Drax: You, Quill, are my friend.
Quill: Thanks.
Drax: This dumb tree, he is my friend.
Groot: (grunts)
Drax: And this green whore, she, too—
Gamora: Oh, you must stop!
Quill: Thanks.
Drax: This dumb tree, he is my friend.
Groot: (grunts)
Drax: And this green whore, she, too—
Gamora: Oh, you must stop!
This character picks on the short girl for being short. They'll ask a woman for her age. They'll bug the flamboyant guy about his sexuality. And the worst part is, they don't realize what they're doing is rather painful for the person on the receiving end of the criticism. In the worst cases, they might not stop at one insult and even continue until someone forces them to stop, or the other person runs away crying. (Their reaction to this is probably: "Huh? What did I do?")
What separates them from the Jerkass is that this person is actually a good person — they're just clueless to things that people might generally be sensitive to. To them, it was just a fun joke or an honest assessment — no offense intended. When others bring up the fact that what they're saying is hurting other people's feelings, they apologize and try to change.
The Idiot Hero, Cloudcuckoolander, and those who have No Social Skills are prone to this. They tend to receive replies like "You Know I'm Black, Right?" and "I'm Standing Right Here". They may be covered by Compassion for the Mentally Ill. Innocent Bigot is a subtrope. Obviously guilty of frequently committing a Fee Fi Faux Pas. It may also be the result of a Crazy Cultural Comparison or a Cross Cultural Kerfuffle. Compare Horrible Judge of Character, Oblivious Mockery, My Parents Are Dead, Deadpan Snarker (when this is done intentionally), Hanlon's Razor, You Are a Credit to Your Race (when the comment is racially based), and Obliviously Evil (when the insensitivity is much more aggressive). Contrast More Insulting than Intended, where the insult was deliberate but not to such a degree. See also Condescending Compassion, for when someone shows sympathy to a group in a way that is tone-deaf or condescending, N-Word Privileges, when the acceptability of a slur depends on whether the person is part of the group in question, and Oblivious Pervert, for when someone acts innocently perverted. The lack of tact may contribute to Graceful Until She Speaks.
Frustratingly Truth in Television. Contrast with Apologises a Lot, when a character tries too hard to avoid being this — and it is not unheard of for the two to alternate. Can be caused by Idiosyncratic Cultural Gesture. May overlap with Out of Shape Call-Out.
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Jokes
- A teacher (who's usually a Dumb Blonde or similar), decides to teach her kids about how the circulation of blood works. At one point she stands on her head and notes that the blood all flows to her head, thus turning her face red. She then stands back on her feet and asks why the blood doesn't all sink into her feet. One of the kids replies, "Because your feet ain't empty!"
Music
- Michael Jackson: In the extended music video for "Bad," Michael plays an inner-city student who attends a prestigious, affluent, and mostly white high school. Before break, a white student intercepts him and tells him that he's "proud" of Michael's performance that semester. Michael takes the compliment awkwardly. On the subway ride back home, Michael sarcastically competes with another minority student from his neighborhood about how many rich white kids are "proud of them."
Podcasts
- The protagonist of The Books of Thoth episode “Welcome to the Xenarium” commits a faux pas by assuming that Su-Say isn’t from Earth simply because she isn’t human. Su-Say quickly laughs it off, though she does tease him for jumping to conclusions.
- Carlos from Welcome to Night Vale is this towards Cecil sometimes. He does his best to fix the situation once he does finally notice it, though.
Professional Wrestling
- Ring Warriors Grand Champion Bruce Santee tried to be politically correct to help promote the all-inclusive atmosphere of the shows. Thing was, he wasn't, especially not regarding females, foreigners, and brown people. Still, the fact Bruce tried offended Kevin Sullivan. Kevin knew exactly what he was doing when he offended those women and minority groups.
Radio
- In the last sketch of the first episode of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Season 9, a five-year-old Russ meets Uncle Newt at Vanessa's funeral. Russ is confused that Newt is still alive, but older than Vanessa, who died of old age, and asks if there's been some kind of mistake. A somewhat unsettled Newt replies "Quite possibly."
Roleplay
- During his dinner with Lao Ai in The Dao of the Awakened, Hua Yin doesn't realize she intended it to be a date, so he talks more about other female Sect members than should be appropriate.
