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  1. I feel ya..
    Miku70 reacted to FOSCOR70 in Things elitists say?   
    They say everything in sarcasm or irony.
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  3. I feel ya..
    Miku70 reacted to Gesu in Things elitists say?   
    "You're not a real fan unless you've listened to VK for x amount of years", or "unless you've listened to x amount of bands". I fucking hate that. How are they gonna listen to VK for x amount of years or listen to x amount of bands if you try to kick 'em out of the fandom? For the first example, by the time they come back after the specified number of years, they're not gonna know anything new because they left due to peer pressure, so they may as well have just stayed.
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    Miku70 reacted to secret_no_03 in Naziploitation in Visual-kei   
    1.) Do you feel that the Japanese culture views this imagery differently from how Occidental cultures do?
     
    The Japanese tend to look at stuff like this as cool, almost no one around these days in Japan knows much about the WWII Era, even to the point they're teaching children stories to pass down. 
     
    2.) Are you personally offended by it?
     
    When you're around long enough, experience enough and open your mind, nothing will offend you. I guess a short answer is no, I find it cool and amusing since I loved the original Mobile Suit Gundam growing up, Zeon and grew up watching a lot of the History channel pre-ancient aliens.
     
    3.) Do you feel it is done to convey the same messages as 1930's and 40's political propaganda? Or is it more of an edgy thing that is much less frowned upon in that culture than it is for Western fans?
     
    Like I said, it's just something that they find cool. 
     
    4.) What's your opinions on using other WWII imagery, be it based on the Nazi party or not?
     
    Not much WWII imagery is as cool or as impactful as Nazi is, the Japanese and Russian outfits and such aren't that intriguing. I highly doubt that the Japanese care about Italy and Mussolini.
     
    Overall I find the Japanese love affair with European military culture amusing and fascinating just as I do when they dabble with European occultism and religiosity.
  5. Interesting
    Miku70 reacted to suji in J Rocker MV Guest Appearances   
    MERRY - Chiyudasen Democracy
     
    Featured guests such as Dancho (NoGOD), DADA (Velvet Eden), Wataru (LIPHLICH), Atsushi (New Roteka), Tohya (vistlip), Asanao (lynch), and H@L (ARTEMA).
     
    Also cannot forget this gem: Kamijo - Louis ~艶血のラヴィアンローズ~ feat. Mana.
    One of the first vk PVs I ever saw. ♥
     
     
  6. Interesting
    Miku70 reacted to Masato in J Rocker MV Guest Appearances   
    I enjoy guest appearances very much! It's fun to see people sometimes very out of character! 😁
    Let's collect these MVs here!
     
    Even though Rame is semi-retired, he still loves to dress up as a woman and act in his labels MVs, also his labels musicians have cameo roles in MVs:
     
    Rame as Ghostbuster secretary - 
     
    Rame as evil witch (San, Ivy etc. as monsters)  -
     
    And Kaitou love guests, too.
    It's Mia
     
     
    And Hikaru
     
     
    Also yuka of SiREN
     
     
    The Raid. have Hoshiko-san (vk ojaji) featuring as a rapist... 😓
     
     
     
    So where else do we have interesting cameos?
     
     
  7. LOLOL
    Miku70 reacted to robkun in Name your own VK band   
    ŒxåæËuÏŠŁXŻçñYosshaXX2
     
    Pronounced as pu-ra-su(+)
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    Miku70 reacted to Karma’s Hat in Name your own VK band   
    La;veil pizzeria
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    Miku70 reacted to psychonnect_rozen in Name your own VK band   
    I would name my band Hi Steryia or some cool sounding name like Nymphomania XD
     
