053. Calm Chat Stream on the Terrace
053. Calm Chat Stream on the Terrace
The streaming platform Chur.
Recently, this platform had faced a single problem.
Namely, a ceaseless barrage of inquiries from viewers who wanted to watch Gye Se-hun's broadcast.
[Please lift the viewer cap on Gye Se-hun's broadcast.]
└Could you please lift the viewer cap? I've never been able to get in so far. Please.
[Open up Hun's World.]
└I signed up just to watch that broadcast, goddammit. -_-
[I have an inquiry.]
└I want to watch Hun's World's broadcast.
[Inquiry.]
└Bunch of jobless cunts are squatting in Gye Se-hun's broadcast so no one else can get in, do something to fix this.
On lighter days, these inquiries numbered at least five thousand.
On heavy days, they flooded in at over ten thousand.
‘Hah... They didn't know the meaning of moderation, just no moderation.’
In front of a monitor.
Watching the endlessly spawning inquiries, a customer service employee let out a sigh that seemed to sink into the floor itself.
‘For starters, I was suspending this person. How on earth did you send over a thousand by yourself?’
The employee suspended one member's account.
Then stretched and swept a look across the other employees.
All of them were scrambling to answer every inquiry one by one.
‘It would be great if we could use macro replies too... But those were banned because of the platform's image, seriously...’
Still, because the pay was good, nobody let their complaints slip past their lips.
‘...Well, what could I do? It was my own fault for taking a job there. I should just get back to work.’
Having finished her brief one-minute break, the employee began sending replies to inquiries once more.
***
The conference room on the floor above customer service.
Chur's executives sat around a round table, holding a meeting.
The subject, as expected, was Gye Se-hun's broadcast.
"Has Mr. Gye Se-hun still not checked the emails we sent?"
"Yes... We've already sent more than five, but he hasn't read a single one."
"And he's not answering calls either?"
"No... We tried texting too, not just calling, but no reply."
"Hah."
The executives looked at each other, letting out continuous sighs.
They had no choice but to take the increasingly intensifying situation seriously.
Leaving aside the growing volume of inquiries, it was because most of the newly registered members were people who had signed up specifically to see Gye Se-hun.
"While the sharp increase in membership is a good thing..."
Before Gye Se-hun started streaming.
Chur's existing member count had been 150,000.
And after Gye Se-hun's broadcast gained traction via word of mouth.
Now, several months later, the membership was approaching a staggering 900,000.
"To keep hold of all those members, we need to resolve this matter somehow."
However, if the viewer cap on Gye Se-hun's broadcast wasn't resolved, that massive membership would ultimately drift away in the end.
"Fwooh. I didn't expect things to blow up this much."
"Indeed. We thought it would quiet down after about a month..."
"Isn't it too soon to be discouraged? We are still seeing a considerable trickle-down effect, aren't we? Viewers who can't get into Mr. Gye Se-hun's broadcast are going to watch other broadcasts, at least."
"That's only temporary. If Mr. Gye Se-hun is the pheasant, other streamers aren't even chickens—they're not even the level of fertilized eggs. At best, you could call them unfertilized eggs. In other words, there is absolutely no substitute for him."
"Must you put it that way..."
"The phrasing was crude, but realistically speaking, it's not incorrect."
"..."
"Anyway... What should we do about this..."
"Shall we go into his broadcast while he's streaming and talk to him directly?"
"We did say that wasn't a very good method."
"Ah."
"As I said last time, if we make a mistake and somehow rub Mr. Gye Se-hun the wrong way, it's big trouble."
"Right. Currently, we're in the weaker position, and Mr. Gye Se-hun is in the superior one. If Mr. Gye Se-hun were to move to another platform, then it would simply be over."
"Would he go that far just for using admin privileges to enter his broadcast?"
"We never know, so it's best to exercise maximum caution in every word and deed."
"Using admin privileges to enter a broadcast could itself be perceived as an abuse of power."
"But we have no other way now. We can't get in contact with him."
"..."
"..."
The meeting continued beyond that.
And around an hour later.
In the end, the executives concluded that they would go to Gye Se-hun's broadcast directly and seek his understanding.
"...Then for now, let's enter with the admin account."
"Once we're in, we have to type in chat as politely as possible."
"Right. And above all, we absolutely must not type anything that might offend him."
And so, the executives huddled together in front of a computer, and entered Gye Se-hun's stream.
***
The admin entered my stream.
【★★Admin】─Hello. First, I would like to apologize for entering your broadcast without any procedure like this.
【Yoho】─Gasp.
【Hottie Licker】─Oh. Is that a real admin? There are two stars by the name. Lick.
【Qkrnfl892】─Two-star. D-d.
【Reformed Guburi】─Show proof of you bowing your head to the ground in apology, you cunt. Haha.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─Guburi doesn't even flinch against an admin.
