I May Be a Virtual Youtuber, but I Still Go to Work

Anyway, the RP promo stream was already prepped, and I had some time to kill before going live, so I started lurking through the community.
Apparently, the Wol-Dungis had already spotted the announcement that I’d be doing a Pizza Dream ad today.

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[So Magia’s doing another ad stream today?]
Why is this happening?

[Comments]
— Parallel834: Is she incapable of not taking a job?
— Parallel909: Is she just getting spammed with ads now? lol
ㄴ Parallel105: Honestly, feels like the company had been blocking them until now. She tasted that ad money once and now she’s lost it.
ㄴ Parallel383: Ads do pay insanely well.
ㄴ Parallel383: Back in early Parallel days maybe not, but now that they’ve leveled up, don’t rates start at like a thousand?
ㄴ Parallel220: Not always—lower-end ones can still be in the hundreds.
ㄴ Parallel220: But Magia’s probably expensive.
ㄴ Parallel220: Just look at how she crushed that Coral Blue ad yesterday.
ㄴ Parallel004: Makes sense that more advertisers jumped in after seeing that lol
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[Of all things, it’s Pizza Dream lololol]

No way she’ll last long in that game lol
[Comments]
— Parallel741: Prediction: she’ll go full speed until pineapple unlocks, then switch every pizza to pineapple forever
ㄴ Parallel049: Aaaugh
ㄴ Parallel812: Has she ever played a game in a normal way?
ㄴ Parallel551: Bro, go watch her Apolla gameplay if you think that
ㄴ Parallel551: She never listened to chat once during her Naore stream lol
ㄴ Parallel080: SO true lol
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[This is the important part]
She’s doing the ad on her personal channel.
Don’t forget: just like with the Coral Blue ad, we have to maintain positive external influence.

If Magia’s image improves, she’ll get more ads.
If more ads come in?
She’ll keep the channel running.
Rise, Sludgies.
This is a holy war to keep Magia streaming.
Bring hype, bring reactions.
And don’t forget to buy and play the game.

[Comments]
— Parallel093: Aye aye, sir
— Parallel784: Magia get over here lol
— Parallel901: HELL YEAH
— Parallel081: This is the way lmao
— Parallel352: Who turns down money when it’s being thrown at you?? lol
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Looks like the Slugs were hoping this ad might be a turning point for Magia’s attitude.
Are they seriously happy just because she does ad streams?

Sure, the income could help keep the channel alive.
But it’s not like she manages her fans the way a typical VTuber would.
What exactly are they getting out of this that has them so hyped?
Then again, if the Slugs are showing up like this, there’s no downside for Magia.

I’d been worried about how to manage the image spillover if the leaks inside started leaking outside too—but maybe that’s unnecessary.
If just doing an ad stream is enough to get the Slugs to class themselves up—
And when Slug behavior levels up?

That effect naturally trickles down into the other Parallel fanbases too.
They’ll see it and go, “Oh, so this is how you get more ads?”
No fan hates seeing their oshi making good money.

Parallel’s fandom was already pretty clean overall.
This could push them even further—more polished, more admirable.
A clean-fan-culture trendsetter in the VTuber scene—Parallel.

Even the name sounds respectable.
“If ads bring in money and whip the Slugs into shape...”
At that thought, Magia’s head flooded with ideas.

To be honest, having her appear in collabs to help rally the fanbase was starting to hit its limit.
The fanbase was already stable—at this point, her presence was more about managing morale than outreach.
She needed to start scaling back her appearances in internal collabs, which were eating up more than half her monthly calendar.

Probably wouldn’t restart until the third generation joined.
Meanwhile, external traffic was still coming in steadily through tournaments and group content.
And with a major server event around the corner, there wasn’t much to worry about there either.

So what if she leaned into ads full-time?
Weekend: RP server promo streams.
Weekdays: Ads, as many as possible.
With that pace, raking in hundreds of millions a month for Parallel didn’t seem out of reach.
“I could be pulling in nine-figure revenue…”

Do-hee, for all her success, still doesn’t spend Parallel’s revenue on herself.
Her solo stream money goes to personal expenses and reinvesting in her fanbase.
Company profits? Fully reinvested. Not a won spent on herself—everything goes back into Parallel.

