014. Accidental Collab
014. Accidental Collab
Cheerful Namsu shifted his gaze toward the camera.
Then he spotted Nam Hyeon-ji lifting her top.
"Hey! Nam Hyeon-ji! What the hell do you think you're doing!?"
Cheerful Namsu sprinted over and landed a hard smack on the back of Nam Hyeon-ji's head.
It was a blow with genuine feeling behind it.
"Agh! Why'd you hit me all of a sudden!"
"Why'd I hit you?! When Se-hun is right here, how can you indecently flash your stomach like that!?"
Cheerful Namsu's face twisted with disgust.
The sight of his younger sister’s stomach apparently repulsed him.
His face deeply furrowed, he continued berating Nam Hyeon-ji.
"Do you even know that this is sexual harassment?"
"Sexual harassment my ass? I was just hot and lifted my shirt a little!"
"What kind of crazy bitch shows a guy her bare stomach in a mart? Do you think this is the army or a nightclub? Look at the world these days! You've gotta be careful! Especially an ugly bitch like you!"
I wondered if that was a bit of an overreaction.
Was showing a little stomach really a problem?
Guys in my original world walked around like that all the time.
I thought about checking this body's memories but decided against it.
Even putting aside the fact that they were filled with nothing but wretched memories, the guy had lived a life almost completely cut off from society and was severely lacking in basic common sense.
It was a wonder he'd made money off crypto at all.
‘I should hold back on recalling the past. The headaches got worse if I did it for too long.’
Anyway, getting back to the point, I was actually happy to see a set of washboard abs in real life.
A feast for the eyes, you could say?
I happen to like lean, muscular bodies.
Naturally, I didn't feel any sense of sexual shame, either.
I was not a native man of this world, after all.
‘If the person involved was fine with it, you could not really call it sexual harassment, so I would just say it was fine... What the hell? The chat had gone nuts too.’
In that moment, the chat window caught my eye.
The viewers were absolutely raging.
A fierce debate was raging back and forth over whether Nam Hyeon-ji's actions constituted sexual harassment.
─Why? What'd she do?
─Said she was hot and flashed her stomach lololol
─lololol is she an actual crazy bitch?
─Probably wanted to show off her abs.
─A woman can lift her top a little, what's the big fuss? So wearing a swimsuit at the beach is sexual harassment too?
─fr she can flash a little stomach.
─There's a time and place for that.
─Chats defending sexual harassment are pretty disgusting.
─Guys. Imagine some 70-year-old pot-bellied grandpa came up to you and suddenly flashed his stomach. Wouldn't that be disgusting? Same thing.
─That analogy is dumb as fuck.
─For someone at Hyeon-ji's level, wouldn't guys actually be into it? lol
─Well you don't really see women walking around the mart flashing their stomachs.
─That's clearly sexual harassment. Sir, you should press charges immediately.
─You should restrain yourself in public places. Lately there've been more cases of people suing for sexual harassment over trivial things.
─Things have gotten a bit stricter these days lol
─Hyeon-ji. Just go outside and die~
─Fucking loser bitch. Knew you'd pull something like this someday.
─I heard recently a woman got sued because her nipples were poking through her shirt.
─Fuck, you can get sued for that?
─Yeah but she got acquitted.
─You fucks defending Hyeon-ji, go outside right now and flash your top at some random guy. You can experience firsthand what happens.
─I looked it up and there are cases of people getting sued for flashing their top. But in that one they showed everything down to the nipples.
─Just the stomach seems like it'd be fine though.
─Depends on how the guy takes it, I guess.
─Goodbye Hyeon-ji. Let's never meet again.
I got the general gist of why this was happening.
Apparently, some men would sue at the drop of a hat, claiming they felt sexual shame if they got even slightly offended. And those suits were actually resulting in guilty verdicts.
The Republic of Korea in this world was a society where sex-related laws were applied with extreme favoritism toward men.
‘Seems even worse than the previous world.’
It was a really tough country for women to live in.
That was probably because the male-to-female ratio was absurdly low.
While I was thinking that.
Defensive chats started becoming more noticeable.
─Guys... Please live in reality... The cases that pop up online are from a tiny minority of clueless men... There are far more guys out there with their heads screwed on straight...
─How is this level considered sexual harassment? Doesn't just looking at male cam streamers online give you the answer? They make sexual jokes and the streamers just ban them; no male cam streamer sues over it.
─There were tons of male cammers who wouldn't ban you and just let it slide if you donated a lot of money, even if you made your nickname Yoho Asshole or shit like that.
─Those online cases are all like that. They were lawsuits filed by members of that 'Male Supremacy Group' that popped up recently.
─fr? Those bastards have been a real problem lately.
─And I heard all the women who got sued were ugly. Someone at Hyeon-ji's level could walk around totally naked and not get sued.
─If she's totally naked she'll get sued, dumbass.
