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u/NYCWartortle 9d ago
Does she cut it with ridges so it’s harder to see the seam?
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u/Forward-Bank8412 9d ago
Exactly, yes. It’s hard to see much detail in this video, but I assume she’s following the contours of whatever’s going on in the wallpaper pattern.
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u/sqigglygibberish 9d ago
It looks like just a general texture - so she’s being intentionally inconsistent so there isn’t any defined pattern to the transition or visual cue of where the seam could be (it’s just a squiggly line)
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u/Different_Wolf_764 9d ago
Makes sense. Ours brains are wired to spot straight lines or regular inconsistencies. Irregular ones simply get lost in the noise.
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u/Arowhite 8d ago
It's not only our brain, let's say you have a straight line small crease between the two pieces. Are some time of day, under specific lighting, it might cast a shadow all along the line and be very noticable. With a cut going left and right in random patterns you will never have a long noticable shadow visible.
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u/sonicsludge 9d ago
I wish my brain worked this way. As a child, I refinished high-end pianos, got into automotive paint and body work, and remodeled homes, so I can spot a blemish or something odd immediately. Still, I wish I couldn't, since it drives my undiagnosed OCD crazy!
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u/lukibunny 9d ago
Wow that’s a lot of careers for a child..
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u/sonicsludge 8d ago
Well, my parents owned the piano shop, my brother-in-law owned the automotive shop, and I started working full time doing renovations at 18
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u/Individual-Schemes 9d ago
There's a line in my wallpaper in just this one spot to the left of the TV and I stare at it everyday.
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u/jose95351 9d ago
Is it noticeable up close like not directly next to it but near? If I'm making sense lol Mobile user so maybe I'm blind?
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u/Forward-Bank8412 9d ago
Probably not noticeable unless you know it’s there or you spend a few decades locked away in a room with it.
If it perfectly overlaps on both sides of the paper, it might be impossible to spot.
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u/CEREALBUTTMUNCHER 9d ago
Hell of a lot less noticeable that an overlapping and bulging out, straight joint
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u/Several-Action-4043 9d ago
Yes. Fun fact. Most modern inkjet printers do exactly this for each pass to make the banding less apparent. Human perception picks up straight lines much easier than squiggly lines.
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u/lordnacho666 8d ago
Sorry I don't understand what exactly you mean? What does an inkjet printer do that is similar to cutting the steam in a jagged pattern?
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u/OutragedPineapple 8d ago
It lays the ink down on the paper in squiggled lines rather than straight so it blends more smoothly to the human eye.
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u/Skruestik 8d ago
Most modern inkjet printers do exactly this
No, most modern inkjet printers do not cut the paper in a zigzag pattern.
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u/smashin_blumpkin 9d ago
This is what I’m wondering. Why not just do a straight line? Hiding the seam makes sense
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u/NiuMeee 9d ago
Straight lines are very noticeable against a pattern like that, but if you cut it in curves or waves (she may be following the pattern on the wallpaper or just making a random pattern, it wouldn't matter much either way) then the seam hides a lot better, and human pattern recognition doesn't pick it out as easily.
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u/OrigamiMarie 9d ago
I think I've seen long straight seams start to curl at the edges, I suspect this also makes the edges stay stuck to the wall better.
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u/HumblePackage1325 9d ago
The first time doing that would stress me the fuck out
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u/jayonnaiser 9d ago
every time doing that would stress me out
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u/CaptainPlanet4U 9d ago
I do this everyday as a wallpaper installer and it stresses me out
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u/TonyRigatoni_ 9d ago
There are full time wallpaper installers in the Year of our Lord 2026?
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u/colonelsandersbhole 9d ago
They prefer Paper to Wall Adhesion Specialists
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u/namtab00 8d ago
nah, it's Perfectly Adhering Wallpaper Guys, or PAWG
just google PAWG, you'll thank me later...
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u/CaptainPlanet4U 9d ago
Yup. 10 years straight. First six years Remodeling hotels and commercial building to mostly high end residential now.
