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For works dating from TheNineties onward, TheSixties and TheSeventies are now far back enough that a lot of the people who were living the hippie lifestyle have become parents and grandparents, so you can bet that they show up a lot in fiction.

They are pretty easy to spot: they usually live in a house with cringy orange and brown decor ripped from the 1970s even though they live in the early 2000s, enjoy cannabis and [[MushroomSamba LSD]], use alternative medicine, especially if it's Eastern, and do yoga or chanting. They wear seventies clothes like tye-dyed shirts and sport SeventiesHair and beads, and sandals (or go [[PrefersGoingBarefoot barefoot]]), and they say things like 'groovy'. They name their kids embarrassing things [[HippieName like 'Flower' or 'Rainbow']], if not [[UnusualPopCultureName pop culture names like 'Galadriel' and 'Spock']]. Expect someone to ask WhoNamesTheirKidDude. Vehicles of choice are a 1970s VW bus or a van with far-out psychedelic murals.

They often double as AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents, and engage in HandsOffParenting; may sometimes be {{Teasing Parent}}s as well. May or may not have once lived in a Hippie Commune, but they probably have some crazy stories about LSD that are bound to scar their children for life, or, in a positive sense, hazy recollections about seeing Hendrix or Dylan back in the day.

Compare HippieTeacher. A subtrope of NewAgeRetroHippie and BourgeoisBohemian. Contrast [[DadTheVeteran The Vietnam Vet Father]], who usually grew up in a similar time period but went completely the other way about it.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LwCLHwBHjM 2014 Suburu commercial]] features a Hippie Grandmother talking to her granddaughter about the late 60s and even shown her the tree where she met the girl's grandfather (or was it that tree?) where the Film/{{Woodstock}} music festival was.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''Creator/{{Archie|Comics}}'' once had a kid who dressed in a very businesslike style, apparently as teenage rebellion against hippie parents.
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', Uncle Ben has been shown as a hippie.
* Possible UrExample: A 1960s Magazine/{{MAD}} feature had hipster/greaser parents trying to deal with their straight-laced children. [[spoiler: However, their grandkids are exactly like them.]]
* ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Season 9 has Billy's [[RaisedByGrandparents grandmother]].
* Carrie's heard-but-never-seen parents in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' are hippies, stoners, and generally irresponsible. ("Hey, don't we have a kid?") It's implied that a desire for structure is the reason she runs off to become Robin.
* ''ComicBook/GenderQueerAMemoir'': Both Maia's parents are basically this, into alternative education, easily flouting conventional gender roles and highly accepting of their kids' personalities, whatever they are.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Terra from ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5330983/1/Convergent_Paths Convergent Paths]]'', while being a really good and caring mother, still has moments of this, such as coloring her gym in "Mother Earth" theme, [[PrefersGoingBarefoot almost never wearing shoes]] and her love for meditating, up to the point of switching between normal state and meditative state (in which she speaks "like a wise elder of a village").
* In [=Captainkodak1=]'s fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2212430/1/Aftermath_of_WannaWeep Aftermath of Camp [=WannaWeep=]]]'', Tara's parents appear to be this. Their house is decorated with '60s and '70s stuff, and they're understanding and bit more laidback. Tara's father doesn't approve of violence, but accepts Ron's decision to use the Lotus Blade [[ReluctantWarrior when he has no other choice]].
* One "Series/{{Emergency}}'' fic has Craig Brice, of all characters, with these. "[[http://www.geocities.com/toddfe2002/harmony.html Harmony and Sunshine]]". A little less jarring since it was set in the 70s, but Brice is still the last character you'd expect to have them.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' fanfic "Fanfic/GodSaveTheEsteem" is a play on this trope. It was a response to a challenge about giving the show a SettingUpdate; the author suggested that in that case, Jake and Helen wouldn't have been hippies in their youth, but [[TheQuincyPunk punks]], the next big counter-cultural movement. Then he began to wonder what would happen if they never ''stopped'' being punks...
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Jamie's mother in ''Film/FriendsWithBenefits''.
* The elder Fockers of ''Film/MeetTheFockers'' are very hippie.
* Carter from ''Film/InGoodCompany'' had hippie parents and felt deprived as a child, leading him to become what was, essentially, a [[StrawmanPolitical Straw Capitalist]].
* In Creator/JoeWright's ''Film/{{Hanna}}'' the family she befriends has hippie parents.
* Rhiannon's parents in ''Film/EasyA'' were hippies. The reason the whole plot gets set into motion is because Olive, Rhiannon's best friend, is uncomfortable around them and declined a weekend camping with them.
