Purge

[The pleasant rebellion of the Daeju who always got beaten up has begun!]

[The Daeju’s heads are about to explode!]

[My head hurts...]

[3800 people watching now, it was close to 4000 earlier but they all ran away lolololol]

[How many guilty people must there be for 200 to run away, seriously lololololol]

"Well... shall we start with the person who's been watching the longest?"

I stretched lightly as I looked at the chat window, preparing for the main task - the purge.

First, I decided to check those who had been watching me for a long time.

This was actually a breather before looking at the harsher comments.

Being a long-time viewer meant they liked my broadcasts and watched consistently.

I asked people who thought they'd watched my broadcast the longest to type in chat, and picked the one who had watched the longest.

Their nickname was 'DaejuFamilyElder' - clearly changed to reflect how long they'd been watching my broadcast.

***

[What fairy tale do dentists hate? lolol]

['Tooth' in Wonderland hehehe lololololol][1]

[Why is the model student the most lewd? lolol]

[Because their favorite thing is 'grades' lololololol][2]

[Why is Daeju stupid? lol]

[Just because.]

***

"What's this, why is the first one like this?"

The chat wasn't severe enough to warrant a ban, but.

It was a chat history that made no sense.

They were making light nonsense quizzes and suddenly attacked me.

It felt too minor for a ban but too annoying to ignore, so I gave them a 10-minute timeout.

[lololol Look at these chats from someone who claims to be the longest viewer lololol]

[Average Daeju viewer]

[Actually pretty nice in comparison tbh]

[Honestly there are way worse people around]

"...Right, this is pretty tame. Should we look at the most recent viewer next?"

I thought the most recent broadcast viewers might actually be nicer.

Thanks to YouTube and various content lately, more people were gathering, and occasionally I could see some mild-mannered viewers joining.

***

[Wow Daeju-nim's hosting is really good;;;]

[Your voice is nice! It's... deep!]

[Even a mask couldn't hide your good looks on YouTube hehe]

[I don't understand why people say mean things to Daeju-nim~]

***

"Wow everyone, give them a round of applause!"

[???]

[Ban this simp]

[Daeju... did you hire people?]

[It's Daeju's alt account, I checked]

[Is this advanced mockery?]

To be honest, I was embarrassed too.

I'd never had chat messages full of just compliments before, and while the way they praised was too over-the-top making my face flush, somehow a smile crept onto my face and my shoulders perked up.

Even knowing the praise might be forced, praise was still praise and it felt good.

"So this is how good compliments feel"

[lololol Someone might think we never compliment you lolol...lo...oh?]

[Let's move on... want to see some mindless beating]

[lolol Stop beating]

[But hey everyone needs to consider this - that person's nice because they just started watching recently. They'll be the same in about 3 days lolol]

[True lololololol]

"Don't say such horrible things"

And then I decided to randomly pick someone who was currently chatting to check.

"Oh... we had someone like this"

I read quite a unique chat message.

***

[Sigh~ Want to make money by sucking up to women?]

[Tsk tsk~ Making all men look bad~]

[Is money that good?]

***

"I think this person came to the wrong address"

[The making men look bad and loving money parts are true but there's no sucking up lololololol]

[Would 10k viewers be possible if there was sucking up?]

[20k possible lololololol]

[Don't insult Daeju... He's a punching bag who grew this far purely through 'impact'...]

[Oh so these are 'those people'? First time seeing them lolol]

If it had been a normal hateful comment I wouldn't have even clicked on it, but somehow it stood out distinctly from other chat messages.

In chat they were called 'those people', and as I felt before, such groups might exist in this world too.

A group that strives for... equality...

Those consisting of men.

After some consideration, I clicked ban.

When I banned them, I caught a glimpse of their name [Average6CMFlatChest].

Actually by normal rules, their chat history wasn't severe enough to warrant a ban, but I didn't have enough inclusivity to not ban them.

"This won't cause them to flood in because I banned them... right?"

[Nah they don't usually flood in for stuff like this]

[How do you know that? They might come]

[My older brother and younger brother are part of that so I know they don't usually go to places with lots of obvious crazy women like this]

[Two family members are... like that...]

I felt relieved at this seemingly reliable information.

Next, I picked a chat at random to check their history.

The nickname was 'HeadShouldersPleaseGivePleaseGive'.[3]

It seemed like they changed some children's song for their nickname but what they did to that song...

***

[Want to date Daeju]

[Want to do animal-like yas[4] at the zoo]

[Want to see Daeju cry vulgarly like an animal forgetting human language]

[Want to do yas breaking premarital chastity at church and repent]

***

"I'll ban you"

This ban required no hesitation or worry.

