Chapter 280. [Membership Gift Bombardment]

≫Huh? Why is my text green?

≫Membership gift snipe is real!?

≫What are the odds!?

Membership gifts allow you to purchase memberships and gift them to others on MyTube. The recipient is chosen randomly from the stream viewers… or at least, that’s how it should work.

≫Calculating based on the viewer count… what are the odds of this happening!?

≫This has to be less likely than pulling the highest rarity in a gacha game lol

≫Iroha-chan, why don’t you share some of your luck?

“Mind your own business! But wow, this really happens sometimes, huh?”

A fortune that only comes to those watching the stream live.

Besides the fun of the live experience and the sense of community through comments, there are these kinds of perks in live streams.

Brand accounts, or sub-accounts, can’t receive gifts, and you need to allow gift reception, among other details. Still, anyone has a chance to experience membership.

≫Wait, so even if superchats are off, you can still send membership gifts?

≫You can only become a member once, but with membership gifts, you can send them as many times as you want (U.S.)

≫I’ve got an idea!!!!

“Ah”

≫If there are no superchats, just send membership gifts!

≫[Sent 20 IrohaCh. Translation Girl Iroha membership gifts]

≫[Ashen-san and Eyeball-san sent a membership gift]

“Wait!? 20 is equivalent to a red superchat!?”

You can send multiple membership gifts at once. And the maximum number is…

≫[Sent 50 IrohaCh. Translator Girl Iroha membership gifts]

≫50!? That’s insane lol

≫[Penguin^^ sent a membership gift to Ponpon Tanuki]

“Yikes~~~!? Everyone, wait!? Stop, stop!”

≫The membership gift train doesn’t stop!

≫[Sent 10 IrohaCh. Translation Girl Iroha membership gifts]

≫[WhiteCat sent a membership gift to Skier-san]

≫It’s festival time~!

≫Woohoo! This is what I was waiting for! (U.S.)

≫[Merto sent a membership gift to Raimon]

“Please, stop~~~!?”

Membership gifts, unlike superchats, can’t be easily turned off in the heat of the moment. Their numbers quickly increase.

“Eek!? You know, I can check how many people became members during this stream, and the number is insane!? Enough! Enough already!?”

≫ Hm? So that means, pulling the gacha is okay?

≫ Now that we have the ammo

≫ [Dada Manjuu sent a membership gift to Unabara Village Chief]

“Eh!? Well, um… but my mom.”

≫ [Sent 50 IrohaCh. Translation Girl Iroha membership gifts]

≫ [Sent 50 IrohaCh. Translation Girl Iroha membership gifts]

≫ [Neko-sui sent a membership gift to Mm-san]

“Alright! Alright! Stop sending max membership gifts!? I’ll pull! I’ll pull until I get a complete set of Ah-nee!”

≫She’s fallen lol (Korean)

≫We’ve got her now

≫You can’t escape now, can you?

“It’ll be fine. If I can quickly pull Ah-nee before my mom notices, I can end the stream without any problems. Eek!?”

≫Oh? Is that a call from Iroha-mom?

≫Iroha-chan’s mom, please be assured, we’ll send more membership gifts than she spends!

≫You can’t back out now, can you?

“You’ve got to be kidding me! Fine, I’ll do it! But you have no idea what’ll happen to me afterward~!”

≫Well said!

≫That’s the spirit, Iroha-chan! (U.S.)

≫Now! Send the gifts, send them all!

≫[Sent a membership gift to Fu~~~san from Yamata Orochi]

Half-crying, I kept pulling the gacha while ignoring the incessant notifications on my smartphone. But Ah-nee still wouldn’t come out. Meanwhile, the membership gifts kept pouring in at an unbelievable pace.

≫Your luck is as bad as ever lol

≫[Sent a membership gift to Rainwind BlackCat from Okano-shita]

≫I’ll sell a kidney to send a gift for Iroha! (U.S.)

“You don’t need to sell a kidney! Just your heart is enough!”

≫She wants a heart instead of one of her two kidneys!?

≫What a greedy girl, Iroha-chan!

≫If she demands it, I have no choice, I’ll go sell my heart (U.S.)

“No, that’s not what I meant!”

While we were bantering, the comment section started to buzz. At the same time, the number of [new members] stopped increasing.

≫Huh? I sent a membership gift, but it doesn’t seem to reach anyone (Korean)

≫Yeah, me too. Why?

≫I get it… there are too many gifts and not enough recipients!?

“Wha-whaaat!? How can that be!?”

≫Even with this huge viewership, there are leftover gifts? How many did you guys send lol

≫So basically, almost everyone watching this stream is a member?

≫The comment section is a sea of green, hilarious

≫Someone please count the total number of gifts sent (U.S.)

≫Damn! Why can you only join a membership once!?

≫Hey, everyone! Get more fans in here, quick!

“I-I mean… if there aren’t enough people, there’s no need to push yourselves to send more gifts, right?”

≫[Sent a membership gift to Kurosis from Indo Taro]

≫Oh, new people joining?

≫I advertised everywhere! Told all my friends and followers!

≫Everyone, advertise more on Ekiss and other platforms!

≫Isn’t that Tmitter!?

≫I don’t care what you call it! Twitter forever!

“Please come quickly, Ah-nee~~!”

It took quite some time before I finally got a complete set of A-nee. By then, the [new members] count… well, I stopped counting. The stream not only trended at number one but also made numerous news headlines. It went down in VTuber history as [The Legendary Membership Stream]—.

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[So, umm, I’d like to collaborate with you, since we’re both superchat stars]

“I’m not a superchat star!?”

A VTuber approached me for a collab the day after. When I asked what kind of stream they had in mind…

[I want to do a ‘Learning Foreign Languages Through Dirty Jokes’ stream with you]

What the heck!?