[Domestic Streamer Gallery]

Crackling sounds

[Molbu just called the front desk and sent an email!]

Wink wink

[Will this make it to the news? Titan complaint mail verification jpg.]

LOL sounds

[Real-time chaos in the adjacent gallery!]

[The Titan Underlock Gallery]

Thumping sound

[From now on, this place will be dominated by Molbtu!]

[Get out, you bastards!]

[What’s going on in a second-tier pro team gallery with no one around?]

[EOW League Gallery]

Bing!

[Titan Underlock should seriously just disappear if it’s a trash team. LOL]

[Kyung-tae, hurry and apologize to Mollru if you don’t want to die!]

[Did Park Kyung-tae cause another incident?]

[So who the heck is Mollru, you chumps?]

[teamtitanunderlock Instagram]

Drumroll

The players are practicing hard again today~ Let’s go to Division 1 this year~

Grumbling sound

Park Kyung-tae, resign: Is this the team where the club owner is trash?

Titanfan: We had a chance to rebuild the team and reach Division 1… Did you really want to make money that badly? ^^

Platano: Why are there so many nasty comments? What’s the situation?

eeff1145: It’s pitiful for the players in this kind of club.

Phone ringing

“Club owner, we’re receiving an overwhelming number of complaint calls and emails. How should we respond?”

“Journalists are outside. They all say they’re here to meet the club owner.”

“I’ll take my leave. Good luck, club owner.”

Park Kyung-tae furiously threw an object from his desk.

“Dammit, dammit! What the hell!”

Crash!

The elegantly crafted glass nameplate shattered on the floor.

He gasped as he fought back his anger.

“Club owner, I—.”

“What the hell is it now?”

“It’s the chairman on the phone.”

Park Kyung-tae’s face turned pale as he trembled and took the phone from his assistant.

A deep voice resonated over the phone.

– Park Kyung-tae, club owner.

“Yes, yes… Chairman.”

– Huh… Kyung-tae.

Hearing the chairman’s sigh from the phone, Park Kyung-tae shut his eyes tight.

– Can’t you just stay quiet… is that so hard?

“I-I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to.”

– You should be satisfied that I entrusted you with a few businesses… why do you keep stirring up trouble?

He was a guy with no talent in business whatsoever.

Despite knowing from the start, the chairman purposely gave him the lesser-known businesses.

“Just once more… please give me one more chance, Father.”

– Because of you, several necks are on the line here. You still can’t figure it out, saying such things…!

“Ah…”

– Pack your bags and get ready. Stay in the countryside until things calm down.

Park Kyung-tae helplessly tore at his hair.

This was too huge a situation to just blame on one streamer.

Someone witnessing this might think the streamer had millions of subscribers or was halfway into the entertainment industry.

But she just barely surpassed 100,000 subscribers, and her average live viewers were only over 20,000 — a lot by local standards but not that impressive globally.

So how did this blow-up happen?

It was significantly helped by unwanted external factors.

– The eSports fans are furious about the Titan Underlock incident. We at Gayailbo have conducted an in-depth investigation.

The game EOW has excellent gameplay and a large player base, so the EOW League naturally spread from domestic to global levels.

With a huge league, it’s obvious that the number of fans swells, and those fans were enraged when they heard the story between Mollru and the Titan club.

Park Kyung-tae’s judgment was half correct.

Mollru had the potential to become a beloved star. He recognized that talent very well.

However, since it was he who cut the belly of the goose that laid golden eggs, he ultimately brought it upon himself.

eSports fans were infuriated by the news of losing a skilled and beautiful female pro gamer.

They criticized him for expelling a player with guaranteed star quality due to his own greed, which led to dissatisfaction with the domestic EOW League.

[The team that was in Division 1 last season is now in this state; there’s no future in the domestic league.]

[This is why players go abroad. LOL They don’t get paid much, and the treatment is terrible. Why stay domestic?]

[Patriotism is nonsense; match the conditions first and stop forcing patriotism.]

Snowball.

Roll, roll!

The incident started by Mollru didn’t just end up hurting Park Kyung-tae.

As the entire eSports community criticized the domestic league, further investigations began and hidden corruption was revealed.

