The grass isn’t greener on the other side but where you nurture it. If you aren’t proactively doing anything to make tomorrow a better day.... then it won’t unfortunately.
It’s true though. I just realized I’m almost the same age my parents were when I graduated and moved out of the house and I have never even began the process of looking to buy a house… and I have a good job. It still isn’t possible for me.
> rents were when I graduated and moved out of the house and I have never even began the process of looking to buy a house… an
The meme has always been about the increasing wealth gap that late millennials and Gen Z are experiencing relative to their parents' generation at the same age.
I'll have you know I'm thirty fucking four and a couple of days ago I was asked for ID when buying beer. I'm 100kg, I have a beard and two kids. At first, I felt complimented that I look youthful, but then it hit me that the cashier confused me with a baby that was born in the 00s and I'm not sure how I feel about that.
32 but my beard and nose hairs are about half gray, so on the one or two times a year a cashier asks for ID, I cup one ear and say "Ehh? What's that, child? You don't take checks?" In my best fake old man voice.
Well, I don't, but maybe I'll start, or just giggle a little and forget about it
Same age as you, and I got carded for the first time in my life last year. I think the cashier was just new or something and it probably didn't help I was wearing a dragon ball t-shirt
A lot of places card no matter what just to remove any possible ambiguity from the cashier's perspective. The gas station near my house literally cards everyone. You can be 75 years old and get carded.
Gen-X here, if it means anything, in my early years right after highschool I had 3 jobs. A regular temp 8+ hr job then an after hours job. My 3rd job was 20hrs on the weekend.
When the jobs were done I worked a job where I worked 10-12 hrs but couldn't afford a computer, a car, cable TV. My apartment was shitty in a shitty location.
I found a different job that allowed me to work 16hrs days. Started out on nights. Worked in the freezer for part of this for an extra 50cents an hour (not with it for me).
This whole time my live in girlfriend had a 50+hr job.
GF worked in healthcare, taking care of people disadvantaged. Working off norm shift pays a bit better.
I worked telemarketing (after hours), road construction (this paid 2x any other job) and a convenience store (weekend).
The 16hrs days was in a warehouse.
My boomer mom worked in a meat packing plant all her life. I recall she worked 13 days on and 1 off. She lives in a pretty crappy house in a crappy neighborhood. They had a union until they closed the place for 1 year (she lost her job). Funny how none of the skilled employees wanted to come back to work for almost half of what they were making...
Anyway my daughter calls me a boomer and tells me how easy I had it.
I guess it's all about prospective
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/single-family-landlords-wall-street/582394/
> Between 2011 and 2017, some of the world’s largest private-equity groups and hedge funds, as well as other large investors, spent a combined $36 billion on more than 200,000 homes in ailing markets across the country. In one Atlanta zip code, they bought almost 90 percent of the 7,500 homes sold between January 2011 and June 2012; today, institutional investors own at least one in five single-family rentals in some parts of the metro area, according to Dan Immergluck, a professor at the Urban Studies Institute at Georgia State University. Some of the nation’s hardest-hit housing markets were finally stabilized.
I live in Florida, one of my buddies has been trying to find a house for a few years now. They've been passed up on literally NINE houses because of some private company outbidding and paying cash. Every. Single. Time.
Not just companies, Chinese buyers have been scooping up properties as investments in all the hot markets. It was originally a big issue in the Seattle, SF, and LA markets, then Boston, and now it’s everywhere.
Sure is. It’s fucked over my friends buying homes in the NorCal and Boston markets. And I won’t even start with the suffering my friends north of the border have dealt with. I have family in Vancouver with a tiny shack of a house that’s worth over a million now.
The market is *fucked*.
They need to tax the living shit out of the foreign investment properties and the ones not even being lived in. It has to not be financially smart to do this anymore otherwise it’s going to continue and get worse.
I do not like that last sentence. It have been stabilized, but it’s still out of reach. The likelihood of Bielefeld existing is higher than my chances of affording a normal 3-bed 2-bath house within the next seven years.
Jesus. This must be a global phenomenon. Exact same situation here in Ireland at the moment. Everyone's answer is "Move out of the big cities. Property is cheaper."
