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Top Ebony Pornstars Worth Actually Knowing in 2026

I have a confession that probably won't surprise anyone who reads this publication regularly. I spent a long time consuming adult content the lazy way - scrolling whatever the algorithm surfaced, clicking whatever had the most views,...

Top Ebony Pornstars Worth Actually Knowing

I have a confession that probably won't surprise anyone who reads this publication regularly. I spent a long time consuming adult content the lazy way - scrolling whatever the algorithm surfaced, clicking whatever had the most views, trusting a crowd I had no reason to trust. Then one afternoon I found myself watching the same three performers recycled across six different sites, all shot with the same flat lighting, all performing the same choreography, and I thought: this is not it. This cannot be all there is.

What pulled me out of that rut was, specifically, a scene I stumbled onto from a Blacked shoot. The performer on screen had a physicality and a presence that the camera seemed almost surprised by - like the director had planned one thing and something realer showed up instead. I started pulling at that thread. I went looking for more performers who had that quality: the sense that they were genuinely there, not just executing. What I found, almost immediately, was that the richest vein of that quality ran through Black performers whose careers spanned multiple studios, multiple niches, and years of genuine craft.

This list is what I found when I stopped scrolling and started actually looking. It covers both male and female performers because this niche doesn't split neatly by gender - the most interesting performances often happen in the space between a performer's energy and their scene partner's, and I wanted to be honest about that. Some of the most compelling figures in this world are men whose presence shapes every scene they appear in as much as any female lead does.

These eight entries are ranked. That ranking is mine. It reflects catalogue depth, range across studios and formats, on-screen presence that survives across different directors and production styles, and frankly, how often I find myself returning to specific entries in their body of work. I've watched enough to have opinions. Here they are.

Who Counts and Who I Cut

The filter I applied was simple in theory and brutal in practice. The performer had to have a catalogue large enough to demonstrate range - not just volume. Anyone can accumulate scenes. Fewer people can move between a gonzo network and a high-production studio like Jules Jordan and hold their own in both contexts. That adaptability was the first thing I looked for.

I also looked at career arc. A performer who debuted, shot thirty scenes in eighteen months, and disappeared tells me less than one who has been in the industry for a decade and is still finding new creative territory. Longevity under these conditions is its own form of skill.

Who I cut and why: Several performers with impressive scene counts didn't make the ranked list because their work, while prolific, felt narrow - one studio, one format, one energy, repeated. I have nothing against specialisation, but this list is about performers I'd recommend to someone who wants to understand what the genre can actually do. Performers who work almost exclusively within one fetish niche (without demonstrating any range beyond it) went to the honourable mentions section instead. A few names that appear frequently on other lists got cut because their scene counts are inflated by content that was clearly produced under conditions I'm not comfortable amplifying. I trust my gut on that.

The eight who made it are here because they earned it, scene by scene.

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Rank 01 - top pick

Rome Major

Hair
Black
Scenes
2,994

Nearly 3,000 catalogued scenes. Let that number sit for a moment. In a career that has spanned well over a decade, Rome Major has built one of the most staggering bodies of work in adult entertainment, full stop - not just within this niche. The scale alone would be remarkable. What makes it genuinely impressive is that the quality doesn't collapse under the weight of the quantity.

Rome Major has a particular gift for making a scene feel like a negotiation rather than a performance. There's a deliberateness to the way he moves and communicates on screen that reads as both intensely physical and strangely intimate. He's not performing dominance for the camera; he seems to inhabit it in a way that doesn't require the camera's validation. That's a rare quality and it's almost impossible to fake across hundreds of scenes.

His catalogue spans an enormous range of production contexts - from high-gloss studio work to more raw, documentary-style gonzo formats - and he remains recognisably himself in all of them. That consistency of identity across wildly different production environments is something I look for in performers I take seriously. It suggests a genuine interior life on screen, not just technical competence.

Where to start: If you're new to his work, I'd suggest looking for his scenes in interracial-focused productions where the camera lingers rather than cuts. His best work tends to happen in scenes where the director trusts the performers enough to let extended takes breathe. The contrast between his physical presence and the way he'll drop into something almost quiet mid-scene is where the interesting stuff lives.

