Chapter 47

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Translated by Sylph

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First of all, the 1st place in the negative vote was… obvious.

[1st Place: Choi Wongil]

‘It’s over for him.’

Looking at the editing of Episode 9, unless an anomaly occurred, seeing that guy in the next ranking announcement would be the last.
The problem was from 2nd place onwards.

[2nd Place: Seon Ahyun]

This was also a predictable ranking. Because the period when the last vote started and the period when the public opinion condemning Seon Ahyun was at its peak coincided exactly.
So it was rather a good thing. Unlike Choi Wongil, since Seon Ahyun was suddenly attacked excessively, sympathy was already rising for him.
There was a high probability that the atmosphere would be completely reversed as comments like ‘Seon Ahyun isn’t at the level to be 2nd in negative votes’ were generally formed.
Moreover, since he did well in this team match too, he was stable.

‘He’ll ride the flow well at the end.’

However, even if I presented this analysis to the person who just got hit with 2nd place in the face, it wouldn’t work. Thanks to that, only the sound of the TV had been echoing in the living room for dozens of seconds.

“…….”

‘If anyone suggests watching the main broadcast as a group again, I’ll cut ties with them, f*ck.’

The atmosphere was killer.
Moreover, if one lowered their gaze just a bit from 2nd place, 4th place was Lee Sejin B. That is, Big Sejin.
It seemed like this guy became like this because of people who dumped all their remaining votes out of a sense of betrayal on the night the controversy broke out.

‘Since it was settled quickly, there will rather be a rush of people giving votes because they are worried.’

Sure enough, Big Sejin was the first to speak while smiling.

“Ah~ Once our team match is aired, it’ll be flipped exactly, right?”

“That’s true.”

“I think it will be hard to flip.”

“…?”

Kim Raebin, who suddenly spoke, muttered nonsense seriously.

‘Are you crazy?’

Big Sejin looked at him with eyes that seemed to say that, but Kim Raebin continued firmly.

“Since we successfully completed this team match as well, the vote rate probably won’t show a significant downward trend.”

“…??”

“…Hey, you……. Um, Raebin-ah. You know it’s a negative vote, right?”

“Yes. …Ah!”

Kim Raebin answered Gold 1 with clear eyes, and then let out an exclamation and added an explanation as if he had realized something.

“Because the negative vote also tends to increase in proportion to the general vote rate.”

Except for special cases like Choi Wongil, it was statistically correct. Because it became a matter of the scale of the participant’s votes.

“…Oh?”

“That’s true.”

The atmosphere relaxed in an instant. The participants, who recalled the last ranking announcement, realized that Kim Raebin’s remark was rational.

‘The idea is good.’

Even if his communication skills were a bit lacking, he was definitely a useful guy.
Seon Ahyun also lowered his tension before I knew it and was appropriately reacting to Gold 1’s banter.

“Heh, then am I not eliminated? I’m 21st!”

“Hyung-nim! It’s because hyung-nim has no antis!”

“T-That’s right.”

Instead of watching the TV screen which had already returned to advertisements, I checked the ranking again on the internet.

[8th: Park Moondae ▼3]

It was a rank with Cha Yujin in front and Ryu Chungwoo behind.
And compared to the negative vote figures of the last ranking announcement, it seemed my rank had dropped by 3 levels.

‘Should I be happy?’

The analysis was difficult.
In fact, compared to Cha Yujin or Ryu Chungwoo who had never been controversial, ‘Park Moondae’ on the broadcast had some rumors.
So it was ambiguous. Whether this was evidence that the negative public opinion on ‘Park Moondae’ had finally subsided, or whether the overall vote scale of ‘Park Moondae’ had decreased.

‘I hope it’s not a downward trend, though.’

I thought I pulled off the stage well every time. The views and mentions of my fancams continuously increased. The problem was that the indicators of the guys sitting around me were also mostly good.

‘…If they picked about thirteen people, it would definitely be a safe zone.’

Since I already knew how many people they would pick, I couldn’t run such a happy circuit.
I smacked my lips with a bitter taste and looked at the reactions to this episode. Since there wasn’t much screen time for Park Moondae, there was no big backlash.
It was roughly like this.

-Moondae.. is he even good at trot? What is there that he can’t do?
-(Screams saying he’s f*cking cute)
-Puppy whose eyes doubled in size while riding a kimchi refrigerator [Short video]
-Everyone, let’s be thankful that Moondae-pup didn’t enter a trot survival show. If something went wrong, we might have lost him.

A hollow laugh came out. It was such a ridiculous idea that it was… a bit cute.

‘If I don’t become an idol, it’s sudden death. What trot?’

However, the moment I read the next popular post while smirking, I got light goosebumps.

-Isn’t Park Moondae actually on his second life? It’s a rational suspicion. Anyway, it’s like that.

“…….”

He got it right.
Anyway, other than that, there were small talks about liking the rabbit class.
And when I looked further under the surface, I also saw quite a few reactions saying it was a relief that I didn’t enter Cha Yujin’s team, the puppy class.

-I’m deleting my post from 20 minutes ago where I said it would have been nice to follow the nickname since he’s a puppy-pup…
-Honestly, I thought they were pulling some trickery when they mentioned the big data algorithm, but I’m just glad my kid’s hair was safe…
-Lol, I went to check the big data whatever posted on the homepage, and they cut it f*cking meticulously. Is there a participant the production team wants to kill in that class?

Overall, the atmosphere of the posts from people who liked ‘Park Moondae’ was all like this.
Relief and expectation that this stage would also be good.
A bit of ease that he would probably debut somehow.

It’s good that people look happy, but I rather had less confidence than during the 1st team match. Perhaps it was because the final was imminent.

‘I don’t think there will be much screen time in this team match.’

