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“Marlboro Woman” Goes Member Paywall Only

The Marlboro Woman, the snark and recap site focused on The Pioneer Woman, is no longer a public space. Visitors were shocked the past week to find themselves unable to view posts – instead receiving a message that they would now be required to cough up $20 bucks a year if they want to view the content.

After October 1, 2014, this content is restricted to subscribed members. A 6-month subscription requires a non-refundable $10 donation. FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS: (1) register as a new user; (2) click the donate button, pay $10 and list the email you used for registration; (3)after payment is received, activation will occur within 48 hours. If you have already donated in the last six months, please email us at: admin@themarlborowoman.com and furnish your name, email address, and the date of your donation.

It will be interesting to see if they do as well as The Feminist Breeder – Gina made her site pay-to-play early last year and claims it has been a roaring success.




  1. Dance Party Steak Lunch Scrubbing Bubbles Convention

    That's disappointing. I mean it's a snark site. I wonder if she got herself into legal trouble with the heinous evil that is The Pioneer Woman and has to hide behind a paywall to keep going?

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    • brightly colored vag huggers

      she claims on twitter that this is not the case, but who knows. she recently switched to requiring registration to view the site. I think when she saw how many people registered she figured she could make some money and decided that it would be "donation required" instead of just "registration" required.

      https://twitter.com/_marlborowoman/status/515640836902494208
      To all the morons who are fabricating rumors & fanning speculation that the MW site has been sued, you are wrong, 1000% wrong.

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      • McBeer

        Yet, when people (like me) question her on Twitter they are blocked.

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        • Katie

          MW is the Ree Drummond Nazi of the Internet - Over the top full of herself with her site. I read the MW site often and was amused by some of the posters there - some posters are downright petty or wrong in their criticisms of the TPW. Most of the time it's the same 5 or 6 posting.

          I was blocked access to the site advising something about my IP address. Following the instructions, I emailed a request for access. No response - nothing. I did this several times. I did figure a way to access it later but have been blocked again.

          MW does exactly what TPW does, blocks any negative poster and/or deletes posts she doesn't like. Yet, MW crucifies TPW for moderating.

          The Marlboro Woman site is just not worth my time, money or effort. I'm curious to see how her pay-to-play plan works out....I'm guessing not so good.

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      • At Sixes and Sevens

        1000%? The hyperbole, it hurts.

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      • giddypony

        "Donation" is she going to declare herself a nonprofit?

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    • playswithfire

      The Pioneer Woman is much too savvy of a businesswoman to do something as stupid as sue MW. The Streisand Effect would be out in full force if she did that, and she knows it.

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      • Peking Duck

        I'm pretty sure PW just laughs all the way to the bank.

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        • PW announced today she's going to have a line of cookware, kitchen utensils, bowls, knives and other things coming out next year. (All with her logo of course)

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          • Dr. Spaceman

            She is FN's replacement for Paula Deen.

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            • Wait...What???

              She wishes she was. Maybe if she could actually cook she might be.

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              • Sue

                Amen. Both of them (TPW & MW) are total phony's and not worth anyone's time.

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              • Sue

                Amen. Both TPW & MW are phony's and not worth the time.

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            • Whoa Bundy

              Didn't they hire another southern Grandma for that? Nancy Fuller does almost exactly the same schtick as Deen on a Saturday morning show called Farmhouse Rules.

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              • silveroak

                While Nancy isn't my style, she knows how to cook, she owned a catering business. Ree is Rich, plain and simple. She bought a lot of advertising, and paid for a lot of stuff out of pocket to make sure she became popular. she's a businesswoman not a cook. Ree's cooking is diabetic slop at best. Ree herself has noticeably put on weight eating her own cooking. For the life of me I don't get her followers or the people who think she can cook. Then again, I don't get people who watch the Kardashians either.

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              • kittyhow

                Not knowing much of anything about TPW, I baked one of her recipes for the first time last week after one of my kittens asked for "coffee cake" and her recipe googled as the top result. If the outcome is any indication of her recipe-development skills...oy. It had way too much butter, was not the right consistency, did not bake in the amount of time the recipe suggested, and overflowed the pan in a big nasty way in my oven.

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    • Chairman Meow

      I would just like to confess that I toggled over to GOMI as I was printing financial reports for a meeting I am going to later this morning. I wasn't paying attention to what the print preview screen showed, so I have six pages of GOMI comments printed out now.

      I'm an eejit.

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      • Blissfulignorance

        I'm hoping you don't work in one of those offices where they have a couple of communal printers for the whole office. LOL

        "Hey, whose printout is this? Ham? Snark? Butter?"
        "Umm, nobody's" *blush*

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      • Chairman Meow

        Check it out! Somebody noped my being an idiot. Apparently, I'm BRILLIANT.

