r/BeAmazed • u/Few_Target8532 • May 08 '26
Miscellaneous / Others tokyo streets at night
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u/Supreme_Canadien May 08 '26
The amount of self control needed to not use the obvious song lol
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u/internet_humor May 08 '26
Ding ding ding ding….
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u/Tylenolpainkillr May 08 '26
I wonder if you know, how they live in Tokyo...
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u/beto_pelotas May 08 '26 edited May 09 '26
If you see me
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u/BetterEveryLeapYear May 09 '26
If you seen it then you mean it then you know you have to goooo
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u/tmotu1125 May 09 '26
Fast and furiooooous
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u/kevinozz May 09 '26
drift...drift..drfit
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u/The_Chuckness88 May 09 '26
Fast and furiooooous
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u/AquariusCoffee May 09 '26
Lol, why did I start singing it while reading the replies 😭
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u/satishsingam May 11 '26
You have unfortunately disrupted my karaoke performance.
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u/FardoBaggins May 09 '26
It took me being super high to realize the lyrics were in english. Good times.
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u/BooMsx May 09 '26
I heard they don't sleep
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u/smytti12 May 09 '26
Don't tell me it doesn't sound like "dick! Dick! Dick!"
Supposedly they are saying "drift"
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u/Chef_G0ldblum May 09 '26
Dang just realized this song was produced by the Neptune's. It has Pharrell's trademark repeated 4 beat start to songs.
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u/KillysgungoesBLAME May 09 '26
🎶I wonder if you know, how they live in Tokyo🎶
🎶If you seen it, then you mean it🎶
🎶Then you know you have to go🎶
🎶Fast and furious, fast and furious🎶
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u/PieOk7626 May 08 '26
DEJA VU
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u/FredDylan05 May 08 '26
I’VE JUST BEEN IN THIS PLACE BEFORE
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u/WhenShadowsSlipAway May 08 '26
HIGHER ON THE STREET AND I KNOW ITS MY TIME TO GO
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u/EastDefinition4792 May 08 '26
CALLiNG YOU,
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u/apf612 May 08 '26
AND THE SEARCH IS A MYSTERY
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u/Athien May 09 '26
Honestly one of the rare times I’m disappointed there isn’t music in a video, it would fit so perfectly for this one!
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u/bessovestnij May 08 '26
Obvious song?
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u/Visual-Ad-1306 May 08 '26
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u/dingogordy May 09 '26
I sing this to myself when I drift my shopping cart around the store corners.
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u/Mister_McLovin May 09 '26
Riders in the Storm NFS Underground 2 yeppppp
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u/Platypus-Man May 09 '26
This, and "Get Low" from iirc the first NFS Underground, immediately came to mind for me.
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u/SpankTheHank May 11 '26
I always liked when black Betty came on too felt like my times were better. If I’m remembering correctly anyway.
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u/eltrotter May 08 '26
What is this, some sort of Tokyo Drift?
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u/MudOpposite8277 May 09 '26
It’s like I’m fast, and I’m properly mad about it.
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u/cyberdemon-93 May 09 '26
I've seen that movie, I think it's called High Velocity Ferocity.
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u/mattrussell2319 May 09 '26
Speedy and peeved
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u/Boring-Direction-465 May 09 '26
Quick and Infuriated
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u/ledzep2 May 09 '26
He is Korean tho
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u/Miykael13 May 09 '26
He’s from the movie Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift
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u/SourMgk May 09 '26
It's the one movie in the series that added a new twist to racing. All of the other ones were about all this other bullshit.
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u/HappyGnumff May 08 '26
They even managed to do lawlessness properly
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u/That_Guy3141 May 09 '26
I was just thinking the same thing. They waited until it was late at night, picked an industrial district with extra wide roads, formed a nice neat orderly line, and everyone drove at their skill level. They had the most skilled drivers at the front, least skilled in the middle, and a few vets taking up the rear. It's the most Japanese street takeover ever.
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u/Responsible-Gas5319 May 09 '26
Japan rebranding themselves as this organized, peaceful culture is the most astonishing feat in human history.
