Who do you think watches Neotube the most?
Security guards who protect homes better than anyone? Students who come to relieve study stress? Office workers trying to escape their mental and physical fatigue? Housewives looking for household tips?
No, all wrong.
The people who watch Neotube the most in this world are none other than Neotube creators, streamers who make it their profession, and editors who make their living from videos.
Some people watch for entertainment, but most watch Neotube to get brilliant ideas or conduct market research.
They watch again and again. They might find ideas or concepts they can use.
This girl was one of those people.
"Sigh..."
The girl is a streamer who focuses on gaming and communication. Or rather, "was" a streamer would be more appropriate in this case.
For someone whose MBTI test revealed she was an extreme introvert among introverts, being a streamer presented a wall too big and too high to climb.
Still, she didn't want to give up on video work after all her effort, so she switched to being an editor, but...
[For the 2:11 section, I think what you sent before fits better... Sorry for mentioning it late, but could you please change it back to what we did before? ð ]
"Sigh... Again..."
Nothing in life is easy, but working as an editor was harder than the girl had imagined.
Like most subcontracted work, she had to accommodate the client's demands as much as possible, and people's minds are as fickle as reeds.
So she revised and revised again, submitted second and third drafts, only to go back to the first one.
Literally spending all day watching videos to find editing points was absolutely miserable.
It would have been different if she could just give up cleanly, but she couldn't, which made it even harder.
But what could she do? If you want to make a living, you have to do things you don't want to do.
"Good thing I saved what I did before..."
With a deep sigh, she sent the completed second draft by email again and leaned back against her soft chair.
*When will this ever end?*
She often thought about starting streaming again.
But whenever she did, she would watch videos of her past broadcasts.
Click, click.
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The videos she uploaded back then had decent view counts, probably because she uploaded them when streaming was trending.
While not as many as famous Neotubers, it certainly wasn't a small number.
But that was just a momentary flash of success.
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Without talent for streaming, no matter how long she broadcast, it became difficult to find interesting moments. With no usable scenes, upload intervals grew longer, and with longer intervals, viewership declined...
This vicious cycle continued until all that remained were vicious comments, spam advertisements, and what few viewers remained...
No, just the gaslighting of demons.
That's why she quit streaming.
"Right, who am I to stream... I should just be grateful I can work as an editor..."
The girl sighed, shook off memories of the past, and clicked the Neotube banner to return to the main page.
The Neotube main page showed videos from creators she subscribed to, algorithm-recommended videos, and shorts.
Most of them had red lines underneath.
Not in a bad way—it just meant she had already watched them all.
*I really have watched a lot.*
While videos had tormented and hurt the girl in the past, ironically, videos were also what made her smile.
With a bitter smile, she scrolled down looking for something to watch when a thumbnail caught her eye.
"Hmm... Huh?"
Or rather, it couldn't help but catch her eye.
It was such a shocking thumbnail.
Pizza topped with savory, salty cheese.
Chicken with the perfect spicy kick of pepper and greasy deliciousness.
Ramen with its spicy, refreshing taste—the pinnacle of modern science.
Just hearing about these foods, you can somewhat imagine their taste.
If they had simply been used as separate thumbnails, she would have scrolled past them.
After all, videos about pizza, chicken, and ramen are incredibly abundant if you just search a little.
But...
*What... is this...?*
The moment she saw chicken and pizza dancing on top of boiling ramen broth—all three mixed together—the girl couldn't help but twitch under her eyes.
A chaos that drained the sanity of anyone who looked at the thumbnail.
And it wasn't even just clickbait.
How did she know without watching the video?
[âLIVE][Eat A Lot/De-Ah-Biru with Pichira (3 pizzas, 3 chickens, 3 packs of ramen) Mukbang]
Because this was a live broadcast.
Despite the destructive thumbnail, the girl clicked on it as if entranced.
—Whatisthiswhatisthiswhatisthiswhatisthis
—ð©ð©ð©ð©ð©ð©ð©ð©
—I'msorryI'llnevercallitmukbangagainpleasestop
—You're actually eating this and saying it's delicious...?
