The Day Rue "Became" Black

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Same sort of thing happened with Dumbledore. His sexual orientation was never touched upon in the books and then when asked by a fan of he'd ever been in a relationship Rowling said he had with a guy and people lost their shit because they defaulted him to white so apparently clarifying something that was never touched on in the books but was contrary to the default means she must have changed something.

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Greetings and salutations, before we get into all this, uh, this video's been brought to you by NordVPN. Thanks to NordVPN for sponsoring this... um... thirty minute nightmare. It’s September 14th, 2008. Scholastic Press publishing has released the first   installment in Suzanne Collins’ sci-fi  adventure trilogy The Hunger Games. The book’s partly inspired by the  myth of Theseus and the Minotaur   in which children are sent as sacrifices into  a labyrinth to be devoured by a bloodthirsty... you guessed it: minotaur. This was done to stave off a  plague that had befallen Athens. In the world of The Hunger Games, two children  from twelve districts are sent to The Capitol,   the wealthiest and most  inaccessible part of the country, to be killed for the entertainment of rich people   as punishment to the districts  for uprising years earlier. The Hunger Games would get a lot of comparisons  to the masterpiece Battle Royale to the point   that Collins’ name would occasionally be  eviscerated online for shits and giggles. But besides the initial concept, the  stories are very different and they’re   also both basically Theseus and the Minotaur  and the 10th Victim, the Elio Petri film about   something called The Big Hunt, a game show  where spectators watch hunters kill prey. [gratuitous deep inhale] So whatever. When it was published, 50,000 copies of the book  were released and that number continued to climb. Suffice it to say it was very fucking popular. It’s March 2009, a few months after the release of  the first book, and the production company Color   Force has acquired the rights to adapt the book  to film and Lionsgate enters the deal with them. And this is where our story starts. The Hunger Games rollout happened pretty fast. The first book was released in 2008 and by  2015, just seven years later, the last of   the trilogy’s movie adaptations had grossed  over 600 million dollars at the box office. The movie counterparts marked the beginning of a wave of YA Dystopian novels  adapted for the big screen. Right after this first installment,  we’d get adaptations of Ender’s Game,   The Maze Runner, The 5th Wave and many more. Out of all of them, Hunger Games was the  most competent and fulfilling series. But we’re not there yet. We’re here on April 4th of 2011, Lionsgate  announces the official casting of three actors. Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson -- who publicly campaigned  for his part -- as Peeta Mallark and Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne. And fans are excited. No, I’m kidding, a lot of them were really mad. I'm absolutely heartsick right now. Gary Ross and Nina Jacobson have completely ruined  this amazing book with such horrible casting. Josh will never be my Peeta!  What a disappointment! I have no enthusiasm for  this movie at all anymore. This is the biggest fail since  Charlie Sheen's Warlock tour. I will not support this doomed project. For God's sake Josh is terrible! Hunter Parrish  as Peeta would be a thousand times better. Terrible casting all around! None of  them are right. What a disappointment. OH MY GOD I HATE THIS CASTING! Peeta and Gale's casting  people should be switched! Peeta is a blonde buff guy  like the guy casted for Gale! And Gale is dark haired like the  guy casted -- cated -- for Peeta! I hope they're willing to get their hair dyed! Also Katnis is supposed to have long, dark hair,  not medium-length blonde hair and by the way I think she looks way too old to play Katniss too! The casting is all wrong! Also, I heard some old guy is playing Haymitch!   NOOOOO! Johnny Depp or someone  like that is perfect for that role! OH MY GOD THIS IS ALL WRONG! I HATE IT BECAUSE I LOOOOOOVE THIS BOOK IT'S MY FAVORITE BOOK EVERRRRRR!!!!!!!!! Jesus Christ... Casting has always sparked  controversy among fandoms. Whether its people having ulcers over  Robert Pattinson playing Edward Cullen or people having ulcers over  Robert Pattinson playing Batman, casting is a thing that  causes a lot of excitement. It should be said before I get into all of the  stuff that’s about to unfold that generally,   fandoms are disdainful of all casting decisions. It is impossible to satisfy them. Josh Hutcherson is too brunette,  he couldn’t possibly dye his hair? What even is bleach? Did you make that up? Liam Hemsworth couldn’t possibly play Gale,   he’s blonde? There’s no such thing  as hair dye, stop lying to yourself. And Jennifer Lawrence, among  other things, couldn’t possibly   play Katniss because she can’t dye her  hair and her ribcage isn’t protruding. Ugh, this is all messed up. But eventually, Josh grew on people. At  the time that he was announced as Peeta,   I was honestly really excited because Josh was  exactly who I envisioned Peeta looking like.   