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FilmPG-132012

Chronicle

Science FictionDramaThriller

Directed by Josh Trank

Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over. From TMDB

142 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works

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Chronicle is a 2012 science fiction drama thriller film, directed by Josh Trank, starring Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell and Michael B. Jordan.

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Apr 15, 2025

    Home Alone 2’ director Chris Columbus wants Donald Trump’s cameo removed from the film “I just wish it was gone. I can’t cut it. If I cut it, I’ll probably be sent out of the country” (via SF Chronicle)

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  • the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 7, 2024

    I strongly believe that the stanning & iconization of political figures is extremely unhealthy and leads to unwanted outcomes and having said that two sentences into this I was the SF Chronicle movie man

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  • Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2025

    My friend Cary Darling at Houston Chronicle asked if Ryan Coogler's film Sinners' evocative use of blues music might make the genre cool for young people, especially Black folks. I recalled how Spike Lee did exactly that for bebop in the 90s and he quoted me in this piece: loom.ly/NzYxUUE

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  • Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    The news hit. I took it in, and then I flashed back to a memory. 1980, would have been fall, saw this as a full page ad in the SF Chronicle (we were living in Mare Island at the time), I was nine. Truly arresting. I wondered about this film. Later I learned who was behind it. RIP #DavidLynch

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  • NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 16, 2025

    When I was in grad school, I was a big fan of John Woo and I thought the Wild Bunch was the greatest movie ever. I was reading some article in the Chronicle where directors named their favorite scene. I saw John Woo's name there and I said "it's going to be the last scene in Wild Bunch" and it was.

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  • Magister Preiselfels @preiselfels.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2025

    I've seen Star Wars and Stranger Things in the comments so let me add another great telekinetic squeeze from the movie Chronicle

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  • MS NOW @ms.nowBluesky · Apr 16, 2025

    Home Alone 2' director Chris Columbus says that Donald Trump’s 30-year-old cameo has been “an albatross” and “wishes it was gone," in an interview with the San Franscico Chronicle. The filmmaker says he fears retribution if he were to remove the president from the movie.

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  • Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2026

    Our film of the month for January 2026 is Chronicle - Silbury Dig: The Heart of the Mound. A strange televised archaeological dig into Silbury Hill. You can watch the film on the ‘Film Club’ page on our website 📽️🎞️🍿

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  • RangerBoard.com @rangerboard.comBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    #KamenRiderDay news! 🔴 AGITO: PSYCHIC WAR The first work under the new 'The Kamen Rider Chronicle' label. A movie that even non-fans can enjoy. The title lacks 'Kamen Rider' because it "Transcends that framework." Releases April 29th. #KamenRider #仮面ライダー #仮面ライダーの日

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  • Dr. Ñeque's Art ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ (Comms closed) @drnequeart.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2026

    Nothing good can come from this calamity symbiote trio I'm a bit worried for Seattle. Commission for inkmaster892 Based on the Chronicle movie poster #Amphibia #Amphibiafanart #Venom

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  • Sergio @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 1, 2026

    House on Haunted Hill (1959) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!. > [Vincent] Price plays an eccentric millionaire, Frederick Loren, who, along with his wife Annabelle, has invited five people to the house for a "haunted house" party. Whoever stays in the house for one night will earn $10,000. As the night progresses, the guests are trapped within the house with an assortment of terrors. > > ... > > Numerous critics praised House on Haunted Hill for its classical style,…

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  • 𖤐 Bri 𖤐 @brianimator.bsky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2025

    only watched one movie this weekend and it was CHRONICLE (2012). Does anyone remember this? It’s a pretty solid found footage film I like it #filmsky

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  • Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2024

    I’m actually SHOOK. Did y’all know “The Spiderwick Chronicle” movie was this violent???? OMG. Mary-Louise Parker is fighting for her life! OMG, Thimble Tack, DO SOMETHING!!!!

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  • Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.comBluesky · Dec 8, 2024

    Crunchyroll will screen the Attack on Titan The Movie: THE LAST ATTACK compilation film in theaters. The company also started streaming Star Blazers Chronicle 2202 and Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2205.

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  • Mike Scott @mickpuck.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 6, 2025

    Dennis Hopper, article in San Francisco Chronicle, May 1970 during the making of The Last Movie

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2026

    Favorite First Watches of April UNDERGROUND (1995) COHERENCE (2013) THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025) THE TROJAN WOMEN (1971) And with one more spot, CHRONICLE OF THE YEARS OF FIRE (1975). #filmsky 📽

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  • Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2024

    Welcome to Bluesky, folks. Enjoy a review of Spirited Away that was published in the Daily Utah Chronicle on October 17, 2002. Also, enjoy this reminder that the film is officially old enough to drink and rent a car. #anime #history

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  • RangerBoard.com @rangerboard.comBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    #KamenRiderDay announcement! 🔴 THE KAMEN RIDER CHRONICLE A movie label featuring all Kamen Riders throughout history. The aim is to create movies that will make viewers want to watch their original TV series. #KamenRider #仮面ライダー #仮面ライダーの日

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  • San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.comBluesky · Feb 11, 2026 · official account, not scored

    Protesters gathered near the Grand Lake Theatre to demonstrate against President Trump prior to the private screening of GOAT, a film produced by Golden State Warriors star guard Steph Curry on Tuesday in Oakland. 📽️: Yalonda M. James/S.F. Chronicle

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  • Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2025

    SF Chronicle review of the @bampfa.bsky.social Routed West quilt show in Berkeley. Prepare to be wonderstruck.