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    • Sally

      I wouldn't be surprised if that guy is being sued for defamation. I say guy because of the picture but we don't know if it's a man or woman running it. In fact, I would be surprised if there isn't some kind of legal action there. The way the show is being criticized at every level criticising every aspect - the family - the way the star dresses - the ranch - etc. There's got to be a legal action there somewhere! Anyway, good riddence.

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  2. Brenda

    Don't get any IDEAS, PP. (Of course, if GOMI went into hiding behind a paywall, I'd totally subscribe, but you've created something of some value).

    And Feminist Breeder--of course you can claim roaring success when nobody can see your numbers. If the paywall's been a roaring success, why's she asking about lazy man's work on Facebook? Hmmmm?

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    • Jan74

      The forum here is awesome, and covers other topics other than snarking on bloggers. The Marlboro Woman, on the other hand... doesn't. Good luck getting money.

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  3. McBeer

    A hostage DONATION is not a contribution, what the f**k??

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    • McBeer

      In the newer posts she is now calling it a "contribution"...30 posts since she posted the recap yesterday at noon, in the days before the "contribution" she would have 200 or more posts!!

      "After October 1, 2014, this content is restricted to subscribed members. A 6-month subscription requires a non-refundable $10 contribution. FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS: (1) register as a new user; (2) click the donate button, pay $10 and list the email you used for registration; (3)after payment is received, activation will occur within 48 hours. If you have already contributed in the last six months, please email us at: admin@themarlborowoman.com and furnish your name, email address, and the date of payment."

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  4. Mohma

    I'll just stick to reading her tweets.

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  5. Mama Laughlin’s Wal-Mart parking lot turd

    She posts personal stuff over on that site so that's my guess as to why she went "private". They discuss any legal issue that involves any Drummond family member. I know that is against PP's rules here. I've said it on the Pioneer Woman thread before but I'll say it again, whoever is running that Marlboro Woman website has something personal against Ree. Did Ree steal her man?

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    • playswithfire

      Others can feel free to chime in if I'm remembering wrong, but I believe MW was invited to the lodge years ago as a part of some blogger...thing. PW committed the mortal sin of momentarily confusing MW, a virtual stranger, with another virtual stranger. And...that's pretty much it.

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      • Mama Laughlin’s Wal-Mart parking lot turd

        Ah ok. I didn't know that. Thanks ham!

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      • SilverOak

        No it was not the MW whom was invited to the farm it was the woman who runs the Pie Near blog. MW is anonymous where as the Pie Near Blog is run by someone whom had openly voiced her opinion of Ree on her personal blog, Rechellunplugged

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        • Meagan

          SilverOak is 100% correct...and for the record, that was AGES ago.

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        • stinkeggs

          Wow you're right.
          http://www.rechelleunplugged.com/2008/04/alright-already-more-on-cowboy-josh-and-whoever-those-other-people-were/

          This makes posts like this, where she undressed the Ree doll and writes orgasm dialogue, all the creepier!
          http://www.pienearwoman.com/2012/04/pie-near-gets-a-garlic-rub-2/

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            • stinkeggs

              "The soft, silky texture.

              The way it feels against my skin…

              And my tongue!

              And my face.

              It’s so firm and unyielding…

              Until you warm it up…

              And then it changes.

              To something slick and slippery…

              And so, so deliciously satisfying…"

              Ha ha ha ha..........? :(

              It's a f**king creepy blog when you look at the greater context. The person who wrote this was a fan. She stayed on this Ree's property. Ex-fan gets herself a Ree doll. She does photoshoots with this doll. The posts she lovingly crafts frequently go to a weird sexual place.

              Some of this post is funny, because I mean how hard is it to make fun of THE BREAD, but let's not lose sight of what the f**k is going on here. I mean, DOLLS.

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              • side-ing all the eyes

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              • Lena

                Rechelle's problem is that she was a huge fan who was naive enough to believe Ree's schtick, so when she made the mistake of meeting her idol and learning she wasn't all that great the hate went above and beyond. Ree has always made me roll my eyes at how blatantly phoney she is, and I think her fans must be pretty stupid, but Rechelle and MW always made me a bit uncomfortable with how over-the-top their dislike is.

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              • Pie Near Woman

                Uh hello? Tap, tap, tap... This thing on? Hi guys! Did you not like my sexual innuendo parody of Ree Drummond and her ever ass photographing fetishy weird garlic rubbin goodness? Awwwwww! Gosh durn it! I wish I was as awesome and so funny snarkin' on the internet as you guys! But all I gots is my creeptastic dolls. Not at all like you all your general hatred and bitterness of all females who eat right and exercise and look good in clothes! All, My. Love! And I really mean that!