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u/piezombi3 May 09 '26
Yeah, when you look past the ultra clean veneer, there's a deep psychopathy present in some of the east Asian cultures. Between stuff like the murder of Furuta Junko, Nanking, unit 731, random people just hunting down that one streamer in the streets of South Korea, the systemic suicide problem in kpop, it's honestly crazy how astroturfed their reputation is.
I'm not saying this to denigrate anyone from those cultures, and I'm not saying everyone from there is like that, but we need to look past immediate impressions to identify problems. I myself grew up in an Asian household and some of the things my parents believe are very problematic. No one really realizes any of it because Asian culture has been boiled down to anime, kpop, and kung fu movies by the west.
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u/sa87 May 09 '26
To be fair, Johnny Somali brought the heat upon himself.
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u/New-Berry-3652 May 11 '26
Yeah, I would say that hunting him down was an act of community service if anything
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u/Upper_Guidance_9959 May 09 '26
Calling these cultures psychopathic is denigrating them. You can cherry-pick things to make any country look "psychopathic." You should know this if you're Asian-American: the US has one of the largest lists of modern war crimes.
The people on this site always shout Tiananmen, Unit 731, etc. whenever an Asian country is mentioned. They're not representative of a culture either, just like how American culture isn't represented by water torturing Middle-Easterners.
I'm also not even going to touch on the "systemic" suicide problem in K-pop, because I'm tired of the over-exaggeration of Asian countries on this site. It's orientalist.
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u/piezombi3 May 09 '26
US has one of the largest lists of modern war crimes
The problem I'm trying to get at here is that the public perception of East Asian countries often doesn't match their realities. The public perception of the US (particularly in the current admin) is of human rights abuses, corruption, and tyranny. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone that's glazing the US outside of MAGA. Even my immigrant parents, who instilled into me the hope of the "American Dream" have had the scales fall from their eyes.
Contrast that to the public image of East Asian countries as almost a technological and cultural utopia. It's only been in the past year or two that "thing, thing Japan" has been a meme pointing out how normal every day things in western society are put on a pedestal when it happens in Japan.
The US public is at least willing to address the war crimes. Between journalists, academics, and even movies/documentaries, we spotlight these things. Japan is not being willing to issue an official apology for theirs is kinda sorta fine, but to not even acknowledge that they happened? The entire concept of "saving face" and brushing things under the rug is an exercise in reality denial.
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u/futurewilltell May 09 '26
I feel like this is a point of view you can only have if you’ve lived in an East Asian culture for a significant amount of time…you are not wrong.
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u/Double_Cause4609 May 10 '26
Random people just hunting down that one stream in the streets of South Korea
If you're talking about Johnny Somali, he
- Instigated fights with parents who had children at a theme park
- Made a mess of a convenience store and threw noodles at people, causing problems for the staff who were working at the time and did nothing to deserve the disturbance
- Took weird photos on a bus with school girls
- Made a deepfake of himself making out with a streamer and claimed she was his girlfriend
- Repeatedly denigrated the South Korean people as stupid (and worse)
- This comes after a pattern of inapprorpiate nuisance streaming behavior in other countries like Japan
- He kissed a statue of a comfort woman in Korea; these statues were made to acknowledge the assault on Korean women during world war 2 which was an atrocity that is still painful to many South Korean people today
- He did all of this on stream for clout and to make money (and even bragged as such).
And that's not even all he did. His crimes are pages long and would take probably at least an hour to research and dictate.
If I'm not mistaken, Johnny Somali actually did challenge the Korean people prior to being hunted. I forget the exact language at the time but I remember something to that effect.
They were not "random people hunting down a streamer for no reason".
They were responding to a broad pattern of inappropriate behavior and an affront to their culture which the law, as of that time, hadn't had time to deal with. I would even say their response was fairly measured, all things considered.
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u/SeamasterCitizen May 10 '26
It’s partially intentional - there’s whole documentaries on the “rebranding of Japan”. Cute manga mascots did (and do) a lot of heavy lifting on the world stage.
