&34;Hoppers&34; director Daniel Chong shares everything you could possibly want to know about the internet's favorite crashout lizard. The story behind Tom the Lizard from Pixar's Hoppers, the internet's favorite crashout meme &34;Hoppers&34; director Daniel Chong shares everything you could possibly want to know about the internet's favorite crashout lizard. By Nick Romano :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/NicholasRomanoauthorphotoadc9b60763e34711935cbf7b3d768d24.jpg) Nick Romano is a senior editor at with 15 years of journalism experience covering entertainment.

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Around June of 2025, the team behind Pixar's *Hoppers* was in the thick of crunch time. It was the last push to deliver a complete movie, about a college student who discovers how to upload her mind into a robotic animal avatar. There were still various notes to address, tweaks to be made, and they were, in general, running out of time.

And then something happened to give them a boost of energy and motivation. It came with the sound, "Lizard! Lizard! Lizard! Lizard!"

If you're active on social media, you will likely recognize the sound of a small, green reptile sitting alone in the dark, smashing the lizard emoji on a cellphone's text chat over and over. This was the end-credits scene for *Elio* to tease *Hoppers* as the next Pixar film, but the brief clip resonated so loudly and turned lil' Tom into, essentially, the mascot for crashing out.

"We have a crew Slack channel and people started slacking on there, 'Something's happening here,'" director Daniel Chong tells **, noting how DJ Sullivan King even projected the character on a screen during one of his raves. "We were just like, 'I think this is a thing now.' And then it just took off from there."

The filmmaker shares everything one might possibly want to know about this little guy. That includes the origin story of how the lizard came to be, the creation of that *Elio* post-credits scene that incited the meme machine, and early test screening reactions that signaled there could be something more to that character.

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Art designs of Tom the Lizard for "Hoppers".

According to Chong, Tom "kind of snuck into the movie."

The main story of *Hoppers* revolves around Beaverton college student and environmental activist Mabel (Piper Curda) jumping into a robotic beaver body to communicate with local wildlife and save her favorite glade from destruction by the mayor's construction project.

The creatives decided on their core group of characters to surround Mabel: King George (Bobby Moynihan), the head beaver who presides over this particular animal kingdom; Ellen (Melissa Villaseñor), the bear; and Loaf (Eduardo Franco), a more daze-and-confused kind of beaver.

Over the course of a six-year development, Tom slowly went from a side character with a few promising zingers to a supporting character with chutzpah. "We maybe just started throwing him in there just for variety 'cause he's green and he's small and just gives you a little bit of versatility in different ways," Chong explains. "And then suddenly he just took on a life of his own in the story and started having some of the best lines."

Tom (Tom Law) and Loaf (Eduardo Franco) in "Hoppers".

Tom is voiced by Tom Law, who works at Pixar and also collaborated with Chong on the four-season kids' show *We Bare Bears*. The writers on *Hoppers* started catering the character directly to Law. As Chong points out of the lizard, "You just see Tom trying to be big, even though he's a small guy. I think you just root for that kind of energy."

The look of Tom, however, was a journey. Some early designs featured a more pointed nose, while others depicted longer limbs. They realized they needed to make him look less like a real-world lizard and more cartoony, something more "huggable," Chong says.

"There were times where he just lost some of that charm and some of that innocence and some of that simpleness," he continues. "So we ended up just reverting back to the way we drew him in the storyboards, which was kind of goofy."

Even before the memes, the filmmakers had an inkling that Tom would become a hit after an early test screening. The audience questionnaire asked to identify the favorite character, and even though Tom was in a fraction of the movie at the time, the lizard was the standout. "Then sure enough," Chong recalls, "he went viral like a month later on the internet."

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Tom the Lizard in Pixar's "Hoppers".

All the way back in August 2024, the Walt Disney Company hosted their biennial D23 Expo fan convention during which they announced *Hoppers* for the first time. Chong describes it as their "big coming-out moment." The studio asked the team to come up with a couple of ideas about how they wanted to present the movie to a general audience.

Everyone got together — Chong, screenwriter Jesse Andrews, the story team — and threw out ideas to make each other laugh. "Somebody did a parody of the *Terminator 2* teaser," the director says. "I don't know if you remember that, but it was all these metal things forging this robot, and then the smoke clears, and it's Arnold Schwarzenegger. I think one of our story artists did a parody of that, and then now came a beaver."

