43. Recruiting Editors for RinTube - (2)
43. Recruiting Editors for RinTube - (2)
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A simple black background screen—one of the default backgrounds provided by tweetie.
White text written over the black background.
—Don't donate. No reactions.
Click.
Along with the small sound of a door opening, a woman's voice soon followed, soft and sweet enough to melt your ears.
—Ah. The delivery's here, so I'll be right back.
A casual tone, as if she were just stopping by a convenience store she happened to pass on the street.
But even that light, meaningless remark lingered clearly in Hayoon's ears because of Serin's beautiful voice.
A beautiful voice that even another woman found pleasant to hear.
Hayoon, a small-time streamer and NewTuber, found herself newly envious of even Serin's voice.
'How can a voice sound like that...?'
Even a professional voice actor probably couldn't produce a voice this pleasant to listen to.
Hayoon, thinking that without meaning to, found her gaze drifting to the cup ramyeon in front of her.
'I want galbitang too.'
Here she was scrimping on living expenses to prepare for her streams, while someone else had succeeded immediately and was eating galbitang.
The contrast made her own situation feel pathetic all over again, but she couldn't deny reality.
Slurp.
She lifted the cup ramyeon, shoved the noodles into her mouth, and chewed them thoroughly. Even as she tasted the instant cup ramyeon she was sick to death of, Hayoon checked the viewer count on the screen in front of her.
—11,352 viewers.
The streamer called Rin was still holding over ten thousand viewers even after logging out of Another World and switching to casual chat.
[Did Rin leave?]
[Now I'm suddenly craving galbitang too]
[She should at least do a mukbang]
[fr just show the food and her body without her face and it'd be fine]
[pls stop being so thirsty over the broth lmao]
[How is her voice that pretty]
[The fact that's her actual real voice is legendary lololol]
The chat had been burning for several minutes over Rin's attempt to end the stream after only two hours despite receiving so many donations, but now it was filled with such gentle messages that hardly a trace of the earlier fire remained.
The mood had shifted with just a single sentence.
—Um... just a moment, I'll stretch for five minutes.
The frail, tired-sounding voice that came right after she turned off Another World. At that voice, the viewers immediately changed their attitude and showed concern for the streamer called Rin.
It even felt like she was toying with the viewers using nothing but her natural voice.
"Ahh."
Hayoon stopped eating her cup ramyeon for no reason and tested her own voice.
Even to my own ears, my voice wasn't bad. But it was nothing compared to the beautiful voice I'd just heard from the streamer called Rin.
In the end, Hayoon closed her mouth and just watched the stream.
—RinTube, huh... I think it could work. If anyone has editing experience or wants to apply, please send an email to the address listed below the channel. It'd be even better if you attach a short video introducing your work and yourself. Since we're on the topic, I think it might be nice to do a stream about recruiting an editor sometime the day after tomorrow.
She was talking about hiring a NewTube editor just two days after starting her streaming career.
Casually, like someone who thought she was somebody. Telling people to send self-PR videos or their experience to the email under the channel.
At that sight, Hayoon stopped eating her cup ramyeon and let out a hollow laugh.
And the words that came out after that hollow laugh were—
"...Seriously. I'm jealous."
Words full of sincerity.
Because... the person streaming right now really was somebody.
The streamer called Rin truly was someone who had succeeded from the very start.
If a mega streamer who pulled in ten thousand viewers just two days after starting wasn't successful, then what was she?
And Hayoon had never seen anyone succeed faster than the person called Rin.
Normally, when you first started streaming, you edited your own videos, made a channel, and ran it yourself. But Rin was hiring an editor to manage her NewTube channel right from the start.
Hayoon wondered if this was what it meant to be a big-name streamer, though she also suspected Serin probably didn't know much about what editors cost to hire.
About a month ago, after still failing to escape small-time status despite running her NewTube channel for months, Kim Hayoon had considered hiring a professional editor herself.
But once she learned the price range for hiring an editor, she gave up immediately because it was more expensive than she'd thought.
Professional editors charged far more than she could cover with what she earned from a part-time job.
And even if she spent a lot of money hiring a professional editor, there was no guarantee her NewTube videos would blow up, so the risk was too great for Hayoon, who was struggling to make ends meet.
[I don't know how many NewTube videos you'll upload, but if you want to use a proper editor, it's going to cost a ton of money]
So before she knew it, Hayoon typed a message into chat.
At first, she meant to suggest editing it herself, and also—while anyone could see Rin was successful—she wanted the streamer called Rin to take things step by step.
And after typing in chat, Hayoon quickly pulled her hands away from the keyboard.
'Who am I to be giving advice to anyone...'
She couldn't even take care of herself, and here she was being nosy.
