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40 People Who’ve Reached New Levels Of Cringe And Got Posted In The ‘Cringetopia’ Online Group
Interview
Cringe is as cringe does. Even though the internet is full of wonderful things like cat pics, wholesome local news, and articles written by yours truly, it’s also home to the vast and spooky wilderness where you’ll find the most bizarre and cringe-worthy posts. And it’s the members of the ‘Cringetopia’ subreddit that bears the heavy burden of documenting the cringiest examples to share (and publicly mock!) with the world. These cringetopians have a duty to show us what to never ever do while at the same time providing us with some hilariously weird content.
We’ve collected some of the best recent posts that will make your face contort, your mind reel, and your lips say, “Oh God, why?! Please, no!” Remember to upvote the cringiest pics that hurt you emotionally (and maybe even physically). Oh, and if you haven’t had enough internet for today, then be sure to check out our previous posts about the ‘Cringetopia’ subreddit right over here: Part 1 and Part 2.
What the 1.3-million-strong ‘Cringetopia’ community teaches us is that cringey posts are more common than we might think. And we’ve all no doubt done embarrassing things that we still remember in the shower or late at night when we should be sleeping. However, ignoring these feelings and running away from them is far from healthy.
Bored Panda had a talk with a couple of the subreddit's moderators to learn more about how the massive community is managed, as well as how to live with the cringey things that we've done in the past (spoiler warning: it's to take responsibility for your mistakes and live life with courage). Scroll down for our interviews with them, as well as for our chat about embarrassment with award-winning social psychologist Vanessa Bohns, the author of the forthcoming book 'You Have More Influence Than You Think.'
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#1
Dork A** Losers
Monika Rhodes 4 years ago
Classic. Seen this one so many times and enjoying them being roasted.
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#2
W H I T E P E O P L E A M I R I G H T!!!
Joonscrab 4 years ago
It's amazing that people adopt regardless of what race the child is, but I hope that they do instil some of the cultures and traditions that would be seen in a child living in normal household for people of that race/nationality /ethnicity... That's the only concern really!! The person above is a sore loser for complaining about people adopting and giving a better life to kids :')
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I know parents who are of different skin colors, and their kids struggle a bit with "whose side they're on", but.... I think the problem is that society expects there to be "sides" in all this. Not just "Hi, I'm a person, and my parents love me". And that saddens me beyond words.
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
I took a friend's daughter (french+tunisian) to Disneyland and the poor 5yo said to me "i wish i was not an arab!" because she was traumatized by terrorists attacks who happens to be perpertrated by "arabs" and arabs looking people were really stigmatized after it. I had to explain to her that her gorgeous blond curly hair came from the mix and that she should be proud of having 2 cultures, talking 2 languages, that this was a great asset and not a shame at all... A fu...ing 5YO. Indeed the society has a problem, putting such sad things in kids heads, she was in Disneyland and worried about being "half-terrorist" because society teach her "arabs=terrorists".
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Ozacoter 4 years ago (edited)
It really concerns me how many people seem to consider that blatant anti "white" racism is a good thing. No kind of discrimination based on skin colour is good.
Earonn - 12 months ago
Sorry, honestly, I don't see any anti-white racism in there? I understood it as "how can they adopt a 'less worthy' non-white child?'.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
How can you hate a race so much that you blame their actions of pure love?
Earonn - 12 months ago
How do you know that the person who wrote that wasn't white and was angry that they adopted 'less worthy non-white children'??
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Mrs. Jan Glass 4 years ago
I know several white people who have adopted nonwhite kids. They are hyper-aware of the potential problems, and belong to all sorts of parenting groups, and make sure their kids grow up known their birth "culture," whether it's Chinese, Black American, or Indian. They were prepared for racism, and while they've gotten crappy comments from white people, it is more often POC who confront them for taking a nonwhite child away from their culture, whitewashing them, and/or claiming this is "just like" residential schools/child abuse/conversion therapy/colonialism. MYOFB.