Game Shows
- This happens to poor Mel Giedroyc on Taskmaster, during Series 4 Episode 2 when they are tasked with painting the best picture of the Taskmaster. Mel is talking to Alex during the task, trying to think of what Greg looks like, and asks if he has hair, comments on his "big ol' mouth", and that he looks quite pallid and mean. Greg calls her on it during the on-stage segment, which is made all the worse by Mel easily being the sweetest and most inoffensive person to ever appear on the show. She is genuinely mortified:
Greg: Now. Some of those. "He's got hair, hasn't he?" "Mean eyes." "Big ol' mouth." "He's quite pallid, isn't he?" What's your problem, mate?
Mel: I'm really sorry! I'm really sorry! I can't look you in the eye!
Visual Novels
- Regina Berry in Ace Attorney is very ignorant of death due to being sheltered by her father. So when Bat fell into a coma and suffered extreme brain damage after her Deadly Prank, Regina didn't understand the severity of the situation and kept making jokes about it to Bat's brother Acro, who did not take it well.
- Artificial Nexus: After The Reveal of Susan's true nature, Hank has several moments where he unintentionally makes her feel worse by discussing his work very matter-of-factly, which only serves to remind Susan that she's not a real person.
Hank: If I hadn’t had to activate you early, we probably would have added in some information so that you thought you had a life and history in the world, which obviously you don’t. Does that all make sense?
- In Café Enchanté, Il, being an angel who has lived thousands of years, does not always understand human emotion. When Kotone was depressed after witnessing Kororo's parents' deaths, Il simply could not understand why she would be sad since she was not a sea demon or ever met Kororo's parents. The other regulars had to gently explain.
- Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony:
- This trait is one of the reasons why Miu is perceived as annoying by her classmates. She has a tendency to just blurt out whatever she's thinking without filtering herself first, and she generally does not seem to realise that she is acting in bad taste. Kaede notes in her Free Time Events with Miu that her intent isn't malicious (at least most of the time) and her constant insulting of Kaede is because Miu wants to make friends with her but has no idea how to do so in a normal way. She often tries to lighten the mood with jokes without being able to read the tone of the situation, and this often results in her being harshly told off, causing her to panic and shrink back to her meek self.
- Because of his gullible nature, Gonta tends to agree with insults directed at his classmates without realising it, such as telling Kaito that it's okay to be an idiot as long as you believe in people, or accidentally agreeing when Kokichi calls Miu an embarrassment to the human race.
- The player character in Doki Doki Literature Club! comes off as this at times. He is irritated by his childhood friend Sayori's enthusiastic greeting in the beginning and criticizes her tendency to oversleep, not realizing that Sayori has depression and her friendship/romantic interest in him is her biggest coping mechanism.
- In Fate/stay night, despite an initial hostile meeting Ilya and Shirou are getting along, which Shirou appreciates since he's extremely reluctant to fight a friendly little girl, even if she's very dangerous. However, when she asks him to do something for her without being specific Shirou says no, thinking it'll be something like "Withdraw from the war" which Shirou would be unable to accept. With this in mind, her blowing up at him seems like a sign of her instability and general craziness. However, in a different situation, Shirou himself makes the offer of doing any one favor for her within reason before she even asks, which was all she wanted in the first place. From her perspective she wasn't going to ask him for anything crazy, but him bluntly refusing was like him saying "We're strangers, so I don't want to get along with you." A misunderstanding that was cleared up eventually, but only at significant cost.
- The Fruit of Grisaia: Main hero Yuuji has a habit of doing this, most likely a combination of his gadfly tendencies and lack of social skills.
- Gods of the Twilight: Hektor truly wants to help people, but he has little regard for the stress he puts his valet through or the fact that Farkas might not want to be his "sidekick", quote-unquote.
- Sakuya Shirogane Le Bel from Hatoful Boyfriend. Classist (to Ryouta and the player character), racist (to Yuuya, Anghel, and the player character), ableist (to Oko San), and a royal Upper-Class Twit, and it takes him most of the game, if the player's on his route, to even acknowledge that these are bad things. However he also has a Freudian Excuse: his father raised him to believe himself above everybirdy else, and Sakuya cannot comprehend that his father could be wrong. In the Bad Boys Love route, finding out that not only was his father wrong but not even his father gives Sakuya a full-blown Heroic BSoD. In Anghel's route, Sakuya says quite a few racist things about Anghel in the presence of the player character, who echoes them later.
