While everyone is enjoying the end-of-year vibe and the atmosphere of the new year, there are some who are not having fun at all.
It was a community of Kayak’s old friends, a name that has now become familiar.
[If you didn't get a single New Year message on KakaoTalk from friends or lovers, I feel you, lol]
Starting with me.
– It probably won’t change, so I should get used to it, sure.
– Isn’t it normal to get them?
– You should try sending some messages first! If no one sends, how can anyone receive?
– Originally, losers are passive, so they can’t do that.
– There are a lot of kids who just wait and get disappointed when they don’t receive any.
– If they were proactive, they would have had someone reach out…
– As soon as it hit midnight, group chats and personal messages were flooding in.
– Block that guy already.
– You’re out from our Abyss gallery.
– But family members usually message, right? Like mom or dad?
– I don’t have a mom and dad!
– Ah, lol, my parents are gone, who’s going to send me a message?
– Sorry…
[Kayak, you’re disappointing me]
You didn’t even do a New Year countdown with us, ah, lol.
– You have plans, what can you do?
– You’ve been doing consistent broadcasts, you even streamed on Christmas.
– Isn’t spending the New Year with your boyfriend a universal rule?
– For real, it’s such a cliché pattern, streaming on Christmas and going out with your boyfriend at year-end, lol.
– Whatwhatwhatwhatwhat?
– What are you talking about… 119.37, you fool…
– Kayak has already sworn off boyfriends for her viewers, sure.
– But KayakTube seems like it could be a real boyfriend…
[Please, someone turn on the broadcast…]
Kayak, Hakchu, Nicang, Riri… your absence makes this empty room way too cold…
– There are plenty of other female streamers broadcasting, so why bother with girl gamers?
– Just watch the big name male streamers, ah, lol.
– My friend hates watching streams of high school boys; he says there’s no point in watching if that’s the case.
– It’s surprisingly quiet today; last year was so busy even on New Year’s.
– Haryeong said she’d stream her New Year fortune-telling tomorrow!
– But Haryeong isn’t a virgin…
– She’s already disqualified because of her tattoos.
– It’s just a fashion tattoo, though…
[Kayak, during the Hako days, we used to countdown to the New Year and share well wishes together…]
I miss those days… Can’t we go back to my little Kayak? Please come back…
– Kayak hasn’t been small since she started streaming, so what do you mean ‘back’? lol
– Sounds like you’re reminiscing about the no-cam, no-mic days.
“Back in the days of no cam, no mic, talking like this.”
“Turns out, there are still people from back then.”
“Ah, those were good times, right? Even with no cam or mic, we survived 48-hour sleepless abysses and all that.”
“Here comes the nostalgia trip for the oldies.”
“But seriously, what’s the fun of watching with no cam and no mic? Communication would be impossible.”
“Real talk, haha. Back then, nobody even knew I was a woman, and the abyss was a total flop game.”
“It’s shocking that so many people watched that broadcast.”
“Why wasn’t there any communication? There were so few viewers that I answered every single question in the chat.”
“If I turned on the broadcast now, even just chatting, it feels like thousands would tune in, haha.”
But then, it actually happened.
Kayak’s broadcast turned on.
[??? What’s going on?]
[You asked for it, and she really did it.]
[Surprise broadcast.]
[There have been surprise events lately; it’s so nice.]
[Haha, did any of the sleepyheads miss the surprise live?]
[Even at this hour, people are flocking like ghosts.]
[Come on, show your face, we want to see Kayak!]
[Babe, you’re a bit late today, huh?]
At 3 AM, a time when most people were asleep, the viewers’ reactions were explosive.
It was mostly people who hadn’t fallen asleep yet.
Either their lifestyle had gone awry or, even with the new year starting, they couldn’t settle down due to some lingering disappointment. Most of those gathered in Kayak’s broadcast were like that.
Thus, they couldn’t help but cheer for the suddenly appeared broadcast.
[KayakYuksu1 donated 10,000 won!]
-Stand up straight, Kayak. Why did you only start the broadcast now? You need to report to your boyfriend what you’ve been up to.
The chat split in half. Some resonated with the donation and agreed, while others insisted that the trolls should be banned.
But no matter how much they argued, Kayak showed no reaction. It seemed she might have left the stream running while getting water or something—but nope.
The mic was on, and all sorts of ambient noises were coming through.
The sounds were oddly realistic: rustling, the fizzing sound of a can opening, and someone talking.
“…What’s going on?”
The viewers quickly deduced that the voice was Kayak’s, and at the same time, they realized she was talking to someone and immediately began to interrogate her.