Michigan Guy 4 years ago
as jesus spake: love one another....if....they're the same skin color? hrm. that doesn't sound right, does it...
Afonso Lima 3 years ago
My family (Brazilians with Spanish heritage) have adopted 2 black kids and they are as much my little brothers as my other not so little brother and I'd kill and die for any of them
Loretta 4 years ago
Sooo... He's saying that a black orphan shouldn't be adopted... because of their skin color? Hmmm...
Asking for a Friend 4 years ago
I find this to be an interesting set of comments. I'm going to guess that most of you are not POC and you can't understand what something like this is like for someone who is. I'm not against anyone adopting anyone, but there are certainly issues being a POC person raised in a white family that people need to consider. For an easy read on the subject, look at Surviving the White Gaze. Now, I wasn't adopted, but I am a 54-year-old Black woman who grew up believing in the ideal of being color blind. This, despite what my parents told me about their experiences being 1) poor and Black in very racist and segregated St. Louis, and 2) the only Black family in a western Kansas town. I thought that those experiences couldn't happen to me because we had come so far as a country. I'm even a biologist and have understood from an early age that race is an evolutionary adaptation. Flash forward to 2020 and I can't unsee how much bias there is in the world and downright hatred for Black people.
Asking for a Friend 4 years ago
I can’t unhear my white dude friends complaining about how hard they have it too. Ok, so maybe you have it hard, but it’s not the same as being POC in America. So this is just a missive for people to consider that because they are white in a white-dominated country, they may have blinders on when it comes to race. Oh how I wish we were truly color blind, but the truth is we are not and pretending to be so only benefits white people. Also, calling someone a social justice warrior is ridiculous – who is against social justice? If you are, it says a hell of a lot more about you than the woke crew. I’ll take my downvotes now, please...which also speaks volumes about you and not these comments, but that’s where we are.
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Bill Mullins 1 year ago
As an adoptive Father of an Asian child (Japanese) I agree. Adoption is a distant 2nd to a loving, supportive biological family but it beats whatever is next by a country mile.
Brian Irby 4 years ago
The other side of this moronic statement is the assumption that non-white children are somehow unmanageable. So, both anti-white racism and racism towards people of color in the same ball of slimy cringiness.
Black Karen 4 years ago
Better to be adopted by a different race than to be abused or abandoned living in an abuive or group home. Every single person has issues adopted or not. Its just a matter of what those issues are. Id rather struggle with transracial identity trauma than the trauama of growing up in an unsafe home just for the sake of living with ppl who match my skin color. Is it a real issue, yes. But child abuse, neglect, abandonement, and the very complex trauma it causes is a much bigger and frankly more important issue.
Jo Choto 4 years ago
Yeah, but we have a lot of evidence now to show that being raised by a white family when you are not white leads to a lot of issues, because in most cases, the adopted child is given no access to people of their own ethnicity/original culture and they grow up feeling extremely lost and out of place. Better than a lifetime of foster homes, possibly, but if you are going to adopt a child who looks nothing like you, then plan on finding them culture and community where people DO look like them.
RandomBeing 4 years ago
I plan on fostering kids eventually and I won't care at all about race. But I will definitely have them be as connected to their culturally as they could possibly wish. Being white I never felt I had much culture (really latched onto vikings and norse mythology) and I'd my kid to have that connection.
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Thanks to interracial marriages, in fifty years, if we haven't already blown up the world, there won't be any " white" people!
Jason Abreu 1 year ago
What you see on the outside is just a shell, it's what we are inside that matters.
Axolotl King 4 years ago
Not trying to start a political fight but to be fair people were getting mad at Amy Coney Barrett for adopting to kids who weren't white
Crazy Meerkat Lady 4 years ago
And also, you can't go applying for adopting a child and then specify skin colour! You would probably not even be approved for the process then because it will show what a s**t person you are
Libstak 4 years ago
Not true, there are many culturally and race specific adoption organisations that ensure a match in those areas often for the sake of the kids and their biological parents wishes especially if orphaned via wishes in the parents will or put up for adoption directly by parents rather than the State.
