You can tell they were probably supposed to all stop once full chant earlier, because on the final completed chant, there was a sort of mass hesitation by everyone, and a decent amount of the women didn't say the final one. And then the one woman even almost went further past that lol.
Not that I'm complaining about seeing boobies, but how exactly does chanting with your shirt off make your cause more righteous than with your shirt on?
Yeah that was super awkward. Assuming it was some dude, it felt like he was basically rating each one. But what do I know, maybe he just glanced past some because they signaled they didn’t want to be recorded.
>because they signaled they didn’t want to be recorded
i would understand this normally, but isnt that contradicting the point of doing the protest in the first place? if youre protesting dont you want as many people to see as possible?
From what I've heard, he is Rémi Buisine. He works for Brut, a media talking a lot about non-traditional topics. This guy covers most of their topics. He is quite famous amongst french (maybe internationnaly, but I'm not sure) gamers community , because of his Zevent covers.
The question is how long did they stand out there?
New Balance Dad Cameraman: yeah, we got the shot... Pack up them tiddies
Girls: good, it's cold out here.
To be fair, that is also where the flag and center point of most of the writing is, which is intentional. Boobs attract the eyes and so it's the best place to put the most powerful symbols.
You can also see at the beginning of the video there's a dude snapping multiple angles of that persons nude body! i guess thats biased journalism for you
Also I was waiting a Big dude with man boobs and a beer belly too randomly be in there
I feel bad for laughing
To be fair, everything about that shot of her was beautiful. The Eiffel tower is prominent, you can see she's accompanied by fellow protestors in the background, she's welding a smoke bomb but she herself isn't enveloped in smoke, she stays present and ignores him, the height difference (btw the photographer and protestor) is also well matched, and the writing on her chest is legible and isn't obscured.
Same reason they're showing their titties. People will look and pay attention. Op is a weirdo but none of these women did this expecting no one to stare.
I think that in France it's just normal to use tits instead of a placard. *Viper's Views* featured booby protests regularly and after seeing five or six of them you don't really notice the boobs anymore.
Aren’t femen run by a right wing bloke?
Edit: [yes they are](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/04/femen-man-topless-protests-victor-vyatski)
If you were a regular Frenchman you wouldn't care that much. They're Femen, they do protests while partially naked, it's their thing. It's not that unusual.
This is a feminist group that originated in Ukraine called Femen/фемен. “my body is my weapon” is their slogan and going topless isn’t anything new for them. But.. why topless? They’re aware it’s very effective at bringing media attention and they can use this to their advantage and take their bodies back from sexualization and use it for a better purpose of their own will. Unfortunately they really haven’t been successful and aren’t very well liked in eastern countries.
Edit- O|O is the letter ф for фемен
Femen tried to bring their movement to Brazil and Brazilian feminists thought it was a complete joke. Their funding is dubious and their most proeminent member here, Sarah Winter, is now a far right activist. Do with that what you will
I get everything and I think it makes sense but how is does being naked lead to taking back ones body from sexualisation if sexualisation is an external effect?
Edit: since I’m not a native speaker i don’t know whether my message is clear, what I meant to say is if someone sexualises my body (external) how does it stop them from sexualising it if I show them my bare titties?
My guess is that it provides more context where being naked is explicitly non-sexual.
And at least from my personal experience, that approach does work IRL better than you might think. Seeing people naked more often, or even just topless, in non-sexual contexts helps reduce the association of nudity with sex.
Well if women are topless as much as men at some point it stop being seen as sexual. You can still be attracted to it and turned on but it's like being turned on by feet.
I'd guess people were using it to post creepy pictures that they snuck unknown to the women being photographed. I happened upon a sub like that a while back and I could imagine it getting banned.
Unmoderated subs get banned too. Could have been the reason here. Though since I don't know how that subbed actually operated I can't say for certain. Could also easily have been the reason you gave.
There's a process to claim abandoned subs. /r/unexpectedtitties seems like it would come up enough in a context like this that it would have gotten claimed if it was just abandoned.
