Chapter 8
Chapter 8
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 8
Chapter Title: Members Over-Immerse in RP
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The homework the president gave me: Experience the life of a broadcaster with zero viewers for three days straight while streaming.
After finishing Day 1, I finally understood why Evangelion had committed such a crime.
Streaming all alone with no one watching felt like a form of torture.
It was already agonizing with zero viewers from the start, but imagine if viewers spiked and then dropped—what kind of emotional turmoil would that cause?
I realized the president wasn't exaggerating when she said so many company debuts crumble during those viewer-drop phases.
'Day 2, let's go even harder.'
She wouldn't have assigned this just to torture me.
So, I should gain something from this training too.
Day 1 had ended with me endlessly singing, just waiting for viewers, but today I had to approach it like a real broadcast.
Yeah, at least the president will watch the recording afterward.
Don't worry about the zero viewers.
Just broadcast like there are viewers watching.
"Hello, everyone. Thanks for tuning in to my stream."
Cold hard reality: my viewer count was zero right now.
But let's pretend there are about a hundred viewers.
Hypnotize myself into believing it.
I'm streaming to a hundred viewers right now.
They're chatting away too.
"To let you all get to know me better, I'm going to take an MBTI test! I've never done one before, so I'm curious what it'll say too."
My first prepared content: the MBTI test.
The biggest advantage of internet streaming is the interaction, so reading through the questions one by one and checking answers should let me connect with viewers.
"Do you often worry about things going wrong? Nah, not really."
I mean, I'm a penniless orphan with no friends or parents—what's the worst that could happen, death?
Can't say that on stream, obviously.
I remembered the president's advice about crafting a mask to wear.
"It's not that I'm some eternal optimist who doesn't worry; I just have that 'whatever happens, happens' kind of personality. What? Not 'man,' but 'woman'?"
Pretending to read chat from imaginary viewers.
Talking to myself might look pathetic, but if I think of it as image training, it's kinda okay, right?
Just like that—same action, different label, and suddenly it sounds legit.
Is this the power of mindset?
Chatting away with my fantasy audience, I finished the test, and the last part was selecting gender.
'Gotta pick woman.'
If it were just me alone, I'd pick man, but this is a stream.
Wait, does it only affect the avatar in the results? Unrelated to the actual outcome?
Clicking the selection, I saw options beyond male and female, like "other," so I tried it.
"My gender is electric guitar. Zing zing zing zing zingzingzing, zing zingzing zing!"
The result: ISTJ.
"88% introverted? Yeah, I do prefer being alone over hanging out with people. For sure. What? Calling me a loser? You too, buddy."
A fleeting pang of worry hit me.
What if I actually debut and no one shows up to watch?
But no point fretting over that now.
All I can do is give it my all.
"72% observing type. What's the intuitive type like?"
No viewers to answer, so I searched it up.
Then continued as if a viewer had replied.
"Realist, huh. Being a realist makes me think I shouldn't be doing this. Isn't being an idol a bit of a dream job?"
I've often heard I have no dreams.
Well, kids from orphanages rarely do.
When no one's there to love you unconditionally or root for your success, dreaming big isn't easy.
Stuff like this, I'll never say on stream—or to anyone, probably ever.
"This is getting into why the president scouted me, huh? It felt like such an intense courtship; I thought she was confessing to me."
Even the ladies at the café thought she was gay!
Would sharing that be a problem?
It could dox me.
You never know with people.
If someone from that café happens to see this and connects the dots—like, 'oh, those two?'—trouble.
"Our president has huge dreams. Like, Pirate King level? Not literally becoming a pirate."
100 million subscribers—seriously?
Yeah, she's gotta be an extreme N type.
Is this why people do MBTI? For the laughs?
"68% thinking type. This is your C, not T-from-T-fuck, right?"
I'd never taken the test before, but I knew the basics.
It's everywhere; impossible to avoid even if you tried.
But I thought I'd be an F.
Orphanages are communal living; ignore others' feelings, and trouble brews constantly.
It's engineered social skills—how could I not be F?
Yet dominant T comes out.
Does that mean innate personality doesn't change easily?
"Psychopath? Hey, it's not that bad. 68 to 32 is basically an F-leaning T, right? No? What do you want from me?"
Lately, I've been consuming audiovisual content—other vtubers' streams.
Gotta study how they broadcast if I want to do it too.
Not copying 100%, but...
Watching all those chats made imagining them easy.
Internet stream viewers are super nitpicky by default.
In real life, you'd get decked for half that snark, but it's their weird way of showing love.
Words and true feelings don't match.
Why not just say you like it? Why the roundabout crap?
Embarrassed?
Hmm, maybe they're just sad creatures who can only express affection that way.
"82% judging type? Huh? That's weird. I don't love making plans."
This one's the manufactured J for sure.
(At the orphanage,) everything had to get done.
(As an orphan,) skip work, you starve.
I handled tasks immediately, answered accordingly, and boom—judging type.
"Assertive 68%. Confident in yourself, maintain composure well, don't stress much."
This too.
Less 'confidence in self' and more 'worst case is death, so whatever.'
'MBTI really is all bullshit.'
Questions lack depth.
Thus, wonky results.
"Result's ISTJ-A, the realist. Hmm, does it fit? On paper yes, but it doesn't match how I see my personality!"
I was having a blast solo with my imaginary viewers.
Then suddenly, a chat popped up.
— Anonymous But who is she talking to? Is this a pre-recorded stream? Whoa, a real viewer.
I'd been avoiding the viewer count since it just tanked my mood every glance, assuming zero.
"Whoa, a real viewer! Hi! Welcome! Not pre-recorded. Just image training for how to stream when I'm a world-class top with tons of viewers in the future."
— Anonymous lmao so fun Right? Who'd watch a stream where I'm slumped over like a dog waiting for its owner?
Even fabricating viewers to keep going—that might be how you create the stream people want to see.
— Anonymous Can I call some friends? Wanna watch together At that moment, I didn't find it weird.
Inviting friends? Sure, why ask permission?
Such a natural question didn't even cross my mind.
"That'd be great, thanks."
— Anonymous OK permission granted — SpamBot1 Let's raid let's raid let's raid let's raid let's raid let's raid let's raid let's raid let's raid — Braindead Mindless raid drop — Lololol lolololololololololololololololololol — Concerned Does she have split personality or something? Scary ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ — Minseok Hi, Minseok, friend of the first guy — Greeter hi hi hi hi hi hi — Viewer Even zero-viewer rooms have fun people — Fanboy Hi Nuna your voice is amazing hi Nuna your voice is amazing hi Nuna your voice is amazing [repeats] — Conspiracy Malibu's hidden girlfriend stream-push? Upvote if yes lol — Realist How tf would Malibu get a gf bullshit no — Beggar Open donos open donos open donos [repeats] — Troll Your life's doomed kid lol The chat window flooded with dozens of similar messages in seconds.
Viewers jumped from 0 to 1, then rocketed past 500.
No, past 1,000.
President, I think I'm hitting emergency mode too?