His catalogue is deep enough that you could spend a month in it and still be finding new registers. What I keep returning to is the consistency - not of format, but of character. He shows up the same way regardless of the budget or the studio, which is a form of professionalism that doesn't get discussed enough in this industry.

One more thing worth saying: Rome Major has also worked as a director and producer, which explains some of that narrative instinct. Performers who understand the craft from behind the camera as well as in front of it tend to bring a different quality of attention to their on-screen work. You can feel that in his scenes if you know to look for it.

Browse the full Rome Major catalogue and scene index at his profile page on our site, where you'll find scenes organised by studio and production era.

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Rank 02 - runner up

Will Tile

Nationality
American
Age
38
Measurements
--
Hair
Bald
Eyes
Brown
Scenes
1,822
Cuck HunterDogfart NetworkEvolved Fights

Will Tile is the kind of performer who makes you reconsider what "presence" actually means on screen. He is American, bald, and has accumulated 1,822 catalogued scenes across a career that has taken him through some of the most stylistically distinct studios in adult entertainment - Cuck Hunter, Dogfart Network, and Evolved Fights among his primary homes. That last one is worth pausing on.

Evolved Fights is a studio that mixes competitive wrestling with adult content, which requires a very specific kind of performer: someone who is genuinely athletic, who can sustain physical intensity over a long shoot, and who can transition between competitive and erotic registers without either one feeling fake. Will Tile does this better than almost anyone I've seen in that format. His Evolved Fights scenes have a quality of genuine physical contest that most studios can only approximate.

His Dogfart Network work is a different register entirely - more explicitly fetish-coded, built around the cuckold and interracial frameworks that Dogfart has specialised in for years. What strikes me about his work there is how unaffected he seems. Some performers in that niche lean into a kind of performed aggression that starts to feel theatrical after a few scenes. Will Tile doesn't bother with theatre. He's just present, and that presence does the work.

Where to start: I'd recommend his Evolved Fights appearances for viewers who want to see the full range of what he can do physically - those scenes require and reveal a kind of stamina and focus that's genuinely impressive. For his more explicitly interracial-focused work, his Dogfart Network scenes are consistent and well-produced.

1,822 scenes is a number that suggests not just longevity but genuine appetite for the work. Performers who clock that kind of volume while maintaining quality across different studios and formats are operating at a professional level that deserves more recognition than the industry's tendency to flatten everyone into "hot guys" usually allows for.

He's also one of those performers whose physical type - the combination of musculature and bald-head energy - has become genuinely influential in how the interracial niche is cast and shot. You can see his aesthetic fingerprints on a generation of performers who came up after him.

Find Will Tile's complete scene catalogue at his profile on our site, where scenes are sortable by studio and production context.

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03
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Rank 03

Dredd

Age
54
Measurements
--
Hair
Black
Scenes
1,299
BlackedInterracial PassJules Jordan
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If Rome Major is the performer who makes you reconsider volume, Dredd is the one who makes you reconsider iconography. With 1,299 catalogued scenes across studios including Blacked, Interracial Pass, and Jules Jordan, Dredd has achieved something that very few performers manage: he has become a genre reference point in his own right. When people discuss the interracial niche, his name comes up not as an example but as a benchmark.

The Blacked work is where most viewers find him first, and it's a reasonable entry point. Blacked's production values are high - the cinematography, the lighting, the pacing of their edits - and Dredd's physicality is well-served by that level of production attention. But I'd argue his Jules Jordan scenes are where the more interesting work lives. Jules Jordan gives performers more space, more time, and tends to let the physical reality of a scene develop rather than cutting around it. Dredd in that environment is something else entirely.

What makes him singular: It's not just physical scale, though that's obviously part of the Dredd conversation. It's the way he manages pace. He has an instinct for when to accelerate and when to hold back that reads as almost directorial. Scenes with Dredd tend to have a shape - a beginning, a middle, a point of genuine escalation - that not every performer brings to their work.

