What the Hell Is This
This... is insane.
That said, "songs I can't really digest in a live" actually exist in plenty on this planet.
Everyone has limits on how well they can sing.
As you'd expect, though, your vocal condition and how you're feeling on the day can swing it wildly.
The extreme example is obvious: even if you're the world's best singer, catch a vicious flu and you won't be able to get through a proper performance.
But even without going that far, there are tons of songs that are just plain too hard for normal people to handle casually.
Take songs made without even considering that a real human would have to sing them.
In Japan, the voice-synthesis engine "Vocalist" is one of the most common tools for composing music.
The tracks made with it and spread online all feel the same.
No breathing room, so physically impossible to deliver the sound.
Or ridiculous high notes repeated over and over that no one can swallow.
Or even tracks that were recorded assuming a top-tier vocalist with perfect condition, then polished afterward.
Those still feel like a stretch even for actual singers.
In fact, some singers admitted they always drop the key a little in karaoke just to make their own songs sound easy.
Because of that, failing to nail a live performance isn't something to be ashamed of.
And sometimes they just lower the key for release.
Still, the internet laughed like it was a huge scandal.
[Naga
[Whew... what did you even do for five years without vocal lessons?]
[Wait, what the hell? The rap part is way harder than that!]
[Honestly, if you practiced for that long you should've at least tried with full effort]
From the mocking side, though, none of that mattered.
The internet is a place where you can twist completely unrelated things into "cancel" for no reason.
With clear facts on the table, why would you even bother?
Especially since every fandom grows and inevitably attracts the eye-roll fans who get carried away with excessive worship.
They ignore the original genre or game that's clearly the reference point and claim they invented something new.
Or they rank everything by "artistic value, vocal ability, stamina" and put down anyone else.
The Eve fandom of Children of Paradise had gone through the same nonsense.
And the fact that Annette's skills are on par with any current professional singer had been compared so many times—"too bad she's not quite at that level"—that the backlash was inevitable.
So when the group's power started shrinking a bit, it made perfect sense that these people would swarm in and unload a full beating.
But it had just become an annual event.
Everyone slapped "lol" on the title but typed it with zero expression.
The Eve fans themselves were faking anger in the comments while secretly thinking "this again?"
Fresh bait dropped right in that forum...
[Exclusive] Speedrunner just dropped a 2-key live clip lol]
It was the speedrunner.
Most of the ones who flooded in after the last World Cup event had only stayed for a short while before heading back to their preferred streams.
A few, though, were still lurking.
They mostly watched from VTuber channels, but they didn't completely ignore the real streamer.
Curious if something fun would happen.
Or if they could steer things in their direction.
[lol I said I wanted a donae song and I didn't even know she'd sing it]
[The speedrunner just went around chatting. Why does she sing better than Annette? Pure talent?]
[Idols who can't even sing their own songs for five years?]
[LIVE) Speedrunner, speeding through time (2key up)]
The comments in the forum went wild, and the clip proving it wasn't a fishing trip lit the place on fire.
The fire spread to other galleries too.
Not the total chaos of Buraemgal, but the fandom-specific one for Children of Paradise and their activities on the mainland platform.
Coincidence becomes inevitability, right?
The speedrunner had just been casually reading chats and donae.
But outsiders saw it as deliberate sabotage to drag down Naga's inability to live-sing.
[You filthy little brat, what the hell are you doing?]
[She must be dying to dig into it and act like that]
[The ones who suck up to the motherland traitors are all creepy as hell. They keep hitting us]
[That's why you gotta crush them early when the tier gap is huge]
[The dude who refused to do bird dripping is already beaten to hell]
[Straw-pulling is straight-up disgusting lol]
Everyone craves attention.
They exaggerate in conversation—classic MSG.
So when facts get twisted or outright lies are invented, it spreads...
Preconceptions and distorted stories about the speedrunner were forming.
...
...
"...Ah. I thought I was going to die. This song is insanely hard."
