It's a Gender-Reversed World, But I Don't Go Out Anyway - Chapter 17

Chapter 17: Partner

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“Uwaahh”

I slept well.

Mornings without broadcasts feel so good that I just want to stay sprawled out in bed without getting up. Strangely—

To be precise, I hadn’t met the conditions to become a partner member. However, they reached out to me first. The email asked if I was interested in becoming a partner streamer, and honestly, since I was enjoying making money through streaming, I jumped at it.

To summarize the email briefly, while normally you need 25 hours of streaming across 12 different days, they saw my steep growth trajectory and wanted to contract early if I planned to continue streaming.

The advantages were clear.

For subscriptions, the revenue share ratio would be different, and… honestly, the rest didn’t matter much. When they’re telling you the revenue share ratio will change, what else matters? Money is everything.

But they said it’s not just something you apply for online and get instantly – you need to complete achievements and apply right away for it to proceed. They said they’d call me, so I should wait until then.

You might wonder why achievements suddenly matter, but you need to break three conditions: 25 hours of streaming, broadcasting on 12 different days, and 75 viewers. Once you break these conditions, you unlock the achievement and can apply to become a partner streamer. Since gaming content dominates broadcasts, they probably set it up this way.

“This is annoying”

That was my honest feeling.

It’s still 8 AM. Since they said they’d contact me, it’s rest time until then.

Hmm, should I open the delivery app?

Early morning deliveries are all pretty similar. There are only certain places that deliver in the morning.

“Bean sprout soup… blood sausage soup… spicy chicken feet… well, not bad but…”

Since I was having trouble deciding on the menu, I decided to just ask.

Not sure if they’ll be active at this hour though.

***

[Menu recommendations please]

Bean sprout soup, blood sausage soup, spicy chicken feet

As expected, I just posted on my Tgether board.

Like clockwork, even at this hour, the view count started soaring as soon as I posted. Of course, some of those viewers left comments.

[Comments]

– Order them all

– Turn on stream open the door open the door

– How dare you eat when some of us can’t watch the stream

– But if you’re eating with our money, don’t we deserve to watch you eat?

– [OP]: Following your suggestions, I’ll just order from Kimbap Heaven since they just opened.

ㄴ What?

ㄴ Excuse me?

ㄴ Next time don’t even ask…

ㄴ This bastard…

***

By pure coincidence, I was looking right when Kimbap Heaven, which had been marked as “preparing to open,” opened for business. So I quickly ordered their “solo meal set.” It said it included pork cutlet, kimbap, and spicy cold noodles. The minimum order was 10,000 won, and this set was exactly 10,000 won, so I just went for it.

With delivery fee included, it came to 12,000 won.

As a person living alone spending this much money first thing in the morning, I should post a thank you message since it’s all thanks to the viewers.

***

[Ordered pork cutlet, kimbap and spicy noodles for breakfast, jealous?]

Just came to brag lol

[Comments]

– Where’s the streamer, why isn’t he banning people who post stuff like this

– OP is the streamer

– Just let us hang out by ourselves, Daeju stay out of it

– Yeah this is Daeju’s board but why is Daeju butting in? Makes no sense

***

While I was contentedly watching the reactions and waiting for my food, I got a call from the number saved as “Twis Representative.”

It’s just a phone call but I was nervous – I probably wasn’t the only one who’d feel this way. I even get nervous ordering delivery by phone, let alone talking to a Twis representative. My expression might get weird from nervousness.

The one saving grace was that even if my expression got weird, they couldn’t see it over the phone.

Not wanting to be rude by waiting too long, I pressed the answer button and responded.

“Uh… hello?”

“Ah! Is this Daeju?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Starting now your ID achievements will be completed, so once everything is processed, please click the application button!”

No sooner had they finished speaking than various achievements started popping up as cleared. From achievements I’d never seen before to ones I’d already cleared, they all started unlocking. When I stammered in confusion, they started explaining everything from start to finish. At first, it was a brief explanation assuming ‘he should understand this much,’ but noticing I wasn’t following, they started explaining everything like they were talking to a neighborhood grandmother.

To give you an idea of how basic it got – they even asked if I knew what right-click meant.

Thank goodness I at least knew that much, or I might have been completely dismissed.

“Haha…”

With a self-deprecating laugh, I completed the application.

“That’s all done, and please check the email we sent for detailed information about the benefits!”

“Ah… yes…”

It passed like a whirlwind.

I’m not sure if everything went well, but since the representative said it was all done, even if something went wrong, it probably wouldn’t be my fault.

“Time to brag”

***

[Became a partner. Subscribe please]

Hehe

[Comments]

– You think we’ll subscribe just because you tell us to? Ridiculous lol How much is it anyway

– Seems like 5,000 won per month?

– That’s actually reasonable

– No don’t give in when they ask like that, it’ll spoil them

– We know but we just like bad boys lol

***

“Wait, why are they actually doing it?”

I just posted to brag about becoming a partner, expecting the usual insults, but the response to this post was different from usual. They actually started subscribing. It was both surprising and not entirely unpleasant to see them actually subscribe after always cursing at me.

“Should I do something to repay them…”

There was only one way to repay them.

For a streamer, streaming was enough.

Though I hadn’t decided on content, I turned on the stream just planning to eat and chat.

“I, Daeju, am touched.”

[See? I told you if we subscribe this bastard would stream.]

