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Podcast EP 55: Visual Consistency w/ Manga Brownies · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up y'all? And welcome back to Daddy needs
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  to talk. I'm your host, Robert.
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  And today, I am joined by two very awesome.
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  Awesome, awesome. Friends of mine tea.
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  And Isa from manga brownies. What's up, y'all?
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  Yes, yes, I'm doing well. How are y'all doing?
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  Great great. It's been a very productive and
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  awesome day for monogramming. Yes.
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  So Just a little bit of background for for, for the
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  people from me. So I do remember like the whole
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  path of us finding each other or connecting but pretty much like
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  ever since ever since we did connect sometime last year, it's
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  been like constant conversations of like, okay, we need to do
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  something together, do a stream or podcast something and the I
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  did just like every couple of months.
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  Is like, hey, just just a reminder, like one of us to do a
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  reminder to each other. Hey, you know, just making sure
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  someday you still good. And so, as I was kind of let us
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  to today is that, you know, you know, with me kind of having my,
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  my one-year anniversary of doing this and I know y'all are pretty
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  close to it being close to a year for you all as well.
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  Correct, yes. So, you know with with The
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  passage of time, it kind of like you know learning a figure out,
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  things over overtime, whatever, you know.
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  I've been trying to experiment and play around with new ways of
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  how I'm presenting my content and things of that nature, as
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  people that are white. They have watched my videos at
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  least for like the last like, week or whatever have seen me,
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  do like a new intro video. New backgrounds.
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  Yada yada yada, and Me saying, all that is to say that I have
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  had the idea of the theme visual consistency because that is like
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  the word that kind of came to mind.
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  Every time I thought of y'all and y'all page and content was
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  visual consistency and kind of the reason why I wanted to
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  shuffle things around and talk to you out sooner than later was
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  because I was like, okay, y'all are doing some very awesome
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  stuff. I love everything that y'all do.
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  And I was like I don't want to wait another month or so to have
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  this conversation, I was like, you know, because I was like, I
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  feel like this is a conversation, we need to have
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  now because it could help me as well as potentially anybody else
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  that's out there listening and watching.
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  So I'm trying to think where to start.
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  So I guess what kind of start with what is Michael Brown is
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  first, and then we'll kind of, you know, backtrack from there
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  to who you are independently and stuff.
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  So so, so who and what is Maga brownies?
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  Yeah. So basically just like our bio
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  says we're to brown girls that have like a love for anime manga
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  everything in between some of those everything in between
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  there like webcomics cosplayers, things of that nature and we
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  just wanted to share our recommendations and our love
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  just for the any model community in general.
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  So we both really have a passion for reading and we just want to
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  give everybody recommendations and hopefully connect with more
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  people in Maybe, yes, yes for sure.
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  And that is definitely something that y'all have been doing and
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  continue to do. Just because, you know, y'all
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  are always, always, always given the recommendations, you know, a
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  mix of newer series older series series that I've never even seen
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  or heard of, but exactly because it's like, you know, they're
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  there, There's a lot of us in the community and stuff.
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  And so, you know, of course, no, there.
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  There are those certain things that know most of us have in our
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  collections or have watched. But I think that's kind of what
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  also makes the community that we're in.
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  Very awesome is special. Is that everybody can bring new
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  ideas or new series and stuff, too?
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  To the community to kind of share my hey I have this hidden
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  Jam that I don't see. Nobody talked about, let me put
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  you out to some to some good stuff.
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  So I guess I guess what will kind of take a trip down memory
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  lane and kind of to kind of build back up to, you know, how
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  we got to manga brownies? I guess, I guess.
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  Let's start with Isa. What is kind of your history and
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  background with anime and manga? So I guess you can throw it all
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  the way back. Tito cartoons on Saturday
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  morning, growing up, whatever was on Cartoon Network.
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  So, you know, you grow up watching Sailor.
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  Moon, you grew up watching Dragon Ball, Z those.
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  And then I feel like after that, I've always been interested in
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  animation, I've always loved animation.
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  Mmm, And I've always loved to read.
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  So as I got older I was I started to delve into Comics
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  first, I was watching a few anime not much but then by the
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  time I got into high school that's when I started to watch
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  anime and I was starting to Read Manga and in the middle of the
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  pandemic, it became a full-blown hobby.
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  Yeah. Collecting because I hadn't
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  collected before then and I would just read, you know, go to
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  the library and get Manga comics etcetera and then anime was the
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  same way you can just you know, watch it on Hulu and those
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  websites that were available. But I have always been an Avid
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  Reader. One of my degrees is an English
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  literature, so it was like about to happen and I think of it like
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  a pipeline. I feel like once you start
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  reading, it's like you get to anime.
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  And then from anime, you get to Manga manga web comics and then
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  it's just like all pulls together.
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  Yeah, yeah. So definitely.
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  I am the one who pulled you into webcomics.
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  Yeah. Because I find I find webcomics
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  easier because they're a little more accessible because it's
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  online and it's a little more affordable than manga.
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  So that's where my love for web comics came from.
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  Okay, that's how I came to my brownies.
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  Awesome and UT. Yeah, so I'm the oldest of two
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  younger brothers, and my dad, my brothers.
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  And I from gosh, I can't even remember when I was just so
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  young. We always watched anime
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  together. I remember staying up late at
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  night watching Toonami like I, you know, I started very, very
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  young and I remember watching some of the classics like Astro
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  Boy with my dad, because he was into some of the older stuff
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  than really liked animated shows and films, just at a very young
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  age. Like video games growing up with
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  my brothers and just kind of like Isa you know, the pandemic
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  it and it was always my goal to start collecting manga.
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  I also read a lot online. There's like a ton of apps that
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  you can read my lawn. And I was like, once I get like,
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  a nice big spot, I want to have like wall-to-wall shells.
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  See all these people online were all these beautiful collections
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  she does. Yeah.
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  And you know, Isa what she said, she got me.
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  Gone to webcomics little bit more.
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  I had dabbled a little bit but you know it was just another
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  venture that I was excited about and then you know, just cause
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  playing we're very new with that.
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  But you know I asked these or hey let's go to these cons and
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  let's just cosplay, let's just try it out and I, you know,
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  everything like she said it's like a pipeline gets one thing
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  and then what's the next thing that you want to hop onto?
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  So it's a nice little journey that we've been on together
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  getting into all the different facets of this community.
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  So yeah, for sure. That that is very awesome.
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  And yeah, I feel like, you know, with the last couple of years
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  with the pandemic and stuff, it different feels like, you know,
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  a lot of us that were into manga a little bit that just like,
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  fully just like grabbed Us by the collar and just pull this in
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  during because it's like, well, you know, the depending on, you
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  know, the your situation and where you might have worked or
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  lived or there was like, you know, I'm going to be kind of
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  Stationary for a while need something to do.
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  Oh why not just start collecting these manga and stuff and and I
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  feel like you know, while you know the circumstance that led
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  to us doing that may not have been the best.
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  I think that you know, it's kind of helped a lot of these
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  companies and stuff kind of see like hey a lot of people love
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  manga. Y'all need to know as far as
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  everything from like. Make sure you are printing more
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  copies Lysosome more series, all that stuff and so because
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  because he even myself, you know, I just started like really
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  collecting just a year ago and I started doing the podcast and
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  stuff and I feel like you know collecting it's more than just I
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  want to just have a bunch of books and my physical space.
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  It is also a gateway to kind of help us all Explore and discover
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  bunch of new stuff. Because honestly, I feel like at
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  least you know for myself there's so many series, I would
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  have never even seen or heard of.
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  If I just stuck to just reading what I was reading online and
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  through the different absence of because you know, when you're
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  physically going out and buying books and stuff, you're browsing
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  the shelves as okay. I'm going I might be going to
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  the store specifically to get a certain series but hey, why were
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  there? Yeah, we always takes Common
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  browse around and yes. Yes.
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  And then you know you'll find either a cover that catches her
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  eye or a title seems interesting or whatever.
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  And it that you know we take that we you know bring it to our
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  Pages or chanos podcast whatever talk about two more people and
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  it just kind of keeps the cycle going and things of that nature.
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  Nature. So I guess, but before I get to
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  to, you know, the true formation with Margaret, Brown is what was
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  kind of like yall's y'alls first or favorite kind of like manga?
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  Did I really hook Joe? It's like it's like reading
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  manga. oh, It was most likely a Shoujo of some sort.
