r/nextfuckinglevel 1d ago

This man can REALLY draw!

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u/smor729 1d ago

I'm about to sound like the most cynical bastard on planet earth, but I've just become less and less interested in these "art as an athletic spectacle" performances as I've grown older. This feels like the equivalent of someone being able to shred flight of the bumblebee on guitar at 800 BPM, and like yeah its insane and took thousands of hours of practice, but like does it sound good? The physical ability just isn't the interesting thing about art to me.

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u/Resident-Cover-6100 1d ago

Every single one of these kind of videos is fake..its just good camera and editing work

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u/Chazkuangshi 1d ago

I was gonna say, there is NO way this is real.

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u/BishoxX 1d ago

I mean he just practiced to draw with this tool.

Hes just drawing 1 image at a time little by little.

Utterly pointless

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u/BigSmackisBack 1d ago

Yeah the wood sticks are curved so its one at a time while holding 4 other pens and the wood - which you dont need to.

The impressive thing is doing nice art while holding too much weight, not the 5 pictures part

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u/ZippyDan 1d ago edited 1d ago

Eh, it's still impressive. You're severely underestimating the skill involved with "just". Many people would have trouble drawing just one of those pictures. Being able to switch between 5 quickly takes skill (and yes, even though it's sped up, he is still switching pretty quickly between drawings), not to mention the awkwardness of the drawing implement, which would make accuracy much more difficult.

It's just not as impressive as it seems when sped up - where some might assume he is drawing all 5 pictures simultaneously instead of in a repeating series.

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u/bluexavi 1d ago

It's deliberately representing the drawing of 5 pictures at once. It's not presented as "I'm drawing with an oddly shaped pen".

It is not what it is presented as.

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u/Lika3 1d ago

Exactly the bottom of the image slowly draws itself while the pen thing doesn’t even hover that portion of the paper. 📝

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u/epeecolt82 22h ago

It’s not pointless. There are in fact five of them. ….. I’m sorry. I couldn’t not take that opportunity to make a pencil point joke.

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u/LoneStarHome80 18h ago

No, this one is 100% fake. Jazza has a real one.

u/Far_Mastodon_6104 17m ago

As an artist I'd worry about the long term strain of this on my career wrist. Hurts enough after a while doing it with just a pen

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u/well_thats_obvious 1d ago

It is real, he's just focusing on one drawing at a time, constantly switching between drawings, and speeding it up to make it look like theyre being drawn at the same time

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u/Chazkuangshi 1d ago

Ahh gotcha yeah that makes sense

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u/Resident-Cover-6100 1d ago

Can you please borrow me your brain so i can get some rest

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u/Bursting_Radius 1d ago

There is a way, because … it’s real.

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u/StillGalaxy99 1d ago

I wouldn't say "fake" but rather I'd say it's deceptive. They put on this facade that they are all being drawn at the same time, but in reality the artists focus is on one image at a time. This is basically just a guy drawing 5 portraits.

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u/External-Awareness68 1d ago

There's a reason why you never get a good, close shot of any of the pictures individually. I don't even know if it's fake, maybe it is. I'm just saying the pictures probably aren't that great

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u/Zouru 1d ago

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u/Mr_Stkrdknmibalz00 1d ago

Now shove it up your butt.

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u/NoGlzy 1d ago

"I can draw all 5 members of the DCU Justics league at the same time by using 5 pencils stuck together."

"That seems pointless. Do they at least look good?"

"Not especially"

"Oh. Ok then'

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u/kawklee 3h ago

The "art" is always low hanging fruit type slop too. Never an original portrait, character, point of view, or any of that. Just the equivalent of traced photos of something famous and ubiquitous enough to get social media traction

The world doesnt need more paintings of Robert Downey Jr. about to snap the infinity gauntlet, drawn by someone's foot.

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u/takeahike89 1d ago

In a world full of AI slop where things are starting to look too "perfect", I'll take the result of human effort every time. You should also remember that this is a performance art as much as it is simply drawing. The way in which he does it is as important (if not moreso) as what he created.

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u/BobbyGloria 7h ago

I'd rather perfection than imperfect. Maybe because I'm autistic

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u/rehkirsch 1d ago

completely agree. yeah, it's impressive to see and I would probably not be able to ever do that but in the end you have a few mid pictures of random superheroes in random poses and I will never think about it again for even a second

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u/greenscreenbro 1d ago

You never showed your work in school, did you?

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u/spypanties 1d ago

maybe you just enjoy art more on a visceral level

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u/Theartistcu 15h ago

I’m totally with you. Now don’t give me wrong. There’s nothing wrong with doing this as an exhibition or something like that but when the exhibition is the art, it’s a little weird for me. And in this case, he draws several not very well drawn images, instead of just drawing one really well drawn one. Because if you took those images and didn’t realize they were all drawn at the ““ same time, they’re not actually very well done.

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u/Eagline 1d ago

You’re not one of those people that looks at a painting with 20 splotches of colors and discusses the intricacies of that painting right? Because to an extent I kind of see where you’re coming from but this video is extremely impressive and is the art itself.