Another idea, this one from story artist James S. Baker, was a documentary-style video chronicling Pixar's history with movies about talking animals. "But they've never done this," it would conclude.

The idea they all rallied around came from Hannah Roman, who would become a lead story artist on the film: Tom sitting in a dark void, smashing that lizard emoji as his eyes drift farther and farther apart.

Mabel (Piper Curda) and Tom the Lizard (Tom Law) in "Hoppers".

"Everyone thought it was hilarious," Chong notes, but they pitched it to Disney, and the higher-ups didn't think it was the right tone. "It's a little bit eerie, it's a little creepy," he remembers of the feedback. "Also, Tom's not the main character, so why would you put him as the face of your movie?"

What screened at D23 that year was a more straightforward teaser, but producer Nicole Paradis Grindle had the foresight to gather the team, produce Roman's idea, and save it for a rainy day. "It was really a shot in the dark that she just said," Chong remarks. Then came *Elio*.

Martha Morrison on Disney's marketing team knew the *Hoppers* gang made that asset and suggested putting it at the end of their big 2025 movie as a post-credits scene. The piece wouldn't be officially released online for some time, but a stray audience member or two recorded a bootleg of the screen inside the theater and posted it to social media. The memes rolled in from there.

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"It was all these little steps that magically happened and made it to what it was," Chong says. "It's hard to imagine you can replicate that."

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When Ethan Embry was invited to join *Scream 7*, one of the easier yeses of his career, he was given a version of the script with a missing third act. The last thing he remembers reading was the second act bar scene.

Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Brown) and Chad Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding) break the Pine Grove town curfew to gather Tatum Evans (Isabel May) and the suspects within her friend group — bestie Chloe (Celeste O'Connor), boyfriend Ben (Sam Rechner), and "creepy" *Stab* fan Lucas (Asa Germann). The Ghostface killer attacks them, leaving two dead, including Lucas, impaled on a sharp beer tap handle.

From there, the actor pieced together that there was more for him to do. "The days in the deal memo that they said I was gonna work didn't make sense with the amount of work in the script I was given," he tells **. "So I was like, 'There's stuff missing that I'm a part of.' That's all I knew."

Embry joined the cast as Marcos Davis, a supervising caretaker at the nearby Fallbrook psych hospital. Known for films like *Empire Records* (1995), *Can't Hardly Wait* (1998), and *Sweet Home Alabama* (2002), the actor knew he would film a scene at the facility in which Sidney Evans (Neve Campbell) and Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) investigate the fate of Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard).

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"I wasn't gonna be presumptuous. I had suspicions," Embry continues of the role. "I was like, 'It's possible,' but I didn't ask any questions, didn't wanna rock any boat."

Then he walked into the wardrobe fitting and saw two costumes ready for him to try on: one was the white Fallbrook uniform, the other was a Ghostface getup. "I was like, 'You're kidding me?'" Embry recalls. "And the costume supervisor was like, 'You didn't know?!' I had no idea."

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Even after filming the big ending sequence with Anna Camp as the two surviving Ghostface killers (out of three), Embry didn't fully realize the truth of his role until the cast screening in Los Angeles two weeks before the film's release. He calls it "a protectionist practice"; he assumed writer/director Kevin Williamson shot multiple alternate endings with various other cast members. "Do not assume anything" became Embry's internal mantra.

Since he's based in Atlanta, he asked his manager to attend the early preview with the cast when it came time, at which point his rep relayed the confirmation he long suspected but never embraced. "I didn't wanna believe it until it was real, you know?" he says. "'Cause it's huge. Over Halloween, I'm sitting here at the house trick or treating, and it's crazy how many little Ghostface kids there are. Like, dozens!"

Ghostface in 'Scream 7'.

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When shooting the big reveal on set in Atlanta, Embry remembers Camp came to play. The *Pitch Perfect* alum played Jessica, Sidney's next-door neighbor in Pine Grove, and the mother of Lucas — Embry likes to think she wasn't the one to actually kill her own kid, but you never know. The two actors fed off each other and embraced the crazy.

"Weirdly, I need to remind myself that my normal is a lot weirder than most people's normal," he admits. Embry remembers going a little too dramatic with one of his one-liners, only for Williamson to reel him back. He remembers another instance when he took off the mask: "I did one where I did a lot more of a hair whip, and then I did one subdued. There is a subtle head whip that they went with, but my hair wasn't as long as it is right now, so maybe it didn't play as good. I love the way I pay my mortgage, man. I'm so lucky."

