Chapter 5

Let’s rewind time a bit. Roughly speaking, it was the day after Rozon uploaded a video about Han Yoorim.

Since SNS became popular, there’s been this saying: “Unlike when we were kids, there are way too many weirdos in the world now.”

But that’s wrong. There were always plenty of weirdos. It’s just that back then, there was no way to see who was doing weird stuff.

This applies to Hako broadcasters too.

Originally, Hako could do whatever they wanted without any issues. The reason was simple: no one was watching.

However, that didn’t mean they could go wild with weird behavior without consequences.

Schrödinger’s troublemaker is bound to hit rock bottom the moment they’re observed.

Rozon, who woke up to head to his night shift at the convenience store, was shocked.

His recent video had over 100 comments.

The message of Rozon’s video, [The Current State of Eternal World], was simple: the quality of solo rank has gone downhill.

He packed the video with terms like “score patches” and “match fixing,” which everyone has heard of before.

It was provocative and great for grabbing people’s attention…

But naturally, editing it that way led to a flow of bashing his entire team.

The Main Carry who didn’t follow orders, the Scout who did nothing—they all had to be roasted to make the video entertaining.

Rozon didn’t see a problem with this. After all, he’d done similar things before without any issues.

But this time was different.

Most of the overflowing comments were insults, but some were revealing their origins.

“Is this the place where Mos, the pride of Game Gallery, got roasted like a dog?”

Mos? From context, it seemed like a broadcaster, but it was a name Rozon had never heard before.

Rozon opened up a wiki and searched.

Mos didn’t show up.

For an internet broadcaster to be registered on the wiki, they needed over 10,000 followers. So, no search results meant Mos wasn’t famous.

Rozon’s judgment was correct.

Mos wasn’t that well-known of a broadcaster.

An average of 100 viewers, 5,000 subscribers on MTube. Mos was a small-scale broadcaster to the point where you’d wonder if he even made money.

But that didn’t mean Mos was your typical broadcaster.

Mos’s unique point?

He was from Game Gallery.

Game Gallery? Just hearing the name, you might think of a massive community where all game discussions happen, but reality was different.

When a community’s topic becomes unnecessarily broad, it usually leads to one conclusion: a small-scale, chummy, chatty community.

It was the final sewer a community could reach.

Game Gallery, which had reached that sewer over a decade ago, was a very famous place.

How famous? If someone’s activity history showed they were from Game Gallery, the first comment would be, “Oh, this guy’s from there?”

It was absurdly famous purely for its high concentration of chumminess.

Game Gallery was a long-standing, chummy gallery. You might wonder if chumminess and longevity can coexist, but the result was already there.

Mos had been part of Game Gallery since middle school, for almost 8 years.

One day, he suddenly thought, “Maybe I should try broadcasting.”

The start was lighthearted. Half of it was just killing boredom, and he promoted his broadcasts by posting links in the gallery.

Mos had talent for broadcasting.

Not extraordinary, but enough to settle some of the gallery members who came out of curiosity.

This went on for 3 years.

Now, Mos’s broadcast had become a sort of Game Gallery living room.

Because of this, Mos’s chat was filled with viewers talking about their real lives, to the point where newcomers would ask, “Why are the viewers only talking about their own lives?” But Mos didn’t mind much.

Broadcasting wasn’t his main job, and Mos understood the chatter.

After all, the viewers knew what kind of person Mos was, and Mos knew what kind of people the viewers were.

It wasn’t about personality.

They knew each other’s names, faces, ages, where they lived, education—everything.

This was common in Game Gallery.

So, as usual, Mos turned on his broadcast after work and frowned at the chat.

“Someone sniped me? Who snipes 100 average viewers?”

At first, he thought it was a joke, but soon realized it wasn’t.

Clicking on the MTube link in the chat, a video popped up.

[The Current State of Eternal World]

After quietly watching, he soon realized who uploaded it.

“Isn’t this the Support I played with yesterday? The one who picked ‘Isahyang.'”

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“He uploaded a snipe video?”

“That makes no sense.”

“Not kidding, he was this year’s Trash GOAT winner.”

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Mos watched the video to the end. Then he let out a hollow laugh.

“Kinda rubs people the wrong way, huh?”

He didn’t outright say his team was bad, but it was essentially the same thing.

Mos was a veteran of the community. He’d spent 8 years in Game Gallery, a place with no moderators and all sorts of chaos. At this point, he didn’t react to most provocations.

But everyone has a breaking point.

Mos’s origin was Game Gallery.

Even though Game Gallery was a chummy, chatty mess, the people there still shared a common love for games.

Mos was the same. He loved games. He was good at them too.

Now, due to real-life issues, his tier was low, but Mos’s highest tier in <Eternal World> was Grand Master.

