The game-playing girl: watched by hundreds of thousand people
Into the Internet Context
Part of Annie’s business is on the live broadcasting software, where she can interact with the audience in a real-time chatroom.
Facing the Internet world, she had been attacked by netizens with different sorts of accusations – always happening online.
She would not counter-attack on them because she thinks it is “not necessary to admit or explain”.
Solely being herself is enough.
“You do not need so consume energy on haters. It is hard to alter their attitude on themselves. Let them find out the truth with time. It is fine if they do not change; there are plenty of people liking me. That is fine enough.” This is her viewpoint towards negativity.
She sometimes tries to teach the audeince how to hang out with people. This is also why some watchers would call her "Mama Annie".
“You do not need to consume energy on haters. It is hard to change their attitude on themselves. Let them find out the truth with time. It is fine if they do not change; there are plenty of people liking me. That is fine enough.”
-- Annie, the "Mama" game broadcaster
But still, she chose to broadcast without showing her face back then, though many members of the audience always asked her to show it.
As a public known individual, she knew that she would be attacked by some netizens and making herself anonymous could keep her from being disturbed on the street.
“I could not have predicted what would happen if I revealed my face,” she says, “Given that my fans are rather young.”
According to her, the decision disclosed in January was a little breakthrough in her life and she could expose herself to more possibilities.
For example, she made a video of her changing make-up with another streamer.
It is in fact a bit inconvenient not to show her face. When she was invited to go to an activity, she had to cover herself up and this was a bit embarrassed.
She also says this lowers a bit of her workload since she does not need to hide away her face, which is a troublesome job, when producing videos.
After everyone knew how she looked like, many followers always posted an ugly face of her in the comments of her fans page. She did not feel irritated, and actually, she had prepared things like this would happen.
The first video of her showing her face was a trial on the Virtual Reality. Link: 【魚乾】Oculus初體驗！大爆暈的G2A Land！
