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30 ChatGPT YouTube Banner Prompts for Every Channel

30 copy-paste prompts

Tell ChatGPT (GPT-4o) your channel and paste any prompt below to generate a 16:9 channel banner sized for 2560x1440 with your text safely inside the center safe zone. Just swap in [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE] and pick a gaming, vlog, tech, finance, minimal or bold energetic look.

In short: This page contains 30 copy-paste ready prompts, organized into 6 categories with a description and pro tip for each. The first 15 prompts are free instantly — no signup needed. Hand-curated and tested by the AI Academy team.

By Louis Corneloup · Founder, Techpresso
Last updated ·Hand-curated & tested by the AI Academy team

Gaming Channels

5 prompts

Neon Arcade Battle

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Design a 2560x1440 YouTube channel banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Dark cyber arcade scene with glowing purple and cyan neon grids, floating pixel particles, and a subtle scanline overlay. Place the channel name in a bold chrome gaming font centered inside the safe zone, with a small tagline beneath it. Keep all text and logos within the central 1546x423 safe area so nothing is cropped on phones or TVs. High-contrast, energetic esports aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Creates a neon cyber-arcade gaming banner with the channel name centered in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Swap the neon colors to match your channel palette, like 'glowing red and orange' for an aggressive FPS look.

Battle Royale Squad

2/30

Create a 2560x1440 gaming banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Cinematic battle-royale landscape at dusk with dramatic god-rays, drifting smoke, and distant explosions, three stylized silhouetted characters facing the camera. Set the channel name in a rugged stenciled military font centered inside the safe zone with a glowing accent underline. Keep the characters toward the edges and all text within the central safe area. Gritty, high-octane shooter poster aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Produces a cinematic battle-royale banner with silhouetted characters framing centered channel text.

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Pro tip: Ask for 'a large logo emblem behind the text' to give the banner a clan or team identity.

Retro Pixel World

3/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Charming 16-bit pixel-art side-scroller world with rolling green hills, floating coin blocks, fluffy clouds, and a warm sunset gradient sky. Render the channel name in a chunky pixel font with a black outline, centered inside the safe zone above a small pixel-heart health bar. Keep all key elements within the central safe area. Nostalgic retro-gaming aesthetic, crisp pixels, 16:9 landscape.

Renders a nostalgic 16-bit pixel-art game world with a chunky pixel channel name in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Name a specific era like 'NES-style limited palette' or 'SNES 16-bit' to control the pixel detail.

Fantasy RPG Realm

4/30

Create a 2560x1440 gaming banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Epic painterly fantasy realm with a floating castle, misty mountains, glowing magic runes, and a dragon soaring in the distance. Place the channel name in an ornate engraved fantasy font centered inside the safe zone, framed by subtle golden filigree. Keep the dragon and castle toward the outer edges so the centered text stays clear inside the safe area. Rich concept-art aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Delivers an epic painterly fantasy-RPG banner with an ornate channel name centered in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Add 'floating spell particles around the text' to make the title feel enchanted and magical.

Streamer Overlay Style

5/30

Design a 2560x1440 channel banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE] in a modern live-streamer style. Dark gradient background with angular geometric shapes, glowing accent lines, floating emote icons, and a subtle hexagon pattern. Center the channel name in a sleek bold sans-serif with a neon glow inside the safe zone, plus small social handles beneath it. Keep all text and icons within the central safe area. Clean, high-energy Twitch-inspired aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Builds a sleek modern streamer-style banner with glowing channel text and social handles in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: List your real social handles in the prompt so they render cleanly under the channel name.

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Vlog & Lifestyle Channels

5 prompts

Sunny Travel Diary

6/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Bright airy travel collage feel: a warm coastal horizon, soft palm shadows, a paper-map texture, and scattered polaroid corners at the edges. Set the channel name in a friendly handwritten script centered inside the safe zone with a small plane-trail doodle. Keep all photos and text within the central 1546x423 safe area so nothing crops on mobile. Warm, wanderlust lifestyle aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Creates a bright wanderlust travel-vlog banner with a handwritten channel name centered in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Swap the coastal scene for 'snowy mountain peaks' or 'a bustling city street' to match your travel niche.

Cozy Daily Life

7/30

Create a 2560x1440 lifestyle banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Warm cozy flat-lay scene with a steaming coffee mug, an open notebook, soft knit textures, and a small potted plant on a wooden desk in gentle morning light. Center the channel name in a soft rounded serif inside the safe zone with a delicate leaf accent. Keep all props toward the edges and text within the central safe area. Calm, inviting slice-of-life aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Renders a warm cozy daily-life flat-lay banner with a soft serif channel name in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Adjust the props to your content, such as 'a camera and travel journal' for a documentary vlog.

