Gamer Superstar - Chapter 23

23 – Waking up in the middle of the night
I posted In The End today as soon as I finished editing the song and designing the cover. Since JacobTheWerewolf had already designed the first cover, it was okay for me to pretend that BlackVelvet had paid Jacob to design the cover for the second song. The only thing I did was to include Jacob’s Twitter handle in the description of the video as a form of credit, which might even help increase the number of clients for him and possibly even increase the price per design.

What surprised me was that In The End did very well! In just 3 hours after I put it up on MeTube, it had over 10,000 views on the first day! Looking at the analytics of the video, I saw that these views were mainly coming from people who had already heard Numb and recommended it on MeTube. The number of new viewers was still small, but I knew it was only a matter of time before it increased.

This meant that the number of subscribers to the channel didn’t increase that much. Some people who listened to Numb and didn’t subscribe subscribed when they heard In The End, but it wasn’t that many people, so the number of subscribers I had only jumped from 4,611 to 5,244. It wasn’t, however, a bad number, so I was happy.

In addition to the number of subscribers I currently had, another number I was keeping an eye on was the number of loyal fans, because that was the requirement for the mission I was doing.

[Current Loyal Fans: 1,823/5,000].

When I saw the big increase in the number of loyal fans, I was very excited. I was still 37% of the way through the mission, but In The End hadn’t even started to hit yet, so I had a lot of audience to reach and a lot of people to convert into loyal fans until the next song was released.

With both songs getting views, I finally saw the numbers on my MeTube account start to climb. From the 10,000 views of In The End and the 4,000 views that Numb got that day, I made a total of $10, haha.l! It wasn’t a huge amount of money, but I had to start somewhere, right?

Looking at the comments, a proud smile appeared on my face.

[Fuck BV, how am I supposed to get over my ex-girlfriend if you keep posting songs like this?]

[But in the end… Bro, how did you come up with such catchy lyrics? I’ve had the chorus of this song in my head for a long time and it won’t go away!]

[I sent this song to my ex-boyfriend and he blocked me 🙂 lol]

When I saw the last comment, I started to laugh. By then I had done my exercises and was just relaxing in bed, so I decided to go downstairs. As I came down the steps, I realized I didn’t even have the chance to show my mom my song, because when I got to the living room, Ethan was already showing it to her with my channel open on her cell phone, which he was holding while singing along with my voice.

Once I started my daily practicing with Olivia and Ethan, Olivia also commented on the song to me.

“This song turned out really well, Noah…but did someone break your heart to make you write this?” she asked worriedly as she did knee bends, following the list of exercises I’d given her to practice today.

Laughing as I lifted 12 kg weights on each arm, I replied, “No, no one has ever given me enough of a hard time to break me hearth, haha. I wrote that after watching some oriental series.”

“Oriental series? Really?” she asked me as she let out a small laugh.

“Did you forget that I was the nerd of the house?” I laughed too as I struggled to lift the weight.

When she heard what I said, she was really surprised.

——– Olivia’s Comment ——–

Sitting on the sofa, still in her gym clothes, Olivia looked at the camera in surprise.

“Can you believe I actually forgot how weird Noah was?” she said in surprise as she thought back, “It’s only been two weeks since Noah was normal again, able to talk to us, talk to me properly, but we’ve been talking so much these last few days that it feels like he’s been like this for much longer!”

Thinking for a moment, Olivia came up with a possible reason. “I think we’ve talked so little over the past few years that our interactions over the past two weeks have managed to surpass the image I had of him from before.”

——– Comment End ——–

The routine of training every day was really paying off for us. Olivia was getting her legs and butt the way she wanted them, and even little Ethan was developing his muscles very quickly. Considering that he tends to develop faster at his age, it made sense.

Even I gained two more stat points in today’s training session.

[+1 CHA]

[+1 STR]

Remembering how they both looked, I think that if the old Noah hadn’t isolated himself so much and hadn’t exercised, he’d probably be almost as good-looking as Olivia and Ethan, since they both have very good genes!

When I looked in the mirror and observed myself, I could see that I really did have that beauty. Of course, I still wasn’t as good looking as they were probably because even though I had the charisma points I’d gained since I got the system, and that had made me a lot better looking, but I think the fat makes my charisma a lot lower.

To get my Instabram going, promote the song I posted, and promote my drawing profile, I posted a photo on Instabram thanking JacobTheWerewolf for the cover of In The End. After that I just laid down with my eyes closed and slept…

Unfortunately, my sleep was interrupted by an angry Olivia.

“Noah, wake up!” she said as she grabbed my arm and shook me.

Startled, I shot up quickly and looked around, ready for a fight. My old dad used to wake me up from time to time to hit me, so after a few years I had developed this fucking reflex. But when I saw that it was Olivia in pink pajamas waking me up, it was hard to stay awake and confusion came over me. No one had ever woken me up in this world, I always woke up alone, so my head just went blank and I didn’t know what to do.

“Noah, look at this son of a…” Olivia said angrily as she pointed her phone at me.

Still confused, I instinctively took the phone from her and looked at the screen, trying to understand what was going on. After a few seconds of staring at the moving pixels, I finally managed to focus enough to understand that the video was of a streamer singing a song and saying he made it up.

If it was just that, I wouldn’t have a problem, but what bothered me was that the streamer was singing The Lazy Song and saying that he was the author of it! Just to make sure, I checked to see if his name was Bruno, but no, his name was Logan Steele!

When I watched it again to make sure, I was furious to realize that this Logan guy was actually claiming to be the original author of The Lazy Song, and when I looked at the comments, I noticed that there were even a few people who commented that it wasn’t his song, but those comments disappeared almost immediately.

Seeing that I was deep in thought, Olivia looked at me worriedly and asked, “What are you going to do, Noah? Is there anything you can do?”

Turning my attention to her and looking at the clock, I saw that it was 2:00 a.m., so I just sighed and walked over to the computer after handing her the phone.

“Let me see who this Logan is first,” I said as I started to research this streamer.

Seeing that I was about to try to solve it, Olivia, who was furious, took the chair from the table Ethan was using to study and sat down next to me, also looking for the details on her phone. With the two of us searching, we managed to discover something important. Logan Steele was known for getting into a lot of controversies, and his audience followed him because of it. He used those controversies to promote himself and grow whenever he had the chance.

“I think that’s his goal this time too. He must want you to answer and create a controversy between you about who is the creator of The Lazy Song…” Olivia said angrily.

“But what would he gain from that? I have so few followers, I’d probably generate little involvement for him in this controversy,” I remarked confused.

Instead of answering me directly, Olivia handed me her cell phone as she said, “You may not be that famous, but the clip of you singing The Lazy Song on the Talent Show stream has gone viral and people are singing The Lazy Song even if they don’t know who the singer is.”

Looking at the clip, I was surprised that it actually went viral, but unfortunately the person who made the clip edited the image to put in some pictures and memes so that my avatar name, BlackVelvet, which I used while singing, didn’t appear, so apparently no one knew it was my song. And to take advantage of the hype it generated, this Logan guy sang the song while trying to imitate my voice and say it was his…