    EDIT: Maybe something like La:Maria or Angel Eden would be dope. I would have a name in German because German and Japanese are awesome together. 
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    Miku70 reacted to colorful人生 in Name your own VK band   
    義の空気 -> Righteous Air (Righteousness' Air) -> Yoshi no Kuuki -> Yoshi's Cookie
    If I had a better grasp of Kanji, I would totally go the Japanese pun route. Take some egregiously "deep" name that sounds hilarious when spoken.
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    Miku70 reacted to ahnchc in Name your own VK band   
    Here are a few I thought of at the top of my head.
    (Edge incoming! Edge is only suitable for a VK band, though..)
    - maggotback
    - writhing∞millipedes
    - lipdust
    - ✞li/bi/do✞
    - hell's=Dance
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    Miku70 reacted to Zeus in Bad Boiz, Bad Boiz   
    2017 has been an...interesting year, with so much unexpected drama and surprises that's to go down in history for years. So much has happened that I was able to put together two lists of band members caught in embarrassing , illegal, and reprehensible crimes and scandals. Before we put this year to rest for good, let's take another look at visual-kei and some of the less glamorous acts musicians have been up to this year.

    Also before I begin, I have to shout out a few members who gave serious help in making this list possible. Thanks to @suji, @tetsu_sama69, @cvltic. and @doombox for all their help, as well as for those who broke the news in the first place and those that corrected my facts after publication!
     

    Keina (ex-DIVEIN)
     
    The first entrant on the naughty list is bassist Keina, who was fired earlier on July 7th from indie visual kei band DIVEIN (ディヴェイン) for "violating the rules of the visual kei industry". Earlier in 2017, KEINA was hospitalized for tonsillitis and took a break from musical activities. While on break, he participated in a session band without the rest of DIVEIN's permission, and this angered the other three members of the band. He also spread confidential information about upcoming lives and photo shoots on the side, so that was enough to get him the boot.
     

    蕚 (Utena) (ex-DEGENE)
     
    DEGENE announced on September 26th that they fired their vocalist 蕚 (Utena) for "bad behavior". Digging a little deeper, we find out that Utena committed violent acts against certain members of the band, trashed band equipment, and sent one or more people into mental break downs. The band stated that they could not find any way to improve his behavior, and each member felt a sense of crisis about his behavior. The other four members came to the same conclusion: “I can't work with him anymore”. In contrast, Utena's announcement about his departure did not mention his bad behavior. DEGENE went on a temporary hiatus until they could replace him.
     

    Chaos (Glamscure, ex-INSANITY INJECTION)
     
    One of the dual vocalists of Insanity Injection, Chaos, got the boot on May 31st for being involved in "deplorable acts on many occasions". What it was has not been clarified, but it was something bad enough to sow feelings of betrayal among the members. One can only speculate what he did, but he hasn't made another appearance since his departure, so perhaps he was blacklisted from the scene? The band has continued without him as three, which as we will see shortly is not usually the norm. Good on INSANITY INJECTION!
     
    Update: Turns out that Chaos is still active in the VK band GLAMSCURE!
     

    塁 (rui) (ex-REVLOW)
     
    The last bassist of REVLOW, 塁 (rui), was fired from the band on August 5th. Management and band members discovered on July 29th that Rui was involved in many "anti-social acts" that corresponded with recent criminal acts in various Tokyo restaurants. Of note is that the official announcement used the kanji "反社会的", which is often used to refer to the yakuza. REVLOW cancelled the rest of their live dates, including their first one man show scheduled for August 29th, and rescinded the release of their CD, "'REVLISM-EP", scheduled for Aug 23rd. The band has not yet returned from hiatus, and none of the other band members have appeared in official projects. It's sad when an up and coming band gets ruined by the poor choices of one member. Three lumps of coal, one for each member you screwed over.
     

    冬音 (Fuyune)  (ex-サムクロ (Samurai Crows))
     
    It's ironic that I found this picture of the purple-haired maverick while in a topic discussing crimes and other scandals. He was fired from his band サムクロ (Samurai Crows) on 2017/05/11 due to misconduct during their live at Ikebukuro BlackHole at 2017/5/5. He got a little too amped up and destroyed equipment, refused to apologize for it, and was caught verbally abusing people via private messaging service SNS. This is not only a rule not to be broken in visual kei, but also a rule not to be broken in society! Fuyune's misconduct caused the band to be dropped from their label, Me teaR music, and the band has been on hiatus after their live at Shinsaibashi paradigm on 2017/7/8. The other three members have moved on to a project called Bokutachi no neverland; Fuyune is still missing in action. I wonder if he has been soft blacklisted from the scene...
     