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              • *eyeroll*

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              • ativan annie

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              • suzzie

                Pie Near Woman & MW are unhinged. to be full of hate this long to keep blogs of hate going this long about 1 woman is not normal. but it was a hoot to read the postings on both sites. and I agree, there alwasy seems to be lots of positng s byt the same perosn.

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          • WTF and Washi Tape

            Wait a minute - is Pie Near Woman "satirically" racist or what? What?!

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        • Lisapisa

          Right. I read her post about her stay at the lodge and she came across as mentally unbalanced in my opinion. Like she introduced herself and opened with "hi my children have head lice haha'" and was actually surprised that everyone seemed shocked that she had come anyway, with lice being contageous and all.
          And she b***hed about there not being enough eggs for everyone for breakfast, like big f**king deal, you were INVITED and a GUEST, it is not like you stayed at a hotel. And then Ree obviously had mixed her up with someone else and asked her whether she just had had a baby and she was still super offended like, years later. Completely cray.

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          • Lisapisa

            Oh and the weirdest of all: in her lengthy post, she started by describing how she even got invited in the first place. Basically she sent really thoughtful presents for every instance Ree would feature Rechelle's blog in her sidebar. And then she linked to blog posts from Ree to show that Ree actually used her presents. Like a necklace with Ree's children's names engraved (and that was long before she had started using their real names openly on the blog) or personalized cups with the ranch's dogs on them.

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            • Rechelle

              No darling, wrong again. Let me just clear this up for you dearie. I sent Ree a thank you present for giving me a very deep discount for some ads I purchased on her blog. She gave me the discount because she read and liked my blog or at least that is what she said in her e-mail to me explaining the reason for the discount. The first thank you present was the darling custom coffee mugs I created with the dog photos on them. After receiving the mugs, she gave me another round of very deeply discounted ads and so I sent her the very cute necklace as a thank you - because in my experience this is what good people do. They say thank you when someone does something nice for them. I did not display or announce the names of her children on my blog. I purchased the ads through a third party web site. I never contacted Ree personally until after she contacted me.

              Other than being a shallow and generally stupid human being, Ree's greatest crime is her habit of "borrowing" other people's material be it writing ideas, recipes, recipes, recipes and did I say recipes? And then failing over and over and over and over to ever give any credit to her sources. I stand by everything I ever said about Ree. She is a cardboard cut-out of a human being. She has no real imagination of her own but she is a fabulous mimic. I always had reservations about her and was never a "fan". Her writing always came across as strangely empty to me and I never understood her success nor her appeal, but I thought her website might generate a few readers for my own blog so I bought the ads via a third party website. I did not directly communicate with Ree until after she established contact with me

              Her demographic is old, fat, dumb, conservative and white. If you don't believe me check out any photos of the crowds at her book signings.

              My heartfelt sympathies if this is you.

              R

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              • Gobsmacked

                Wow, you can look at a photo of someone and immediately discern their level of intelligence and political affiliation?? That's ... rather amazing.

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              • side-ing all the eyes

                "Her demographic is old, fat, dumb, conservative and white."

                And yet, you were actively aligning yourself to the same demographic with your ads, so....

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              • Lisapisa

                So if your level of contempt and disgust for her, based on her writing, was that high even before, why would you accept an invitation and even bring your sister along? And then b***h about that stay online? This just shows that, whatever Ree Drummond's faults are, only one of you has any class.
                And no, sending someone you never met presents for offering you a good deal on the internet is not what nice people just do, it shows that you were clearly infatuated and it stroked your ego that the biggest blogger of that time would acknowledge you. At least stop lying to yourself, might do you some good.

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              • Lisapisa

                Also I am German, 31, a highschool teacher and have two kids, one of them running a fever right now therefore needing me at home at the moment (he's asleep in case you're wondering). So apart from being white I guess I do not fit into your stereotypes, but I am not a Ree Drummond fan after all. It seems neither you nor Marlboro Woman get that you can not be a fan and still think her biggest critics are cray. P.S. Thank you for giving me some English practice today, after all I am home and pretty bored.

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              • Stacks

                Girl, find a hobby.

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              • fyreandblood

                i think someone needs a life...

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        • playswithfire

          Aha! My bad. Aw, that makes me sad because I actually think Pie Near Woman is hilarious at times.

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    • corn pops

      most of the sites dedicated towards snarking on pioneer women always struct me as a bit unhinged...

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      • CleoPine

        Me too.