Magia had known that from the start.
So she wanted to do the same—reinvest everything back into the company.
Every paycheck she got, she funneled right back into Parallel—buying merch, supporting members.

So if ad income grows?
That directly equals: “Better quality streams for the members” and “potential for idol activities.”
Like that mid-size motion studio they’re building next door.

All of that costs money.
More money means more capture cameras.
More cameras means better tracking quality.

No more stuttering when characters move.
No more positional desync when characters overlap.
Basically—more money, more power.

That’s business in general, sure. But in the VTuber industry?
Gear is everything. The better it is, the more of it you have, the more expensive it is—the better the results.
“Guess I’ve really gotta give it my all for today’s ad.”

The RP server promo was already locked in.
What she needed to explain was simple:
Don’t do this on an RP server.

Random murder, random violence, random picking fights, random car theft, random explosions—
These are all bad RP. You can be punished or kicked by the mods for them.
But this is Neo California.
A game where car theft, murder, and bank robbery are standard gameplay mechanics.

So how can we not do that?
First, get ready for WWE.
Then, build a story around the crime.
Don’t just shoot on sight—create a scenario.
Imagine this:

Two people walking toward each other in a narrow alley. They block each other’s path.
Instead of instantly killing over a traffic jam—say “Path.”
That’s your cue for a retort.

Whatever they say in response, that’s where the WWE starts.
If a fight breaks out, one goes to jail and gets to do a dramatic “wrongly arrested” RP.
The one who got hit can collapse dramatically or play a fake injury victim.
If neither stops moving and they just keep shoving wordlessly?

That can be hilarious too.
Imagine two people saying nothing, pushing each other around for a full minute—like some kind of macho silent brawl.
WWE works in any context.

…That’s the sort of thing Magia was planning to teach.
Her “shoot-first killer” RP was designed to show “what not to do,” and how to do it better.
First, demonstrate bad RP—getting into a fight and shooting immediately, only to be gunned down by the cops (because in Neo California, killing a civilian sends NPC police after you instantly).

Then reenact the same setup—
This time, pull out finger guns and go “Pew.”
Then say, “You almost died just now. Consider yourself lucky.”
The other person will be like, “What the hell is wrong with this lunatic?”
And for the audience?

They’ll think, “Wait, isn’t she that badass killer? Why’s she showing restraint? She’s changed. This’ll be hilarious when she finally snaps.”
Keep building that tension until one day, she does snap and smacks someone in the head with the side of her “finger gun.”
Comedy gold.

This translation is the intellectual property of .
Having watched Do-hee’s skit-heavy streams for so long, Magia had basically absorbed all the WWE wisdom.
She could explain this stuff with her eyes closed.

Plus, the promo stream didn’t have to go past the assigned time.
The server wasn’t even live yet, so it was all about building curiosity—not giving away details.
Too much info could lead to spoilers.
So keep it clean, short, and focused.

“…Which means I should probably concentrate more on the Pizza Dream ad today.”
Focusing on the ad was all well and good…
But the problem was, Magia’s first move had already been predicted by the Slugs.

Because ad streams require gathering viewers in advance, she couldn’t keep the game title a secret—and once they heard it was a pizza-making game, the Slugs knew.
Of course Magia was going to serve pineapple pizza to customers.
Of course.
So if things played out exactly as predicted, sure, it’d be funny…
But it would feel just a little too expected.

People might say, “Huh, Magia’s playing it kind of safe this time.”
Which is why Magia decided she needed to take it one step further—to pull a move so out-of-left-field that no Slug could see it coming.
She couldn’t just let viewers keep up with her ideas.
That was unacceptable.