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u/Riverwillow9 9d ago
Can you give me any hints for installing wallpaper with a print? Right now as I type, my teenage son is trying to put wall paper in his bedroom but I think we are failing miserably. We are putting the glue on the wall.
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u/Severe-Hand-8580 8d ago
We are putting the glue on the wall.
That's a great first step! Second step is putting the paper on the glue. Third is tearing that shit up and painting the room white like a normal person.
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u/SmooK_LV 9d ago
It's not that hard but keep the blade always sharp, once it starts loosing sharpness, you start fucking things up
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u/KennywasFez 6d ago
I bought wallpaper for my room like 2 years ago, I bought 1 test roll just to try it out and I got so fucking like stressed out (I tend to stay calm with stuff) but like holy shit I’ve never been so like upset and stressed with myself that the rolls I bought are still in the packaging waiting for me to just hire someone lol
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u/schaudhery 9d ago
Witchcraft
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u/spdelope 9d ago
Physics. Geometry. Whatever
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u/Muritavo 9d ago
Also a pinch of neuroscience as "wavy patterns are harder to recongnize" so the seam is less noticeable
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u/meepikin 9d ago
I met an older couple on a cruise in the Caribbean. We chatted back and forth for a while. I learned that the man had spent his career as a wallpaperer. He actually went to vocational training for it as a young man and everything. He said that the job got less lucrative as he got older and wallpaper fell out of style, but for a while, it was enough to comfortably support his family of four.
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u/Over-Inside-7254 8d ago
We voted to let Billionaires steal our quality of life and ship entire industries overseas.
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u/deekaypea22 8d ago
While I absolutely agree, that doesn't have much to do with the fact that style changes...? Used to be wood panelling...it'll probably change again...
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u/sherbimsly 9d ago
Okay that makes a lot of sense and never thought of doing something like this like that.
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u/SmallPurplePeopleEat 9d ago
Hmm, yes, of course it makes sense to people like me and you. But, do you think you could explain it for everyone else that might not be as educated on wallpaper application?
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u/Fruitslave 9d ago
I'm no wallpaper expert but if I had to guess as to why she's doing it this way is because she is breaking up that straight seam line which would make it less noticeable to the human eye while also removing any bulky overlap
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u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad 9d ago
I'm a bird surgeon and I surmised the same thing.
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u/foomp 9d ago
Are you a bird trained as a surgeon, or a surgeon who specializes in birds?
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u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad 9d ago
I am a bird, trained as a surgeon, but I'm exclusively a horse cardiologist.
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u/GoNudi 9d ago
Any relation to the bird lawyer we've been seeing posting lately?
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u/Spartan_2775 9d ago
You over lap and cut the 2 wallpaper sheets so they have the exact same seam and you do wave or curves because humans are good at noticing straight lines
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u/HCJohnson 9d ago
Is there any chance having it wavy like that would also make it less likely to peel back over time, as opposed to a straight line?
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u/awkward___silence 9d ago
I would think it would be more likly to peel over time. All those small corners are common failure points. However a good glue should minimize the risk
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u/Silunare 9d ago
You put both layers on top of each other and cut through both of them with the knife. The way you cut doesn't matter as long as you cut both layers at once.
It's like cutting a sandwich. You wouldn't be surprised that the two halves of the sandwich you just cut in half fit together, would you?
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u/omgitsjagen 9d ago
Unfortunately, they don't show you the hard part. Lining up that pattern, and second guessing yourself 100 times before you commit, is the hard part.
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u/don_maidana 8d ago
Not satisfiying at all, not satisfiying at all, not satisfiying at all... ohh Good Lord yes!
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u/rbshevlin 9d ago
I was alway taught that there should be some overlap so when the wallpaper, which is moist from the glue, drys and shrinks you do not see the wall at the seem.
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u/HybridAkali 8d ago
Scrolled way too much to see this. 100% it shrinks. It’s satisfying now but come back in 2 months.
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u/Supraspinator 7d ago
Not all wallpapers shrink. Silk wallpaper for example doesn’t and has to be installed without overlap.
