Gamer Superstar

35  [Bonus Chapter] 35 - Reviewing the contract

While the system continued to analyze the data, I took the opportunity to open my MeTube channel and check my analytics while Ethan was still asleep.

It was still 9 a.m., and since it was Sunday, I thought it would be rude to wake him up just because I was excited about recording a song, so I continued doing tasks I could do in silence.

[Numb - 127,983 views] +16,973 views

[In The End - 58,808 views] + 19,698 views

[10,356 subscribers] + 421 subs

The growth of my channel has been very good! The songs grew a lot and at a very good rate!

For a channel that only had two videos, I already had 10,000 subscribers and almost 200,000 views on my songs, which was a huge number!

It was a very small number compared to the people who were viralizing their songs on TikTok in my old world, but it still showed that my growth was going in the right direction.

Monetized views: 101,005

Since my channel's RPM was about $0.70, this meant that my channel had earned about $70 in monetized views.

Was that a lot of money? No, but it was money that I had earned through my own efforts.

I wouldn't be able to withdraw it until I earned $100, but it was very satisfying to see the number grow for the time being.

After an hour of analyzing the channel's views and how I could make it grow faster, Ethan woke up, giving me enough time to record The Lazy Song.

Since it was a song I already knew how to play and sing, it only took me 3 minutes to record the song, and man, the difference between the cell phone microphone I was using to record before and the quality of the microphone Quacktus gave me to record was gigantic.

Comparing the quality of the songs I'd recorded before with The Lazy Song clearly showed the difference in quality between the two microphones.

Since I had created a 2D character to represent myself in the clips I would make for the songs, instead of just leaving a static image on the screen while the music played, I decided to use my skills to create an animation of The Lazy Song.

Following the idea of the original song from my old world, I made my character wear a casual outfit in his room while 5 other guys were around him in casual clothes but wearing animal masks.

To avoid getting into political arguments with people trying to understand why the guys around me were wearing monkey masks, I just decided to have each guy wear a different animal mask.

But even though each guy wore a different animal mask, I just used the same structure of each character doing the same thing that those characters did in the original video.

Since making a 2D animation was much more difficult than just making a single frame, it took me 2 hours to make just 20 seconds of this animation.

But I was very happy with the quality, it's not like it was a Pixar animation, but for a music video it was very good quality.

I just had to stop developing this clip because lunch was ready and I went out to eat with my family.

When we finished eating, I got a call from Selena saying she was outside my house, so I went out and said hello.

"Hey Selena." I smiled as I opened the door and waved to her, who was still sitting in the driver's seat of her car.

Seeing me, Selena got out of the car and came to meet me with a smile. "Hi Noah."

"How are you? Did you wake up okay after yesterday?" I asked, remembering that she had been drinking alcohol.

"Yes, I don't drink much so I don't have a hangover the next day, but what about you? Did you wake up okay after last night? I think I saw you drinking Toxic Lake?" She asked curiously. "At your age you shouldn't be used to drinking alcohol, right?"

I quickly approached her and covered her mouth. "Don't talk about it, my mother almost killed me when she found out I was drinking alcohol yesterday."

Seeing my reaction, Selena looked between my hand covering her mouth and me and smiled as she walked away a little lost. "All right, I won't talk about it."

Nodding my head, I led Selena into the house, where a conversation unfolded between her and my parents, explaining the nuances of the contract and clearing up any doubts we had.

"So since you're not going to be running my social media accounts, any profits I make from them belong to me, right?" I asked curiously.

"Any profit from normal views will be yours, but if we get a partnership that you have to post on your social media, 20% of the profit will be ours." Selena explained and got a nod from me because that would make sense.

It meant that if I got partnerships on my own, I would keep the money, but if they got it for me, or intervened in negotiations to get better terms for me, I would have to share the profit, which was fair.

"Okay, what about concert appearances? How will that work?" My father asked curiously.

Looking at him, Selena smiled and answered. "The shows Noah does, we get a 20% share of the profits for the duration of the contract."

"About the length of the contract, how long will it be?" my mother asked.

"The normal contract period is two years." Selena replied.

"But will my contract be fixed at Rank C for those two years? If I manage to rise to Rank B in those two years, what will happen?" I asked confused.

"If your rank rises from Rank C to Rank B, we will adjust your contract from 20% for the company to 10%, which is the standard for Rank B artists." Selena patiently explained, which made me and my family happy.

The length of the contract, two years, was longer than I expected, but it wasn't something I felt was completely absurd. I was only 17, so if I signed this now, I'd finish the contract at 19, so I wouldn't be too old, but I still had to have a few caveats.

"If AJP stops investing in me, stops putting me on shows, stops trying to grow my career, am I obligated to just watch my career die?" I asked, staring at her, because this was very important.

A very common thing was for agencies to put artists "on ice", which meant they wouldn't look for events for those artists and their fame would freeze over time, something I definitely didn't want for myself.

"If AJP can't get you deals at your rank level within 30 days, you have the right to look for deals on your own." Selena replied.

"But are there any quality criteria for those deals that the company will find for me, so that I'm free to look for other deals?" I asked suspiciously.

Understanding the reason for my doubt, Selena shook her head and replied. "I was also worried about this when I joined the company, as I had heard many stories of artists being held hostage by agencies because they didn't follow the requirements, but I was reassured when the lawyers read the contracts and confirmed that there was nothing that could trap artists in the company's fridge, so don't worry, this kind of shady deal doesn't happen at AJP."

"Can you lend me the contract to read for now?" My mother asked, reminding me that she had graduated from law school before retiring and focusing on taking care of her children due to anxiety.

With her reading the contract, I was less anxious because she could find the points of the agreements that were unclear to me.

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