Few days before the Virtual Media Conference of the upcoming iWantTFC anthology series “Click Like Share,” one of The Gold Squad members, Andrea Brillantes, made a buzz on social media about her crying scene. The crying was because of her first-ever Game Livestream, in which she played Mobile Legend Bang Bang or MLBB. Andrea detailed her crying video at the media conference, where I asked the question.
“Kailan lang diba nagpost ka na umiiyak ka regarding dun sa first Livestream mo, first game Livestream mo. Kamusta naman yong experience mo dun sa game Livestream mo na umabot ng 600K yong views nya? Ano yong reaction mo dun? Binasa mo ba yong mga comments? (Recently, you posted your crying scene regarding your first Livestream, first game Livestream. How was the experience doing the game Livestream that garnered 600K views? What was your reaction to it? Did you read the comments?)”
Andrea openly shared her experience and struggle in doing the Livestream. From preparations up to the actual stream.
“Sa totoo lang po, hindi po ako marunong sa mga techie na stuff po. Wala pa yung live stream hirap na po ako. Wala pa po yung live stream hirap na po akong magsetup ang daming kailangan i-download, ang daming kailangan ayusin. Dun pa lang po pa-give up na ko kasi hindi nahahandle ng utak ko yon eh. Sanay ako sa script, monologue, hindi ako sanay sa mga kyime kyime na ganyan. Tapos hindi pa po maayos yong wifi connection ko kaya umabot sa three parts yong livestream ko kasi hindi kinaya ng wifi ko. Pero hindi ano na lang, kailangan ko ito gawin. Dun na lang ako kumapit. Tapos ginawa ko na yong first live stream. Kabadong kabado ho talaga ako kasi ayaw kong naglilivestream kasi bilang artista marami na agad magco-comment sayo artista lang ang pangit hindi marunong maglaro, tapos magli-livestream ako GrandMaster lang naman po ako. Hindi po ako magaling at inaamin ko naman po yon eh. Pero kasi kilala ko mga tao sa FB kahit mga simpleng bagay pagtatawanan ka nila. “
Though Andrea was not into live streaming, the best part is she put up her courage to go live with her game. It always takes that single step in doing the things unfamiliar to us.
According to Andrea, her live stream had three parts because of two things, one, she’s not familiar or doesn’t have any idea of what to say, and, second, was because of a bad internet connection that made one of her games went lagging.
“Tapos nung natapos na sabi ko, “hay tapos na.” Tapos pagtingin ko ng views umabot po ako ng 470K plus and sobrang thankful po ako.”
And when she finally finished the whole stream, her mistake was to read the comments. Unfortunately, there are undesirable comments that made her cry.
“Tapos ang pagkakamali ko tumingin po ako sa comments, tapos ang dami nilang sinabi na mag regen ako, pero umuwi, basta ang dami. Tapos tumakbo po ako, tapos umiyak lang po ako sa mama ko. As in umiiyak ako the whole time. Sabi ko, “Ma, feeling ko napahiya talaga ako. Nahihiya talaga ako.”
So, whether she would have another try to live stream, her response is, “Malaking bayad po para mapa-oo ako. Ayaw ko na ulit, nahihiya po talaga ako. (It will take a big amount of talent fee before I’ll do it again. I’m really embarrassed.)”
After the interview, she did mention that she’ll be having a round-up MLBB game with AkoSiDogie, one of the known gamer in the Philippines.
Andrea Brillantes, together with The Gold Squad team, Kyle Echarri, Francine Diaz, and Seth Fedelin, stars in each of this Anthology Series “Click Like Share” together with some of the members of the Squad Plus.
