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5-23-23

"Podcast studio"

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5-23-23

I can also find that they have scripts and it looks like they are practicing them.

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5-23-23
I see phones on stands which look like they are recording.

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5-23-23
I think they are recording a video or podcast.

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5/23/23

"Lights, Camera, Action!!"

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5/23/23
I can find lots of decor in the background.

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5/23/23
I see people with phones and it looks like there talking.

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5/23/23
I think that these people are recording a video.

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5.23.23
I also foud a lot of small things in the background.

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5-23-2023
I think that they are doing a project.

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5-23-23
"La la la!"

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I see that they are singing.

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5.23.23
I say that because they have some sort of script in the hands and they are talking.

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5-23-23
They are recording with Samsung phones.

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5-23-23

I see scripts in their hands and I see some of them with their mouth open, which means their talking.

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5/23/23

I think that they are doing a project Math class.

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5-23-23

"Book club!"

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5.23.23
I think that they are rehersing a song.

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5-23-23
I think that the people in this picture are rehearsing for something.

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5-23-23
I think they are doing podcasts.

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5.23.23
I think that they are rehearsing some sort of play or podcast.

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5-23-23
I think they are recording their podcast.

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5-23-23
They have scripts in their hands and two people look like they're singing and whistling.

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5-23-23

All the people look to be of different heritages.

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5-23-23

I think these people are rehearsing for a podcast.

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I think that The peolple are recording a podcast.

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5.23.23
I think the are rehersing for some sort of play or podcast they are about to do.

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5-23-23

All the adults have phones pointed at them, so I assume they're recording. They're all looking down at books with their mouths open, so it looks they're all reading the book out loud.

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5-23-23
I think that they are rehearsing a play or musical.

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5-23-23

I see some adults recording what they're reading from a book.

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This week’s image comes from the article “The Shining Promise and Dashed Dreams of China’s Live Shopping Craze,” published on April 28, 2023. The article begins:

The yurt stood in the middle of a sweeping northern Chinese grassland, beneath a cloudless sky. A reedy folk tune played. Nearby, sheep grazed.

Suddenly the livestream, which had been showing the idyllic vista, cut to a man in his 30s, wearing a Mongolian hat with a pointed golden spire. “Welcome, brothers and sisters!” he announced from his perch atop a platform bed. “How’s the signal? I set up Wi-Fi in my yurt.” He held up a bag of beef jerky, branded with a cartoon image of his face. “If it’s your first time here, I’m Taiping, and I make beef jerky.”

It was another day at work for Taiping, a Chinese livestreaming salesman. Illuminated by carefully arranged studio lights, speaking into two iPhones propped up on a table, Taiping began wooing the thousands of viewers who tapped into his channel. He dangled unwrapped jerky before the camera, describing traditional Mongolian air-drying techniques. He shredded it with his fingers to show its tenderness.

Viewers, by typing comments, sent real-time questions that bubbled from the bottom of the video feed, about how spicy it was or which flavor was best. (Taiping, who read each comment aloud, suggested buying half original, half cumin.) Some longtime fans sent animated pink hearts or thumbs-up symbols, while others simply wanted to say hello. “I missed you, too,” Taiping, who like many ethnic Mongolians uses only one name, replied to one viewer.

By the end of the four-hour session, during which he barely paused to drink water, he had received more than 650 orders, totaling $15,000.

Taiping is one of countless Chinese riding the explosive wave of influencer culture and live online videos in the country to transform the way people buy and sell. Last year alone, an estimated $500 billion in goods were sold via livestream on apps like Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, or Kuaishou, another short video platform — an eightfold increase since 2019.

Star streamers have become celebrities. The most famous, including Li Jiaqi — whose prowess at trying on and pitching makeup products earned him the nickname “lipstick king” — are able to attract tens of millions of viewers per session. Kim Kardashian once appeared with another top Chinese streamer, Viya, to promote her perfume in China, selling 15,000 bottles within minutes.

The caption reads:

Livestreaming students practiced speed talking by reading a script as quickly as they could.

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5-17-23

" BASEBALL"

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5-17-23

There is some kind of rain cover in the back.

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5-17-23
"You can do it!"

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5-17-23
They look like they are at a stadium or a building.

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"LETS GO TEAM LETS GO!"

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5-17-23

It looks very old.