- Higurashi: When They Cry: Keiichi does a variation towards Mion in the Watanagashi arc, by not giving her the doll he won, reasoning that she's too boyish to appreciate it as Rena (who takes home anything she finds cute) would; this instance of his calling out her boyish traits (unlike most other times) deeply hurts her feelings. Keiichi has to get lectured by both Rena and Shion before he finally realizes what he did. Unfortunately, at that point, the wheels are already in motion for tragedy.
- Katawa Shoujo:
- Shizune Hakamichi can come across as being very blunt to the point where she comes across as being flat-out bossy. This is in part the result of her being deaf and because of this communicating with others directly is difficult for her along with the fact that she cannot perceive vocal cues of emotion and intent in other people. It does not help that her interpreter Misha seems to have her own troubles reading social cues in other people, leading to more than a few "blind leading the blind situations" including the panic attack incident in Hanako's route.
- Hisao himself falls into this at times, especially early on when he's not sure how to talk to people with disabilities. This can be a problem in Hanako and Emi's routes; in the former, he can deeply upset her if he pities her too much, and in the latter, he can anger Emi if he is too aggressive in trying to protect her.
- In Monster Camp, there's an event where Scott calls the nonbinary Milo "dude", causing them to push back at him for misgendering them. There's zero malice involved, Scott just didn't see "dude" as a gendered term.
- In Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Junpei can be like this at one point, not due to lack of social skills but due to lack of context. At one point he jokes about setting Akane's heart on fire, not knowing that as a child she almost got burned alive.
- one night, hot springs: Erika makes some insensitive comments about Haru's gender, like commenting on how well Haru passes as a woman
and saying that Haru used to be a guy. However, Erika is willing to learn, and if given the option, she gladly sits down and listens to Haru talk about the issues she faces.
- Our Life:
- In Beginnings & Always, main Love Interest Cove is like this as a kid, often bluntly saying what he's thinking without taking anyone else's feelings into consideration. It's never anything truly mean, but he still gets a little confused if other kids get upset, and has difficulty reading the room. It's an early sign that he's on the autism spectrum, and he grows to be more considerate of others as he gets older.
- In Now & Forever, Tamarack also falls into this on occasion as a kid, although for her it stems from youthful enthusiasm occasionally causing her to say or ask too much, and she's rather blunt about not doing things or hanging out with people she doesn't want to.
- Makoto Itou from School Days generally means well, but his social/romantic ineptitude often leads him to do some rather obnoxious things that hurt those closest to him. The anime, on the other hand, takes all of his redeeming/sympathetic qualities and punts them out a window, turning him into a Jerkass sociopath.
- Tavern Talk:
- When Fable meets Skully for the first time, they're shocked that he can talk even as a skeleton. Fable apologizes for accidentally being racist, but Skully doesn't take offense because he knows that skeletons usually can't talk and he's the only one who was resurrected with the ability to do so.
- Una chides the Innkeep for unknowingly pressuring Baya, who's emotionally sensitive, into talking about the relationship breakdown between her friends.
- Despite Voy's charisma, the Innkeep notes that the phantasm is bad at reading between the lines, such as when he still offered to jam with Fable despite them telling him that their lute often goes out of tune.
Web Animation
- The Amazing Digital Circus:
- While Jax's definitely not entirely innocent and has no qualms about pushing people away (in fact, that's the whole point of his behavior), he doesn't seem to realize the full repercussions of his "light-hearted pranks" on everyone. This is because Jax has internalized the view that nothing in the Circus really matters and that there are no long-lasting consequences to anything, and seems to project the same view on everyone else while failing to realize that while the physical damage he does isn't lasting, the emotional wounds caused by his actions are very much real and painful, especially to Gangle. At least initially. When Pomni backs him into a corner in episode 6 to the point where he can no longer claim innocence, instead of changing his ways as she had hoped he would, Jax is unable to overcome his fears and doubles down on his unhealthy coping mechanisms by claiming he doesn't care about anyone in the circus and views them as playthings to hurt for his own amusement. While his words are indicated to be hollow, the emotional distress he's under is not.
