Chapter 197: 197 – Start of the show
With my costu on and my makeup done, I walked out of the dressing room to the stage and saw that everything was ready, with the technicians just finishing setting up so of the equipnt.
Picking up my phone and opening my Tube channel, I looked at the stream that was scheduled to start in 40 minutes and was surprised to see that there were already 3,000 people waiting.
For strears who have been streaming for years, it was hard enough to get 3,000 people to watch your stream normally, let alone how hard it was to convince those 3,000 people to stay on a page for a stream that hadn’t even started yet!
Since the stream chat was already turned on, there were several people chatting.
So were talking about my songs, others about my fight with Dark Pistol.
Those talking about the fight were mostly people who supported , but there were still a few people spamming with hate ssages.
Fortunately, these ssages were quickly deleted by the stream moderator.
Who was this moderator?
At first, Selena offered to hire soone from AJP, but I rembered soone who had been following for a long ti and was very active and helpful in the comnts.
So I invited Requien, my Instabram follower who always gave so useful tips.
As soon as I offered it to him, he quickly volunteered to help moderate.
Even though the majority of the audience was on my side, I didn’t want people who hated because of Dark Pistol to be able to keep comnting and spoil the experience for those who just wanted to enjoy a good show.
Sure, Requien couldn’t manually moderate tens of thousands of people, so we set up a few keywords for the chat to automatically block, and as the stream went on, he added more words to the list.
Every 10 minutes, I would check my phone to see how many viewers were watching.
With 30 minutes to go before the stream started, there were 5,000 people.
With 20 minutes to go, there were 9,000 people.
With 10 minutes to go, there were 16,000 people watching.
With 2 minutes left before the stream started, there were 23,000 people.
In the minutes before the stream started, the number kept increasing every second, which put a big smile on my face.
There were even people who donated to make their ssages stand out from the others.
“Okay guys, 60 seconds to start the stream, all the equipnt is ready, is everyone okay?” The director of this stream asked aloud.
Since this stream would have multiple caras, a director was needed to be able to control which cara would be used in the stream at any given ti, as well as control the stage effects and anything else that would be used for the stream.
With a positive response from everyone, I looked at Mark and Frank to make sure they were okay.
They were both already in their places, Mark behind the drums and Frank behind the keyboards.
I was already in the middle of the stage, facing all the caras.
For stream shows like this, there is usually choreography for the singer’s entrance and various other things, but considering this was my first stream and the sponsorship was only $40,000, it was understandable that it wasn’t that big.
The $40,000 may seem like a lot, but when you consider that this money was the inco that would theoretically pay for the day rate of everyone working in that room, as well as the rental of the equipnt we used, it would hardly be enough for sothing so grandiose.
I’ll probably get 10-20% of that $40,000 at most, but that’s because this was my first stream.
If I prove myself and show that I can deliver results and reach a large audience, the value of the next sponsorships will only increase.
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With the one finger of the director’s hand that was still standing, now lowered, we knew that the stream had started and I felt a little nervous and lost…
The feeling was strange… I knew that there were thousands of people watching at that mont, wanting to hear my music, but just the sight of several caras pointed at , several beams of light in my direction, and the entire production team in silence was strange.
Luckily, there was a big TV underneath the cara, showing the comnts that were rapidly appearing on the screen.
Seeing so many comnts reminded of what it was like to perform in front of an audience for the first ti in this world, in the Quacktus Stream, the talent show I participated in.
Singing and seeing the ssages in the chat was an incredible feeling and that’s what I should aim for this ti.
So, after those 5 seconds when I was a bit lost, my body relaxed and a smile appeared on my face.
“Good evening everyone!” I said as I moved my head to show that I was clearly reading the chat. “Good evening Allchi, Katblack17, Ugo_Moreno, Bobby_fowler, and all the other 26,000 people who are with tonight!”
When they saw that I was actually reading the nas of the viewers, the already fast rising ssages started to rise even faster, possibly because people wanted their nas to appear so that I could read them too.
Unfortunately, with the chat rising so fast, it was impossible to read everyone’s na, so I just looked at the chat for a few seconds before turning my eyes back to the cara.
“You have no idea how nostalgic it is for to do a stream show like this… for the few people who have known since the beginning of my career, you know that one of my most successful songs was first sung on a stream… The Lazy Song! Who in the chat rembers that?” I asked with a smile.
As soon as I asked, tens of thousands of comnts started pouring in.
[!]
[!]
[!]
[!]
[…]
When I saw how many people were comnting, I started to laugh, imagining the frustration of those who had really been with from the beginning to see so many people who had no idea what I was talking about and pretended to be here as well.
I rember this happening to once in a previous life, when a strear asked how to play the ga, I explained it to him, and when it ca ti to thank him, he couldn’t rember my nickna.
When he asked who had given him the tip, I said that I had, but that thousands of other people had done the sa thing, which made angry at the other people.
“Gee, do that many people rember?” I asked, laughing as I looked at the chat.
“To celebrate, I thought the first song of the night would be The Lazy Song!” I said slowly as I looked away and moved closer to the Jack Daniels decorations, giving the production ti to program all the decorations to what they had set up for that song.
I didn’t want to talk about Jack Daniels yet, but I would move closer to give the brand the visibility they wanted with the sponsorship and to make the audience curious as to why there was sothing like that on stage.
When I got the OK from the producers, I nodded and heard Mark’s drumsticks hit to synchronize us.
🎼🎶🎤
Today I don’t feel like doing anything
I just want to lie in my bed
Don’t feel like answering my phone
So leave a ssage at the tone
Cause today I swear I ain’t doing nothing
🎼🎶🎤
When I started playing this song, the chat, which had a lot of ssages saying a lot of different things, quickly changed to people sending dancing emoticons.
– 3rd POV –
Jay had just gotten ho from work and was opening a bottle of beer when he ca out of the kitchen and saw his daughter watching TV.
Thinking she was watching one of the boring shows she always watches, he asked her to go to her room and watch TV so he could put on sothing more interesting.
Even though they didn’t have much contact and the conversation between them was a bit awkward, Jay was very tired from work and wasn’t interested in almost anything his daughter liked, so it beca increasingly difficult to find anything in common to talk about with his daughter.
Since his wife was a nurse, she didn’t get ho until late at night, leaving the two of them with little to talk about at ho.
But when Jay walked into the living room and saw that Emma was watching a concert, he beca a little interested.
Over a beer, good music was a good thing.
I just hope this music is good…’ he thought as he sat down on the other sofa and waited to see what music would be playing.
When he sat down, Emma looked at him a little suspiciously, wondering why her father hadn’t asked her to change the channel like he always did, but when she saw that he didn’t complain imdiately, she just turned her attention back to the TV and concentrated on the show.
Jay saw that the boy who was going to sing was very handso, so much so that it bothered him that his daughter was watching.
Especially since the boy was only talking and not singing at all, this began to try Jay’s patience even more.
Finally, after a few minutes of talking, the boy started to play!
🎼🎶🎤
Today I don’t feel like doing anything
I just want to lie in my bed
Don’t feel like answering my phone
So leave a ssage at the tone
Cause today I swear I ain’t doing nothing
🎼🎶🎤
Listening to the lyrics and paying attention to the feel of the song, Jay’s impatience began to subside and he began to enjoy the music without even realizing it.
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