Fitness & Wellness

8/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Fresh energetic wellness scene with a sunrise gradient, subtle motion streaks, a yoga silhouette, and light green botanical accents at the edges. Set the channel name in a clean confident bold sans-serif centered inside the safe zone with a small heartbeat-line accent. Keep the silhouette and leaves outside the center so the text stays within the safe area. Uplifting, healthy-living aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Produces a fresh sunrise fitness banner with a bold confident channel name centered in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Change the accent color to 'deep teal' or 'coral' to match your brand's wellness palette.

Food & Recipes

9/30

Create a 2560x1440 banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Appetizing overhead food spread with fresh ingredients, herbs, a wooden cutting board, and warm rustic kitchen lighting arranged around the edges. Place the channel name in a tasty chalkboard-style hand-lettered font centered inside the safe zone with a small utensil doodle. Keep all food toward the borders so the centered text stays clear inside the safe area. Warm, mouth-watering foodie aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Builds an appetizing overhead food-channel banner with hand-lettered channel text in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Name a cuisine like 'Italian pasta ingredients' or 'baking flour and berries' to theme the spread.

Family & Kids

10/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Playful cheerful scene with soft pastel clouds, floating balloons, confetti, and cute rounded doodle stars scattered at the edges. Set the channel name in a bouncy friendly bubble font centered inside the safe zone with a small rainbow accent. Keep all doodles and balloons toward the borders so the text stays within the central safe area. Joyful, wholesome family-friendly aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Creates a playful pastel family-channel banner with a bouncy bubble channel name in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Add 'a friendly mascot character waving from the corner' to give the channel a recognizable face.

Tech & Education Channels

5 prompts

Circuit Board Tech

11/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Sleek dark-navy tech background with glowing blue circuit traces, faint floating code snippets, and a subtle grid that fades toward the center. Place the channel name in a crisp modern geometric sans-serif centered inside the safe zone with a thin glowing underline. Keep all circuitry toward the edges so the text stays clean within the central 1546x423 safe area. Polished, futuristic tech aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Renders a sleek circuit-board tech banner with a crisp modern channel name centered in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Ask for 'a glowing device or laptop icon beside the title' to signal your exact tech focus.

Coding & Software

12/30

Create a 2560x1440 banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Dark IDE-inspired background with softly blurred syntax-highlighted code, a terminal window, and floating bracket and semicolon glyphs at the edges. Center the channel name in a clean monospace developer font inside the safe zone with a blinking-cursor accent. Keep all code panels toward the borders so the centered text stays within the safe area. Minimal, professional developer aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Produces a developer-focused banner with blurred code and a monospace channel name in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Name your stack, like 'Python and React code on screen', so the background matches your content.

Science Explainer

13/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Curious science scene with a glowing atom, orbiting particles, a chalk-drawn formula texture, and a soft deep-space gradient. Set the channel name in a friendly rounded bold font centered inside the safe zone with a small lightbulb accent. Keep the atom and formulas toward the edges so the text stays inside the central safe area. Bright, inquisitive edutainment aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Builds a curious science-explainer banner with a friendly bold channel name centered in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Swap the atom for 'a DNA helix' or 'planets and stars' to match your specific science topic.

AI & Future Tech

14/30

Create a 2560x1440 banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Futuristic AI theme with a glowing neural-network mesh, flowing data streams, and a soft gradient from deep violet to electric blue. Place the channel name in a sleek luminous techno font centered inside the safe zone with a subtle chrome bevel. Keep the network nodes and data lines toward the edges so the text stays within the central safe area. Cutting-edge, intelligent aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Delivers a futuristic AI banner with a glowing neural mesh and luminous channel text in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Add 'a subtle glowing brain or chip motif' to instantly signal an AI or machine-learning channel.

Study & Productivity

15/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Clean study-desk flat lay with an open laptop, tidy sticky notes, a coffee cup, and a small desk plant in bright natural light, arranged around the edges. Center the channel name in a modern friendly sans-serif inside the safe zone with a small checkmark accent. Keep all objects toward the borders so the text stays within the central safe area. Fresh, motivating productivity aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Creates a clean study-and-productivity banner with a friendly channel name centered in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Add your recurring theme, like 'a Notion dashboard on the laptop screen', to hint at your tools.

Business & Finance Channels

5 prompts

Stock Market Charts

16/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Confident finance scene with a rising green candlestick chart, faint ticker numbers, and a subtle city-skyline silhouette against a dark gradient. Place the channel name in a strong modern serif centered inside the safe zone with a thin gold underline. Keep the charts and skyline toward the edges so the text stays clean within the central 1546x423 safe area. Premium, trustworthy investing aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Renders a confident stock-market banner with a rising chart and a strong channel name in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Swap the accent to 'crypto blue and orange' or 'emerald and black' to fit your finance niche.

