Siblings Work in Business (26)
Video
Filming for O-Tube started the day we were preparing for our second busking performance…
When the CEO brought a GoPro camera from somewhere.
“What are you doing?”
“What do you mean, I’m obviously arranging the sound…”
Lee Eun-ji glanced back and then stopped mid-sentence.
“What’s that?”
“A camera.”
“A camera?”
“Yeah.”
“The one for O-Tube?”
“Yeah.”
Lee Eun-ji glared at me.
“Does it bother you?”
“Of course it does.”
“Haha.”
“Stop laughing and get out. I need to focus.”
Eun-ji’s index finger pointed at the door.
But if I had intended to leave, I wouldn’t have come in in the first place.
“Let me film a little.”
“Why?!”
Lee Eun-ji raised her voice when I asked, holding the camera towards her.
Getting proper permission from her was close to impossible.
Of course…
That was true for the me before the regression.
“You look cool.”
“Who?”
“You.”
The past me would never have said such flattering words.
“Ugh! Stop it.”
Lee Eun-ji rubbed her arm roughly, but she seemed to like the compliment, smiling.
“Let me film. Just a little.”
When I asked again, Lee Eun-ji sighed deeply and then turned back to her screen irritably.
Was that a rejection?
“…Fine. Be quiet while you film.”
“Okay.”
Thankfully, it seemed like my flattering words had worked.
♬♬♪♬
I filmed Lee Eun-ji.
As she requested, I filmed quietly, without even the sound of my breathing.
I filmed Lee Eun-ji layering sounds over the melody.
‘Was it 2 years from now, or 3…?’
Before the regression, I thought only broadcasters or weirdos filmed their daily lives with expensive cameras like this.
But soon after, daily vlog videos became a trend.
Following the changing times, expensive equipment like this became common not just in broadcasting stations, but also among individuals.
Looking at the black GoPro camera reminded me of that time before the regression.
Around the time vlogs were trending…
It was Lee Eun-ji, not me, who first suggested filming daily vlogs.
When Lee Eun-ji suggested, “Let’s film sibling vlogs”…
My answer was,
「“Who would watch the daily life of a loser like me? Don’t do useless things and just write in your diary.”」
I gave such a foolish answer because I didn’t know how much influence it would have.
In the end, Lee Eun-ji started her own channel, ‘Lee Eun G.’
And the number of subscribers started to grow around the time Lee Eun-ji’s music became popular, quickly surpassing 2.6 million.
It was an unbelievable growth rate.
‘Lee Eun G,’ with 2.6 million subscribers, generated enough income to run a small company.
‘Lee Eun G’ wasn’t even affiliated with the company.
Around the time the channel surpassed 10,000 subscribers, the CEO signed a contract with Eun-ji, promising not to be greedy and giving her all the profits generated from the channel.
But I didn’t know that my refusal would come back to bite me.
After Lee Eun-ji passed away…
On various channels…
Even reporters from news outlets I had never heard of started calling me a ‘crazy bastard obsessed with his sister’s inheritance.’
After I finally came to my senses, I spoke up, but the more I did, the louder the noise around me became.
Rumors spread like wildfire.
Even CEO Park’s NRY Entertainment, where we were signed, wasn’t safe.
That’s when I realized the power of ‘video.’
I knew, but it was too late.
It was a time when no one would pay attention to us, even if we started.
That’s why…
‘It would be nice to have content that could promote us and make us popular…’
Because of the hardships deeply etched in my memory, I naturally thought of the growth of Lee Eun-ji’s personal channel.
‘So this time, let’s be ahead of the game.’
Lee Eun-ji’s hands, focused on arranging the music, moved busily between the keyboard and mouse.
A simple laughing sound, after repeated distortion, had become a strange sound, replacing the snare.
‘How does she come up with these things so effortlessly?’
Staring at Lee Eun-ji’s image captured on camera, I felt a strange sensation.
Only her face retained traces of my playful, mischievous little sister.
Just as I was admiring the unique rhythm Lee Eun-ji created…
“Lee Eun-ho.”
“Ah, you scared me.”
I flinched, startled as if I had been caught stealing.
“Haha, why are you so surprised? Film this.”
“What? You told me not to film earlier.”
“Then get out of my room.”
“Okay, okay. I’ll film it. So fickle.”
As I approached to film the screen Lee Eun-ji pointed at…
She was grinning mischievously, which I found unsettling.
The moment I saw the screen…
I immediately understood why she asked me to film it.
“Why are you wasting your talent on this?”
On the MIDI program window, there was a drawing of a fish head with the words “Lee Eun-ho’s face” written next to it.
“Hey.”
“What?”
“Draw a pumpkin next to it.”