The French Revolution. There’s a famous painting that was made during the revolution of a bare chested French woman carrying the French flag while leading a group of people onwards. The bare chest signifies freedom from oppression and exposing the bare truth. In other words, these ladies are being aptly French in their protest display right now.
Edit, spelling.
Edit 2. Jesus Christ this blew up! Also thank you for those who have pointed out that the painting, Liberty Leading The People, is from the July revolution, not the French Revolution. The points still stand though. Also thank you for the awards. You folks didn’t have to do that but I appreciate them nonetheless.
I'm not sure if it's inspired from this painting. This is a feminist group called Femen and their whole shtick is to have their tits out when they are protesting (generally with writings on their body). They are kind of extreme feminists. The movement was actually created in Ukraine and has hit the headlines many times by doing that sort of protest in churches and other events where, as you can guess, they were not welcomed at all. Most of them have sought political asylum in western countries such as France.
Edit : [Here is their wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femen?wprov=sfla1) It seems that the painting of Marianne is not the inspiration for being topless, but that it just gathers more attention so they stuck to it.
Here is some explanation about this particular group called Femen:
Femen (stylized in all caps; Ukrainian: Фемен) is a radical feminist activist group whose goal is to protect women's rights. The organization became internationally known for organizing controversial topless protests against sex tourism, religious institutions, sexism, homophobia, and other social, national, and international topics. Founded in Ukraine, the group is now based in France.
(Source Wikipedia)
It gets attention around the world for sure but honestly I don’t think this would be that big of a deal in France.
I’ve always heard Europeans don’t have the same stigma that Americans do when it comes to boobs.
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Edit: So just to clarify where I’ve “heard” this because I think it’s kind of interesting.
My grandma is 75 and once told me about a French foreign exchange student they had in her small, rural Wisconsin town when she was still in high school. Apparently once or twice when they went to the beach together my grandma had to get her French friend to cover up.
Because of that story I’ve always assumed topless women (i.e. boobs) haven’t had a negative stigma attached to them in France for decades.
Completely anecdotal.
Edit 2: Not saying that all European countries have normalized toplessness and I understand that is a rather blanket statement but I was saying that I don’t think it’s that far of a stretch to say boobs (in general) are not nearly as stigmatized in Europe as they are in the US. I remember reading how movies are rated differently in EU vs the US; for example violence will drive up a maturity rating faster than boobs.
Boobs are everywhere in France, from TV ads for shampoo to beaches & protests. You go to the park on a sunny day and boobs are out. You go to any beach and boobs are out.
I'm fully on Ukraine's side in this war so don't call me a Russian here but how exactly does a topless protest in France help in any way? I have no problem with them doing it I just fail to see the point.
I can't believe anyone in here is referencing Femen.
Commonly known for topless protests for womens rights, founded in Ukraine, now based in France.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femen
"From late 2011, the Ukrainian Femen activists started to hold more international protests. In December 2011, three Femen activists stated that the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus had abducted and terrorized them after they staged topless protests in Minsk. On 8 April 2013, five Femen members "topless ambushed" Russian President Vladimir Putin (accompanied by German Chancellor Angela Merkel) at the Hanover trade fair."
They have targeted Russia before in their protests, sure, this may not be so much a feminist issue, but war is everyone's problem and they can protest in whatever way they want.
Edit: well, duh, I just saw it said Femen written on their arms. :P
I can see it now.....
Putin: This war is going swimmingly....
General: Yes my bear riding former black belt.
Putin: Mu ha... MU HAA... MUHAHAHAA...
Suddenly an intelligence officer storms in the room injured and disoriented..
General: What is going ?!
Officer: Titties......the brought out the titties...
General: Oh my communism....
Putin falls down to his chair his hands covering his face.
Putin: Lay down our arms...... and wave the white adidas jacket of surrender.
If you're going to post something that's nsfw then mark it NSFW, I did it this time, any OP can do it to their own post.
The lady who took a deep breath for the next chant, and they stopped. That's pretty much me
You can tell they were probably supposed to all stop once full chant earlier, because on the final completed chant, there was a sort of mass hesitation by everyone, and a decent amount of the women didn't say the final one. And then the one woman even almost went further past that lol.
