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Reddit Volunteers to Choose Your Communities, While Filmmakers Decline a Separate Table

A personalized feed rearranges discovery, and displaced filmmakers question a proposed Oscar category.

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Reddit Offers to Help Users Discover What They Already Joined

Reddit has introduced a For You feed that combines posts from communities users have joined with recommendations tailored to their interests. The algorithm-defined stream is meant to improve discovery inside the app, giving people more to read without asking them to go searching for another subreddit. For a service built around communities, the change adds a new layer between a user's choices and the posts that appear. The feed does not simply abandon subscribed communities, but it puts their contributions alongside material selected by software. A user can join a group for obscure baking advice and still find the day's menu supplemented by whatever else the system considers interesting. That distinction matters to the people making and moderating posts. Discovery can bring a community new visitors, but it also means its posts are competing for attention in a stream shaped by recommendations. A creator's audience is no longer just a question of who subscribed, it is also a question of what gets placed in front of them. Reddit's promise is convenience: less hunting, more relevant material. The comic bargain is that people who carefully assembled their own corner of the internet now have an assistant eager to redecorate it. The assistant has excellent taste, naturally, because its chief qualification is knowing what kept everyone looking.

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Exiled Filmmakers Decline Hollywood's Imaginary Separate Table

Filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Shahrbanoo Sadat pushed back on the idea of a standalone Oscar category for exiled filmmakers during an appearance at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Their comments came as the first five shorts produced by Cate Blanchett's Displacement Film Fund had their Japan premiere. The question followed a recent Academy rule change concerning exiled filmmakers. Rasoulof and Sadat's response put a different issue on the table: whether recognition requires creating a separate lane for artists whose circumstances already distinguish them from many of their peers. A dedicated category could sound like a solution while also defining the work by the filmmaker's displacement before anyone has watched it. The fund provides a different kind of industry attention, supporting films and bringing them to a festival audience. Blanchett joined the filmmakers at a discussion after the screening, where the projects could be encountered as films rather than simply as entries in a proposed awards bracket. Hollywood loves a category almost as much as it loves a ceremony announcing one. A new trophy can make an institution look welcoming without settling the harder question of how widely its existing opportunities are shared. The filmmakers' objection suggests a simpler invitation: put the work on the main table and let it compete there.

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TikTok Picks Dinner as Animation Voices Negotiate Their Own Menu

A community restaurant guide arrives alongside newly ratified television animation contracts.

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TikTok Turns 40 Million Dining Posts Into a Table Reservation for Its Algorithm

TikTok is launching Must Eat, an in-app restaurant guide built on 40 million dining posts, reviews and comments. The US feature uses activity from the platform to showcase community-sourced places to eat, putting the video app into competition with established discovery services such as Yelp and Google Maps. The guide gives TikTok another way to turn the material people already post into a practical destination. Instead of watching a restaurant clip and then leaving to search elsewhere, a diner can find suggestions within the same app. For restaurants, inclusion offers a potential route to customers who may already be accustomed to discovering meals through short videos. The format also gives a familiar question a fresh presentation: does a place become popular because the food is good, because people enjoy filming it, or some combination of both? A video can convey atmosphere and enthusiasm, though viewers still have to decide whether those qualities match the dinner they want. TikTok has collected an enormous pile of recommendations and is making it easier to browse. It is a useful service for anyone who has spent longer scrolling through lunch ideas than actually eating lunch. The restaurant critic has not disappeared, the critic now arrives with millions of colleagues and an excellent view of the cheese pull.

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Animation Voices Secure a Raise, Reminding Studios the Characters Have Employees

SAG-AFTRA members have ratified new television and basic cable animation agreements with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The four-year contracts won 94.95% approval and provide a 12.6% wage increase over their term, along with enhanced protections around artificial intelligence. The agreements cover performers whose work gives animated characters their voices, even when audiences never see the people behind the microphone. The wage increase is spread over the contract term, not a promise of an immediate 12.6% increase on every paycheck. The AI provisions also place the technology inside a labor agreement rather than leaving it solely to a studio's enthusiasm for new tools. For performers, the vote settles terms for a period in which animation and the technology used to make it continue to change. For producers, it establishes negotiated conditions for a workforce whose contribution can be easy to overlook once the finished character is on screen. Animated figures can survive all manner of implausible adventures. Their voices, by contrast, need contracts that work in the real world. The agreement is a reminder that the person delivering the perfectly timed line has an interest in pay and protections, even if the character has never once been shown filling out a timesheet.