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  • Design Reviewed @designreviewed.comBluesky · Mar 15, 2025

    1960s movie posters designed by Wojciech Zamecznik. Scanned from The Art of the Modern Movie Poster - International Postwar Style and Design, Chronicle Books, 2008. designreviewed.com/artefacts/th... #polishposters #polishdesign #graphicdesign #movieposters

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  • Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2025

    I reviewed more than 1,000 movies over 18 years for the San Francisco Chronicle. I wrote about the film review that I got wrong. (And still bothers me to this day.) 🍿🎟️😕 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

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  • Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2024

    Possible I've just missed it but surprised I haven't seen more discussion connecting Machinegames's new Indiana Jones game back to Starbreeze's Chronicle of Riddick games. Not just as great first-person movie franchise adaptations, but the tangible continuation of personnel and design philosophies.

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  • Tariq, the Movie Critic @tarialle25.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    #mayfilmchallenge May 6: A Film I Never Get Tired of Chronicle (2012) I couldn’t stop thinking about and talking about this movie because it’s less than 2 hours and the characters are very good and so is the direction and the plot.

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  • Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2024

    So many fantasy TV shows and movies these days try to be all “dark and gritty” seemingly in rejection of “childlike” fantasy. But “The Spiderwick Chronicle” movie is all bright colors, warm tones and funny hobgoblins and still manages to be pretty wild in terms of action and theme.

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  • Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2026

    Super disappointing. Just one Chronicle colleague complimented my Ryan Gosling/“Project Hail Mary” cosplay yesterday. (My favorite movie of the year so far that doesn’t feature zombies or sheep detectives.) 🌁🐈‍⬛🪐

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  • Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2025

    ***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on January 13th on #4K in the US from @kinolorber.com: #Mimic (1997)! From master mythmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) comes a “terrifying film of great elegance” (San Francisco Chronicle). Starring Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite),

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  • Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 10, 2025

    I liked America's live action Akira movie, Chronicle *people start booing* i'm right!!! you know I'm right!!!! *the booing gets louder, a brick is thrown at my head, I die instantly*

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  • Nathen Amin ✒️📚 @nathenamin.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    Whilst wandering around Vienna this morning, it struck me that Perkin Warbeck came here to meet with Maximilian I, King of the Romans, in 1493. And so I decided to film an impromptu mini-doc in the cold. It'll be sent directly to 'A Chronicle of Dragons & Cats' subscribers tomorrow morning!

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  • Petergeist Clines @peterclines.comBluesky · Sep 11, 2025

    As some of you know, I used to work in the film industry, and twenty or so years back I was on a Sci-Fi Channel show called THE CHRONICLE. It was about the reporters at a tabloid newspaper that printed actually-true stories about alien diplomats, vampires, demonically-possessed ovens, and so on.

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  • Adam P Knave @adampknave.comBluesky · May 14, 2026

    Not gonna link to the SF Chronicle bit but c'mon, y'all. "Known racist trasnphobe said something racist and transphobic about movie casting" isn't news.

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  • Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2025

    Our film of the month is Chronicle - William Stukeley stoneclub.rocks/film-club

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  • Thorny Devil @hutchenced.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2026

    My own brother just told me not to spoil The Odyssey for him. I just...how do you even BEGIN to unpack that statement? Mind you, this is the guy who watched Chronicle, a movie seen entirely through recorded camera footage, and during the credits asked me "so what's a Chronicle anyway?"

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  • Sarah Brown @brownepoints.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 11, 2024

    Did y’all know the Chronicle of Higher Ed has a podcast? It takes you to eye-opening and unexpected places. Today’s ep features the co-writer of a 1994 college film I’d never heard of (and that’s nearly impossible to get your hands on)

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  • tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    In memory and honor of the sociologist and philosopher Edgar Morin, who, in 1960, published the essay in which he coined the term cinéma-vérité and co-directed, with Jean Rouch, the film—Chronicle of a Summer—that showed what he had in mind. He passed away yesterday, at age 104.

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  • Terri De @tessde.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    Who gives a Frak what Muskrat thinks about movie casting??? No way I’m clicking on the article. Do better Chronicle!

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2026

    #NowWatching CHRONICLE OF THE YEARS ON FIRE (1975). Director: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. 1st African film to win Cannes Palme d'Or, personal epic charts painful evolution of Algerian independence from colonial French rule over several decades. First watch. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 1296

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  • Alb3rt0 @albst3r.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2026

    The current record holder for the youngest director to have a film open at #1 is 2012’s Chronicle, the Josh Trank-directed film from 20th Century Fox that opened with $22 million. Trank was 27 at the time. Kane Parsons will be the first Gen Z director to have a #1 opening.

