Chapter 43 : 18,420,000 Ways to Choose an Editor

“What if we hold a competition?”

<A competition?>

“Normally, you would have to consider the risk of failure for the YouTube channel and carefully negotiate the pay and conditions. But Jin-ah’s YouTube channel is already guaranteed to succeed, right? So I think it would be better to choose the winner based solely on their skills.”

Health Boy responded Wholeheartedly to Eugene Ah’s consultation.

How to recruit a YouTube editor, and how to make a contract.

With only two videos, Ruffian had already surpassed 20,000 subscribers and could be seen as a rising supernova.

The boom that occurred on Switch was spreading through the community to YouTube.

However, there were only two videos on the channel.

People wanted to know and see anything about her, but the content was very scarce.

Whatever video she uploaded, it was bound to explode in views.

With such a high-quality raw material like her, unless the editor was incredibly incompetent, it would be harder to make the YouTube channel fail.

Anyone who wants to make a living as a video editor would surely covet the partner position.

Therefore, it was not a situation where she had to court skilled editors, but rather a situation where skilled editors would bow their heads and beg to be chosen.

Health Boy suggested holding a video editing competition using Ruffian’s VODs to assess the skills of the numerous editors.

This was a method that major streamers with many viewers on other platforms sometimes used when starting a YouTube channel from scratch.

Health Boy added details to the competition, and that same day, an announcement was posted on Ruffian’s Streamer Gallery and YouTube community.

[We are holding a Mang-tube video editing contest.]

[To recruit a partner for our YouTube debut, we are holding the Mang-tube video editing contest.

Period and Schedule: July 14, 2021 – July 21, 2021

Results Announcement: July 28, 2021

Submission Requirements: One video per person, 10-11 minutes long, edited from Ruffian’s stream.

Submission Method: Upload to your YouTube account with the tags #Scoundrel #MangTubeContest”, then submit an application on Ruffian’s Streamer Gallery contest board, following the provided format.

Judging Method: Comprehensive evaluation of post engagement (views, likes, comments) and judges’ scores

Awards: 1st Place – 2,000,000 won prize money and top priority negotiation rights for the Mang-tube editor position

2nd Place – 1,000,000 won prize money and priority negotiation rights for the Mang-tube editor position

3rd Place – 500,000 won prize money and priority negotiation rights for the Mang-tube editor position

Honorable Mention – Chicken gift certificate worth 20,000 won

Guaranteed industry-best treatment upon contract as the editor!

※If the video infringes on the copyright of others, the video creator is solely responsible.]

However, Health Boy and Ruffian overlooked two facts.

One was that the flames of the Ruffian boom, ignited by the Zero Two dance a few days ago, had not yet subsided throughout the internet community.

The other was that the job market was getting longer, and the oversupply of editors had created a red ocean, or even a black ocean.

In such a situation, a contest with a substantial prize for just editing a 10-minute video and the chance to become Ruffian’s editor, which was as appealing as getting a job at a large corporation, had the same impact as Gol D. Roger declaring that he had left One Piece.

The great editing era had begun!

“How can there be over 300 participants?”

Were there that many editors in Korea?

Even if there were that many editors, were there that many unemployed editors?

The future of Korea is really dark if all these are the works of unemployed people.

And this guy, did he just make a mess by stitching things together like trash just to get some chicken? This kind of garbage is taking time away from watching actual good videos! Ah, it’s so annoying.

“It just shows that Jin-ah is the center of attention.”

Health Boy praised me again, seeing my annoyance.

It’s nice that he’s flattering me, but it seems a bit too much like he has ulterior motives.

Anyway, here we are in Health Boy’s living room. Today is July 27th.

The competition results are to be announced tomorrow, but we haven’t watched all the videos yet, so we’re doing a forced march (meaning watching videos non-stop) at Health Boy’s house.

There were over 300 10-11 minute videos submitted, a minimum of 3000 minutes, an amount I couldn’t handle alone.

So we decided to divide the parts, watch them separately, pick out the impressive ones, and then watch them again together to discuss and score them.

There were four participants: Health Boy, me, So-eun, and Health Boy’s editor.

Especially since Health Boy’s editor was a professional, his professional perspective was very helpful.

“This one is very interesting, isn’t it?”

This was the video that the editor recommended as being very good.

Health Boy, So-eun, and I gathered in front of his laptop to check out the video.

[Ruffian]

The video started with my nickname written in large letters in front of an illustration drawn by So-eun.