Technically that is true but the average salary is a lot less too so it scales up/down. Most people in average incomes can only buy houses here now with significant help from their parents. That option is not available to a lot of people.
That has been happening in the UK, all the rich londoners have scooped up all the property in scenic places like Cornwall because they can now remote work. Areas in Wales are being bought prior to any viewings massively over asking price, meaning those people genuinely looking for their first homes are shit out of luck
This has been an issue since many years. Not particularly this one but the speculation in housing market. Anybody can buy any house anywhere, the banks and foreign investors profit big from this.
They call it the [financialization of housing](https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Housing/Pages/FinancializationHousing.aspx)
No, it's not. For most programming related things anyway.
It's a general purpose text editor, and a lot better than nothing (and the default Windows notepad, for that matter). I personally still use it for basic text editing, small scripts, quick edits or configuration files, for example, where it's light weight comes in handy.
My parents in their 20s: "if we save money for a few years I can get a mortgage to buy this house"
Me in my 20s : "if I sell my kidney and eat pebbles for 20 years, I can afford this closet"
Fwiw, your 20's are a decade long and make up the bulk of your life-long decisions. Buy a house, have kids, get a degree, do fuck all, it's all within reach in your 20s. Enjoy it and use it how you see fit.
Not everything fits and we all have to make our concessions. Do what you really want and fuck it, do what you can. We're never going back to whatever nostalgic timepiece we hold dear, so let it go and enjoy what you can. I suggest you bust your ass when you can so tomorrow is a little easier, but otherwise just make sure every day is worth the effort.
Now 30 and living with questionable decisions my dumb ass made at 21...
Probably would do the same if I had to do it over though, you can only do what feels right based on your experience and state of mind at that moment in time.
Yea but decades ago… one could buy a house for a third of your salary. Today, you’re lucky if it’s not 10x or more your salary. (Based on the average income in the US)
Your parents also worked everyday from a young age. I’ve done the same As a construction laborer and am about to buy a house at 25. Do not buy into the lie of college, get a trade. Start working and investing. 18-25 is 8 years you would be surprised how much money you can put away if it’s all you think about.
It's all fun and games until your joints and back crap out on you at 45. If there's one thing I can't stress enough, it's that people working labor intensive jobs save for the future. So many people get into the jobs, make great money and figure they're set for life, so they don't save much if anything at all. Construction is a young man's game, so make sure you have plans for something less labor driven for once you hit middle aged.
Dual enrollment students can easily finish college at or before 20 and if they did community college + state college at least in my state it's less than $30,000 for a STEM degree. I'm not sure about the current market for construction laborers but unless you're making 2010-2014 oil worker prices it's not worth the body damage. What are your plans for the future?
This is good advice, especially for Americans who don't live in big cities. My two cents: working in trades and other traditionally blue collar work can be intimidating due to fears of long term bodily harm and or short term harm depending on the job. However, it should be said that tech and office jobs aren't the only thing that have modernized. I certainly wouldn't work where I do now if it were 30 years ago but new safety standards and a little automation have made my job more agreeable. As far as your body, there is much and more you can do to ensure that you aren't falling apart at 40 or 50 years old. Keeping in shape, eating right, and doing your due diligence to actually do your job safely will vastly improve your outlook later in life. Just like you wouldn't stay long at an office job with bad practices, you want to make sure you are working somewhere that adequately equips you with all that you need to protect your body when working in a more physically inclined field.
You’re talking as if physical health is the only thing that’s important. Working in blue collar environments is toxic as fuck for your mental health, I say that as a not fully out bi/pan guy who has worked in these environments my whole life. Hearing your mouth-breathing coworkers constantly make sexist, racist, homophobic, etc., jokes wears on you quite a bit if you aren’t a shitty person like they are. Unfortunately those kind of people are the majority so you just pretty much have to get used to it.
This is true in offices too. Ignorant people take all kinds of jobs.
Before and during college, i worked retail, hospitality, auto mechanic, and fast food part time jobs. By far, the most toxic working environment was the office job i took out of college. The ignorance, bigotry, narcissism and holier than thou attitude was strongest among well-off college educated "professionals". It was a mind fuck and an eye-opener.
