Chapter 52: The Furry’s Revenge.

[Lololololol.]

[+HurryAndLeave: What kind of conspiracy theory is this? lol.]

[Pepe: What the hell?]

[Pepe: I literally reviewed the page earlier…]

[Umm.]

[Did someone add that after I checked? lol.]

[Very suspicious…]

If it had been about anyone else, maybe I could understand, but Glim of all people?

That was ridiculous.

We had no relationship outside of our on-stream interactions.

We had never even DM’d each other privately.

“I don’t talk to anyone outside of streams. So please edit that part. I don’t want unnecessary misunderstandings.”

[Lol.]

[+HurryAndLeave: Pepe, fix it immediately.]

[Yeah, that definitely needs to go, lol.]

[We don’t want any weird rumors spreading.]

[What the hell is this nonsense?]

[Pepe: But seriously, you don’t talk to anyone off-stream? (curious)]

I had noticed for a while—some viewers were oddly interested in my personal relationships.

I wasn’t sure why.

If I had to guess, maybe they just liked me enough to be curious.

“Seriously, I don’t. So stop asking about it. It might be disrespectful to the other streamers.”

I meant that.

I personally didn’t care if my name got thrown around, but for full-time streamers, their reputation was their livelihood.

Even if they were doing great, if my name got unnecessarily attached to them, it might make things awkward.

It was better to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.

With that in mind, I warned them again.

[+HurryAndLeave: LOL.]

[+HurryAndLeave: If anyone spreads these dumb theories again, I’ll personally bonk you.]

[Lmao.]

[Where do people even come up with this stuff?]

[Pepe: If weird rumors spread, Yotte’s the one who suffers the most.]

[Yeah, don’t make Yotte take the heat for no reason.]

Thankfully, the viewers seemed to understand.

Their reactions in the chat were exactly what I wanted to see.

“Alright, shall we officially start the stream now?”

[+HurryAndLeave: Sounds good.]

[Let’s go.]

[What’s on the agenda today?]

[Probably just the usual, right?]

[Another battle royale?]

[Pepe: How about letting chat vote?]

Now that I thought about it, I hadn’t done a poll for my stream content in a while.

Maybe I had gotten too into battle royale games lately.

I felt like I had lost touch with my roots.

So, for the first time in a while, I set up a poll.

“Starting a poll now!”

[Poll Options]

World Cup

FPS Game

Reore

Battle Royale Game

Art Stream

I even added “World Cup” this time.

For a simple reason—I hadn’t done one in ages.

From what I remembered, it had been weeks since the last one, and that stream’s VOD had racked up a ton of views.

‘That probably means people really enjoyed it.’

Honestly, I didn’t get why they loved the Ideal Type World Cup so much.

Was it that entertaining?

Oh well.

As long as both I and my viewers had fun, it didn’t really matter.

Thinking that, I let the poll run.

[+HurryAndLeave: Ah, I’m already so nervous.]

[+HurryAndLeave: Please, let’s do an art stream.]

[Art stream, let’s gooo.]

[Mods, if you wanna survive, stay silent.]

[Whoa, why is everyone so aggressive, lol.]

[Pepe: Hmm hmm… World Cup it is, right?]

The chat was already in chaos, arguing over which stream type should win the poll.

Which made sense.

The outcome would determine the entire direction of today’s stream.

‘By the way, my mod really loves art streams.’

Ever since I did a personal sketch for them during my first stream, they had been obsessed with art content.

Or maybe they just enjoyed the casual chatting that happened during drawing sessions.

As I thought about it, I glanced at the viewer count.

[Viewers: 841]

“Huh? The numbers shot up all of a sudden.”

A flood of viewers had poured in from somewhere.

If I had to guess, people must’ve been rallying for votes somewhere.

It wasn’t unusual.

Whenever I held a poll like this, viewership always spiked.

Probably because someone called in backup from a community, or because lurkers saw that the World Cup might happen and rushed in.

[+HurryAndLeave: This always happens, lol.]

[Polls = instant viewership boost.]

[It’s just natural for World Cup content to attract lurkers.]

[But why don’t you upload these on YouTube? They’d be fun to watch.]

[Pepe: If he did, the videos would get copyright-striked instantly, lol.]

