Gamer Superstar - Chapter 43

43 – Going Viral!
Because of the lyrics of this song, I had to postpone my plans to play concerts in the city.

Because if BlackVelvet’s picture leaked and people saw that instead of the handsome man they imagined singing this song, the person on stage was an ugly, fat boy, instead of feeling that the singer of the song was cool, they would just feel that the singer was creepy.

So my plan, as long as I didn’t lose enough weight to be able to sing the song on stage and not ruin my image, was just to keep building my fame on the Internet and let the songs grow.

It’s not like this was going to be a bad thing for me, because if I got more followers and climbed higher in the artist rankings, I would also get better paychecks.

Selena explained to me that in bars like the one where I met her, the amount of money you get depends a lot on the rank of the artist.

A rank F artist would probably only get 70% of what a rank E artist would get, who in turn would get less than what a rank D artist would get.

This amount would only increase as their rank increased, but of course, rank wasn’t everything.

An elderly Rank B singer wouldn’t be paid as much as a young Rank C singer in a nightclub, because the owners knew who would bring in the most customers.

But considering the normal average, climbing to Rank E was a priority.

With the audience’s reaction to The Lazy Song clip, I think that alone will be enough to get me out of F Rank Top 97 and maybe into the Top 5, or even up to E Rank, since it wasn’t that difficult to move up from F Rank.

Even though there were so many people at F rank, most of them didn’t even try to become professionals, which is why a lot of them were stuck at F rank for so long.

As long as the average F Ranker really tried to perform in bars and post songs on the Internet, it was only a matter of time before they climbed to E Rank.

Rank E is where things really got difficult.

But that wasn’t a problem for me, with a gamer system and thousands of songs from my old world to use, I still had to be afraid of taking too long to grow up…!

“Okay guys, I’m glad you liked the song “Boyfriend”, I’m still finishing the lyrics to it and perfecting how I’m going to present it. I still don’t know if this song works well with just acoustic guitar or if I can make a more electronic beat with a keyboard or something more romantic with a piano. What do you think?” I asked.

All the time I was playing the guitar to make a quiet beat so that the stream wouldn’t just be quiet.

This raised my level of guitar playing a lot because it was very difficult to do this for a long time without stopping. I had to concentrate on reading the chat, talking to the viewers, and continuing to play.

[+1 DEX].

But as soon as that message appeared, a lot of the difficulty went away!

I quickly looked at my statistics and realized why, my Dexterity had increased to 10 points!

Great! I thought excitedly as I increased the difficulty of what I was playing while reading the viewers’ responses.

[Would you like to play a romantic version of a song about stealing another guy’s girlfriend?]

[I loved that version played on the guitar].

[Your songs are all on the guitar, maybe playing this on the keyboard would make it a little different].

[Can you play piano too?]

[Take the test and show us the difference after you’ve practiced, how about that?]

Seeing this last comment, I was surprised that it was really a good idea!

Looking at the name of the person who gave this idea, I replied. “Thanks Requien for the idea, I think I’ll do just that, so I hope you’ll be here when I go to show it, okay?!”

[Sure! And if it doesn’t look good, I’ll talk, lol! CheersEmoji.GIF]

After talking to the viewers for a few more minutes, I finally ended the stream.

To my surprise, I hadn’t noticed it during the stream, but at some point the number of viewers went from 900 to 1,400.

Looking at my followers, I had gained another 200 followers during the stream.

Confused, I started digging around in the app and realized that the Instabram of this world was different from the Instagram of my previous world.

While Instagram only showed the stream to followers who already followed you, the Instabram of this world has a tab for users to discover streams that are happening, a style very similar to the TikTok streams of my old world.

Many people probably saw my steam there and came to watch out of curiosity.

Thinking about how much easier it was to do Instabram streams on my phone than to set everything up on my computer, and that the two streams could have similar results, I thought it might be a good idea to do these frequent streams to get closer to my audience and get more loyal fans.

Suddenly, a notification popped up on my Instagram.

[Hello BlackVelvet!

Congratulations on reaching an incredible milestone on your livestream! Today, your stream reached 1,000 concurrent viewers!

To celebrate this achievement, we are excited to announce that we have unlocked the option to broadcast live and allow you to receive donations during your streams.

