If You're Making Less Than $1M On Social Media, Do This Instead
A YouTube coach explains why vanity metrics quietly cap creator income, and the three-step system she used to replace scrolling and posting with one keyword, one video, and an owned list.
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Chasing followers, virality, and daily posting caps creator income because attention on rented platforms doesn't compound, while one authority keyword, one long-form video, and an owned email list do.
Who This Is For
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READ IF YOU ARE…
A coach, consultant, or course creator with an existing audience who is burned out on daily posting and wants a channel that keeps converting without constant output.
Someone with a modest YouTube following (hundreds to a few thousand subscribers) who wants proof that view count isn't what drives revenue.
A creator who has been hit by a platform ban, algorithm change, or hacked account and wants an asset no platform can take away.
SKIP IF…
You're pre-audience with nothing built yet — this is a re-prioritization framework for existing effort, not a zero-to-one starting guide.
Your income depends on ad revenue or brand deals tied directly to reach; the model here assumes you're selling your own service or course.
TL;DR
The full version, fast.
Sunny Lenarduzzi argues that chasing followers, virality, and daily posting on push platforms like Instagram and TikTok caps how much a creator business can earn, because rented attention doesn't compound and can vanish overnight. Her fix is a three-part system: pick one authority keyword (the exact phrase an ideal client searches when they have the problem you solve), build a single long-form YouTube video that proves expertise instead of many short posts that only entertain, and route viewers off-platform into an owned email list, since that's the one asset a ban, hack, or algorithm change can't erase. She backs this with client numbers, including one whose backup email list saved her business the day her social accounts were hacked.
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01 · The question that reveals your social media problem
Sunny asks how much time viewers spend on social media, reveals she cut her own screen time from six hours a day to under one while revenue rose, and reframes the video's premise: social media as your main income driver is what's costing you, not social media itself.
01:26 – 02:35
02 · Stop measuring followers, likes & views
Followers are people who clicked a button, clients are people who made a decision. A 500,000-follower creator barely clearing $2,000/month versus a 3,500-subscriber creator building a $1,000,000 business shows dollar-per-view, not audience size, is the real metric.
02:35 – 03:27
03 · Stop chasing virality
Virality is framed as a losing, unpredictable game that optimizes for the algorithm's attention rather than income. A 500,000-view video generating $0 versus a 300-view video generating $30,000 illustrates reach and revenue moving in opposite directions.
03:27 – 07:08
04 · Stop playing on push platforms when you're a pull business
Push platforms (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook) surface a post for 24-48 hours before it disappears, forcing constant re-posting. Pull platforms like YouTube get searched by people who already have the problem, producing higher intent. Sunny shares her own decision to quit social media once she saw YouTube and email were driving virtually all real results.
07:08 – 08:55
05 · Find your Authority Keyword
An authority keyword is the exact phrase an ideal client searches, not a broad category. Building content around one keyword trains YouTube's algorithm (the 'Flywheel') to keep surfacing it to the right people. A German-language teacher who narrowed her keywords hit a $10K month under 1,000 subscribers, later reaching $20K/month.
08:55 – 10:25
06 · Make one long-form video that builds trust
A single 15-20 minute video that demonstrates a real process builds more trust than a hundred short entertaining posts. The video argues AI can produce surface-level content instantly but can't replicate earned, demonstrated experience.
10:25 – 13:32
07 · Build your YouTube-to-email flywheel
YouTube creates discoverability, a free resource bridges a passive viewer to an active lead, and the email list creates the direct relationship. Old videos keep generating leads years later with no ongoing promotion. A 500-person list converting at 10% on a $1,000 offer produces $50,000.
13:32 – 18:25
08 · How Allison's email list saved her business overnight
When a client's Instagram and Facebook were hacked the day of her launch, her small YouTube-sourced email list survived because no platform could touch it. She converted 32 of 50 direct conversations into clients (64%). Sunny closes with 'micro-universes beat mass audiences' and a recap of the three-step system.
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A creator with 500,000 followers can barely clear $2,000 a month, while another with 3,500 subscribers builds a $1,000,000 business — audience size isn't the variable that matters.