    俐乃-rino- (ex - Synk;yet)
     
    Remember how we established rules of the visual kei scene all members have to abide by? I can safely say one of them is to inform your band members and your label whenever you participate in a session band or a side project. Synk;yet's ex-guitarist Rino broke these rules and was terminated from his band and artist contract with Starwave Records on 2017/01/30, shortly after the return of bassist Shiori. The official reasons were "betrayal and breach of contract". Rino secretly planned musical activities with other management companies for two years behind other members' backs. He also had "private exchanges" with fans for money requests, but nothing confirmed as sexual. Synk;yet went on indefinite hiatus on 2017/05/21 despite their best attempts to keep it together, and Rino has wiped all traces of his online presence so no one knows what he is up to.
     

    『L.』(ex-VAJRA)
     
    Let's take it back to 2009 for a bit when grotesque face masks were all the rage and it was cool to rip off Dir en grey. There was an visual kei band named VAJRA, essentially a Dir en grey rip-off parading around as a silent tribute band, and mimicked all of their antics to carve out a meager existence in the indie circuit. VAJRA started by word of mouth and shot up in popularity quickly by sticking with the flavor of the month and putting on electrifying performances. Some of these lives would include fish hooking, vomiting, and public masturbation on the crowd, but the violent, unpredictable, ink-spitting guitarist『L.』took it too far one day. He was known for punching female fans in the face, giving them black eyes, and dragging them around by the hair on the stage, but he took up a notch for a live at Sendai on 2010/05/10, and caused fans serious injury. At first, he was put on house arrest and banned from lives temporarily, but soon after he "left" the band due to musical differences. There's room for interpretation on this. It is not known if he left because he wanted to and this was the breaking point, if he was forced out, or if he truly left on his own accord. VAJRA couldn't keep up the pace without him and virtually disappeared into disbandment. 『L.』found Jesus and work as an oshare-kei vocalist for the band Awake, now known as Eru.
     

    Aki (ex-2bullet, ex-JackRose, ex-Concerto Moon)
     
    Remember Takahiro from FAZ? He was covered in our first edition of the list and was caught trying to defraud people to fund band activities. It turns out that he had an accomplice! Aki, along with Takahiro, tried to defraud an elderly woman of 3 million yen. He was arrested once in November of 2016 and again in January of 2017, both for links to Takahiro and suspicion of fraud.  Norifumi Shima of Concerto Moon immediately dismissed him from the band, while vocalist Re:i announced that JackRose would enter hiatus, since Aki was the composer and keyboardist. Ouch.
     

    Ryuusei (ex-暁月 (Kyogetsu))
     
    Another unwritten rule of the scene - one that is good practice to follow in most situations - is to keep internal band drama private. I love juicy drama stories as much as the next person, but band members spilling the beans about strife in their own project will only undermine their musical efforts. What happened to 暁月 (Kyogetsu) demonstrates this perfectly. Our story begins on early September 2017, with a few incendiary tweets from guitarist Ryuusei on Twitter. In the first tweet he claims that all bangya not attracted to him are into Himura of Bananaman, or ugly men in general. The second tweet was a little more pointed:
     

    This hit a raw nerve with a lot of fans because it came on the heels of several unexpected disbandments. But this was just the tip of the iceberg. On his blog, Ryuusei went into detail about several aspects of the scene which up to now were just rumors and which come together to make life difficult for him and his band. A few of the things he mentioned (while also explicitly noting that he didn't know everything) were:
     
