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Sue: It looked normal. It looked like a normal wall of a normal bedroom. I'm pretty sure your
subscribers will forgive you for not having lights that magically turn on and off.

Debbie: See, this is why we don’t work together anymore.

Sue: Because I was okay with having switchboards in the shot?

Debbie: Because you were never willing to go the extra mile! You were okay with being
normal. I wasn’t. I wanted it to be perfect.

Sue: Normal?! The only reason you know how to edit in the first place is because I taught
you. The only reason you got your big break was because I was doing 50% of the work.
There was nothing wrong with my work! I stopped helping because you started obsessing
about every tiny detail. Sometimes, yes, it did make a difference. But, ninety-nine percent of
the time, they were things that no one cared about! Things that nobody would ever notice. It
was too stressful for me. Anyone in my place would have done the same.

Debbie: It paid off, in case you haven’t noticed. The “obsessing” paid off.

Sue: Really? Is that why you were out celebrating your success tonight? Oops, my bad, that
was me! Do you have dark circles around your eyes, you sleep for like two or three hours
every day. When you're awake, all you do is worry about how you’ll look on camera. You
don't go out to meet anyone. You don’t eat normally, you go shopping for clothes with the
same expression that old people have while going for colonoscopies! You hate it.

Debbie: I don’t want to be normal! For the first time in my life, I'm not normal and I like it.
Have you read the comment section of my videos recently?

Sue: You’ve had five different editors work for you in the last month alone. All five of them
quit before you even got the chance to fire them.

Debbie: Thank God for that. Their work was horrible.

Sue: Really? Wasn't it one of them that worked on that video of yours which got three million
views?

Debbie: (Rolls her eyes) only because I sat down with her and instructed her step by step. It
was basically spoon feeding. That had very little do with her.

Sue: Or, maybe she was pretty good and maybe she would have stayed and kept working for
you if you hadn't behaved like a maniac.

Debbie: Sue, if you're jealous, just say it. Is that what all of this is about? We were a great
team while it lasted. I just dreamt bigger than you. That’s all.

Sue: This has nothing to do with that.

Debbie: Really? Because it does sound a bit like that.

Sue: Do we started that channel as a hobby, it was supposed to be a money gag. It was
supposed to pay for college tuition. It was supposed to be for fun. We were supposed to enjoy
it. It used to be our thing. I got enough money to get by and I still kept at it because I liked
doing it. I also stayed because you asked me to. You told me that you needed my help,

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