A video with 500,000 views can generate $0, while a 300-view video aimed at the right people can generate $30,000.
Push platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook give a post roughly 24 to 48 hours of visibility before it disappears; a YouTube search video keeps working indefinitely.
An authority keyword is the exact phrase your ideal client types into search when they already have the problem you solve, not a broad topic like 'learn German.'
A creator teaching German went from broad topics to specific search phrases like 'German modal verbs for business conversations,' hit a $10,000 month with under 1,000 subscribers, and later reached $20,000 a month.
A 500-person email list converting at 10% on a $1,000 offer produces $50,000, a return the same audience size rarely hits through social reach alone.
When one client's Instagram and Facebook accounts were hacked the day of a launch, her email list from YouTube produced 32 clients from 50 direct conversations, a 64% conversion rate.
A social media post lives roughly 24 to 48 hours in a feed; a YouTube video can generate leads for years without being touched again.
One video a month built with precision for a narrow audience can outperform five videos a week built for the masses.
Views, likes, and follower counts are vanity metrics; dollar-per-view, what each video actually earns, is the metric that reflects business health.
Takeaway
Stop chasing reach, start owning your audience
OWN YOUR AUDIENCE
Chasing followers, virality, and daily posts on rented platforms burns time without building revenue, while one authority keyword, one long-form video, and an owned email list keep compounding whether you post or not.
01The question that reveals your social media problem
Cutting personal social media screen time from six hours a day to under one didn't hurt revenue, showing time spent on social platforms and revenue generated are not the same curve.
The video reframes the premise from 'social media is dead' to 'social media as your main income driver is what's costing you time and money.'
02Stop measuring followers, likes & views
Followers are people who clicked a button; clients are people who made a decision, and the two numbers measure completely different behaviors.
A creator with 500,000 followers barely clearing $2,000 a month and one with 3,500 subscribers building a $1,000,000 business shows audience size doesn't predict revenue.
Dollar-per-view, what each video actually earns, is presented as the real success metric, replacing follower count and view count.
03Stop chasing virality
Virality optimizes for the algorithm's attention; building for an ideal client optimizes for income, framed as mutually exclusive goals.
A 500,000-view video generating $0 versus a 300-view video generating $30,000 illustrates that reach and revenue can move in opposite directions.
04Stop playing on push platforms when you're a pull business
Push platforms surface a post for roughly 24 to 48 hours before it disappears, forcing constant re-posting to stay visible.
Pull platforms like YouTube get searched by people who already have the problem and typed in the exact solution, producing a higher-intent viewer than a scroll-by.
The pivot away from social media coincided with realizing YouTube and an email list were driving virtually all measurable business results.
05Find your Authority Keyword
An authority keyword is the exact phrase an ideal client searches when they already have the specific problem you solve, not a broad category.
Building every piece of content around one authority keyword trains YouTube's algorithm to categorize and repeatedly surface that content to the same type of searcher.
A German-language teacher who targeted specific phrases like 'German modal verbs for business conversations' hit a $10,000 month under 1,000 subscribers, later reaching $20,000 a month.
06Make one long-form video that builds trust
A single 15-20 minute video that actually demonstrates a process builds more trust than a hundred short posts that only entertain, because demonstration beats a claim.
The argument is explicitly anti-AI-content: AI can produce surface-level material in seconds but can't replicate earned, demonstrated experience.
07Build your YouTube-to-email flywheel
The Flywheel: YouTube creates discoverability, a free resource bridges a passive viewer into an active lead, and the email list creates the direct, algorithm-independent relationship.
Old YouTube videos keep generating leads years later with zero ongoing promotion, framed as the core advantage over a social post that dies in 48 hours.
A 500-person email list converting at 10% on a $1,000 offer produces $50,000, used to argue a small owned list can outperform a much larger rented following.
08How Allison's email list saved her business overnight
When a client's Instagram and Facebook accounts were hacked the same day she planned to launch, her YouTube-sourced email list was the only asset that survived because no platform could touch it.
She emailed 50 people directly and converted 32 into clients, a 64% conversion rate attributed to list ownership, not platform reach.
