“Are you having a hard time?”

I asked bluntly on purpose. So I hoped that the listener would also respond appropriately.

But Cha Yujin put the chocolate bar in his mouth, and started crying even more.

I was going to go crazy…

I didn’t know if it’s because everyone was sensitive because they’re in the entertainment field, or if it’s because survival was brutally hard, but I think I have seen a few too many crying people these days.

“Everyone is fighting…… If I say no, it gets scary, sniff.”

“……Well.”

Cha Yujin looked completely discouraged. There was no trace of the bright person from a few days ago.

I guess because his team was a mess since day 1?

‘It’s called following after my name.’

Those guys, if it aired like this, I could see the future where I got ridiculed by being tied up with the room name.

However, it was funny for ‘Park Moondae’ to give any kind of advice to Cha Yujin.

No matter what I said, if I made one mistake, I would be bombarded with posts like ‘am I the only one who feels something is wrong with Park Moondae?’ because I belong to a different team.

‘I’ll have to send him back once he calms down.’

I just seriously said something different .

“Do you want more chocolate bars?”

“……”

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Cha Yujin nodded his head. I took another handful of chocolate bars from my bag and handed them to him.

‘…I’m glad I brought a lot.’

It’s fortunate that I still had one more bag left. If it seemed like I would waste them, it would ruin everything.

Like that, I spent a few minutes silently with Cha Yujin, who was munching on a chocolate bar against the background sound of water running in the bathroom.

Not long after, Cha Yujin got up from his seat with his head down, holding the chocolate bar in both hands.

“Thank you.”

Looked like he managed to calm down a bit and was ready to go back. I couldn’t thank him enough for not telling me details of what happened.

I didn’t really want to, but let’s just say something appropriate for the situation.

“Is it okay to not see Raebin?”

“Yes…… It will be fine.”

“Okay.”

Cha Yujin looked a little braver than earlier, he had stopped crying and was slowly coming back to his senses.

‘Is it a sugar rush?’

I was doubting whether or not he would start crying again once he ran out of sugar, but the priority was to send this bomb away.

I watched Cha Yujin walking down the hallway for a bit, then closed the door.

And breathed a sigh of relief.

‘I’m busy, but there are landmines everywhere.’

Now that we were in the second half, I had to be more careful not to get caught in the broadcast. Because if things started going down, I might not have the chance to recover.

The problem was that I couldn’t control everything just by being careful.

‘Just, let’s not stand out… If I can keep going forward like this, I can reach the finals.’

I sighed one more time and stretched out before going to bed. And fell asleep instantly.

It was the next morning that I realized I slept without washing up.

***

While the participants were struggling with preparing the stage and suffering from planning and creating everything from the ground.

The 8th episode of 〈Relisted! Idol Joint-Stock Company〉 aired outside the filming site

-Omg

– What’s wrong?

– Awesome haha

– ??

As we went up to the top, unexpected rankings were rampant, and the real-time viewers were shocked but the most intense reaction was the reward for winning the last team match.

[Negative Votes will not be counted]

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It made people outraged that they could avoid some of the brutal voting method that reflected ‘how much they are hated’.

– Haha, needless to say, the large number is awesome

– I am an idiot who spent money on this kind of program.

-The winning team has a contestant pushed by the production team hahaha you are going to let him avoid it like this

The irony was that the anger was directed at the participants rather than the production team who created the system and planned the winners prize.

As the one who benefited the most from this reward, Choi Wongil, who was originally supposed to be eliminated, was naturally being criticized by the public powder.

But the viewer’s anger did not end there.

Among the participants from the winning team, the public opinion of the participants who faced a rise in their ranks dropped significantly

– Huh Seon Ahyun pushed Cha Yujin to 2nd place…

– Is he crying again? I’m tired of squeezing the juice

– It would be nice if the ticket wasn’t cut. My child is smiling and saying thank you even when he got pushed back, but I hate the look of his stuttering face ㅠㅠ

– Wow. Seon Ahyun got second place when he can’t even speak properly lololol The idiots who give sympathy tokens to people with disabilities who will not be able to express their feelings if they debut, calm down kekekeke

└ Is this commenter crazy? Aren’t we supposed to at least stay in line?

└ Hahahaha, the crazy female fans of the stutterer are coming

└ You guys are really beyond imagination, it’s disgusting.

└ I can’t refute it so I have to swear haha, Y-Y-You don’t think he deserves second place, do you? haha

Even raw criticism that normally didn’t appear on the surface out of consideration for the bare minimum of morality, started showing up.

There were many people who were astonished or tried stopping it, but if the number of people who originally thought the same was similar, the aggressive public opinion was bound to gain power.

However, thanks to the reaction, favorable public opinion was formed for the participants were able to show a determined appearance even though their rank was pushed back due to negative voting and compensation for the winning team.

– Guys, you worked hard ㅠㅠ

– Where there is light, there is a shadow. Don’t worry too much about the odd losers who cut tickets~ I support you^^

– You must have felt sad, but thank you for showing us your courage

Thanks to this, Park Moondae, who had a higher rank before the correction, was fortunate enough to avoid a huge amount of criticism even after his rank rose.

Instead, there was a slight change in the fan base.

As the people who liked Moondae’s team from the first team match were pushed behind, the fans who preferred Park Moondae’s appearance from the second team match became the popular opinion.