His Interracial Pass work is worth exploring for viewers who want to see him in a more raw, less stylised production context. The contrast between his Blacked scenes and his Interracial Pass material is instructive - he's recognisably the same performer in both, but the different production philosophies reveal different aspects of his range.

I'll also note that Dredd is one of the rare performers whose fan community is genuinely engaged with his work rather than just his persona. The discussions I've seen about specific scenes, specific moments, specific scene partners - that level of engagement usually means the performer is doing something that rewards close attention. In Dredd's case, that's clearly true.

If you're interested in the wider interracial production landscape he operates in, our Blacked Raw review covers the network context in detail.

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Rank 04

Scotty P

Nationality
Egyptian
Age
43
Measurements
--
Hair
Other
Eyes
Brown
Scenes
1,292
Dogfart NetworkGangbang CreampieHot Wife XXX

Scotty P is the most interesting newer entry on this list, and I mean that in the best possible way. Egyptian by nationality, with a career that started in 2019, he has accumulated 1,292 catalogued scenes with a speed that suggests both genuine industry demand and serious personal output. His primary studio homes - Dogfart Network, Gangbang Creampie, Hot Wife XXX - tell you something about the specific niche he's carved out, but they don't tell you everything.

What those studio associations suggest is a performer who has found a lane and committed to it hard. The hotwife and cuckold adjacent space that Hot Wife XXX and Dogfart Network occupy is a specific audience with specific expectations, and Scotty P meets those expectations with a consistency that has clearly built him a loyal following. But what I find more interesting is the question of where he goes from here.

Five years in, with over 1,200 scenes: That's a pace that very few performers sustain, and sustaining it requires a kind of physical and mental discipline that the industry doesn't always acknowledge. Scotty P clearly has both. His scenes tend to have an energy that reads as genuinely enthusiastic rather than professionally competent - a distinction that matters more than it might sound.

The Gangbang Creampie work is the most explicitly gonzo register of his catalogue, and it's where you see his stamina most clearly. Those productions make demands on performers that high-gloss studio work doesn't, and his ability to maintain quality across that kind of shoot is notable.

My honest take is that Scotty P is a performer who, if he continues at this trajectory and starts expanding into higher-production contexts, could become one of the defining male performers of this decade in the interracial niche. The raw material is clearly there. The work ethic is obviously there. What happens next is worth watching.

For viewers new to his work, I'd start with his Hot Wife XXX scenes, which tend to be more narratively framed than his gonzo output and give you a better sense of how he works with scene partners over extended shoots.

Find Scotty P's full catalogue at his profile on our site.

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Active
Rank 05

Ana Foxxx

Age
37
Measurements
34C-30-36
Hair
Black
Scenes
1,286
Digital PlaygroundDogfart NetworkLove Ebony Pussy
Feature-length 4K films
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Ana Foxxx is the performer on this list I feel most strongly about, and I want to be precise about why. She started in 2012, she measures 34C-30-36, she has 1,286 catalogued scenes across studios including Digital Playground, Dogfart Network, and Love Ebony Pussy, and she is, in my view, one of the most genuinely talented female performers working in adult entertainment over the past decade. The scene count tells one story. What the scenes actually contain tells a better one.

What separates Ana Foxxx from the enormous field of performers who have passed through this industry in the same period is a quality I can only describe as emotional specificity. She doesn't give the same performance in every scene. She reads her scene partner, she reads the material, and she responds. In a Digital Playground production with high production values and a narrative frame, she's one thing. In a more explicit, less structured Dogfart Network scene, she's something else - but she's still her. That consistency of self across wildly different contexts is the mark of a real performer.

Her Digital Playground era is where I tell new viewers to start. Those productions give her room - room to establish character, room to build a scene rather than just execute one. The lighting is better, the editing is more considered, and the result is a body of work that shows her at her most fully realised. But don't sleep on her Dogfart Network appearances, which show a different register: rawer, more urgent, and occasionally more revealing of what she's actually capable of when the scaffolding of high production values is stripped away.

