Seems like yami baito, but it surely seems it’s an otome recreation job.
Just lately, there’s been a number of discuss in Japan about yami baito, or “darkish part-time jobs.” The final situation goes one thing like this: a help-wanted posting seems, normally on-line, for some form of part-time job that gives excessive pay for straightforward work. As soon as an applicant contacts the employer for extra details about the tantalizing provide, they get roped into serving to with one thing unlawful equivalent to theft or fraud, usually being set as much as take the autumn as a substitute of the organizer in the event that they get caught.
So a help-wanted advert for a part-time job the place you receives a commission simply to talk on-line with younger ladies would possibly sound prefer it ought to instantly set off yami baito alarms. It being a full-remote job with versatile work hours solely provides to the sense that the deal is just too good to be true, or not less than too good to be authorized, proper?
However it seems that it is a respectable, lawful gig, because it’s being listed by way of En-gage, a good job-hunting web site. So why is Ace, the corporate providing the place, prepared to pay you to talk with ladies? As a result of they’re working an otome recreation, a relationship simulator for girls, they usually need somebody to write down responses to the in-game messages gamers can ship to their digital would-be boyfriends.
The needed advert describes the job as:
“Applicant will tackle the position of characters within the chat-style otome recreation app that our firm is working, creating and sending responses to messages from gamers.”
As for workflow, the “response workers member” will begin their shift by logging into the sport’s administrative system and checking for unanswered messages from gamers. After selecting one to reply to, the response workers member will evaluate the current chat log between the participant and character and craft an acceptable response, protecting in thoughts the character’s character and elegance of expression, then ship the reply and transfer on to the subsequent unanswered message.
▼ It’s really good to know that Ace cares sufficient to supply gamers with personally crafted messages, not simply pre-canned responses or janky AI ones.
No particular required abilities apart from typing are specified, although presumably viable candidates may even want a sure diploma of eloquence in written Japanese. Hourly pay ranges from 1,150 to 2,100 yen (US$7.65 to US$14), although it’s unclear if that’s depending on the amount or high quality of messages despatched. Ace says they’re trying to rent not less than 10 response workers members, and aspiring honey drippers can apply by way of the En-gage web site right here.
Supply: En-gage by way of Jin
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