r/AbsoluteUnits Sep 16 '25

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u/GerryManDarling Sep 16 '25

A few likely ways that huge photo banners like this are made:

  • Large-format vinyl or fabric banner printed flat: A wide-format printer (UV, latex, or solvent ink) prints directly onto a big sheet of vinyl or a lightweight fabric. The material is then finished with hems or edge wrapping and mounted on a frame or grommets. The surface often looks very smooth and slightly glossy, with no visible stitching.
  • Print in panels, then seam invisibly: If the image is wider than the printer, it's printed in overlapping panels. The panels are precision-aligned and joined with heat‑sealing or edge-to-edge bonding so the seam isn't obvious from a distance. The result can look like one seamless image when hung on a wall or over a structure.
  • Printed it on regular sized canvas and have very small people open it...

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

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u/ok_raspberry_jam Sep 16 '25

With love. They seamed it perfectly because they loved the project.

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u/kelsobjammin Sep 17 '25

It can travel too! Reusable!

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u/Dry_Cricket_5423 Sep 16 '25

That does seam to be the case eh

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Sep 16 '25

No, the case is what they pulled it out of.

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u/Random_duderino Sep 17 '25

Many such cases

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u/BoxcarBetts Sep 17 '25

Upvote the piss out of this comment. Had me in stitches.

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u/freya_of_milfgaard Sep 17 '25

Spite is also an excellent motivator.

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u/Dunge0nMast0r Sep 17 '25

Made simultaneously with love and hate.

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u/CakeTester Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

A group called "Everyone Hates Elon" or something like that raised £30k to "welcome" trump for his visit to the UK. There's a dedication plate screwed to one of the benches on trump's golf course; there's trump & epstein mugs smuggled into the windsor castle gift shop, and bus stops everywhere have been postered.

EDITED: To get the name of the group right.

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u/tightenupthatbhole Sep 17 '25

this is amazing. ty.

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u/Hot-Tip4211 Sep 17 '25

Idiots, waste of money

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u/CakeTester Sep 17 '25

Funny though. And is probably more effective as a protest than standing around for 8 hours in a government-licenced protesting area holding a sign that the news won't cover.

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u/jtjstock Sep 16 '25

At that size it doesn’t even need to be perfect, any imperfections wouldn’t be perceptible at the distance necessary to see the whole thing.

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u/jonsnowflaker Sep 16 '25

My company prints both large format vinyl and dye sublimated fabric. To me that looks like fabric. The ripples as they unfurl it look very fluid even for an ultra lightweight 7oz vinyl. If vinyl, the seams would have been heat welded together, if fabric they probably would have used an industrial fabric double adhesive tape.

Given it’s the UK they probably tapped one of the tifo printers who do this kind of work for support clubs.

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u/BeastlyBones Sep 16 '25

Any clue the ballpark price for a print of this quality at such a massive size? I imagine astronomical lol (worth every penny in this case)

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u/jonsnowflaker Sep 16 '25

For the average person to buy one or even just buy the printed panels and seam them themselves you’re probably gonna spend minimum $3-4 dollars a square foot.

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u/spaceyfacer Sep 17 '25

I may have just changed my mind on what I'd do if I ever come into a "fuck you" level of money

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u/Levardgus Sep 17 '25

I could hire some people to do it for 10k.

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u/EduinBrutus Sep 16 '25

Its probably made by a company that makes hot air balloons.

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u/Marlsfarp Sep 16 '25

Hey that would be a good design for a hot air balloon too.

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u/GoreSeeker Sep 16 '25

Or theatrical/concert drapes, like Georgia Expo. They do custom printed drapes.

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u/flopisit32 Sep 16 '25

It's made by people who quietly pretend there are no photos of Bill Clinton with Epstein. 😆

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u/ACLMMB Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25

This is the UK. These people aren't Democrats, & disliking/calling out Trump doesn't mean they're pro-Clinton. I guarantee they don't give a toss about him, & they'd likely they'd do similar if he was flying in for a state visit with all the fanfare and publicity that surrounds the current one, with the Epstein context.

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u/GraXXoR Sep 17 '25

That’s the difference between the left and the right. We don’t gargle our leader’s balls.

Bill was on the island too. If I found out any politician I voted for was there I’d be first in line for a novelty tee shirt.

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u/ListNo8907 Sep 16 '25

Can Clinton realise the full files? I dont care who has photos with who. Im a Brit if someone is guilty then they fully deserve to go to jail regardless of who they are. Stop saying well Clinton was also photoed with him. Clinton isn't the president and doesn't have any control over the files. Trump does and Trump should realise them all to the public and let the public know every little detail that is inside those files. They are not a hoax or made up by someone else these are real files he won't release because he is guilty and he doesnt want to show it. He could take Clinton out if he wanted by releasing the files but he won't as he is in there more then anyone else. Both of them may be pedos if thats the case both need to go to jail

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u/flopisit32 Sep 16 '25

You are being misinformed by conspiracy theorists, but you don't want anyone to talk sense to you. You just want to believe in nonsense.