She has also been vocal in interviews about her own experience of the industry - about the specific challenges of being a Black woman in adult entertainment, about how she approaches her work, about what she wants from her career. I find performers who can articulate their own practice more interesting to watch than those who can't, and Ana Foxxx clearly has a developed sense of herself as a professional with an aesthetic and a set of values. That comes through on screen whether you know about the interviews or not.

Twelve years in, still working, still bringing something worth watching. That's the whole story.

Browse Ana Foxxx's complete scene index at her profile on our site, sorted by studio and production era.

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Active
Rank 06

Richard Mann

Age
60
Measurements
--
Hair
Black
Eyes
Brown
Scenes
1,093
Hush PassInterracial PassMaxine X

Richard Mann started in 2004. That's a career spanning more than twenty years in an industry where the average active period is measured in months. He has 1,093 catalogued scenes across studios including Hush Pass, Interracial Pass, and Maxine X - that last association being particularly notable, since Maxine X is a production company with a very specific aesthetic and a performer-driven ethos that attracts a different kind of collaborator.

Twenty years in this industry means Richard Mann has worked across multiple technological eras - from standard definition to HD to 4K, from physical distribution to streaming, from a pre-social-media industry to one that runs partly on Twitter/X and OnlyFans. The performers who survive all of that, who remain in demand across that kind of technological and cultural shift, are doing something right that goes beyond physical attributes.

What Richard Mann does right is, I think, a form of reliability that the industry undervalues publicly but rewards privately. He shows up, he performs, he brings a consistent energy that directors and scene partners can work with. In a business where unreliability is a significant professional problem, that consistency is genuinely valuable. His two-decade career is partly a testament to physical longevity, but it's mostly a testament to professional character.

His Interracial Pass work is the most accessible entry point for new viewers - those productions are well-distributed, consistently shot, and representative of the interracial niche at a solid production level. His Hush Pass scenes are more specialised and speak to a specific audience that knows exactly what it wants. The Maxine X association is the most interesting of the three, because Maxine X as a producer has a reputation for working with performers she considers genuinely skilled rather than simply available.

I find myself respecting Richard Mann's career more than I expected to when I first started paying attention to it. There's a quiet professionalism to how he has navigated twenty-plus years in this business that doesn't get the credit it deserves. The scene count is impressive. The longevity is more impressive still.

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Rank 07

Ricky Johnson

Nationality
American
Age
34
Measurements
--
Hair
Black
Eyes
Hazel
Scenes
1,073
BrazzersReality KingsRickys Room
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Ricky Johnson is the performer on this list who has most successfully made the jump from niche-specific work to genuine mainstream adult stardom, and I mean that as a specific compliment. Starting in 2015, American-born, with 1,073 catalogued scenes across Brazzers, Reality Kings, and his own Ricky's Room platform, he represents a particular model of career building that I find genuinely interesting.

The Brazzers association is the marquee credential, and it's earned. Brazzers is selective about who they work with consistently - they have enough performer relationships to be choosy - and Ricky Johnson has clearly built a relationship with that studio based on reliable performance and strong audience response. His Brazzers scenes tend to be among the better-produced work in their catalogue: he photographs well, he's comfortable with the paced, narrative-adjacent format that Brazzers favours, and he brings an easy charisma that works in the lighter, more playful register that the studio often shoots in.

But Ricky's Room is where it gets really interesting to me. Performers who build their own production infrastructure - their own studio identity, their own content brand - are making a different kind of bet than those who work exclusively within established networks. Ricky's Room suggests a performer who has thought seriously about his career as something he controls rather than something that happens to him. In an industry where performer agency is often discussed but rarely exercised, that matters.

His Reality Kings work is the third leg of the stool - more casual in tone, faster in production pace, but consistently popular and a good entry point for viewers who find Brazzers' more elaborate setups occasionally overwrought. The variety across these three contexts gives you a clear picture of a performer who can modulate his energy to match the room.

Nine years in and the trajectory is still upward. His scene count suggests consistent demand. His own production work suggests he's thinking beyond the immediate booking. I'm curious where he is in another five years.

Find Ricky Johnson's full scene catalogue at his profile on our site.