Short and stocky with a friendly smile. Are  you kidding me? Who else was it gonna be? Awwww. No. More castings would be announced  and a few days later on April 18th   2011, characters Rue and Thresh would be cast  by actors Amandla Stenberg and Dayo Okeniyi. For the most part, the response was good. The publications that posted about the  casting choices don’t have comments on   them and the few that do have one or  two comments, are thankfully positive. A lot of fans seemed to really like Amandla as  Rue. And when you go to a video that ClevverTV   posted about the casting, many of the comments  were people expressing sadness not because   Amandla was cast but because she was so cute,  people didn’t want to see her character die. While it may seem as if there was no  backlash until after the movie came out which almost never happens, once upon a time, these casting  announcements were made on news   sites and the posts were flooded with outrage. Since those comments -- and all  comments -- have since been removed,   the full scope of anger is missing from history. But you can still find a few comments on  YouTube videos that included the announcement. And even on those old fan cast videos. Going back to look at those dream casts,  I found that, more often than not, a white actress was chosen for Rue. And the rare videos that included a black actress  for the role would get comments like these: I also imagined Rue as white thus her resembling  Prim...I think that's why it was confusing. Rue was supposed to have olive skin. *OLIVE.* I'm  sure this was just done for political correctness! Ugh, that's Rue? I'm sorry but she doesn't  seem like Rue. I thought Rue would have lighter hair. Dude! I think it's perfect. Not what I  thought Thresh would look like but still.   I imagined a big buff white dude as him. "The boy tribute from District 11,  Thresh, has the same dark skin as Rue but the resemblance stops there." They were in the minority and their  racism went unseen by the mainstream. It wasn't until after the movie was released  on March 23, *2012* (not 2011, you dumb fuck) that Twitter started to do what Twitter does The difference between the  disappointment surrounding   Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth is that A) people weren't being racist and B) No one took screenshots. The thing is Rue and Thresh were  described as being black in the book. Or, okay, if you want to get technical about it:  they were described as having dark brown skin. And I know that the Hunger Games thing  with District 11 is very messy stuff. I might handle that in a different  video all together because there's so much to unpack there. The only character cast with a Black  actor whose skin color wasn’t described   as being brown or any other  color for that matter was Cinna. but if you’re complaining about  Lenny Kravitz being cast in a movie,   that sounds like a you problem. As in a you have no taste problem. Why is Cinna Black?! There’s been a long-standing history  in Hollywood to replace characters   of color with white characters or  to keep the characters' race the   same but have those characters  still played by white actors. In recent years, we’ve seen this most frequently  with American live action anime adaptations. Changing Light Yagami to Light Turner, casting Justin Chatwin as Goku and a tree playing Motoko Kusanagi. And that’s just the newer stuff  because this dates back decades. The list is exhaustive. The movie Hud, for which the leading  actress Patricia Neal won an Oscar. In the book, this character was originally Black. This was changed because the  producers didn’t think it was   possible for a Black woman to be so desired. In Pay it Forward, Kevin Spacey’s  character was, in the book, a Black man. In the adaptation process, it was  decided that he wasn’t anymore. And in Warm Bodies, the character played by   Analeigh Tipton was described in  the book as being half Ethiopian. But I guess that didn’t work for the story. And literally no one who read Warm Bodies  pre film adaptation seemed to mind. Although Lavender Brown, a character in the Harry   Potter series, was never described  as any particular race or color, she was initially cast in the  movies with Black actresses. Twice. But when it came time for Lavender to   have a speaking part and to play a  more important role in the story, she was replaced with a white actress. While a lot of fans did have gripes with  this installment in the film franchise, none of those qualms had anything to  do with Lavender suddenly being white. It’s likely that no one noticed and it’s  just as likely that anyone who did notice   simply didn’t care. So, characters like Rue and Thresh,  if they’d been cast with white actors,   would have been far from the first characters  in the history of cinema to be whitewashed. The sad thing is that if  they had been whitewashed,   the fans wouldn’t even have noticed  because clearly few of them, despite being such “huge” fans of  the Hunger Games series seemed to   pick up on the key descriptions  of the characters to begin with: My guess is that the Einsteins  who “read” the