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Creator & host of @xofwords pod, bringing people together in the name of mutants. I love a reaction gif.

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@vanthefirst
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10 days
Ok, so full disclosure I’m pretty probably not gonna talk about gaming much cos I get obsessed for like 6 weeks and then I’m done. Im still gonna play, but I’m also tragically bad at FPS. Keith isn’t thank god, so listen to someone who knows their shit and had early access!
@XofWords
IMMORTAL X OF WORDS
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OROBOROS! It ends with a beginning as @Keitsune_ joins me for the first ever gaming XOW episode. We learn the origins of his dog Fox (yes named after *that* Fox), control systems, costumes, characters, gleeful murder, and the best FPS mutants. 🧬:
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@vanthefirst
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3 years
Bro no-one was unwilling. No-one. Where is this ass loving city?
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4 months
She activated every artist within a 60 mile radius like the winter soldier.
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3 years
What is procrastination, if not relaxation persevering?
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@vanthefirst
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5 months
In every movie mentioned the resistance is white or led by a Special White Person. They were never supporting resistances, they were supporting themselves as messiahs.
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ALL OF THIS
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8 months
This is part of anti-black acquisition. You have to deride where you stole from to keep up the pretence that you’ve somehow refined or perfected what you didn’t create…
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28 days
Eddie in Tekken when you accidentally graze circle
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1 year
The chips were down, It was bald vs bald and he showed Hotep Jones the levels. They don’t just tat you up for nothing. The premiere nepo baby 😂
@canttouchgrass
𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖔 🇵🇸
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Tenzin would have beat his ass if it wasn’t for miss sparky sparky boom babe
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4 years
@danselord He said
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@vanthefirst
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6 months
When MLK said most white people want Peace not justice, this is what he meant. When we say most white folks think they’re the police, this is what we mean.
@answercoalition
ANSWER Coalition
6 months
“Jill, when are you and the President going to call for a ceasefire in Gaza?” Protestors in Arizona disrupt Jill Biden’s speaking event to #ShutItDown4Palestine 🇵🇸
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4 years
@whyisguacextra That was That was your back??? your back.
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3 years
@Omegalvlbttm two SEPARATE people did a flip in the name of ass I need the location neow! 😂
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@vanthefirst
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3 years
He said “SEGREGATION!” with his whole chest 😂😷
@Ron_Christian55
HEROGEEK wants to bring heroes back.
3 years
You know a good way for MARVEL to improve Miles Morales & to give him his own identity would be to move him to another city & give him a different name. Some that I came up with are. PHANTOM SPIDER, SPECTER SPIDER & NIGHT SPIDER. #SpiderMan #IconicSpiderMan #MilesMorales
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2 years
Miles is *incapable* of not outdressing Parker...
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3 years
I need a villain as vocal as Spider-Man who reads the SHIT out of heroes as they’re fighting. I want Cap sitting in avengers mountain staring at the floor.
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@vanthefirst
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1 year
Culture vulturing Meghan Trainor is wild there’s literally no meat on that bone.
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maryam • BLACK OUT
1 year
why am i not moving
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3 years
Olivier Coipel REALLY drives it home that black characters have been getting white faces with broader noses for the whole of comics history. Because I mean, the lens is CLEAR and they look GOOD!
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8 months
@TyrannyBanks Loool and a Stan came in the reply about “yall make everything about race” like every riff beat and boom Kat isn’t lifted straight from blackness .
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3 years
A film about black people but they stay safe and happy all the way through. Some of them even laugh.
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4 months
@itsisaacsworld Unbelievable muse levels!
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@vanthefirst
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5 years
Articles like this always end in “because I’m not the recipient of their political violence and I’m happy to ignore those who are.
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1 year
They’re PaciFISTS 😂
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@TaylorzPower
He want mi batty creased sloppy b4 i come ova
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OKAY SO ITS NOT JUST ME!!!!
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2 years
Reality warpers should all figure out they’re in comic books. There that’s my take. They should go to manipulate the “fabric of the universe” and be like “wait. This is mf paper??”
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@vanthefirst
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9 months
They’re making cinema over here! Apple TV will lay down dead before they tell you they’ve made a great show.
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@vanthefirst
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6 months
We needed Korra. It was refreshing to see an avatar take the killshot at least 55% of the time.
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3 years
Speechless…
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3 years
All this “Batman could take anyone with enough prep time” has him sounding like a Gotham bottom btw.
