It Was Economic YouTube
Economic YouTube.
YouTube.
The more she did it, the deeper she fell.
Let's see. Engagement looks solid again today…
Sora had never so much as touched a blog in her life, let alone social media. YouTube was her first real experiment — and it was a whole new world. She lost track of time working on it. She kept trying new things, chasing better reactions.
Sorry for saying you can't style
But anything with exposure? Yeah idk if you could pull that off T_T
She read the comments, that was how.
There he was again — the cheeky subscriber who'd needled her yesterday.
Please. I dress great. And exposure? If I actually felt like it…
Sora knew. He was messing with her on purpose. But she didn't mind playing along. Thanks to him, her subscriber count was climbing. A thumbs-up meant plenty of viewers agreed.
"Hi everyone~ This is Sora's channel, where we explore the mysteries of the economy!"
She put on a top with a plunging neckline. She pulled the camera in close, framing herself the way guys liked.
I'm an econ major too so I've been really into your videos
It'd be nice if you posted some everyday stuff like food content once in a while!
Mukbang? Well… yeah. Lectures only would get pretty dry.
Even professors lost their audiences if they clenched their jaws and did nothing but lecture. A little banter, a little playfulness — that was how you held attention. Maybe she ought to try other kinds of content herself. Mukbang, she figured, was something she could handle.
Mine's a dump T_T
Curious how you spend your days — would you film even a simple vlog?
Vlog? I've heard of those… so it's just filming your daily life. Something like that, I could probably do?
And there was more. Bit by bit, she started branching out beyond pure economics lectures.
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Was the effort paying off?
Subscribers climbed day after day. View counts rose in plain sight.
Heh. Heheh.
Sora was buzzing. The new kinds of work were fun, and reading viewer comments was its own little pleasure.
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Some of them were nasty. Even that, she filed under the fun of doing YouTube.
A year ago, that would've at least made my eyebrow twitch.
Sexual talk had always been something she loathed. Someone had changed that, of course. Sexual harassment was practically routine now. After everything her senior had put her through, she was numb to it.
But that body is micro-level sexy damn
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Having her figure noticed wasn't entirely unwelcome either. She'd been skipping meals and refining herself lately, after all.
I have gotten a lot prettier.
She'd been working at it nonstop since coming back from the trip. It felt a little sideways, getting recognized for it in a place like this — but still. YouTube. If the subscribers and views kept climbing, real money would follow.
If people like it this much…
Maybe being more aggressive about it wouldn't hurt. For the YouTube revenue, that was.
Sora was waiting on her investment returns. For the time being, she couldn't touch stocks. Steady income. Economic study. If YouTube took off, she'd catch both rabbits at once.
It's not like I'm selling my face. What's the harm?
Having made up her mind, Sora pumped herself up with fresh resolve — but then.
Economic YouTuber.
— Push a little harder and she'll show her face, right?
— Gallery-picked YouTuber update.real
— Livestock got sued.jpg
— Wait is she actually from some no-name school's econ department?
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That was how she billed herself. How the audience chose to take it was another matter entirely.
She's doing every single thing the gallery asks — challenges, mukbang, all of it lmao
They saw her as a naive woman streamer. Nobody cared what the YouTuber actually said. All they watched was a pretty girl — one with the premium of a real education attached.
People wanted to mess with her. Not some worn-out cam girl — a real woman broadcaster.
She became a minor issue in the community. It had the effect of rocketing her subscriber count upward. But the side effects were just as real.
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She went to my school
Getting famous on the internet was a double-edged sword. Collective intelligence. Sometimes the hive mind could reason its way to near-perfect answers from the tiniest scraps of information.
And it's not some no-name school, it's Hankuk U
And it was only a matter of time. All because of a physical feature that set her apart from everyone else.
230K views · 6 months ago
She had ridden YouTube into a frenzy once before. That kind of impact was not the sort of thing people simply forgot.
— Sora was the Chest Girl??? lmaooooooo
— Comparison shot) Brought the Chest Girl pics.jpg
— fr milk cartons like that don't just grow on trees
— Damn so she really is from a top school
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The community users dug it up. Before long, it spilled onto YouTube itself.
Just come clean and show the face too lmao — like the chest
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Popularity bred more popularity.
Girl streamers.
I don't ride Sora about developing her talent for nothing.
In modern stock markets, it matters.
In the old days, the person with the fastest information won. You seized what nobody else knew, sold first, bought first. There was no internet — no telephones, even. The value of getting news early was enormous.
There were families that made absolute fortunes off it.
The Rothschilds, for instance. The house that makes my teeth grind. That was how they built their wealth. They used private fast ships and carrier pigeons, ferrying European intelligence to England a full thirty hours ahead of everyone else.
Europe was at war at the time.
France versus the British coalition. The famous Battle of Waterloo was underway — the one where Napoleon was crushed. British victory meant stock prices up. British defeat meant stock prices down. So which side had won? While everyone else fretted and stamped their feet, the Rothschilds could move at their leisure. Combined with their particular brand of cunning, they pocketed nearly twentyfold returns. The incident that made the Rothschild name legendary.
There's no way that works in the modern world.
In the twenty-first century, it's impossible. Institutions will still get information before retail, sure — but an institution's ultimate enemy is another institution. Equal fighting conditions. You can't claim an edge on information alone.
Which is why the figure of the superstar rose to the surface.
"……."
The future superstar let out a long, heavy sigh. Sora, burned white and completely fried, was barely clinging to life at his place.