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Pervinca 4 years ago
You can find bad examples for pretty much everything. Biological parents can be awful, people that adopts children of their own ethnicity can be awful. People from every ethnicity can be awful. Plenty of examples. But a bad example shouldn't be taken as the only parameter to consider bad all the cases, otherwise it's just a prejudice.
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sturmwesen 4 years ago
She can always ask a person with the same hair or a hairdresser who does it. What might be important is getting input on social issues concerning the kids colour (a black person that can give her insights in some struggles she might be aware off but has no experience with)
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Ozacoter 4 years ago
That is disgustingly racist. Are you against gay men adopting girls "because they wouldnt be able to guide them through growing up as a woman"?
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#3
The Woman Is The Cringe One Here, In Case Anyone Is Confused
#4
Keep Your Neck
Paul K. Johnson 4 years ago
So while the world has been trying to explain to everyone that "no" means no, this person is saying, "Well, actually.... if he really loves you then no means yes." She's ruining everything for everybody.
#5
$4k Rent
Fjallmadur told me that the best way to confront embarrassing and cringey situations is to fully admit to them. "A person should own up to their mistakes and embarrassments because it makes them a better person. If you're too concerned about doing something that may make people laugh at you, then you're never going to live," the mod noted to Bored Panda that being afraid of embarrassing ourselves can't have a wider impact on how we tend to live our lives.
"The jocks think the geeks are cringey, and geeks think the jocks are. And everyone thinks bronies and furries are cringey. Someone will always be there to make fun of you," Fjallmadur said, urging people to not mind the critics. "Live your life the best you can."
Meanwhile, redditor Tejmar, another 'Cringetopia' moderator, told Bored Panda that the people behind the community are absolutely awesome and laid back. "I can say this mod team is one of the friendliest and easy-going groups I've been a part of," they praised their colleagues.
#7
Cultural Appropriation
#8
Facepalm
Nicola Dimigen 4 years ago
Yeah. Its great. You can NEVER roll your ankle, cause we don't have them./s
#9
Want Another Baby But Your Husband Doesn't? Just Get Him Drunk
#11
Just Stop
#12
She Is Not The Cringe But Those 6k Neck Beards Are! I Freaking Love Her Idea
Earlier, I spoke with social psychologist Vanessa about other aspects of embarrassment as well. She noted that we ought to embrace our embarrassment instead of shying (or running!) away from it. Not only does it help our reputation, it also helps us accept the fact that we can’t always be perfect.
"We spend a lot of time and effort presenting an ideal version of ourselves to other people. When something happens that contrasts with the image we’ve been projecting—when we say or do something that shows we actually aren’t as graceful or as smart as we’d like people to believe—we feel embarrassed," Vanessa told Bored Panda previously.
#13
Uh
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
It may be funny to the person doing it, but it is very disrespectful to the shop staff who deal with this exact same unoriginal nonsense all the time. Nobody condones that person who doesn't reshelve their books after browsing- how about we show the same respect to the staff by not messing up their shelves for a cheap laugh online.
#14
Whats The Point Of This
#15
What The F Is Twitter
"Discovering you were wrong about something most everyone else around you has long known to be true is one of those moments. In that moment we learn, 'Wait a minute, maybe I haven’t been presenting the image of being smart or worldly that I thought I was presenting all this time,' which is embarrassing,” the social psychologist noted that embarrassment occurs when reality doesn’t align with our view of ourselves. In short, embarrassment denotes a contrast between our subjectivity and objective reality.
“One thing that’s interesting about embarrassment is that, for as much as we might experience it as painful in the moment, it’s actually very socially adaptive. Being embarrassed signals to other people that you care about what they think. And that actually draws people in to you.”