—Someone in chat said hiring an editor costs a lot. If I hire a NewTube editor, of course I think I should pay them appropriately. I'll ask Plea for advice too, so I plan to make sure they're compensated fairly.
As if she'd happened to spot Hayoon's message among the rapidly scrolling chat, the streamer called Rin responded.
"...Does she have a lot of money saved up?"
Watching that, Hayoon figured the person called Rin must be fairly well off.
To say so casually that she'd make sure to pay them well.
She wondered if there were tens of millions of won sitting in her bank account.
[Are you really going to make a NewTube channel???]
[What is this decisiveness, seeing chat and immediately saying she'll hire an editor lmaoooooo]
[Will you accept someone with only passion?]
[Might as well send an application]
[Me too lololol]
[If I become the editor, can I actually meet Rin??]
[There they go crossing the line again]
[Honestly all the Rin-related videos on NewTube right now are infuriating. Rin should be the one earning from all of those]
[But if you're the RinTube editor, isn't success basically guaranteed before you even start?]
Then Hayoon suddenly saw the chat saying that being the RinTube editor meant success was guaranteed before even starting.
"Huh...?"
That message hit Hayoon like a hammer blow to the head.
Clack!
She quickly set down her cup ramyeon and typed urgently in chat.
[Do you have a preferred format or editing style, Rin?]
Right now, her own streaming, her NewTube channel—none of that mattered at all.
The clingy, dark feelings she'd harbored toward the streamer called Rin suddenly sank away, and Hayoon became consumed by a different thought.
—Opportunity.
Even just thinking about it for a moment after seeing the chat, this situation truly felt like an enormous opportunity.
It was like someone had set out a giant pot of honey in plain sight and was asking, "Who wants a scoop?"
Honey.
It was literally honey.
The streamer called Rin was already no different from a big-name streamer.
And on NewTube, every video related to the user called Rin that Hayoon had seen had racked up massive view counts.
Rustle rustle.
She heard a faint rustle, perhaps from food packaging being opened, followed by that pleasant voice.
—A preferred format or editing style? Honestly, I don't really know about that myself. I think it'd be fine as long as it's someone who makes videos I think are decent. I'm still building the channel myself, after all.
Once again, Serin seemed to be answering her chat, and Hayoon felt a surge of elation.
It even felt like fate that her chats seemed to be read one after another among all those messages.
"I have to... I absolutely have to apply. I'm going to become this person's editor!"
Hayoon even felt like she had to stake her life on becoming the NewTube editor for the streamer called Rin.
Hayoon, who had watched every single one of Serin's streams without missing a thing, remembered clearly.
She hadn't even said she'd receive emails and deliberate for a long time before choosing—she had clearly said she'd do a stream about picking an editor the day after tomorrow as content.
That meant other competitors didn't know about this news. It meant famous or well-known editors might not apply to be Rin's editor.
Hayoon, who had spent all this time analyzing Rin and gathering material on her, immediately started digging through files on her PC, drafting the email to Serin and putting together a Rin-related video.
Even the minutes—no, the seconds—ticking by right now felt precious.
***
She picked up a large piece of meat from the galbitang with her chopsticks, dipped it lightly in the sauce, and brought it to her mouth.
"...!"
As the rich meaty aroma filled her mouth, Serin's expression naturally relaxed.
It was delicious.
Meat is always right.
"How about galbitang for dinner, everyone?"
Before I knew it, I was recommending galbitang to the viewers.
[Is this a galbitang ASMR?]
[Even just hearing it, damn, she sounds like she's eating really well lmaoooo]
[Eargasm, insane;]
[She's really making me crave galbitang lololol]
[Can't you just upload today's tweetie VOD in full to NewTube?]
[fr honestly even without editing, there'd be more than enough people who'd watch]
[Galbitang going viral;;]
There were plenty of chats about the galbitang she was eating, but she could still see chats about the NewTube topic she'd just mentioned. Watching those, Serin began to think more seriously about NewTube.
The videos about her that she'd glimpsed in passing had all racked up hundreds of thousands of views. Once she realized those views represented serious money, she figured she should create her own channel as soon as possible.
In the end, someone was making a fortune using my image. I really needed to create a NewTube channel quickly.
Having settled on that, Serin stopped eating and deliberately paused before speaking.
"Ah. Let me talk a little more about NewTube for a moment."
Even now, close to ten thousand viewers were watching my stream.
There might be an editor among them, and even if there wasn't, it didn't matter.
She figured someone might spread the word elsewhere.
"Still, picking someone tomorrow feels a bit too rushed, so how about two days from now? Today is August 1st, so on the August 3rd stream, I'll pick my NewTube channel editor together with you all."