Chapter 574: – Live stream incident
Lin Jin hated being led on by others.
She always had.
But because of her unstable emotions yesterday, she had nearly lost control when arguing with others online. There was actually nothing wrong with arguing, lots of streamers yell at others sometimes, especially one streamer who was almost always swearing.
But the real problem was that a group of Lin Jin’s fans went off to raid those people.
Even though Lin Jin never told them to do that, she didn’t stop them. The group of fans went over and blasted those four people, and one of them happened to be a tier 3 pro player on a certain team.
There was clearly something wrong with how Lin Jin played that game so the pro player said a few words, but this caused a group of Lin Jin’s fans to hate raid him. So that person directly posted the incident online.
As a result, when Lin Jin started streaming the next day, she found there were a bunch of viewers trying to stir things up in her stream.
“Trash streamer! There’s no point in being pretty if your mouth is so foul! Even instigating your fans to attack others!”
Even though the messages were all weird, that was what most of them meant.
Lin Jin just ignored them since this kind of situation was generally really hard to explain. After all, it was her fault.
She planned to post an apology or something on Weibo after the stream. As for now, it was time to stream so she didn’t want to dwell on it too much.
“I’m focusing on the game. I was a bit off yesterday, today will be better.”
Despite saying so, she was actually only a bit better, but not by much. She probably wouldn’t really feel much better until Xia Tian got back.
She sighed. Yesterday she played Dota, so today she just switched to single player games.
But those troublemaker viewers kept spamming the chat as if their life depended on it, so much so that her mods couldn’t block them all. To these trolls who wanted to stir things up, Lin Jin’s stream was now like a party.
Lin Jin ignored them while the mods worked overtime.
Half an hour later, when the single player game ended, Lin Jin finally glanced at the chat and frowned, discovering that a large number of trolls were slandering her.
“They’ve been slandering you for a long time.” Teacher Lin beside her pointed at the second screen and angrily said “You didn’t even glance at these messages! I watched for just a bit and got pissed off! There’s nothing they wouldn’t say, it’s disgusting to death!”
“It’s how it is online.” Lin Jin stayed quite calm. She glanced over at the chat but didn’t read it too carefully, just skimming it and then started writing her apology post.
This incident really was Lin Jin’s fault and she didn’t like to take chances. Besides, she wasn’t the type of person who wouldn’t admit their wrongdoing.
For example, a certain Mi, a certain Snake, a certain Kai, or something…
Those people all acted tough, but once they were actually caught cheating, they would either go silent or directly drop an apology. That way, even though some viewers wouldn’t be able to accept it and stop watching, there would always be a small number who stay, leaving a chance of making a comeback.
Lin Jin’s incident wasn’t as serious as those just mentioned. Even though the viewers did feel she was wrong yesterday, it was only her first time and she also didn’t say anything extreme.
It took Lin Jin about an hour to write a 500 word apology post and @ that pro player.
“I’ve already apologized to them. You can find my apology on Weibo.” Lin Jin expressionlessly bowed towards the camera, and then expressed her apology.
She had originally planned to write the apology post after the stream, but there were just too many trolls. So in order to prevent the situation from getting any worse, she could only do it in advance.
Still, Teacher Lin felt indignant: “It was clearly them who flamed you first yesterday! Why do you have to apologize? So what if you played badly? No one can play perfectly every time! And you didn’t even curse once! But that guy was cursing nonstop! How does he have the nerve to complain first?!”
“What’s wrong with throwing once! Throwing once deserves being flamed?” Teacher Lin angrily slammed the table. Just as she was about to continue, she suddenly saw Lin Jin’s slightly tired look.
She suddenly paused, let out a sigh, then stood up and said to Lin Jin: “I’m heading out to buy some groceries, we finished all the leftovers yesterday.”
“Mm, go ahead.”
Teacher Lin helplessly left the streaming room, while Lin Jin continued to stream.
After the apology, the number of trolls instantly dropped by half, but half that stayed were still relentlessly saying things like “if apologies worked, why would we need the police! I recommend a ban! Or something like that.”
Lin Jin was very confused when she had offended someone. You have to know that that tier 3 pro player hadn’t played in many competitions before. He was also just a substitute and hardly had any fans. Aside from those blindly righteous netizens, someone must have maliciously hired online trolls to attack her.
But Lin Jin had always just peacefully streamed and also had a pretty good relationship with some of the other Dota streamers.
But she’d always stayed out of trouble and got along fine with other Dota streamers. Who would hire trolls just to make a big deal out of this? She had also never provoked anyone before, so why would someone hire online trolls to target her?
After the trolls decreased by half, Lin Jin’s fans started making a comeback in the argument. At the same time, some fans very quickly discovered that the trolls were definitely maliciously hired by someone. Even though the fans very rapidly began to investigate the clues to try and find the person behind it.
Lin Jin just acted as if it wasn’t her problem and continued streaming her game. She would even occasionally sing some songs, basically ignoring those trolls.
And then, her phone rang, it was Xia Tian.
“Lin Jin? Are you okay? I saw a lot of people slandering you in the stream chat! What happened?”
“I got into an argument with my team in game yesterday, and now today people are coming to cause trouble. It should be because someone is targeting me.”
“Then I’ll go look into it a bit, I’ll definitely help you find that guy!”
With that, Xia Tian ended the call.
Lin Jin helplessly pouted her mouth. She really didn’t want to pay any attention to this incident, but Xia Tian seemed to be really concerned about this, those viewers of hers felt indignant.
God knows why they were so pissed.
Lin Jin felt that even she herself wasn’t that angry, just a bit helpless. But the result was that this group of people started being angry first on her behalf.
She propped one foot on her chair and just casually continued streaming her game. Afterwards, she started eating the snacks from her cabinet.
Speaking of which, because Lin Jin’s stream could be considered to have a considerable audience, she even received a sponsor from a Taobao shop. And these snacks were the ones sent by that shop for Lin Jin to sample.
After having a few bites, Lin Jin glanced over at the chat and felt that she should divert their attention. She couldn’t have the entire chat just be focused on that issue.
“Come come come, everyone stop for a bit. It’s time for today’s ad segment.” Lin Jin clapped twiced and brought over the packaging of the snack she just ate, shaking it in front of the camera “This is the snack that the snack shop wanted me to advertise. Asking me to try it and promote it…”
“But the taste of these chips… are really not tasty…”
“This beef jerky is too hard, and the taste is not it. The banana milk is too sweet. The spicy strips are too spicy, I don’t like it. Only the meat floss cake is okay, but they stick to my teeth…”
When the viewers saw Lin Jin being so harsh to the sponsors, they were immediately thrilled. If she kept being this honest with her words, then there might not be anyone who dared to have Lin Jin do promotions again.