After the introduction of the new system to reduce the number of votes received by the contestants on "Idol Corporation," netizens did not wait to give their reactions.

Are they fucking me? Hahaha are they crazy

The Internet had become a hellish battlefield.

They are really crazy. What if someone makes a bad decision and lowers another contestant's votes because he hates him even though he's actually one of the best?

This competition isn't great anymore, now it's hell.

I won't be able to watch the next qualifying ceremony because I'm so distraught, you bastards. What are they doing to the boys?

Shouldn't we boycott Icorpo right now?

Posts criticizing the production team and the show topped all forums and articles on social media, communities, and websites. It was a natural reaction, but after this criticism became established as general public opinion, other types of articles began to appear.

It was a review of the participants. This article is very negative, but there were many others that were rife with slurs on the contestants they hated.

-Hmm.

I took a look at the best posts on the "news in less than 7 minutes" board.

As I scrolled down, I saw the name I was looking for.

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If we talk about him, there will always be a fight between his fans and the dogs that hate him. But even if there are sick people attacking him, I don't think his stock numbers will go down too much.

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"Good thing it only got two stars."

I had thought that would be the case since I had been portrayed as an extreme character on the Icorpo broadcast, leaving viewers with only two options: like me or hate me.

"But I should have been compensated for my good work on the PR and first team video."

The other Aktober 31 participants, who were belatedly recognized, were likely to be beaten up by the malicious fans of the other popular participants.

When I scrolled down to continue reading the comments, I saw that everyone except Sejin was in danger of lowering their rankings.

"But I can't believe just what this article says."

The fact that the article was not ignored by people and became popular meant that it was something similar to popular opinion, although there was no lack of discussion between the comments.

You took your time writing all this, pretending to be an Icorpo expert and wanting to dominate public opinion on the internet, right? Hahaha

I'm tired of seeing this. I wish they would stop writing these articles...

Hahahaha Are they trembling because they are afraid of losing? They are noticed. They lick the feet of that son of a bitch who doesn't deserve to win hahaha

Don't you think what the article says is true? admit the reality hehe

And among those comments on the article, there were people chatting about the other participants. They were written by users who cruelly attacked them and were amused by the chances of them falling down and being deleted.

Hahahahaha It's already confirmed that Lee Sejin will stop being successful~

ㅠㅠ What about RaeBin? He's going to lower his rankings a lot more... His fans should cheer up!

Of course, there were also quite a few attempts to push public opinion in such a way that it said, "I don't know why they predicted that this contestant is going to debut."

You should stop posting about Ryu CheongWoo as the magnificent former member of the national archery team. The fans and editors of the show are so unfair because they glorify him. I guess a lot of people are selling stocks because they're upset with him.

"Now they write excuses for their actions."

Of course, there were quite a few comments about me.

To all the people who don't like Park MoonDae, I'm a good editor so trust me I'll bring you an edited video about his true personality haha

L Yes, they believe only what the broadcast says, not his personality~ That's the way it is

L He is amazing. Listen to him sing without background music in the live PR video. He sounds much better than on the show. Why do people believe the edited version of the interview and pretend they didn't watch the video where MoonDae was nice to the other participants?

L Stop babbling nonsense; Hey lady, don't risk your life for that boy!

L I already reported you ㄱㅅㄱ

"This is... Ah, I'm regretting all this."

I was speechless when I saw people suffer because they wanted to help my image for nothing. Just because you're better at something doesn't mean you can change the direction of the transmission.

"Actually... I already knew."

The introduction of this negative vote was controversial, so I, as a public servant in my past life, already knew about it.

There were a couple of times when "Idol Corporation - Reincorporated!" has been walking a tightrope due to the addition of a crazy theme that was about to make him fall into ruin, and this is the first.

Anyway, looking at the current trend, I don't think it is necessary to pay much attention to it because I don't think it will be eliminated even if the support votes for the participants were reduced quite a bit.

There are many people who support this "Park MoonDae".

"I hope they don't stress too much."

After hesitating for a moment, I opened another window.

Actually, I was going to watch the reaction of the just aired 6th episode instead of looking at the "Sell Stocks" controversy, but there weren't many guest appearances from my team in this episode.

"They didn't even show me enough in this episode."

The presentation of the team to which he belonged was assigned for the following episode. The team formation and song selection scenes were only partially shown, so there was no reaction.

Ugh, why is GomMer [1] on the same team as RaeBin? ㅠㅠ Kim RaeBin, please stop doing charity work. Your last team was also full of beggars. There is nothing to see except your face.... Oh God, why did you choose those guys?...

MoonDae, don't get close to YooJin. just die

Most of the comments were written by malicious fans. No, I don't know if I can call these humans "fans" anymore.

"...Come to think of it, RaeBin must be cursing them, right?"

They were similar to the kind of people I saw from time to time, even when I was selling photos and videos of idols.