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  I think for me it was probably Fruits Basket.
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  Don't think it was necessarily first, was one of the first ones
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  I read where I watched the old rendition of fruits basket
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  anime. Yeah and we didn't get a season
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  to reprise it couple of hopefully years ago and I wanted
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  to know what was going to happen and ends and then I realized oh
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  there are manga Out here. If I just already got the story
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  complete it and yeah is way behind the mom.
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  Yeah. So yeah that was the first one.
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  I really remember reading and they like oh wow, like I can
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  read the whole ending. I already know how the shows
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  going to. Yeah.
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  Oh I got it. Yeah, around High School Host
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  Club. Yeah.
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  Nice. Yeah.
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  So do I watch the anime? And I was like I need to know
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  from yes yeah and so what to the manga and it It has a satisfying
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  end and yes it does. But that was a gateway to a
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  very, very time-consuming hobby. Yeah.
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  Like for for, for me, it was Naruto because same thing to
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  where I was watching it and then because and I'm pretty sure I
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  probably talked about it before, but for me, Naruto is kind of
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  like the series that kind of got me started both with not just
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  reading manga, but also Watching subtitled anime because it was
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  like, okay, I'm tired of waiting week to week, four to come on
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  Saturdays on Toonami. And then it's like, oh, there's
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  places online that have the sub in their hundreds of episodes
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  ahead. So I started, you know, getting
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  used to doing subs and then eventually I caught up with that
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  I'm like, crap now I'm waiting week-to-week again.
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  And then it's like, wait, there's another Step Beyond
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  called manga and you know, that that kind of yes, yes, because
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  Because, because because I feel like for a lot of people, that's
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  usually, the kind of like way that gets not people into manga,
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  is the ELCA. You, you watch the anime that,
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  you know, you never knew if it was going to have another season
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  or it ended in a way it was like, man, I know there's got to
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  be more out there to this because of how it might have
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  ended or whatever and then it know you kind of start doing
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  your research. I was like, oh wow, there is way
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  more and and He said is like a lot of times of hey, this Series
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  has been done for years, you know, cuz cuz I even think
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  about, you know, how. Like now with demons like for
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  example, my okay, season 2 just came out to, you know, end of
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  last year this year but it's already been two years now since
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  the manga ended, which is crazy to think about, you know, and
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  something like with haikyuu that ended two years ago as well.
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  And we're still waiting for. I think I'll be what season five
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  I think of the anime. To come back and so you know so
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  for me it's like, I know some people are just like, hey, no,
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  I'm only going to stick to the anime.
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  Come hell or high water anime anime anime.
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  But you know for me I'm just like, but they're if you want to
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  know more it is it is there. So but hey, you can't can't, we
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  can't, we can't force everybody and I pick and choose first
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  certain anime. I'm like, I'll read the Manga.
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  For others. I won't because I think that the
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  anime will be better and yeah, that is actually what I'm doing
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  with demons lawyer. Okay, I would rather watch the
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  anime. Yeah, I know what happens?
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  Yeah, choosing not to go in depth with it.
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  Oh yeah, oh yeah. Oh yeah.
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  That that that's understandable because because I've definitely
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  done that with some serious as well to where it's like it's
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  like I'm interested in knowing more but not so much so that
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  it's like it's like I'm OK with waiting.
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  Eating, well, you know, yeah, cuz yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  We we all kind of, I think probably have a series of to,
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  that's kind of like, you know what, I will wait for you like
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  like, like a, like a lost. Love like, hey, I'll wait.
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  So, so coming back around with, you know, y'all both.
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  You know, grew up watching reading manga and it started
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  coming together. The formation of manga brownies.
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  How and when did that begin like know what was it?
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  One of y'all's ideas or they're both the all kind of like come
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  to the conclusion together. Like what was the starter with
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  with how this all came to be? I love to tell the story.
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  Okay. So me and he actually met on
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  online on Bumble BFF? Yeah, Yeah.
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  So basically we were just too pal.
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  Looking for anime and manga friends.
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  Yeah. And so we hit it off online.
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  We got dinner, like twice. Yeah we were just texting always
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  talking about what we're reading or watching and one day, he just
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  goes. I want to make an Instagram just
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  to post what we're reading like, I don't really want to do much
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  with it. Yeah, and she was like, is that
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  weird do you want to do with me? You probably don't and I was
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  like, yeah, let's do it. Let's do it was totally out of
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  it. Was it was so random and I was
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  like, thank you for me Instagram Pages for literally anything.
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  Yeah. And I really had no idea that
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  all these people have, all these large pages.
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  I may be followed a couple. Yeah.
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  But I was just like, it, be fun. Just to put out there.
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  What? We're reading.
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  We get some followers again. Some followers.
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  Yeah it's definitely gone from passive to very active like we
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  were we say we weren't going to do anything but we're just
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  seeing all the potential and all of the ways that we could grow
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  and we're definitely not quitting or 925 and this is
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  something that we are absolutely passionate about and we are very
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  conscious about what we're putting online and how were
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  communicating and interacting with everyone online.
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  So but now it was, it was just really great.
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  I just I had a thought and she was all in.
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  And we have our notebooks at dinner and you started
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  brainstorming. It all started with paper and I
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  just knew just on a fundamental level like I didn't know issa's
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  full background. But immediately I knew like she
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  was 100% Ally for minorities especially the black community
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  and she makes that very clear and she's very vocal about that
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  and I really appreciate that, you know, just someone who is
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  not a black woman, yeah, that she Rishi eights that and
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  understands that struggle. So I was like, let's see if we
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  can create some a safe place where all minorities, like let's
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  do this together. Yeah, and that really outside of
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  manga anime and all of that. Like, I really love that the
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  most. So yeah, yeah, she's my road
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  dog. So yes, yes.
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  We see, so many anime and manga creators that don't look like
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  Hmm. And we were like all right let's
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  take this and run with it. Let's see if we can create a
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  space where I Were people who look like us are included and
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  not just minorities. Yeah, it's just it's just a
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  space for everyone to feel welcome and everyone feel like
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  they have a say yes? Yes, yes, yes.
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  I I love that. Just because of the fact that,
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  you know, like you said, it's like, you know, Doing something.
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  I dropped the gun. I think the best way to say, I
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  guess know, from from a place of genuine love and interest
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  because you know, it is kind of interesting like like how sad
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  but before I started doing this to, it was like, you know, I
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  know there's people out there but it's kind of like wow,
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  there's a lot of us out there. Yeah.
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  So I feel like As as each passing day more and more
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  people. We've killed continue to find
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  each other and stuff and, you know, we continue to grow and
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  to, you know, Network and you know, it's all right here.
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  Here's my friend over here. Hey so-and-so.
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  Meet this group over here or hey, this group me that group
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  and it just keeps building and growing from there.
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  So, but yeah, I definitely love that about.
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  You always page and, and the foundation, that that Built upon
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  so the the name manga brownies, how did you come to that?
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  All right, so I it's a double. Today there's a ham like half my
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  body has turned out. So my brownies is because even
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  though, you know, she's black and I'm Indian, but we identify
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  as brown women, it's really all right, manga, because we love
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  manga world. We have to make a pate.
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  We have to make an account that has manga in it because that's
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  what we want. Yes.
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  And then we have like this list of random weird brown girl.
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  Yeah, yeah. How can you do this to get
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  pretty lengthy? They were all sounding yeah.
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  Anyway, yeah. So we're like, okay, but we also
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  want to give reviews, so good. How about we also?
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  Give our reviews brownie points? Mmm, no, like you get things
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  right Quinn, the right? Five out of five brownie points
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  for some of our reviews. Yeah, so that we were like manga
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  brownies to brown girls who love manga but also we're giving
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  brownie points to good manga and web comics anime that we're
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  reviewing. Nice.
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  Okay. I like that.
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  I like that and you and you bring up the.
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  The brownie points thing also is like I said, like it's a nice
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  play on words and like kind of giving it multiple meanings and
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  and plus it's just, it's just catchy to say to, and it stands
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  as out, Michael Brown. He's awesome.
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  So, so what's our with manga Brownies?
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  So, you know, y'all argit summer of last year, or I guess, like,
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  how long was it between? Y'all come up with the idea and
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  then it kind of going into actual action was it?
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  Kind of almost immediate or was it like some months until I do
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  because it's kind of plan some stuff.