* In the Creator/DennisHopper/Creator/KieferSutherland vehicle, ''Film/{{Flashback|1990}}'', it is revealed that hippie-hating [[spoiler: FBI agent John Buckner (Sutherland)]] was reared by extremely hippie parents on a commune.
* Alvin from ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' explains to Dave that their parents were hippies so they abandoned them to join a commune.
* Harold Ramis's character in ''Film/KnockedUp'' is Seth Rogen's father and an apparent older hippy. He seems to have a permissive attitude toward his son, and his advice on drugs is "anything that comes from the earth is probably okay." He's even excited to become a grandfather even though the child was from an accidental drunken one night stand that his son had with a woman he'd never met until that night.
* From the movie ''Film/ValleyGirl'', Julie's parents are hippies who own their own health food cafe. She's slightly embarrassed by that and openly pines "Why couldn't they own a Pizza Hut or something?"
* In the film version of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', Luna Lovegood's father Xenophilius has this aesthetic in his brief time on-screen.
* In ''Film/RepoMan'', Otto's parents are shown to be stoner hippies who constantly watch TV, never leaving the couch [[spoiler: to the point of having actual cobwebs. They give Otto's college fund to a Christian TV cult.]]
* ''Film/WildThing'': As a young child in TheSixties, Wild Thing lived with his parents, a man dressed like Jesus and a woman with long, braided hair, in a painted van decorated with peace symbols.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Pepper's mother in ''Literature/GoodOmens'' was going through a (thankfully short-lived) hippie phase when her daughter was born, hence Pepper's real name being [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Pippin Galadriel]] [[Literature/TheNeverendingStory Moonchild]]. While Pepper's mother decided she wasn't cut out for living "close to nature" and instead opted to get as far away from nature as possible, she does still dabble in things like "power Tarot readings".
* There's actually a children's picture book out there, Reeve Lindbergh's ''[[http://www.amazon.com/My-Hippie-Grandmother-Reeve-Lindbergh/dp/0763606715 My Hippie Grandmother]]''. Books like this, Bill Richardson's[[note]]yes, ''[[http://www.billrichardson.com that Bill Richardson!]]''[[/note]] ''I Would Have Gone To Film/{{Woodstock}}'' and Abigail Yasgur's ''Max Said Yes!'' keep the spirit alive for little children. There is also Rogerio Almeida Nogueira's fantastic cartoon retelling, ''Hippie Hooray!'' which was featured on the Creator/VH1 documentary ''Woodstock Then and Now''. This retrospective also showed young children learning to play and sing in the rock and folk styles from that era. And the old crafts are still learnable from books like ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Hippie-Crafts-Creating-Using-Groovy/dp/1579906036/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484963128&sr=1-1&keywords=hippie+crafts Hippie Crafts]]''.
* In ''Literature/AnitaBlake'', Peter and Becca's mom (Edward/Ted's girlfriend) is a New Age hippy witch-wannabe.
* In the ''Literature/KeysToTheKingdom'' series, Leaf and Ed's parents are these. Ed's legal name is 'Branch', just to give you an idea.
* Thomas "Stoner" Stone from ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' is a last-generation hippie, and the father of three boys named [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Faramir, Elrond and Gwaihir]].
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', the parents of Eustace Clarence Scrubb might be considered proto-hippie parents; they're slightly too early to actually ''be'' hippies, but they act in some ways consistent with this trope. C. S. Lewis [[AuthorFilibuster seemed to not be a fan]], as Eustace Clarence Scrubb turned out rather badly. It could also be argued that they are proto-yuppies, as they don't seem to have much in the way of humour or sense of aesthetics.
* In ''Literature/HowNotToBePopular'' by Jennifer Ziegler, Maggie's parents are hippies who move her around every few months.
* In Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edgehill's ''Literature/ShadowGrail'' series, Spirit White's parents are definitely very hippy leaning, if not hippies themselves.
* In ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'', Dawn's best friend (in California), Sunshine Daydream Winslow (Sunny for short), had hippie parents. They no longer are in the present day, though some of their views haven't changed. Also in California, Dawn baby-sits for her neighbors Clover and Daffodil Austin, whose parents used to be "flower children".
* Zilpha Keatley Snyder's ''Literature/TheBirdsOfSummer'' is about the two daughters of Oriole, a flighty flower child who wants to be "one with Nature" while leaving most of the responsibility to 16-year-old Summer, including caring for little Sparrow. This is one of Snyder's most realistically grim and even angry books from the mid-70s and like ''Literature/AFabulousCreature'' (about a boy's sexual coming of age) is not well thought of today; she was very frank about drug use, teen pregnancy, brutal DEA raids, terrorism, blackmail and other "uncomfortable" issues; the book begins with Oriole losing a successful bakery job for coming to work stoned.
