Chapter 57: Gifting to Insult
Viewers in Karina’s stream: "???"
Seriously, what are you running so fast for? Is there a wolf chasing you?!
Viewers in Sophie Wexler’s stream: "???"
Huh?
Didn’t you betray us? Why are you back?
Sophie Wexler watched this dramatic scene unfold, momentarily unable to process it.
The next second, she saw F had sent her several Warships.
The gift’s special effects exploded across the screen.
Sophie Wexler blinked sluggishly, taking two seconds to react before slowly saying, "Thank you... F, for the gifts."
Because their two streams were already linked, the gifts were visible to everyone.
Karina and the viewers in her stream stared at the scene, collectively stunned.
[Seriously, F, what’s the deal? You give our Karina one Starship, but you spam Warships in her stream!!]
[Don’t make your preferential treatment so obvious!]
Sophie Wexler’s fans were also dumbfounded. ’What on earth are you doing, Boss? How are we supposed to yell at you now?’
[F, spamming gifts can’t hide the fact that you ran off to Karina’s stream earlier!]
[And you tipped her, too! You betrayed us! You... you you you’re a two-timer!]
[I just went to lurk in Karina’s stream. Boss F definitely didn’t betray us. He went over there and used gifts to insult her.]
Someone explained on his behalf.
The man watched the denouncing comments in the stream chat and typed out a line: [F: Regular comments don’t get seen.]
Everyone: Huh??
What did that mean?
[Let me, a level-ten translator, explain it to everyone. What the Boss means is, if you don’t send a gift, your comment just gets buried and no one will ever see it.]
But if you send a gift, it comes with a flashy, golden special effect, so everyone can see it.]
Everyone: ’You can do that?’
[And you have to get the amount of money just right. Not too much, because the other side doesn’t deserve it, but not too little, or the special effects won’t be eye-catching enough.]
[Savor it. Savor the nuance!]
[Hahahaha, you should have seen it, the whole scene was hilarious. One second, Karina was thanking him for the gift, and the next, he was saying her singing was terrible.]
As everyone read those few lines of text, the people in both streams were completely floored.
Especially in Karina’s stream. Her viewers saw it and went ballistic.
If you’re going to insult someone, just insult them. But he was afraid no one would see it, so he deliberately sent a gift just to make his presence known!
They were so angry they started spewing curses in the public chat of the joint stream, and at one point their comments were so vulgar that the chat filter blocked them.
Karina, in particular, looked livid, her face practically turning green as she ground her back teeth.
Sophie Wexler held it in for a long time, but she couldn’t help it anymore and let out a snort of laughter.
At that, Karina’s expression darkened even further.
As if on cue, F twisted the knife: [F: I didn’t insult anyone. I was just telling the truth.]
Such a light-hearted sentence, yet it dealt critical damage!
[Hahahaha, I’m dying! F, you’re so savage! I’ll never call you a traitor again. What traitor? You’re a god of light!]
[From this day forward, you are the god of Teacher Sue’s stream! I won’t allow anyone to defy you!]
All at once, the fans in Sophie Wexler’s stream felt a wave of relief and satisfaction. They had been holding it in for so long, and now they could finally breathe again.
Karina watched the stream’s turn of events, her expression dark and the atmosphere around her heavy with anger. The viewers in her stream were still trying to console her, telling her not to get angry at an idiot.
’Not get angry? How could she not be angry?’
’If they’ve got the guts, they should send a Warship to get back at them for me!’
Furious, she grabbed her communicator and, off-camera, frantically messaged her staff, her fingers jabbing so hard she seemed intent on poking a hole through the device.
[Karina: Where is everyone! Can’t you ban those people?!]
[Karina: Didn’t you say you hired trolls for me? Where are the trolls? Can’t you see I’m the one getting flamed right now?!]
[Staff: Nana, we’ve already got them. They’re on their way. I don’t have the permissions for the joint StarNet stream, please wait a moment.]
[Karina: Immediately!]
Sophie Wexler watched the farce unfold, her mood improving considerably, but she hadn’t forgotten the reason she had set up this joint stream in the first place.
"Miss Karina, I believe you’re mistaken about something. I have never plagiarized anyone’s work, so there is no question of an apology."
"On the contrary, your side has publicly slandered me in this matter and caused immense damage to my reputation. I think," Sophie Wexler said, her tone pausing slightly, "you’re the one who should be apologizing."
Sophie Wexler finished speaking in a slow, deliberate manner.
The other woman just let out a soft laugh. "Me, slander you? I’m a major streamer with over a hundred million fans, an A-level Healer-class. Do I need to slander you?"
"I know you don’t want to admit you plagiarized, but the evidence is all over StarNet. Haven’t you seen it yourself?"
Just as she finished speaking, a message came in from her staff: [Nana, the trolls are in position.]
The moment the message was sent, countless viewers flooded into the joint stream, and the viewer count at the top of the screen began to skyrocket.
[Oh, so this is that plagiarist streamer. What, are you here to apologize to our girl?]
[Look at you, making a joint stream on StarNet just to apologize so we can all witness it. How embarrassing for you.]
[Plagiarism freak, hurry up and apologize then get the hell out of here. Who wants to watch you? We only like our A-level Healer-class, Nana.]
The massive flood of comments instantly drowned out the remarks from Sophie Wexler’s fans.
[That’s hilarious. You act like only you guys have a Healer-class. Our Teacher Sue is a Healer-class too, and her songs can soothe the Spiritual Sea. Can yours do that?]
[As I recall, her certification is only for an F-level Healer-class, right? How dare she compare herself to our A-level Nana.]
[Let’s take a thousand steps back. Even if she is a Healer-class and can soothe the Spiritual Sea, does that give her the right to plagiarize? To steal someone else’s hard work?]
[Our Nana is just kind-hearted, so she’s letting you off with an apology. If it were anyone else, they would have already reported you to the Protection Association.]
[Besides, you only have one style of song. How can you compare to our Nana, whose musical style is so versatile? Is it because you could only manage to copy one of Nana’s genres?]
[Exactly. She only knows this one style. The other styles of Nana’s songs are probably too difficult for her to even learn.]
There were simply too many of them. In comparison, the rebuttals from Sophie Wexler’s fans seemed utterly insignificant.
Her fans were about to explode with rage.
Sophie Wexler saw the comments as well. She lowered her gaze, then said, "You say I plagiarized. Fine. Where is your evidence?"
Karina spread her hands. "Isn’t the evidence all over StarNet? Search it yourself. My work was completed long before yours."
"Who can testify to that?" Sophie Wexler asked unhurriedly. "Who can prove yours was earlier? Are we just supposed to take your word for it?"
"Besides, according to you, your work came out first. So how could I, a minor streamer, have seen your new work and plagiarized it before you even released it?"