    Ticket quotas as fees for live performances. Ryuusei does the math on how many tickets they need to sell to cover for the fees, which is dependent on how many fans show up to see them and that's before the band members split the money five ways. Poor return on investment for popular vk standbys such as cheki. Name drops the GazettE in a section about how well popular bands with a "pretty bassist" do financially. This got Reita's attention with a fiery response of his own. Low wages paid from the indie labels. How difficult it is for bands to recover once they are "in the red" and how close 暁月 (Kyogetsu) is to reaching that point after three years. Asks fans to spend more money at shows, less at host clubs, and to tell him more information about salaries of other band men.  
    You can see how this won't go over well. It's one thing to blow the whistle, but when you do you better know all of the facts. Constantly dropping figures about how much your competition makes relative to you while claiming you don't know for sure is a fast way to draw a ton of well-deserved criticism both from outside and within, and that's exactly what happened. On top of that, the claims made do not mesh well with the stories I've heard about what lengths some fans will go to support their favorite artist or band. I know that some tsunagari will go as far as to feed, clothe, shelter, and fuck a band man or two just to support them! But treating your fans like ATMs and literally telling them to "If you have money, use it. High schoolers, study so you can make money in the future." is trash. To me, it seemed like Ryuusei is looking for a scapegoat for his band's poor performance. Fans struck back by revealing his name, his bare face, his DMs, and even coordinating to send 100 pizzas to his house! Ryuusei threatened to get the police involved if the situation escalated further.
     
    His behavior afterwards is what sealed the deal. His band mates wanted nothing to do with the controversy this generated, as the vocalist even went so far as to hold an "apology twicast", and posted many apologetic tweets, even individually replying to people to apologize long before Ryuusei commented on the issue. However, Ryuusei did eventually apologize before backtracking the very next day. In his second blog post, he starts by claiming he only apologized because he was forced to. He then deflects the contents of the first post to "netogya" (a derisive term referring to online fans that don't go to shows, meaning most of us here), apologizes for name dropping bands and labels, claims he's always trying to be controversial and that this is no different, and claims that he thought this was common knowledge so there would be no problem. This only provided fuel for the fire.
     
    The sad thing is that, as you could have guessed by now, these guys were virtually unknown before this. Shame is a very powerful deterrent in Japanese culture, and I've seen lesser drama capsize bigger bands than this. By constantly undoing the damage control his band members tried to provide, and by backpedaling and baiting Tanuki, Ryuusei put Kyogetsu in a spot where they had to kick him out to continue or disband. They did both. Bassist Shogo jumped ship first, but the formal disbandment of Kyogetsu was announced for October of 2017.
     

    Setsuna (ex-THE EGOIST)
     
    Whenever I write one of these lists, one person ends up doing something that eclipses everything else I discuss. Setsuna, guitarist of THE EGOIST, takes the "honors" for this position this time, although it's not something to be proud of. 2017 was not a kind year to THE EGOIST, as they paused activities earlier in the year when they lost contact with their vocalist, but things came to a breaking point by the end of the year in what will remain a black mark on visual kei for a long time to come. The timeline gets hazy at points but what we do know for certain is that Setsuna, also known as Keisuke Kawasaki (thanks NHK!), began an intimate relationship with a woman named Uran Hirayama while engaged. Uran didn't know he was engaged when she met him with the wedding planned to the degree where the venue had already been picked. The marriage was held sometime during his relationship with Uran as well.
     
    It is not confirmed if she was a mitsu of his, but what we do know is that they had a very tumultuous relationship, all documented on Hirayama's twitter. Uran used the account as a regular personal account initially, but at some point the account became flooded with pictures and screenshots of the newly minted couple. Many LINE screenshots show both happy times as well as arguments, including one where Uran demanded to know if Setsuna had slept with a tsunagari/mitsu of his named Ayumi. He initially denies it, but admits to eventually sleeping with her once and apologizes, swearing Uran is the only one he really cares for. He ends up saying something similar on his public Twitter: "I've had relationships with various women, but aside from Uran I was just messing around. I'm very sorry. I'm considering marrying [her] in the future". No mention of his wife. Other pictures included Disney date pictures, many pictures of them in the snow as a couple, and of course the now-infamous video of him eating out Uran's ass (note to future readers: he chows down). Considering this is all in public view, it didn't take long for his "wife" to come across some of it; she apparently went ballistic when she found purikura of her and Setsuna kissing in his wallet.