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  Ya know. It was immediate and the day we
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  decided we would like we went to dinner.
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  We created a count. Yep.
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  We created a Gmail. Yep.
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  We uploaded something about reading manga and then I got
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  we've started. Yeah at first we were real loose
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  with it. We're like hey we'll just like
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  will just post whatever And then we realized, okay, we kind of
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  want something structure, but we're also very type A, so it
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  was bound to happen anyway, that we were gonna have like a plan
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  of some sort. Yeah, we were definitely lying
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  to ourselves. Yeah, when we said that we were
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  just post whenever no, it didn't even last last one.
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  Yes, yes, yes, yes. And y'all definitely do because
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  because I was going through. So I have Dallas Page up on my
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  other screen. I kind of started to see.
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  My laptop is I loading up the page slowly and great Granite.
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  Y'all have made a lot of posts to but it's but I kind of like
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  start to see light like over time where, you know, themes
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  that stuff started to kind of come together with with the
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  police. Yes.
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  So so with I guess I kind of want to know transition into,
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  you know like I said it kind of like Like the main thing I want
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  to talk about is, you know, the theme of visual consistency.
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  So like I said, you know, like looking over looking back over
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  your page over, you know, the time of year, whatever and start
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  to see that. Okay.
• 23:46
  You know, now I'm saying, you know, specific kind of like,
• 23:51
  like Tempest and stuff like, okay, you know, you have your
• 23:53
  web coming Wednesday, you're the temple.
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  You have like finally, like the Senate Saturday morning am so
• 24:02
  on. And so forth.
• 24:04
  So how did y'all kind of Get to that point.
• 24:08
  I feel like I've like having like those themes and and the
• 24:12
  templates and all that kind of stuff.
• 24:16
  I think the biggest thing is now, that we're seeing how big
• 24:20
  the manga anime Community is a lot of pages and this is mode s
• 24:26
  on anyone else's page. Look.
• 24:27
  Yeah, similar in a sense like people are taking pictures of
• 24:30
  what they're reading or they're doing screenshots of the anime
• 24:33
  that they're watching. And I think we just wanted a
• 24:36
  nice visual way to catch someone's eye.
• 24:38
  This is like, hey, this is our page that kind of stands out
• 24:41
  different from everyone else's. Yes.
• 24:44
  And then we wanted to kind of coin some Phrases like the
• 24:47
  webcomic Wednesday. I think that's a very Niche
• 24:50
  thing that we're kind of getting into more.
• 24:53
  They're definitely weird. Not the first person, the
• 24:55
  recommend or read webcomic. Oh, yeah, but just in general,
• 25:00
  we don't see a lot of pages that are kind of doing reviews on a
• 25:03
  whole slew and diverse number of different web comics 19.
• 25:08
  Like people tend to steer to certain genres of web comics
• 25:11
  that they like or certain authors and then the anime that
• 25:15
  was just something. Sighing.
• 25:16
  I mean we still love anime so it's like yes how do we make an
• 25:19
  anime still feel important? But we know it's an
• 25:22
  oversaturated thing on Instagram or any of them.
• 25:27
  So that's what we tried to do. Our little Saturday morning
• 25:29
  anime when that phrase as well? It's just a play off Saturday,
• 25:33
  morning cartoons. Yeah, yes, Saturday's of lazy
• 25:38
  day. Usually, our passions are like
• 25:41
  just rolled out of bed. It's still in my PJs, and this
• 25:43
  is what I'm just going to throw on.
• 25:45
  Here's a good show. You just want something, you
• 25:48
  know, something nice. And we just wanted to
• 25:52
  differentiate ourselves from other pages and honestly at
• 25:57
  where we are right now, we are our goal is to make a brand for
• 26:00
  ourselves. Yeah.
• 26:02
  And so there are things are they're going to change.
• 26:06
  Like we are evolving constantly. Yes.
• 26:10
  And so I would say who we were six months ago, we are not the
• 26:15
  same. So in the next six months I
• 26:19
  think will only get better. Oh absolutely.
• 26:22
  And so a lot of like our webcomic went is it's even
• 26:26
  though you know other people are sharing some content.
• 26:29
  It's about how we're sharing this content.
• 26:31
  Yes you know nobody else is doing like the comic layout for
• 26:36
  sharing web comics because I and honesty, sharing one screengrab
• 26:42
  is probably not enough to pull somebody into To save your post
• 26:47
  and think this is really interesting, you know?
• 26:49
  So it's all about trying to catch your readers your
• 26:53
  audience. But then at the same time, we
• 26:56
  want to create content that looks good and we'd be proud to
• 27:00
  share. Yeah, yes, yeah.
• 27:03
  And that's a like not mention our manga.
• 27:05
  I mean, we don't have a template for that but I think we're on
• 27:08
  the same page. We're not eager to just post,
• 27:11
  whatever is popular or trending right now just because I'm sure
• 27:16
  Sure, you might open Instagram and whatever you manga volume
• 27:19
  that dropped that week. I mean, we see so many of our
• 27:23
  followers, posting about it and doing great reviews.
• 27:25
  Like, oh yeah. Oh yeah, I'm so we try to just a
• 27:28
  little just differentiation like hey, let me tell you about this
• 27:31
  really old manga that I just happened to pick up at the local
• 27:33
  comic book shop and see if anyone else has read it and you
• 27:37
  know, we try not to focus on likes or just, you know, we just
• 27:41
  trying to get people just an interactive say hey, this looks
• 27:43
  interesting. Fully we know people haven't
• 27:47
  read everything that we've read, but again just that
• 27:51
  differentiation model that we're working towards.
• 27:54
  And yeah, I like that. We don't have it specific
• 27:57
  template for our manga because I think it highlights the manga
• 28:01
  more. Yes.
• 28:03
  If we had templates all over our page, I think it would just look
• 28:08
  disingenuine. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:11
  And I mean, manga and itself and I'm sure we can talk forever
• 28:15
  about this. I mean to Just a lot of manga
• 28:17
  just beautiful. Like we really just love to take
• 28:19
  pictures of just the covers. They look so pretty.
• 28:22
  Yeah, there's no need to just mess it up with more and make it
• 28:26
  noisy with our template. So we try to keep those as stand
• 28:29
  alone. Yeah, for sure.
• 28:31
  Cuz cuz because that is deficit them, but ours are noticing,
• 28:35
  when I was, you know, going through and looking as you know,
• 28:39
  like you said like, you know, you have your web coming
• 28:41
  Wednesday, template your Saturday morning and my template
• 28:45
  and I also like the the player won't fly stuff that you're
• 28:48
  watching but then like you said, I I do agree with you that.
• 28:55
  How how y'all present the manga always seems to fit that manga
• 29:01
  itself because yeah, because, you know, with with manga and in
• 29:06
  a general sense like like like both y'all just said it's like
• 29:09
  they each kind of have their own style and personality and kind
• 29:14
  of not Not restricting it to a certain box.
• 29:18
  So to speak really gives it a opportunity to kind of really
• 29:23
  grab somebody that might be scrolling through Instagram and
• 29:26
  come across the image. So I definitely appreciate.
• 29:31
  Like I said like I said like y'all doing that for for those
• 29:33
  series. Now with with the with the
• 29:38
  different stuff, do y'all kind of like have stuff kind of like
• 29:44
  Scheduled ahead of time as far as the okay.
• 29:47
  This one is day, this would be this recommendation or how much
• 29:50
  of it is kind of like planned out a schedule and how much was
• 29:53
  just kind of. Like I woke up today, I'm gonna
• 29:56
  post this and, you know, and and that's that I think we are.
• 30:03
  That's a part of where we're at right now and just noticing our
• 30:06
  growth and just where we are with how much, how many
• 30:10
  recommendations we've driven before we were fine.
• 30:12
  We just kind of alternate days. And we weren't stepping on each
• 30:16
  other's toes and we're so going to do that, but we realized
• 30:20
  like, wow, we've had how many manga posted you can we have
• 30:23
  recommended 105 different series different series which means we
• 30:27
  have not yet duplicated any recommendation, which is
• 30:31
  awesome. But I mean granted to people
• 30:33
  running the page. Yeah, so a part of our planning
• 30:37
  today was, hey, let's get a nice spreadsheet put together.
• 30:40
  Let's put everything that we recommended.