Kira Noir headshot
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Active
Rank 08

Kira Noir

Nationality
American
Age
31
Measurements
34B-26-35
Hair
Black
Eyes
Brown
Scenes
991
BrazzersDogfart NetworkTwistys
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Kira Noir closes this list and she belongs here not because she's the eighth-best performer I considered but because she's the one whose career arc I find the most genuinely hopeful. American, measuring 34B-26-35, she started in 2014 and has built 991 catalogued scenes across Brazzers, Dogfart Network, and Twistys - three studios that represent three very different production philosophies and three very different audience expectations.

Twistys is the context I want to start with, because it's the one that often gets overlooked in discussions of her work. Twistys has a particular aesthetic - softer, more sensual, often girl-on-girl focused - that requires a different skill set than the more explicit contexts she also works in. Kira Noir's Twistys material shows a performer who is comfortable with slow builds, with the kind of sustained attention that a camera requires over a longer, less frenetic shoot. That comfort is not universal among performers who also work in higher-intensity contexts.

Her Brazzers work is the most widely seen and, I think, the best entry point for viewers new to her catalogue. She has a quality on screen that I'd describe as alert - she's always visibly present, always responsive to what's happening in the scene rather than executing a pre-planned performance. That quality shows up especially well in Brazzers' more comedically framed scenarios, where performers who can hold a character while also performing sexually are doing something genuinely difficult.

The Dogfart Network scenes are the most explicitly niche-coded of her work and will appeal to viewers who know that network's specific flavour. They're well-produced for the format and she brings the same presence she brings to her higher-budget work.

Kira Noir is also notable for having been relatively open in public-facing contexts about her experience as a Black performer in the industry - about representation, about how she's cast, about what she wants her career to mean. I find that self-awareness adds something to the experience of watching her work, even if you come to it without knowing anything about those conversations.

Nearly a thousand scenes in a decade, still building, still interesting. She's exactly the kind of performer this list exists to surface.

Browse Kira Noir's complete catalogue at her profile on our site.

Four More Performers Worth Knowing

These four didn't make the ranked shortlist, but cutting them felt wrong. Consider them the next layer of the same vein.

Joss Lescaf - 915 scenes, Anissa Kate Club and Blacked. A French-Caribbean performer whose work with Blacked sits at the more cinematic end of that studio's output. There's a deliberateness to his on-screen presence that rewards slower, more attentive viewing. His Anissa Kate Club scenes are a different register entirely - more intimate, more performer-driven - and worth seeking out if you want to see him in a context where the production isn't doing as much of the work.

Alexis Tae - 894 scenes, Evil Angel and Jerkmate. Alexis Tae is the performer on this runner-up list I expect to be talking about differently in a few years. Her Evil Angel work has a rawness and an intelligence that the studio's gonzo format serves well. She's also built a significant presence on Jerkmate, which speaks to a performer who understands the current content landscape and is navigating it on her own terms.

Jovan Jordan - 882 scenes, Bang Bros Network and Interracial Pass. A performer whose work across Bang Bros and Interracial Pass represents a particular kind of consistency - not flashy, not trying to be iconic, just reliably excellent across a huge range of productions. Bang Bros' output is enormous and variable; the performers who maintain quality within that system are the ones worth tracking.

Jasmine Webb - 876 scenes, Bluebird Films and Porn World. Jasmine Webb is the performer on this list who I think has the most underrated catalogue. Bluebird Films has a particular aesthetic - European production values, longer scenes, less frenetic editing - that gives her room to work. Her Porn World scenes are more varied in format. She's British, she's been working consistently for years, and she deserves more attention than she typically gets in American-centric discussions of this niche.

Where I Watch Them

For the interracial and ebony niche specifically, three platforms stand out to me as places where the curation is strong enough to trust. Blacked and its associated networks (the wider VIXEN Media Group stable) set a production standard that makes them the natural starting point for viewers who care about how their content looks as well as what's in it - our Blacked Raw review gets into the specifics of what that network does well and where its limitations are. Dogfart Network is the specialist's choice: they've been doing interracial content for longer than most current studios have existed, and their catalogue depth is unmatched for viewers who want volume and variety. And for performers who have built their own platforms - like Ricky Johnson with Ricky's Room - following them directly is increasingly the best way to access their most recent and most personal work, which often doesn't appear on the major networks at all.

