Is there a freeze on freelance hiring throughout advertising? All the freelancers who used to work for us seem to have disappeared.

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I’m here in case you want to replace any of the disappearing ones.

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There’s tons of freelancer who can’t get work. People getting out of the business because of that.

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Careful comrade. The Agency Stasi will make you disappear too for asking questions.

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Don’t worry trumps gonna tariff freelancing or something

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People tend to disappear when they don’t get hired

Erased … from existence …

It’s definitely felt slower the past 6-8 weeks than it did at the beginning of the year

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