Chapter 28
Chapter 28
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 28
Chapter Title: A Briefly Diminished Ember
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Recently, the domestic Virtual YouTuber gallery—commonly known as VerGal—had been buzzing quite a bit.
There were various factors, of course, but the biggest reason was undoubtedly the existence of Blue LUV, the new virtual group personally launched by Haneul Bom, the major corporate streamer.
However, there was yet another step further that made VerGal even noisier.
It was the controversy surrounding a clip channel called BlueOshi, which edited and uploaded Blue LUV clips.
Most clippers tend to upload videos centered around their favorite, their so-called oshi.
Even if they publicly declare a particular VTuber as their oshi, there's usually a certain line they don't cross.
For example, let's say there's a clipper who claims a Blue LUV member like Lucrezia is their oshi.
Even if they name their channel something like 'LucreziaOshi', it's rare for them to upload only her videos.
Even while calling her their oshi, it's standard practice to periodically upload videos featuring all the group's members.
But this BlueOshi clipper was a different story.
As the channel name suggests, this clipper who proclaimed the entire Blue LUV as their oshi had drawn massive attention in the community from day one of the debut, thanks to their overwhelmingly high-quality videos.
Their editing speed was insane too—they'd pull off feats like uploading edits of a stream that ended around 6 or 7 p.m. by 2 a.m.
And that was one video per member, meaning two videos total.
So VerGal users were convinced that a video for Lulu, who had debuted on the very last day, would pop up soon enough.
No video came that dawn, but they figured there must be some reason.
Yet even after two days, no Lulu video appeared.
And that was despite all the other members' Day 2 live streams getting their edits uploaded right away!
It was a situation that could only be seen as blatantly excluding one member: Lulu.
In response, VerGal users started flooding the channel's comment section, demanding an explanation.
Since the full story hadn't come out yet, the comments were mostly polite.
Then, like pouring oil on the fire, an incident exploded this dawn.
Comments questioning the truth started getting deleted one by one.
VerGal users swarmed back, demanding explanations with much rougher language.
That was the story up until this morning.
And then, this afternoon, another incident blew up.
Title: What the hell is this guy? Is this supposed to be his "explanation"?
Author: LuluChanSniffSniff
(Reply screenshot)
Wtf, I'm floored. We all saw him deleting comments, but he denies it and says he never did? Pissed me off so I demanded an explanation again. His response? Says he was drinking chicken & beer with friends last night, got wasted, and fucked up. This dude's seriously trying to pull the "drunk defense"? First time I've seen a clipper beg for leniency like this.
Reactions among VerGal users to this so-called "public opinion suppression" were split.
Some said, "He deliberately deleted even unrelated comments, then excuses it as a drunken mistake."
Others argued, "He was managing comments while drunk and messed up."
Either way, the point was that it was ambiguous enough not to fully ignite the flames right now.
Even if the guy genuinely felt no appeal from Lulu and just didn't want to edit her videos.
As long as he didn't outright admit it, viewers had little solid ground to nitpick.
So the hot topic that had been burning fizzled out somewhat, cooling off.
But the embers weren't completely gone.
As with most controversies like this, add more fuel, and it'd blaze right back up.
Title: Honestly it's kinda shitty but the video quality is insane lol
Author: VerGalGhost
Even VerGal haters can't trash the editing quality lol
On the other hand, even amid all this, there were plenty who couldn't unsubscribe because there were no alternatives.
Proof that Da-jeong's video quality was on another level entirely.
Today was the long-awaited first stream after debut.
With my heart pounding, I turned on the broadcast just like on day one.
"Cherries, hi~! How's everyone been?"
Ah, right.
I was the only one who didn't stream yesterday.
Everyone rests the day after debut, then starts streaming the day after that.
So it was only natural that I, who debuted last, had no stream yesterday.
Of course, the Cherries might have felt a bit neglected.
"Hehe, sorry about that. But I'm here today, so don't be upset, okay?"
"Today? Probably until midnight. It's hard to go too late 'cause all the noise from my house carries outside."
The walls are super thin in this old place—no helping it.
The grandma next door even joked once that she could hear me farting at home.
No idea if it's true, though.
"How could I ask the President for that? I'll earn it myself."
Hehe.
Seeing everyone cheering me on gives me strength for some reason.
Truth is, thanks to the signing bonus, I could afford a soundproof booth.
It's basically my entire savings right now, so I've been holding off on spending it.
Someday the time will come. Yeah.
Deciding to think positive, I asked about the Cherries' daily lives for some casual chat.
"So, what'd you all do while I was gone? You watched our members' streams, right? You didn't look elsewhere, did you? Right?"
Psh, interrogation? Nah.
Just confirming you didn't waste time on other streams instead of our Blues.
"I can tolerate you skipping my stream. But skipping our Blues' streams? Unforgivable!"
Ahem, you guys think this is a joke?
No good.
Time to lay down the law properly.
"Got it? You can skip mine, but watch our Blues' streams a ton! Or I'll revoke your Cherry status?!"
"Concept? Excuse me?! You're dismissing my genuine love for the Blues?! Who just typed that! I'm gonna find you."
Daring to slander my true feelings.
Even Cherries can't get away with this—I immediately scoured the chat.
Found the culprit and made an example: a light 5-minute chat ban.
"Went easy with 5 minutes today, but next time no mercy! Got it?"
I'm dead serious.
Guess the Cherries think it's all an act.
My heartfelt love isn't getting through—disappointing. So disappointing.
I clicked my tongue and shook my head.
Then the Cherries turned the tables, asking about my day yesterday.
Most of it was spent editing members' videos, but I couldn't say that...
Keep it simple.
"Yesterday, I did a debut afterparty with the members. Second time trying alcohol, so I got super wasted... Woke up and it was already lunchtime."
"Sides were chicken. First time doing chimaek, and it was surprisingly delicious. Beer was apple-flavored, went down easy."
Viewers remembered my lore age of 4 and piled on.
Heh, but I had an excuse ready for this.
Don't underestimate me!
"Uparupa are adults at 4, so alcohol's fine! Ahem."
"Ahem, no calling me cute!"
One annoying chat, but I was gonna let it slide today.
The sudden superchat made me tilt my head.
Whoever it was, sounds like someone as weak to booze as me.
Ji-ah unnie said she'd never seen anyone black out on beer in real life either.
Well.
Bound to be at least one other person like me in the world.
Nothing surprising.
Yeah.