* Leslie's parents are seen as hippies by the other parents in ''Literature/BridgeToTerabithia''. They're wealthy city folk who moved to a rural area in order to get 'back-to-nature'. They even threw out their television, which makes their daughter even more ostracized at school. Leslie's parents are laidback and even encourage her to [[CallingParentsByTheirName use their given names]]. Jess thinks it's weird how Leslie is actually friends with her parents and is unnerved by her using their names. After [[spoiler:Leslie's death]] they end up [[spoiler:moving back to the city.]]
* In ''Literature/KingDork'', Tom's mother and stepfather ("Little-Big Tom") are this, to Tom's annoyance.
* In the Literature/CassonFamilySeries, Eve Casson tells her daughter Rose that she was a hippy. "'I bet Dad wasn't!' said Rose."
* In ''Literature/{{Yellowface}}'', the protagonist's mother had a hippy phase, causing her to name her daughters Juniper Song and Aurora Whispers Hayward.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Rainbow's parents in ''Series/BlackIsh''. They have an RV that runs on human waste, don't believe in money, and joined a cult at some point in Rainbow's childhood. They also named her Rainbow.
* Dharma's parents Larry and Abby in ''Series/DharmaAndGreg''.
* On ''Series/FamilyTies'' Steven and Elyse tried to keep the spirit of the hippie movement alive while still living their upper middle class lifestyle.
* In ''Series/JPod'', John Doe (nee "crow well mountain juniper") has a lesbian hippie mother who lives on a commune. He is so embarrassed by this that he has spent his adult life attempting to become as statistically average as possible.
* Garcia of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' opened up about her deceased hippie parents in the episode "Penelope". They were killed by a drunk driver when Garcia was 18. After that, Garcia went underground and taught herself code. When she was busted hacking into an FBI database, she had a choice of either going to jail or [[RecruitingTheCriminal being recruited by the FBI]].
* In ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', the sisters' grandmother was a GranolaGirl during her youth, until her husband died and she turned into a remorseless demon-killing machine.
* Leos and Tabeas Parents are said to have been these in ''Series/ClubDerRotenBander''.
* Sara Sidle on ''Series/{{CSI}}'', and there are indications this may be the case with DB too. An Air Force general calls DB out on it, even showing him a black-and-white photo of them in their youth. [[spoiler:The same general used top-secret developments to murder his mistress, their child, and a few other people in order to "protect this country" (i.e. cover his ass)]]. Fittingly, he's played by Creator/JohnDeLancie.
* Herbert Thiel, the cannabis-growing taxi-driver father of Kommissar Frank Thiel of the Münster ''Series/{{Tatort}}'' is an example of the German variant of this. Frank as a policeman may be a bit more straight-laced, but like his father he has a chip on his shoulder towards the upper classes and he supports FC St. Pauli, a favourite among leftists and alternative types.
* Played with in ''Series/{{Alf}}'': both Willie Tanner and his wife Kate are revealed to have been hippies during the 60's, but unlike most other examples they have grown out of it with the years, and their current life style no longer reveals anything about their past.
* Karma's parents on ''Series/FakingIt''. Her mother has a fortune-teller sister, and they get busted for selling pot brownies out of their kale truck at the school.
* A lot of the Meyerist elders in ''Series/ThePath'' are this, especially Hank and Gaby Armstrong, Sarah's parents. The movement started as an experimental commune in the 1970s.
* ''Series/Sense8'': Amanita Caplan's mother is a self-described "child of the 60s" which makes her very open-minded and accepting of the concept of Sensates. At least part of Amanita's childhood was spent living in a commune just outside San Franciso. There's also the fact that Amanita's name is derived from the ''amanita muscaria'' psychadelic mushroom.
* ''Series/GraceAndFrankie'': Frances "Frankie" Bergstein is a hippie parent (whose children are now grown), who still dresses in hippie cloths, practices new age spirituality and partakes in some alternative medicine (though not to the exclusion of mainstream medicine), produces art as hobby, is very sexually liberated, and holds left wing political views.
* One of the agents in ''Secrets'', a 1993 Australian series about a fictional internal security agency, is the offspring of radical hippy parents. However she speaks bitterly of how they were too stoned to give her much attention, and it's implied her joining an organisation they would have regarded as the enemy is her personal TakeThat.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Sharin Foo of Music/TheRaveonettes grew up on a hippie commune in Djursland, Denmark.