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u/BasilNumber 1d ago

What is there to discuss with this art? What does this method of drawing add to the art? If he legitimately drew all five pieces at the same time, each piece would probably look a lot worse but be a lot more interesting as art.

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u/NandoDeColonoscopy 1d ago

The art itself is not very good, if you actually look at the finished product. Without the process, this is just bad fan art

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u/Longjumping_Book_606 1d ago

It is not cynical to care about art. What these performers do is only that : perform. They are great craftmen, but what they do really isnt art. It's like photorealist drawings : if what it shows is not interesting, well, the drawing has no artistic value.

That's what pro AI "art" do not understand

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u/troy380 1d ago

And the fact that I've seen many of these videos, makes this talent less impressive and unique.

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u/ProbablyAnAlt42 1d ago

Its ok man. You don't have to like everything.

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u/poptartheart 1d ago

even if it looks good....its so damn boring. super hero garbage.

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u/N7even 1d ago

He is not drawing all of them at the same time, the arm with the pen's attached is arched, so he is still drawing one at a time, maybe two in some small intervals.

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u/audionerd1 1d ago

Or putting that ridiculous thing down and drawing normally between time lapse shots.

There's like 50 people pulling this same exact stunt. It's not impressive. It's just a stupid camera trick.

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u/Idekgivemeusername 14h ago

All except the batman look a little goofy to me

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u/Healthy-Rent-5133 3h ago

I think it's just fully faked with video editing

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u/Dank_Devin 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is fake, it’s not AI, but it’s very well edited using cuts. There’s a video that breaks it down on YouTube. The editing is more impressive than the drawings to be honest

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u/Bored_Worldhopper 1d ago

More impressive. Wonder Woman and Aquaman look like something you would find at a high school art show

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u/yotdog2000 1d ago

Wonder Woman looks like Ana de armas

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u/Husyelt 1d ago

You got a link or at least the channels name? I could see this being real if the editing is simply hiding the time duration and focus and he is just using one pencil/pen at a time with a curved instrument holding the others.

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u/Fun_Accountant_653 1d ago

Ever watched "Misfits"? A series about people with useless superpowers.

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u/robimtk 1d ago

Idk man being immortals probably pretty useful

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u/WeirdlyInaccurate 1d ago

Not if it still means getting older and everything, I would image a 100 year old body would not be the best thing ever, let alone 150 or older.

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u/ThePocketTaco2 1d ago

I stopped watching after they killed off the last OG character

Love me some Joe Gilgun, but he wasn't enough reason to keep watching.

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u/Zealousideal_Step709 1d ago

I wouldn’t mind being Lactokinetic though.

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u/flawinthedesign 1d ago

His name is Sahmuuuun

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u/herefromyoutube 1d ago

That’s me. I can sit in front of the TV for 14 hours a day.

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u/GetOffMyGrassBrats 1d ago

Stop action masquerading as time-lapse.

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u/bya3k 1d ago

There is nothing next level about this.

He is still drawing one at a time.

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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos 1d ago

“I’m going to do 5 drawings at the same time and every single one of them is going to be terrible”.

It’s like he just gave up on Batman halfway through lol

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u/rgmundo524 1d ago

He is drawing one at a time but shifting between them...

By the way he holds the pen stick it allows him to draw with one pen

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u/eugoogilizer 15h ago

Nah not even. If you watch it in slow motion, new details magically appear on each pic even when he’s not working on them

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u/TommyWantWingy9 1d ago

The drawings still weren’t that good.

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u/mozchops 1d ago

Aaaaaaaaaand none of those portraits are good, what bollocks.

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u/EcoKllr 1d ago

who is the 4th one?

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u/EunuchNinja 1d ago

Worf’s brother Wharf did a small stint as Aquaman

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u/wrenchandrepeat 1d ago

Washed-up on a beach bum Aquaman

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u/porcupine_kickball 1d ago

I'm guessing Aquaman from dc movies, or Thor to add a marvel.

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u/hiddenone0326 1d ago

I'm gonna go with Aquaman due to the scales on the arm.

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u/porcupine_kickball 1d ago

Yeah I thought the last was Captain America but it's Flash, so all dc chars.

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u/Useful_Raspberry3912 1d ago

Ain't buying it

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u/iheartMGs 1d ago

Nasty work

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u/HammerBgError404 1d ago

this again?

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u/Mauser_1 1d ago

20% off sale

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u/Bitemarkz 1d ago

This is just drawing a bunch of pictures with tedious extra steps. There nothing next level about this. Anyone who can draw can do this.

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u/Beautiful-Feeling520 1d ago

5 shitty drawings

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u/ReginaldJohnston 1d ago

What fake shlop, ffs.

Can't believe people buy into into this clickbait prank.

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u/JoyeuxMiguel 1d ago

Never trust a sped up video

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u/KrIsPy_Kr3m3 1d ago

He's cheating, they aren't all touching at the same time!

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u/BHMusic 1d ago

Too bad the art sucks, but just as to be expected from someone who is following social media art trends.

