@smughus closer to 35,000 usd nowadays

@Adler Isaac you'd have to be a bit more specific about what exact he was right about. He is right in that they are short changing Almond but I'm not sure if thats because the author doesn't understand how much Streamers at Almonds level makes or if its because they are genuinely trying to sc*** him over. IRL they would probably be laughed out of the meeting for offering such a low amount of money for a 3-month contract even with their own projections for his audience. Even if you ignored the managers arguement about Almonds growth potential, and used the mobile game companies estimated viewership for Almond, 20 million won is significantly less than he should be paid. The only way I could see that as an acceptable amount is if he was paid 20 million won per stream for those 3 months and he has to play their mobile game for at least an hr per stream.

All of this is also ignoring them using his likeness for a hero in the game. He should also be receiving a royalty for every purchase of his hero as a set percentage of sales cost. Let's say he does the sponsored stream, makes it into a youtube video, that youtube video gets his average 300,000 viewers and 1% of them download the game and buy his hero. That would be roughly 3,000 purchases. If we assume its roughly 30,000 won to buy the hero, which is lowballing it significantly for many mobile games, thats 90,000,000 won just from them purchasing his hero that doesn't include any other in app purchases they do in the course of playing the game. This also assumes a direct to purchase market in the game which is fairly rare in mobile games from what I understand, they usually go for a gacha style.

@Ethan Elliot ahh yeah I was refering to the story not irl

@Ethan Elliot I'm sure others have done it before him from what I understand its an art dating back 100s of years but in modern times Lars anderson is generally the person who comes up when you look up curving/turning arrows so I assume he'd be the inspiration unless the author has said otherwise.

@Justarandomguy so technically speaking you can do most of the shots he does with a regular bow and arrow but for the 180 degree shots you'd need to make/get special arrows. Look up "Lars Anderson 360" or "Lars Anderson turning arrows" he does a lot of similar stuff to Almond; to the point that I wouldn't be surprised if he was the inspiration for the curved shooting.