Entrepreneur Brand

17/30

Create a 2560x1440 banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Bold minimalist business look with a deep charcoal background, a subtle upward-arrow motif, and a single sharp diagonal accent line in gold. Center the channel name in a clean confident uppercase sans-serif inside the safe zone with a short value tagline beneath. Keep the accent shapes toward the edges so all text stays within the central safe area. Sophisticated, high-performer entrepreneur aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Produces a bold minimalist entrepreneur banner with an uppercase channel name and tagline in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Write your exact tagline in the prompt (e.g. 'reads BUILD. SCALE. WIN.') so the sub-text is clean.

Real Estate & Wealth

18/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Aspirational wealth scene with a modern luxury home, a soft golden-hour sky, and subtle key and house-line icons toward the edges. Set the channel name in an elegant refined serif centered inside the safe zone with a thin gold divider. Keep the property imagery toward the borders so the text stays within the central safe area. Upscale, aspirational real-estate aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Builds an aspirational real-estate banner with a luxury home and an elegant channel name in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Swap the home for 'a downtown skyline of condos' to shift from residential to commercial focus.

Marketing & Growth

19/30

Create a 2560x1440 banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Vibrant growth-marketing look with a rising bar-and-line graph, floating social and megaphone icons, and colorful gradient accents on a clean light background. Place the channel name in a punchy modern bold sans-serif centered inside the safe zone with a bright underline. Keep the icons and graphs toward the edges so the text stays within the central safe area. Energetic, results-driven aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Delivers a vibrant marketing-growth banner with graphs, icons and punchy channel text in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Name your focus, like 'SEO and content icons' or 'paid ads dashboards', to specialize the imagery.

Personal Finance Tips

20/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Friendly approachable money scene with a piggy bank, coins, a small growth sprout, and simple flat budget icons in soft greens and cream. Center the channel name in a warm rounded bold font inside the safe zone with a small coin accent. Keep the icons toward the edges so the centered text stays within the safe area. Welcoming, everyday personal-finance aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Creates a friendly personal-finance banner with money icons and a warm channel name in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Add a mini benefit line, like 'reads SAVE SMARTER', beneath the name for instant clarity.

Minimal & Clean Channels

5 prompts

Pure Typography

21/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Ultra-minimal design: a solid off-white background with generous negative space and a single thin horizontal accent line. Place only the channel name in a large refined modern sans-serif, perfectly centered inside the safe zone, with a tiny lowercase tagline beneath it. Keep every element well within the central 1546x423 safe area so it stays crisp on all devices. Elegant, gallery-clean minimalist aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Renders a pure typographic minimalist banner with the channel name perfectly centered in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Swap the background to 'deep matte black with white text' for a bold high-end monochrome flip.

Soft Gradient Calm

22/30

Create a 2560x1440 banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Smooth calming gradient blending soft peach into lavender with a gentle grain texture and a single subtle geometric circle. Center the channel name in a light airy sans-serif inside the safe zone with lots of breathing room. Keep the circle toward one edge so the centered text stays clean within the safe area. Serene, modern minimalist aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Produces a serene soft-gradient banner with an airy channel name centered in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Name your two gradient colors precisely (e.g. 'sage to cream') to match your brand feel.

Line Art Icon

23/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Clean minimalist layout on a muted neutral background with a single thin-line icon that represents the niche, drawn to one side. Place the channel name in a tidy geometric sans-serif centered inside the safe zone beside the icon. Keep the icon and name grouped within the central safe area with generous margins. Modern, understated line-art aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Builds a clean line-art banner pairing a single niche icon with a tidy channel name in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Describe the exact icon you want, like 'a thin-line camera' or 'a simple mountain outline'.

Monochrome Grid

24/30

Create a 2560x1440 banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Refined monochrome design with a faint light-gray dot grid, a single bold accent square, and lots of white space. Center the channel name in a strong modern grotesk font inside the safe zone with a small stacked tagline. Keep the accent square toward the edge so the text stays within the central safe area. Sharp, editorial minimalist aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Delivers a refined monochrome grid banner with a bold grotesk channel name centered in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Change the accent square color to a single brand hue for a subtle pop against the grayscale.