• 30:42
  So then there's no question about it because So we recently
• 30:45
  got to the point where were like, did we recommend this?
• 30:47
  Or was that just in passing a conversation?
• 30:49
  That has. Yeah, but because we're assigned
• 30:52
  specific days of the week depending on the week There's
• 30:56
  never an issue of oh we're both posting at the same time or
• 30:59
  anything like that. So we work really well.
• 31:02
  We Vibe. And that said yeah but yeah it's
• 31:05
  a little bit of planning and then it's a little bit of okay.
• 31:07
  Like it's your week so you post whatever you want.
• 31:11
  Yeah, okay. Yes, they see.
• 31:13
  I like that. See where work.
• 31:14
  Working as a combat as a combined unit because you have
• 31:18
  wake up one morning like why is it to webcomic Wednesday post or
• 31:26
  hey mate? Mate mate, maybe maybe two to
• 31:29
  the general view rigidly. Hey both.
• 31:31
  These tears are so awesome that somebody can wait until next
• 31:33
  week to post. You gotta you gotta learn by
• 31:36
  both of these today. Yeah yes.
• 31:40
  Okay that that is awesome and like I say you know I I've, I've
• 31:46
  definitely also kind of, you know, with, with my step in
• 31:48
  China. Slow down and kind of light
• 31:52
  light think about stuff because you know, it, it definitely is
• 31:55
  very easy to kind of get caught up in the community height 40.
• 32:00
  Everybody's talking about this new thing.
• 32:02
  I'm going to talk about it too but then it's just like you know
• 32:06
  it's like yeah okay yes the series is good but let's change
• 32:11
  up the conversation a little bit and so what you know, which is
• 32:15
  why I, you know, even like with my stuff I always appreciate any
• 32:20
  time I do. You for something and somebody's
• 32:22
  like, hey, I've never heard of this, or, or if it's like an
• 32:26
  unknown thing. Somebody's I do, I started on my
• 32:28
  own side on the list of like upcoming series.
• 32:32
  Thank you for talking about it and I kind of gave me a little
• 32:34
  bit more information about it and stuff so and and for me
• 32:40
  that's a feel-good feeling and it kind of makes me want to
• 32:44
  continue to go out and Hunt around and find those things.
• 32:51
  Because I don't know if y'all ever do this but me and Roberts
• 32:56
  brain sometimes whenever I'm out and about like and Barnes and
• 32:59
  Nobles, or wherever I'm at, and I come across something that
• 33:02
  I've never seen a me doing my research behind it, okay?
• 33:06
  You know, what is the series? How long is it?
• 33:08
  Yada yada yada. I will also search on YouTube
• 33:13
  just say, okay, what pops up? And for me, I'm like, I'm like
• 33:18
  of the million people in the world.
• 33:20
  There is like little, to no videos talking about my number
• 33:24
  one, example, Everybody Must report gets tired of hearing.
• 33:27
  Her talk about example, like karate Survivor style, maybe
• 33:31
  like one other person over in the UK, talking to put a video
• 33:35
  or two, but I'm like, I'm like of the millions of people in the
• 33:37
  US alone. I'm not seeing nobody maybe one
• 33:42
  of the person but it's like I do is, you know, and you know, 444.
• 33:48
  I feel like situations like that you I can kind of like look at
• 33:51
  it in two ways you could kind of look at his like well, nobody's
• 33:54
  not talking about it because it's horrible or this is an
• 33:59
  opportunity for you to be the one to discover and to you know,
• 34:04
  bring it to people because you know it's always kind of weird
• 34:09
  but cool and away when it's like somebody you know you Google
• 34:12
  search for a series and like you know you see your name, you
• 34:15
  know, next to a review or something or whatever.
• 34:19
  So Another thing like with that, you know, aside from just like
• 34:25
  just the visual aspect of you know how y'all presented
• 34:29
  visually with the Patriots or the Tempest and stuff, I also
• 34:33
  like how y'all give out information regarding the
• 34:37
  series, you know you have you know you have the Arthur, you
• 34:40
  know, and things that I have a slight description and things
• 34:43
  like that. Of course, you know, I haven't
• 34:47
  looked through every single pulse of y'all's butt.
• 34:49
  Was that something? That was kind of like always Bar
• 34:51
  or did it kind of like overtime? Yamazaki maybe know we haven't
• 34:55
  been doing this or we want to make sure we are including as
• 34:59
  much key information when people are you know, checking out these
• 35:02
  series. I think that we've always been
• 35:06
  doing it. One of our biggest fears is not
• 35:09
  giving credit where credit is due.
• 35:11
  Yeah. And so from the start, we've
• 35:14
  always been on the same page were like, we need to find out
• 35:17
  exactly who created this where it's from and we if it they can
• 35:20
  be tagged They should be tagged because it's it's so unfair when
• 35:26
  we share things or not us. But when people share things and
• 35:29
  can't find where it originates from.
• 35:32
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 35:32
  We I'm sure you may have seen pages that might recommend
• 35:37
  things that they read online. And, you know, we're at a point
• 35:42
  where we have adult money now. So we can legally go out and
• 35:45
  procure these things and read the legally.
• 35:47
  But, of course, I'm not going to sit up here and say, I always
• 35:50
  read Only. But now that we are in this
• 35:53
  position, we're trying to do the right thing.
• 35:56
  Yeah. And especially with all the
• 35:57
  knowledge that we have now about how hard it is for some of these
• 36:01
  manga has and some of these Publishers creators creators in
• 36:05
  general. Like if I can just be that one
• 36:07
  person and again this is not enough to someone who doesn't
• 36:10
  have the funds. Hi everybody said I was there
• 36:12
  but if I can you know and if there was a legal English
• 36:16
  translation, we are going through credit where credit is
• 36:18
  due. Yes yes exactly.
• 36:20
  And And I definitely agree with you, because, because there,
• 36:25
  there's even been like, some series that are, like, like,
• 36:28
  super new in Japan that you know, that having made their way
• 36:32
  over. Just because it's like, okay, it
• 36:34
  literally just started, doesn't like three chapters online, so
• 36:39
  it's like, crap. It's like, it's like I want to
• 36:41
  talk about this. And if courting like there have
• 36:44
  been situations where I have but it's just like, it always sucks.
• 36:49
  And somebody's like, hey, Where'd you get it right?
• 36:52
  You reading is like yes and it's like well it's not here yet so
• 37:03
  you know maybe maybe in a year. Yeah.
• 37:08
  Cuz you know, prom example, one that is kind of like slowly
• 37:14
  making his way to the community. It's a series called a i my
• 37:18
  butcher the name but I think it's called a Gachi a Cuda, it's
• 37:23
  a serious body success for. So, the creator of the series
• 37:27
  she was she is basically like the successor of the creator of
• 37:31
  fire force. So, yes, so what it right around
• 37:38
  the same time that fire force ended.
• 37:39
  A couple months a month or so ago, this series started and
• 37:44
  then it was founded. I owe the manga for this series,
• 37:48
  she worked on fire force and so So, as she was giving the
• 37:52
  blessing of the Critter like, hey, this is my protege, so to
• 37:57
  speak and her new series are. So it's like, oh, cool new
• 38:01
  thing. But it also like it's gonna be
• 38:05
  like, a year plus before we maybe get, you know, something
• 38:09
  over here. So I was like, so I was like,
• 38:10
  sometimes it's like, I'll bring you something to myself and it's
• 38:14
  like when the day comes and is here to make you black.
• 38:19
  Hey yes, shout it from the The rooftops.
• 38:25
  Author. And among the, I think it's
• 38:27
  called Don Dan The Dan. Yeah, yeah, and everybody is
• 38:32
  talking about it and why? You know, be there and
• 38:37
  conversing with everyone. I just know.
• 38:39
  It's not, it's not legal, it's not really fair.
• 38:42
  Yeah, that's not something that I want to be attached to Mama
• 38:46
  brownies, you know? Oh yeah, let's just keep it
• 38:50
  separate. Let's keep it quiet.
• 38:51
  Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
• 38:52
  Yeah, yeah. It's exciting times and I really
• 38:54
  hope Japan Publishers just kind of speed up with their English
• 38:58
  translations because the fan base is huge over here.
• 39:01
  And yes, we'll buy it. Like people read it.
• 39:04
  Yes. You are willing to drop a lot of
• 39:06
  money on things that aren't even out of print.
