There's definitely a huge faction that doesn't care so much about johnny dupp at all. I've actually gotten a lot of emales from people that start, i'm not a johnny dup fan, but people are going on line to hate amber herds specifically. But that is as highly personal and engaging and fixation inducing as regular phantom. It sounds like anti phantom didn't come to be in light of this trial. What's like the history of anti phantom? What else have people been anti phans of? The example that i have touched on the most in own work is in the one direction phantom.
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This episode was produced by Amina Al-Sadi with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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