Sitting on the floor of his Atlanta home with his dog, Cedar, a rescue he found in Tecate, Mexico, Embry evokes genuine gratitude and disbelief, even days after *Scream 7* opened in theaters. Thirty years ago, he once auditioned for Wes Craven's original *Scream* and didn't get the part, a story told multiple times over the years.

Ethan Embry at the 'Scream 7' premiere in Los Angeles.

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Embry doesn't fully remember which role he tried out for, but if he had to guess, it would be Randy Meeks, the horror-movie expert played by Jamie Kennedy, and the uncle of Mindy and Chad. "It so sticks out in my mind the rules of the horror movies and what certain characters represent in them," he says.

Craven, at the time, didn't offer positive feedback, but now three decades later, Williamson, who wrote the screenplay for that original movie and directed *Scream 7*, brought Embry back as a masked killer. The actor still isn't sure how it all happened, and he didn't speak about his history with the franchise to the filmmaker. Embry just went into the production with the goal of maintaining a low profile: "Ask as little questions as possible," he says, "show up as quickly as you can, be 15 minutes early, no boat rocking."

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Margot Robbie's *Ocean's Eleven *prequel has lost another ringleader.

* *has confirmed that Lee Isaac Chung, who stepped in for Jay Roach, Warner Bros. original pick when the project was announced in 2022, has now followed the *Austin Powers *director in departing the film.

"This is an amicable split due to creative differences," a spokesperson for the studio told EW on Wednesday.

In a joint statement, Warner Bros. and LuckyChap, Robbie's production company, noted, "Lee Isaac is a singular filmmaking talent whose vision and partnership have been invaluable to Warner Bros. and LuckyChap throughout this journey. Our experience with him has only deepened our enthusiasm to collaborate on future projects together."

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Robbie's grand scheme for the heist franchise kicked off by Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, and Warners in 2001 (itself a remake of the 1960 film starring "Rat Pack" members Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr.) originally had Roach lined up to direct and *The Good Fight*'s Carrie Solomon on the screenplay.

Months after that announcement, Ryan Gosling entered talks to re-team with his *Barbie *costar in the cast. Roach was out by July 2025, when Chung was reported to have entered his own round of talks to board the film as director, and then Bradley Cooper became the prime candidate to star opposite Robbie.

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Clooney, meanwhile, has indicated that a new sequel in the *Ocean's *franchise has a "great script" in the works, and even had its "budget approved at Warner Bros."

Though his *Ocean's *sequel does not yet have an official title, it does boast Soderbergh back in the director's chair, and original stars like Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and Julia Roberts back in the cast.

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Chung wrote and directed three films before his big breakout in 2020 with *Minari*. Starring Steven Yeun, the family drama racked up six Academy Award nominations and one win, for supporting actress Youn Yuh-jung. He made his first move into the franchise space in 2024 with the disaster sequel *Twisters*.

Roach, meanwhile, has directed 12 films, including the entire, highly profitable *Austin Powers *franchise. While he generally shepherds a new project into the world every two to three years, it wasn't until six years after the release of the political drama *Bombshell*, and three after he signed on to direct the *Ocean's *prequel, that he released his latest film, the black comedy *The Roses*.

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No. 2 Arizona determined not to have letdown in finale at Colorado Field Level MediaSat, March 7, 2026 at 6:13 AM UTC 0 Mar 2, 2026; Tucson, Arizona, USA; Arizona Wildcats head coach Tommy Lloyd looks out to fans after they defeat the Iowa State Cyclones at McKale Memorial Center. Mandatory Credit: Aryanna FrankImagn Images (Aryanna FrankImagn Images) No. 2 Arizona, which has clinched the Big 12 regularseason title, will try to guard against a letdown at Boulder, Colo., on Saturday night when the Wildcats play the Buffaloes.

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No. 2 Arizona, which has clinched the Big 12 regular-season title, will try to guard against a letdown at Boulder, Colo., on Saturday night when the Wildcats play the Buffaloes.

Colorado (17-13, 7-10 Big 12) has won three of its past four games, with the victories coming against lower-tier Big 12 teams Oklahoma State, Kansas State and Utah.