[A Switch streamer who uses two personalities of light and darkness]

Next, a video of me turning on the face cam and making a finger heart appeared, followed by a close-up of a heated argument in the LoL chat, filling the screen.

“What the.”

It was a video that depicted me like a game character, using a certain game’s job introduction BGM.

[Freely switching between two personalities depending on the situation]

This time, a video of me dancing the Zero Two and then giving the middle finger and punching the camera appeared alternately.

“What the, what the.”

[Destroying enemies, or destroying allies]

Next, a highlight of me using Lee Sin to kick an enemy into my team and then using Zhonya’s to dodge aggro, which even I thought was a good play, followed by a highlight of me pushing my team into a teamfight and then leisurely going to the lane to farm CS, which was trolling.

“What the!”

[Ruff/ian]

I hadn’t even watched 30 seconds of the video, and my face was burning red hot.

“Who told you to make something like this!”

“Didn’t you, yourself, hold the contest, noona?”

“Argh!”

For reference, Health Boy’s editor, Heechan, was only 25 years old. But he was already making a lot of money as a professional editor.

So-eun, Heechan, and Health Boy, who were all earning good money with proper jobs, were all younger than me!

Health Boy was surprised and almost fainted when he found out I was older, but regardless of my appearance, I’m actually older!

The feeling of inferiority that comes from that…

‘Maybe, am I the only one who’s been a useless human being without a proper vision until this age?’

I suddenly felt a pang in my chest. I’m glad I’m out of the unemployed state now.

“The light personality, Nani! And the dark personality, Mang!”

“Stop it, you crazy *sshole!”

“The very violent dark personality, Mang!”

“I’ll kill you?”

Heechan used the video intro to tease me for a long time.

I have a bad feeling that this is going to become a f*cking meme.

“But is the BGM you used okay with copyright?”

“N company is lenient about this kind of thing, so it’s fine.”

“Hmm.”

So there are those kinds of industry practices too. I’m glad I included a professional in the judging panel.

After the intro, which started like a certain game’s job introduction video, the video was faithfully edited with a mix of highlights of me calmly doing communication broadcasts with the viewers and highlights of me throwing tantrums, throwing games, and acting crazy.

It really does look like I have a split personality.

……Did I really act that bad?

It kind of makes me reflect on myself.

“The outer shell seemed crazy, but the content is perfectly fine?”

“I found the outer shell to be very attractive.”

In fact, aside from the fact that it’s my story and it’s embarrassing, it was an objectively fun and attention-grabbing intro.

The problem is that it’s my story, my story.

It’s a contest I chose myself.

Endure it with evil!

“Sniffle.”

“Unnie, shouldn’t we sue for this one?”

So-eun suddenly called me, so I went over and checked the video.

[A video that makes your chest tremble and makes you very excited]

From the title and thumbnail, it was obvious that it was unusual, with my chest prominently displayed.

It was a close-up, emphasizing the cleavage visible between the tank top I wore during the broadcast.

And when I checked the contents of the video, it was a video that made (my) chest tremble and made (viewers, especially men) very excited.

In short, it was a bouncing highlight reel.

It appropriately edited and stitched together the moments when my breasts bounced whenever I did something.

It was made so stimulatingly, so the view count was bound to be high.

Even though it was uploaded on the last day of the submission period, it had a tremendous number of views, surpassing all the videos uploaded on the first day.

The view count was a whopping 300,000.

“I’ve found the talent I was looking for.”

“Unnie, are you serious? Do you really like this?”

So-eun’s face was filled with astonishment.

“Yes.”

It seems that this video was very uncomfortable for So-eun, who was born a woman.

“Unnie, even if you crave attention, don’t go too far with exposing yourself or going down strange paths, okay? I’ll keep an eye on you, okay?”

So-eun seemed worried that I would lose my mind and start meeting strange men.

Don’t worry. There’s no way I’d do anything with a man. Maybe with a strange woman, though.

“So-eun. Embrace the trend, this is the trend these days.”

I showed her YouTube videos of people playing the piano naked for no reason and cooking naked.

“This is the path of a star.”

Why did those people make those choices? Because it sells! Boob-tubers are the trend these days. They understood one thing. This is the path I must take!

To absorb those tremendous views.

“Uh, uh? Uhhh?”

So-eun stuttered, seemingly having an internal conflict between wanting to respect me and worrying if she should stop me.

In the meantime, I was solidifying a decision.

‘He seems like a pervert obsessed with s*x, but a video made by someone like that would probably do well.’

To sign a contract with the editor who made this bouncing highlight reel.