It was the preview video of the second episode of , which suddenly popped up.

Once it started playing, the first thing that could be heard was the sound of a music box.

♫♪♩♪-♫♪♫♪-♪♩-

The song played was TeStar's Magical Boy. However, because it was strangely altered, it sounded like some kind of booming gag song.

On top of that, a colourful banner, and a close-up of TeStar's absent-minded face looking at it overlapped.

As soon as he finished his words, a huge caption appeared.

And immediately the bird researcher appeared. Behind his kindly smiling face, the CG of hell fire was synthesized.

The captions, which shook violently over the puzzled TeStar, appeared with heavy metal sounds.

It was meant to be laughed at by anyone seeing it.

However, the scene changed and the atmosphere became gloomy.

A short scene overlapped under the red flashing caption.

A slowly zoomed in close-up of Seon Ahyun's face, who looked terrified at Ryu Chungwoo's calm words while tightly holding his camera, was shown.

Then, out of the blue again, a cut of TeStar seriously crouching as a group came out.

The appearance of the big young adult men holding their breaths while moving with squat steps continued without background music.

And a scene where Park Moondae carefully picked up the camera and took a picture was inserted naturally.

But when he pulled out the camera, Park Moondae took a picture of Seon Ahyun instead of the birds.

The caption showed the confusion.

And from that silent scene, another cut of TeStar madly running away while screaming came out of nowhere.

The handcam was shaking like crazy.

//TN: 도움 means help in Korean

The caption flashed. It looked like a disaster movie.

A modulated voice came out from the MC whose face was censored with mosaics.

And on the black screen, a huge golden caption appeared.

The tampered version of 'The Magical Boy' was playing again, and the video ended magnificently.

* * *

"..."

These guys too... are out of their minds.

"Puhahahaha!!"

Keun Sejin, who was sitting next to me, was rolling around the living room. This guy burst into laughter when the stupidly modified Magical Boy BGM came out and he ended up like this.

I also admitted it.

'...It's fun.'

Just like in this one was also edited without giving out context, but this wouldn't be the first or second time, so I've given up.

'It's not edited in a way that would cause controversy, so it'll be fine.'

It was only made to look funny how everyone was very serious in the video.

It was still absurd that the agency used its own affiliated show as the first variety show appearance instead of making a deal with other shows, but apart from that, the fans seemed to enjoy it.

'If we keep it up like this then we can appear on variety shows even next time.'

Thinking that this was roughly acceptable, I looked through the current responses.

When I clicked the GIF file attached to the last reaction comment, a meme of a goose breathing in and firing a laser was played. The lasers also emitted from its eyes.

"..."

In a sense, I could say that they made a very intuitive prediction. I think Cha Yujin was just like that when the bird's head was bent open.

"Hahaha! Our fans are so cute!"

Keun Sejin, who got up and raised his head, smiled brightly as he read the comments.

Then, he touched the screen and recorded a related video. The public tablet we used was for sponsorship purposes.

Let's be patient.

"Hey, let's take a look at this, too. It's hilarious."

"What is it?"

I automatically looked at the video when the screen was put right in front of my nose.

"..."

In the meantime, the five-second advertisement ended and the video content I was looking at came out.

A rustic opening that looked like it was from an animal variety show from the 90s was parodied as TeStar.

What came out immediately after was... Park Moondae wearing dog pajamas.

...I got it as a gift, so I wear it occasionally when all my pajamas are being washed.

'Looking at it on the screen, it's a bit weird.'

Regardless of my embarrassment, voices often heard in foreign documentary dubbing came out in the video.

On the screen, Park Moondae was sitting on the living room sofa in pajamas, and the scene looked like it was fast-forwarded.

There was no movement from him even when all the different housemates were busily coming and going around him.

Even when Cha Yujin and Keun Sejin approached, waved their hands, sat next to him, and turned on the TV, the posture remained the same.

'...Must I have responded to all of that?'

It was probably just after working out and washing up after barely having time for a short break, so I was exhausted and stayed still. I felt very acquainted with this familiar scent of fabrication.