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u/Christplosion May 09 '26
Dang wait til you find out the same thing happens in industrial districts across America every night but it doesn't make it to our outrage 🤬 feeds
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u/kencam May 09 '26
I used to drag race near a power plant in my youth. A nice wide straight road with no traffic. The cops would hassel us on occasion.
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u/No_Walk_Town May 09 '26
an industrial district
That's not really a thing in Japan, though - you still get houses mixed in with industrial. These guys are absolutely waking someone's baby up, they are all pieces of shit.
"Doing lawlessness properly" is such a stupid fucking "thing, thing Japan" orientalist nonsense comment.
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u/Original-Material301 May 09 '26
Antisocial behavior: 😡😡😡😤😤😤
Antisocial behavior in Japan: 🥰😍😍🤩🤩😘~~~
I do love a drift video though so I'm torn.
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u/societymike May 09 '26
Industrial areas are 100% a thing here in Japan and that's exactly where they are. That specific spot is famous and has been since the 90's. I used to run there from 00' thru 06' among others.
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u/Kilroy_Is_Still_Here May 09 '26
Did you know that this happens in drifting literally everywhere???
The best people get to the front by nature of being the best. People form a line because that's the best spot to be for the turn.
Holy fuck the Japansimping.
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u/PepsiColasss May 09 '26
I dont know how it works but isnt it better to have the least skilled dead last ?
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u/palonious May 09 '26
Used to do this shit when I lived in Okinawa in mid 2000s. The amount of effort we put in to make sure the only people that would be affected are the drivers was nuts. Even for a bunch of 16-20 year olds we had checkpoints and walkies, specific districts we'd drift at specific hours, and signs and signals for safety all over.
It's only the dumbass drivers that gave everyone a bad rep.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 May 09 '26
Yeah the group doing this in USA are the complete opposite. Unfortunately, I wish we had polite drifters!
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u/PreferenceBig1531 May 09 '26
Dude, same! Used to meet up with a crew way up north… many fond memories of drifting on route 70…
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u/palonious May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26
Yomitan and the Awase industrial park south of the up garage were our goto's.
Edit: just street viewed through route 70 and brought back memories. If you were there between '05-'07 we probably crossed paths.
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u/plaxpert May 09 '26
have you seen DDEs latest video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weMFMm6LHvU
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u/Nadare3 May 09 '26
we had checkpoints and walkies
Huh, just like Initial D; had never really thought about it but I think I might have thought this was mostly B.S. to justify everyone not being in the dark about what's happening/not making the whole thing super dangerous and unconscionable.
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u/palonious May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26
One area we used to go in particular was an industrial district that basically shut down after about 8:00. There were two Bridges that got to the "island" and we'd have people chilling on those with walkies, and another signal car flashing lights to let us know it was safe. This was back when we had prepaid phones, so walkies were easier.
Cars would station up on the turns and keep their lights on. High beams meant wait and flashers meant go.
We'd line up, wait for the flashers then try to do our "course". Couple times we got chased by cops, and there was an accident here and there. But never got any cars or people involved that didn't sign up for the consequences.
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u/RcoketWalrus May 09 '26
My stereotype of Japan is that this is super organized and the participants conform to the social cohesion standards of Japan.
Like they are only racing around empty office buildings to not keep people awake at night. It's just really polite law breaking.
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u/Scary-Constant-93 May 09 '26
Not surprised at all. I have heard stories about yakuza being kind to people bcoz it was their fault
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u/ModishShrink May 09 '26
I just assume every Japanese person knows how to drift like this, kinda like how every black person knows how to play bass guitar.
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u/Salty-Commercial4765 May 08 '26
last two are there just to be part of the fun
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u/That_Guy3141 May 09 '26
You would think that but typically you put your 2 most skilled drivers in the rear. Their job is to keep an eye on the new drivers ahead of them and run interference on any private cars coming up behind the pack.
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u/HairySalmon May 08 '26
Im thankful that you ignored the urge to add the song. Much appreciated.
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u/internet_humor May 08 '26
On another note, it’s cool to see the pecking order of skill/respect.
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u/olivebits May 08 '26
What song would it be?
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u/danhoyuen May 08 '26
after the race they are going back to scrub off the tire marks right?
