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Kano bit her bottom lip in anticipation, her eyes feeling slightly bloodshot from reading over the comments under her latest video posted to Uwutube, the global video site where people shared everything from commentary to game clips and song covers.

She knew she was supposed to be sleeping with school on the next day, but the comments under her newest video gnawed her awake, instead continuously scrolling on her phone under the sheets of her bed.

It was her second video since her year-long hiatus; this time, the video was 15 minutes instead of 10. The topic remained on the same subject, the rising actor, Asakura Joma.

Honestly, she didn’t think she needed to make a follow-up video on him. She thought she’d already covered it quite clearly in the initial video, but the comments in it demanded more.

Not that her initial video hadn’t been well received – a few comments that stuck with her in particular were:

@Urululu: ‘We forget that idols are just people too.’

@Armin.do: ‘I don’t know this guy, but watching your videos makes me interested in checking out his entire discography to support him.’

@h8n4mi: ‘I was thinking it was all Asajo, but your theory makes so much sense and explains a lot with what he has to put up with.’

Her second video though... something had shifted with the reception. There were more noticeable criticisms – comments that picked apart her intent, questioned her credibility, and just argued for the sake of it.

@Fast008: ‘Good video, but when are you going back to posting edits?”

@Ayerem: ‘Imagine spending your time acting like you know a celebrity personally and resorting to badmouthing him online. Get a life.”

@Rice_etoile: ‘Your first video was well put together, but this second one feels a lot more personal this time around. Are you sure you’re not letting bias cloud your views?’

@momoT33: ‘I don’t think you should be the one speaking out about this type of stuff in the first place, @Takuwano.’

@Shinsekai: ‘What a bunch of baseless claims.’

@F0am: ‘Why do you even care?’

Kano rubbed her face tiredly before brushing back her brownish pink dishevelled fringe and short bangs, the blanket ruffling slightly from her ministrations. She had half the mind to just delete comments that contributed nothing to the conversation, but the insults themselves didn’t bother her personally; she’d already faced plenty of internet backlash from covering a scandal last year.

The first comment though… She couldn’t deny that she, too, missed the days when she spent hours on her computer, editing scenes of various stage plays, all for the love of sharing them online.

But covering a topic like this wasn’t for her or for the viewer's curiosity. It was a necessary obligation to protect the identity of who he was dating. A long-term friend of hers who doesn’t deserve to get dragged by the public into the spotlight: Saki.