The closing framing device, 'micro-universes beat mass audiences,' argues a small, high-intent, precisely targeted audience outperforms a broad one on conversion, not just cost.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
Authority keyword
The specific search phrase an ideal client types when they have the exact problem you solve, used to build content that surfaces in search rather than around a general topic.
Push platform
A platform like Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook where a post only stays visible for a short window, requiring constant new posting to stay seen.
Pull platform
A platform like YouTube or a search-optimized blog where people find content because they actively searched for a solution, producing a higher-intent viewer than a scroll-by.
Dollar per view
A metric that divides the revenue a video earns by its views or audience size, showing what each viewer is actually worth instead of just tracking reach.
Micro-universe
A small, highly targeted, high-intent audience built around one specific problem for one specific person, argued to convert better than a broad following.
Owned audience
An audience you can reach directly, such as an email list, that a platform ban, hack, or algorithm change can't take away, unlike a following built on a rented platform.
“Borrowed audiences are fragile. Owned audiences are assets.”
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“She emailed that list. She had direct conversations with 50 working moms. 32 of them became her first clients. That's a 64% conversion rate.”
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“How much of your audience do you actually own versus how much of it are you renting?”
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Quick question. How much time did you spend on social media last week? It's okay.
I won't tell anyone. Before I quit social media, I was spending six hours a day on my phone, but now I spend one or less than one. But the revenue in our business went up even when my screen time went down.
So here's the thing. I'm not here to tell you that social media is dead. I am here to tell you that using social media as your main driver of income is probably costing you time and is costing you income.
And there's a vastly different approach, one that generates income with less content, less time, and zero what we call posting pressure. So in this video, I'm going to cover three things that are keeping you from hitting that million, and three things that will start generating new clients without adding more to your plate so you can get back more of your time.
If you're stuck on the social media hamster wheel and you want off, comment audit below and we're going to send you the link to our brand new interactive tool, The Authority Audit. It's a five minute diagnostic that shows you exactly what your expertise could be worth online, what it's costing you in your current model, and what to build first.
It takes five minutes and it could change your life, I swear. Let's get into it. First, here are three things that are costing you that you can actually stop doing entirely.
It's going to feel weird, but you can. And it's probably going to be for the betterment of your business. So number one, measuring followers, likes, and views.
Vanity metrics are not the same as business metrics. There is a real difference between an audience and a client base. So followers are people who clicked a button.
Clients are people who made a decision. When you optimize for followers, likes, and views, you're optimizing for the wrong outcome and it keeps you on the hamster wheel. I see this all the time.
We have met many people with a lot of of subscribers and followers who are barely scraping by. One example recently, half a million followers barely making $2 ,000 a month.
And I've seen people with 3 ,500 subscribers build a $1 million business. The difference was not their audience size. It was what we call their dollar per view.
What is each person in your audience actually worth to your business? So by breaking down how much we actually earn through each video with dollar per view as a metric, you can start measuring success by what each video is earning for your business instead of guessing. That's really the only metric that tells you the truth and allows you to make content with intention and to make a lot less content, but still make a greater income.
The second thing to stop doing is trying to go viral with your content. It is a losing battle. And anyone out there who says, I'm going to guarantee that every video you do goes viral, that's just not how the math works.
Okay? Chasing virality is a game. It's not a strategy.
Most people create content and ask, how do I get more views? Wrong question. The right question is, how do I get the right views?
Because viral reach and revenue are not the same thing taken from somebody who's experienced both. You can have a video blow up with half a million views and make absolutely nothing from it. But on the flip side of that, you can have a video with 300 views that generates $30 ,000 if those 300 people are exactly who you serve and have a high intent to actually solve the problem that they want to solve.
So chasing viral means you're optimizing for the algorithm's attention. Building for your ideal client means you're optimizing. for income.
Those are two completely different games and only one of them actually builds a business. The third thing to stop doing, playing on push platforms when you are a pull business. The platform you choose determines the effort you become trapped in.
And this is the fundamental difference that most people never really hear. Push platforms are things like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook. They require you to constantly push your content out there, okay?