book lacked reading   comprehension skills and dismissed the  first part in favor of the second part where Katniss says Rue reminds her of  Prim *because* of her size and demeanor. So, Rue was always a black character. And  it was one of the few and first times that   such a character was cast with an actor  who somewhat matches the description. Because colorism. Put a pin in that. But despite these characters and the color  of their skin literally being described   more than once, a section of Hunger Games fans  were still unreasonably surprised because white   fans in particular are very used to being the only  kind of people who exist in their favorite books. And this is especially true with  science fiction and fantasy novels. Western literature in general tends to center  white writers and, in doing so, centers whiteness. How many times have you found yourself reading a   book and noticing when an author  describes a character as being Black or Asian or Hispanic? It feels sudden not only because this is the first  character of color you've come across in the book but because no other characters have  had their race or skin color described. And you realize: "Oh. They don't need the description because  they are understood to be white." This technique makes whiteness the standard,   the default and it effectively  others anything that isn't that. In 2012, one of my all time  favorite writers Zadie Smith released her fourth novel NW. It follows four different characters and it’s a  pretty experimental book with some passages being   written in third person, others in first  person and varying narrative techniques. But my favorite element about the novel is that   Smith doesn’t describe the race of  any character unless they’re white, effectively subverting what  has become an accepted norm in   western literature of whiteness  being the neutral or default. When asked about her decision  to do this, Smith said: "I grew up reading a generation of American  and English people like Bellow, Updike or Amis.   Everybody's neutral unless they're black — then  you hear about it: the black man, the black woman,   the black person. Of course, if you happen  to be black the world doesn't look that way   to you. I just wanted to try and create perhaps a  sense of alienation and otherness in this person,   the white reader, to remind them that  they are not neutral to other people." That same year that the first Hunger Games  film was released, casting choices for the   film adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s novel The  Mortal Instruments: City of Bones was announced. In July, news broke that the late and great  actor Godfrey Gao was going to play Magnus Bane. Again, most fans were happy with this casting.  But there were others who were extremely upset that an Asian character was  being played by an Asian actor. What is y'all's thing with Adam  Lambert? Can we please stop? You did! On Tumblr, Cassandra Clare was asked  by a fan if she could please explain   to her racist fans why an Asian actor  was going to play an Asian character. Because there seemed to be a  lot of confusion on Facebook. Cassandra Clare said: “...I am  confused about the confusion.   They want an Asian actor to play  Magnus because Magnus is Asian…” She went on to show sections of  what she’d written in the book,   lines that clearly point out Magnus is half  Indonesian and speaks Indonesian a few times. She couldn’t have made it any clearer that  Magnus was not white. Or not only white. “I remember being told early on in the whole  movie process (before I sold the rights) that I should be wary about having  written a biracial character, because if there is any excuse  to cast a character as white,   even if they are not, even if they are  only half, Hollywood will take it…” “The general assumption that is always made  about characters is that they are white. I am constantly asked if Jem is Chinese,  even though he is from Shanghai and speaks   Mandarin and says he is Chinese and is portrayed  on the cover of the book by a half-Chinese model. Apparently the idea he might not be white is  just that startling. And why is it startling? Because of things like whitewashing. Because  if mainstream media can take an opportunity to   accord more privilege to the already privileged,  and make everybody white, by and large they will. And every time it happens, it contributes to the  problem and makes sure the problem lasts longer. So why are they casting Asian actors  for Magnus? Because Magnus is Asian.” For centuries, art has featured  white people as the primary subjects. Whiteness is considered by many to be the default. Studios don’t question whether a teenage black   girl will be able to relate to a  story about a teenage white girl. It’s not even considered. They ask if white girls will be able to relate to  black girls and then decide they can't, which ends   in black girls getting little to no light-hearted  stories about high school or coming of age. The reason often given for these  decisions is that white people   are incapable of relating to  characters that aren’t white. Which sounds like a load of shit given Hollywood’s  history of telling stories about black,   Asian and