- On the other end of the spectrum, there's Ragatha. While she's a genuinely Nice Girl and everyone knows her heart is in the right place, her inability to cope with negative emotions due to her abusive upbringing has led to her becoming a Stepford Smiler who tries to encourage the others to make the best of their awful situation, but since she comes across as begging everyone to ignore the problem instead of addressing it, her attitude has the unfortunate side effect of pushing others away since her kindness often comes across as insincere and condescending. Furthermore, her attempts to defend the other Players from Jax's cruelty also makes her seem like she's treating them, especially Gangle, like small children who can't take care of themselves, something that flat-out irritates Pomni in "Untitled".
- Since Caine was designed specifically for entertainment purposes, he can come off as uncaring towards the players' feelings, like when he gives Zooble a bottomless box of body parts to swap as needed when all it did was make them feel more unhappy with their body or when he designs an "escape from the circus" adventure which comes off as uncaring to the players' wish to go back to their normal lives a people rather than continue on as cartoony video game characters.
- Dolph from Camp Camp is a young boy raised at a German army base who bears an unsettling resemblance to Adolf Hitler in both looks and mannerisms, something which has not gone unnoticed in-universe. However, he's actually just a sweet, artistic boy who doesn't even know who Hitler is, much less show any sign of following any of his ideologies.
- DC Super Hero Girls: Harley Quinn's love of pranks puts her firmly into this territory. Glitterbomb in Wonder Woman's digs, kaboom candy in her bakes, and taking a mallet to Poison Ivy's plants.
- hololive
- During Calliope Mori's Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II stream, she encountered a group of Cadia Guards. Certain that she has the situation in control, she asked the Cadians to leave everything to her and go home. However, being new to Warhammer 40,000 as a whole, Calli was unaware that Planet Cadia is already destroyed, so the Cadians simply no longer have a home to go to. Even worse, the specific ones she said it to were the Cadian Eighth, who were the last defenders of the planet to evacuate. The results were darkly amusing, to say the least, to the point that Calli "issued an apology" on her next stream.
- Raora (whose first language isn’t English) thought that a slur and a curse word were the same thing, which briefly sent Kronii into a panic in one of their Portal 2 streams.
Raora: You want me to slur?
Kronii: NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! You know, what you think-
Raora: I can do it anytime.
Kronii: NO, NO, NO, NO! I-it's not what you think it means; it's like something worse than swearing.
Raora: Really?
Kronii: Yeah! Yes, yes.
Raora: I see.
Kronii: Yeah, yeah. So you wouldn't say that.
Raora: You should teach me.
Kronii: NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!
- Journey to the Quest: During a talk with Rayne's father, Mara expresses amazement that Rayne is able to clearly remember things that happened centuries ago, with Rayne then assuring her that she'll always remember her too. While Rayne clearly meant for it to sound romantic, it just underlines the uncomfortable truth about their relationship to Mara and makes her worry how one day Rayne will be left all alone with nothing but memories of her (something only made sadder by Mara's backstory).
- RWBY
- Jaune — being unaware of Pyrrha's feelings for him — sees nothing wrong with pouring out his romantic woes to her. Later, in a much more serious situation, Pyrrha opens up to Jaune about how she's always felt it was her destiny to save the world, and how she recently found a chance to do so. What she doesn't mention is that it will likely come at a great cost. Jaune encourages her to not let anything stand in her way. In any other situation, the words would be perfectly good advice, but because of Pyrrha's circumstances, it ends up hurting her.
- Subverted with Yang's father, Taiyang. At one point he makes what looks like a very nasty comment about Yang's lost arm, but she treats it like a good joke.
- Throughout Volume 9, Team RWBY has been trying to get back to Remnant from the Ever After and trying to bolster everyone’s spirits… except that Ruby had been hurting badly since Volume 7 and no one’s really noticed. This comes to a head in Chapter 7 when Jaune despairs over losing a village he’s protecting and Weiss, Blake and Yang run to his side instead of checking on Ruby, who suffered a Heroic BSoD in the preceding battle. When Weiss asks Ruby to offer encouraging words, Ruby snaps. When the situation gets worse when Jaune blames Ruby for their situation, Blake suggests they all calm down, causing Ruby to get fed up and bail.