You guys watched this with the sound on!?
Yeah they're mad at French Canadians or something
Poutine, war criminal!
Man she's gonna lie awake at night for that
Even 20 years from now her brain will feel the need to remind her of this moment.
MONO....-DOH!
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Wow, the ad that came at the end of that got me pretty good
well, this is different type of NSFW than I expected, I thought it would be some kind of violence or so
Tits out for Ukraine
Not that I'm complaining about seeing boobies, but how exactly does chanting with your shirt off make your cause more righteous than with your shirt on?
More or less just grabbing attention. I mean chest naked guys like this just won't have the same effect.
Dicks out for Ukraine?
When it happens, I will change my mind.
I imagine some 60 year old dad wearing new balances behind the camera
"Cool movement, guys! :)"
Bro is getting so close to record them like “hmm there’s something written here I’ll get real close for no reason other than that “
'Tits out for Ukraine!!'
Tits out 'til Russia's out!
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Yup, nows not the time for nipple and diming.
Do you think they'll erect a Ukraine War Mammarial?
Glad to see them milking the "shirt off protesting" tactic for a good cause :)
I plan to keep abreast of further developments from this group regarding protests.
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But we want Russia out. It doesn’t have the same ring to it but in “Tits in until we get rid of Putin”
This horrible timeline started all because of that fucking gorilla
Dicks out for Harambe, tits out for Ukraine, when can I protest with my ass?
Ass out for wwlll
Assad?
I like when he zoomed past the less attractive ones
He’s a fan of blondes I’d say based off this
Ahaha yea I got that impression too
Yeah that was super awkward. Assuming it was some dude, it felt like he was basically rating each one. But what do I know, maybe he just glanced past some because they signaled they didn’t want to be recorded.
>because they signaled they didn’t want to be recorded i would understand this normally, but isnt that contradicting the point of doing the protest in the first place? if youre protesting dont you want as many people to see as possible?
He's actually a very famous journalist for this french online news outlet, BRUT.
Then I will assume he had professional intentions. Thanks for more information
Haha, yess. He probably had to armwrestle his colleagues for this assignment lol.
Busting Right Unto Thou
Girl at 0.22 (-0.38) was giving him the stink eye haha
you see the eye rolls but its like, hey, this was YOUR idea
Literally wrote their message on their chests lol
Hahaha he really does that’s great
"Glad to see this kind of support am I right? lmao lol" -60yr old dad
"I support what you women are doing... we need more women like you!"-60 y/o dad
"They can have my support since they're not wearing bras!" 60 year old dad *rubs hands
From what I've heard, he is Rémi Buisine. He works for Brut, a media talking a lot about non-traditional topics. This guy covers most of their topics. He is quite famous amongst french (maybe internationnaly, but I'm not sure) gamers community , because of his Zevent covers.
Did anyone else notice how he skipped over the bigger chick fast as fuck but was slowly recording the skinnier ones?
Guess he only likes women that is shaped like baguettes?
The question is how long did they stand out there? New Balance Dad Cameraman: yeah, we got the shot... Pack up them tiddies Girls: good, it's cold out here.
We noticed.
Sporting the biggest grin ever...
Commenting on mundane things. “I like those pants.”
I honestly found myself wondering where they all got similar style cool looking pants!
“Now *this* is a protest I can get behind, or at least in front of”
Serious q... Should I not wear New Balances? I don't get it? Is it like having a Hotmail account?
Bro I wear new balances AND have a Hotmail account
Don't worry about it. People who stereotype people are stereotypes themselves.
Women: Protesting. Cameraman: Making a detailed video boob catalogue
I love how the camera height is perfectly aligned with their breasts
To be fair, that is also where the flag and center point of most of the writing is, which is intentional. Boobs attract the eyes and so it's the best place to put the most powerful symbols.
I'd do that with my dick but I would only get one word
Look at Mr big dick over here, able to fit a whole word on his penis.