Today was the special day prepared specifically to ban people like this.

In fact, they were the main character.

In other streams this would warrant not just a ban but possibly legal action, but stopping at just a ban for such chat was the advantage of my broadcast.

A trained mentality.

Because I was resistant to receiving s*xual comments from women.

[She's really crazy]

[78% chance her parents are odd-numbered][5]

[It's kinda hot but don't write it in chat. Finish writing it on the forum]

[Acting nice because it's purge day while they usually act like that too lololol]

[Shh... you'll die too if you're not quiet...]

[HeadShouldersPleaseGivePleaseGive has donated 100,000 won]

- Please forgive me just once

"Hmm... just change your nickname~"

[??? This gets forgiven?]

[The Great Purge? More like the Great Collection right lololol]

[But 100k (69$) settlement money for freely making s*xual comments is pretty cheap lololol]

[This is social commentary about how you're guilty if you don't have money]

"No... it's always been the culture of forgiving if you pay... it's not that you're guilty without money, just don't make s*xual comments in the first place!"

I said with somewhat indignant feelings.

In reality? I understand the chat messages.

I had approached broadcasting too carelessly.

The rule of forgiving if they pay money emerged, revenue increased, and malicious chat increased too.

Moreover, once the precedent of forgiving for money was set, this rule couldn't be easily abolished.

If I got rid of it, people would say 'That person was forgiven for paying but why not me!'

[Hmm... that makes sense?]

[Sometimes women... even knowing they might die... there are times they have to do it]

[Is making s*xual comments worth risking your life for?]

[Yep]

[Just die]

As I checked chat logs one by one, the number of bans increased, and strangely the revenue was increasing tremendously too.

Even though it wasn't content started with revenue in mind.

This might be the day I earned the most in my life.

"Why is everyone paying bail and escaping..."

[The most efficient way to use money lololololol]

[Oh lololol here's the bail money lololol]

[You arrested so many but the jail is empty lololol]

"Please stop paying to get out..."

[No way lolol]

[Time to make it rain lololol]

[A streamer refusing donations (bail)... how rare...]

Finally, I clicked on a few more chats to end it, but.

For a moment I thought I clicked wrong.

***

[Yeonhee is so pretty today]

[Wow... Yeonhee is doing a shopping broadcast now but is this a Western drama? She's hot]

[When are you collabing with Yeonhee-nim?]

***

Up to here they just seemed like a normal shipping fan but - the nickname was a familiar one.

I silently sent a KakaoTalk message to the person saved as 'Soo-ah'.

Asking if she was watching the broadcast now.

And the reply came quickly.

<Did I get caught...?>

<Why wouldn't you... when you didn't even change your ID...>

Of course the ID was from when she briefly posted lingerie photos, but how could it not be obvious

Anyway, I asked why she suddenly mentioned Yeonhee in chat like this.

Honestly I really couldn't understand.

It was always hard to understand but this time it was even harder.

<Um... because she seems like she'd be lenient even if a guy does something wrong?>

<So absolutely marry Yeonhee!>

Then she went back to chatting about Yeonhee again.

Well I banned her without mercy.

Talking about other streamers...

"Alright now let's wrap this..."

Just as I was about to end it, I saw another familiar nickname.

The nickname was Se-na.

Even though I wondered if anyone would use their real name as a nickname, I remembered that photo of the person who recommended clothes to me before.

I secretly checked on a different monitor, not the broadcasting screen.

***

[Se-na: The voice sounds familiar...]

[Se-na: Or not?]

[Se-na: Good work on today's broadcast!]

[Se-na: Can you turn on cam?]

***

I was clearly being suspected.

And just then, I had a text from Se-na's uncle too.

<Se-na will come explain instead of me tomorrow>

<Our house has good soundproofing>

<lol>

"This person..."

I sighed at his excessive meddling, then smiled imagining Se-na's surprised face when she sees me tomorrow.

[Why are you laughing in the middle of broadcasting?]

[Seems like the purge is over, can we curse now?]

[You fucking b*tch!]

ㄴ [Has been forcibly removed.]

[Not over yet, sorry lolol!]

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(End of Chapter)

T/N:

The teeth/tooth pun works in Korean ("이"상한 나라 = "Tooth"derland)

The grade pun similarly works in Korean as "성적" can mean both "grades" and "se*ual"

The nickname "HeadShouldersPleaseGivePleaseGive" is a play on the children's song "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"

"yas" is an intentionally censored way of writing "s*x" in Korean internet slang

The joke being, she grew up in a single parent household