—AUTHENTIC FOOD
—Delicious thing + Delicious thing = More delicious thing
—ð¤®ð¤®ð¤®ð¤®ð¤®ð¤®
—ARGHHHHHH ARGHHHHHH
The first thing that caught her eye was the chat flying by at an incredible speed.
Viewers drawn in by the clickbait were flailing like ants sucked into an antlion pit, unable to process the shocking scene before them.
What the girl never had, the broadcast she dreamed of.
The girl's eyes momentarily filled with jealousy at the chat speed she had never experienced, but they soon clouded over again.
*Right, this person will probably just shine briefly and fade away too.*
Thinking that, she shifted her gaze, and the next thing she saw was the beautiful girl eating the terrible-looking pizza-chicken-ramen...
No, the food abomination, with an unfazed expression.
[Hmm?]
Flawless porcelain skin, golden hair flowing like silk, and eyes that looked like they were carved from pure melted gold.
Up to this point, she could have been considered an eye-catching foreigner, but the horns on her head and fluttering wings indicated she was no ordinary being.
No, she really wasn't an ordinary being.
She was a monster created based on the Light Dragon that once turned Korean society upside down.
Despite being a monster based on the Light Dragon, no one criticized her because of her achievements.
She had rescued citizens from a terrorized courthouse, subdued monsters that appeared at a hospital.
And she even arrested the leader of Harmageddon, a dangerous radical group.
Any one of these achievements would be enough to call her a hero, so who would dare call her a monster?
Of course... when it was first revealed that she carried the Light Dragon's blood, many people rose up in protest, but that was brief. Now, more people praised her as a hero.
"Wait, why is someone like her streaming...?"
That's why it was even more incomprehensible.
Someone who could make a fortune appearing on variety shows or other broadcasts, or working at one of the recently growing Hero Offices, was doing internet broadcasts.
[What's wrong with Pichira? It's so delicious. It's not good to have preconceptions without trying it, everyone.]
—I think having too few preconceptions is also a problem
—Not easy;;
—Demand a special investigation now
[The visuals might be like this, but it's delicious, I'm telling you! Don't say it's not good without trying it. You know, silkworm pupae don't look great either, but they taste good.]
—Silkworm pupae are authentic lol
—For real lol
—Why eat gross pupae seriously
—They're nutty and delicious
She wasn't even overwhelmed by the flood of chat messages but was leading the broadcast with a relaxed smile.
Seeing this, the girl felt even her remaining jealousy disappear.
*She's on another level entirely.*
If the difference had been slight, she might have felt jealous, but with this much difference, she felt nothing.
Background, achievements, talent, looks, wealth. The other woman was superior in every aspect. This kind of difference was literally on another dimension.
Even thinking this, she didn't leave the broadcast.
Because regardless of feeling the gap, the broadcast itself was entertaining.
[But I don't eat silkworm pupae. They don't taste good. And they don't look good either.]
—?
—??
—Not easy...
—The streamer is good at power plays
—For real lol
—?
[I'd rather eat Hawaiian pizza than those.]
—ARGHHHH!
—This is a bit controversial;;
—What's wrong with Hawaiian pizza?
—Get out
—Her wiki page just changed from "Mukbang controversy" to "Food abomination controversy" lol
—That was fast, seriously lol
[Why does everyone hate Hawaiian pizza? They say strong denial is strong affirmation—maybe everyone actually likes Hawaiian pizza?]
—This is really something else
—I wouldn't be surprised if you said you liked mint chocolate too
[Oh, I do like mint chocolate too.]
"Pfft... That's right. A streamer needs this level of shamelessness."
Chuckling as she watched the broadcast, the girl moved her hand to the keyboard to type in chat.
Mint chocolate was one of the few foods the girl really liked.
—Taste expert Yong-Yong-Ie, I agree
She didn't expect it to be read, it was just a chat to add to the atmosphere, but the streamer's eyes caught the girl's message as she was pulling out pizza soaked in ramen broth.
After swallowing what was in her mouth with a gulp—
[Oh, Yong-Yong-Ie is my baby's name. How did you know?]
—?????
—Baby?
—What what what what?
—Huh?
"Uh...?"
She had dropped a bomb even bigger than the food abomination controversy.