9,251 viewers.
This was the number of viewers currently in Yujin's stream, watching a session titled "Dark Zone Co-op with Harmony"—a simple yet effective title. The viewer count was almost five digits, indicating a substantial audience gathered under the banner of Yujin. These viewers ford a loosely connected collective community, a kind of large-scale intelligence—but, of course, that didn’t necessarily an they were useful. Regardless, they had co together to watch her broadcast.
In essence, this ant that these viewers had a certain direction or purpose, although the loose nature of their gathering implied that there were exceptions. And here was one such example.
"...What should I do in this situation?"
Explosions and shouts were erupting all around, more than enough to catch any viewer’s attention, yet for one of the 9,000 viewers—a viewer who had just been hired yesterday as Yujin’s new YourSpace editor—it didn’t really resonate.
The reason was simple: he was quite busy. Despite having run the Fanspace channel for less than two weeks, its subscribers and view counts had skyrocketed. Naturally, as he would now be working officially as an editor, there was a need to organize Fanspace.
‘There is a channel rge feature, but…’
The problem was that to use it, he would need to hold a subscriber vote to confirm whether they were for or against the rge. After that, the results would have to be submitted to YourSpace as evidence. Even after the channel rge was approved, both channel managers would have to agree on the layout, decide which videos to keep or delete, and so on... This was sothing to worry about later, but it wasn’t sothing he could ignore entirely at the mont.
With that in mind, after being confird as Yujin’s official editor and having discussed various matters, he posted a notice about this on the Fanspace community.
That was the first issue.
The second issue was the need to quit his current part-ti job. Having beco one of the few people to exchange numbers with Yujin, and soon to be the first editor managing her channel, which was bound to grow rapidly, he wouldn’t have ti to focus on anything else.
If he didn’t keep his head on straight, the worst-case scenario could see the channel falling into a bad situation. A fan ruining a star’s YourSpace channel—that would be a history-making embarrassnt, one for the ages on TreeWiki.
Therefore, after receiving the offer, he spent the entire day brainstorming ways to grow the channel, thinking about how to manage it efficiently if it suddenly exploded in popularity.
It might not have been his area of responsibility, but thoughts like these were hard to shake off once they appeared.
That was the second issue.
And the third issue?
-Tap, tap, tap.
-[TailEditor: Yujin…?]
-[TailEditor: How should I edit the video when collaborating with other strears?]
It wasn’t that he hadn’t watched Harmony’s broadcasts before.
In fact, he’d been a viewer even before Yujin started streaming... But now, from fonts to editing style, cut distribution, and segnt length—of course, Yujin’s segnts would take priority since it was her YourSpace—he had to consider everything, even revenue sharing.
He sank deep into his chair and sighed as he entered Harmony’s channel.
Making money was indeed difficult, and the obstacles and challenges were endless.
It was his first day as an editor.
You’re not going to play Dark Zone all day, right? Hurry up and guarantee the editor’s human rights!! (waving carrot)
-[No way, Ruben. If I'm going through this, shouldn’t you all suffer too?]
Editor is probably crying right now LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
All the different editors—daily, gaming, shorts—are clinging on LOL
LOL, rember the nightmare of the prohibited zone?
How to upload four 20-minute videos in a week: work the editor to death
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
anwhile,
Of course, Harmony’s editor was dealing with similar struggles.
Though their direction differed from Yujin’s side—specifically, Harmony’s editors always tensed up when she played Dark Zone.
Harmony, with her adamantium ntal fortitude honed through various trash gas, faced off against Yujin, who could overwhelm anyone with her sheer physical prowess and who would flood you with enough intense instructions to make you want to quit.
The chemistry between the two created such a wild reaction that it turned into a dense video, making it hard to decide what to edit.
Whether it was talk or action.
When the original footage was excessively entertaining, editors naturally tensed up. After all, they could catch the fallout if anything went wrong.
[Waaaaah! Teacher! Drones and enemies shooting from all directions are flying at !]
[It’s okay, they don’t hurt because your defense is low!]
[How can getting shot not hurt!?]
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
Fact: Bullets don’t hurt if they hit lightly.
They teach you how to get shot lightly in boot camp, how do you not know this? LOL
How is a bullet the size of a pinky flying faster than sound not painful LOL
Ga skills are top-notch, but the conversation level is WWwwwwwwwww
Anyway, the broadcast wasn’t even close to being over—it hadn’t even really started.
What happens later can be dealt with later, and for now, the best he could do was keep the clipping and note-taking features on—just marking particularly funny monts that absolutely needed to be included in the video.
However, Harmony’s goofy charm had little to offer compared to Yujin’s pure physicality, especially—
—Boom!
[What did you just do? Wow!]
[A quadruped sniper turret is turning toward us on the other side, and it shoots rounds strong enough to knock you back, so be careful.]