      Things get demented as the year winds down to a close. The messages on Uran's Twitter become more alarming; her profile stated 'I wish to be reborn and marry Keisuke in my next life', she posted screenshots of one of Setsuna's tweets that basically said he "will be one" with Uran (which he quickly deleted from his page), tweets about gifts she bought with the money she got from sex, and more. At some point, Setsuna informs Uran that he was married and in retaliation, she dumps all of this information on her Twitter. She also had at least one suicide attempt around December 3rd, likely in response to all of these happenings. Despite his marriage, he still publicly pines for Uran after all of this. The following is my guess of what happens next: Uran tells Setsuna about her suicide attempt(s) and he tries to talk her out of it, but ends up agreeing to commit double suicide with her a week later on December 9th. We know this because Uran sent the explicit details of the plan to one of her close friends around 3pm that day, which was later posted to her Twitter page. The person who posted the notice in no uncertain words claims it was intended to be a double suicide and firmly believes that was their original intention. This same friend also contacted the police with all of the information she had at her disposal, but by the time the police showed up to Uran's apartment at 9pm the deed was done. She was found on her futon, her room was locked, there were no signs anyone had been through her belongings, and there was a handwritten suicide note next to unused charcoal briquettes. I can only guess the plan was to lock themselves in a room and suffocate to death, but Setsuna had a last-minute change of heart, ended up choking her to death, locked the door, and left.
     
    It took the detective work of another of Uran's friends to connect Setsuna to this mess and to send the police to his door. He admitted to the killing and was promptly arrested. When asked his occupation, he claimed he was a "part-timer" and did not mention THE EGOIST, his band mates, or his label. Thus, the band was able to avoid most of the wrath of the Eye of Sauron, but they still chose to disband anyway to distance themselves from the stigma as much as possible. I don't blame them. The story stops here for now, but there are a lot more questions to be asked than can be answered. As for the most important one, as one of Uran's friends put it, "The only way to know the circumstances that led to Uran being the only one who died is to ask [Setsuna] himself". Maybe this information will come out in a court trial soon.
     
    UPDATE: THE EGOIST disbanded earlier in 2017 due to the departure of their vocalist.
    UPDATE 2: His trial started one year after the incident. Setsuna stated that Uran asked him to kill her, so he "helped her". Since the tribunal couldn't verify if that is true or not they accepted that Setsuna killed her on request and therefore reduced his sentence from 13 years to 3.5 years in prison.

    Thanks for reading! Hopefully, band members will behave and another one of these lists won't come for a good while
  13. I feel ya..
    Miku70 reacted to efuru in The Bad Boys of Visual Kei   
    Voted Kisaki, never knew all that stuff. 
    Poor Rio. If he really didn't know the girl was underage she basically black mailed him when he tried to break up with her. Never date fans. They're psycho. 
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    Miku70 reacted to Naaaaani in Great musician but shitty person?   
    Totally agree, he is still a maximalist silly child, like most of the lefties in this world. Anyway his music is great, though it's not very original.
     
    Also... Yoshiki? He is a greedy egomaniac, but well, he is really awesome as a composer.
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    Miku70 reacted to Bear in When does an artist become a rip off of another artist?   
    This is a hard one IMO. I don't know how it is in the VK scene, but in metal and punk  and so on its not unsual at all to "steal" music, from just a riff to almost entire songs, or hell, even a bands complete sound, just to pay tribute to artists and bands. And they're not considered rip off at all. But I think it has to do with how it's done, how open the bands are about their influences and so on. But it's hard to draw the line where a band goes from a rip off to a tribute band, and vice versa.
     
     
    And while I have enver read an interview with Grieva, I just don't consider them a rip off. To me they come off as an original tribute band (along the lines of Disclose, Warhammer and so on). Where their only mission is to recreate something great that was lost as time went on. But what do I know?
     