• 39:09
  Yeah, yes, yes, exactly. Because, because that, that
• 39:12
  that's why I've kind of got in the habit now of like every week
• 39:19
  like some certain Publishers, they'll kind of do like their
• 39:21
  post of kathleenlights like seven seas.
• 39:24
  I think my every Wednesday they'll do the hey, here's x
• 39:28
  amount of new series, we've license.
• 39:30
  And so, as I was just exciting and I love just like glancing
• 39:34
  through the The comments of people being like, Oh, is today
• 39:37
  the day they license, X Y and Z and, you know, send people just
• 39:42
  like, like celebrate, like yes, finally this thing.
• 39:47
  I've been wanting people to know about is coming and stuff.
• 39:51
  So sorry I said yeah I definitely agree with y'all, you
• 39:53
  know trying to do doing best to give credit where credit is due
• 39:59
  with all these multitude of Series.
• 40:03
  So with with the something I would do, what is a which one
• 40:11
  for each of you is kind of light like the one that you look
• 40:13
  forward to doing every time you get to do it as far as like the
• 40:16
  webcomic Wednesday or Saturday, am anime or Saturday morning am
• 40:23
  post or Okay, so for me, it actually depends on what I'm
• 40:30
  about to recommend. Yeah like today I recommended
• 40:35
  link, click and I was so excited to do this.
• 40:39
  Like like is very underrated and this is there's all the hive but
• 40:44
  yeah, it just it really depends on what I'm about to post.
• 40:47
  No, I absolutely agree and we try to say I would say maybe
• 40:51
  there's a slight Edge on Fridays Friday manga post just because
• 40:54
  we try to put our Heavy Hitters On Fridays because according to
• 40:58
  our engagement that's like when we have the most engagement.
• 41:02
  So yeah. Hopefully we can recommend
• 41:04
  something and then a whole little bit a lot of people
• 41:06
  talking about it and yeah, had a couple of Friday's that have
• 41:08
  just gone off. So awesome.
• 41:11
  Yeah. Just got a lot of people
• 41:13
  supporting and, you know, a few times, a couple of our followers
• 41:17
  will say, well, you guys recommended this and I also have
• 41:21
  this, I want to give my review to and then they're like, yeah,
• 41:23
  tag us like that. That's the Bell.
• 41:25
  So we can repost Yes, we just want to share the love so but it
• 41:29
  does depend on the week. There are some web comics that
• 41:31
  usually like will hit us and then we'll be like this is going
• 41:34
  to be great or an anime or Manga.
• 41:36
  So we tweak it definitely varies.
• 41:38
  Okay, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 41:41
  I can definitely understand that because it's like, you know,
• 41:45
  they're definitely sometimes like like like a particular mood
• 41:48
  thing and like you said, like, depending on what you've read or
• 41:51
  watch just like, okay, so that's understandable of their, that
• 41:55
  it's not going to always be One particular day or post or
• 41:59
  posting that the child prefer over the other.
• 42:05
  Oh something else that I want to touch on as well.
• 42:09
  That I really have appreciated y'all doing over the months.
• 42:13
  Is y'all kind of have in like different themes.
• 42:19
  So like for example I like Friday.
• 42:20
  Y'all doing like for Black History Month.
• 42:23
  Y'all are kind of like, be posting, you know, your favorite
• 42:26
  Back, you know, cosplayers content creators podcaster, so
• 42:31
  on and so forth. And then for the month of March,
• 42:33
  y'all did, you know, all the awesome things that various
• 42:37
  women are doing mangaka artists on and so forth?
• 42:42
  so, When about how long have y'all have y'all been doing
• 42:51
  that? Cuz cuz I like I said I've
• 42:52
  noticed or at least like being like really pain is just your
• 42:54
  attention like the last few months but like like what was
• 42:59
  the thing that kind of like really started with our?
• 43:01
  The I did a kind of a major. I want to start doing like
• 43:04
  themed months. Yeah. 20:22 thing.
• 43:08
  Okay. Okay.
• 43:10
  Yeah, we started small. Like oh we would be like oh
• 43:13
  today is a special representation day.
• 43:16
  Let's post something. Our story.
• 43:17
  Yeah. And then in January we were just
• 43:19
  like we want to put more time and we want to create more
• 43:24
  content that represents who we are, what we believe in is among
• 43:28
  the rowdiest. Yeah.
• 43:29
  And so we were like okay if we want to be creators that have a
• 43:34
  inclusive space and we want to celebrate everybody.
• 43:37
  That means we have got to pull in these new series on our
• 43:42
  stories and our Friday facts for our Month of representation
• 43:48
  months. Yeah.
• 43:49
  And I'll say this was probably the most Work Week done, but it
• 43:53
  was so just valuable and we love doing the work because we
• 43:57
  actually have to make sure we did the research verifying that
• 44:01
  the authors who were, this is a female author, we're not.
• 44:05
  Yeah, you know, you don't want to miss shower, anybody,
• 44:07
  differing someone or even Black History Month, you know, there
• 44:11
  are not a lot of black anime, manga characters, and there's
• 44:14
  some ambiguity and there's a lot of discussion.
• 44:16
  Sometimes America To make sure like hey, this is what we found
• 44:20
  out the manga actually said that this person is black character
• 44:24
  or their half black or whatever. And then we wanted to highlight
• 44:29
  the facts and we learned so much especially during Black History
• 44:32
  Month. I think Issa had researched that
• 44:36
  the largest consumers of anime and manga United States with the
• 44:38
  black community. And that was surprising, not
• 44:42
  super surprising, but it was just like, wow, like what a
• 44:44
  great appreciation that our Unity has a love for anime and
• 44:48
  manga again, women's History Month.
• 44:51
  I mean, there's just so much history there and it makes you
• 44:54
  appreciate the manga, the webcomic, the anime that much
• 44:58
  more. I agree.
• 44:59
  And that was a part of our planning process today.
• 45:02
  Just like how do we keep doing this and making sure that we're
• 45:05
  giving it the time and appreciating, you know, allowed
• 45:08
  to just Shadow everybody. And on our actual post we don't
• 45:13
  host necessary cosplayers or some love Things, or, like
• 45:17
  favorite characters. But we were like, let's use our
• 45:20
  stories for this and every day you're going to get it.
• 45:22
  You're going to get it. You're going to see.
• 45:24
  And then finally doing something in feedback from people there.
• 45:27
  Like we go to your story, post every day and we actually see
• 45:30
  who you were shouting out and we try to hit big pages.
• 45:35
  But we also try to hit people like us who are just trying to
• 45:37
  build their brand because if you don't have that support how are
• 45:41
  you going to build it and we absolutely shout them out.
• 45:44
  Put there at like go follow them.
• 45:45
  Yeah. So like their stuff So, you
• 45:47
  know, and I've noticed that it's working.
• 45:50
  It's working. I have seen that our followers
• 45:53
  are following the people that we are sharing.
• 45:55
  Yes. So it's working the support that
• 45:58
  we are giving others, they're giving it back to us.
• 46:01
  Absolutely. So appreciative.
• 46:03
  Yes for sure. And and and and as somebody who
• 46:08
  has been on the receiving end of y'all giving love and shout outs
• 46:12
  to it is just very awesome as a creator.
• 46:17
  Somebody that is working on something to just one day, wake
• 46:20
  up being like you know manga brownies or whoever, you know,
• 46:26
  mentioned you in a story and then saying, oh they know they
• 46:30
  tagged you and you know, now people are finding you or, you
• 46:34
  know, connecting with you and stuff.
• 46:35
  And you can connects back that that stuff is something that I
• 46:38
  definitely appreciate y'all doing and continuing to do
• 46:43
  because, you know, like outside. I know it's a lot of work
• 46:46
  because Cuz you know, as somebody that you know is doing
• 46:50
  Christian stuff myself and he's just like, going through my head
• 46:54
  of life, like, man, this is really do, but I'm also thinking
• 46:56
  like, man. How much time does this take
• 46:59
  putting this together? Because I cuz, cuz with y'all
• 47:03
  doing those posts and stuff, do y'all have some of that stuff
• 47:07
  like Like said to schedule out ahead of time till I, okay,
• 47:13
  Tuesday did this? This and this one is like,
• 47:16
  literally for women's History Month, just look at last month.