I don't know why they swear and claim to be fans... The important thing is that the reaction that they hate me being in the same team as me is more intense than the reaction that they like.

Even the viewers who support me say it's a shame I can't be with my first team members.

-Hmm.

I crossed my arms and smiled. I was wondering how public opinion will change when the seventh episode airs.

Our presentation was definitely good, so much so that the editors could hardly make any changes to it.

"Until then, I'll check my status window and see what achievements I got..."

Tururun.

As I thought, my phone rang.

I thought it was probably a message from my group chat with the boys my age, so I carelessly checked the messages on my phone.

Whether he copied and pasted, I got two messages almost at the same time.

-...

Did they put a billboard for me at Gangnam Station?

I searched and found a social media post stating that my new listing would be visible starting today. Unbelievable, Kim RaeBin has searched very well.

But this was not a good time to go out with them.

"Suffice to say, they just introduced the participant stock sale system that viewers hate."

If I were to go out with RaeBin and YooJin and be happy with them, there would surely be some witness who saw us and posted something like "Park MoonDae seems to be very confident that he won't lose" on social media.

Also, going with RaeBin and YooJin? I can imagine the number of curses I will receive just by being together with both of them.

— I'll sell his shares because he pretends to be friends with the most fucking cool guys haha

I don't need to make a fuss like that. I will protect all my fans as much as possible.

It would be better to wait until the seventh episode airs.

After thinking about it, I wrote him a reply right away.

I won't go out yet, I think I'll see him again on the set.

I warmed up my body and stretched before I started working out.

"I must practice well and increase the resistance."

Until that moment, it had never occurred to me that Kim RaeBin would send me greeting messages every day until the next filming. Well, they are not simple greetings, he sends me colorful images with phrases like the ones the elders send.

-...?

Maybe it's because I entered a field where art, music and physical strength predominate, but this boy has a unique sensibility compared to other teenagers I've met recently.

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And finally, Friday night came.

-....

Somehow that old gif he sent me has been updated. It has a glow effect now.

If he wishes me a "happy and healthy" Friday as the phrase in the gif he sent me says, then that means that we will do very well on the broadcast of the seventh episode, so I started watching it while drinking a beer.

Possibly my teammates and I would show up at the end of the episode, as the editing staff must have pushed the team with the highest ratings to the end of the show.

As expected, the other teams came out one after another. I wasn't interested in them, but I looked closely to see if there was anything that might be very important.

"But there is nothing special."

There were no particularly friendly or hostile edits. It's just a story telling how the contestants overcame their conflicts and lack of skills.

Then, in the middle or end of the half, Choi WonGil's team came out.

It was a team with a large number of participants from the same team he had been on in the first round of tag team battles, including Seon AhHyun and Keun SeJin.

And it was with them that publishers exploited their full potential.

The interview cut of Choi WonGil crying and the bewildered image of the team members of him were shown combined.

The editors made WonGil look like a complete mess.

-Wow...

They showed it in the worst way. The editors even pointed out Choi WonGil's uncooperative attitude in the first round.

To be honest, he was a bit annoying in the first round, but he didn't know that they would use his material in this new team because he was so full of negative energy.

But this pile of karma wasn't just to defend me.

It seems that he never took the words of Oro 2 seriously, not even when we were in the first team. Apparently he ignored it when there were no cameras rolling.

Of course, the film crew managed to catch him ignoring his partner with a fixed camera, and the attitude he showed was disgusting to the viewers. It was terrible to see how he treated his teammates according to his ranking order.

As AhHyun had told me, SeJin took charge of calming down the boys and solving the conflict in the best way.

The team who practiced hard, ended up showing a warm image at the end of the interview with those words and put on a great performance on stage, but no spectators were blindfolded.

All internet pages were full of bad words.

Is that Choi WonGil's true personality?

"A little excited" hahaha. What he has is an anger control problem.

L The worst thing is that he plays the victim when in reality he is being mean to the other boys who are good

Did you see when he ignored HeeSeung? I almost hit PTSD when I was going through a rough time at school...

They should consider Park MoonDae better now. He guessed the kind of person he was and so he gave him his part

"Well, it's hard not to mention me now."

Since the editors display our personalities however they please, whenever something fishy happens, they overplay it and cause the viewers to curse us twice as much as they should.

Fortunately, the team's performance was good, they provoked nice emotions in the viewers and they left the topic of WonGil a bit aside.

"If he didn't seem in a good mood before, now he's going to have a very bad time."

I clicked my tongue after reading some of the comments towards him.

Since there were two teams left, it would be my turn to show up soon. Although of course... all depends on the decision of the editors.

"Because there are a lot of guys in the higher rankings."

After thinking about it, I lowered my expectations and continued to watch until I was shocked.

Dudududuun!

On screen, Kim RaeBin's interview cut was edited with gorgeous background sound. It had subtitles that shone with golden light... as if it was something extremely honorable and legendary.

-Cof, cof.

I spit out the beer I was drinking.