Gamer Superstar - Chapter 191

Chapter 191: 191 – Dark Pisto Reply
“Yes Noah, it looks like Dark Pistol couldn’t keep quiet and decided to try to retaliate…” Selena said with an ironic voice.

When I heard her voice on the phone, I was a bit surprised.

I had already imagined that they would try to retaliate, but I honestly couldn’t imagine what they would try to do.

They didn’t own the copyright to the song, they didn’t have anything to declare that the song was theirs, let alone anything to declare that AJP or I had let them sing my song and make money from selling their cover on top of it.

If I were in their situation, I really didn’t know what I would do.

“What did they do?” I asked, genuinely curious.

As soon as I asked, I heard Selena laugh on the other end of the call. “Open their MeTube channel and their Instagram, you’ll find the answer there. Call me after you watch it.”

After saying that, Selena just hung up, leaving me even more confused.

When I picked up my laptop and went to her MeTube channel, I saw that there was indeed a video.

The video was called [‘The Truth’ LIE].

Seeing this, I could already imagine the content of this video…

When I clicked on it out of curiosity, I saw that the video started with something that maybe every internet user in my former world knew as a ‘YouTuber starter pack apology’.

This consisted of all the band members without makeup, in a bright environment, all with sad expressions, in plain clothes, and there was even the band’s drummer with red eyes, possibly simulating crying.

Seeing this, I had to use a lot of self-control not to start laughing.

Are they really going to make a video that appeals to the emotions of the audience? I asked myself in surprise.

But considering that they had no proof of anything, it really made sense for them to try to appeal to the emotional, because if they tried to focus on the rational, they would surely lose the argument.

Listening to the low, sad music that accompanied the video, I finally couldn’t stand it anymore and started laughing when the lead singer of the band started to speak.

“Greetings to our fans and the music community. We’re here to clear up the false accusations that have been made against us.” He said in a dejected voice. “Yesterday, D Rank Artist, BlackVelvet, posted a video saying that we, the Dark Pistol Band, were stealing his music.”

“In the video, he showed how he supposedly wrote the song based on his family’s fights, even calling his mother and sister to act with him to make the video more believable, but we had to come here to defend ourselves.”

“We are really the original composers of this song, we just hadn’t released it from the beginning, waiting for the right moment, but I believe that some hacker broke into our computer in the last few months and sold the rights of the song to BlackVelvet, who really owns the rights of the song now… so we are going to return the rights of the song to BlackVelvet, just asking him to leave us alone and not to bother us anymore”.

“Even though we love this song, our mental health is being affected by all of this and we don’t even know if we’ll be able to do the shows in the next few weeks.”

“Thank you for the messages of support that all the public has sent, you are our source of inspiration and will to continue being artists and it is only for you that we do this, thank you very much!”

And the video ended.

It’s not possible.

It makes no sense how they can be so shameless.

As I scrolled down the page and started to read the comments, a laugh came out of my mouth, just like Selena did when she called me.

She probably called me right after watching this video, right?

The video had 40k views within an hour of being posted, which wasn’t much compared to my video, but compared to the other videos on her channel, it did very well.

Their last video had only 12k views in 3 days of release, which clearly shows how much better this video was doing.

And out of those 40k views, the video had 6k likes and 2k unlikes, while the comments actually had people defending me and cursing me, but most people were actually defending them.

As I read the comments, I could see people who were really brainless fans who couldn’t think for any reason, who really believed this hacker story, others who were just thrilled to see them so “vulnerable”, and others who could really see the lie behind it all.

But one thing was for sure, this video of them had really managed to restore a bit of their image.

Suddenly, while I was reading the comments on her video, my cell phone started ringing again, and Selena was calling me again.

I was confused by her calling me again when she asked me to call her.

“Hey, I just watched the video and read the comments… jeez, have they no shame?” I asked with a laugh.

“Yeah, I was going to wait for you to finish reading everything and call me back, but you wouldn’t believe who just called me…” She said with a giggle.

“Who? Your asshole agent?” I asked, my eyebrows raised in amazement and laughter.

“Bingo!” She replied laughing. “Guess what he wanted?”

Thinking about the contact we’d already had with him and the way he liked to solve things, only one alternative came to mind.

“How much did he offer to keep our mouths shut?” I asked laughing.

“Hehe, two million dollars.” Selena said with a proud voice.

I was really surprised to hear that.

Apparently he saw that my attack on them was very dangerous for the band’s career and he really thought that paying me two million dollars was more lucrative than the loss they’d make?

“How much do you think In The End made them last week?” I asked curiously.

“AJP estimated 400 to 600k, not that high since most of their income comes from concerts.” Selena explained.

Hearing that, I was at least satisfied with the sincerity they were showing now.

Two million was really a lot of money, much more than anything I’d ever received since the beginning of my career.

So I asked Selena.

“What curses did you answer to his proposal?”

Laughing even harder, Selena replied. “Just a simple fuck you before hanging up, I’m not a vulgar person… Now he’s calling me non-stop, desperately trying to increase the amount of the proposal.”

Hearing that she really cursed at him and didn’t think for a second about the money he was offering, a huge smile appeared on my face, making me even more certain that choosing Selena as my agent was one of the best decisions I’ve made for my career in this world.

“Haha, you gave the answer I would give if he came to see me, well done.” I replied excitedly.

“Yeah, it’s not like we need money, and with the increase in popularity you’ll get from all this drama, we can use that to capitalize on your career even more…even if we can’t make that much money that fast, it’s only a matter of time before you can get paid that much every month or even every week.” She said laughing.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking.

I may not get paid much per show now, but that amount was more than enough for me.

I didn’t need a few million just to have a few million in my account and say I was a millionaire.

The opportunity to gain a lot of popularity with an Internet drama like this was much more valuable than any money.

Not to mention the fact that in order to accept this money from them, I would have to keep my mouth shut and let the public think that I actually stole their music through a hacker?!

Nah, I’d rather just keep doing my own thing, use their band to clear my name and as a stepping stone to my career, and only then worry about making money.

Unfortunately, their audience was bigger than mine, and the post they made on Instabram went viral much more than the MeTube post, so now I had an annoying thing to deal with.

The thousands of brainless fans of theirs who were giving me a hard time, attacking me and my family after hearing all the nonsense they said in their videos.

The first thing I had to do was check in with my mom and Liv and let them know how they were doing.

I didn’t know if anyone would recognize them online or in person, which could lead to a very awkward situation if they both felt bad.

But my fears were unfounded.

When I called them both to show them their video and talk about what could happen, they were already so angry that they probably wanted to attack the people who wanted to attack them and make them feel bad.

Of course, I gave them some advice not to let these comments and people affect them too much, to try not to do anything too drastic that could lead to something bad, but that if they really wanted to do something, I would support them 100% and help them with whatever they needed.

If nothing else, it made our commitment to the documentary even stronger!