Volume 2 Chapter 1: I Heard You’re Also from Huadu?
“Well then, that’s the end of today’s chat radio stream. Good night, my little sweet pears~”
The girl smiled and waved at the viewers in her livestream. She kept her perfect and professional expression as she pressed the “End Stream” button.
And then…
In one second, she switched into lazy mode.
Ahhh~
She instantly curled up like a hamster, fell onto her bed, and started scrolling on her phone out of boredom.
She was already so tired that she could barely keep her eyes open. But when she saw that her follower count had just passed 1,000, her mind suddenly became much clearer.
Then she remembered that she had already turned into a girl for almost one full month. And the one-year time limit was getting closer and closer…
At this speed, one month means a little over 1,000 followers.
Twelve months would be… 12,000.
Ah. She might as well buy a bucket of paint now and prepare to decorate her own grave. Damn!
Thinking of this, she quickly got up from bed and looked around. It wasn’t clear what she was looking for.
She was just thinking hard, what should she do?
How can she gain followers faster?
Also, she felt more and more that her livestream content was becoming boring.
Chatting. Singing. Playing games.
Is this already the limit of being a virtual streamer?
Or maybe… show her real face and create some hype?
Ahem. Forget it, forget it.
So seriously, how can she grow faster?
She sighed in frustration. She wasn’t ready to give up yet, but she really had no good ideas.
Her little brain alone wasn’t enough to solve this problem.
Maybe…
She should ask someone for help.
With that thought, she picked up her phone, opened her private messages with Dog Bro, and asked this big supporter for advice.
【Ari-chan: Dog Bro, Dog Bro, how can I become popular?】
After sending the message, she stared at her phone screen for a long time.
Stare—
But after a full ten minutes, there was still no reply.
Ahhh~
Seriously, what was she thinking? How could he reply that fast?
Still… without noticing, she had started hoping he would reply to her instantly.
Before she could finish that thought, a notification sound suddenly pulled her back. She looked at her phone, Dog Bro had replied.
【Watching VTubers Makes Me a Dog: Huh?】
【Watching VTubers Makes Me a Dog: Ari-chan, why are you suddenly asking this?】
【Watching VTubers Makes Me a Dog: How to become popular… that’s hard to say.】
Gao Liang sat in front of his screen, looking a bit confused. After a moment, the little vampire replied again.
【Ari-chan: Well, I’ve streamed many times already, but recently my results haven’t improved. They’re actually getting worse, so…】
【Ari-chan: I really want to become popular. Yes, because of some personal reasons, I have to. So I want to ask you, how did those popular virtual streamers become popular in the first place?】
Lin Lin looked nervously at the screen, waiting for his answer.
However, her question gave her good deskmate quite a hard time.
How can someone become popular…
Gao Liang frowned and thought for a while. Then he typed helplessly:
【Watching VTubers Makes Me a Dog: This… is really hard to say.】
【Watching VTubers Makes Me a Dog: Actually, many top virtual streamers have very professional teams behind them. Whole studios or companies manage them. They spend a lot of money on promotion and marketing.】
【Watching VTubers Makes Me a Dog: If you’re an independent streamer, or just doing it on a small scale, becoming popular probably needs some luck. Of course, real skills and natural word-of-mouth promotion are also very important.】
【Watching VTubers Makes Me a Dog: So… it’s not easy to find one sure method to become popular. If I knew that much, I would have started my own company already, haha.】
Ah…
The girl looked at his messages and felt that everything Dog Bro said sounded like something a rich person would say. Starting a company and things like that, he sounded so impressive.
But she was just an independent streamer. Even if she had the system, she wasn’t sure how useful the items she could get would be.
【Ari-chan: Forget it. Then please give me some advice. What kind of content is good to stream recently? I want to try something new. It feels like I’ve lost a lot of viewers lately.】
【Watching VTubers Makes Me a Dog: Don’t worry about the viewers. It’s just a normal drop.】
Gao Liang thought for a moment and continued typing:
【Watching VTubers Makes Me a Dog: As for content… hmm, how about learning some new skills and showing them to your audience? Or… find a somewhat popular streamer to collaborate with you. Do some joint streams. It can help bring in new viewers.】
【Ari-chan: Hmm… that sounds difficult.】
【Watching VTubers Makes Me a Dog: I’ll help you think of something. Don’t worry, little vampire! You’ll definitely become popular!】
【Ari-chan: Thank you, Dog Bro…】
After the conversation ended, Lin Lin put down her phone, scratched her head in frustration, and fell into deep thought.
Collaborate with another streamer…
But she didn’t know any virtual streamer friends.
Where was she supposed to find one? Ugh—
……………
Late at night, in a quiet room, a mature-looking woman was sitting at her computer desk, watching a video on her screen.
The video was a clipped part of a livestream. It looked like someone recorded it casually out of boredom. Because it wasn’t famous, it had very few views.
But somehow, this older sister happened to see it.
She rested her chin on her hand and lazily watched the screen. Suddenly, her eyes lit up.
On the screen, a little vampire girl was happily and easily solving a math test paper. She solved the questions very quickly. Although the paper looked like something for high school students, it was clear that this person was definitely a top student.
A virtual streamer who livestreams studying…
She immediately became interested. She clicked into the streamer’s profile through the clip.
Ari-chan…
Looking at the comment section, she was also from Huadu?
Interesting…
And especially that avatar, so cute~ hehe.
She quickly turned her head and shouted, “Chaomian! I found a good talent!”
……………
Lin Lin lay in bed, unable to fall asleep.
After thinking for a long time, she finally picked up her phone again. She suddenly noticed a red notification dot in her private messages and thought she might have missed a message from Dog Bro.
But when she opened it, she froze.
It was a verified user with a blue checkmark. The name was… Princess Hydrogen Hki?
She clicked on the profile and found that the other person was a virtual streamer with more than 50,000 followers. The girl blinked in confusion.
What’s going on?
Did she click the wrong thing? Was it an automatic reply?
She quickly went back to the private messages and read what the other person had sent.
【Princess Hydrogen: Hello, hello, miss. I’m a virtual streamer, Princess Hydrogen Hki.】
【Princess Hydrogen: You’re also a streamer, right? I recently watched some clips of your streams. I think they’re very interesting, and I’d really like to get to know you~】
【Princess Hydrogen: I heard you’re also from Huadu. Is it convenient… to meet offline tomorrow?】
Huh?