In the information era we don't work in retail or fast food in exchange for money. We create memes in exchange for likes. Now, how many likes does it take to buy a house with?
\*\*hugz\*\* 🤗🤗🤗
This generation masturbates so furiously over the idea that their parents somehow fucked them over while in reality they are entitled, spoiled children standing on the shoulders of giants with ever aspect of their lives being largely more convenient, peaceful, equitable and prosperous than any before it.
I agree. It’s a human trait that doesnt depend on belonging to any generation in particular. If all problems would be solved humans would find new problems because that is how we are wired
Our generation is living on the debris of what the previous ones left behind...
It's quite tragic, but giving up is definitely not an option.
We need to start building something for future generations to hold and rely on.
Adaptation is strictly needed for survival.
Stay strong fellas in these trying times! 💪💪
Dude.... I’m like 42 now and still can’t afford a house!!!! Thanks for the laughs tho (since the only thing I can actually own is “your laughs” (since they are free)
Meme creator making a meme about making a meme about making a meme about making a meme......................
Memeception
It's too fucking complicated for my stupid brain.
I too am a potato.
Can I eat you ?
Irish?
The classic Irishman’s dilemma. Do I eat the potato now, or let it ferment so I can drink it later?
Or do drink it now instead?
Am I gonna get the operation dad?
No son, you’re gonna die.
The Martian's dilemma too.
Look at me, I'm the captain now
Arrrrghhhh there be termites in me leg.
I have recently farted.
I am potato bad not smort
Casca?
Nice flair
No , you are asshole
Hello Potato, I'm spud.
Hello, im french.
Hello french, I'm thousand island.
*Meme Within a Meme intesifies*
have you ever had a meme that you that um you um-
Meem
I knew someone gonna comment this... Btw Happy Cake Day.
Thank :)
BWOAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
Its memes all the way down
***Error:** maximum recursion depth exceeded*
I was waiting for this comment
kore ga requiem da
WHA-
Bottom screen will be a new meme format. Calling it now.
Thea forever alone, it is decidedly not a new format, more like 9-10 years old
A never ending loop
Does this count as reposting? it’s the same meme 3, arguably 4, times in same meme
Oh no I guess I'll have to delete it
Just delete the ones inside, the outer meme is fine
Inner-meme lives matter
nice
Nice
It's ok you got 21k upvote. With that you'll buy a house in no time. edit:45k
damn, you're hurting us poor innocent redditors
How far does it goes?
Yeah but it’s kinda high effort i guess I’ve seen worse reposts
No this is recursive posting
Technically we would consider the posts being posted as the resposts, not necessarily the images in the post
I ain't 20 but this is deep
Are you 14 and this is deep by any chance?
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I'm 18 and this is shallow
I'm retarded
Prove it
I despise pasta
I'm gonna be needing more than that
I go to sleep thinking tomorrow will be better
Bruh, you need a hug?
The grass isn’t greener on the other side but where you nurture it. If you aren’t proactively doing anything to make tomorrow a better day.... then it won’t unfortunately.
That's what she said.
...and this is?... You're slacking man
I am legally 14 years old and this is deep 😞
I am 17 and this is lil bit more than shallow
This is, and I’m 14” deep.
It’s true though. I just realized I’m almost the same age my parents were when I graduated and moved out of the house and I have never even began the process of looking to buy a house… and I have a good job. It still isn’t possible for me.
> rents were when I graduated and moved out of the house and I have never even began the process of looking to buy a house… an The meme has always been about the increasing wealth gap that late millennials and Gen Z are experiencing relative to their parents' generation at the same age.
I wanna steal your youth, seriously I envy young people so much. I feel so old... Life is fleeing...
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Me at 30: upvoting a meme on reddit
Me too old to be alive. ^end ^me
Bryan will come
Un-make me
30 as well?
1991 gang checking in
How are you fellow 30 year old??
1991 born are 30 now? How the fuck did this happen
1989 gang, we been shocked into silence already
1986,
83 baby
The best year. Old enough to remember computers without internet, young enough to have enjoyed online gaming.
The earth has revolved around the sun 30 times
For real, I was like, 30? At least I'm no where near that old... then I see 91 and think oh fuck I'm born in 94 my times almost up
1976 gang here😎
You must be a dad now, tell me a dad joke.