#16
When You Just Want A Legitimate Business
#17
Wow Real Help
#18
That Is A Good Question
The expert continued: “So blushing, burying your head in your hands, laughing, acknowledging how embarrassing something was, are all totally healthy ways to react.” So while embracing our embarrassment is the healthy (and socially useful) way to react, trying to cover up our own faults and mistakes creates the opposite, negative effect.
“The unhealthy way to react is to pretend you’re not embarrassed, that you didn’t make a mistake, or to get angry. Those things undo the positive effect that embarrassment typically has on other people by conveying insincerity and pushing people away rather than drawing them in.”
#19
Huh
#20
Gatekeeping Children’s Names?
#21
People Who "Fix Art"
Malakai 4 years ago
"Fixing" art is such a stupid f**king trend. You're not "fixing" anything--you're a stupid, useless vain little sh*t with your head so far up your ass trolling for "woke" points that even a doctor can't surgically fix your idiocy. It's not about promoting anything good, it's about bullying others to make yourself feel good and it's so damn toxic I don't even know where to begin
#22
Airsoft
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
"Uncle" seems more likely than "friend" though. Then you "have to".
#23
Height Of Stupidity
#24
I Am Terrorist
#25
Prime America Moment
#26
Classic Twitter
lunar eclipse 4 years ago (edited)
‘Come back from the horrors of war’ First, who would enlist you? Second, pretty sure you wouldn’t come back lazy git.
#27
This Is Not Cute
#28
Now Listen Here You Little S**t
#29
47
Michelle M 4 years ago
'Who are you to tell us there is no covid?' Ans: I know because I read an article online
#30
That's Totally How It Works
#31
Legit Cringe Here
#33
The Future Of Abortion
#34
Entitled
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
Once you ask me how much I make per year, we're done. That tells me all I need to know.
#35
Feels So Bad Man
BlackestDawn 4 years ago
In fairness that person could have asked to not be mentioned (so that others don't start begging them for stuff) BUT that should have been explicitly mentioned.
#36
This Made Me Cringe
#37
The Kid Who Never Pays Attention In Class And Blames Everyone Else Made This
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
"My unwillingness to study is entirely to blame on the teacher. And I've got my parents to support me in this." Heard it about 100 000 times during the years I worked at schools. There are quite some delusional people in the world, most of them are parents who think that their child is a genius, while everyone can see it couldn't even figure out how to eat an apple.
#38
I Want Death
Nicola Dimigen 4 years ago
*Starts pack and hunts sheep with a happy family, and forget their human existense.* I made a happy ending.
#39
That’s A Flex
#42
I Don't Even Know What To Say
#43
That Hurts
#44
Imagine Being The Parent And Getting This Email About Your Child
#45
Homemade Tattoo
#47
This Is Exactly How A Split Personality Looks Like. Enjoy The Cringe!
#48
Tryna Sample The Whole Buffet
#49
Anon Uses Hentai Logic To Lose His Virginity
#50
That Happened
#51
Found This On An Instagram Physics Page
#52
Why Is It Always The Minions?
#53
A L P H E T
#54
Found This On Facebook
#55
Simp Gets A Username Tattoo Of Egirl And She Deactivates Her Account
#56
And Then Constantly Calls Every Lois, “Hey Lois Can I Get Mc Chicken”
#57
That'll Show 'Em
#59
Oh Wow, No One Can Handle My Music
#60
U Aren’t A Man Of Culture
#61
Twitter Moment
Nicola Dimigen 4 years ago
Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft. This person like "oh you can't be asian you're white".
#62
Bro This Woman
#63
Holy S*** Man
#64
Jesus Neckbeards Just Don't Give Up
#65
Terrifying
Queen Metapha 4 years ago
Why do we feel the need to create clowns, puppets and those plastic spectacles with a nose and moustache attached when ridiculous opinions like this exist?
#66
Potato Pride
#67
Jesus Christ
#68
I Found This On Pinterest
#69
This Was Posted Non-Ironically By My Edgy Cousin. She Didn't Notice The Beans
Nicola Dimigen 4 years ago
Beans, beans, the magical fruit The more you eat, the more you toot The more you toot, the better you feel, So eat your beans with every meal.
