although he did not understand everything the manager conveyed, he felt a strong sense of crisis.
Lee Min-ho was someone he knew well. Among the creators in Korea recently, there is probably no one who has been as much of an issue.
But his main stage was YouTube. Whether it reached 100,000 or 1 million was not important to Jinsu Lim, who broadcasts on Twatch.
Usually, no matter what kind of party is happening on another platform, there are not many viewers who abandon the existing platform and watch it.
‘Of course, it could be because this issue seems to be quite big, but… ‘It’s a shame to care about such a small number.’
The problem that immediately faced Jinsu Lim was that he was a streamer on Twatch and had recently signed a contract with Awaken.
These are the people who are stealing his viewers in real time right now.
‘It won’t have much of an impact on the Hakos. There wouldn’t have been many people seeing it right away anyway, so it wouldn’t have made much of a difference. But not me.’
As the scale of the broadcast was large, the number of viewers lost was also in the thousands. Then how much will the income from there be reduced? Even large corporate streamers like Lim Jin-soo were bound to be immediately affected by the amount of sponsorship when something big like this happened.
And if this phenomenon continues, his weight class may actually decrease.
Im Jin-su didn’t want to even imagine such a situation.
‘I need to do something… ‘
-What is Jinsu doing?
-What’s going on? Where does it hurt?
While Lim Jin-su was worried, chats urging him to proceed came into view.
‘Well, first of all, we have to proceed with the broadcast.’
“Hahaha… I have something to think about for a moment. Then, let’s start again from where we did yesterday.”
He said that and turned on the game.
However, there was no way I could play the game properly when my mind was already full of other thoughts. This is especially true if the game is so difficult that it had to be played over several days.
“Oh! Why is this right! ha… Everyone, I’m not feeling well today, so I’ll go in first.”
In the end, he ended the broadcast in anger after playing the game in a mess. It was an action commonly called pakjong.
Then, I hurriedly found the broadcast of an Awaken streamer and entered. I thought I would be able to get an estimate by seeing what the situation was like in person.
Finding the broadcast wasn’t difficult. Because they all had the word Awaken in their titles.
On the screen where Im Jin-su appeared, a woman wearing a beautiful hanbok and a flower crown on her head was decorating a hotel room-like place while interacting with viewers.
However, what was unique was that both she and the decorations she touched were virtual graphics with textures that were different from the real thing.
“This is here… This is over there… yes? It doesn’t suit you? But I really want to decorate this… This is the item I got after exploring the dungeon for the first time.”
Im Jin-soo paused for a moment at the graphics that blended in so naturally, as if an animation character had just popped into reality. His gaze then turned to the number of viewers.
“What? 5,000… ?”
The streamer currently broadcasting was someone Jinsoo Lim had never heard of.
Although he is usually not very interested in other streamers, it is normal for a streamer with as many as 5,000 viewers to have heard his name in some way.
Jinsu Lim watched the streamer’s broadcast for a while with a confused look on his face, then shut down his computer.
ChikㅡChikㅡ
“Phew… ”
Im Jin-su, with a lit cigarette in his mouth, looked worried about something. And after smoking all his cigarettes, he called somewhere with a determined look on his face.
He already knew how to react if something like this happened.
“Hello? Oh, it’s me. I have a favor to ask.”
0 Comments