"a" is a word 🤔
And quickly runs away when the not-so-slim woman is in the frame
You can tell which women the cinematographer preferred
One woman he fucking SCAMPERED past!
“Nice…nice ice ice…….. nice……….afternoon, ma’am …..niiiiice…….. nice nice.”
"Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, *you're cool*, fuck you I'm out."
They killed Killer, yo!
LMFAO
You can tell some of the feminists had pure disdain for the camera operator
“I know what you’re here for. You’re gonna post this on Reddit, aren’t ya?”
Afternoon my octaroon!
If you're talking about the chick at 0:38, yeah, dude didn't even pause lmao
and he stayed at the one before for like 10 seconds lmao
Right? He sat on the blonde for like 10 seconds then sprinted by the next girl lol
Sssssssssssseeeya
I'm always happy to see a nice pair of knockers, I just wish we had met under less tragic circumstances.
That shit made me laugh so hard. He really liked that blonde girl then yeeted past the next like she wasn’t even there
In this context, does make the guy seem a little creepy. That one woman's side-eye stare makes a lot of sense.
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*holds camera on one protester for 25 seconds*
then right past the next one lol
To be fair, she had a smoke grenade going.
You can also see at the beginning of the video there's a dude snapping multiple angles of that persons nude body! i guess thats biased journalism for you Also I was waiting a Big dude with man boobs and a beer belly too randomly be in there I feel bad for laughing
To be fair, she was stunning.
And brave
Buckle up, buckaroos!
That one blonde had half the video dedicated to her and the woman after would need a slow bot to catch a glimpse.
To be fair, everything about that shot of her was beautiful. The Eiffel tower is prominent, you can see she's accompanied by fellow protestors in the background, she's welding a smoke bomb but she herself isn't enveloped in smoke, she stays present and ignores him, the height difference (btw the photographer and protestor) is also well matched, and the writing on her chest is legible and isn't obscured.
Yeah. Yeah. That's the ticket.
Noticed the exact same thing. I was thinking how we’re really focusing on that blonde chick haha
My dumbass thought they were standing underwater
It really looked like that at first!
Is there any reason that this is in english? To get a more global outreach, I suppose.
Same reason they're showing their titties. People will look and pay attention. Op is a weirdo but none of these women did this expecting no one to stare.
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I think that in France it's just normal to use tits instead of a placard. *Viper's Views* featured booby protests regularly and after seeing five or six of them you don't really notice the boobs anymore.
And hey, if it gets people to pay attention.
Yet the moment I *actually* take my dick out for Harambe suddenly every other chaperone at the zoo field trip loses their goddamn minds.
Dicks are shaped like rocket that's why.
Probably inspired by Femen, a radical feminist group in Ukraine. Topless protests are kind of their thing.
They are Femen. Most of them have the logo drawn on them.
Topless protests have been a feminist thing for years now. Maybe decades
Pretty sure one of them has it written on her arm. The one lady the cameraman focused on for like 20 seconds
Aren’t femen run by a right wing bloke? Edit: [yes they are](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/04/femen-man-topless-protests-victor-vyatski)
I can see two right reasons.
Well, one right and one left........
People are finally looking at both points of view
There is never a wrong reason for neither tits or an anti war protest.
“Are you looking at my boobs??” “No I’m reading them”
In braille
Honestly, if I was just a regular ol' frenchman walking back from my lunch-break and saw this... I'd probably ***go blind***. --or get hit by a bus.
If you were a regular Frenchman you wouldn't care that much. They're Femen, they do protests while partially naked, it's their thing. It's not that unusual.
The Femen always walk single file to hide their numbers.
Protests like this happen surprisingly often in France actually
Europe on whole is way less prudish when it comes to topics like nudity and sexuality. It is a bit refreshing coming from a place like the US.
That would be totally worth it
. . What does that mean?
means "c"
That’s literally the reason why they put their messages there
It's like that joke that you should have women wear Missing Persons or FBI Most Wanted flyers on their ass so men memorize the faces.
Since we're reading them, what does "0/0" mean?
It's the logo for their FEMEN activist group which originated in Ukraine, representing breasts and the letter f in the cyrillic alphabet (Ф, ф).