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4 years
I think we can all agree that Pepe Larraz drawing women
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3 years
Can’t wait for Miles to do it again and instantly become the best wolverine
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4 years
Shout out to the artists that know Storm is canonically beautiful AND understand that doesn’t mean she has to look less black.
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@vanthefirst
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2 years
Poor black characterisation in comics, the backlash, and why white writers aren’t our savours. 🧵
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3 years
What if wolverine does all that masculine postering because he can’t remember most of his life so fills in the blanks with cowboy movies…
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3 years
I’m not even DC Like that but this cant be Grayson
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6 years
@iamMelsmith @lamzyco He’s watching this video from the waiting room of the clinic. Now his chest is burning, too.
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5 months
Try to convince me these arent the video messages Cable and Bishop sent each other
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@vanthefirst
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2 years
I’ve already seen about four artists that have visualised the film version of America Chavez, one of which is a cover. This is why we push against whitewashing, because depictions are multidirectional. In 2 years America will be white passing in the comics 🙄🙄
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5 years
@realchoppedliva @thisisapollo Millie Bobby Brown is really going through it huh
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@vanthefirst
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10 months
You wouldn’t even need a script.
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2 months
Lotta these artists know exactly how to draw Black features in the foreground when it’s time for a mugging panel.
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3 years
X-Men started to be about minority wish fulfilment instead of appeasement & trauma porn and a whole heap of cis yt men got upset. Sure that doesn’t mean anything.
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3 years
Daredevil? Namor? This is a man who WILL sleep with your wife.
@chrisarrant
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Bill Everett, creator of the Sub-Mariner and co-creator of Daredevil.
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2 years
Cis gays invoking “misgendering” re not liking being called “sis” is not a like for like. Nobody’s actually IDing you as female, and trying to Center yourself in a gender identity discussion is doing a lot and doing it wrongly.
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5 years
@StressicaRab @QueenNia_ You lots relationship must be in the bin because you dragged your sister like poltergeist for 14 likes.
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1 year
BREAKING: straight white man doesn’t see the point in protest.
@OneTakeNews
One Take 🎬
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Stephen Amell doesn’t support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. “I do not support striking. I don't. I think it's a reductive negotiating tactic, and I find the entire thing entirely frustrating.”
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2 years
The space. The Storm. The Sea.
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3 years
T’Challa talking about the Avengers:
@solomonmissouri
Hi I’m Solomon
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I have white friends... i like them. they know... if they "do a racism" they are on their own
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@greymarco @lamzyco Also, subtly, the text is inverted. The image of the Jaden sits literally under the headline of the accused. To the casual observer, this looks the other way around. Which is the point. 10x more people scan the headline than read the article.
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2 years
Truly what’s the point of this “just make your OWN characters” bullshit if y’all just steadily cacausify them anyway?
@RuneixX
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2 years
Look at how they massacred my girl 😭
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3 years
I want heroes late to the fight because they heard who it was and had to make sure their outfit was on point. I need Azaelia banks energy on the battlefield.
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3 years
Someone at marvel decided that Bishop and Colossus were gonna be Big Fine this whole era and I truly respect it.
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@Marvel
Marvel Entertainment
3 years
Trust no one. 🔥 'Inferno' — September 2021.
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@SimonClarkeMP This idea that “it wasn’t frowned on back in the day” is a wholly white conceit. I can guarantee you black people always thought it was immoral. Defending a slavery statue requires you not consider black humanity
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3 years
White writers putting “brother”, “baby” and “damn” in their black character’s dialogue.
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4 years
@kleomin @altovistaah The small moment of shock 😂😂😂
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6 years
Gary Neville has proved two things: - yt people are well aware of the level /prevalence of racism. They deny it to protect their own comfort. - this country will laud a white person that admits to dismissing racism yet demonise people of colour who try to address it.
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It’s logical that cis yt men wouldn’t be the best Latin/Black/Queer/Female writers. But it seems what’s important isn’t diverse characters getting the best writing, but that yt men are always given the right to swing. And to miss. And to call ppl bullies/idiots for noticing.
@igor_fernss
Igor Fernandes
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So first, what makes Tom King think it's a good idea for Yara to spout random words in her native language in the middle of an english conversation? It's not even a slang from her country. As a brazilian, I see once again the stereotype of latin oratory in an american production.
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3 years
So I’m getting that relaxation isn’t *quite* the feeling.
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6 months
There’s a point where they volley her body like a FIFA penalty and I would have called out for god.
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1 year
Waiting for Storm to tell Genesis about the things her husband was doing to that tectonic twink.
