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After that, Mei’s guidance to Nanaka san continued.
Nanaka san took the lecture seriously, but Mei’s teachings shattered Nanaka san’s naive idea that she wanted to live playing games for the rest of her life.
Nanaka san nodded her head while shedding tears throughout the lecture.
It might be difficult at first, but once you get used to it, you’ll have more time for yourself……while watching the two of them interact, I silently encourage them to do their best.
“Anyway, Nanaka chan’s thinking is naive ! A streamer job isn’t just about playing games so that people can watch you and make money !”
“Yes……”
“If you wanna make walkthrough videos, you have to get the information out before anyone else does, and be known as the go-to person for video clips of this game.”
“But you said earlier that I just have to have fun playing……”
“That’s before I asked you which direction you’re gonna work hard in ! If you were just going to stream, you could just have fun and play the game, but you said you’d also upload gameplay videos every day.”
In general, game streamers can be divided into two categories, according to Mei.
Those who mainly stream games and have fun playing popular games, and those who post daily videos of their favorite games and walkthrough videos.
Mei left it to Nanaka san to choose which type of game streamer she wanted to be.
She replied, [I’ll do my best at both !]…….
“You do understand that it’s hard to make money the way you’ve been doing things, right?”
“It is, yes…….”
“You collaborated with Mei and people came, but that was only temporary. Just because they are interested in Kanatsu Kanako’s collaboration, it doesn’t mean that everyone who subscribes to the channel is watching Nanaka chan’s stream. And if they find the stream uninteresting, the number of channel subscribers will decrease rapidly….I think it’s much more painful than Nanaka chan imagined.”
“Kanako san…..”
“You have to work harder than ever to figure out what you can do to prevent that from happening.”
Hearing Mei’s words, Nanaka san nodded broadly.
“I’ll do my best !”
“Yes, do your best ! First of all, you need to know what direction to take and what kind of games can get numbers now. You also need to learn how to edit videos.”
“I’ll…..do my best.”
“Yeah. ….Now that I think about it, isn’t it about time for your part-time job?”
“Ah, you’re right !”
Nanaka san said and stood up with her bag,
“I’ll be in touch, Kanako san ! Thank you very much for today, Tachibana san !”
“Take care.”
Nanaka san left with a big bow.
The front door closed with a bang, and Mei, who returned from seeing her off, looked at me, paused for a moment, and hugged me vigorously.
“……Senpai, I’m tired.”
“Good work. How is she? Is she gonna grow?”
When I asked that, Mei buried her face in my chest and shook it from side to side.
“I don’t think she’s gonna be able to do it as it is now. She’s not thinking straight, and what she’s doing is more of a hobby.”
“Right.”
There are many people who want to become streamers because they don’t want to work, they just want to play games and live.
But most of those people quit without becoming popular.
Those who entered the industry with such an idea and are still active today are making efforts behind the scenes. On the surface, they may say, [I just play games for a living, it’s fun ! ]but behind the scenes they are making extraordinary efforts.
Much harder effort than what Mei told Nanaka sam.
“If we collaborate just a few more times, and Nanaka chan’s mindset doesn’t change, do we need to collaborate anymore?”
Mei, with a straight face, asks me.
I nodded broadly while patting her head.
“It’s a shame, but it can’t be helped. You only promised to collaborate as friends. You don’t have to force yourself to do it from now on.”
The reason Mei has never collaborated before is because the other party would not generate an equivalent amount of profit, and because their ulterior motives are obvious. If she collaborates with them, they will get huge profits.
However, there is no benefit to Mei herself.
And the people with whom she has collaborated in the past have always had a taste for the explosive power of Kanatsu Kanako’s image and have repeatedly invited her to collaborate with them.
Clearly, rather than wanting to collaborate with Kanatsu Kanako, they want to share the audience that Kanatsu Kanako has.
Mei does not like to be taken advantage of.
And she must have felt the same atmosphere in Nanaka san now as she had felt in the streamers she had collaborated with before.
–Even if I don’t change my mindset or anything, I can easily make money if I collaborate with Kanako san, easy, easy, easy !
She probably doesn’t think that now, but it doesn’t mean she won’t in the future.
I guess I almost lost my desire to genuinely support her, overlapping with the people who have approached Mei with such ulterior motives.
I myself want to support Nanaka san, who has worked hard up to now, but if I can’t see any growth, I can’t force myself.
“Like Nanaka chan, Mei also started with zero subscribers on her channel. I asked an illustrator to draw Kanatsu Kanako with the money I earned as an idol. No matter how tired I was, I streamed for hours every day, watched and learned from popular TV programs, and tried to figure out how to get more fans and how to be liked by more people…….I hate it when people don’t make that kind of effort and take advantage of me.”
“Mei……. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make you feel bad.”
“It’s fine, it’s Senpai’s request. Besides, I like Nanaka chan. I hope she changes from now on.”
Then Mei said, [I’m a little tired] and closed her eyes in my arms.
“If you sleep here, you’ll catch a cold, you know?”
There is no reply.
She was sleeping comfortably.
“It can;t be helped.”
I picked her up and took her to the bedroom.
When I lay her down on the bed, she was already sound asleep.
“……Good night.”
I thought that if she slept like this, her clothes would get wrinkled, but if I took off her clothes and dressed her, I might wake her up.
I left the bedroom as it was.
—Ping !
Suddenly, I heard a sound in the living room.
When I returned to check, I found a message on my phone.
“Touko san?”
She must have seen my missed calls and called me.
I thought so and checked the message,
“Eh……?”
A voice leaked out.
[Ken, help me.]
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