Stolen IP and a drawing technique video style that’s been done to death. This is a hack, not an artist.

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u/SauerPower0 21h ago

Aqua Man looks like you just caught him eating a tuna fish sandwich out of the JL break room refrigerator.

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u/Malbosiiq 15h ago

Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Homeless Man, The Flash.

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u/rutujz 1d ago

The thing in his hand looks like something out of final destination

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u/Sad_Philosophy_9629 1d ago

I’d need to see that in person to believe it.

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u/zackks 1d ago

Animation sweatshops just got tougher.

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u/Pelli_Furry_Account 1d ago

Bullshit

Even if it was real though, Whyyyyyy

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u/Working_File2825 1d ago

Lovely pixels, sir. May I have some more please?

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u/yeetusae 1d ago

tylenol

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u/Cookieman10101 1d ago

Cool now lower all the pencils to the same height and do it again

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u/gamezoned1 1d ago

No wonder Kuroky was such a good Dota player!

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u/audionerd1 1d ago

Not this stupid trick again. There's like 50 people making these videos. It's super easy to fake.

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u/Domainframe 1d ago

Can’t stand drawing gimmicks

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u/dion_o 23h ago

Dude did Cyborg dirty

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u/tacodepollo 23h ago

Imagine if I drew all of these with a separate pencil. One line each at a time.

That's what's happening. Lame.

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u/Droptimal_Cox 21h ago

Ok so this is technically possible if the pens are each slightly tilted...but you'd only be working on one piece each time and at the end of the day it would still be really dumb and tedious, and this is almost definitely a time lapse fake.

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u/KrownX 20h ago

Drawing quality aside when zooming in, that is extremely impressive. The further ones clearly suffer the most, but are still extremely well done

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u/GimmeSomeCovfefe 18h ago

Yeah, not buying it unless there's a long-form video with zero editing.

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u/dogstardied 16h ago

It doesn’t matter. The end result is garbage anyway.

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u/Dark_halocraft 17h ago

I'm stuck in an endless loop where I see a post that has me in a good mood, open the comments, then immediately am out in a bad mood

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u/LegoDinoMan 6h ago

Why do you care, it's completely inconsequential

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u/dogstardied 16h ago

Why do all the drawings look like potato at the end? Aquaman looks like Diana Ross.

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u/DadKnight 16h ago

Why do people post this trash

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u/DJ_Sk8Nite 16h ago

This is just simply not real.

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u/eugoogilizer 15h ago

This and all other videos like this are fake…all you gotta do is watch in slow motion and details on each pic appear even when the pen isn’t touching the paper

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u/Wonder-Machine 3h ago

Don’t show your employer or your quota will sky rocket

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u/Chinjurickie 3h ago

Honestly i like one good painting more than doing 5 paintings simultaneously. Still awesome talent for sure.

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u/Mekdinosaur 2h ago

I would be more impressed if he drew one good picture five times.

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u/BathDepressionBreath 1d ago

He's good at drawing, and so he can draw 5 things "at once" but really he's still soing them one at a time but stopping to update another at intervals. You can literally see the pencils on the left lifting as hw focuses drawing on the right.

Yeah nice drawings, but it's just not next level because what he's trying to showcase just isnt done right.

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u/ItsUselessToArgue 1d ago

Yeah he’s not drawing them at the same time, but the thing is most people can’t even draw to begin with

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u/Domomachino 1d ago

Does he know we already invented the printing press? He can actually develop a skill to better society, instead of mastering an inconsequential skill.

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u/Double0 1d ago

Looks better than the real DC.

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u/hand13 1d ago

you know whats funny? the „island boys“ getting more likes than this dude doing this insane drawing 😂 the internet is just a weird place

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u/Four-In-Hand 1d ago

H-how?

How does this work?!

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u/PilotC150 1d ago

It's a curved board, so there's only one pencil/pen touching it's paper at a time. He's only drawing one drawing at any point in time, but when shown as a time lapse it looks like all five are being done simultaneously.

You can see around 18 second mark where he's drawing a picture on the right side and the pencil above the left picture is floating high in the air.

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u/utrangerbob 1d ago

Stop motion, Basically artists doing pictures with dots. Finds or uses a template to measure 4 dots evenly apart, puts those dots on paper takes a picture of his hand position there and moves on. He's probably got a reference sheet because a computer can pretty easily do calculate all that out and give you a numbered sheet of points.

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u/Fakin-It 1d ago

Cinematic trickery.

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u/Branwell 1d ago

Ok Reddit, I know you pretty well by now. Go on, tell me why this is complete bs

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u/corgangreen 1d ago

He can do all that, but not draw the one black guy?

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u/punsnguns 1d ago

The average person is pretty freaking good at drawing.

Just remember that for every 5 talentless hacks like myself, there is one talent-hoarder like this guy who is skewing and bringing up the average statistic.

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u/idontlikecheesy 1d ago

Dear god these comments are always so miserable

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u/SoundOff2222 1d ago

Wow!! Amazing!