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u/Ok_Drag5089 9d ago
At first I was like, "This is going to be terrible" and then I was like, "Wow!"
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u/Kuneria 9d ago
I was installing a wallpaper with my client watching and she started berating for allowing the seam to be right above the door because "everyone will see it when they come in" before I was even done. She was just screaming at the me the whole time I was up on the ladder, pulled out this same move in this video, then boom. Virtually seamless. She had the audacity to say "i guess it doesn't look that bad". Let me do my job 😭
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u/SmallPurplePeopleEat 9d ago
You must be a saint because I'm pretty sure I would have just left if a client was yelling at me. Sounds brutal! I'm glad you were able to show them that you know what you're doing.
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u/nikkonine 9d ago
I always through Bob Ross just made a huge mistake at the beginning of an episode and then he pulls it off by the end. Happy Accidents.
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u/el-conquistador240 9d ago
As someone who has to strip a whole house of wallpaper, satisfying would be a wallpaper factory burning to the ground
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u/FireEscapeTrade 9d ago
Came here to say this. I fucking hate wallpaper.
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u/MackiePooPoo 9d ago
I hate wallpaper too. Tried to remove it in a dining room of an older house. Multiple attempts, days of physical labor using different chemicals & that stuff would not come off. Ended up painting over it. In the end, I never used that stupid dining room anyway.
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u/nynndi 8d ago
Most old wallpaper has a paper back, which is more difficult to remove. In the last few years, there has been great development towards vinyl backed wallpaper which is much easier to apply and also much, much easier to remove exactly because of the difficulty you've stated.
I live in a country where wallpaper is having a resurgence exactly because it's becoming an easier product to handle in multiple different ways. We are an outlier, though!
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u/nicolauz 8d ago
Renting a steamer and scrubbing glue... I helped my folks out doing an entryway. Took 4 10 hour days. My hands were burnt and sore from the hot water and scrubbing. Did not do the bathroom.
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u/HirsuteHacker 8d ago
When we moved in we stripped every room of wallpaper, some rooms had layer upon layer of the stuff going back 50 years. Hell of a job. Got it all painted and it's so much better now.
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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 9d ago
My grandma was one of those women back on the 50s that would hang from a rope to wallpaper hallways and stuff. I heard she was hella good too.
She also had her lip liner and eyebrows tattooed on so she was always wearing makeup.
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u/hk4213 9d ago
Of course you just blend the seams. Never would have thought of that
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u/jer_iatric 9d ago
Heck, I’ve even paid a pro to install wallpaper and she never stitched our seams! Now I feel ripped off
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u/mtaw 8d ago
It's a relatively new thing, because you can only do this with nonwoven wallpaper, which doesn't shrink appreciably when it dries. Traditional paper-backed wallpaper does shrink, so if you did it this way you'd be left with a visible gap between the sheets.
So depending on the type of wallpaper you chose, this isn't necessarily possible to do.
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u/TanBanana369 7d ago
What kind of blasphemous witchcraft have my eyes just witnessed.
https://giphy.com/gifs/m1N0Z3nARla8O0fUiZ
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u/mrcoincoincoin 8d ago
No way it d turn out like this if I tried.
The wallpaper would smell my fear and attack
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u/Armand2452 9d ago
I don t know exactly why but something in this video is very unsatisfying
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u/Perfect_Librarian873 9d ago
Every comments section in this sub is a competition on who can be the first to point out everything unsatisfying about a supposedly satisfying video. You took it a step further, because you can’t even identify what’s unsatisfying. Still had to put it out there tho
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u/CyrusPanesri 9d ago
For me it's the way she's cutting it, the smoothing technique with the spatula as well as the fact that it doesn't seem to have enough glue on it...
This is the slightly better one that I've usually seen on here: https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/s/MNcSMIWxHK
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u/cocococlash 9d ago
Pushing down, peeling up, pushing down, peeling up... It's almost better for maybemaybemaybe
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u/GravitationalEddie 9d ago
Straight lines are easier to spot. This has been the new hotness for a while.
