Black and White Survival
The VTuber Minor Gallery
[Former Idol in Provocative Outfit at an Entertainment Venue...avi]
[Author: TissueString]
No lies here
[Come to think of it, it's already been three months since the Angel server]
[Author: Anonymous(39.7)]
Is there anywhere else with dopamine on the level of a big server...?
[Yume Concert Playlist on Repeat Today]
[Author: Anonymous]
<Yume Official NewTube 3-Hour Playlist>
Great Pudding Sensei...
[Info) Streamer Chunrang Transfers to New MCN Quasar]
[Author: P*]
<Community Notice Post>
[But is Quasar any good?]
[Author: Anonymous]
A lot of streamers are going there these days...
[Info) Quasar Is Indeed Under BK Idol Division ㅇㅇ]
[Author: Sseobuttaku]
<BK Shareholders' Meeting Related Article Scrap>
<Quasar Corporate Registry Status>
<Consolidated Financial Statement Notes Analysis>
Just from the shareholders' meeting article, it's openly written that the Idol Management Division and New Media Business Division are undergoing strategic integration and vertical consolidation.
The official reason is synergy, but looking at the corporate registry, the board is all from the existing idol division ㅇㅇ.
Plus, seeing Kim Youngho listed as the integrated management representative, they're not even trying to hide it.
You can just assume those bastards are the ones actually in control.
[Info) Angel Indefinite Hiatus Notice]
[Author: P*]
<Angel Community Post Notice>
[Reasonable Suspicions at This Point]
[Author: Anonymous]
<Yume Bunny Girl Fanart>
Queen of Flame... Is it you again...?
[Dropping Streaming Bait in the Zenith Gallery]
[Author: Anonymous(115.137)]
<Black and White Survival Notice Post>
Black and White Survival notice is up ㅇㅇ
[Info) Black and White Survival Schedule Confirmed]
[Author: P*]
<Black and White Survival Notice Post>
After the bankruptcy of Heaven server.
About three months have passed.
[Yume Yume]
[Subscribers: 850,000]
"Holy moly..."
During that time, my channel's subscriber count had steadily increased, now well over 800,000.
Reaching one million subscribers and inheriting Latte's throne was no longer just a dream.
"Honestly, Pudding deserves most of the credit this time too."
Shortly after Bankruptcy Heaven ended, at Pudding's suggestion, we hired a few more editors and illustrators.
Pudding alone couldn't handle NewTube management anymore, and with my increased scale, we needed more hands.
Thus, my NewTube slave party... no, the "Dream Team" was formed, allowing faster video upload cycles.
That was also how we managed to pull subscribers up to 800,000 in such a short time.
"Anyway... I have to do what needs to be done, right?"
[Yume: Everyone assemble under me]
I muttered that and immediately started spamming nonsense in the Dream Team chat as usual.
[Yume: <NewTube Subscriber Count Screenshot>]
[Yume: Who did this?]
[Yume: Who made this?]
[Yume: Answer]
[Editor Slave: ......?]
[Thumbnail Slave: Pretty sure it wasn't me;;]
[Pudding: ?]
[Pudding: What's the problem?]
Maybe the discipline had loosened after some time, because Pudding dared to talk back to his heavenly employer.
So I started typing to correct his rotten attitude.
[Yume: Damn it, Pudding!! What the hell is this subscriber count!!]
[Yume: The algorithm is heating up!!]
[Thumbnail Slave: Sigh...]
[Editor Slave: There she goes again]
[Yume: Get over here!!]
[Yume: You need to receive your Reward, right??]
[Pudding: ;;;]
That day, the Dream Team members received three incentive sheets each.
Pudding shed tears of gratitude and thanked me.
[Pudding: No... Stop...]
[Yume: What? You want me to not stop??]
[Pudding: No;;;]
[Pudding: How much more work are you trying to give...]
[Yume: Hehe]
[Pudding: (Crying cat meme)]
Of course there was a slight misunderstanding in the process.
Anyway, since I'm not the one suffering, it didn't matter.
"In reality, there'll be a lot of work soon anyway."
Even though my viewer count had dropped and the community was calling me a has-been, it was only temporary.
Kneeling was just to gain momentum.
And for good reason—an event as big as Bankruptcy Heaven was about to happen soon.
<202X Black and White Survival Season 4 Notice>
Event Period: July 14 ~ July 20
Participants: Streamers and invited guests
Prizes:
- 1st Place: 15,000,000 won
- 2nd Place: 8,000,000 won
- 3rd Place: 5,000,000 won
- 4th Place: 2,000,000 won
......
...
"Black and White Survival."
A tournament based on a popular FPS game in Korea.
Players are divided into Black and White classes based on skill, and survivors are determined through a death game format.
Plus, the prize money is quite substantial for a game tournament, making it popular among streamers as well.
"Of course I'm not participating for the money."
To me, who had accumulated an astronomical amount through my idol activities, this level of prize money was pocket change.
...Well, not literally pocket change.
Of course having it would be nice. Who doesn't like money?