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Threads Decorates the Like Button as AI Dubbing Changes Owners

Personalized reactions get more elaborate, and a dubbing company's technology moves to a startup.

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Threads Gives the Like Button a Costume and Calls It a Conversation

Threads has launched custom like buttons that let users personalize reactions to their posts with images or animations. The feature takes one of social media's simplest gestures and gives it room for a little more decoration. A reaction can signal approval without requiring a written response. Custom images add another layer, letting a creator give that small interaction a visual identity of its own. The basic exchange remains familiar: someone posts, someone else taps, and the result appears as a sign of engagement. Now the sign can arrive dressed for the occasion. For creators, the appeal is the chance to make even a routine response feel connected to their posts. An image or animation may help establish an inside joke or make a reaction distinctive amid a crowded feed. It also turns a standard interface element into another surface where personality can be displayed. The change captures a familiar platform instinct. If people already use a button, perhaps the button can do more, look livelier and become something worth talking about itself. A small gesture of agreement now has the potential to arrive with its own production design. The post still has to earn the tap, but at least the tap can enter wearing a costume.

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Flawless Sells Its Dubbing Tools, Leaving Its Own Next Act Untranslated

Flawless, the British-American company behind AI dubbing technology used on films including Fall, has sold intellectual property including its TrueSync and DeepEditor tools. The buyer is TBellScout, a startup owned by Dutch technology billionaire Steven Schuurman, in a deal that raises questions about Flawless's future. The company spent $100 million building its dubbing technology, which received SAG-AFTRA endorsement. The tools are part of a broader effort to adapt screen performances across languages, a task that involves both technical production and the interests of performers whose work appears on screen. The sale gives the technology a new owner, but the reported transaction does not settle every question about what comes next for the company that developed it. For studios and performers following AI production tools, ownership matters because it determines who controls the products used in future work. An endorsed technology can change hands even as the discussion about its place in filmmaking continues. There is a tidy irony in a business built around making transitions between languages feel seamless. Its own transition now comes with an uncertain next chapter. The equipment has found a buyer, while the audience for the corporate story is still waiting to see who gets the next line.

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Skydance Completes Its Org Chart by Removing a Piece

International leadership changes follow a major merger, while an Eddie Murphy series loses its showrunner.

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Skydance Declares the Leadership Puzzle Complete as Executives Leave the Box

Skydance International has named four regional leads as JB Perrette lays out the company's international structure. Andrew Georgiou, who previously managed Europe and Africa, is leaving the newly formed company along with several senior executives. The changes follow the $110 billion Skydance merger and give the international business a new set of leaders across its regions. Georgiou had also been Warner Bros. Discovery's chief in the United Kingdom and Ireland. His departure is part of a wider rearrangement of senior management as the merged company establishes its organization. For an entertainment business operating across markets, regional leadership determines who oversees work far beyond a single headquarters. Naming the leads provides a structure for partners and employees to navigate, even as departures show how much the structure has changed. The merger creates a large corporate map, but drawing the borders on an org chart does not make the adjustment effortless for the people working inside it. A finished puzzle is an appealing way to describe a reorganization. It suggests every piece has found its proper place and everyone can stand back to admire the picture. This version comes with a reminder that corporate puzzles are sometimes completed by taking pieces off the table. The picture may be clear, but the box looks rather different.

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The Chairman Changes Showrunners Before the Chair Is Warm

Matthew Weiner has departed as showrunner of The Chairman, the Peacock drama in development starring Eddie Murphy, Deadline confirmed. The Mad Men creator had been tapped as writer, executive producer and showrunner on the project, which comes from 101 Studios and Universal Television. A showrunner holds a central creative role in a television series, making the change notable while the project is still taking shape. The series is getting a new showrunner, but the reported departure does not establish how the eventual program will look or when viewers will see it. Murphy remains the star identified with the drama in development. The shift illustrates the distance between announcing a high-profile project and getting a finished series onto a screen. A famous performer, a well-known writer and a studio partnership can make a compelling initial package, but the people guiding the work may change as development continues. The credits attached to an early announcement are not necessarily the credits that will open the finished show. Television likes to sell a series on the strength of its assembled talent. Here, the assembly has already needed a revision. The Chairman has a star and a title, while one of its most important behind-the-scenes chairs is being handed to someone else. The drama is still in development, but the management change arrived right on schedule.