─If you're pretty it's not sexual harassment~ Female celebrities practically get naked in commercials all the time~ Have you ever seen a guy sue over that~
─Normal people don't get into debates calling this kind of thing sexual harassment, lol. It's just the people who spend a lot of time online and know about the Male Supremacy Group who are sensitive about it.
Now I understood it perfectly.
To sum it up.
A woman flashing her stomach was originally not a problem.
But recently, cases of people getting sued had cropped up.
And it was all because of that moronic group called the 'Male Supremacy Group.' So in the current climate, you really had to be careful about every single action.
I could sum it up to that degree.
Basically, the reason people were kicking up such a fuss over a little thing like this was entirely the fault of the Male Supremacy Group.
‘Male supremacy my ass... What kind of bastards' club was that? Got nothing better to fucking did?’
After I'd finished figuring all that out.
Cheerful Namsu dragged Nam Hyeon-ji over and offered me an apology.
"I'm, I'm sorry... It was just so hot, I couldn't help..."
"Sorry, Se-hun. She just got discharged from the military not long ago, so she still has the habit of taking her top off..."
I could understand Cheerful Namsu's position.
As her older brother, he was probably warning his little sister so she would not get tangled up with some strange man and ruin her life. The Male Supremacy Group had apparently been causing a lot of trouble lately, after all.
Still, I felt a bit hurt.
Did I look like a member of the Male Supremacy Group?
I couldn't help but think that.
Well, actually, that was closer to paranoia.
Since Cheerful Namsu was meeting me for the first time that day, it was only right for him to be as careful as possible.
"Se-hun...?"
Cheerful Namsu called out to me.
When I did not answer, he looked uneasy.
"Oh, yes. I'm fine. Actually, there's nothing to even apologize for. What's the big deal about a woman showing a little stomach. I seriously don't mind, so you don't need to worry about it. And..."
I looked at the camera.
I could still see malicious viewers trying to paint Nam Hyeon-ji as a sex offender.
I decided to give these bastards a piece of my mind.
I was in a slightly foul mood, after all.
"I see quite a few bitches talking shit about Hyeon-ji, how the fuck is this sexual harassment, you morons. I seriously don't get it. She didn't even do it on purpose, just lifted her shirt for a second because she was hot—does calling that sexual harassment make any sense?"
Of course, she probably did do it on purpose.
But I decided to deliberately pretend I hadn't noticed that part.
I had to defend her somehow.
"Let's try thinking with some fucking common sense for once. How the hell are you any different from that brain-dead cult, the Superior Males or whatever?"
The chat window went dead silent, as if it had frozen.
The viewers all stopped typing in unison, like they'd coordinated it.
And then.
A few suspicious messages popped up a few seconds apart.
─Are you disparaging the Male Supremacy Group right now?
─Face like an ugly fuck and a dirty mouth too lol, clearly the type who can't get any so he kisses women's asses~
─Tsk tsk, so he was a slanderer.
─We'll add you to our group's blacklist. ^^
─You said you're a streamer? Don't expect to keep streaming without trouble. lol
It was obvious those bastards were members of the Male Supremacy Group.
You could tell just from the chat.
So they'd been hiding in here like little rats.
Those were surely the ones who'd been weirdly stirring up chat opinion, too.
The managers must have noticed it as well, because they banned all of them without warning.
Only after that did chats from the normal viewers start coming in again.
─Whoa fuck, that gave me chills just now.
─Insane. I checked their IDs, and every single one of those banned fucks was the ones trying to paint Hyeon-ji as a sex offender.
─I was panicked because the insults suddenly got so intense, but that was all a big brain play to filter out those bastards.
─Honestly that was satisfying as fuck lololol
─At first I thought he was an IED case with sudden outbursts lol
─That part's true. We saw it earlier.
─There were rumors that those fucks go around causing chaos on streams. So it was real, not just a rumor.
─Catching them red-handed was legendary.
─But Hyeon-ji's pretty, so why were they trying to bury her?
─It's gotten worse lately. Some types hate them even if they're pretty, just because they're Korean women.
─Se-hun. You didn't aim for this, did you?
─Looks like he aimed for it. He's making a smug as hell face.
─fr lololol God Se-hun!
─As expected of Gye Bastard-hun! I believed in you!
└'KkyuppulKkyuppul' has been banned.
It wasn't intentional.
I'd never imagined bastards like that were lurking.
It was just a coincidence I caught them.
I decided not to bother clarifying that fact.
Since I was getting treated like a champion after dishing out some satisfying cursing.
‘Let a good thing be a good thing.’
Cheerful Namsu stood there with a dumbfounded look.
He apparently had no idea there were so many Male Supremacy Group members in his stream.
Nam Hyeon-ji stared at me with a burdensome look in her eyes.
I had the illusion that her eyes were kind of sparkling.
Acting as if nothing had happened, I walked on ahead and said,
"Anyway, I'm not a moron like those Male Supremacy guys, so don't worry. More importantly, let's hurry up and keep the stream going. It seems like we've lost quite a bit of time."
The grueling day wasn't over yet.
I wanted to wrap up this collab quickly and go home to rest.