So you post, it shows up in a feed, it lives there for 24, maybe 48 hours at most, then it's gone. No post, no visibility. That is a treadmill.
Poll platforms, so YouTube search optimized blogs, those work really differently. Someone comes to YouTube with a specific intent. They have a problem.
They want an answer. They want a solution. So they type in exactly what they're looking for.
Your video shows up. They didn't scroll past it by accident. They actually chose it.
That is a fundamentally different buyer. Higher intent, higher trust, higher likelihood of actually taking the next step. So I've been on social media since before Instagram existed.
Yes, I'm that old. And for years, I was doing everything right by the conventional playbook. I was posting consistently, building a following, showing up every day, and I did have the audience to show for it.
But when I actually sat down and looked at the numbers, like really studied them, I realized that social media was not moving the needle on my business. at all. So YouTube and my email list were driving virtually everything.
So I made a decision that felt insane at the time, truly. And I battled with it for a while. I quit social media and then my business grew because I stopped pouring energy into vanity metrics and push platforms.
And I put that total focus into the system that was actually generating revenue. So if you're not at a million dollars yet, then maybe that's not your goal. Maybe you just want to be making a hundred thousand dollars a year, whatever it may be.
These three things will not get you there. Okay. So measuring followers, likes, and views, trying to go viral, playing on push platforms when you're a pull business, you have to stop doing them.
And I know it's hard because the noise out there and what everyone else is saying is push, push, push, push, push, push. Hustle, hustle, hustle. Be everywhere.
post consistently. It's exhausting and it's super confusing and it feels like, how could I possibly do less but earn more? I'm proof of it.
Many of our clients are proof of it. Intention, right strategy, less is more approach is going to lead to more sustainable long -term success. And I think it's important to say, I'm not saying this because these things are meaningless in every context, but they are costing you the time and focus you need to build what actually generates revenue, or even just take a step back, zoom out and go.
Why am I even doing all this? Because that question will start a ripple effect of only doing the things that matter and freeing up a lot of time. So every hour spent chasing some viral moment is an hour not spent building an owned audience, serving your clients at the highest level of things that actually matter.
So the path to a million is not louder. It is more precise. And the three things that we're about to cover will show you exactly where to put that focus instead.
And it is so... freeing. And before we cover those, if you want to see what you could be earning by taking your knowledge online without chasing followers, going viral, or posting every day, comment audit right now below this video.
We're going to send you access to our new interactive tool called the Authority Audit, and it's a five -minute diagnostic, and it's going to tell you exactly how much income you're missing out on and how to capture it in a matter of minutes. Okay, so we've talked about the things we should stop doing that are probably costing you time, money, energy.
Now let's talk about what you need to be doing, the absolute non -negotiables. Number one, you got to start with what we call finding your authority keyword.
You do not need to be everywhere. So this really just means you have to own one search term. What does that mean?
Let's break it down. So an authority keyword is the specific phrase that your ideal client is typing into search when they have the problem that you solve.
So it is not a broad category. It is not a general topic. It's the exact words they're using when they're ready to take action.
So when you build every piece of content around one authority keyword, YouTube's algorithm starts to understand who you are, who you serve, and where you need to show up. It starts to push you in those places through browse, suggested, and search traffic sources. That's how the flywheel on YouTube starts to work for you.
So ideal viewer, relevant content, algorithm categories. organization, more of the right people find you, more of them get results, and the whole thing just starts to run like a machine without you constantly feeding it. Take Zalame.
We love her. She teaches German. She could have gone really broad with learn German, German lessons, tips for beginners.
Instead, she got really specific. She built her content around the exact phrases that her ideal clients were already looking for on YouTube. Things like how to get over the German language plateau or master German modal verbs for business conversations.
Not broad language learning content, the specific problem, the exact words her people were using. And the results, with fewer than a thousand subscribers, she hit her first 10K month, not because she went viral, but because the right people found her.
And recently she just celebrated a $20 ,000 month. So that's really the power of identifying and using and leveraging your authority keyword. Start there because that builds everything else.