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YouTube Courts the Couch While Pinterest Collects More Dream Kitchens

Connected television viewing and subscription growth meet a slower pace of ad growth, while Pinterest adds users.

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YouTube Finds the Living Room and Discovers the Couch Has a Wallet

YouTube subscriptions are rising as more users turn to connected televisions, while advertising growth slowed in the third quarter of fiscal 2026. Alphabet reported that YouTube advertising still brought in more than $11 billion in revenue for the quarter. The figures show two important parts of the platform's business moving at once. Advertising remains a large source of money even with slower growth, while subscriptions are increasing as viewing expands on television screens. The reported ad revenue is not the same thing as a combined total for subscriptions and advertising. For creators, a larger living-room audience can affect how their work is encountered. A video that began life as something to watch on a phone may now compete for time on the biggest screen in the house. For YouTube, more viewing on connected TVs places its service alongside a range of other things people watch with a remote. The business has a neat two-part pitch: viewers can watch, and advertisers can pay to reach them, while some viewers also choose subscriptions. The couch, once content merely to hold a family, has become valuable territory in a contest for attention. It will not receive a quarterly report of its own, but it may be the hardest-working piece of furniture in streaming.

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Pinterest Adds Millions of Users to Its Collection of Future Plans

Pinterest added more than 20 million users between the second and third quarters of 2026, according to its latest earnings report. Seventeen million of those additions came from regions outside the company's core markets. The growth extends the audience for a platform where people collect ideas in visual boards. More users can mean more potential viewers for creators sharing recipes, design ideas and other projects, while also bringing those creators into a larger field of competing images and suggestions. The figures describe user growth, not the number of purchases those users eventually make. For Pinterest, the geographic mix is significant. Most of the reported additions came from outside its core markets, showing that the service is attracting people beyond its established base. Advertisers and creators considering the platform have reason to pay attention to where the audience is expanding, even if a growing audience does not automatically translate into the same commercial result in every region. Pinterest has made a business of organizing things people might like to do later. Now millions more people have joined the planning session. That is encouraging news for a platform built on inspiration, and potentially daunting news for anyone whose saved home projects already outnumber their available weekends. The dream kitchen has gained an international audience, the actual renovation can wait.

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LinkedIn Measures the Lunch Break as Disney Adds a Cart to the Magic

Microsoft reports growth on several professional-network metrics, and Disney prepares a TikTok Shop holiday campaign.

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LinkedIn Turns Another Lunch Break Into an Engagement Metric

LinkedIn reported growth in user time, members and creator ads in Microsoft earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2027. The professional network's gains span several measures, from the size of its membership to activity around advertising involving creators. The platform combines professional profiles and job-related activity with a feed where people share posts and build audiences. Growth in time spent gives Microsoft another measure of engagement, while creator ads indicate an expanding role for individual voices in the network's commercial offerings. The reported measures do not say how any particular user spends that additional time. For creators, more activity can offer opportunities to reach a professional audience. For advertisers, it can make the network more attractive as a place to put messages alongside work-related content. For users, it means the professional feed continues to compete for attention with the rest of the working day. LinkedIn occupies a special place in the internet's economy of attention: even a pause from work can become a place to read about work. A sandwich, a leadership post and a few minutes of scrolling may feel like a break to the person holding the phone. On a corporate chart, those minutes are part of a growth story. The lunch break has not been canceled, it has simply acquired a measurable professional presence.

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Disney Brings Holiday Magic to TikTok Shop, Cart Total Sold Separately

Disney will promote items on TikTok Shop during a week-long holiday activation, as TikTok seeks to attract more shoppers to its ecommerce platform. Disney is using Super Brand Days, a campaign format that combines advertising, creator content and shop listings. The arrangement brings a familiar entertainment brand into a shopping environment where videos and product listings sit close together. TikTok provides the feed and shopping tools, while Disney supplies merchandise and a recognizable collection of characters and stories. Old Navy and Crocs are also expected to take part in Super Brand Days. For creators involved in such campaigns, the format makes promotional content part of the route from watching to buying. For brands, it offers a way to reach people without asking them to leave the app to look for the item. The holiday timing puts the campaign in a season when shoppers are already looking for gifts and retailers are competing to be noticed. Disney has spent decades making its characters feel at home in living rooms. This campaign gives them another setting: the small space between a video and a checkout button. The castle may still represent wonder, but on TikTok Shop it also has a very practical neighbor. The shopping cart is ready to turn nostalgia into a line item.