[Oh my, they weren’t kidding when they called this a weapon testing ground...!]
Taking advantage of a drone flying near her, Yujin grabbed it, smashed it against the wall, breaking its propellers, and then threw it at another approaching drone.
The latter drone, struck and destabilized, crashed. Yujin, anwhile, kept firing rounds of Lapua Magnum at $2.2 per shot, literally crippling the quadruped turret.
The only sound breaking through the explosions was the chanical noise of the Icarus device, keeping the atmosphere tense.
“…Wow.”
What could he say? Watching Yujin play was never boring. That’s why her viewers didn’t drop off easily, even when she invested countless hours in Dark Zone.
Harmony’s editors, Ruben, Waltz, and Luddite, were also old users who had cleared the main missions of Dark Zone long ago, and even started new characters to play through the main missions several tis.
Most of the audience, who numbered close to 20,000 when combining Harmony and Yujin’s viewers, were likely the sa.
Yet, not only was the banter between them enjoyable, but Yujin constantly created bizarre situations in places that viewers thought they’d thoroughly explored long ago.
Moreover, Yujin seed to be a natural at real-world tactical maneuvers and small-unit tactics, giving the impression of an actual battlefield by using hand signals, silence, and various terrain features, instead of just spraying bullets like other players.
Harmony was also doing a great job following her lead.
For this reason, Yujin and Harmony’s broadcasts had recently beco one of the most avidly watched by AP pro gars.
‘…I’m seeing so familiar nas.’
Tricky had a few features that allowed users to identify who they were.
For instance, the font style or the form of a nickna might differ slightly, or more noticeably, so nicknas had various emojis or effects attached to them.
So of these were, of course, quite rare—though they didn’t show up in donations and were invisible to strears, only other viewers could see them—yet so indicated a user’s background or group affiliation.
Today, as an editor and a viewer, he started noticing a few familiar things in the chat.
-[Veritas//Grizzly]: Throwing drones around LOL
Or,
-[BlankK1KERS//ASDF]: That shooting skill, whoa….
With the start of the prelim rank matches, all pro gars active on Tricky—whether strears or viewers—were required to use effects and nicknas that revealed their affiliations.
In short, this was a way to prevent people from hiding behind anonymity.
Even well-known nas in the AP community were chatting, but there were likely many more pros watching without saying a word.
anwhile, Yujin and Harmony didn’t stop.
They tore through the underground facility, scattering pure violence as they went. Despite this, they showed no signs of stopping, pushing further into the facility.
However, this mission unfortunately didn’t have a happy ending. The PMC mbers of Artemis, desperate to ensure their survival, had sold off the company’s weapons and access rights to China and Russia. The operators had no choice but to extract the data from the server and destroy everything.
As ti went on, the truth beca more apparent, and the two finally faced it head-on.
-[Alert: Residual network log detected. Evidence of large-scale data transmission found.]
-[…What does that an?]
-[It ans the information has already been leaked. We were too late.]
Harmony visibly deflated, while Yujin, as always, calmly checked her equipnt without much expression.
The story unfolded in a sowhat scripted manner. In-ga, the FOV provided the narrative. The ssage was simple: the information had already been leaked, and the automated defense system had been activated upon detecting their presence.
The goal was to temporarily disable the heavily armored enemies and the various murderous robots pouring in with the pre-installed EMP bombs and then escape without looking back.
That was the rough storyline. At least, for an average player.
As the EMP went off, everything went dark for a mont, and with a loud ripping sound, the viewers' eardrums were briefly assaulted.
Wham!
An unpleasant sound filled the air, and not long after, the ergency power kicked in, illuminating the space.
A rather significant disaster unfolded before their eyes.
-[Another one of the teacher’s masterpieces.]
-[I noticed sothing fidgeting nearby, so I reacted instinctively.]
In summary, what could be said?
The fact that even a state-of-the-art bulletproof helt couldn’t stop a tactical hamr?
-Shudder shudder shudder;;; -Broke a head that doesn’t even crack when shot, with just a hamr…?????? -Newbies are so cute when they’re surprised by Yujin LOL LOL LOL -When soone who can bench over 700 pounds hits you on the head, this is what happens LOL -[LegioInvicta//Aristo: What in the world;;;;]
The newcors to the broadcast kept rubbing their eyes, wondering if they really saw what they just did. anwhile, those who had watched this chemistry unfold for a longer ti—or even from the start—just laughed and enjoyed the show.
Naturally, Ruben, Waltz, and Luddite were among the latter group.
Thus, only one comnt appeared in their engram chat room.
-[Luddite: Just got a clip we absolutely have to include LOL]
Even those who had seen this many tis before were still surprised, so how must the newer viewers—or those just here to watch so gaplay—feel?
As always, Yujin was raising the bar for her viewers.
It was early September, and the broadcast still had a long way to go before it ended.
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