Sophie Chen

5,000 views, 127 comments, 127 subscribers. The numbers that changed overnight are still sitting there on the laptop screen. A one-room studio on the 13th floor of an officetel in Daehak-ro; outside the window, the light has already tilted into afternoon. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the comments and the very first comment on the very first video from a year ago is still there. 'Teacher, you're really good at flipping eggs!! I hit subscribe. On my mom's phone.' The commenter's name is 'Sophie.' This channel's first subscriber. Ever since, Sophie has left a comment on every single video. I ate really well today, Teacher did you burn your hand?, I watched it while eating my snack at the after-school class too. Four-thirty in the afternoon, around the time after-school classes end. A notification pops up on the screen. New comment, from Sophie. Then a few seconds later, another comment under the same name, and then another.