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Anime's Global Audience Pays the Tab as YouTube Lowers a Payout Gate

Japanese animation reaches a spending record, and a limited YouTube experiment lets some creators collect earnings sooner.

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Anime's Global Fan Club Gets a $28.2 Billion Receipt

Worldwide spending on Japanese anime reached a record 4.45 trillion yen, about $28.2 billion, in 2025, up 15.8% from a year earlier. Preliminary figures presented by the Association of Japanese Animations at TIFFCOM show overseas consumers accounted for well over half the total. The figures put a large number on an entertainment business whose audience extends far beyond Japan. Anime reaches viewers through screen releases and associated businesses, giving distributors, platforms and creators an interest in its international reach. Growth in the overall market does not by itself show how the proceeds are divided among individual workers or companies. The record also illustrates how an audience built across borders can support a major creative industry. Viewers outside Japan are not merely a small additional market in these figures, they account for a majority of the spending. That has implications for companies deciding how to distribute and present work to audiences in different places, including the United States. The numbers are impressive enough to sound like the budget for an especially ambitious animated finale. Instead, they measure a year of people paying attention to the medium and the businesses around it. The international fan club has become large enough to receive a very substantial group receipt, even if its members are still arguing about what to watch next.

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YouTube Lets a Few Creators Collect Their Own Money Before It Grows Up

YouTube is testing a lower payment threshold for a randomly selected group of creators, reducing the amount needed for a payout from $100 to $20 or the local currency equivalent. A notice on YouTube's help forum said the experiment applies to selected creators in the United States, India and Indonesia. The change affects when eligible participants can receive earnings, rather than promising an increase in how much they earn. For a smaller channel, a lower threshold can mean less time waiting for an accumulated balance to become payable. Creators outside the selected group remain outside this particular experiment. The distinction is practical. A creator who earns gradually can watch a balance rise without being able to collect it until the threshold is reached. Lowering that hurdle gives some participants earlier access to funds already on the way through the platform's payment system. Whether the test becomes a broader policy is not established by the announcement. The old threshold resembles a velvet rope placed in front of a person's own modest earnings. The experiment moves the rope closer to the ground, although only some people have been invited to step over it. For the selected creators, the reward is not a grand new revenue stream. It is the quieter pleasure of seeing a small balance become an actual payment.

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An Illustrator Challenges the Copy Machine as Instagram Buys a Longer Attention Span

Axel Scheffler considers legal action over AI images, while Instagram offers some YouTubers money to try Features.

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The Gruffalo's Illustrator Finds a New Monster in the Image Generator

Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler is considering legal action against AI companies over images generated using his work. He believes the firms breach copyright by reproducing his work in AI-generated Gruffalo images, according to the BBC. The potential action puts a familiar character at the center of a larger question for artists: what control do they have when software can generate images resembling work they created? Scheffler's position is an allegation about copyright, not a court finding, and he is considering action rather than announcing a completed case. For illustrators, the issue involves both the value of recognizable characters and the ability to decide how their work is used. For companies making image tools, it raises questions about the boundaries of a product that can produce visual material in response to a user's request. Those questions extend beyond one book, even if the Gruffalo gives the dispute an unusually recognizable face. The children's monster was designed to be memorable. That is an excellent quality in a picture book and a complicated one when image software can be asked to produce a likeness. Scheffler wants the businesses behind the tools to answer for what he considers reproduction of his work. The fictional creature may be intimidating, but the real contest is over who gets to put him on the page.

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Instagram Offers YouTubers Up to $500,000 to Discover Horizontal Video

Instagram has offered some YouTubers up to $500,000 to post videos using Features, its newly announced long-form horizontal format, according to Business Insider reporting cited by Tubefilter. Select creators were approached with a floor price of $50,000, while others received larger offers. The Meta-owned platform is pursuing the viewing time and advertising opportunity associated with longer video, including the audience YouTube has built on television screens. Offering money to established YouTubers addresses the talent side of that competition: a format needs people willing to make or bring videos for it, not just a new place to display them. The reported offers are directed at selected creators, not a general payment available to everyone who posts. They also do not establish whether audiences will follow those creators to Instagram or how well the new format will perform. For those approached, however, the proposed payments make the experiment a potentially significant business decision. Instagram has spent years associated with quick, vertical viewing. It is now inviting some established makers of longer videos to try a wider frame, with a check large enough to make the invitation hard to overlook. The platform is not merely asking viewers to turn their phones. It is asking creators to consider turning up somewhere else.

