Gamer Superstar - Chapter 190

Chapter 190: 190 – Repercussion
One million views… my teaser video had one million views in less than 24 hours!

Even my subs had gone up to 500k in one day!

Considering I had 500k subs and the video had over a million views, it was clear that hundreds of thousands of people who saw it had no idea who I was.

Some may have heard my music before and MeTube recommended this video to them, but the vast majority probably met me through this video.

When I saw that, I was glad I’d taken Selena’s advice and focused more on quality than on getting it up as quickly as possible.

Considering how many new people I was reassuring with it, it would be a huge waste if I didn’t manage to convert those people into a loyal audience for me because the quality was too low.

What made it even more successful was that I covered Dark Pistol’s face in the teaser, but there were still people who knew that I had recently opened for them.

Since these people knew who the possible band I was talking about was, the comments on the video had thousands of people discussing what had happened, wanting to know more details, and other people giving the few details they knew and making guesses together.

It didn’t take long for this to escalate to an even larger proportion, with other people even making videos about it and giving their opinions.

People who saw that my video was doing very well and wanted to take advantage of the hype for themselves.

Even though these people’s videos were getting a lot of views that could have gone to me, I didn’t care because what I wanted was for this topic to be talked about a lot.

Getting new followers and more viewers was great, but my real goal was my revenge against Dark Pistol, and seeing how it was developing, I knew I was succeeding.

– Rashad POV –

When I saw how well the song In The End with Dark Pistol singing was selling, I had a big smile on my face.

With that song alone, the band could easily make a few million dollars, and as their agent, a good portion of that would go to me.

Since they were still E Rank Artistis when I signed them, even with the recent improvement in their contract, I was still entitled to 35% of all their earnings, which meant another few million in my account hehe.

It wasn’t like we were doing this for the first time, so I wasn’t worried at all about what a D Rank Artist might do.

Even if he came up with something stupid, it would just be a matter of ignoring it and the public would quickly forget about it.

Knock Knock

When I heard the noise from the office door, I knew it was my secretary and spoke to her.

“Come in Caitlyn.” I said, smiling.

But when Caitlyn entered my office, her frown made me a little doubtful.

“What is it, Caitlyn?” I asked confused.

“Mr. Rashad, BlackVelvet posted a video on his MeTube channel yesterday, possibly a teaser for a retaliation against Dark Pistol.” She said as she handed me her phone with the video open.

“What are you worried about Caitlyn? He’s just a D-rank artist, there’s nothing to worry about…” But my voice stopped as soon as I saw how many views he had on the video.

“How is that possible? One million views in one day? 500,000 subscribers on the channel of a mere D-rank artist?” I asked in shock.

Dark Pistol was close to B rank and still only had 1,300,000 subscribers, how could a D rank artist already have that many subscribers?! It didn’t make any sense.

Without waiting for Caitlyn to answer, my curiosity got the better of me and I clicked on the video.

When I saw that it was only 30 seconds long, I was relieved.

There was no way he could make a video that could really tarnish Dark Pistol’s reputation in just 30 seconds, was there?

When I saw that the beginning of the video was just him saying some sentimental stuff and a bunch of unimportant drivel, I was more relaxed.

But when the recording of Dark Pistol singing with her face censored appeared on the screen, I got a little worried.

What really scared me was when it showed a blurry scene from a certain dressing room where BlackVelvet was arguing with someone.

When I looked at this person, I felt that this person was very familiar.

Pausing the video, I looked at the person more closely until I realized a shocking fact… that person was me!

“Sons of bitches!” I shouted angrily. “They recorded me while I was offering them the money to buy the rights to their music?”

That fact alone could completely change the course of events.

I hadn’t realized they had someone recording in the dressing room at the time…

And looking at the number of views and comments, I knew that this issue wasn’t going to go away so easily, on the contrary, it was most likely going to explode like a huge bomb with a huge PR problem for Dark Pistol…

Even more, after reading the comments and realizing that there were even people who knew that the band in the video was Dark Pistol, I realized that the problem was much bigger than I had previously imagined.

“Caitlyn, set up a meeting with the company’s PR team as soon as possible, we need to find a way to reverse this situation immediately!” I said in a serious voice.

“Yes, Mr. Rashad!” She said as she turned around and started organizing quickly.

Knowing that they literally had proof of the things I’d said, I knew that dealing with this was going to be a lot more complicated than I’d originally imagined.

If I’d known it was being recorded, I never would have said the things I said so clearly… but what kind of idiot records in his own dressing room?!

– Noah POV –

After releasing the teaser and seeing how well it was received, both my mother and Liv were very excited to improve their acting even more so that they wouldn’t embarrass themselves in front of millions of people.

At first they thought that only a few tens of thousands of people would see it, which may be a lot of people, but it’s not that big a number, only 5 digits.

But when it comes to a 7-digit number, it really starts to show how big it can be.

As they got more and more excited, I took the opportunity to teach them even better while we were recording everything.

Luckily, it didn’t take too long.

The scenes of their fights and the interviews didn’t take an hour to record.

And for the animation parts that I would draw, I would just use it to represent the explanations they would make with their statements to the camera, something that didn’t really need acting.

But when I saw how much fun they were having, I added some scenes that I didn’t really need for the video, but that would raise the quality a little bit and let them have more fun together.

It’s funny that I thought that recording this would do more harm than good to their relationship, which was already getting so good, because they would have to repeat and relive such a bad moment over and over again, but in fact the effect was the opposite.

By reliving it, they both realized the mistakes they had made as well as what the other had done to upset them, and after a long session of “I’m sorry” and “I love you,” their relationship got even better.

Since Ethan had nothing to show for the shoot, but was still very curious about it, I decided to “hired” him as my assistant.

The little director’s assistant was in charge of using the clappers during the shots, which was more useful than I could have imagined, because not only did it serve to make it clear which take of the shot it was, but the sound of the clappers closing was also very useful when it came to synchronizing the audio from the microphones with the recording from the camera.

Laura called me several times during the week, worried and curious, and also talked to me a lot at school about how I was feeling and if I needed help to deal with it.

But I told her that everything was going well and that she shouldn’t worry.

So the rest of the week was focused on getting everything done before the planned release date of the first episode.

And seeing that the teaser alone had already gotten three million views, I was excited for the first episode to be released.

Unfortunately, bad news came from Selena…

The Dark Pistol had launched a counterattack.