    Warhammer spent years and years to hunt down the right equipment so that they could re-create the guitar tone, bass sound and drum sound of Hellhammer. Their covers could also have been Hellhammer cover. But they're never considered a rip off, but an original tribute band. And i think this comes down to how open they are about it. They just want to continue what Hellhammer started.
     
    Same with Japanese d-beaters Disclose. Everything about their releases are Discharge influenced. Only fuzzier, nastier and wilder sounding. But again they're a band that were opena bout paying their tributes to their favourite band.
     
    And I honestly feel like this is the case with a band like Grieva, but as I have never read an interview with them I don't really know.
  16. I feel ya..
    Miku70 reacted to psychonnect_rozen in Great musician but shitty person?   
    Kisaki. He's not the worst bassist ever and I do enjoy Syndrome and Phantasmagoria. However as a person...yeah.

    Also Kyuhoo from Madman's Esprit. I absolutely love his voice and the music but he acts like a 14-year-old edgelord half the time. It's annoying. Although I do congratulate him for flipping off some homophobic protestors lol.
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    Miku70 reacted to Masato in When does an artist become a rip off of another artist?   
    A rip off is when you copy another bands costume, part of their tunes and declare it a parody  of ○○○-sama. 😏 Can still be lots of fun though!
     
     
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    Miku70 reacted to The Piass in HIZUMI (ex-D'espairsRay Vo.) new band NUL. has formed   
    "There are more languages than just English ", who is patronizing who ? 
    This meaning is way obsolete, no one is using it anymore.
    I know they do not care, I was just saying it for reference.
     
    My post was clear, you were the one trying to play smarty with me so yes I just added "French" between brackets so that you could understand.
     
    See you ! 
  19. Daria
    Miku70 reacted to midnightskywalker in HIZUMI (ex-D'espairsRay Vo.) new band NUL. has formed   
    Oh wow, why so low key patronizing? "no (...)" was a bit inaccurate, but definitely not wrong, mate.
    And I think that Japanese couldn't care less about what their band names mean in different languages, because they just don't give shit about what they mean, especially vk bands lol
     
    nul (feminine singular nulle, masculine plural nuls, feminine plural nulles)
    1. (indefinite, singular only) no, nil
    2. of poor quality, lousy, rubbish
    3. lame
     
    nul - no one, nobody
     
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nul#Pronoun
     
    Also nice to see, that you actually fixed your post though after playing Monsieur smartypants and "correcting" me  lol
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    Miku70 reacted to sleepy coffee in When does an artist become a rip off of another artist?   
    dont think its means anything in the visual kei scene, the only people who get upset at "ripoff" bands are western fans and we dont really matter to them 
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    Miku70 reacted to The Piass in HIZUMI (ex-D'espairsRay Vo.) new band NUL. has formed   
    Lol, I am French. The first meaning of "nul" is "bad". Take a better look next time.
    I have to agree that if they took it as "zero", then yes it is a better name.
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    Miku70 reacted to midnightskywalker in HIZUMI (ex-D'espairsRay Vo.) new band NUL. has formed   
    It means "zero" or "no (...)" in French. There are more languages than just English. 😉
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    Miku70 reacted to The Piass in HIZUMI (ex-D'espairsRay Vo.) new band NUL. has formed   
    Really bad name. "Nul" (French)  means "bad" in English.
     
     
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    Miku70 reacted to Masato in 怪盗戦隊ヌスムンジャー (Kaitou SentaiNusumunja) (the band with the most cease and desist orders..)    
    Btw, do you remember when Mamo of Rshitei gave away parts of his hair? 😂 And stupid Mamogya started to eat it?
    Apparently Jewly gave away parts of his mononoke cosplay hair, too. Lol 
     
     
    Also he is constantly writing that his "Takemasa" is not married. 😏
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    Miku70 reacted to Gesu in New band "GREED" has formed   
    I think that means they used to be in a band called Akaku Somatta Kioku.
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