Indigenous characters  while having white actors play them. The popularity of the story of Othello, the  popularity of movies like The Conquerer,   the infamous film about Genghis Khan  where he’s played by John Wayne,   are testaments to the truth that  white audiences have always been   interested in stories about people  of a different race and culture. Perhaps, the distinction is  that they’ve always been more   comfortable with white actors playing these roles. With the exception of Ira Aldridge, it was  the norm for white actors to play Othello. In fact, the first instance of a  Black actor, Laurence Fishburne,   playing Othello in a mainstream  studio film wouldn’t be until 1995. So, even when characters are explicitly described  as being Black or Asian, you’ll still have white   audience members who ask if that’s really  their race and if it actually matters. Some people are so used to  whiteness being the default, they view it as the norm and any deviation  from that norm is looked at with suspicion. Every time there’s been a case of  whitewashing in anime for instance   and people of color are rightfully upset  about having an opportunity taken from them,   there’s always a counter defense  from white audience members. It gets to a point that they’ll claim characters  with Japanese names who live in Japan and speak   Japanese are actually white and that anyone  who watches anime would be able to see that. Then at the same time, they say that  race shouldn’t matter at all unless   it’s pertinent to the story. And if a Black  character is leading a film where the theme   isn’t centered around their race, people  will get upset and claim the character’s   only Black because of political correctness.  Because people who aren’t white only exist   because of political correctness and not because  we were born into the world like everyone else. The whole thing with only casting people of  color if their race is important to the story   is how we get so many movies and books about  how hard it is to be a person of color. We get stories with a mostly Black cast where it’s  all about Black trauma and Black pain because,   even though our experiences with race will  never disengage from our everyday life,   stories about Black people just existing without   their race being the main focus is seen  as an unnecessary result of PC culture. After scouring social media to see if I could find  more reactions to the Rue situation around that   time period, I found one who read the Hunger  Games and did see that description of Rue.   And they straight up admitted that although  they saw that the character had dark brown skin,   they just kind of assumed Suzanne Collins meant  olive skin, that Rue was Sicillian or something. And, you know, I guess that’s valid but I feel  like if Suzanne Collins wanted to write that Rue   had an olive skin tone, she would have just  written that she had an olive skin tone... You know, kinda like she  did with Katniss and Gale? Don't know how one substitutes  olive for dark brown but okay. Most of the racist outrage we  see with casting choices today   come with the news of actors of color  playing traditionally white characters. Which makes this case so bizarre because apart   from writing that Rue was  Black every other sentence, I’m not sure how Suzanne Collins could have  made it more obvious that she was Black. For that piece of information though, some  people just refused to acknowledge it. When all the racist attacks were going on,   there was one YouTube commenter who  summed up the reactions pretty well: The racist reactions to a black character   being played by a black actress  was obviously unwarranted and incredibly fucking stupid. Authors were panicking about how  their readers were perceiving   their obviously Black coded characters, teachers across the country  were scrambling to reintroduce   basic reading comprehension  skills into their curriculum. Guys, it was cataclysmic. And the thing is, at the end of the day,   although a Black actress was chosen for the  part, the casting directors still got it wrong. Let’s return to the descriptions of Rue, shall we? “She’s the twelve year old, the one  that reminded me so of Prim in stature.   Up close she looks about ten. She has  bright, dark eyes and satiny brown skin.” "She has dark brown skin..." Yes, Rue is a dark-skinned black girl. The racism toward her character didn’t begin   nor did it end with Amandla  Stenberg being in the movie. It began in the casting room where the decision   was made to cast a light-skinned  biracial actress for the role. And, you know, props to Amandla because I  do think she brought Rue to life beautifully but that doesn’t change the  fact that her casting was yet   another instance of a dark-skinned  actress being erased from a film. On one hand, the filmmakers did a  disservice to Rue by casting her this way   and on the other, I know that had  she been a little dark-skinned girl,   the vitriol and racism the actress  received would have been ten times worse. One of the tweets that popped up read: “When I  found out Rue was Black her death wasn’t as sad.” Comments like these were just the  tip of the iceberg of a larger issue. The issue being that Black girls are perceived  to be less innocent than white girls and that   dark skinned Black girls are perceived to be  less innocent that light skinned Black girls. There’s an actual study confirming that  and I recommend everyone reading it. Girlhood Interrupted: The  Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood   focuses on the adultification of young Black  girls and how, as early as five years old,   they’re perceived to be older and  less innocent and more culpable. “Across all age ranges, participants viewed Black  girls collectively as more adult than white girls.   