And again, this can apply anywhere, but we are kind of focusing on how this can really benefit you on a platform like YouTube. So the next step is creating one long form video that demonstrates your depth of knowledge. So one video.
that positions your expertise is worth more than a hundred posts that entertain. Okay. So long form content does something that short form never really can.
It demonstrates, not just tells. So when someone watches a 15 or 20 minute video of you actually solving a real problem that they care about and explaining your process and breaking down your method, they make a trust decision and trust. especially now, is the most valuable currency that we have.
We are in a full trust recession. The more that you can do to show up as a true expert on the subject matter that you're covering, the more trust you build, the more people want to work with you. Because things like AI can generate surface level content in seconds, but it cannot replicate earned experience.
It can't replicate the nuance of someone who has actually done the thing. So long form YouTube content is where real authority lives and authority. converts.
So Zalame, who I mentioned earlier, she didn't make quick tip videos. She was making videos that actually solved the problem. all the way through.
Someone struggling with business German could watch one of her videos and walk away with something they could use immediately. That's a trust decision made before she ever asked for the sale. And the numbers show are right.
I mentioned this earlier, but she just celebrated a $20 ,000 a month from a channel that started with less than a thousand subscribers. That's not AdSense. That's not brand deals.
That's someone watching a video, trusting what they saw and taking the natural next step to work with her. So the third thing to start doing is you've got to build a flywheel. YouTube to owned.
list. What that means is YouTube is the front door. Your email list is the house.
So social media platforms can ban you overnight. We've seen this happen so many times. Algorithms can change without warning.
Accounts get hacked. I've seen many clients go through this. Platforms can actually disappear, but your email list, nobody can take that away from you.
So the flywheel works like this. YouTube creates discoverability. Your content shows up when people search it.
A free resource creates the bridge. It moves someone from passive viewer to actively raising their hand and saying, this is for me.
Your email list creates the relationship. So it's direct access to the right people. on your terms, not the algorithms.
You're not getting shadow banned. You're not getting blocked. So most people skip the middle step.
They create content and just hope people find their offer. The email list is the gap between content and client and is crucial. You have to have it in place.
It's the most valuable part of your business. So I have videos on my YouTube channel that are years old, still generating leads every single day. I'm not touching them.
I'm not promoting them. I'm not boosting them. They just keep working.
because they're discoverable. And because YouTube is a search engine and every day somewhere in the world, someone types in the exact problem one of those videos solves, then they find it, they watch it, they trust it, they take the next step. That is what an evergreen content asset looks like.
So compare that to a social media post that lives for, like I said, maybe 48 hours and then disappears and isn't really being pushed or... you know, leveraged by the algorithm at all past that time span because they want more content. One system compounds over time.
The other requires you to keep running just to stay visible. So I think it's important to understand you don't need a massive audience. And we see this time and time again with our clients.
Small audiences, high conversions. You need the right content in the right place with the right next step built in. One authority keyword, one long form video that earns trust, one conversion path that moves the right people off the platform and onto your most valuable asset, your email list.
So that's it. That is the simple structure. That is the system.
You are not hoping or guessing. This is a system. And once it's running, it runs whether you're posting or not.
One really important factor of this that I kind of have hinted to, but it is so crucial to understand. Borrowed audiences are fragile. Owned audiences are assets.
So here's the math most social media strategies ignore. A 500 person email list, 10 % conversion rate, $1 ,000 offer, that is $50 ,000. So the same offer promoted only through social media to the same audience, your reach is a fraction of your following.
Your conversion rate is inevitably lower and your results are so unpredictable. So email is the one marketing channel where you control who sees what, when. When someone joins your email list, they're making a conscious choice.
They're saying, I want to hear from you directly. That's a fundamentally different relationship than a follow. And that relationship is what turns viewers into clients.
So imagine the day you decide to launch your business. You've been building your social media for years. You've got a webinar scheduled for that night.
You are ready. And then you get hacked. Every social media account, gone.
This is not a made up story. This is exactly what happened to one of our clients and team members, Allison. So she's a lactation consultant who built a program helping career -driven women breastfeed through their first year back at work.