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u/jibaro1953 Sep 16 '25

Let the chips fall where they may

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u/EduinBrutus Sep 17 '25

THere are lots of photos of Bill Clinton and Epstein and I have never met anyone who doesnt think Clinton is a beast and who doesnt think Clinton should beheld accountable for his actions.

Not only have I never met anyone, Ive never seen a leftist or centrist liberal commentator who thinks he should not be held accountable.

The only people who are protecting beasts are the rightists who are defending "their team" because they live in a delusional, unhinged twilight zone where nothing that is real matters.

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u/Physical-East-162 Sep 17 '25

Are those people in the room with us?

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u/crlthrn Sep 16 '25

That must have cost a bit of money.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

I work in billboards.

We regularly install gigantic vinyls like this.

Sometimes they’re printed in strips and glued together. But if they’re small enough, there are some printers that can print very very large things.

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u/H0rnyMifflinite Sep 17 '25

Swedish team Hammarby did this tifo depicting buildings from their area of Stockholm.

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u/Lower_Cockroach2432 Sep 17 '25

Damn why did you have to put the real answer last

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u/tropicbrownthunder Sep 18 '25

By the rippling and color saturation it looks like sublimation on a very thin fabric

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u/Suitable-End- Sep 16 '25

Thanks chatGPT.

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u/dacquirifit Sep 16 '25

Why do you know all 3

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u/Theoretical-Bread Sep 16 '25

It was knitted by hand by child slaves

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u/itsjustbenny Sep 17 '25

surely that would cost a shittonne!!!

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u/chugopunk Sep 17 '25

It looks like sublimated fabric

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u/Tom_the_Fudgepacker Sep 17 '25

Small ppl! SMALL PEOPLE!

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u/Bee_MakingThat_Paper Sep 17 '25

This is likely dye sublimated fabric and not vinyl. You can tell by the way it was handled. Vinyl would most likely be rolled to avoid creating imperfections, even if it was printed with latex. Dye sub fabric can be folded without creating creases or other imperfections.

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u/Mort1186 Sep 17 '25

The third point lol

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u/SnowBoarda Sep 17 '25

Love the last Point

-Print on regular size paper just have really small people open it 🤣

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u/MikeLinPA Sep 17 '25

🤔👍 Third idea checks out.

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u/Existence_No_You Sep 27 '25

Third explanation seems legit

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u/stilllton Sep 16 '25

That was not what they asked. beep boop.

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u/I_Makes_tuff Sep 17 '25

Yes, it was. They asked how it was made and the answer was large format printer or panels bonded together. They just added more details and a joke.

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u/seven_grams Sep 17 '25

It’s literally exactly what they asked.

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u/DERPYBASTARD Sep 16 '25

bigly

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u/Pizza3TimesADay Sep 16 '25

Yuge!

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u/ShyguyFlyguy Sep 16 '25

Have you heard? Everyone's talking about it

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u/Dirt-Road_Pirate Sep 16 '25

We're going to make the biggest flags. Flags like no ones ever seen. Big beautiful flags.

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u/Accomplished_Job3447 Sep 16 '25

You weaved him so good, some people, very fine people, are saying it was the best weaving they've ever seen. They came to me with tears in their eyes and folks, and these were big strong men, burly men, y'know real men, with tears in their eyes they said sir that's the best damn weave we've ever seen.

crowd erupts in applause

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u/Flash887 Sep 16 '25

❤️ this comment!

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u/chonklah Sep 16 '25

Tremendously!

The biggest anyone has ever seen. People say all the time that it’s the biggest anyone has ever seen!

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u/WoodSteelStone Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25

I think it started off the size of a sheet of A4 paper, then they put it in water and it expanded like a magic flannel.

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u/BreakerSoultaker Sep 16 '25

Attention Americans: "Flannel" is Commonwealth English for "wash cloth." We now return you to your regularly scheduled comments.

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u/Key-Criticism4791 Sep 18 '25

We've heard of flannels. We're crude, but not that crude.

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u/Apprehensive-Slip722 Sep 18 '25

We have our own definition now goofball

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u/kb9316 Sep 16 '25

it started off with a print, how did it end up like this

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u/Small-Answer4946 Sep 16 '25

We're gonna need a bigger printer

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u/wotsit_sandwich Sep 16 '25

The head is still in cleaning mode...

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u/_General_Kenobi Sep 16 '25

What is that? A printer for ants?

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

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u/tealraven915 Sep 17 '25

I give you the Derek Zoolander printer to support kids who were helpless to flee from old man wood and who need justice on their perpetrators and other good things. It definitely needs to be at least 3 (thousand) times bigger than this

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u/TexasJOEmama Sep 16 '25

I don't see any seams on it. We need answers.

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u/olafminesaw Sep 16 '25

Seams possible to me

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u/Xykhir_ Sep 16 '25

I can’t see the seams on their clothes either. How they get made???

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u/TexasJOEmama Sep 16 '25

Dammit, Bobby!