I thought the stage was well-made. But no matter how I thought about it, more than half of the participants in the team were better for pulling out a storyline than me.

‘Should I be satisfied that I did maintenance?’

Anyway, from the middle of the broadcast, you would get cursed at even if you received too much screen time.
One guy in a team appearing like the protagonist? Fans increased, but it was also easy to buy antipathy.
Since the broadcast screen time was limited, if that guy appeared, the guy I liked couldn’t appear.
And ‘Park Moondae’ had never failed to get screen time, but he had never eaten it all alone either.
I should be satisfied with not giving room to find fault. I turned off the internet window with a somewhat disappointed heart.

And a week later.
It was revealed that this disappointment was a useless worry.

“…??”

Why is there screen time?

* * *

Park Moondae’s largest anonymous fan community was full of anticipation even before Episode 10 was aired.
Because there was an upper body cut of Park Moondae in the team’s stage scene that briefly passed in the preview.
Everyone was extremely excited about the high-quality bait that came out after ten days.

-Moondae-pup’s face in the preview is insane
-Lol, I can see the result just by looking at his face. I’m going to stream the fancam as soon as the broadcast ends today. Let’s go for 10 million.
-Hanbok? Rabbit mask? It’s crazy. How can they pick the concept so well every team match? It seems like it was Moondae-pup’s idea again this time.
└Probably. Looking at the stage choices, he’s like a pine tree. He only picks concepts that crush fans’ hearts lol
└As expected, he must have been born under the star of an idol.
└That’s true.

They, who were talking excitedly, talked similarly only about Park Moondae even after Episode 10 started.
For 40 minutes, only big news about other unrelated participants’ teams was posted sporadically.
Finally, the screen time of the team began to appear.

-Those production team bastards really squeezed it in at the end.
-I saw from the recording spoiler that it was the opening!! Why! Is the opening! Here!
-Acting as a hostage once or twice is enough. Ah, I’m getting annoyed lol
-Moondae-pup is coming out at last ㅠㅠ

People’s topics finally focused on the real-time broadcast.
The song selection process of the team was aired exactly in the atmosphere of a ‘model group project’ without any special trimming.

-Moondae-pup: Hoho, your opinion is good and his opinion is good too. Let’s use all of them.
-Moondae-pup is still wise? lol
-Did you see Moondae-pup’s face when Big Sejin did the sexy round song lol. I know why he mentioned the Tibetan fox. Cute lol
-Since everyone speaks calmly without talking nonsense, it’s like an anticancer drug.

In fact, the broadcast screen time of the team could only be warm. Because there was no special conflict material to pull out.
It was thanks to the gathering of participants who had no particular ill feelings toward each other and knew how to be careful for various reasons.
It would have been a bit different if there was even the dorm filming on the night of Big Sejin’s school violence controversy, but unfortunately, there was no data because all the dorm cameras were removed due to device problems that day.
So the production team had no choice but to transmit the appearance of the team going from strength to strength with a bitter heart.
Because that was the line that could at least give the pleasure of viewing by contrasting with the team of the ‘failed group project’.
Thanks to that, the fans of the participants in the team could enjoy a pleasant viewing time.
The team was the only one that normally created and took care of all elements step by step in the production process.

However, there were not only advantages.
As the scene became warm, the toxicity was removed. And the vague harmony filled that empty space again.

-It’s the first time I’ve seen Moondae-pup sprawled out like that.
-I guess it’s comfortable because they’re all kids he knows.
-It’s heartwarming.

For example, the appearance of the team, who passed out from a forced march, was shown as if they were informal because they were close.
The appearance of living like zombies to meet the deadline without being able to sleep properly couldn’t appear on the broadcast at all. Because it didn’t suit it.

Fortunately, the stage was aired exactly with high completeness.

-They killed it.
-I enjoyed the sexy traditional rabbit. To think this combination suits them… Moondae-pup, what in the world is your eye…
-I heard it with earphones, and Moondae-pup put doubling in almost every chorus from beginning to end.
└Wow, that’s insane.
└Is this possible?
└Even the humming at the end is an octave higher? lol. If anyone criticizes his skill now, they’re proving they’re an idiot.

Thanks to the production process, rather than the team story, receiving screen time, the fact that viewers could intuitively grasp various elements of the stage also produced an unexpected synergistic effect.

-Hey, I really got goosebumps when the earth appeared while Moondae-pup turned around.
-The flow of Hanbok -> Suit -> Hanbok was good. The feeling of a Moon Rabbit falling in love with a modern person and imagining in the middle…
-It was also good that the cassia tree appeared as a stump and the stage ended there. It felt a bit lonely as if a lot of time had passed, so I imagined the story by myself.
└I, a 2D fan, like this stage.
└I’m not leaving malicious comments on such a cringy post? It means I’m filled with the hype of the stage.
-Moondae-ya, thank you for pulling off a legend every stage. Thanks to you, I’m a fan comfortably.

As a stage that had a tremendous reaction even on the spot, the fans who were watching were naturally pouring out comments even without trying to control public opinion by force.
Only the point that it ended as a stage of model students without anyone receiving a narrative left a faint regret.
The fact that all team members except Park Moondae wailed as soon as they came down from the stage was also deleted.

Park Moondae’s thought that he wouldn’t receive screen time was correct.
It’s just that, unlike the prediction that other team members would take the narrative, no one received the spotlight in a friendly way.
Thanks to that, when the last team was aired immediately after, the comment explosion of Park Moondae’s fans also quickly entered a lull.

-Ah, it was good.
-Let’s debut like this.
-I want to see Moondae’s face more ㅠㅠ Is this the end of his screen time?
-I wish they showed the kids playing more. It was boringly good because it was documentary editing. The production team has no sense tsk tsk.

It was at that timing that Park Moondae suddenly appeared on the screen again.