Chapter 284: Chapter 284

Recognized for her acting talent from a young age, she became the benchmark for child actors.

At just eleven years old, she entered the ranks of ten-million-ticket-selling actors through her lead role in To Busan.

Even after the peak of her child acting career, Da-yeon continued to be referred to as “a prime example of a child actor who transitioned successfully.”

Her acting career remained active to this day.

With a longer acting résumé than most, her status as an actress was already well-established despite being only twenty years old.

ㄴ Was that seriously ㅇㄱ ㅈㅉㅇㅇ? 🤯

ㄴ Ahem. It’s not Lee Ha-eun. It’s Diah~ 🙃

ㄴ Please delete this post 😭😭😭😭

Charisma stemming from Da-yeon’s naturally sharp features.

Acting skill backed by a long and solid portfolio.

Reputation built up naturally through an uninterrupted streak of projects.

No controversies in her personal life either—Da-yeon was walking a flawless path as an actress.

The advertising industry, too, never stopped calling for her.

ㄴ But ta-da? Turns out there’s no such thing as “never” in this world 🎭

ㄴ Everyone being collectively stunned is too funny 🤣🤣

ㄴ You’ve realized it, come to Diah Gallery 😏

ㄴ You’ve realized it, come to the Lee Ha-eun Fan Café 🤭

ㄴ You’ve realized it, come to the Pinocchio Mini Gallery 😳

ㄴ How many fucking places is it supposed to be 😩

Right now, Da-yeon was starring in Director Sung Chan-wook’s new film Parasite Family, shooting alongside her famously close friend, Ha-eun.

Much like Ha-eun, whose acceptance into the prestigious Yeryeo University’s International Studies department became a hot topic—

Da-yeon too was set to enter Yeryeo University, majoring in Performing Arts.

It had already made the news that she would appear as a guest on the popular variety show Dinner Together.

To many, the name Min Da-yeon was familiar—her face, even more so.

Title > Summary of the Current Situation—Is This For Real?

By: YouMadeItAwkward | 03:21

1. Around 1 AM, Hida called Diah (Lee Ha-eun).

2. The moment Diah (Lee Ha-eun) answered, she called Hida “Da-yeon” (no doubt about it: Min Da-yeon).

3. In a sleepy voice, she congratulated “Hyemin unnie” (Daramsi’s real name) on graduating—and then abruptly ended the stream.

(A meme of a famous frog character drooling with a dumb expression 🐸💤)

What the fck is this situation even 😵‍💫;;

ㄴ Turns out Hida is actually Min Da-yeon, and Daramsi is planning to graduate her soon 🥲

ㄴ How the hell should I know 🤷

ㄴ I can’t lose our witch noooooooooooo 😭😭😭😭😭😭

ㄴ I’m going insane I’m going insane I’m going insane I’m going insane I’m going insane I’m going insane I’m going insane I’m going insane 😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵

Hearing the name “Da-yeon” in Hida’s late-night stream—a place you wouldn’t normally associate with the actress Min Da-yeon—

and the fact that Diah, who is already confirmed to be Lee Ha-eun, casually called Hida “Da-yeon,”

set the internet and social media on fire in the middle of the night 🔥📱

The fact that Ha-eun and Da-yeon are best friends was already common knowledge.

And the only person Ha-eun would ever call “Da-yeon” is the actress Min Da-yeon.

The real identity of Hida, 2nd-gen VTuber of Illusionary Realm, was Min Da-yeon.

The bizarre revelation that a red-pilled VTuber turned out to be a famous actress had once again flipped the internet upside down 🤯💥

ㄴ Probably because it looked fun since Ha-eun was doing it, so she joined as a 2nd-gen to tag along 🤓

To be precise, it was already known that Da-yeon had some interest in VTubing.