-Kyaa~
-Da-ddi-ddu
-Why are you singing so well?
「Anonymous donor 1,000 Jeollyeok.
The squad is envious of this song that we've heard in front of so many people」
「Midliner-only viewer 50,000 Jeollyeok.
Just drop the mic later, speedrunner~」
"A~ Thanks a thousand. Thanks fifty thousand. Mic drop... hmm. It's not something I do often, but if something comes up I'll think about it. Special days feel right for it."
-Yeah, that makes sense.
-But what kind of stream is this usually?
"What do you mean what I usually do? Just... RPGs? So far I've been following what everyone else plays, but when a game gets popular it doesn't help me get views."
-T_T
-Whoa
"I did put in the effort at first... but now that so many people are watching I don't worry about it."
The president who drops money like crazy, chats rolling in, good chat system.
In just a few days it's changed this much. Amazing.
Of course the current viewers can't be counted as concrete fans.
They might disappear any second.
Before that I need to wake people up or find a new way to bring them in...
「Anonymous donor 1,000 Jeollyeok.
Just a community trash forum. Viewers and streamers both suck it up and cancel like idiots without realizing it」
"Huh?"
-?
-?
-Hmm?
-Kk
The unexpected donae hit me like a stun and I stared blankly.
The chat exploded with question marks at lightning speed.
What the hell? Why the sudden freak-out?
"I didn't send it wrong, did I? Why the sudden burst?"
-Whoa, it just flew out.
-Right after she did the 2-key live she went feral?
-Legendary
"Hey, WAXING_SMOKER_4721, get over here. Gone? Why the sudden random nonsense?"
The anonymous donae feature exists, but it only hides the name from other viewers.
It's never anonymous to the streamer.
If it were truly secret, trouble would follow.
So I called out the nickname and the person responded right away.
WAXING_SMOKER_4721 — why?
"Why what? Look at the donae. I wasn't going to sing. Why the sudden crap talk?"
WAXING_SMOKER_4721 — it's not crap talk. You did that yourself.
"When did I ever do that? The people who do it sometimes are all banned anyway. What was so offensive?"
"Tell me."
WAXING_SMOKER_4721 — you said you banned none. What?
"I didn't say I banned none. What do I have to show you? You think I banned only a few?
I banned dozens! Why the hell are you talking like you don't know the rules and just heard rumors?"
I muttered in disbelief. The chat offered a site to check ban history, so I opened it and confirmed it was legitimate.
Then I set the stream to show the screen.
When I searched, I could see every banned person from yesterday's broadcast and their chats instantly.
It took ten seconds? You came here without checking and started raging?
"Yo, answer. Who banned zero people?"
-Kkkkkkkkkkkkk
-Run
-You're a total idiot lol
-It's Run~
-Shut your mouth and ran?
"I'm just shocked. You didn't even check and believed strangers' words.
You even believed it from the community itself.
And now you're calling the community garbage? What exactly is wrong with the community?"
I couldn't believe it even more.
The chance you heard it from a friend is way lower than hearing it in a community and believing it.
Then you go and trash-talk strangers about the community?
What's the difference between that and "a dog covered in shit calling another dog covered in dirt stupid"?
Internet communities aren't perfect, but raging like that isn't okay.
I waited a second, but the guy still hadn't left.
The chat came in.
WAXING_SMOKER_4721 — I'm sorry for the misunderstanding.
But you did cancel for bird dripping.
"More crap? What the hell is bird dripping? ...Wait, you're talking about chickens?
You banned those too. Why didn't you ban them? Are you going to die?"
You can't even call them chickens? What kind of cyber Hong Gil-dong are you?
You can't do ho-chicken or ho-chicken?
I waited for his next message, stunned.
Then he dropped the most refreshing bullshit I'd ever heard.
WAXING_SMOKER_4721 — the chat that said he wanted to eat chicken is still there peacefully.
"...Ha."
I was mixing with this kind of idiot.