• 47:19
  For example, we took the 31 days, we wrote 31 cosplayers 31
• 47:25
  webcomics very well authors, their own podcast hers, 31
• 47:29
  content creators that we love that are women and 31 whatever.
• 47:32
  And we have a shared document and we've designed it out.
• 47:36
  And if we ran into any hiccups or something, You know where
• 47:39
  it's like, hey, we're not really sure or whatever we would do
• 47:42
  research get online. Find another one that we may
• 47:45
  have read another story or another person we've interacted
• 47:47
  with. And again, it's just sharing the
• 47:50
  love like it's easy. It's easy to go.
• 47:54
  And Shout someone out it cost me US.
• 47:55
  Absolutely nothing. Yes, yes, exactly.
• 47:58
  And, and that is different, something like that.
• 48:02
  I feel like more people are kind of starting to get to an
• 48:06
  understand of just not hey you know he even if you might not be
• 48:10
  able to watch the video yourself, it takes literally a
• 48:14
  couple clicks just to click on a post.
• 48:17
  Reshare the stories and then go about your day you know, towards
• 48:20
  Lozano Michael Burns posted a new thing share or you know or
• 48:24
  who were to catch, maybe like you said, it cost you nothing
• 48:28
  but barely two seconds of your time to It's a to reshare stuff.
• 48:33
  So, so yeah, definitely doing a big part to help grow and
• 48:41
  connect the community do while I'm trying to think, did you
• 48:46
  already say what the thing for April is yet?
• 48:50
  As far as I like with your stories and stuff, or are you?
• 48:53
  I haven't said yet, if you're having this fine, I won't, I
• 48:56
  won't spoil anybody as far as like an awareness month.
• 49:01
  All. Yeah, it isn't April.
• 49:06
  Luckily I break my yeah we have some other ones coming up.
• 49:12
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Make sure that we highlight on
• 49:28
  our stories but as far as large full months ago, we've got some
• 49:32
  more for the rest of the year and we do plan to continue doing
• 49:36
  this. And even if it's not like a
• 49:38
  themed month will continue, you know, highlighting and shouting
• 49:42
  out cosplayers, yeah, other content creators.
• 49:45
  Yeah, at this point, it's just me.
• 49:48
  Share what we enjoy. Yeah.
• 49:50
  And I think the nice thing about women's history month was just
• 49:53
  it was just more of a conscious effort to see what happens.
• 49:57
  Because we follow so many pages and we interact with so many
• 50:01
  people, you know, sometimes Instagram, the algorithm will
• 50:05
  put some Well above other people just because that's the last
• 50:08
  person he interacted with. So it forced us to go through
• 50:11
  our followers and actually like oh I remember, I remember them
• 50:15
  like oh they haven't posted a while but I'd rather
• 50:17
  concentrate. Let's shout them out anyway.
• 50:19
  So it just forces you to be like intentional about finding these
• 50:24
  Pages. Yes, interacting with them and
• 50:26
  showing them love and appreciation.
• 50:28
  Yes, for sure. For sure.
• 50:31
  And I know because we're with y'all talked about, you know,
• 50:34
  like the the research and so that you go into doing this Have
• 50:37
  I definitely understand like how much work, I probably have to go
• 50:43
  out and get that y'all did after going to especially with like
• 50:46
  some of the like mangaka and stuff like finding out my okay,
• 50:51
  what gender was this person because a lot of times they
• 50:55
  might just go by, you know, regardless of the know they
• 50:58
  might not have their full name there, it might just be just a
• 51:02
  symbol, a simple, just a handle or alias.
• 51:06
  Or whatever. And it's like, okay, you know,
• 51:11
  is it, isn't it? You know who is this person?
• 51:14
  Cuz I, cuz even going back to the person I was talking about
• 51:19
  earlier, with the, the lady, who's the success for success,
• 51:22
  for Success, sir, talk Robert of the of the fire force Creator
• 51:32
  back. When that series got announced,
• 51:34
  it was a lot of things. Our peoples are hey this this
• 51:38
  new guy that it had, uh and then somebody being like no, but I
• 51:43
  heard it's about heard. It's a lady.
• 51:44
  It's my bike. Are you sure?
• 51:46
  No. So on and so forth and then
• 51:49
  yeah, we actually had we ran into that before we start our
• 51:54
  women's History Month with the author for Demon Slayer.
• 51:57
  Okay. And you will find a lot of
• 52:00
  misinformation labeling, her as female, and the authors actually
• 52:03
  non-binary, and we wanted to make sure Sure, like that is not
• 52:07
  going to be one of our recommendations but yeah, we
• 52:10
  want to respect the author's. Wishes yeah.
• 52:12
  That that is what they want to go by and even some of the
• 52:16
  content creators. We shot out.
• 52:18
  If it doesn't explicitly say in their bio that yeah, go by
• 52:22
  certain pronouns. That is the worst thing we could
• 52:25
  do. We know anybody it's expensive,
• 52:28
  it's very difficult to assume, you know.
• 52:30
  Yeah. And so we are very particular,
• 52:34
  very specific Like being we will never.
• 52:38
  We're never going to be like, all right you're this person and
• 52:41
  we're going to post them they're going to contact us and be like
• 52:43
  how could you do this to me? Yeah yeah yeah.
• 52:46
  And and if we ever do it I mean it would truly be an honest
• 52:50
  mistake because we cross-check articles and websites like we
• 52:54
  just don't go on Wikipedia and say oh yeah they said that they
• 52:57
  were born female some business. What they are.
• 52:59
  Yeah. You know we try and find the
• 53:01
  right information. Yeah.
• 53:02
  And especially I feel like with manga And web comic creators.
• 53:07
  They're very private and a lot of them will just go buy a pen
• 53:12
  name and it will know nothing about that.
• 53:15
  Yep. Yes.
• 53:16
  You know, so we make sure that we're only finding ones that
• 53:20
  have a little bit of information.
• 53:21
  Absolutely. Yeah.
• 53:24
  Sorry. Cuz I was I was it because could
• 53:26
  have shot him because the reason why why that came to mind with
• 53:29
  with the potential pain, as well as this reason, when I read a
• 53:33
  catch these hands, The only names they have on there is just
• 53:37
  Mirada is just all. It says they're at the bottom
• 53:40
  and so it's like my stuff and so so yeah, so yeah, definitely you
• 53:51
  know, like I said I could come in jail for doing that cuz I
• 53:54
  have some of these conversations sometimes with what's-his-name
• 54:00
  Ash behind black enemy podcast page to where you know, how You
• 54:05
  know, as I'm hunting around the interwebs or whatever I've come
• 54:08
  across numerous know, podcast and stuff.
• 54:12
  And you know, I know DMM, like, hey, I found another podcast
• 54:14
  whatever. And they're having a couple
• 54:16
  times to where like, you know, looking at images of the people
• 54:20
  and step further. I'm like, are you black or, you
• 54:26
  know if so? Yeah.
• 54:39
  Yeah, definitely. Undermine her.
• 54:45
  Yeah, to be as an Indian woman Bryce.
• 54:48
  That's not fair and easy thing to fix.
• 54:51
  Oh yes! Have to be careful when we're
• 54:54
  having these conversations with people.
• 54:55
  And then we on the other hand, there are some people who are
• 54:58
  people of color and you have want nothing to do with this
• 55:01
  conversation. Yeah, that's fine, too.
• 55:03
  Because you have no idea what their background is.
• 55:06
  It's like I don't want to force this diversity and inclusivity
• 55:10
  like agenda on you, right? Oh yeah, the way that we share
• 55:14
  share it. I feel like we share it because
• 55:16
  it's who we are and we're not trying to shove it down,
• 55:18
  anyone's throat. Yeah you know I wanted to come
• 55:21
  off Natural and I think that's what we do but there are so many
• 55:26
  pages we're like all right? Yeah.
• 55:28
  All right. Yeah.
• 55:32
  What is this page? It's a nice thing.
• 55:36
  When you make the mistake, thinking they are person of
• 55:38
  color and they're actually white, but they are the way
• 55:42
  they're sharing our content because they are a true Ally.
• 55:44
  Yeah. And that's exciting.
• 55:45
  Because it's like, you know what, I thought you were black
• 55:47
  and I made an assumption and shame on me.
• 55:50
  Yeah. But there are a lot of people, a
• 55:51
  lot of white people who follow us and they are all on board
• 55:54
  with what we're doing. And that is also awesome in
• 55:56
  itself. Yes.