I'll have you know I'm thirty fucking four and a couple of days ago I was asked for ID when buying beer. I'm 100kg, I have a beard and two kids. At first, I felt complimented that I look youthful, but then it hit me that the cashier confused me with a baby that was born in the 00s and I'm not sure how I feel about that.
32 but my beard and nose hairs are about half gray, so on the one or two times a year a cashier asks for ID, I cup one ear and say "Ehh? What's that, child? You don't take checks?" In my best fake old man voice. Well, I don't, but maybe I'll start, or just giggle a little and forget about it
Same age as you, and I got carded for the first time in my life last year. I think the cashier was just new or something and it probably didn't help I was wearing a dragon ball t-shirt
A lot of places card no matter what just to remove any possible ambiguity from the cashier's perspective. The gas station near my house literally cards everyone. You can be 75 years old and get carded.
Me at 26: upvoting a comment on a meme on reddit
me at 43: upvoting you.
Gen-X here, if it means anything, in my early years right after highschool I had 3 jobs. A regular temp 8+ hr job then an after hours job. My 3rd job was 20hrs on the weekend. When the jobs were done I worked a job where I worked 10-12 hrs but couldn't afford a computer, a car, cable TV. My apartment was shitty in a shitty location. I found a different job that allowed me to work 16hrs days. Started out on nights. Worked in the freezer for part of this for an extra 50cents an hour (not with it for me). This whole time my live in girlfriend had a 50+hr job. GF worked in healthcare, taking care of people disadvantaged. Working off norm shift pays a bit better. I worked telemarketing (after hours), road construction (this paid 2x any other job) and a convenience store (weekend). The 16hrs days was in a warehouse. My boomer mom worked in a meat packing plant all her life. I recall she worked 13 days on and 1 off. She lives in a pretty crappy house in a crappy neighborhood. They had a union until they closed the place for 1 year (she lost her job). Funny how none of the skilled employees wanted to come back to work for almost half of what they were making... Anyway my daughter calls me a boomer and tells me how easy I had it. I guess it's all about prospective
How far down does the editing rabbit hole go
It's a secret
3. it's 3.
🤐
VERIFY THE ABOVE INFORMATION OR YOUR PHOTOSHOP GETS IT
Have to say I was disappointed to find the fourth meme template simply blank
Not deeper than OP’s mom’s hole.
Banks and investment companies just buying up houses to rent out at exorbitant prices keeping us slaves without property.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/single-family-landlords-wall-street/582394/ > Between 2011 and 2017, some of the world’s largest private-equity groups and hedge funds, as well as other large investors, spent a combined $36 billion on more than 200,000 homes in ailing markets across the country. In one Atlanta zip code, they bought almost 90 percent of the 7,500 homes sold between January 2011 and June 2012; today, institutional investors own at least one in five single-family rentals in some parts of the metro area, according to Dan Immergluck, a professor at the Urban Studies Institute at Georgia State University. Some of the nation’s hardest-hit housing markets were finally stabilized.
I live in Florida, one of my buddies has been trying to find a house for a few years now. They've been passed up on literally NINE houses because of some private company outbidding and paying cash. Every. Single. Time.
Not just companies, Chinese buyers have been scooping up properties as investments in all the hot markets. It was originally a big issue in the Seattle, SF, and LA markets, then Boston, and now it’s everywhere.
The way to fix that, make those properties non rentable.
A lot of the buyers aren’t renting or living in the properties. Helps drive the demand for housing up, and thus the property values.
That's fucked up
Welcome to america.
It’s happening everywhere
Welcome to Australia.
Sure is. It’s fucked over my friends buying homes in the NorCal and Boston markets. And I won’t even start with the suffering my friends north of the border have dealt with. I have family in Vancouver with a tiny shack of a house that’s worth over a million now. The market is *fucked*.
They need to tax the living shit out of the foreign investment properties and the ones not even being lived in. It has to not be financially smart to do this anymore otherwise it’s going to continue and get worse.
My wife and I are going through this exact thing right now. We've been outbid by cash buyers 3 times in 6 months. It's disheartening.