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5-17-23

"Kids cheering."

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5-17-23
There is a lot of kids and they look like they are cheering for a team. The photo is in black and white.

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"children cheering at a game"

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5/17/23

" Lets go Home Run!"

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I see something in the back of them.

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5-17-23

I can also see that the picture is in black and white, which means it was took a long time ago.

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5-17-23

Kids watching their first baseball game!

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lets go horoes

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5-17-23

"Woohoo!! This is one fun parade!"

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5-17-23

The photo is in black and white, so I assume that it was taken a decently long time ago.

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5.17.23
¨Go team!¨

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5-17-23

A railing is holding the kids back, and many of them look to be cheering.

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5-17-23
I also see that the image is black and white and their outfits look like something a kid from years ago.

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5-17-23

I see some children watching a parade.

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5-17-23

" Baseball!"

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5/17/2023
There is windows behing them all.

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5/17/23

I also can find a building in the background which reminds me of a building next to Soldier Field.

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5-17-2023
"What are they looking at-"

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5.17.23
I can see that they are all wearing similar shirts. Some little kids are on top of their siblings or parents shoulders.

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5-17-23
I also see that it is a old picture.

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I see kids agresivly sreaming at something.

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5.17.23
"Go team, go!"

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5/17/23

"Let's Cheer!"

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5-17-23
"Kids are cheering"

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5-17-23

I also noticed that it looks like they are shouting at someone.

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5/17/23

I say this because they are all next to a fence and watching very carefully also, they seem to be clapping. I think that the kids are on the parents shoulders because they are not tall enough to see above the fence.

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5-17-23
I see that the kids are yelling and clapping which makes me think that they are looking at a game.

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5-17-2023
The background is shade, but I do not know what the backround really is.

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5/17/23
I can find that the picture is black and white so its probably old.

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5-17-23

I see that the kids are hanging on to a fence and behind them looks like a roof to a stadium.

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5.17.23
I found that it looks like they are siting on blechers.

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5/17/2023
I see kids behind what seems to be a fence loking at something yelling and one of them is clapping so I assumed that they are watching a game.

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5-17-23
I think a group of kids are cheering for their favorite sports team in the 60s.

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5-17-23
I say that because the kids are yelling at something. They also look like they are clapping.

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5-17-23
I seee the kids have there mouth wide open like they're yelling at some thing.

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5-17-23
The expression on the kid's faces is making me think their team is losing.

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5.17.23
"Baseball Day"!

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5.17.23
"Baseball Game!"

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5-17-23

I think these kids are watching a baseball game in the 80's.

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5-17-23

I can see that they are all looking at the same direction and they all look like they are very interested.

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5-17-23
I think that they are watching a sports game that might be baseball.

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5.17.23
I think that the kids are screaming because there cheering for people at there game.

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5.17.23
I also saw that the picture is black and white so it must be old.

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5.17.23
I see poeple/kid swho look like they are yelling or cheering on poeple.

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5/17/23

I see kids that are yelling at something and there clapping.

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5.17.23
I can also find that the boys are wearing clothes that they would wear back in the day.

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5.17.23
They are screaming and looking at something intensely.

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5-17-2023
Their eyes are watching and their mouth is opened.

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5.17.23
I say that because they seem very tense and and are doing some sort of cheering.

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5-17-23
They are shouting and seem to be in some kind of stand.

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5/17/23

I think that they are all watching a baseball game and the kids are on the adults shoulders.

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5/177/2023
I think that the childern are watching some sort of game celebrating a team.

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5.17.23
I think that they are cheering on at a sports game that there country is playing in.

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5.17.23
I see that the photo is black and white.

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5-17-23

I think that the kids are watching a baseball game.

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5-17-23

I think these kids are at a stadium watching a sports game and cheering the teams on.

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5/17/23

I think that they are all watching a baseball game and the kids are on the adults shoulders.

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5-17-23
I think these kids are cheering on a a sports team.

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5.17.23
I think that they are looking at something or someone and they are trying to get their attention.

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5-17-2023

I think that the kids are looking and screaming at something.

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5/17/23

I think that there are at some type of a sport games and the kids are cheering for someone.

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5.17.23
think the boys are watching a baseball game back in the day.

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5.17.23

I think that the kids are watching some sort of baseball game and there cheering.