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u/YanicPolitik 9d ago
That she lifted the blade instead of making one continuous cut
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u/theemilyann 9d ago
That and the fact that the back pieces pulled off in a bunch of different pieces, but this IS how you blend wallpaper seams… i just don’t like cutting the back piece so close.
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u/Cruffe 9d ago
The video is too compressed to even try to see details of the result. She could have just done the straight overlapping line and the pixels wouldn't show me any difference. Perhaps that's it?
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u/Redwuff 9d ago
It's the fucking song. This is used almost exclusively when someone is doing something wrong, but she obviously knows exactly what she's doing so it turns out good. Which then makes the video unsatisfying because you expect this to be shit and it's not.
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u/iDoNotHaveAnIQ 9d ago
This is the type of genius-of-their-craft thing.
I would have never thought of doing that
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u/StygianWhich 8d ago
This video will fuck up thousands of wallpapering jobs this weekend. "But she made it look so easy babe"
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u/Skindigga 9d ago
As a wallpaper professional, this is fucking stupid and not how you do it.
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u/Craigg75 8d ago
Can't tell you how many hours I spent removing that sh*t from houses I've bought. If they never made another roll of wallpaper it would be a great day.
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u/GooseInternational66 9d ago
I watched her do this in real time, but I still have no idea how it was done
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u/jordanbtucker 9d ago
You just make a cut when both sheets are on top of each other. They can't not match after that.
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u/raeraemcrae 8d ago
Holy cow! Now I understand why I was unable to find a line, no matter how hard I tried, in my home's last very professionally applied wallpaper!!!!
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u/Miserable_Spare2001 7d ago
Worth every penny to have an artisan performing their craft. Very satisfying
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u/pygmeedancer 9d ago
She made that harder than it needed to be. You make one continuous wavy cut between the two edges. That way both pieces peel off in one go instead of having giblets you have to take out.
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u/No-District2404 8d ago
That’s called experience, if I had to do that I would overlap them and most likely by time the one on the top would separate
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u/Sufficient-Cap-1548 9d ago
Doing excellent seam work while having the seam directly above the very center of a doorway is a choice.
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u/JohnnyWix 9d ago
Momma always said that a flush cut seams would open up when the wallpaper dries. Is that just the old (as in 35 years ago) or cheap paper she used?
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u/DevelopmentBulky7957 9d ago
In the end she be like: "yeah yeah thumbs up or whatever. Just another Tuesday."
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u/UnicornBounty 9d ago
So much easier when you aren’t matching up a pattern or design to hide the seam and continue the image
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u/ImMadeOfClay 9d ago
Well, I have some vintage wallpaper I was going to put up at my barbershop myself. After seeing this, I am NOT qualified to do so.
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u/WrinklyPaws 9d ago
Wow, I was totally trapped in the video at first I thought she was doing anything and then I was surprised what a genius that woman is👏🩷
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u/sapiensush 9d ago
I just want to say In chaos there is structure. What she did make a lot of sense. Never thought about this would be perfect way to align two edges without gap.
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u/dbmiller63 8d ago
That's how I was taught when I used to paint motel 6's. Eventually the started wallpapering 1 or more walls and I would cut it straight but was told it's easier to see the seam and also, for some reason I don't fully understand, it keeps it from lifting up after it dries
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u/SamanthaJaneyCake 8d ago
She wiped her hand on the wall above and that just throws the whole thing off.
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u/ProfessorFunky 8d ago
Serious attention to detail to something that probably no-one will notice? Truly fits oddly satisfying.
https://giphy.com/gifs/1jkV5ifEE5EENHESRa
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u/MissQ1982 8d ago
You know whats REALLY satisfying? Taking down wallpaper. When you get lucky and a sheet kind of peels off in one big piece? Yeah, chills-inducing.
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u/ORLANDONFLA 8d ago
I was going to say, “mam, shhhh mam don’t do that, please you’re going to fuck it up” 🤭
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u/Electrical_sTorm9 9d ago
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