Responses revealed, in particular, that  participants perceived Black girls as needing   less protection and nurturing than white  girls, and that Black girls were perceived   to know more about adult topics and are more  knowledgeable about sex than their white peers.” “...beginning as early as 5 years of age,   Black girls were more likely to be viewed as  behaving and seeming older than their stated   age; more knowledgeable about adult topics,  including sex; and more likely to take on   adult roles and responsibilities than what  would have been expected for their age.” In 2013, Quevenzhane Wallis became the  youngest person to be nominated for Best   Actress in a Leading Role at the Academy Awards.  Leading up to this and following it, she was   constantly ridiculed by the media. Her name was  mocked, she became a punching bag for certain   celebrities and news outlets. The Onion made a  headline calling her a cunt. At nine-years-old!   Why, you might be wondering, did such a thing  happen to other young nominees? Like Anna Paquin   for instance? No. This little Black girl, for some  reason, was perceived by many to be a grown woman. "Had you watched Annie as a little girl?" "When I heard that they were --  well, I'm still a little girl." "Those of lighter skin are  awarded social and economic   privileges because of their closer  phenotypic resemblance to whites   and their assumed superior social value  relative to their darker-skinned counterparts." And here's how that translates into Hollywood: That racial empathy gap makes them  believe it is impossible for white   audiences to relate to anyone who's Black  and especially to anyone who is dark-skinned. So if they have to cast a Black girl as  a lead in a movie, more often than not,   they will cast a light-skinned actress because  they are perceived to be "white adjacent." Example: The Hate U Give. I remember  being very upset when Amanda Stenberg   was cast in the role of Starr Carter  because Starr is a dark-skinned girl. You see that in the descriptions  of herself, in the descriptions of   her mother and Uncle Carlos where she  singles them out as having light skin. You see it on the fucking cover of the book. And, yet, this is who they cast. "Scholars have noted that skin complexion   is more consequential for Black  women's lives than Black men's. Intersectionality theory provides a lens through   which we can understand how light  skin affords special advantages and opportunities to African American  women in ways that it does not for men." Hence, Thresh is allowed to be played  by a dark-skinned actor and Rue is not. For a lot of filmmakers, biracial is the default  for Blackness. This is most evident with Netflix   originals where any and all Black girl characters  are as light or lighter than a paper bag. And, again, most of the time, this is with women. Because when you see Black male actors on  screen, a lot of the time, they are allowed   to be dark-skinned. They're allowed to have Black  features and it's not made a big deal out of. You see this dichotomy with the  casting of Thresh and Rue respectively. Thresh is described in the book as having the  same dark brown skin as Rue. For the movie,   Thresh was permitted to be played by  an actor matching this description   while Rue was lightened for the  appeasement of white audiences. Funnily enough, one of the few  times in YA film adaptations   that a biracial actor was cast as a  biracial character was for the film Everything, Everything. And they still got it wrong! Maddy in Everything, Everything is half Black  and half Japanese but again Amandla Stenberg was   given the part even though she is not Asian,  how do you guys keep getting this wrong?! It's a good time to talk about Thresh. While there was some upset  about Thresh being Black,   you might have noticed that a lot of the vitriol  was directed towards Rue, towards Amandla. As a character, Thresh keeps to himself,   keeps quiet and is known for his huge  stature that sees him towering over everyone. It appeared to be more palatable to white  fans to see a Black man playing such a role. It’s evident that a good portion  of the vitriolic reactions to Rue’s   “surprise” Blackness was that people  -- the racists -- literally could not   compute with the idea of Rue being this sweet,  innocent little girl and also being Black. Katniss constantly compares Rue to her sister  Primrose. They both share flower names,   they're both twelve years old, they share  the same small stature and the same big eyes   and the same innocence and Katniss wants to  do everything she can to protect them both. Every time Rue is described, Katniss  makes a note of her tiny figure.   