【Min-ji】─Guburi, you could get suspended like that~.
【Plum Tree】─But why did an admin come here?
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya. Aren't they here to watch the broadcast by abusing their authority?
【Gyejipsa】─Aren't they~!
For now, I decided to ask what business had brought them.
Surely, an admin wouldn't have abused their authority and entered a broadcast just to watch my stream.
"What business do you have here, admin?"
【★★Admin】─Yes. It is none other than that we are visiting like this because an overwhelming number of inquiries have been coming in about Hun's World's broadcast.
【Reformed Guburi】─What fucking inquiries!
"Inquiries?"
A totally unexpected answer popped out.
Had I done something wrong?
No matter how I thought about it, I couldn't guess what it was.
In the first place, my broadcast had so few viewers that situations prone to problems couldn't even exist.
Right when I was harboring that curiosity.
The admin immediately informed me of the nature of the inquiries.
【★★Admin】─Yes. The truth is, inquiries asking to lift the viewer cap have been pouring in ceaselessly for months.
【Dick Lover】─?? Lolol
【BigGirl】─There are people who inquire about something like that?
【Drift AI】─I speak. So I'm asking what they want us to do about it, I say.
【Yoho】─Are they whining because they couldn't get in themselves? That's pathetic. -_-
【Hottie Licker】─The world truly overflows with retards. Lick.
【Plum Tree】─I feel bad for the customer service employees.
【Reformed Guburi】─No, what do they want us to do about it? If those bastards say lift it, does our Gye Bastard-hun have to go 'Understood' and lift it?
I was a bit flustered.
Not only did I not understand the people who sent inquiries just because they couldn't enter the broadcast, but I also couldn't understand the admin who came in person upon receiving such inquiries.
And honestly, I felt offended too.
Because it was a situation where I couldn't help feeling like the platform was stepping up to push my broadcast around.
I asked in a slightly sharp tone.
"So, are you telling me to remove the viewer cap on my broadcast right now?"
【★★Admin】─Ah! That is absolutely not the case!
【★★Admin】─Since there are so many members who want to watch Hun's World's broadcast, we merely came to ask if you might be willing to increase the viewer limit just a little!
【★★Admin】─We hope there is no misunderstanding!
It was a chat that reeked of desperation.
It seemed they hadn't come here to try an abuse of power, after all.
‘Did I misunderstand? They didn't seem like a clueless person.’
The offended feeling subsided quite a bit.
‘...But I had no particular desire to increase the viewer count.’
However, unfortunately.
I did not want to increase the viewer cap past ten.
Initially, I had planned to gradually increase the number of viewers.
But as I kept streaming, my mind had changed.
‘Because I was already satisfied with the current number.’
Since I was already satisfied, I didn't want to get greedy.
As the saying went, too much was as bad as too little.
Because if the number of viewers grew too large, it could become toxic instead.
‘Still, the admin seems to be in a tough spot—shall I be generous and raise it to twenty...?’
It was just a moment while I was briefly mulling that over.
【Reformed Guburi】─Sex-cunt-dick-Ppaguri lol
『'Reformed Guburi' has been banned from the channel.』
Out of nowhere, Guburi was kicked from the broadcast.
Naturally, it wasn't something I did.
I immediately asked Gyejipsa.
"What the? Gyejipsa, did you ban Guburi?"
【Gyejipsa】─No.
It was a strange occurrence.
If it wasn't Gyejipsa, no viewer had the authority to ban.
‘...Gyejipsa dismissed Bubblegum from the manager role right after the game stream ended, though. Could Drift have banned her?’
Right at the moment I was about to ask the hacker Drift AI, just in case.
【★★Admin】─Ah! I took the liberty of banning that member because they seemed like a malicious user muddying the chat!
The admin confessed that they had been the one who banned Guburi.
Seeing that chat, I was so dumbfounded that words failed me for a moment.
Staring blankly at the chat window, I slowly opened my mouth.
"...Hey, you goddamn bitch."
【★★Admin】─Pardon?
"What right do you have to just ban a viewer from my broadcast? Wanna die?"
In all sincerity, my anger boiled up to the very top of my head.
Whether that bastard was an admin or whatever.
The only thought flooding my mind was that I had to ban them immediately.
"Why the fuck is this bastard going around banning someone else's precious viewer on someone else's broadcast, making a scene?"
Normally, it would be impossible to ban an admin, but perhaps it might be possible on my stream.
Because, after all,
"Hey. Drift. Can you ban an admin by any chance?"
My stream had a highly capable hacker, after all.
【Drift AI】─I speak. It is possible, I say.
I didn't think about the consequences.
If sanctions came down from the platform over this incident, I could simply take my viewers and migrate to another platform.
【★★Admin】─Hold on!
With that chat as the last.
The admin was cleanly erased from the viewer list.
【Drift AI】─Admin ID removal complete.