- In X-Ray & Vav, Mogar, a man who has seemingly lived his entire life away from most civilization, is coerced into aiding The Mad King in escaping and crushing our heroes. Though, when Mogar agrees, he refers to them as "those two colored people". While he obviously is talking about their brightly colored spandex, The Mad King makes a point to let him do the talking instead of Mogar just for that reason.
- Vav has it much worse than Mogar. Vav's a Nice Guy compared to "Mr. It's All About Me" X-Ray. However, he has no clue at all that X-Ray is helplessly jealous towards Vav being attracted to Ash Samosa, the Intrepid Reporter out to cover the Mogar story. Thus, he sees nothing wrong at all at doing something like swiping all of their clues about Mogar and giving them to Ash or when put in a Sadistic Choice between saving X-Ray or Ash, choosing Ash was the wrong idea. When X-Ray blows off Vav and Ash, guilty over using him to push the story, leaves him, all Vav can do is shout to the heavens "What the bloody hell is going on?!"
- Tales of the Underworld: Umiko is notorious among her friends for saying insulting things in a well-meaning way.
Severin: Wow, you're pretty! And you have a really nice voice.
Umiko: You think so? But I guess I shouldn't be so surprised… You don't seem like someone who can afford to have high standards.
Web Videos
- Chuggaaconroy ran into this during his Let's Play of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX. His Episode 9 recap shows he had acquired a Linoone in Sinister Woods off-camera, a Pokémon with raccoon-like features. In Episode 10, Chugga decides to bring Linoone along for the Great Canyon, but he had also nicknamed it "Finecoon". Cut to post-production Chugga explaining that he had named it that because coon is short for raccoon, but he didn't know that coon is also a racial slur until the video had already been made and sheepishly apologizing for it.
- Jester of Critical Role can be this, particularly in regards to social class. At one point, she's complaining to Caleb that she doesn't have enough money, and he responds that she has more money than his parents made in their entire lives.
- Dimension 20
- A Crown of Candy has Liam - an asexual, withdrawn guy with a negative Charisma modifier who grew up in a polyamorous household - try to figure out what sexual attraction is like by flirting with the knight Sir Morris. His idea of flirting is saying that Sir Morris "looks like he could pack it in." Sir Morris takes this as an insult and challenges Liam to a duel to the death, to be held after the war tearing Calorum apart ends.
- Misfits and Magic is about four American wizards who were Raised By Muggles being sent to a magical school in the UK, so naturally, culture clash and this trope ensue.
- The teens casually use the word "muggle" to refer to their non-magical families, having made the obvious connection between their situation and that of Harry Potter. They're promptly informed that in this world, "muggle" is considered a slur, and something you simply do not say if you have any sort of magic. (Given that the "official" term for non-magical people, "namps," feels somehow worse, and that they all thought they were namps until a week ago, they continue to use the word amongst themselves.) They also have to be informed not to wave their wands around or point them at people, as it's a liability and just generally considered rude.
- On the flipside, a younger (white) student is talking to Sam, who is black, and admires her hair before asking if they can touch it. The exchange students immediately yell "NO!", and Dream jumps in to explain that this is very rude and invasive. The student sheepishly apologizes, and Sam lets it go, since they honestly didn't know.
- Dream is an emo teen who has always wanted magic, so she thinks Evan's dark powers make him Cursed with Awesome, and encourages him to embrace them. He politely but bluntly points out to her that these same powers are the reason he was homeless and alone when they met.
- Dirigible Days: When Hooper, the new mechanic on board the S.S. Beatrix, meets the mute pilot Josie, he starts speaking to her in an exaggeratedly loud way. It takes him a while to understand that Josie is mute, not deaf.
- Hiro The Dense — Dense Shonen Protagonist is this when it comes to the demons attempting to seduce him. Due to a combination of differing factors, he rebuffs every sexual advance he receives, but defeating the succubus Izilith and requesting that she take him to her boss as his prize yields this exchange.