So, while he could laugh off someone insulting his parents, he couldn’t stand nonsense about games.

Mos immediately opened up the replay of Rozon’s…

I analyzed Isahyang’s play one by one.

“First of all, I didn’t like the pick from the start. What exactly is the advantage of Isahyang as a support? Does this person even know what kind of character Isahyang is?”

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Isahyang << A character who unnecessarily makes loud farming noises, giving away all the info to the scout lol.

If Isahyang is the main carry, then anyone can come if they want, but the support should pick something tough. If you use a character like that as a support... hmm.

She dies to the scout right from the start. The enemy scout was also pretty bad, noticing late, but she kept dragging out her turn and eventually died.

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"I expected Isahyang to get caught by the scout as soon as I saw her, but this is something that can happen. People can't always play well."

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ㅇㅈ (Agreed)

I acknowledge it.

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"But why is it my fault that we lost this team fight? I can't understand this."

3v3 standoff. While Mos was carefully watching the angle, maintaining position, Isahyang suddenly charged forward.

Isahyang poured damage into the enemy main carry, but... as a support, she had fewer resources and was weak, and more importantly, it wasn't the right angle.

"'The tier system isn't normal, so the angles I see are different from my teammates, and we keep losing team fights we should win.' That's really something I would say."

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Plat player's special mission: Deluding themselves into thinking they've figured out everything about the game.

Plat analysis lol.

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"This caused a lot of snowballing. The later it gets, the more useless Isahyang becomes without CC, but she already fed kills? No wonder we lost."

Mos turned off the replay. There was still plenty of Isahyang's horror show left, but since his appearance in the sniping video ended here, he decided not to watch any further.

"Even after 3 years of broadcasting, I still experience stuff like this. Am I in the spotlight?"

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Delusions are Mos lol.

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*

The Game Gallery is a place for casual bonding. All sorts of topics get posted, and at first glance, it seems like there are no rules.

But nowhere in the world exists without rules.

Similarly, the Game Gallery had no written rules, but there were unspoken ones that everyone followed.

<Mos got sniped by another broadcaster on MTube lol>

(Link to Rozon’s MTube video)

Just pure fun, go watch it.

Late lunch. A post like this appeared on the Game Gallery’s featured board.

It’s not like you can just post anything in a casual bonding chat gallery.

If random posts flood the gallery, it turns into a wasteland.

That’s why the members of the Game Gallery carefully judged what to post.

For example, you wouldn’t write something like <Mos's solo queue legend today lol>.

There wasn’t a single Game Gallery member who didn’t know Mos was broadcasting… but they still restrained themselves.

In short, it’s about avoiding boring posts flooding the gallery.

-This is really legendary lol.

-Why is the play level so bad these days? I miss Season 1.

┗Are you tilted?

┗┗I know your age, bro, and you’re calling me tilted?…

And this time, the video related to Mos didn’t violate the gallery’s unspoken rules.

These sniping videos were always fun and easy to understand the context.

New dopamine was always welcome.

The Game Gallery members went to Rozon’s MTube and left comments.

It wasn’t so much about “How dare you mess with our neighborhood?” but more about it being entertaining.

So, their actions were a one-time thing.

The Game Gallery members left one comment each and then disappeared back to their gallery activities.

Mos also forgot about Rozon and continued his broadcast.

And so, the series of events ended as a minor incident.

As I said earlier, Hacco could do anything without it being a problem. The reason was simple: no one was watching.

“No way.”

But that didn’t mean you could relax and do whatever you wanted.

Schrödinger’s troublemaker always falls into the abyss the moment they’re observed.

Facing this situation for the first time, Rozon, who had never watched live streams or MTube much and didn’t understand internet culture, got scared.

The word “abyss,” which he had just learned recently, was etched in his mind.

Thinking he was facing the worst-case scenario, Rozon started pondering how to resolve it.

A few days later, a video was uploaded to Rozon’s MTube.

[I Met an Intentional Troll in Solo Queue]

And this video was posted on a featured board in a gallery.

The VR Broadcasting Gallery.

And that’s why Han Yoorim’s chat was going crazy right now.

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“Open your eyes, come to the VR Broadcasting Gallery. Open your eyes, come to the VR Broadcasting Gallery. Open your eyes, come to the VR Broadcasting Gallery.”

But if you didn’t like Isahyang’s pick, why didn’t you just say it instead of doing that?

Thierry first pick, just die already. Thierry first pick, just die already. Thierry first pick, just die already.

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As soon as she saw the chat, Han Yoorim quickly grasped the situation.

Ah, the latest traditional pastime of Korea is underway.

I thought it was something serious.

Turns out, it’s nothing.