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3 years
It's rare enough to be noteworthy in Marvel that two black women should even SPEAK, but we have at least 3 versions of "a blonde interloper and a central redhead have complicated history"
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I want the superhero GC to be SCATTERED. Whole hero community trying not to laugh while you’re on TV being called a toothless bag of nickels. I want other villains to start using the reads. Psychological warfare!
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Destiny’s dramatic ass experiencing a timeline she’ll refuse to tell you about.
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Some of y’all are getting the ick at your own lack of depth, not other people.
@em_Lazzy
Lazzyyyyyy
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Asking me what I do for fun is a sure way for me to stop talking to you.
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This is all I’m nostalgic for, the good old days when heroes had to take their helmets off and carry them. It built character!
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@GaryLGray She really said “the day I need your help is the day I stop cooking” like it was a threat
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White/cis/straight comic readers will come on the Internet to claim X-fans over identify with minority allegory and never interrogate why they love the Avengers.
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Imagine discovering you’re the only live-action dimension in the multiverse. I’d be so embarrassed.
@HailEternal
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so the MCU IS Earth-199999? 😭
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When I say masc I mean this
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@hausofriya YES! Same. I wrote an article about this mess.
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As far as I’ve seen, a need to “get back to normal” is strongly correlated with privilege. It also flagrantly dismisses that “normal” didn’t work for a lot of people. Even if Covid disappeared tomorrow I’d still be advocating for a massive reshaping of our systems.
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Let’s talk about the Matrix. Let’s talk about how to the Wachowskis gave us a sci-film with a present AND future with black people not only present, but central to the story.
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He was in the Amazon with my mom researching chairs right before she disappeared.
@HouseOfElleX
Elle ✡︎ ⓧ 🏳️‍🌈
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Spider-Chair
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These Draculas are serving COUNT!
@PepeLarraz
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These guys are trouble, it's in their blood. #Bloodhunt @Marvel
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Namor outside the Baxter Building
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#xspoilers you know how much you’ve got to hate someone to dropkick the back of their head???
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2 years
This video motivated me to chase my dreams because if she can do this I can do anything
@WordsByKyle
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Camila Cabello performing Beyoncé & BEAM’s “Energy” from #RENAISSANCE at #RockInRio
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Caucasians:
@heroichollywood
Heroic Hollywood
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Kang scares me more than Thanos did.
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I read that article from @TomBrevoort about the X-Men fundamentally being about a group of different people “proving” they’re as worthy as anyone else and this has been rolling around in my head since. There’s a lot of great reading out there.
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The x-men ain’t a hero to nobody with a mortgage all they do is spandex, vibes, and property damage
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1 year
Lactuca the Know She Ain’t Talking to Me
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This pic really drives it home that she tried everything: pacifism, targeted violence, self hatred, denial, assimilation, patience. Her lives are a microcosm of entire generations of oppressed people. I look back on the MLK era in the same way she might look back at life 3.
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We did a whole year of protesting against white people’s urge to disproportionately, fervently punish black people and here we are again with Will Smith.
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The rumours that Hickman is on Spiderman would make sense. If I was Marvel I’d want him there. He’s amazing at creating coherent umbrella stories that unify disparate characters / properties. It’s what he did with mutants.
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@BlackPplCrazyy Never thought I’d get to use this but...
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I have thought far too much about Peter Parker today 🤡 but there is an interesting thing about the nature of his powers leading to him being drawn in a very non-traditionally male way. His panels have way more in common with Catwoman (eg) than any of his male marvel peers.
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The most brutal “we don’t wanna hear it” on record.
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1 year
Running for his LIFE you hear me 😂
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@okoyeslacefront
staying in my 🔺RESIST🔺 Business
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@vanthefirst Aang may have tried to mold him but this behavior is his mama jumping out in him lmaooooooooooo
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“DEBATE ME!” - a man who’s never been punched.
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The next big marvel event should be reality warpers VS is the reader, as the heroes realise that we’re extra dimensional leeches who’ve been entertaining ourselves with their conflict and trauma for years. Can you imagine how much Spider-Man, in particular, would hate us????
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The only thing Lactuca doesn’t know is who tf you think you’re talking to… 🏃🏿‍♂️🏃🏿‍♂️😂
@gayjuggernaut
gayjuggernaut 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Lactuca the knower when someone needs her to know something
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@stilltiredtoday This one made my morning. If it turns out she wants a deal, can we put the same energy into this as those tiktok kids? Would mass emailing A&Rs work?
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@aymanriane That connection. High speed broadband
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