[Yeah, avoiding copyright claims isn’t easy.]

“I don’t have the energy to edit and upload videos. That reminds me… Someone said they’d upload a clip of my gameplay last time, but I can’t remember who.”

I vaguely recalled a viewer mentioning it, but their username slipped my mind.

It was someone familiar, though.

[Pepe: That was me, lol.]

[So when are you actually uploading it?]

[Upload it and promote it in the community, dude.]

[We’ll all subscribe, so hurry up and make the video.]

[+HurryAndLeave: Bro, you don’t just whip up a video instantly…]

“You better hurry up and post it. We’re all waiting to watch it together on stream.”

[Wow, suddenly acting like you were waiting all this time? lol.]

[+HurryAndLeave: This is straight-up gaslighting, lmao.]

[No, but seriously, I’m kinda hyped for it.]

[Pepe: That’s cool and all, but…]

[Pepe: Can you at least upload VODs somewhere?]

Uploading VODs?

“You can just watch the replays on Twis. Is there really a need to upload them somewhere else?”

I didn’t see the point.

If people wanted to watch past streams, they could just check them out on Twis.

[+HurryAndLeave: Yeah, but the accessibility is way different, lol.]

[The accessibility gap is insane.]

[Just let people watch where they want.]

[Pepe: If you upload to YouTube, you attract a lot of weird people, though.]

As we chatted.

[The poll has ended!]

A notification popped up.

“Oh, it’s done. Let’s check the results.”

I was curious to see the final tally.

[Poll Results]

World Cup – 60%

FPS Game – 10%

Reore – 11%

Battle Royale – 13%

Art Stream – 6%

“World Cup it is.”

Not surprising.

The chat had been spamming about it nonstop.

[LOL, art stream got 6%, RIP.]

(User has been temporarily banned!)

[+HurryAndLeave: There were people who wanted an art stream, you know.]

[+HurryAndLeave: No need to be rude about it.]

[Hmm, lol.]

[Yup, lol.]

[Pepe: These guys love pissing off the mod, lmao.]

[Reality check: Even with all that mod bias, art stream still only got 6%, lol.]

[Fact: If the mod hadn’t hyped it up, it would’ve been 1%, easy.]

Now that World Cup was locked in, the next step was deciding which World Cup to do.

“Hmm. So, what kind of World Cup should we do? I don’t really mind.”

I truly didn’t care.

Any type of World Cup was fun.

As long as it wasn’t a male idol World Cup.

…But I kept that thought to myself.

Because the moment I said it out loud, chat’s troll instincts would kick in, and they’d start spamming for it just to mess with me.

[+HurryAndLeave: Okay, hear me out.]

[+HurryAndLeave: Idol World Cup.]

[That actually sounds fun, lol.]

[Male idol World Cup, let’s go.]

[Pepe: Oh, I like that idea.]

“…Huh?”

What the hell?

I never mentioned male idols.

So why were they suddenly pushing for it?

“Uh… How about a jazz World Cup? This one looks fun.”

I was interested in jazz, so that sounded like a solid option.

Plus, it’d be a chill category to go through.

Just as I was thinking that.

[+HurryAndLeave: Hmm…]

[What do you mean, jazz?]

[Male idol World Cup, let’s gooo.]

[A true idol World Cup needs to include MVs, lol.]

[Pepe: There are definitely gonna be some questionable outfits in this one.]

Chat had already decided on male idols.

Unbelievable.

I hadn’t even agreed to it yet.

‘…This is kinda infuriating.’

Normally, I wouldn’t have cared.

But right now?

Their reverse psychology trolling was getting to me.

So, after a brief moment of contemplation.

“Alright then. We’re doing a female idol World Cup. Since that’s what everyone seems to want.”

This was their fault.

There was no reason for me to enjoy ranking male idols.

[+HurryAndLeave: ?]

[?]

[??]

[????]

[?]

[Bro…]

[Wait.]

[Pepe: The male idol thing was just a joke, lol.]

[Pepe: Let’s do jazz instead, actually.]

Suddenly, chat switched gears and started backpedaling.

Too late.

‘I got played last time.’

This time, it was my turn for revenge.

With that thought, I confidently launched the Female Idol World Cup.