FAQ

What makes a performer rank as a top ebony pornstar

The honest answer is that "top" means different things depending on what you're optimising for. Raw scene count is one metric, and it matters because volume over time suggests sustained industry demand and personal staying power. But I weight scene count against range - a performer with 500 scenes across ten different studios and three different production formats tells me more than one with 1,000 scenes all shot for the same network in the same format. Presence is the hardest thing to quantify but the most important: does this performer hold the screen in a way that makes you want to watch their specific scenes rather than just the category? The performers on this list all clear that bar. Career arc matters too - a performer who has been working for a decade and is still finding new creative territory is doing something different than one who burned bright for eighteen months and disappeared.

Are there female performers on this list

Yes - Ana Foxxx (rank 5) and Kira Noir (rank 8) are both female performers, and Alexis Tae and Jasmine Webb appear in the honourable mentions. I made a deliberate choice to include both male and female performers because the "top ebony pornstars" conversation is often implicitly male-focused in the interracial niche, and that's a distortion. Ana Foxxx in particular has a career that deserves to be discussed alongside any of the male performers on this list in terms of range, longevity, and genuine on-screen skill. Kira Noir is building toward the same kind of career. The female performers in this niche are often discussed primarily in relation to their scene partners rather than as protagonists of their own careers, and I wanted this list to push back against that framing.

Where should a new viewer start with this niche

Start with a performer rather than a studio. Pick one name from this list - I'd suggest Ana Foxxx or Ricky Johnson as the most accessible entry points - and follow their work across studios rather than picking a studio and browsing. Following a performer across different production contexts gives you a much richer understanding of what they actually do and why it's interesting. It also protects you from the worst of the algorithmic rabbit hole, which tends to flatten everything into the same handful of scenes. Once you have a sense of a performer's range, you'll naturally develop opinions about which studios serve them best, and that will start to build your wider knowledge of the production landscape organically.

What studios are most important for this niche

Blacked and Blacked Raw sit at the high-production end and are the studios most likely to have crossed into mainstream awareness. They're a reasonable entry point but represent only one aesthetic - glossy, aspirational, heavily stylised. Dogfart Network has been in the interracial space for decades and has a catalogue depth that no other single network matches. Jules Jordan is the choice for viewers who want a more gonzo-adjacent aesthetic with genuinely high technical quality. Digital Playground does well by female performers in particular - their Ana Foxxx scenes are a good example of what that studio does at its best. Evolved Fights is worth knowing about specifically for mixed wrestling content. And increasingly, performer-owned platforms like Ricky's Room are where the most interesting new work is happening, because the performer controls the production decisions rather than adapting to a studio's existing format.

How do I find specific scenes rather than just a performer's full catalogue

The most reliable method is using performer profile pages on aggregator sites - including our own - which organise scenes by studio, date, and sometimes by scene partner. That lets you navigate directly to, for example, a performer's Brazzers work from a specific era rather than scrolling through everything they've ever shot. If you have a specific studio in mind, checking that studio's own site for a performer's name will pull up their work within that network's catalogue. For performers who have built their own platforms (Ricky's Room is the obvious example from this list), subscribing directly gives you access to content that often doesn't appear anywhere else and tends to be the most recent output. Fan communities on Reddit and similar forums are genuinely useful for scene-specific recommendations - the interracial niche in particular has active communities that discuss specific scenes in detail and can point you toward the best work in a performer's catalogue without you having to wade through everything.

The Shortlist in One Line

Eight performers, from Rome Major's near-3,000-scene institution to Kira Noir's alert, still-ascending decade of work, all chosen because they do something on screen that you can't get from a category browse or a top-views sort - they make you feel like you're watching a person who showed up with something specific to offer, and kept offering it, scene after scene, year after year. That's the whole list. That's the whole point.

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