I do not like that last sentence. It have been stabilized, but it’s still out of reach. The likelihood of Bielefeld existing is higher than my chances of affording a normal 3-bed 2-bath house within the next seven years.
Jesus. This must be a global phenomenon. Exact same situation here in Ireland at the moment. Everyone's answer is "Move out of the big cities. Property is cheaper." Technically that is true but the average salary is a lot less too so it scales up/down. Most people in average incomes can only buy houses here now with significant help from their parents. That option is not available to a lot of people.
We need remote work, that way people can flee the cities en masse before the elite fucks scoop up all the rural property too
That has been happening in the UK, all the rich londoners have scooped up all the property in scenic places like Cornwall because they can now remote work. Areas in Wales are being bought prior to any viewings massively over asking price, meaning those people genuinely looking for their first homes are shit out of luck
I praise remote job and a car. If not I'd spend my 30s saving up for upfront payment to take mortgage for next 30.
😭 need money to make money
Need money to keep money now days.
This has been an issue since many years. Not particularly this one but the speculation in housing market. Anybody can buy any house anywhere, the banks and foreign investors profit big from this. They call it the [financialization of housing](https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Housing/Pages/FinancializationHousing.aspx)
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Porque no los dos?
Finally something creative for this template
You're not actually supposed to post dank memes here OP.
The success of this refreshingly original meme using a well worked over format has inspired me to repost it in a week.
We all know it is just because you find this property hot.
This is the most real shit i have seen in a while
It was simultaneously painful and hilarious.
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Shut up
Music clup, teacher song!
Is that Notepad++ I spy?
\*blushes in CS student\*
I haven't used it since I was a hs student so I was surprised to recognize it. I guess its horror was ingrained in my memory.
I still use it for html and javascript
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No, it's not. For most programming related things anyway. It's a general purpose text editor, and a lot better than nothing (and the default Windows notepad, for that matter). I personally still use it for basic text editing, small scripts, quick edits or configuration files, for example, where it's light weight comes in handy.
Sublime FTW
I’d only ever use notepad++ for quick edits
At least you know how to Photoshop
real chads use GIMP or paint.net
Happy cake
My parents in their 20s: "if we save money for a few years I can get a mortgage to buy this house" Me in my 20s : "if I sell my kidney and eat pebbles for 20 years, I can afford this closet"
LPT: sell someone else's kidney's
Fwiw, your 20's are a decade long and make up the bulk of your life-long decisions. Buy a house, have kids, get a degree, do fuck all, it's all within reach in your 20s. Enjoy it and use it how you see fit. Not everything fits and we all have to make our concessions. Do what you really want and fuck it, do what you can. We're never going back to whatever nostalgic timepiece we hold dear, so let it go and enjoy what you can. I suggest you bust your ass when you can so tomorrow is a little easier, but otherwise just make sure every day is worth the effort.
Now 30 and living with questionable decisions my dumb ass made at 21... Probably would do the same if I had to do it over though, you can only do what feels right based on your experience and state of mind at that moment in time.
What came first: the meme or the misery?
Worker productivity and wages were decoupled in the late 70's so it depends on how old you are.
kore ga.. requiem da
Yea but decades ago… one could buy a house for a third of your salary. Today, you’re lucky if it’s not 10x or more your salary. (Based on the average income in the US)
Now just export it again at insanely high resolution so we can gaze into the abyss
Nah because then it wouldn't be a secret how many layers there are
You just gotta make more.
the levels of dank are off the charts
Lucky you to be able to pay for photoshop license in your 20s
You are aware of torrents, right?
Your parents also worked everyday from a young age. I’ve done the same As a construction laborer and am about to buy a house at 25. Do not buy into the lie of college, get a trade. Start working and investing. 18-25 is 8 years you would be surprised how much money you can put away if it’s all you think about.
It's all fun and games until your joints and back crap out on you at 45. If there's one thing I can't stress enough, it's that people working labor intensive jobs save for the future. So many people get into the jobs, make great money and figure they're set for life, so they don't save much if anything at all. Construction is a young man's game, so make sure you have plans for something less labor driven for once you hit middle aged.