• 55:58
  Yes, for sure, for sure. So I'll try to think I don't
• 56:02
  think I had like too much as I dislike specifically with the
• 56:04
  page, so I guess, you know, if, if you're if you also have a few
• 56:07
  minutes to spare just then we'll just want to just a chit chat
• 56:11
  with you all as far as like, you know, what are some things or I
• 56:14
  guess like we're sort of like, what are some stuff that y'all
• 56:17
  are enjoying watching and reading right now?
• 56:22
  We're always talking about it doesn't you know King, thank
• 56:26
  you. Yes.
• 56:27
  Yes, I am. I think.
• 56:33
  The first? Yeah, I don't think I don't
• 56:35
  know. I was too early of a mover.
• 56:37
  It was one of her posts. I didn't do as well as I
• 56:39
  attended, but after I saw the first two episodes, I
• 56:42
  recommended it. It was too soon and now
• 56:44
  everybody loves it and I was like, oh I wish I had posted it
• 56:48
  later but I love that. We are all staying, I love
• 56:52
  wrecking of Kings. The animation is so fitting,
• 56:55
  super the storyline superb, you know, at first, when I saw, like
• 56:59
  the trailer for, I was like, I don't know what the heck this
• 57:01
  is. Oh my God.
• 57:03
  Bo G RZ. Yeah, so, so I have a friend
• 57:13
  that I've known. I've know her for many years,
• 57:15
  shout out to Brie. And so I went down a couple
• 57:19
  weeks ago, just getting a waste one because I hadn't gone to
• 57:24
  visit, you know, them them in like, in a year.
• 57:27
  And so Bree like myself works in the it field and she As 3D
• 57:34
  printers at home. Now I knew like she had access
• 57:37
  to one at her job but I didn't know that over time, she has
• 57:41
  gotten them in her home. And so the weekend while I was
• 57:45
  there visiting her husband, we were just chit-chatting and
• 57:50
  stuff, whatever, printing up little stuff.
• 57:52
  And then she was like, Hey, to know, is there anything that you
• 57:54
  want? You know, want me to do or to
• 57:57
  see if I can find as? So, I was thinking, I was like,
• 58:00
  you know, think about different stuff, whatever.
• 58:03
  I found a, this will be one of the probably coming later in the
• 58:06
  future, because this is gonna take some work to get done.
• 58:09
  But we found this very dope, Vinland Saga design.
• 58:14
  The it is when, when y'all said, I'll make sure, I'll let y'all
• 58:18
  know but it is, it is super dope.
• 58:23
  But, you know, found out like I was saying that one, but then I
• 58:25
  was like, I was like, wrecking of Kings.
• 58:28
  I was at her wonder. Is there any by this made some
• 58:30
  type of design or whatever? And we found this one, And I
• 58:33
  think there might be like maybe one other one but we found it
• 58:36
  and we was like I was like, hey can you print this whatever?
• 58:39
  She's like, yeah, so she printed it up while I went was visiting
• 58:42
  one of our other friends because I think I think that's it like
• 58:46
  seven or eight hours to print up, but yeah, I was so happy
• 58:50
  when when she texted she's alright.
• 58:52
  That's done. I came back and I pick them up.
• 58:55
  I don't know. I might try to paint him or
• 58:59
  something because I know there's like little stuff you can do the
• 59:02
  pain. I messed up.
• 59:03
  And there's a little base that they're him and Cog a go on
• 59:06
  that. I got to get them on but they I
• 59:08
  had to show that off when y'all mentioned ranking cocaine's
• 59:11
  because I've ever since I got it I'm like I'm in love with boji
• 59:16
  my other son. I don't even know how many
• 59:32
  years. Yeah yes yeah sure.
• 59:35
  I think what else? I'm currently watching?
• 59:39
  Dora hetero door. He don't know sorrow.
• 59:41
  He door. Oh yeah.
• 59:46
  It's one of these faves. And I just started an anime.
• 59:50
  Yeah days ago, I love I'm very much enjoying it.
• 59:53
  Yeah, I need. I need I need to go back and
• 59:55
  finish down because I started it.
• 59:57
  I didn't finish it, but I've been collecting a dye dark as
• 1:00:03
  well. And I've been loving dad dark
• 1:00:06
  and I'm like, okay, I'm really enjoying this.
• 1:00:09
  I'm like, I need to go back in for more than like, I'll
• 1:00:11
  probably go back to that and like start it from the beginning
• 1:00:15
  and like go all the way through. But but yeah, I'm enjoying both
• 1:00:18
  of those series. Definitely watch them read the
• 1:00:22
  Manga because I don't know if not because it's picking it up
• 1:00:24
  for a season 2, which is kind of sad, but yeah, that's good.
• 1:00:30
  Okay, yeah, I think, of course, like regular seasonal anime,
• 1:00:35
  which is ended now like Attack on Titan.
• 1:00:40
  Case, study of beneath us. I really love need to catch up.
• 1:00:45
  I need to catch up. Yes.
• 1:00:46
  And then my dress up darling 86. Oh, there's another one.
• 1:00:52
  I recommended in that fell flat. I thought well, keyboard of
• 1:00:54
  watched it, but 86 is a really, really good Mecca.
• 1:00:58
  Yes. So I hope somebody watches it.
• 1:01:01
  I figured hey, I'm watching. I was like episode 3.
• 1:01:04
  Yeah, yeah. She she would pick it up her and
• 1:01:07
  my brother have similar to yeah. Yeah, that's not true.
• 1:01:11
  So she recommended it to me and I can do not two days later.
• 1:01:14
  My brother's like, you need to watch 86.
• 1:01:16
  Yeah. Like manga, we're probably in
• 1:01:20
  between so many books. The only we tried read one
• 1:01:24
  together because we re just everything whatever, but Blood
• 1:01:27
  on the tracks is our, we do need a started.
• 1:01:34
  We love it. Yes.
• 1:01:37
  I think that that might be one that I once I finish up.
• 1:01:43
  Because I need to buckle down and finish 20th century, boys,
• 1:01:46
  because I literally have like four volumes left to finish
• 1:01:52
  that. And then I need to go on blood
• 1:01:54
  on the track because I've had volume 1 since last summer or
• 1:01:59
  something, I probably do because probably what I might do with
• 1:02:06
  that because, because, I ended up going to picking up volume to
• 1:02:09
  last month. So, I think, what I might do is
• 1:02:12
  kind of like, He's like that's where as I okay I know I'm a
• 1:02:15
  enjoy it like every so often just by volume every blue moon
• 1:02:19
  and just so that when I do get to it I'll have you know, a good
• 1:02:24
  amount to read. So without giving spoilers away,
• 1:02:27
  this is one of the manga that you'll read the fastest just
• 1:02:30
  because there's not a lot of dialogue and the author focuses
• 1:02:33
  a lot on facial body, Expressions, which carries the
• 1:02:37
  story. Like, I don't knock it, but you
• 1:02:40
  can get through it in 5 minutes and then you're like, it's over,
• 1:02:42
  it's over. But when you get to through
• 1:02:44
  volume 1, just message us DMS, definitely tell us what you
• 1:02:47
  think. Because we know your reaction is
• 1:02:51
  when I the emotions you'll feel. I don't think you'll have ever
• 1:02:54
  felt them before now. Yeah, that's what I thought on
• 1:02:59
  the tracks is truly a psychological horror.
• 1:03:01
  Yes, it's really truly thinkers. Something.
• 1:03:08
  Cause I've tried to think that I read something else from that
• 1:03:11
  Arthur recently, happiness. Have you read that or the
• 1:03:18
  flowers of evil flowers of evil is also buy them?
• 1:03:20
  Yeah, I know-oh-oh recently and I don't think I even really
• 1:03:28
  talked about. I even read this but I have read
• 1:03:31
  inside Mari. Oh no, let him the traps is,
• 1:03:37
  it's like, oh yeah. Oh yeah.
• 1:03:43
  Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
• 1:03:45
  Like if I had something else of his yeah but okay buckle down
• 1:03:53
  and get to that sooner. So okay, awesome.
• 1:03:57
  So last little thing is what are some things that you are looking
• 1:04:02
  forward? We're going to the fist like
• 1:04:06
  this upcoming spring season or just in the future looking
• 1:04:10
  forward to reading or watching and what's on your radars.
