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And with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.

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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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