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  • Krexxal @krexxal.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    tried my hand at a MU Blackhand outfit based on his movie/Chronicle look as well as his WC1 garb

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  • Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2026

    My movie "Gerontophilia", a reverse Lolita, is on the @criterionchannel.bsky.social this month! “[LaBruce’s] best film yet!” - SF Chronicle, 2014 “Bold!” - The Village Voice, 2015 “Winningly light comedy.” - RogerEbert.com, 2015 www.search-criteria.com/films/8255?f... @criterionchannl.bsky.social

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2026

    You could never make a movie called BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS today

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  • Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2026

    My movie "Hustler White" (1996) is miraculously on the @criterionchannel.bsky.social this month! “Hustler White is ultimately a gay romantic comedy for those who couldn't swallow ‘Pretty Woman.’” - San Francisco Chronicle www.search-criteria.com/films/8260?f... @criterion.bsky.social

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  • themachinestops @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 4, 2026

    Crunchyroll Additions and Removals for the Week 9/25 to 10/2 (reddit post). 9/25 - Removed: LiSA TV - 1 Sn. / 34 Ep. 9/25 - Removed or mislabeled: Another: The Other (OVA) Granblue Fantasy: The Animation - 2 episodes (OVA or movie?) Inukami! - 1 episode (movie?) 9/25 - Re-Added: Strange+ - 1 Sn. / 12 Ep. (was removed 9/23) 9/25 - Added or moved out of their shows? (movies): 'Movie' 'Movie' 'Promotional Video' 9/25 - Added: Jack O'Lantern (one-shot) Recently, My Sister is…

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2026

    I’m still mad at Inñaritu for naming a movie “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”, you are not allowed to do that anymore

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  • TheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.ioBluesky · Feb 3, 2026

    I wonder if that's the same studio behind Chronicle and its sequel.

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    Me when you call your movie “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” youtu.be/DW1d9p3ECIU

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2026

    Gabriel García Márquez (with scenes from the Francesco Rosi film adaptation of his novella "Chronicle of a Death Foretold") - BOTD

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  • Howard Davies @howdavies.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2025

    #MusicChallenge #DetectiveSongs Day 27 - death This, from the soundtrack to the film Chronicle of a Death Foretold, is the opening Bolero Lento, and just drips foreboding. youtu.be/U7bf-SKG7Wg?...

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  • Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2025

    In this 1939 film, the villain is called Zodiac. He sends messages to his victims & enjoys taunting the police. One of his pursuers is a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Was the real Zodiac killer inspired by this film?

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    Gabriel García Márquez (with scenes from the Francesco Rosi film adaptation of his novella "Chronicle of a Death Foretold") - BOTD

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  • James Silvani @silvaniart.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    Disney+has released a list of essential movies to watch before Avengers:DOOMSDAY -Mystery Men -Hero At Large -Meteor Man -Blank Man -Toxic Avenger -Orgazmo -The Lego Batman Movie -Chronicle -Hancock -Unbreakable -Terms Of Endearment

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  • bemmy from the black lagoon @skeeterpond.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    most that stuff from the movie Chronicle happened to me

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  • Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    I am reading the Russian Primary Chronicle. What’s in the Russian Secondary Chronicle? Worth reading or should I wait for the movie? 🚶‍♀️

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  • Jon Gamble @jongrumble.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2026

    Chronicle of the Years of fire is my film of the week in a strong field. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky

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  • Abendroth @abendroth.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2026

    Writing for my upcoming VtM session, which will be the last game of a three year long Chronicle so I want to make it memorable. It's going to be tightly plotted like an action movie and hopefully my players enjoy the grand finale I'm preparing for them!

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  • Exploding Helicopter @chopperfireball.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    We got one! CHRONICLE (2012) becomes the 9️⃣4️⃣8️⃣th film we've found with an exploding helicopter. 🚁💥🎥 Thanks to @thewykah.bsky.social for another tip-off! 🙏 And the answer to his question is: no.

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  • Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2026

    He was real good in the Wire, too, though! (And I'd say Chronicle, as well, though the Josh Trank/Max Landis creative team has sort of retroactively buried that movie.)

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  • 𝕮𝖆𝖗𝖑 𝖔𝖋 𝕽𝖎𝖛𝖎𝖆 🐺⚔️ @carlofrivia.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 2, 2026

    What is your favourite found footage film? Chronicle (2012)!

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  • Horror Queers @horrorqueers.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2025

    Touch that alien rock and film yourself doing *everything* because we are talking about Josh Trank's superhero (villain?) film, CHRONICLE (2012).

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  • 🩸 𝖉𝖊𝖑𝖘𝖎𝖓 🩸 @rayliicious.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2025

    I would give SO much for a full series based on the movie Chronicle 😩

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