Some figures from the eSports Association took responsibility and resigned, wrapping up the incident.

*

“It feels like something just got massively bigger, doesn’t it?”

Yawning sound

When I woke up, the world had changed.

It feels like this kind of thing happens often, but this time it was truly a situation that warranted the phrase “the world has changed.”

I turned on the stream, searched for information about the incident, and chatted with viewers.

“Does Molbu look like Joss to you? LOL If you mess with us, you’re screwed!”

“Was the Molru fandom this powerful? Is this… the Mol-hwang?”

“Don’t worry about pushing; we’ve got it covered ^^”

Yuck… “The top dogs smell like broth.”

“Isn’t it weird that it doesn’t smell like broth with that face?”

“Seriously, let’s be grateful that they turned on the cam again today, guys.”

“Mollru, she’s my light, salt, oxygen, water, jewel, love.”

“It’s just Mol-hwang…”

“The proportion of traitors in the chat has drastically increased…

Earlier, normal chat was 50%, playful teasing was 30%, and traitors were 20%.

Now it feels like traitors are 80%, and playful teasing has dropped to 20%.

Normal chat has completely turned into nonsense anti-fan rants.”

I wondered how to handle this, but then thought it made sense, considering how unfamiliar people might be with seeing my face for the first time.

In the end, I thought the solution was to take time for people to get used to my face.

That’s why I turned on the cam today after much deliberation.

[Mol-hwangguy donated 100,000 won!]

– Please make the cam bigger. ^^ It’s so small I can’t see you.

“Ah… I’m sorry. If it’s anything else, I’d gladly do it, but I’m still a bit shy…”

There have been a lot of donations openly expressing a desire to see my face.

Every time that happens, I feel pressured and try to decline, which has recently become part of my daily life.

[Mol-hwangguy donated 100,000 won!]

– Oh dear… I’m sorry if I made you feel bad. Recently, I’ve been getting old, and my eyes are blurry. This is my daughter’s favorite stream… She thinks you look pretty since you’re around the same age. Just wanted to see.

“Whoa.”

[You won’t even consider that? LOL]

[Seriously, how low is Galju’s character?]

[Just give it a shot… you spent 200,000 won, how sad.]

[Are you really that naive? Seriously?]

[Imagine if your mom sent money — would you say that?]

[Why the hell would my mom come up?]

[The host looking surprised is cute.]

[That’s true LOL It could be cosplay for a stiff.]

I swallowed my breath in surprise.

As some viewers said, it could be a sophisticated disguise to provoke a response, but since it was still a plausible scenario,

I had a sudden urge to stream longer as viewership from new people had more than doubled.

I was curious about the influx’s pathways and age demographics that I conducted a quick survey.

The result: a wide range from teenagers to fifties!

Though the biggest groups were teens and twenties, the next were thirties, forties, and fifties —

indicating there were indeed viewers older than my parents watching.

If the donor actually had a daughter my age and tuned in to form a bond, seeing me and relating to her…

“No, let’s increase the cam for you. Just for a moment.”

Ignoring it would likely keep bothering my mind even after the stream ended, so I decided to grant the request.

Pop pop pop

[Wow, he actually did it! Jackpot! LOL]

[Reaction jackpot! Jackpot!]

[Look at how the host’s eyes are rolling; it’s so adorable.]

[It’s still awkward on day 2 of the cam stream.]

“Whew… This should be enough! You’ve seen plenty, right?!”

Saying so, I reduced the cam display again.

The viewers who usually fussed about it now appeared to be satisfied, likely because I held it for a longer duration this time.

While my ears grew hot, I picked a comment that called me cute and intended to temporarily block it.

[Mol-hwangguy donated 100,000 won!]

– I really enjoyed this; this place is a reaction paradise! HAHA

“Huh…?”

The donations came in right after, breaking my daydream.

[See, I told you that was nonsense! LOL]

[The host is surprisingly pure regarding these things.]

[Look at those eyes; they’re super cute!]

[Aha, the parent cheat code is acknowledged!]

[Mollru knows how to play with human hearts… now she knows.]

[Oh, be careful; your neck might get cut!]

“Ehhh…”

I continued the stream peacefully while banning a few playful trolls.