Nature Minimal

25/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Calm minimalist nature theme with a soft muted-sage background, a single delicate leaf or branch illustration in a corner, and a light paper texture. Center the channel name in an elegant thin serif inside the safe zone with a tiny dot separator and tagline. Keep the botanical element toward the edge so the text stays within the central safe area. Organic, peaceful minimalist aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Creates a calm nature-minimal banner with a delicate botanical accent and elegant channel text in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Swap the leaf for 'a single soft wave line' or 'a thin sun arc' to fit your channel's mood.

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Bold & Energetic Channels

5 prompts

Explosive Comedy

26/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Wild high-energy comic-book explosion with bold pop-art bursts, halftone dots, jagged speech bubbles, and clashing yellow, red and blue blocks. Place the channel name in a thick outlined comic font centered inside the safe zone with a 'POW'-style badge accent. Keep the bursts toward the edges so the centered text stays within the central 1546x423 safe area. Loud, hilarious, attention-grabbing aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Renders an explosive comic-pop-art banner with a thick outlined channel name centered in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Add a catchphrase in a speech bubble to give the channel an instantly memorable hook.

Extreme Sports Action

27/30

Create a 2560x1440 banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. High-adrenaline action scene with dramatic motion blur, spraying dust or water, a dynamic diagonal composition, and a bold orange-and-black color scheme. Center the channel name in an aggressive italic condensed font inside the safe zone with sharp speed streaks. Keep the action toward the edges so the centered text stays clean within the safe area. Intense, extreme-sports poster aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Produces an adrenaline-fueled action banner with an aggressive italic channel name in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Name your sport, like 'mountain biking dust' or 'surf spray', so the motion effect fits your content.

Music & Beats

28/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Vibrant music-energy scene with glowing sound waves, floating equalizer bars, neon splashes, and a dark stage gradient with a spotlight glow. Set the channel name in a bold modern display font centered inside the safe zone with a small headphone accent. Keep the waveforms toward the edges so the text stays within the central safe area. Pulsing, hype-worthy music aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Builds a vibrant music banner with glowing sound waves and a bold channel name in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Set the vibe with a genre, like 'lo-fi purple haze' or 'high-energy EDM neon', to guide the colors.

Reaction & Hype

29/30

Create a 2560x1440 banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Loud reaction-channel style with a bright gradient background, exaggerated glowing arrows and circles, floating emoji reactions, and a spotlight burst in the center. Place the channel name in a chunky bold sans-serif centered inside the safe zone with a thick drop shadow. Keep arrows and emojis toward the edges so the centered text stays within the safe area. Punchy, clickbait-energy aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Delivers a loud reaction-channel banner with glowing arrows and a chunky channel name in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Leave open space beside the name for 'a spot to add my face cutout later' in your editor.

Motivation & Grind

30/30

Design a 2560x1440 YouTube banner for [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE]. Powerful motivational scene with a dramatic sunrise over a mountain summit, bold light rays, subtle grain, and a dark cinematic gradient. Center the channel name in a strong condensed uppercase font inside the safe zone with a punchy tagline beneath. Keep the landscape toward the edges so the text stays within the central safe area. Epic, high-drive motivational aesthetic, 16:9 landscape.

Creates an epic motivational banner with a mountain sunrise and a bold uppercase channel name in the safe zone.

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Pro tip: Write your mantra as the tagline (e.g. 'reads NO DAYS OFF') so the sub-text renders sharp.

Frequently Asked Questions

Open ChatGPT with GPT-4o (or a current image-capable model), paste a prompt, and replace [CHANNEL NAME & NICHE] with your channel name and topic (for example 'PixelForge, a retro gaming channel'). ChatGPT generates a 16:9 banner in seconds. Download it, then upload it in YouTube Studio under Customization > Branding > Banner image.
YouTube shows different crops of your banner on TVs, desktops, tablets and phones. Only the central 1546x423 pixel area is visible on every device. Each prompt asks ChatGPT to keep your channel name and key elements inside that safe zone so nothing important gets cut off. Always preview all device sizes in YouTube Studio before saving.
YouTube recommends 2560x1440 pixels (a 16:9 ratio) with a file under 6MB. These prompts request exactly that size. If ChatGPT outputs a slightly different dimension, upscale or resize the image to 2560x1440 before uploading, and keep the important content centered so it survives cropping on smaller screens.
Image models sometimes misspell or distort text. For the cleanest result, keep your channel name short, put the exact text in quotes in your prompt, and regenerate if the letters look off. If the typography still isn't perfect, generate the background without text and add your channel name later in Canva or Photoshop.
Images you create in ChatGPT are generally yours to use, including on monetized channels, but always review OpenAI's current usage policy. Avoid recreating copyrighted game art, logos, or trademarked characters in your banner, and use original or licensed elements so your channel branding stays safe from takedowns.

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