[Who are you on the phone with?]
[Who’s next to you?]
[Suddenly says she’s gonna do a collab.]
[Kayak bringing her boyfriend to come out…]
[Is today the day we finally see the real Kayak that only rumors have circulated?]
[Please don’t shatter my illusions.]
“What boyfriend? I keep telling you, there’s no such thing… You guys always have the same script.”
It was then that a response tinged with subtle humor came through. The viewers, while welcoming Kayak, started to second-guess if they had misunderstood something—yet they clearly heard the voice.
A voice came through the broadcast again to answer their doubts.
“So like, seriously. I’m so tired of that boyfriend of hers. Every time she takes a break, it’s always because she got a boyfriend. Explaining the same thing over and over is exhausting.”
[??? Who’s this?]
[What the heck? There’s someone next to her!]
[Such is the life of broth-serving women.]
[Did I hear that wrong?]
[Is that a beautiful girl?]
[That voice sounds like Riri.]
It was Riri. Viewers quickly reacted to her somewhat lamenting words, and some recognized her right away.
“Let’s talk a bit later. It was fun.”
“Seriously, every time there’s a boyfriend talk, I totally relate!”
She cleared her throat for a moment and officially introduced herself.
“Hello, I’m streamer Riri. Today, I’m here with the invitation from Kayak. Not a boyfriend, but a girlfriend. Gotcha!”
Riri was usually a streamer with lower energy. After all, her broadcast description stated she aimed for a calm show.
No matter what viewers said, she would casually respond with “Oh, I see. Wow, really?” and never seem genuinely surprised. Given her pretty appearance and calm voice tone, fans who loved her pure image often tuned in to her streams.
Riri didn’t quite realize it, but her streams were an ideal environment for broth. Whenever girl streamers got entangled with male streamers, it would stir up a frenzy.
At least now, as an Abyss streamer with viewers gained through competitions, the situation had improved, but the core nature of it hadn’t changed.
However, Riri was different today. Her speech was slightly stretched, and her tone of voice was noticeably uplifted, showing signs that something was off.
Her word choices and manner of speaking also reflected this. Bringing up how hard it was to clarify things, along with declaring she was with a girlfriend instead of a boyfriend, were things she would never have said on stream normally.
If it were Riri, she absolutely wouldn’t have behaved that way on the broadcast.
[What, what, what?]
[Yeah, yeah, Riri is Kayak’s girlfriend. That’s a fact even stated in the Goguryeo watermelon records.]
[Ah, lol, it’s not with a boyfriend but with a girlfriend she just went out on a date.]
[Kayak, did you just charm someone again…?]
[No matter how much of a Riri she is, I can’t give away Kayak, okay?]
[How dare an ice queen like Ren…!]
[Is the host bisexual?]
[Just vaguely mentioning polar bears losing their habitat… and crying or something?]
[Something seems different about Riri today.]
[Isn’t it late? Shouldn’t you be going home?]
[Please turn on the cam… it’s my lifelong wish…]
It was then that Kayak’s voice came through again.
“Um, can I turn on the cam…?”
“Yeah, I don’t mind. Kayak can do whatever she wants.”
Ignoring the viewers who were making a fuss about them using informal language, the cam feed started. It looked like any other day in Kayak’s room, but many things, including Riri, had changed.
Firstly, there were the beer cans scattered in the background. The aligned empty cans behind the two seemed to indicate just how much they’d been drinking. It easily looked like more than 10, which was quite a lot for just the two of them.
Without even counting the cans, it was clear from their faces on the screen that both were drunk. Their flushed cheeks and glazed eyes were unmistakably those of intoxicated individuals.
Thus, the viewers quickly pieced together the situation. The two had been drinking and turned the broadcast on after getting tipsy. Even the late hour of the broadcast made sense now.
[Not gonna call for help?]
[So you didn’t turn it on because you were drinking.]
[Looks like both are drunk, lol.]
[Isn’t this going to be a broadcast accident?]
[Riri, you have a show to do tomorrow, how can you drink so much tonight?]
[Seriously, how can you drink when you’re not even feeling well?]
“Ah, I don’t care. I’m doing whatever I want today. Don’t keep butting in pretending to be worried, you broth heads.”
“Whoa.”
Calling a fan ‘broth head’—Kayak gasped on the side. The chat exploded with Riri’s unprecedented level of sass, and some viewers even criticized Kayak for “infecting” Riri.
“I never even said broth head!”
Of course, Kayak felt wronged in this situation.
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