#70
Just Looking For A Single Crumb, M'lady
#71
A Much Sadder Tail Then Even Darth Vader
Valisbourne Spiritforge 4 years ago
I'd be more mortified of that hair, but to each their own. :)
#72
Logan Paul
#73
That's A New Low
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Just another 19 year old kid with mental problems who still could purchase assault rifles to kill 8 former co-workers before committing suicide. But don't you dare talk about gun control or more stringent gun laws.
#74
I'm Not Gonna Say Anything Other Than A Certified Internet Moment
Valisbourne Spiritforge 4 years ago
It deserves to grow up past age 12 where he discovered girls.
#75
Pretty Cringe
#76
This Redditor's Bio. This Ain't It, Chief
Nicola Dimigen 4 years ago
I will take up this challenge! I hate it when people call themselves a "free thinker", like we all know they're probably anti-vax. (I hope I'm wrong)
#77
Probably Would Die As Soon As I Enter The Ambulance
#78
When You Got Your Results From Ancestry.com
Sarcastic Cow 4 years ago (edited)
When you´re 1% European, you wear what? Folklore skirt from Slovakia, Irish tap dance shoes and and a Greek hat? Very accurate
#79
The Duality Of Cringe
#81
Imagine The Shame
#82
Power Of Makeup
#83
Um
#84
What The Hell?
Monika Rhodes 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, don't be surprised when one day he'll go to the shops to get a pack of cigarettes and never comes back ;)
#85
Not The Horse Riding Lessons!
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Aw, she couldn't afford horse-riding lessons. How... utterly nontragic.
#86
Introducing The Carpeted Shower Floor
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Everyone has the right to grow mold and infectious foot diseases in their own house.
#87
Eminem White
#89
Redditors
#90
I Love Twitter
#91
I'm Sure That's How It Went
#94
Hummus Is Gay Now Fellas
#95
Dinner Hangout Hype
Emma Byrne 4 years ago
Dinner hangout is way more fun than dinner date. If I ever had to date again I'd probably be more comfortable with a hang out for the first few "dates" that way you can meet their friends and see if your groups are compatible.
#96
Does This Count?
#97
Pretty F***ing Cringe Of China If You Ask Me
#98
Feels Bad To Laugh
#99
A Kid In A Discord Server I'm In Posts Sh*t Like This Sometimes. It's Almost Scary How Dumb He Thinks We Are
Nicola Dimigen 4 years ago
Dude, this kid doesn't know where mammels come from. To use that argument, you would have to go all the way back to the first single cells, which are still and anomaly to scientists, because they basicly just spontaniously apeered, and no-one knows where exactly it came from.
#100
That Family Tree Is A Whole Tesseract
#101
What The
#102
Fortnite Bad
#103
For Real I Hate This
Emma Byrne 4 years ago
Anyone who has ever heard Musk speak knows he's autistic, it's not some major revelation. Source: I'm autistic.
#104
For Once, I Think I Side With China On This One?
Emma Byrne 4 years ago
I'm not a fan of the Chinese government but this seems like a good thing. Conspicuous consumption is gross.
#105
Read. Another. Book
Patricia Healton 4 years ago
I guess I would drown to as I have never seen a reason to read Harry Potter
#106
Only Real Gamerz Will Understand
#107
So Many Of Us Are In The Same Boat Bro
#108
Haha Girl Bad Boy Good
#109
This Poor Man
#110
He Speaks Japanese
#111
F
#112
Excuse Me!!!
#113
Yeah Man I Feel Horny When I Look At My 2k Rupees Note
#114
Vice Journalism At Its Finest
#117
Can You Hear This "Tics And Roses"?
real._.izuku 4 years ago
yea please don't joke about having any kind of mental disease. it makes almost all daily functions hard
#118
This Article
#119
Clickbait Like This
#120
Love The 92/8 Ratio
Peter Smith 4 years ago
Assuming that all of the 10% of 152k votes are individual people and not repeat voters, he has a potential market of $75k a month.