But right now, money wasn't the reason I wanted to join this tournament.
With 800,000 subscribers already, I didn't particularly need more recognition either.
I had a different reason for wanting to participate in this tournament.
[Yume]
[Followers: 282,000]
"...It's not there..."
My streaming channel that recently hit 280,000 followers.
And next to the channel name, something that should obviously be there was missing.
<Following Channels>
[Latte ☑]
[Prism ☑]
[Noa ☑]
[......]
[...]
"The V mark... isn't there..."
The green V verification mark given only to partner streamers.
That's right.
Even though it had already been four months since I started streaming.
Even though my follower count had exceeded 200,000 and was approaching 300,000.
I!
Still!!
Hadn't become a partner streamer!!
Oh heavens!!!!
"Hwaaaaaah!!"
Well... I exaggerated a bit, but it wasn't really that strange.
Let's think logically.
An idol who suddenly retired and reincarnated as a VTuber.
From her debut stream, she popped a red pill.
The content level was dangerously borderline, and a certain community was constantly running a drug-addled brain burning gal cup.
Plus, the person she got involved with on the Angel server just happened to be Akgyeon, a notorious toxic streamer from another platform.
There's no way they'd give a partner mark to a streamer who's a walking controversy, right...?
Even if I were the manager, I'd have rejected it thinking "This one's a bit much..."
"From the platform's perspective, all I did was evasive maneuvers to survive..."
But that didn't mean I was going to give up on becoming a partner streamer.
Currently, I have two goals.
One is the Jamsil concert I couldn't do during my idol days.
And the other is revenge against BK Entertainment.
Becoming a VTuber was entirely for the former, but the latter reason wasn't entirely absent either.
To bring down the giant that is BK, my own strength alone wasn't enough.
Only with numerous fans and public opinion as allies could my plan be executed.
"It's not a plan I can execute right now."
I'm still just a solo VTuber who hasn't even reached one million subscribers.
There was little I could do, and many allies I still needed to gain.
To make my plan a reality, several prerequisites were necessary.
And the first thing needed for that was this "partner streamer" qualification.
That's also why I'm participating in this Black and White Survival tournament.
[Participants who achieve final TOP 4 in this tournament will be awarded the platform's official 'Partner Streamer' qualification...]
Black and White Survival is a tournament directly hosted by the platform.
And if you place in the final top 4, you receive partner streamer qualification.
"Originally, this rule was created to prevent the tournament from leaking to other platforms..."
I planned to use this rule to obtain partner streamer qualification.
In short, fight or die, live and you'll die anyway.
If I die, the platform dies too, and if the platform dies, I die as well.
Though the probability of the former is overwhelmingly higher than the latter... but what can I do?
It's their own rule.
I have to protect it with sheer grit and determination.
"Anyway. So participation is confirmed and..."
But even if I participate, not everything will be solved.
Black and White Survival participants are determined through preliminaries.
That means you need a certain level of gaming skill to pass the preliminaries.
And...
-Uhhhhh
-? Where are you going???
-Where are you going again
-Aigoo... you can't go there...
-Did you get lost again YumeYume
-Please look at the map;;
-You're doing this on purpose, right? Please say yes...
-Watch out for the zombie behind you
-Uhhhhhhhh
-Dodge! Roll to dodge!!
-Avoid the zombie breath
-Shoot!! Put down the flashlight!!
-Keep the sight centered and switch...
-No way;;;
-How did you die??? How did you die??? How did you die??? How did you die???
-I'm going crazy I'm going crazy I'm going crazy
[An anonymous donor has donated 1,000 coins!]
-You're actually terrible at games;;;
「......」
I'm bad at games.
Not just bad—I'm fucking terrible at them.
"Honestly, I don't want to admit it..."
After playing countless games on stream over the past three months, even I could now objectively assess my own skill level.
And the conclusion I reached was that I'm fucking terrible at games.
No... it's not like my reaction time is bad either, you know?
Plus it's not like I'm lacking in intelligence.
After all, an idol who's only a high school graduate is basically an elite, right?
Yet I'm fucking terrible at games.
Beyond just being bad—I'm bizarrely bad at them.
Truly talent forsaken by the heavens.
The worst in history. JOAT. Reverse Faker.
That was the current state of my gaming skills.
"......"
I didn't want to admit it, but facts are facts.
But I didn't have time to sit around whining about it.
"Did I start out good at dancing and singing either?"
It was the same with dancing and singing.
Starting from knowing nothing, I built my skills through nothing but bloody effort and practice.
So becoming a VTuber didn't change anything.
"Plus... this time I have someone to help me."
I muttered that and immediately made a phone call.
A few rings followed.
After a brief wait, the call connected.
/Hello? Yume-nim?/
At the familiar voice coming from the speaker,
I spoke with a very gentle smile.
"It's been a while, Prism-nim."
Prism.
An FPS game specialist streamer.
One of my few connections in the streaming industry.
"Have you been well?"
There was one debt I needed to collect from him.