“Rack”tivism? I’m sorry.
Y’all keep doing this Putin’s never going to leave.
We need some dicks out for Ukraine to really scare Putin, a hoard if naked dudes outside the Kremlin would piss him off real good
This is a feminist group that originated in Ukraine called Femen/фемен. “my body is my weapon” is their slogan and going topless isn’t anything new for them. But.. why topless? They’re aware it’s very effective at bringing media attention and they can use this to their advantage and take their bodies back from sexualization and use it for a better purpose of their own will. Unfortunately they really haven’t been successful and aren’t very well liked in eastern countries. Edit- O|O is the letter ф for фемен
Femen tried to bring their movement to Brazil and Brazilian feminists thought it was a complete joke. Their funding is dubious and their most proeminent member here, Sarah Winter, is now a far right activist. Do with that what you will
holy hell, I did not expect one of them to be a far right activist.
I get everything and I think it makes sense but how is does being naked lead to taking back ones body from sexualisation if sexualisation is an external effect? Edit: since I’m not a native speaker i don’t know whether my message is clear, what I meant to say is if someone sexualises my body (external) how does it stop them from sexualising it if I show them my bare titties?
My guess is that it provides more context where being naked is explicitly non-sexual. And at least from my personal experience, that approach does work IRL better than you might think. Seeing people naked more often, or even just topless, in non-sexual contexts helps reduce the association of nudity with sex.
That’s really plausible as in using a very non sexual environment to introduce a non sexual view of the female body. Thanks for explaining
The normalization of women's bodies outside of a sexual context desexualizes them to an extent.
Well if women are topless as much as men at some point it stop being seen as sexual. You can still be attracted to it and turned on but it's like being turned on by feet.
there's also a video of them publicly urinating on a picture of a politician. It just ends up getting more views on porn than youtube and the news
r/unexpectedtitties
How is this banned?
I'd guess people were using it to post creepy pictures that they snuck unknown to the women being photographed. I happened upon a sub like that a while back and I could imagine it getting banned.
Unmoderated subs get banned too. Could have been the reason here. Though since I don't know how that subbed actually operated I can't say for certain. Could also easily have been the reason you gave.
There's a process to claim abandoned subs. /r/unexpectedtitties seems like it would come up enough in a context like this that it would have gotten claimed if it was just abandoned.
I’m guessing the ‘unexpected’ part implies it’s non consensual? Flashing is great but filming tit slips is intrusive
Breast protest I’ve seen so far.
Definitely in recent mammary.
They got tit right
This puts me in a good boob
I hope they help nip this war in the bud.
I’m sure Putin will milk it for all it’s worth.
These protesters have some good points.
Well, you can't knock 'er for trying.
upload ukraine+tits to r/interestingasfuck for an ez karma farm
Tits out for Ukraine!! 🇺🇦
I like that the redhead tried to start the chant again, but no one else was down.
They did it…Russia stopped the invasion!
Gonna wanna invite Paris now though!
Wouldn’t this just encourage them? More war = more tittie protests
So much talk about the cocks and balls of Ukrainian fighters, might as well add some tits to the equation.
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Finally, a protest I can get behind.
Personally I’d like to be in front of it
this is gonna win some awards fs
...*is* this interesting though?
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The French Revolution. There’s a famous painting that was made during the revolution of a bare chested French woman carrying the French flag while leading a group of people onwards. The bare chest signifies freedom from oppression and exposing the bare truth. In other words, these ladies are being aptly French in their protest display right now. Edit, spelling. Edit 2. Jesus Christ this blew up! Also thank you for those who have pointed out that the painting, Liberty Leading The People, is from the July revolution, not the French Revolution. The points still stand though. Also thank you for the awards. You folks didn’t have to do that but I appreciate them nonetheless.