#121
"Normalise Girls Cheating"
#122
E - Rejected
Saint Thomas 4 years ago
For the entire rest of the night ?! Wow, that guy must really be devastated...
#123
“I Like Anime And Kpop”
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 3 years ago
how come nobody who is says: I love Japan mentions kaiju movies. it's always anime.
#124
Mmm Yesss, I'll Wear This To Class Today
#125
Flashback To When I Tried To Tell My Crush I Liked Her In Binary
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Ok, so I hand-copied (as in tried to get each number into it by memory xd) it into a decoder, and I got: "Try using the same strategy for the first one" lol
#126
S**tty Thing To Say Ngl
#127
All Hail Master Elon
#128
Are You Kidding Me
#129
Mom Groups On Facebook Are In A Whole Different Realm
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
I suggest you use this Tibetan organic oil that is called "call f*****g 911 you dumbass".
#130
My Highschools New Mascot
#131
Some Good Ol'cringe
#132
Real Fans Googled His Name You Effing Fake Fan!
#133
Read Another Book
#134
What The F**k
#135
He Couldn’t Hold Back
#136
Reddit Strong
#137
Remember Osvaldo Getting Doxxed? Well Now He Got Swatted
#138
What A Prick
#139
I Just Wanted To Enjoy Something After School Man
#140
She’s Insufferable
#142
Niece Or Not
#143
That’ll Teach Em
#144
Nevar Forget
#145
Ooooooo Scary Hacker Ooooo
#146
I Think I Finally Found Some Pure Cringe
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
REAL Metal-heads are the nicest people you can imagine! Just because we wear black and the music is loud doesn't mean that we are not empathetic towards other types of music. I might not know the rapper, but I DO care when his fans cry!
#147
When The Bed Is Sus
#148
Classic
#151
This Had 7k Upvotes
#152
A Friend Of Mine Posted This To Her Story. I Don't Get It
#153
Koreaboo
#155
I Don't Know Why This Is Hurting Me So Much To Look At
#156
When You're Begging For Likes
#157
2007 Kids
#161
"Georgy, This Is The Store That Sells The Juul, My Mom Gave Me 20 Dollars Lets Go Bro"
#162
Anyone Else Starting To Find This A Bit Repetitive?
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Nadia Montera 4 years ago (edited)
20 years ago, the village idiot was just the village idiot and maybe the village and extended family idiot. Internet favorises the spread of village idiot to the world. Lucky us
Aman Varkkey 4 years ago (edited)
Once had a guy saying that covid was fake and that no one who hasn't been vaccinated has died and to stop letting the government control you. I replied so people who existed before the creation of vaccines didn't die at a young age? He didn't have a reply for that but kept saying covid was fake and that technology is the reason it was even a problem. This dude was a cringefest.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
I feel honestly sorry for some of them... Maybe I am just too kind. Yeah, that's probably that.
Grant McNally 11 months ago
Anyone else blocked from reading 39/40? I know its not a huge deal, but I don't want to have to pay for premium JUST so I can actually read stuff.
Nadia Montera 4 years ago (edited)
20 years ago, the village idiot was just the village idiot and maybe the village and extended family idiot. Internet favorises the spread of village idiot to the world. Lucky us
Aman Varkkey 4 years ago (edited)
Once had a guy saying that covid was fake and that no one who hasn't been vaccinated has died and to stop letting the government control you. I replied so people who existed before the creation of vaccines didn't die at a young age? He didn't have a reply for that but kept saying covid was fake and that technology is the reason it was even a problem. This dude was a cringefest.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
I feel honestly sorry for some of them... Maybe I am just too kind. Yeah, that's probably that.
Grant McNally 11 months ago
Anyone else blocked from reading 39/40? I know its not a huge deal, but I don't want to have to pay for premium JUST so I can actually read stuff.
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