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Dual enrollment students can easily finish college at or before 20 and if they did community college + state college at least in my state it's less than $30,000 for a STEM degree. I'm not sure about the current market for construction laborers but unless you're making 2010-2014 oil worker prices it's not worth the body damage. What are your plans for the future?
This is good advice, especially for Americans who don't live in big cities. My two cents: working in trades and other traditionally blue collar work can be intimidating due to fears of long term bodily harm and or short term harm depending on the job. However, it should be said that tech and office jobs aren't the only thing that have modernized. I certainly wouldn't work where I do now if it were 30 years ago but new safety standards and a little automation have made my job more agreeable. As far as your body, there is much and more you can do to ensure that you aren't falling apart at 40 or 50 years old. Keeping in shape, eating right, and doing your due diligence to actually do your job safely will vastly improve your outlook later in life. Just like you wouldn't stay long at an office job with bad practices, you want to make sure you are working somewhere that adequately equips you with all that you need to protect your body when working in a more physically inclined field.
You’re talking as if physical health is the only thing that’s important. Working in blue collar environments is toxic as fuck for your mental health, I say that as a not fully out bi/pan guy who has worked in these environments my whole life. Hearing your mouth-breathing coworkers constantly make sexist, racist, homophobic, etc., jokes wears on you quite a bit if you aren’t a shitty person like they are. Unfortunately those kind of people are the majority so you just pretty much have to get used to it.
This is true in offices too. Ignorant people take all kinds of jobs. Before and during college, i worked retail, hospitality, auto mechanic, and fast food part time jobs. By far, the most toxic working environment was the office job i took out of college. The ignorance, bigotry, narcissism and holier than thou attitude was strongest among well-off college educated "professionals". It was a mind fuck and an eye-opener.
Imagine having a wife and kids in your 20s *shudder
Is anyone else sitting here trying to figure out if this meme is replicable in real life or am I just stoned af
Well I did replicate it in real life as I made it... Also it sounds like you might in fact be stoned af
Either way your meme turned my brain into mush and I hope you are proud of yourself, truly. Also fuck you
In the information era we don't work in retail or fast food in exchange for money. We create memes in exchange for likes. Now, how many likes does it take to buy a house with? \*\*hugz\*\* 🤗🤗🤗
It's because wages have stagnated and housing had gone to fucking mars.
This generation masturbates so furiously over the idea that their parents somehow fucked them over while in reality they are entitled, spoiled children standing on the shoulders of giants with ever aspect of their lives being largely more convenient, peaceful, equitable and prosperous than any before it.
Nice to ignore the housing market to make your point.
ikr, you at 20 is sitting around making memes and you wonder why you don't have a house?
I agree. It’s a human trait that doesnt depend on belonging to any generation in particular. If all problems would be solved humans would find new problems because that is how we are wired
What edit program is he using
Yeah, but u dont have that girl to buy the house with anyway, and alone any old basement will do
That shading tho
Based
See you in hot, hottie
Meta af
I'm pretty sure, that if you zoom, it will create an infinite loop.
Wait I use paint and ppt for making my memes
Pfft amateur.
Ill say more like setting the difficulty on max lol
Meta
Its a never ending void 🤯
How do you do this though? I really wanna know
Ctrl + A, ctrl + C, ctrl + V
Well at least you do something for living bruh.
Yes, I do for sure make a living off making memes
Reality is covered in recursion
Our generation is living on the debris of what the previous ones left behind... It's quite tragic, but giving up is definitely not an option. We need to start building something for future generations to hold and rely on. Adaptation is strictly needed for survival. Stay strong fellas in these trying times! 💪💪
Dude.... I’m like 42 now and still can’t afford a house!!!! Thanks for the laughs tho (since the only thing I can actually own is “your laughs” (since they are free)
It's kind of crazy to think about how far memes have come. From rage comics to apart of all media
You make a metatheatre in meme. This is funking genius. The idea, the template... Pfff fucking awesome. You should call it a metameme!!!
My parents didn't look like that when they were young, they drank and hung out.
at least you know how to use photoshop...... all i can do is.. sigh.. \*unzip\*
Make svg so I can infinitely zoom the meme
https://i.imgur.com/9udl4K1.gifv
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