The @oatmeal, inimitably. pic.twitter.com/xOWUg3zacI Potentially controversial opinion: this can't happen w/o complicity of the creative.
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One has to establish and maintain boundaries with regards to that.
People will push on those boundaries, sometimes out of ignorance, sometimes just because they think they can get away with it.
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