Arizona (28-2, 15-2) has won five consecutive games, including victories against ranked opponents BYU, Houston, Kansas and Iowa State.

"We are excited to play at Colorado," Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said. "I've went up there with a good team before and got smacked. I know how tough it is to play there, so trust me, it's got my full attention.

"Obviously after that we get a few days off, and then we'll see how that Big 12 tournament shakes out. So that's kind of next on the horizon, that'll be our focus."

In Lloyd's first season at Arizona in 2021-22, the Wildcats were ranked No. 2 when they lost 79-63 in Boulder.

Colorado will play for positioning in next week's Big 12 tournament, which it will need to win to earn an NCAA Tournament berth.

The Buffaloes, 13-4 at home this season, will celebrate Senior Night.

They rely heavily on the scoring of freshman guard Isaiah Johnson, who averages 16.6 points per game.

A freshman counterpart at Arizona, Brayden Burries, leads the Wildcats at 15.5 points a game.

The interior length of Colorado's Sebastian Rancik (6-foot-11, 220 pounds) and Bangot Dak (7 feet, 203) will go against Arizona's frontcourt of Motiejus Krivas (7-2 and 260) and Tobe Awaka (6-8, 255).

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The Wildcats lead the Big 12 in rebounding at 43.2 a game while Colorado is 13th at 34.4.

Awaka averages 9.6 rebounds a game and Krivas 8.2. Dak is at 6.5 a game and Rancik 5.6.

"Arizona is very good, well-coached, and they play hard," Colorado coach Tad Boyle said. "Our execution has to be better. We can't give away possessions on offense and fail to rebound on defense. The possession is never over until you get that board."

Dak achieved his fifth career double-double with a career-high 22 points and 10 rebounds in the Buffaloes' 92-78 win at Utah on Tuesday.

Johnson also had 22 points, putting him at 498 points, 14 from Alec Burks' Colorado freshman scoring record set in 2009-10.

Reserve center Elijah Malone is the lone Colorado senior who will be honored on Senior Night.

Arizona celebrated its seniors on Monday during its last home game of the season, a 73-57 win over No. 6 Iowa State.

Awaka was one of the seniors honored, as well as Jaden Bradley, Anthony Dell'Orso, Evan Nelson and Jackson Francois.

Awaka mentioned Arizona will stay focused while preparing to face Colorado after a net-cutting celebration for the Big 12 regular-season title following the victory over the Cyclones.

"Obviously, we get a ring, we get to cut nets down, we get to do it on our home floor, but don't get drunk off the feeling," Awaka said. "You still want the big one, but this is one of the milestones you've been looking forward to since the beginning of the season.

"I think we should give ourselves a pat on the back, but don't get stuck in the moment."

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Key takeawaysPowered by Yahoo Scout. Yahoo is using AI to generate key points from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. - Timothee Chalamet faced backlash from the Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, and Royal Ballet after making comments about the performing arts community during an onstage conversation with Variety.

- The Metropolitan Opera responded to Chalamet's remarks with a video highlighting the performers, crew, and behind the scenes workers, while the Royal Ballet in the U.K. shared a tribute video to its dancers.

- Celebrities like Laura Benanti, Jordan Fisher, and Jamie Lee Curtis showed support for the arts community and criticized Chalamet's comments, with New York City Ballet principal dancer Megan Fairchild also firing back at the actor. See more

Timothée Chalamet beefing with the Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera and Royal Ballet was not on anyone's 2026 bingo card.

Chalamet, 30, raised eyebrows after making an off-handed comment about the performing arts community during an onstage conversation with Variety, which was published last month.

"Some people want to be entertained quickly. I'm really right in the middle," Chalamet explained to Matthew McConaughey while discussing audiences' shortened attention spans. "Because I admire people [saying], 'Hey, we gotta keep movie theaters alive. We gotta keep this genre alive.'"

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Chalamet noted, "I don't want to be working in ballet or opera where it's like, 'Hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore.'"

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The Marty Supreme actor quickly added, "All respect to the ballet and opera people out there," before seemingly acknowledging his misstep.

"Damn, I just took shots for no reason," Chalamet, whose mother, Nicole Flender, was a professional dancer and New York City Ballet performer, admitted.

The Met Opera was among the establishments that clapped back with Chalamet's remarks. The organization posted a video via Instagram on Thursday, March 5, highlighting all the performers, designers, crew and behind the scenes workers at the opera.