"...?"

What are they talking about now?

On the screen, Park Moondae suddenly stood up and disappeared into the kitchen.

And he appeared with soda.

Park Moondae first showed the plastic bottle to Ryu Chungwoo, who was passing by but was politely rejected by him.

'I only asked him if he wanted to eat...?'

Do you even need to call it a failure? No, in the first place, any adult with brains would do that kind of gesture.

However, regardless of how upset I was, the narration eagerly put in more nonsense.

Park Moondae on the screen trudged back to the living room with the plastic bottle. He was greeted by Cha Yujin and Keun Sejin and handed over the drink.

The editing of the highlight cut made it seem like the hunting have succeeded.

The video ended with Park Moondae receiving back the half-empty soda and putting the bottle to his mouth.

"..."

I was at a loss for words.

We were so busy that the reality show content couldn't be filmed, and now that the music video shooting was over, they were airing something like this.

Keun Sejin giggled again.

"Isn't it funny? Honestly, it's funny, isn't it?"

Yeah. Everyone is laughing really well.

This was the best first comment.

There were 4000 'likes' on this list of 'ㅋ' laughing marks.

Below that were a lot more similar laughing comments. It seems that everyone was really happy.

Of course, looking at other best comments, not all of them were like that.

"..."

The work I did for my image so I could survive the survival show was being distorted with high praises into an image of Park Moondae being obsessed with dogs... I think I can hear my 29-year-old civil servant test-taker self screaming.

'...Well, it's okay because people like it.'

Just a few days ago, I used a moving puppy ear at a fansign event. It's about time for the civil servant me to give up.

"Moondae, you're not upset, right? Right? That's right, I'll play my video to be fair."

Keun Sejin laughed next to me and automatically played the next video.

The title clearly hinted at the video's content.

'Insider'

The content is a special feature about Keun Sejin, who is popular wherever he goes and gets along well with everyone regardless of what kind of person the other is.

It was edited with a good proportion of humour and warmth.

"But honestly, yours is funnier than mine... Hey, hey!"

This bastard is taking the good parts for himself while making fun of other people.

I handed the tablet to him and lay down on the bed.

I should make better use of the break I've barely gained, and not waste it by watching things like that.

"Hey, monitor mine, too~ You're just going to sleep after watching yours?"

What kind of monitoring is this guy talking about when he's the one who only laughed at my video?

"Yeah, you go to sleep too."

"Oh~ I also slept in the car already. If I have time like this I should use it well~"

There's no way to know where his stamina is coming from when he doesn't even have a status window. Even yesterday we only slept for three hours.

Then, somehow, support came from my roommate.

"...He said he's going to sleep. Get out of here. It's noisy."

Lee Sejin, who was already lying down to sleep, threw a few words. It obviously looked like he has been trying to be very patient.

Keun Sejin stared at the other person with the same name as him without saying anything and then just smiled.

"Oh, sure, well. Good night, hyung-nim~"

Then he pretended to shake his head as his eyes met mine, shrugged his shoulders and left the room.

'I think he's a bit mad.'

Since the reality show cameras were still running, it was obvious that he intentionally turned it over lightly so that there wouldn't be a fight.

'Looks like they don't really understand each other.'

This didn't seem quite right. Even when we change rooms later, I don't think it would be okay to put those two together.

The moment I thought that I got a notification on my smartphone.

"..."

I sent a short reply, turned off the phone and started sleeping.

At this time, I still didn't know what was going to happen to TeStar's first variety show video.

* * *

The insanely edited preview video was, of course, a popular topic in the entertainment-related internet community.

In addition to showing the opposite about the variety show that was thought to be ruined, it was only natural that the most popular idols from the recent audition show appeared.

Besides, the video itself was very funny.

Thanks to this, word of mouth spread even if it was not in the entertainment community or social media.

The video full of bird banners and the keyword 'prank' drew in a scary amount of aggros and increased the number of views

Besides, soon after the video got selected.

It was the selection of the famous 'WeTube algorithm'.