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– Moondae-ya, congratulations on 4th place, you worked hard ㅠㅠ (Video of receiving compliments from the 2nd team members)

-‘Hyung, what are you doing?’ He has the same expression on his face for three consecutive shots hahaha ‘Why is a cat doing this to a dog… ?’ (Screenshotted from a video clip with Cha Yujin) (Humorous photo of a cat and a dog)

-It’s so funny that Moondae couldn’t win against the other kids this time, so he was half-forced to become an insider haha

-If you look around the corner, he is handing out snacks ㅠㅠㅠ Oh, an angel… Angel Puppy… (short video)

The fans of the other two participants, who didn’t have strong relation groups, were also excited and sneaked into the trend.

They were the fans of Cha Yujin and Kim Raebin.

– Moon Puppy, Kim Rabbit, Cha Kitty, puppy rabbit and cat, isn’t it a heart-pounding combination? Taste it once. Turaiy Turaiy (Try, Try) (Photo)

– My kids, they are so cute even if they look like they would ignore me if I talked to them on the street. (Video clip from the show)

– Animal Heroes, dispatch! (fan art)

Even a combination that included Ryu Chungwoo sometimes popped up on social media.

As the second team match aired, people who were newly immersed in the program and those who poured out anger and checks on the participants mixed, the atmosphere overheated even more.

Because of this over-immersion that crossed between fire hell and ondol rooms, the internet was a real chaos.

It was even worse because the program was going on a road of successful performances.

Even beyond the entertainment-related industries, you could now find articles about 〈IJC〉 in any online community.

And in every article, there were people who were battling with people who were stressed.

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[Survival Pro participant who is popular these days]

: (Picture) A participant named Cha Yujin. Do women these days like these kinds of handsome feminine idols? tsk… an end of a century

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– Eye glitter… Something like a stinging wildcat… No luck… Impression…

– Ugly middle aged man haha.

– Why? He’s a handsome young man ^^ My daughter says she likes it.

– This show is popular among young kids these days~ Some of them are really good at singing, if they make it to the finals I’ll give them a vote~

└ You mean Park Moondae. Lol, he looks like he doesn’t have much to offer, but… Aren’t singers supposed to be good at singing?

– Get a hold of yourself, what if I am old and have no eyesight? Cha Yujin is very smart. The young man who used to do archery is also very good. I support these two.

└ Ahjumma is the only one who has lost her mind, what is with that attitude of talking

When the comments caught fire like this, someone captured it on social media, and dozens of fights emerged in the articles per day.

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[IJC Latte* Community Reaction.jpg]

: (Capture) Hahaha A crazy collaboration between an ahjae** who is being dealt with and a kkondae** who is going crazy hahaha

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(* – Latte community is a community for older/middle aged people, ** – ahjae is an old man/middle aged person, *** – kkondae is someone who is grumpy/acting in an old mannered fashion)

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-Hahahaha Cha Yujin superstar, all of my peers saved pictures of Cha Yujin, the 180cm tall baby Kitty~

– It’s ridiculous that Seon Ahyun, who is not mentioned here, is in second place, really…

└ This article does not represent every netizen’s opinions, so why does your thoughts flow that way;;

└ Lol Just by mentioning Seon Ahyun I get labeled as a bastard by the fans rushing in, so I shouldn’t mention him

└ Then what are you doing right now if it is not criticism, of course it’s criticism.. What did Seon Ahyun do wrong?

└ Look at this, they are rushing again hahaha

And at this time, the participants were able to access this rush of Internet opinion in real time.

***

To be honest, my first thought was this,

‘I survived.’

Luckily, I was able to avoid major criticism, and I was in a good state of not rising high enough to receive backlash for it.

I even got secretly grouped with the top-ranked participants who were thinking about changing.

But there was nothing more rewarding than a sense of relief.

I rubbed the screen with my thumb. The scroll appeared on the side, and all kinds of abusive comments swiped through.

‘Somehow… It’s bittersweet.’

To be honest, none of the contestants who were being criticized right now had shown bad personality except for Choi Wongil.

Most of them were just kids who were working hard, so did they have to get beaten up like this?

It had nothing to do with me, and to be blunt, I would benefit from other people falling, but even when this gave me benefit for survival, it left a bad aftertaste.

‘Besides, this timing…’

– We will distribute equipment for data search~

Since this team match was self-produced, our phones were returned for a while to help us search for data for the specific concepts.

It was originally forbidden to have a smartphone while filming.

Thanks to this, the participants were able to isolate themselves from public opinion, but in this team match, that rule was broken.

Moreover, because the program was so successful, as long as you could access the internet it was impossible to avoid the public opinion.

Thanks to this, I ended up looking through all sorts of posts regardless of who they were for.

“……”

The dorm rooms were quiet as each of the team members were looking at their phones without saying a thing.

I am pretty sure the other rooms were in a similar situation as well

Moreover, apparently, this team had a participant who was currently facing heavy blows from the internet.

Seon Ahyun.

‘Isn’t he crying?’

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I felt like I should check up at Seon Ahyun’s side under the bunk bed, but I couldn’t help but sweat.

It’s because I had this ominous feeling

‘Would this tire out his mentality and cause the characteristic to deactivate again…?’

If Seon Ahyun’s ‘will’ characteristic deactivated again, his ‘self-esteem deficiency’ status abnormality would come back.

Then, would Seon Ahyun, who would receive a crazy penalty that drops his overall ability by two grades, be able to perform properly on the stage?

It wouldn’t be strange if both the stage completion and editing of the team match would go bad.

I sighed silently.

‘…The team members were lucky too.’

There was never a day where I could comfortably go through a single team match.

‘I’ll have to check his status first.’

“Seon Ahyun.”

I stuck my face out of the bed and lowered my head. Seon Ahyun, who was sitting on his bed, turned his head.

“Y-Yes!”

“……?”

Why was he okay?