The same day she enrolled in our program and was ready to launch, she lost everything on social media, Instagram, Facebook, all of it. Just gone overnight. So most people would have quit right there, but here's what saved her.
She had a small email list from her YouTube channel. That list was hers. No platform could touch it.
No hack could erase it. She emailed that list. She had direct conversations with 50 working moms.
32 of them became her first clients. That's a 64 % conversion rate, okay, from an email list, not from Instagram. not from Facebook because they went poof, they disappeared.
It came from the one asset she owned. She's now gone on to build an $800 ,000 business working 20 to 25 hours a week. And the platform that was hacked away from her, it turned out she didn't actually need it at all.
So every platform you create on, your goal is to move people off that platform and onto your email list. That's the only measurement that actually matters, not views, not likes, not follower count.
So the question you really have to ask yourself and get very honest about is how much of your audience do you actually own versus how much of it are you renting? Once you get honest about that, that's going to put the plan in place to really start acquiring folks from social or from wherever onto an actual list that you own.
So how do we get to a place where we can actually scale and get back our time, which should go hand in hand, right? When you scale, it means you have more systems in place that are repeatable and they don't require you every single day. So micro universes, as we refer to them, they beat mass audiences every single time.
This is really the piece that no one tells you when they're pushing you to grow your following. A massive broad audience is full of what we call window shoppers versus A small, targeted, high intent audience that is full of buyers.
And buyers are what you actually need for a business. Not just for the obvious revenue reason, but because the more targeted your audience, the less content that you actually have to create. When you know exactly who you're talking to, when every video, every email, every piece of content is built for one specific person with one specific problem, you don't actually need volume.
You need precision. So one video a month built with precision. will outperform five videos a week are built for the masses.
So this is what we call creating micro -universes. A small, deeply relevant, highly engaged group of the exact right people. So a great example of this, Alex and Beth post one video a week, but because the one video is built specifically for cleaning business owners who want to scale with peace, it reaches exactly the right people every single time.
The algorithm knows who they are. The algorithm knows who to show them to. And those viewers have super high intent.
They're not scrolling past an ad. They're actively seeking out the solution that Alex and Beth provide. That is the power of a micro universe.
You don't need to be everywhere. You need to be undeniably relevant to the right people. I know that's hard to understand when everyone is telling you to grow a following to the masses, but it's just the truth.
And again, we've proven it. Our clients are proving it. Scale comes from specificity, not volume, not hustle, not daily posting.
Clarity, one audience, one problem you solve, one platform working for you around the clock. That. is the business.
So here's what I want for you. A business that doesn't require you to perform every single day to stay visible. One where the right people find you because you built a system that makes that happen automatically.
And a business where each piece of content you create is a permanent asset, not a post that disappears in 48 hours, an actual asset. Something that works when you're on vacation, when you're with your family, when you're offline. That business exists.
I run it, my clients run it, and the starting point is simpler than you may think. One authority keyword, check. One long form video.
Check. One audience that you own outside of any platform. Check.
So before you go, if you're ready to build a business that doesn't require your constant presence to generate an income, comment audit below or click the link in the description. We'll send you the link to access our authority audit for free. It's five minutes.
It's a free diagnostic. And at the end of it, you're going to know exactly what your expertise is worth and what your first scalable offer should be. It's amazing.
So I encourage you to comment on it below, click the link in the description to access it, and be sure to check out this video next to see how this is happening for real people with small channels right now. We love your comments. Let us know in the comment section below what your light bulbs were or aha moments were, and we will see you in the next one.
Bye.
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Sunny Lenarduzzi opens by asking how much time you spent on social media last week, then reveals she cut her own screen time from six hours a day to under one, and her revenue went up anyway.
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The Flywheel
Ideal viewer
Relevant content
Algorithm categorization
Right people find you
They get results
A five-step loop where content built around one authority keyword trains YouTube's algorithm to keep surfacing it to the right people, who convert and reinforce the cycle.
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Three to stop, three to start
Stop: measuring followers, likes, views
Stop: chasing virality
Stop: push platforms when you're a pull business
Start: find your authority keyword
Start: one long-form video that proves depth
Start: build a YouTube-to-email flywheel
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