[The performance is confirmed]

[Stop being touched and hurry up with the mukbang and strip]

[Your way of talking really makes me want to kill you]

Turning on the stream made my touched feelings evaporate.

Why do they always make me go from feeling affection to hatred?

[So did you get the partner badge?]

[Oh I can see the partner mark]

[Don’t forget us even if you succeed, okay?]

[Actually I hope you fail and become a strip streamer]

“‘Strip streamer’ spammer banned.”

Finally, the flow was going as intended towards partner-related talk, but the strip spammer who kept breaking the flow caught my eye.

[What else are we supposed to say?]

[FR fr lol]

[What’s good about becoming partner?]

“Well you can do regular subscriptions… and run ads…”

[Sounds like it’s just bad for us, isn’t it?]

[Oh yeah? That’s annoying?]

[So you want us to subscribe AND watch ads? Getting dizzy here]

Their sharp observations came in, and thinking about it seriously, are there really no benefits for viewers…?

There must be at least one. As I was about to carefully read the email listing the benefits, there was one.

“It says I can store past broadcasts for 60 days?”

[Oh]

[Paradise]

[Ah lol should’ve said so earlier, I was loading up donation meme jokes lol]

Thankfully the flames died down. I’d turned on the stream out of gratitude, but it almost continued burning up. As I let out a sigh of relief, I heard a sound from outside.

Ding dong—

“Oh? Food’s here.”

I got up right away at the clear doorbell sound.

This time, to prevent any possible situations, I waited to hear the delivery person going down before opening the door. After confirming it said “solo meal set,” I brought the food to my computer.

“Okay, time for mukbang”

[Is this the food you were bragging about?]

[Fr you’re doing mukbang?]

[Turn on cam! Daeju-ya!][1]

“I don’t have a camera though?”

[???]

[Then how do you do mukbang?]

[Did our Daeju lose his mind again?]

[Don’t talk like there was ever a time he wasn’t crazy, that’s defamation]

I told the confused viewers:

“Presenting: no-cam mukbang.”

[No way lol lmao]

[How are we supposed to know if you’re eating pork cutlet or cheese sticks without a cam lol]

[This is just a quiz show lol]

[This is ridiculous…]

Sometimes durahan[2]… you know, streamers who don’t use cameras, don’t they do this? I thought, though I wasn’t sure. That’s because both in my previous world and after coming to this reverse world, I preferred watching broadcasts where the streamers showed their faces, so I mainly watched those kinds of streams.

Whatever, it doesn’t matter. If they don’t do it, I’ll just do it myself.

If they do it, I’ll just go along with that style.

“Okay, I’ll start with the pork cutlet.”

[If you talk too close to the mic…]

“Oh, is it too loud?”

[No it’s good.]

[Just keep going lol]

“Ah okay.”

Even eating close to the mic wasn’t easy. I had to be careful not to get food on it, and since it wasn’t a particularly good mic, I had to eat really close to make sure the sound would pick up. Whether they appreciated my effort or for some other reason, the viewers’ reactions were subtly gentle.

[Oh…]

[Turns out I like ASMR]

[But why isn’t the pork cutlet crispy when it should be?]

[Is that what’s important right now?]

For some reason, these reactions and atmosphere felt familiar.

Was it then? When I ate ice cream?

Of course, this docile atmosphere didn’t last long either.

When I ate the kimbap, the pickled radish made an extremely loud crunching sound in the mic, and most viewers’ reactions were—

[F*ck, you bastard!]

[My ears… they’re bleeding oppa…]

[Ah lol nothing’s audible so how can your ears hurt lol…l…huh?]

[Holy sh*t lol this must be kimbap lol]

“Ah hehe, sorry about that.”

[This is infuriating…]

[Makes me wanna rip Ju-ji[3] out]

[Unnies stop being so dramatic and you… just eat]

[Said they’re just watching this and leaving…]

[F*ck lol]

Maybe because I had to chew carefully due to the sound, but I felt full despite not eating much.

So—

“Should we end the stream soon?”

[No!!!]

[What did you even do?]

[You’re leaving after doing a mukbang that wasn’t even a mukbang?]

“But today was supposed to be my day off…”

[Look how many people gathered to watch you]

“Oh…”

700 people.

The upward trend was continuing.

But how did they all know to come when I said it was my day off? Sometimes it’s scary. I had the rational suspicion that people might be talking about me somewhere other than just my board.

Well, having more viewers was always good for me.

But still, too many had gathered.

It would be a waste to just end with this many viewers.

“Then shall we take suggestions for what to do next?”

[Oh lol he’s not leaving lol]

[Thought he’d just ignore us and go]

[Our Daeju is that inconsiderate, it’s true.]

[I see…]

[That’s deep…]

“Please suggest through donations or subscriptions”

[Yep definitely an inconsiderate bastard lol]

[Did Daeju find a bag he wants…?]

[Was today… friendship fee day?]

[Daeju-ya, we’re friends right?]

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(End of Chapter)

T/N:

1. The suffixes “-ya” and “-ah” are intimate ways of addressing someone.

2. I just recently found out that it was supposed to be “Durahan” (듀라한) derived from “Durahan the Headless” from Diablo, not Duuhan. Whatever, you guys will have to deal with it. Not editing those previous chapters

3. “Ju-ji” is a cutesy nickname form of “Daeju.”