        I used to read one of them that hasn't been updated in a couple of years (PWSux I think) that posted opinions on their (questionable) horsemanship skills and debunked some of the self-created imagine she spun for her blog.

        But some of the other stuff was weird and disturbing, like a friend following Ree and the kids through the grocery store, taking pictures.

        The doll one and MW are downright disturbing.

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  6. Gutter Troll Crew

    Donation, eh? I wonder if that is correct according to Paypal's TOS. It sounds to me like a payment for services, not a donation. I also wonder whether Marlboro Woman's owner will be reporting that income to the IRS. Very interesting. Very.

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    • GetOffMyUnicorn

      If it's sent as a "donation" MW will not incur the PayPal fees. Nor do the people who sent money have any real recourse for a refund. So she is definitely skirting a lot of stuff and could get in trouble.

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  7. FattyMagoo

    I honestly can't imagine disliking a single blogger enough to pay money to read snark just about that one person. That seems crazy to me.

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    • stinkeggs

      I almost want to pony up the 20 just to see what kind of winners are posting on there now.

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      • Lisapisa

        Oh please take one for the team :D

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      • Miss.Lemon

        We will need screenshots lol

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  8. Is this the new frontier of blogging? In a few years, will all the popular bloggers be requiring payments to see their content?

    Also, it's not a "donation" if it's required to get a service, is it?

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    • scarletbegonia

      It ain't the new frontier of blogging because no one's gonna play for your run-of-the-mill blog. Paying for a educational site, like math tutorials or DIY household tips? Yes. Paying for a subscription for an online magazine, with frequent and varied content? Yes. Paying for corn? Oh, hell yeah, people gonna shell out money for their own particular fetish.

      Compare MW to Bill James Online ($3/month). The main topic of BJO is baseball, a popular activity that a lot of people follow obsessively as a hobby, and Bill James is very well known name, hugely influential in that niche. Baseball is a topic that has enough fanatics to support a pay site. Hating the Pioneer Woman...not so much. The few haters that care enough to shell out $20 are probably a little unhinged themselves, unbalanced enough to combust before they can pay for a second year.

      Same for more conventional blogs. No one, hatereaders or fangirls alike, wants to read NieNie or the College Prep enough that they'd pay for the privilege. I love the hell of GOMI here; I hope ads work out for PP. I'm not opposed to kicking in something. I'd shell out for gear; I'd give for a fundraiser. But if GOMI went $20/year subscription, I'd have to go look for my snark elsewhere.

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      • scylla

        Are people even still paying for Something Awful these days?

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  9. Jesus Is My Seatbelt

    Wait, for real? A forum? A snark forum? I'm sorry but if the internet corners I enjoy turn into cable television BS, paying for every channel and broad access then separate subscription services etc etc also please view these ads...I'll cut this cord, too. Don't test how much I enjoy something, MW, my LOLs are merely smirks in real life. I won't pay big bucks to smirk.

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  10. Snarkly Crystal Chandler

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    • Dance Party Steak Lunch Scrubbing Bubbles Convention

      If that's Justin Timberlake, he looks much better dressed as a dork/hipster/whatever that is. I mean, he's hot in this gif. Normally I think he looks like a tool.

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      • FattyMagoo

        Post-N*Sync Justin Timberlake is always hot.

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      • Robots Are People Too

        Goodie, I take dibs on this version.

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      • 50 dollar flour makes me holla

        Ooh, I like dork Timberlake. Different strokes, you know.

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  11. McBeer

    And if you email the admin this is the message you get, regardless of what you ask.

    admin@themarlborowoman.com
    To Me
    Today at 11:21 AM
    Thank you for contacting The Marlboro Woman. If you're encountering problems accessing the website, please allow 48 hours for us to investigate the issue. If an error has been made, you will be unblocked accordingly. However, if you're accessing the site with bogus email accounts, through proxy servers or blacklisted IP addresses for purposes of trolling, stalking or harassment, access WILL NOT be reinstated.

    Warning: All emails are filtered. If they contain references to hate, jealousy or bullying, they will be automatically deleted. We are unable to respond to emails deleted by the system.

    Thank you for reading The Marlboro Woman.

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  12. unikorn woo

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    pay yer twenty bucks if you want turtle to play sf-kiss.gif

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    • newfiegirl

      This gif is bloody hilarious!!

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  13. Lamemoniker

    When I Googled GOMI today the caption that came up was the quoted subscription announcement and I was like "Whaaa??? GOMI is charging now?" Not that I wouldn't pay to play on GOMI but it caught me off guard!

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    • Catnips

      I saw the same thing! I used to belong to a forum that began charging, and it died a quick death. I would be pretty sad if GOMI put up a paywall.

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