“Why?”
“Because it’s your face. Ouch!”
I groaned, clutching my side after Lee Eun-ji punched me.
But her reaction to my words was exactly what I expected, and I chuckled.
“Revenge.”
I turned the camera and filmed Lee Eun-ji’s messy room.
Lee Eun-ji, seemingly unaware of what I was doing, tilted her head in question.
“Hey! Lee Eun-ho!”
After I filmed about half of her room…
Lee Eun-ji seemed to realize what I was doing and got up from her chair.
She belatedly tried to cover the camera, but it was too late.
“I already filmed it all.”
Then…
A hand flew towards my face.
“Ahaha.”
“Agh! Delete it!”
“I don’t know how to delete! Hahaha!”
“Give me the camera!”
I ran to my room, dodging Lee Eun-ji’s hand, which was aiming for my face.
“…Ha…”
CEO Park sighed deeply, rubbing his forehead, as he watched the video Eun-ho left behind.
He had anticipated that the kids wouldn’t suddenly become mature in front of the camera.
But…
‘I didn’t expect them to be this much like their usual selves…’
CEO Park was using keyboard shortcuts, showing off his old, swift editing skills.
—You look cool.
—Who?
—You.
—Ugh! Stop it!
Click. Click.
—You.
—…Fine.
With a few mouse clicks and keyboard shortcuts, Eun-ji’s curse words disappeared, and her reply was connected smoothly.
CEO Park removed the pranks from the MIDI window in the video and left only the cool shots of Eun-ji working.
‘Hmm…’
After removing all the potentially problematic parts, he reviewed the edited video…
But he wasn’t satisfied.
Perhaps because the raw footage, despite the mess, better captured their relationship and personalities.
Eun-ho and Eun-ji’s behavior in their private space was completely different from their public image.
Especially Eun-ho, who recently acted as Eun-ji’s guardian in public and was good at socializing, even smiling at people he disliked.
‘And Eun-ji didn’t yell even once while working with Composer Payoff…’
CEO Park had contacted Engineer Yoo Jong-woo, who worked with them at the time, to understand the ‘disagreement’ with Composer Payoff.
And when he learned the details…
“Eun-ji… continued recording despite that pressure?”
CEO Park, momentarily forgetting his anger at Payoff, was genuinely surprised by Eun-ji’s behavior.
He had expected her to yell and storm out at least once.
—Eun-ho tried to calm Eun-ji down several times… I barely survived thanks to the coffee Eun-ho brought me every morning.
Once at Eun-ho’s actions…
And again at the fact that Eun-ji didn’t explode despite the pressure…
CEO Park gasped repeatedly in surprise at Engineer Yoo Jong-woo’s story.
‘This was unimaginable before…’
That’s when he realized how much Eun-ho had changed.
As Eun-ho changed, Eun-ji, who was closest to him, also changed.
Eun-ji always kept a wall up around everyone except Eun-ho.
Having no one to rely on, she always kept her guard up like a porcupine, protecting herself.
Eun-ji was like a ticking time bomb.
But recently, Eun-ji had been learning to draw boundaries in her relationships, imitating Eun-ho.
‘Those kids, who seemed like mere children, have grown so much.’
CEO Park saved the edited video and then opened the raw footage.
His lips curved into a gentle smile as he looked at the video with an affectionate gaze.
—Hey.
—What?
—Draw a pumpkin next to it.
—Why?
—Because it’s your face. Ouch! Revenge.
—Hey! Lee Eun-ho!
Hahaha.
CEO Park burst out laughing as the fish head MIDI window appeared on the screen.
But as Eun-ji’s messy room, which looked like a clothes bomb had exploded, appeared, he sighed briefly with a smile and quickly started working.
‘I need to schedule a dorm cleaning once a week…’
He replaced the scene of Eun-ji’s room with a video of a cat.
It was a video of his calico cat, added to protect Eun-ji’s privacy.
—I already filmed it all. Ahaha.
—Agh! Delete it!
—I don’t know how to delete! Hahaha!
After the cat disappeared, the video shook wildly, as if Eun-ho was running away.
But CEO Park liked the scene because it added a sense of dynamism.
‘It’s a mess, but…’
The raw footage definitely captured their daily lives better than the edited version.
So he was conflicted.
Whether to upload the well-edited, ‘good’ video for their clean public image…
‘Their “good” side will be shown on broadcasts anyway…’
CEO Park, leaning back in his chair, thought rationally as a businessman.
About an hour later…
A video was uploaded to the newly created ‘NRY Entertainment’ O-Tube channel.
[Daily Life of Real Siblings ‘E-UNG’]
🥹 lob you CEO, you da real dad