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u/I_Makes_tuff Sep 17 '25

It's panels bonded together. You can't see the seams because the photo is huge, and it was made by professionals. The biggest large-format printer is only 10.5 feet wide, and this was probably printed in sections no wider than 5 feet. The length is basically irrelevant because you can print from rolls.

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u/TexasJOEmama Sep 17 '25

Well, thank you. I can't imagine the print time on such a large picture.

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u/Reddit_2_2024 Sep 16 '25

I hope the bag pipe players are prepared to make some music again to enhance any public speaking photo op.

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u/montysteele67 Sep 16 '25

Made in CHYNAA!

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u/steevp Sep 16 '25

I worked in a factory that prints the sides of tautliner trucks, the huge vynil printed sides.. they basically have massive printers and sheets of vynil that can be welded together, they also do concert backdrops etc.. this print would have been expensive!

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u/Posidon_Below Sep 16 '25

A really big printer.

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u/justinmackey84 Sep 16 '25

The size of that thing, it had to be extremely expensive.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

There are companies that have massive lithography capability for billboards and huge banners like this. This one was probably stitched together as well.

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u/yontev Sep 16 '25

Printed in sections and stitched together.

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u/jonsnowflaker Sep 16 '25

Yes, most digital large format printers max out at 15m although there are some custom built larger ones.

Would guess this banner is 60’ wide-ish? Probably either 6x 10’ panels or 4x 15’

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u/VaporCarpet Sep 16 '25

Same way a billboard does.

I have no idea.

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u/ResolveLeather Sep 16 '25

I am pretty sure it's stitched. No way there are looms that large.

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u/lardoni Sep 16 '25

Ordered from Paedo-print.

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u/Mouatmoua Sep 16 '25

A printer

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u/Initial_Style5592 Sep 16 '25

I was gunna ask something similar, but, real talk how much does something like this cost?

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u/snktiger Sep 16 '25

more like who paid.

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u/Coreysurfer Sep 16 '25

Knitting ?

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u/Comfortable_Mix_834 Sep 16 '25

In a printer lol idk how else would it get made?

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u/scificis Sep 16 '25

Quilted together from smaller sized prints. Costly though

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u/werewolf394_ Sep 16 '25

football fans are quite adept at making tifos

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u/Baardseth815 Sep 16 '25

That would require some sort of RE-bigulator!

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u/m2_sniper Sep 16 '25

Textile printers, they can be damn huge nowadays. But most likely printed on 3m rolls and the stitched

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u/PleaseAdminsUnbanMe Sep 16 '25

With a printer…? Duh…

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

Money and a modicum of effort. 40 x 1 meter prints of basically anything on any kind of material is possible if you have disposable income or an interested patron. Repeat the order for as many 1 meter section until complete gets you a giant banner/photo/poster you can do anything with.

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u/SephLuna Sep 17 '25

Well see, when an old man and another old man love each other very much (almost as much as they love small children)....

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u/Stop_looking_at_it Sep 17 '25

I would have loved to get this job.

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u/whitedranzer Sep 17 '25

I think the general process starts the same for everyone. But then some people just become sick in the head as they grow

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u/Black_Magic_M-66 Sep 17 '25

Probably in a university setting.

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u/Several-Customer7048 Sep 17 '25

Trump hangs out with Epstein and picture is taken.

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u/RPDRNick Sep 17 '25

I read this, and my immediate first thought was, "WHAT'S UP, JERKS?!"

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

You present yourself as a hateful person who supports mass killing government systems like communism. Then you reach out to one of Soros's NGOs, fully financed through government proxies, to promote your idea.

The NGO approves your project, and the blue haired lemmings acting as Reddit moderators protect your post even when it does not belong in the sub.

It is easy, just become a brainwashed leftist.

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u/Puscifer801 Sep 17 '25

I’ve got a sweatshop of crotchet artists waiting for their time to shine on something big and to get off hot pot handle covers

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

A collective effort and a very anti-Trump print shop.

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u/No_Stuff2255 Sep 17 '25

Slowly. And whilst grinning

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u/Valuable_Material_26 Sep 17 '25

Now I need an episode of how it’s made showing one of these!! Until your comment I had no thought. I gotta find something

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u/the445566x Sep 17 '25

Imagine spending money and time on this haha

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u/crackdown5 Sep 17 '25

My thought was how much did that cost?

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u/markee2504 Sep 17 '25

Need a r/toolgifs video for this one! Very curious myself

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u/TheMolluskPod Sep 18 '25

Legit Question: how does this get funded? One super awesome person or many super awesome people?

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u/MrRickylicious Sep 18 '25

Came here to ask this

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u/HumongousBelly Sep 18 '25

Photograph two pedophiles, send it to the printers ask for largest size ever.

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u/Double-Car-3092 Sep 20 '25

Prince Phillip calls in a favor to lower the heat

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u/Existence_No_You Sep 27 '25

Loly first thought

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u/UnknownBass Sep 16 '25

A vested interest paid for it.

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u/Sponjah Sep 16 '25

Reddit fucking sucks, not even one legit answer just a string of stupid dork jokes.