She’s so young and so tiny and so sweet. “Rue, who is dressed in a gossamer gown complete  with wings, flutters her way to Caesar. A hush   falls over the crowd at the sight of this magical  wisp of a tribune. Caesar is very sweet with her,   complimenting her seven in training,  an excellent score for one so small.” Some readers were wholly incapable of holding the  fact that she was Black along with the fact that   she was so innocent and angelic. For certain  readers, it could only be one or the other. Perhaps most disheartening is the defense  that came to these young, prejudiced... and frankly, stupid people. When they were rightfully called out  for being racist, the defense was: "No, these kids aren't racist! They're using  racial slurs and implying that Black lives   don't matter as much as white lives but they're  not being racist! Where'd you get that from?" And it's like, dude...just call it what it is. This one person on Reddit made a fantastic  point about bigoted readers and writers: "I create my picture of them  based on their personality." That's exactly the problem though. Even 'making  your own picture,' you defaulted to light skin,   blonde hair and blue eyes for no reason at  all. It's good that you don't rage about   it like these people in the article but  deep-seeded white bias so prevalent in   society is what's really disheartening  and kinda fucked up about it all." And they were downvoted! "Why are you booing me? I'm right!" And that’s how you get people screaming  that Rue can’t be Black and now that she   is “suddenly” Black, her race detracts from her  innocence and now that she is “suddenly” Black,   they can’t feel any sadness about her death. There are people who have argued that  the kids who tweeted those racist things   weren't racist and meant no harm,  that they were just surprised. You don't need me to tell you that  surprised people don't just drop   racist ideologies and slurs  when they're surprised. And if they do, it's because they're racist. Some of the blame for this incident fell  on the shoulders of Suzanne Collins. The fans that were called out for their tweets  defended themselves by saying they thought   dark/satiny brown skin meant olive skin.   And some insisted that it was easy to overlook  the description because it was "too brief." As someone who has read all of  three books in my life time:   Slaughterhouse Five, Hunger  Games and What Would Keanu Do?,   I feel safe in saying that most physical  descriptions of characters are short and sweet. The ones that aren't are either  Wattpad fiction or they're Moby Dick. No in between. For the sake of this excuse  though, I decided to re-read   to determine how many descriptions  there are of, say, Peeta's Blond hair. Because that had a lot of people fired up, right? I'm absolutely heartsick right now. So, I read the book and, by the  way, I did restrict it to just   Book One because, I mean, Rue  only appears in Book One so I thought it'd be fair to just do the first  one. Maybe that doesn't make sense, I dunno. And, uh, anyway, that description of Peeta  having blond hair, it shows up twice. Do you know what else showed up twice? Okay then, I thought, alright, how many times did they  describe Katniss, for instance, as having dark   brown hair and olive toned skin? Because that's  something that a lot of people seem to remember   'cause they point it out all the fucking time. And would you believe it? This vague and brief description shows up once. So, Suzanne Collins established  that Peeta had blond hair twice. She established that Gale and Katniss  had olive toned skin and dark hair once. And she established that Katniss'  mother and her sister Primrose   had light eyes and light hair twice. And that is something  everyone seems to remember but   the fact that Rue and Thresh have dark brown skin which was established twice and once respectively, technically three times if  we're counting the time it   described Thresh because it was used  to describe Rue as well or whatever, no one could remember that. Why is that? No, it's a rhetorical question. It's the racism. There's really no happy ending here. There's no   moral, there's no way to tie it all up in a pretty  bow. It's just racism and racism tends to have no   rhyme or reason. All you can say is  that this happened and it was awful. And that's it. The question often posed in  light of this whole thing was, "Well, where does it say  these characters are Black?" And to be completely fair, the characters  of Rue and Thresh, as they are described,   aren't necessarily Black. They were confirmed to   be Black by Suzanne Collins but they  could have been Indian, for instance. What we know for sure, regardless, is  that they are definitely not white. The choice to base character descriptions  on skin color alone and not race means   quite a few characters' races  become open to interpretation. So, ironically, because of that decision  to make whiteness neutral and the default,   to make it the standard that goes  unsaid, I could ask the same question. Where does it say these characters are white?
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