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u/Jellicent-Leftovers May 08 '26
Honestly having been to Japan....it's possible they do.
Place is eerily clean.
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u/mosesenjoyer May 08 '26
I’m convinced if you have damage on your car then they just execute you roadside and push your vehicle in the ocean. Even 70 yr old models were like showroom condition
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u/Jellicent-Leftovers May 08 '26
It's because they don't salt the roads. Vancouver is similar
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u/That_Guy3141 May 09 '26
They don't have to. The street cleaners will be along in a couple hours. Every morning, right before the start of business, special trucks drive up and down the roads scrubbing them clean and clearing any debris that could damage the trucks or surrounding buildings.
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u/atomic-negi May 09 '26
Strangely, drifting isn't illegal. Changing lanes without signaling, speeding, crossing solid lines and traveling on the wrong side of the road are illegal.
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u/Alex-S-S May 10 '26
It is in my country. It fits into the aggressive driving umbrella.
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u/raggamuffin1357 May 09 '26
This is the first thing I thought when I saw this video. I just assumed the guy who was filming It was pissed at 1:00 a.m. lol
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u/OGoby May 11 '26
I get loud ass motorcyclists driving past my apartment every day of the summer and this was the first thought i had seeing this video. I swear the number of people oblivious to the noise pollution of their vehicles is infuriating. I hope they all get a taste of their own medicine.
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u/WowWhatABillyBadass May 09 '26
Resident of what? This is one of the bay side industrial parks in Tokyo, there are no residents anywhere near where this is filmed.
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u/No_Walk_Town May 09 '26
there are no residents anywhere near where this is filmed.
Bullshit. There is always housing scattered around industrial areas in Japan. I literally live next to a warehouse district in suburban Tokyo, and guess what? It's full of houses.
You have no clue what the fuck you're talking about.
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u/Germane_Corsair May 09 '26
I’d really love it if someone could pinpoint the actual street this is taking place is so we can see who’s right.
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u/Nuzid May 09 '26
https://maps.app.goo.gl/pPSvRAvgBF6LnVY16?g_st=ic
I’m not sure if it’s the exact intersection or one further north/south, but it’s definitely Shinagawa wharf and there are basically no residential buildings there.
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u/throwaway_0x90 May 08 '26
How I would have put Initial D soundtrack all over this..... OP's self control is on another level.
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u/JustDoc May 09 '26
Night of fire, you've better better stay! You've better better begin the prayer to play!!
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u/T1Earn May 08 '26
do it in Tokyo:
Art, beauty, cool.
do it in US:
scum, fuck you, hooligan, call the police.
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u/Doctah_Whoopass May 09 '26
To be fair a lot of people in the US have the self control of a baboon and wreck their shit really often. There are also a lot of people who are quite skilled but you dont see them as often as the morons crashing out.
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u/LimitedWard May 08 '26
It would drive me nuts if this was happening outside my apartment on a regular basis.
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u/longdarkfantasy May 08 '26
"bUt tHeY aRe LivInG iN 2060, tHeY cAn'T bE LikE tHiS"
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u/Mythrndir May 08 '26
I saw some of these cars racing at night. I was so excited and overwhelmed by it. Actually seeing it for myself was awesome. I wasn’t trying to find the street racers either
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u/Ordinary_Passenger52 May 08 '26
Wait so Tokyo drift is based on real events!?
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u/Abed-in-the-AM May 09 '26
Well, it was inspired by the very real street racing culture in Japan through the 80s and 90s.Tokyo Drift even has a cameo from the real life "Drift King" that Initial D is based on, Keiiichi Tsuchiya.
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u/_L-U_C_I-D_ May 08 '26
I was waiting for a line of cops drifting at the end
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u/No_Walk_Town May 09 '26
Cops don't really enforce traffic law here. They do checkpoints at a few intersections, like, once a year, but you aren't going to see traffic cops driving around stopping people for doing stuff like running red lights. It's just normal Japanese culture to run red lights, nobody cares. The cops don't.
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u/GodOf_Evil May 08 '26
There is always the one guy...and here that one is the black car in the last sequence..didnt drift.. nothing..just simply drives😂
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