Continue to share special moments with your followers and make the most of this new feature!

Cheers,

Instabram Team!!!]

When I saw this notification, I was even more surprised. I was thinking of doing streams just to get my name out there, but was it even possible to make money?

Suddenly, a memory of strange people thanking me for roses, corn, and various strange things in the NPC streams of my former world and a shiver ran through my body.

Not even as a last resort… I’m not going to subject myself to something like that…’ I thought, frightened.

To put this thought out of my mind, I opened the conversation with Selena and asked her about the things she wanted to buy.

[Hey, how are you?]

She replied after a few seconds. [I’m fine, I was watching your stream, you did a really good job interacting with the audience!]

[I’m glad you liked it, I was a little nervous at first because I’ve never done anything like this by myself before, but I think it came naturally with time].

[Have you seen how The Lazy Song is doing on MeTube?]

When I saw that message from her, I was surprised because since I showed it to the stream viewers, I hadn’t gone back to MeTube to see how the song was doing.

Looking at the time, the song had been up for 30 minutes, so according to my channel’s average, it should have had about 3,000 views, which was already a very good number.

But when I opened MeTube, I was shocked.

[The Lazy Song – 17,867 views].

“Holy shit!” I cursed in shock when I saw that the song had gone viral!

I imagined that the song would go viral on my channel, both because it had already gone viral to a small extent on streams, and also because I put a lot of effort into animating the video, which would increase viewership and make MeTube’s algorithm recommend my song even more, but I thought it would take a few days for it to really take off!

And the good thing about being a music channel is that it’s quite possible that people will listen to this song and also go to the other songs I’ve posted to see what it’s like, which will make my channel as a whole grow!

[Woah! I hadn’t seen how well that was going!] I sent the reply to Selena.

[Yeah, I’m getting excited so we can start doing shows, how’s your diet and training going?] She asked.

Thinking that just telling her that I’d lost 15 kg in the last few days would probably scare her more than it would cheer her up, since losing such a considerable amount of weight in such a short time is scary, I came up with a better idea.

I tidied up my clothes a bit, opened the camera on my phone and took a selfie and sent it to her.

Although I’m thinner than the last time she saw me, since she only saw me in baggy clothes, it’s harder for her to know how much I’ve lost.

But looking at the photo, I’m sure she would realize that I’ve lost a lot of weight!

Looking at the screen of the cell phone in her hand, Selena was shocked!

As it was almost 10:00 p.m., she was lying on her bed in pink pajamas talking to Noah.

She only asked about his weight loss to see if he was working out and how soon they could start doing shows, but she didn’t expect him to send a selfie to show how much he had lost.

Looking at the photo, Selena didn’t even know how to react.

“He’s so much thinner!” She said, startled. “How did he get so much thinner?!”

Not only did she feel that he was much thinner than the last time she saw him, but she was surprised that he looked better after losing weight!

She didn’t know that he had gained another point in Charisma, much less the difference that going from 9 points to 10 points made in a statistic, but she could see that the difference in his appearance was very big.

It was obviously still him, but his face had become more refined, his smile in the photo, because he was thinner, was more attractive, and even though he was wearing baggy clothes, his exposed arm showed clear signs of muscle.

“Even with that bad camera on his phone, you could still see those details, imagine how different he must look in person…” She wondered in surprise.

“Oh my God…” She sighed after realizing that she had been looking at every detail of his photo for more than 10 minutes and hadn’t even answered his message.

Trying to act natural and pretend that she hadn’t been looking at it for so long, Selena opened the Messenger conversation with Noah.

[Okay, your change is very noticeable, I’m happy about that, but I think we need to get you a new phone, right? With that camera, it’s going to be hard to post pictures for the public.]

Seeing that her message seemed very natural, Selena was satisfied and waited for Noah’s response.

Seeing her very natural response, I have to admit that I was a little disappointed, but I put it aside and went back to talking to her naturally.

I still wanted to know if I could buy a keyboard, learning new instruments has been a lot of fun, and with my current level of guitar playing, I have been able to use some of the time I spend practicing guitar to learn something else.

With my rapid improvement in learning a new skill, it gave me a huge advantage over other artists!