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Ad Buyers Welcome Helpful Agents, Then Ask to See the Receipts

Agencies reconsider staffing, SharkNinja values racing fandom, and Amazon offers a new automated buying tool.

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Agencies Reimagine Staffing, and the Spreadsheet Discovers Robots

AI agents are becoming common among agencies, while companies are weighing how the technology might reshape their teams, according to Digiday. The discussion comes amid growing tension over workplace AI and its potential effect on creative and commercial work. An agent that can perform tasks may change how agencies organize projects, even before any particular staffing decision is made. The questions include which work people retain, which tools they use and what skills become more valuable. A sweeping promise to reimagine the workforce does not itself establish how many jobs will change or disappear. Agencies sell clients their ability to solve problems creatively. Now they have an internal problem that demands a similarly careful answer. A robot in every cell of an org chart makes for a tidy presentation, but a presentation is not the same thing as a functioning team.

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SharkNinja Finds F1 Fandom Is the Appliance It Really Wants

SharkNinja's deal with McLaren treats Formula 1 fandom as a valuable marketing asset, according to Digiday's assessment of the partnership. The arrangement connects an appliance company with a racing team and the audience that follows it. For a consumer brand, the appeal of a sports partnership is not limited to placing a name beside a car. It is also a way to associate the brand with a community whose attention and loyalty can be difficult to earn through ordinary advertising. The available report does not disclose a price for the deal, so the value of that connection remains an assessment rather than a published invoice. The contrast supplies its own sales pitch: a company known for household appliances is paying for a place in the world of racing. Apparently even the pursuit of cleaner floors can benefit from a very fast brand association.

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Amazon's Ad Agent Offers Fewer Clicks and a New Reason to Ask Questions

Amazon's advertising business neared $20 billion in third-quarter revenue as the company promoted agentic AI for further growth. Its Amazon Ads Agent promises to make buying simpler, while raising questions about transparency, Digiday reports. An automated tool can reduce the work involved in managing a campaign, but advertisers still have an interest in understanding where their money goes and how decisions are made. Convenience and visibility are different features, even when they appear in the same sales pitch. The reported revenue figure describes the size of the advertising business, not revenue generated by the new agent. Amazon's proposal is attractive to anyone buried in campaign settings: let software handle more of the process. The follow-up question is equally natural. If the agent chooses the placements, can the buyer see enough of its reasoning to be comfortable signing the bill?

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Tracking Meets a Wall, Marathon Sponsors Find a Crowd

WPP pitches InfoSum, brands gather around a New York race, a payments executive makes a case, and Threads tests a smaller circle.

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Safari Blocks Tracking Tricks, Giving WPP a New Sales Pitch

Apple's restrictions on cross-site and cross-device tracking have given WPP a fresh case for InfoSum, Digiday reports. The changes challenge techniques advertisers use to recognize the same person across different sites and devices. For the ad industry, a privacy barrier can also become a business opportunity: marketers still want to reach audiences and vendors still want to sell them tools. Apple builds a higher wall, and the advertising market promptly starts selling guided tours of the surrounding landscape.

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Marathon Sponsors Discover a Very Long Parade of Potential Customers

More brands, including Celsius and Maybelline, are lining up around the NYC Marathon's 50th anniversary, according to Digiday. The sponsor mix represents a broader cross-section of retail than in the past. The race offers brands access to runners and spectators gathered around a major New York event. For companies, that crowd is an audience as well as a celebration. The runners may be measuring miles, while marketers are busy measuring how many product categories can fit near the finish line.

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Payments Executive Discovers Creators Prefer Money to More Paperwork

Frank DeVito, president and chief operating officer of XR Pay, argues in a sponsored Digiday article that paying creators needs to be simpler as brands and agencies spend more on them. XR Pay has a commercial interest in the payments business. His assessment puts attention on the administrative side of creator deals, not just the size of the promised fee. A campaign can celebrate a creator's reach and still leave the unglamorous task of processing payment. The most compelling engagement metric may be the date the money actually arrives.

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Threads Makes a Close Friends List Large Enough for a Small Banquet

Threads is testing Threads Friends, a smaller group-sharing option that lets users add up to 50 connections. It resembles Instagram's Close Friends feature and offers an alternative to posting for a broader audience. The test gives users a way to choose a more limited circle for sharing. That can make a post feel less like an announcement to the entire internet, although a group of 50 still contains plenty of distinct opinions. Social media has found a new definition of intimate: a guest list that might require a seating chart.

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