Izilith: But wouldn't you rather have me?~
Hiro: But why would I want you? - Arthéon's Season 4 girlfriend Kary in Noob. Arthéon really loves Kary to the point that he actually wants to marry her in real life. After they find a unique item together, Kary agrees to a wedding on the online game that they're both playing. In the middle of the ceremony, a game-wide event is triggered and Kary prefers going to see what it's about rather than finishing the ceremony, stating it was just something they were doing for fun anyway. This breaks Arhtéon's heart to the point of causing a Rage Breaking Point. The main culprit in that insensitivity is however the fact that she seemingly was taking the relationship less seriously than Arthéon and assumed it was the same thing for him.
- In memetic video "this is where i watched my parents die parappa", PaRappa the Rapper cheerfully raps about the death of Batman's parents, only to realize a bit too late that he may have stepped out of line. (Some Alternative Character Interpretations have him as not so innocent, with one joke theory positing that Parappa killed Batman's parents and that his reaction is caused by realizing that he's probably not long for this world.)
Real Life
- People with poor social skills — children and shy people who haven't had much chance to interact socially especially — are also prone to this. It's a recognized trait of autistic people to have some difficulty at picking up neurotypical cues that would alert them to other people's feelings. This can also pop up on the Internet, where tone and nonverbal social cues just don't exist.
- People with dementia can also come across as this, due the brain damage caused, it can cause the sufferer to forget important things, such as someone dying, or for them to lose the ability to stop and think what they are saying, and just come out with some highly inappropriate comments, and then not realize the offence they are causing or get very confused by it.
- Can also happen when you go to another culture. Even if you speak the language, the complexities of social interaction can take a while to learn, and it'll often involve a lot of unintentional insults to the people whose country you're in before you figure out what you should and should not do.
- Researchers such as Dunning and Kruger have studied for years how well most people estimate their own ability levels or competence and the ability levels or competence of other people. They have found that people who are highly competent and/or highly intelligent nearly always overestimate the ability levels of the average person while underestimating their own ability levels (because it never seems that difficult for them); in contrast, unskilled people nearly always overestimate their competence (because they lack the knowledge and metacognitive skills necessary both for that level of self-assessment and for successful use of feedback). That's right: the more talented one is, the more likely one is to assume everyone else is just as talented.
- The term "microaggression", which refers to any kind of thoughtless comment that someone might take offense to (such as using the slang of another culture or referring to someone by the wrong gender), even if it's unintentional, has recently cropped up in the public consciousness, mostly through social media.
- Anyone who tries to get an introvert or a shy person to open up by forcing them to be social. To them, it is trying to help someone out of their shell. To the person they are trying to help, however, it can come off as them being forced into something they are highly uncomfortable with.
- This is how some disabled people feel about "inspirational" stories or even portrayals of disabled characters in the media. While the writer(s) and journalist(s) never set out to intentionally offend these people, some feel that they are presented in a patronising way; showing a disabled person somehow excelling at things more than a non-disabled person. Sometimes, they interpret them as pushing the message of how acceptance is conditional on how much a disabled person can be exploited or lead pressure to excel at something they legitimately have trouble doing. Even some abled-bodied people can feel this way about the stories, thinking they imply that "if this disabled person can do it, you are not trying hard enough and your struggles are petty compared to theirs."
- Many Romanians, especially the older generations, have the tendency to stare at people of different races or even make comments about their race behind their backs. However, more often than not, the staring isn't due to any ill will, but rather simply not expecting to have met such a person, due to how few people of color are in the country. The comments are also usually not meant to be offensive, but rather they just express how they simply don't see such people everyday and sometimes they even express joy over it. This has largely to do with Romania being vastly isolated from the rest of the world during Communism. Before and during that time there were barely any other races in the country and the isolation meant very few Romanians had the opportunity to travel and meet people of various races as well as not seeing many minorities in the media at the time. The younger generations on the other hand tend to avert this, as they are more used to diversity and don't relive the feeling of isolation during Communism.
- A good example was when Channel 4 launched its Paralympics coverage in the UK in 2012, with a campaign entitled "Meet the Superhumans", tackling the idea that the Paralympics was the sideshow to the Olympics. It was originally well-received and almost certainly increased interest and ratings, yet when they brought it back for 2016 the idea of disabled athletes having to "overcome" a disability was quickly becoming a discredited trope, as well as the disabled "superhumans" trope originating in freak shows, and by 2020note the channel started using "Super. Human" instead, before even attacking it by 2024.