The Booster Accusation Erupts
In fact, not many viewers were watching my stream right now. At best, the count had gone from the initial two to five. The problem was one of the new arrivals spamming weird chat messages.
Yeah, this must be how Crisu felt when the boosting controversy briefly blew up in her chat. It wasn't anger so much as pure bewilderment—I couldn't wrap my head around what was even happening.
For starters, me being a booster? Total nonsense. If I still had the skills to pull that off without getting called out, I wouldn't have retired in the first place.
And how the hell does someone stumble into a dead stream converging on zero viewers and start typing shit like that?
...Bang Chang-sik? That guy from yesterday? The streamer I ran into just a bit ago?
He's the one sniping me as a booster?
...I was so flabbergasted I couldn't even speak. Did I ever queue with Bang Chang-sik yesterday? His main's Grandmaster, so no way we'd match on this account.
LoE Gal again, huh. Following what the viewers said, I hopped into LoE Gal and searched—immediately found the offending link post.
...A post with five views. How bored are these idiots to track down a shitpost like this and swarm my stream?
Oof, even saying it hurt a little. Never imagined I'd admit something like that out loud.
They came to flame me as a booster but aren't going full troll. Or are they just fanning the flames on purpose?
Nah... Jobless randos who clicked a five-view post aren't that clever.
Probably zero braincells. Just trolls being trolls.
I pulled up Bang Chang-sik's channel and loaded yesterday's VOD. Skimming through to see if I appeared—oh, that aggressive Fire Sorceress from yesterday was him?
We traded solo kills once, but after that he kept diving. Definitely not Diamond level watching it back. No wonder—Grandmaster smurf account? Abuse camper?
Might come off as hypocritical, but whatever, this is my smurf now so I don't care. From his match history, looks like he wasn't smurfing on purpose—just a new account climb stream.
As I watched the VOD,
"No, that's not it, it's a booster."
These fucking assholes. Even after the streamer said it wasn't, they come troll anyway.
...Fuck, why's this random shielding me and it feels kinda nice?
Now they're even arguing in my chat. Never seen a dead stream chat like this before—do viewers usually infight like this?
If it were a real controversy, I'd have no clue how to handle it, but this ain't it. Better to ignore than argue in this mess.
But these guys were more persistent than I thought. Well, one guy specifically.
This dude analyzed the whole VOD down to the second? Caught a real malicious one. Last two are retard-tier anyway—info was right there.
What kinda forced bullshit is this? Thought about banning and ignoring, but decided to explain.
Laid out my reasoning in detail. Not expecting full understanding, but gotta cover bases for proper response.
Surprisingly, he bought it.
Accepted my explanations but still hung up on movements. How do you even clarify that?
Pulled up my match on the account and replayed to check movements. First review since the game.
Watching my movements, I realized...,
I accidentally agreed.
Zoomed in eyes wide, slowed to max—yeah, some reactions were impossibly fast. Didn't notice in-game at all.
But not consistent; it was all over the place. Hard to deny eating skillshots even minions dodge.
Suspected my rhythm issues from before. Plausible, but not certain.
Even explaining that wouldn't help. "Woman now, rhythm swings"? Best case they'd ask "what rhythm?"
Plus, base reaction time was down post-TS. Dodging like I knew the trajectory beforehand? Rhythm aside, still weird. Related maybe, but unexplainable.
Especially flipping to impossible angles—makes even me think "booster off?"
But hey,
Impossible angle yeah, but irrelevant. We were ahead, no hard CC, hp chunked but not fight-losing.
Enemy jungler couldn't gank. So even dumb angle hit = just a missable mistake.
Dunno if true, but most logical. Can't explain my body beyond "sucking now."
No more explanations possible, and curious myself, so I agreed. Loaded a reaction test site. Results...,
What the hell? Why's it all over?
Now what? Never swung this bad before, even I think it's weird. No explanation from me either.
Viewers up to 9 somehow. Sad we can't break 10 amid this? Or relieved? Dunno.
Sub-10 viewer dead stream? Nobody cares. If Chang-sik really sniped me, maybe—but he didn't.
Will bury itself. Even if not, no big issue.
If stream grows later, face reveal and explain then. Whatever.
Ended up spending fun LoE time with the trolls somehow.
Didn't ban, they kept poking but got bored eventually.
Viewers increased anyway—successful stream? Sure.
Or not. Whatever.