• 1:04:20
  Okay, looking forward to that's not reading or watching so like
• 1:04:24
  a little no no no no. I was saying including reading
• 1:04:29
  or watching, sorry. Yeah.
• 1:04:30
  Yeah, I am looking forward to interacting more with our
• 1:04:37
  followers. Yeah.
• 1:04:38
  And like, fellow content creators.
• 1:04:40
  Yeah, we have kind of been hesitant on going on lives,
• 1:04:44
  doing a podcast things like that, we were kind of scared.
• 1:04:48
  Here. Our faces.
• 1:04:49
  Yeah, I saw this earlier, but I was like, people are gonna throw
• 1:04:52
  tomatoes, like, and so, we have been more open.
• 1:04:59
  I'm going to lives and we're delving into different types of
• 1:05:03
  creation. So, reels tick-tocks, today we
• 1:05:07
  just went on a casual live during lunch, and right?
• 1:05:10
  We got a really good positive, like a very honest.
• 1:05:14
  Everybody was so sweet and supportive.
• 1:05:15
  Yeah, so we're like, okay, we have to do this.
• 1:05:18
  This more we want to create comp more content with other other
• 1:05:24
  members of the end of the community.
• 1:05:26
  Yeah, yes, I think for me other, so, many things, I'm looking
• 1:05:30
  forward to more cons going with these are the more common.
• 1:05:33
  Oh yeah, more giveaways, we love doing giveaways.
• 1:05:37
  So our one year anniversary, we need so we're trying to do a big
• 1:05:41
  figure Just grant like long term.
• 1:05:51
  It's just all the potential growth of that we hadn't even
• 1:05:57
  imagined that this page could happen.
• 1:05:59
  Maybe this could become like, some form of passive like any
• 1:06:04
  come, like we start to venture into something where we, I don't
• 1:06:08
  know. I mean, people do it all the
• 1:06:09
  time, they're just very creative and then it starts to become
• 1:06:11
  like a side job and some people, it's their, it's their main job.
• 1:06:15
  But yeah, I think we see potential.
• 1:06:18
  And just what we're willing to do.
• 1:06:20
  And yeah, and we said the community and interactions like
• 1:06:23
  sky's the limit. So yeah, service.
• 1:06:25
  See what it sells. So there's a place for everyone,
• 1:06:29
  you know. Yes, yes.
• 1:06:30
  So something I did want to just just pick your brains on just to
• 1:06:33
  see like with this, maybe be something potentially in the
• 1:06:36
  future because, you know, like I said, like like the whole theme
• 1:06:39
  of, you know, this conversation is the visual consistency.
• 1:06:43
  Would y'all ever or have y'all ever thought about potentially?
• 1:06:48
  Maybe Dawn kind of like try thing I guess like visual
• 1:06:53
  Consulting of being like hey here's my page.
• 1:06:59
  I need to figure out what's going on.
• 1:07:01
  Can you help me? Did you think that there might
• 1:07:04
  ever be anything that you might be interested in potentially?
• 1:07:08
  Or really I didn't think was that special or was their
• 1:07:15
  strength until you kind of pointed it out and some Other
• 1:07:18
  people have yeah I think it's really awesome.
• 1:07:20
  It's something that we do really good work for.
• 1:07:23
  Yeah I think we're starting to learn just the algorithm.
• 1:07:27
  We're really buckling down on that.
• 1:07:29
  We read a lot about the G and all social algorithm.
• 1:07:32
  So I see how people get paid and make that a living to be those
• 1:07:45
  Consultants since. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:07:46
  For sure. And and you know, you know like
• 1:07:50
  you said, like kind of like talking about like, how how this
• 1:07:53
  stuff kind of works is something that I had brought up a while
• 1:07:58
  back. When I, when I had a moody
• 1:08:01
  Senpai on my podcast and we was talking about during the
• 1:08:04
  self-care episode and you know, who's kind of talking about
• 1:08:07
  like, like, you know, sometimes I says creators do stuff
• 1:08:12
  intentionally. That might seem weird or people
• 1:08:17
  who don't do. This type of stuff might be
• 1:08:19
  like, okay, why do they post that today?
• 1:08:22
  Or whatever the case may be, and it's like, it's like sometimes
• 1:08:26
  it's like there, there is, there is a method to the madness, you
• 1:08:31
  know, sometimes because you know, I'll find I've mentioned
• 1:08:34
  this before it's weird but it's like you know it might be a
• 1:08:39
  manga that I've had on my shelf for a while.
• 1:08:42
  There's like imma read it eventually.
• 1:08:44
  But then it's like oh Volume 2 of this is coming out in the
• 1:08:47
  coming weeks. Ever.
• 1:08:49
  Okay I'll go ahead and re volume 1 and I'll post my review up
• 1:08:54
  like around the time. The volume 2 is also 20, people
• 1:08:57
  are going to be searching for volume 2 of or volume 9 of Blood
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  on the tracks were. Hey, here's my review of
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  whatever of Blood on the tracks and it's, yeah, you definitely
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  gotta gotta learn it. Yeah.
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  Yes, it was and it blew up. Yes, everybody have already
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  watched the first episode of my dress up darling and you're not
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  of those people probably didn't even know about the manga cell.
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  Yeah, yeah, yes indeed. So, so is there any other
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  parting words, or thoughts or anything that you have for the
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  people before we wrap things up? Oh man.
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  I think we're just so appreciative of just love the
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  support. I think, when we started this
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  page, we were nervous. We were going to get a lot of
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  like hate and people would be coming on.
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  They're spewing just hurtful comments and things about what
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  we're trying to do is so worried like so Marley and we have
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  thankfully thank goodness. We have not experienced that or
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  we have just been blind to it. But yeah.
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  Yeah the outpouring of love and just how this is truly a
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  community where we all can get together and just very For
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  people like you that give us a platform.
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  Yeah, Instagram to kind of talk and share what we're doing and
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  thank you to everyone. Thank you so much, Robert.
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  Yes, thank you yes. For sure.
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  And and you know kind of like touching on this point as well.
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  Before we go. Doing doing the video aspect
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  know where there's the lives or no video podcasts and things
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  like that. I also do feel like it is also
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  important, you know of course. No with people being comfortable
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  to do it but to kind of just show others out there that, you
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  know, may be looking for somebody else to looks like us
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  or looks like them. There's a lot, okay?
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  Okay, there is, you know, another, you know, another
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  Indian woman, another black woman.
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  Another black guy, a dad, you know, you know, a couple or
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  whatever the case may be, you know, that are into the things
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  that I'm into and stuff so because you know because you
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  know, of course, know growing up.
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  We never saw didn't have you know all these interconnected
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  things with social media, like we do now but still just the
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  fact of like, you know, somebody could be just searching through
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  YouTube or Instagram. A grammar, whatever, and be able
• 1:11:32
  to see somewhat of a familiar face or here somewhat of a
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  familiar voice and it'd be like, okay it is okay for me to have
• 1:11:41
  an interest in this to like this thing and so that is definitely
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  why. You know where possible and, you
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  know, if you know, if people that come on or comforter with
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  it or whatever that I do, try to have the video component of it
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  to just know that. Hey, we are out here, you know,
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  cccd awesome, talented, beautiful faces behind your
• 1:12:04
  favorite pages and things of that nature.
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  So, yeah, it's definitely a very amazing thing to, to be a part
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  of and death is something that, you know, I kind of Want to
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  continue to do you know, with my pockets and with my platform
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  because I cuz I do, of course, enjoy.
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  You know, talking about, you know, what I've read or watch
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  for the week. But I also feel like having
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  these type of conversations are sometimes more important because
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  it's like, yes, it's a million people talking about, you know,
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  the new episode of whatever or the new chapter of one piece, or
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  Whatever. But it's also cool to take the
• 1:12:51
  conversation beyond beyond those things.
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  So but but yeah, so thank y'all for y'all is time, of course, to
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  everybody listening and watching.
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  I appreciate y'all sticking around and hanging out with us.
• 1:13:08
  As always, you know, I will have links to all of their social
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  media stuff down and the description below.
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  So make sure Go give them a follow.
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  Go check them out, and show some love.
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  And so with that we're going to head out.
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  And as I always say, treat yourself to some nice, recent
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  manga, watch some anime, play some video games and live your
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  best life, and I will catch y'all in the next one.
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  Peace, bye-bye. Oops.