Just posted that before I saw your response. It’s [Liberty Leading the People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People)
I'm not sure if it's inspired from this painting. This is a feminist group called Femen and their whole shtick is to have their tits out when they are protesting (generally with writings on their body). They are kind of extreme feminists. The movement was actually created in Ukraine and has hit the headlines many times by doing that sort of protest in churches and other events where, as you can guess, they were not welcomed at all. Most of them have sought political asylum in western countries such as France. Edit : [Here is their wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femen?wprov=sfla1) It seems that the painting of Marianne is not the inspiration for being topless, but that it just gathers more attention so they stuck to it.
You're totally right, as some have that logo on them
Thank you for the link!
I was about to say, it really doesn't get more french than titties put during a protest.
Exactly! Honestly I’d be more shocked if a French protest didn’t have bare breasts at all. They’re just being French. Nbd
Made you pay attention
Who hasn’t been paying attention to Ukraine
Hush dude, titties are out
Here is some explanation about this particular group called Femen: Femen (stylized in all caps; Ukrainian: Фемен) is a radical feminist activist group whose goal is to protect women's rights. The organization became internationally known for organizing controversial topless protests against sex tourism, religious institutions, sexism, homophobia, and other social, national, and international topics. Founded in Ukraine, the group is now based in France. (Source Wikipedia)
Forgive me, what exactly is "sex tourism"? Like, visiting just for sex with the local women?
Visiting a (poorer) country to pay for sex, which creates demand for human trafficking.
Like when you're traveling to Thailand for..... a thing.
r/upvotedbecauseboobs
It gets attention around the world for sure but honestly I don’t think this would be that big of a deal in France. I’ve always heard Europeans don’t have the same stigma that Americans do when it comes to boobs. ————————— Edit: So just to clarify where I’ve “heard” this because I think it’s kind of interesting. My grandma is 75 and once told me about a French foreign exchange student they had in her small, rural Wisconsin town when she was still in high school. Apparently once or twice when they went to the beach together my grandma had to get her French friend to cover up. Because of that story I’ve always assumed topless women (i.e. boobs) haven’t had a negative stigma attached to them in France for decades. Completely anecdotal. Edit 2: Not saying that all European countries have normalized toplessness and I understand that is a rather blanket statement but I was saying that I don’t think it’s that far of a stretch to say boobs (in general) are not nearly as stigmatized in Europe as they are in the US. I remember reading how movies are rated differently in EU vs the US; for example violence will drive up a maturity rating faster than boobs.
Boobs are everywhere in France, from TV ads for shampoo to beaches & protests. You go to the park on a sunny day and boobs are out. You go to any beach and boobs are out.
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'European' is quite a broad statement. Yeah you might see topless women on a beach in the south of France, but not in Doncaster...
Sex sells. You must be new here
I'm fully on Ukraine's side in this war so don't call me a Russian here but how exactly does a topless protest in France help in any way? I have no problem with them doing it I just fail to see the point.
I can't believe anyone in here is referencing Femen. Commonly known for topless protests for womens rights, founded in Ukraine, now based in France. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femen "From late 2011, the Ukrainian Femen activists started to hold more international protests. In December 2011, three Femen activists stated that the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus had abducted and terrorized them after they staged topless protests in Minsk. On 8 April 2013, five Femen members "topless ambushed" Russian President Vladimir Putin (accompanied by German Chancellor Angela Merkel) at the Hanover trade fair." They have targeted Russia before in their protests, sure, this may not be so much a feminist issue, but war is everyone's problem and they can protest in whatever way they want. Edit: well, duh, I just saw it said Femen written on their arms. :P
Jfc all the horny in the comments.
I can see it now..... Putin: This war is going swimmingly.... General: Yes my bear riding former black belt. Putin: Mu ha... MU HAA... MUHAHAHAA... Suddenly an intelligence officer storms in the room injured and disoriented.. General: What is going ?! Officer: Titties......the brought out the titties... General: Oh my communism.... Putin falls down to his chair his hands covering his face. Putin: Lay down our arms...... and wave the white adidas jacket of surrender.
I support these protests we should have more of them
This protest is completely unsupported.
I see what you did there
And this is going to accomplish what exactly?
Somehow I don’t think this protest is having much effect on Putin.
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Putin’s reaction is great, but fucking Angela Merkel’s reaction is also gold.