A Diah keyring had been spotted dangling from her handbag when she walked the red carpet at the KBC Acting Awards a while back 👜✨

But now that it’s a confirmed fact that Diah is her best friend, Ha-eun—

and that very Diah just called Hida by the name “Da-yeon”—

the once-baseless theory that “Hida’s red pill is Min Da-yeon” suddenly gained massive traction, now backed by a mountain of circumstantial evidence 🧠📈

ㄴ Shocking Fact: Diah’s hiatus period and Hida’s hiatus period match perfectly 🤯

ㄴ Shocking Fact #2: Lee Ha-eun and Min Da-yeon were together in the Maldives 🏝️

ㄴ Shocking Fact #3: Hida’s return stream date is the exact same as Min Da-yeon’s return to Korea ✈️

ㄴ Shocking Fact #4: Hida herself said she went “on a trip with a friend” during the hiatus 🧳

ㄴ How could you resist making your friend play a co-op game <<< for real 🎮💬

ㄴ And her reactions were flawless too... 😋

ㄴ Everything just keeps clicking into place 🧩✅

The current situation mirrored what happened just a few weeks ago—

Once someone tried linking a celebrity and a VTuber who seemed totally unrelated,

the strange number of connections that lined up perfectly was... eerie 😨

Just like the whole Diah red pill scandal that happened weeks earlier,

the same sequence was repeating again.

Evidence kept piling up pointing to Hida being Da-yeon, and posts analyzing Hida’s VTuber activity flooded in.

This translation is the intellectual property of Novelight.

Title > Collection of Mentions of Illusionary Realm’s 2nd-Gen Hida

By: WitchLoveDog | 07:01

(Nael stream clip link)

Nael: When I first saw Hida, I couldn’t even talk to her properly. She’s younger than me, but I couldn’t speak comfortably. 😖

(Yun stream clip link)

Yun: She’s younger, but I just couldn’t act familiar with her. I’m trying to get closer, but it’s not easy 😅

(Ocean stream clip link)

Ocean: The youngest is seriously amazing. Even if she’s not good at games, that’s okay. (goes on to express respect) 🙇‍♀️

(Neon stream clip link)

Neon: I haven’t even held her hand yet. She’s so much younger, I want to hug her or pinch her cheeks, but we’re still in the getting-to-know-you phase 🥺🤏

ㄴ I just thought Hida was super introverted, but now it makes sense why she was like that 😲

ㄴ I mean, imagine having a celebrity in your debut group 🤐

ㄴ If it’s Min Da-yeon, yeah... that’d be hard to approach 😬

ㄴ Huh... this feels familiar 🤔

ㄴ Surprise! The way people talked about Diah when the 1st-gens debuted was very similar

ㄴ Didn’t Diah totally approach everyone first before debut? I remember 1st-gens saying she made the first move 👀

Title > Why Daramsi Is Terrifying as Hell

(Daramsi's “Illusionary Realm Debut Prep Complete” YouTube video link)

Daramsi: “But it turns out the youngest was a fa—no, a dedicated viewer of ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) mine since the New World TV days. I was seriously shocked.”

Made Lee Ha-eun manage her stream when she was seven.

Back then, New World TV basically meant Animal Kingdom.

And then at eighteen, she got a celebrity to debut as a VTuber.

At the time, Lee Ha-eun was in the middle of filming The Moonlight That Parts the Clouds 😵

(Illusionary Realm 2nd-gen Hida’s debut stream clip)

“Hm? What do I like? Hmmm... Should I even say this~?”

“I like kids. Their meat’s soft and tender. It tastes good.”

“Was that a shot at Diah-senpai? ...Hehe, that’s a secret~”

Gave Min Da-yeon a cannibal witch RP and turned a working actress into a literal cannibal 🫠

And she was still underage at the time, being treated like a 600-year-old cage hen 🐔;;

(Illusionary Realm group stream ‘Cops and Robbers’ clip)

“Your mission is to infiltrate the ‘WeLoveDiah Club’ and take them down from the inside. Can you handle it?”

“You’ll be helping your teammates as a spy from the ‘WeLoveDiah Club.’ Locate the cops and help everyone escape. Think you can do it?”

“Y-your voice is too quiet!! Can you do it!!”