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"All respect to the opera (and ballet) people out there," the Met Opera wrote alongside the video, adding, "This one's for you, @tchalamet… 👀" in the caption.

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The clapback video received support from the Broadway community, actors, Dancing With the Stars pros and more celebrities.

"He's gonna be singing a different tune when the live arts are all that's left after AI takes over. Oh wait. He's above singing a tune," Tony winner Laura Benati wrote in the comments section.

Jordan Fisher and Sarah Hyland both shared clapping hands emojis in support of the post as did DWTS' Sharna Burgess.

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The Los Angeles Opera addressed Chalamet's comments with humor as well, posting a photo from the opera Akhnaten, which is currently in residency in the city.

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"Sorry, @tchalamet. We'd offer you complimentary tickets to Akhnaten, but it's selling out. There are a few seats left to purchase if you hurry," the caption read on Wednesday, March 4.

The Royal Ballet in the U.K. shared their own tribute video to its dancers, writing, "We care," with a red heart emoji on the clip.

"Every night at the Royal Opera House, thousands of people gather for ballet and opera. For the music. For the storytelling. For the sheer magic of live performance," they captioned the upload on Friday, March 6. "If you'd like to reconsider, @tchalamet, our doors are open. ✨#TheRoyalBallet #TheRoyalOpera #RoyalBalletAndOpera."

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Jamie Lee Curtis showed her support for the arts by reposting a video via her Instagram Story that questioned, "Why are any artists taking shots at any other artists?"

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Megan Fairchild, a principal dancer for the New York City Ballet, fired back at Chalamet's comments as well via an Instagram video.

"Timmy, I didn't realize you were a world class dancer or opera singer, who simply chose not to pursue it because acting is more popular," Fairchild quipped. "Ballet and opera aren't niche hobbies people opt out of for fame."

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She added in her caption, "Good luck in the Oscar race. Artists supporting artists matters. None of these paths are easy, and there's no need to put ballet or opera down along the way."

Us Weekly has reached out to Chalamet's rep for comment.

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Hailey Bieber Poses For Sexy Selfies In New Luscious Lip Thirst Traps TMZ StaffSat, March 7, 2026 at 1:58 AM UTC 0 Instagram / @haileybieber Hailey Bieber is feeling herself ... because she whipped out her camera and took a bunch of stunning selfies, and now she's sharing them with the world. Check out this new thirst traps from the model and makeup mogul ... Hailey's got a face made for the front camera ...

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Hailey posted four photos on Instagram of her face and upper body in a cute, red & black, polka dot top and captioned the post, "clean the front camera. xx."

Justin Bieber's wife is all glammed up for the impromptu photo shoot and is looking her best.

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Will US-Iran war lead to cancellation of F1 races? What we know

Will USIran war lead to cancellation of F1 races? What we know James H. Williams, USA TODAY Sat, March 7, 2026 at 6:38 AM UTC 0 Will USIran war lead to cancellation of F1 races? What we know Formula 1 has two races set to take place in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia next month, but could that change due to the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran? The F1 season will begin with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne this weekend before traveling to China and Japan for more racing action. A race in Bahrain is planned for April 12 and the one in Saudi Arabia is scheduled for April 19.

Will US-Iran war lead to cancellation of F1 races? What we know

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Will US-Iran war lead to cancellation of F1 races? What we know

Formula 1 has two races set to take place in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia next month, but could that change due to the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran?

The F1 season will begin with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne this weekend before traveling to China and Japan for more racing action.

A race in Bahrain is planned for April 12 and the one in Saudi Arabia is scheduled for April 19.

Per The Athletic, a U.S. naval base located just 20 miles away from the F1 track in Bahrain was struck as the war escalated. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain have also been targets of Iranian missiles or drone strikes.

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Beyond the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia races in April, F1 has races scheduled this fall in Azerbaijan and Qatar.

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Smoke rises following an explosion, after Israel and the U.S. launched strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, February 28, 2026.

F1 has not canceled a race since flooding took place in northern Italy in 2023.

"Obviously (for) the sport, ourselves, the fans, the partners, our race team, all that will be of the utmost importance from a safety point of view," McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown told reporters on Friday.

"We just have to see how things play out, and we'll make the right decision for the health of everybody involved in the sport."

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