“…Guess this is how I’ll do it.”
With a smirk, Magia pulled out her phone and began furiously typing into her notes app.
***

A few hours later, right after the RP server promo stream ended:
[🔴Live] Pazijik Neo California RP Server Promo Stream Day 1 👪15,033
Viewership had peaked at over 20,000, but as the RP-specific crowd trickled out, about 1.5 times Magia’s usual average—around 13,000—remained.

The usual spam filled the screen.
— Ma
— Gi
— Gi
— A

— Ma
— A
— Gi
— A
— Punch
— Line
— Ma
— Gi
— A
After teasing a second stream and stepping away briefly, Magia came back, updated the stream title and category, and went live again:

[🔴Live] Pineapple Pizza Hater 👪15,034
#PizzaDream #Parallel #Magia
As soon as people saw it, the chat exploded in confusion.
— ?
— ??
— ?
— ???
— ?
— ㅔ???

The one person in the world who loved pineapple pizza ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) more than anything—
Hungry? Pineapple pizza.
Bored? Pineapple pizza.
Late-night snack? Pineapple pizza.
Staple diet? Pineapple pizza.
Magia always mentioned it first, no matter what she ordered.

And now suddenly she hates pineapple pizza?
That sheer cognitive dissonance short-circuited a few Slugs.
:: Anonymous Donor has donated 1,000 Clouds! ::
:: Are you seriously not going to make even one pineapple pizza today? ::

Magia cleared her throat and checked her mic.
“From this moment forward, anyone who mentions pineapple pizza in chat will be instantly timed out.”
Before the sentence even ended, the person who asked was hit with a 10-second mute.

— Someone died!
— LMAOOOO
— Did she really just do that??
— No mercy lmao
— This bit is intense
:: movgun has donated 10,000 Clouds! ::
:: When you did that killer RP earlier, acting like a cold-hearted city assassin, I thought that was nuts—
But now you hate pineapple pizza too?? This is just madness ::
“I said no pineapple pizza talk!”

And Magia smacked movgun with a full 10-minute timeout—special treatment.
— Bruhhh 😂😂
— Even the guild leader got clapped??
— What happens if Pino joins next lol
— She’s terrifying 😭😭😭😭😭
— Is this the North?
— No, it’s the West~
— Tyrant Magia has entered the chat
Speaking in a tone no one had ever heard from her before—full of fire and bite—Magia declared:

“I warned you, okay? No more ‘p-word’ talk. Don’t test me. You can feel it, can’t you? I’m mad today.”
Unable to resist the bait, Pino jumped in with a donation.
:: PIN0 has donated 100,000 Clouds! ::
:: pineapplepineapplepineapplepineapplepineapplepineapplepineapplepineapplepineapplepineapplepineapplepineapple ::

“WHO SAID THE P-WORD?!”
Magia calmly counted the number of times the word was written and muted Pino for that many seconds.
Even though Pino came back with an alt account almost immediately, the display of force was more than enough to send the Slugs into gleeful hysteria.

Magia—who normally spoke in her cool, collected tone—had started showing emotion since the Coral Blue dub.
And anyone who’d watched her for a while knew what that meant.
It was a good sign.

It meant she was finally invested in streaming.
The woman who always insisted it was just a job…
Now she was the one leading the charge.
And of course—when your oshi starts emoting, you get emotional too.

Before long, Slugs started throwing themselves at her for the privilege of being yelled at.
:: Anonymous Donor has donated 1,000 Clouds! ::
:: Pine ::
“I CAN’T HOLD BACK ANYMORE!”

:: Anonymous Donor has donated 1,000 Clouds! ::
:: apple ::
“DIE!!”
— ??
— Why “apple” though? 😂
— LMAO
— This is insane
— ngl this is adorable I think I’m becoming a Slug… ah crap

Naturally, the more Slugs baited her like this, the more new sides of Magia were revealed.
And that spectacle began drawing in even more curious viewers.
[🔴Live] Pineapple Pizza Hater 👪22,532
#PizzaDream #Parallel #Magia

It was the weekend, sure—but for a small indie pizza shop ad game to hit 20k viewers again and keep climbing?
Now that was unexpected.