Got two ten-million-ticket-selling actresses to roleplay as cop and thief spies—for zero appearance fee 💀

Live viewership: 90,000 people 🤯

(Illusionary Realm 1st-gen Illusion concert video)

(Illusionary Realm 2nd-gen group song video link)

Made Lee Ha-eun and Min Da-yeon do a full 3D live VTuber concert and group song recording 🎤🎶

Daramsi <<< Now I get why she’s the boss 😭👏

ㄴ Looking at it ... yeah, it makes no damn sense

ㄴ So then what’s up with Hida’s graduation? 🤔

ㄴ Did Daramsi get some kind of blackmail on her or something? 😬

ㄴ I guess you can’t just start a company for no reason...

ㄴ All that’s left now is marriage and she’s perfect

ㄴ Don’t go saying some dumb shit like “what kind of man would marry a 3X lady” 😤

Just as the internet was blowing up with all the chaos surrounding Hida,

A video was uploaded to Hida’s official YouTube channel—

Clarifying just one single rumor.

ㄴ Fuuuck I can breathe now 😭

What caught everyone off guard was that the explanation video didn’t feature virtual avatars—

People who seemed to be the very celebrities alleged to be the red-pilled Diah and Hida 😳

Of course, from the shoulders up, their faces were edited to use Diah and Hida’s avatar images.

But their silhouettes from the shoulders down looked way too much like those famous celebrities to deny 🕵️‍♀️

“Senpai. Do you realize what you did wrong?”

A woman, seated in a computer chair inside a pristine soundproof booth, looking down.

“I-I’m so sorryyy... I mistook you for someone else...!” 😭🙇‍♀️

Another woman, kneeling right in front of the chair, both hands raised.

“You cut me off before I could even say I was streaming, so now there’s a huge misunderstanding.”

“What are you going to do now? Everyone thinks I’m graduating. And not that kind of graduation either.”

“Y-yeah. I’ll definitely let people finish their sentences from now on... I won’t ever interrupt again...”

There was no mistaking it—the voices belonged to Hida and Diah.

The edited faces were literally their profile images.

But since both their red pills were already widely accepted as fact,

Even with their faces completely edited, it was obvious who they were 😮

The video ended with Diah doing a handstand in place and declaring,

“Our Hida will keep streaming!”

And instead of a 3D avatar, it was real-life Diah doing a deep bow to show her apology.

That moment made the internet explode again 🤯🔥

ㄴ Comments are already going wild

ㄴ Certified emotional damage 🫡

ㄴ Red pill cracked? “Lee Ha-eun” “Min Da-yeon”

ㄴ LOL what are you normies even gonna do to real celebrities 😂

And so, the Diah-Hida red pill incident reached what people call "Mount SuperFun."

The rumor about Hida’s “graduation” was finally revealed—

It wasn’t about graduating from VTubing, but literally graduating from high school 😵‍💫🎓

[ Oh no... are they gonna think we’re celebrities too? ]

[ Look at the fan café already going nuts, Senpai. They’re comparing every tiny voice similarity.... ]

[ Is there no celeb among the 3rd-gens? If not, people are gonna be disappointed. ]

[ Seriously? Two’s more than enough. Honestly, even one was already unbelievable. ]

The Illusionary Realm group Discord call was flooded with talk about Ha-eun and Da-yeon.

For the ordinary folks in the agency, being mistaken for celebrities like Ha-eun and Da-yeon was a seriously surreal experience 😅

Meanwhile, interest in both LUX and Illusionary Realm continued to skyrocket 📈

Even after the chaos from Diah’s red pill, the attention tripled after Hida’s.

Even people who weren’t involved in VTubing began reacting.

Now that both Ha-eun and Da-yeon were getting tons of focus from communities,

Others started trying to cash in on the buzz too.

“Hello, this is PD Lee Seong-cheol from My Little Live.”

A new variety show from UBS, a public broadcast network.

The concept: famous celebrities livestreaming and communicating with fans in real-time.

And they cast both Ha-eun and Da-yeon at the same time 🤯

“So the person who gets the most live viewers earns points... Um...”

“Da-yeon-ah. Let’s do it. Sounds fun.”

“...People are going to lose it, you know.”

“It’s fine. Nothing’s going to change now anyway.”

“Well yeah, but... I seriously don’t know anymore...” 😵