* Music/{{Eminem}}'s parents were hippies in a rock band when he was conceived. It's downplayed, as his parents' hippie aspects are [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood far from the most notable attributes of them]] under Eminem's pen, but it eventually results in "Rhyme Or Reason", a 2013 in which Eminem hijacks a sample of Music/TheZombies's "Time Of The Season" for an anthem about Slim's Summer of Hate. Repeatedly in the song he recalls his birth and [[CallingTheOldManOut insults his father]] -- obliquely referencing TheGenerationGap between his idealistic Boomer parents enjoying free love in 1972, and the nihilistic fury of Em's year-2000 Millennial audience that related to his abusive music.
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[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin's]] parents (or at least his dad) appear to have had a hippy phase in college. In one strip, Calvin comments on things about his dad's college yearbook, while in another Calvin decides that words are arbitrary and can mean whatever he wants them to and his dad answers him in a bunch of hippy slang.
* ''ComicStrip/InSecurity'': Sam's parents still dress the part, are pretty clearly on pot and tend to spend their time fighting whatever they think "the man" is repressing this week.
* ''ComicStrip/PreTeena'', where Hugh and Tess Keene, professional artists raising two daughters, have more than a hint of the laid-back Hippie Parent about them, much to the discomfort of fourteen-year old Jeri.
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[[folder:Roleplay]]
* In ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'', Luna's parents used to be pretty deep in the lifestyle- it's how she got her first name, much to her shame. It's mostly in the past now, but sometimes the hippie comes back out to embarrass Luna.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* The O'Connell-Rosenberg household of ''Theatre/RideTheCyclone'' is helmed by two extreme hippies who gave their daughter the name "Ocean." Ocean grew up to be a GoGetterGirl/ AcademicAlphaBitch who thrived in her extremely strict Catholic school and looked to her academic achievements to measure her self worth -- nothing like the rest of her family. This gets {{Lampshaded}} in Ocean's introduction:
--> '''The Amazing Karnak''': Ocean was born into a family of far-left-of-center Humanists, who moved to northern Saskatchewan to live a carbon-free lifestyle. The hemp needlepoint sign above the household's toilet read "If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown scoop it out with your hand and put it in the compost." Yet in between all the drum circles, Marxist parables, and cheese sandwiches made of human breast milk, Ocean could never shake the feeling she was the WhiteSheep of her family.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* Post-Summer of Love, many hippies bought rural property, re-learning rural skills on single-family farms, collective farms or {{Commune}}s. The trope of the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement back to the land]]" country hippie was so influential that it gave birth in 1974 to a set of Mattel dolls called [[http://clickamericana.com/eras/1970s/sunshine-family-from-mattel-1974-1978 the Sunshine Family]] and an array of [[http://clickamericana.com/eras/1970s/sunshine-family-play-sets-1970s wholesome, back-to-nature playsets]]. ([[http://ilovethesunshinefamily.blogspot.com/ Much more here]] and [[https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffabysattic.eklablog.com%2Fthe-sunshine-family-1974-1982-generalites-c315333&edit-text=&act=url even more here]].) Steve, Stephie and baby Sweets had a four-room farmhouse, a truck, a surrey cycle and a craft business with many supplementary kits. The "idea books" taught kids how to do things like raise potatoes[[note]]The idea that hippies "mellowed out and raised potatoes" on these farms was a trope in and of itself, often mentioned in ''[[http://www.motherearthnews.com Mother Earth News]]'', which is still around[[/note]] and make useful things out of recycled materials. The family were later joined by a cat and dog, a cow and hen, grandparents, a redhead single-mother auntie and her daughter, more babies, and neighbors called the Happy Family -- Hal, Hattie and baby Hon -- who were the first Afro-American doll friends who weren't just black versions of the main characters).
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
%%* ''Webcomic/DraculaEverlasting'': Rayne Ambrose
* ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'': the author noted once that Aggie's mom (dead before the beginning of the story) was a hippie long after it was cool.
* Haruna's parents in ''Webcomic/TsunamiChannel'' were hippies, as Japan did have a variation of them. Though she was reared by her traditionalist grandmother.
* Protagonist Mike Smith's mother Wisteria 'Teri' Smith is one in ''Webcomic/MahouShounenFight!''. She renamed herself Wisteria when she was six and does things like wake Mike in the middle of the night because the moon is giving off 'radiant love energy' or makes him meals comprised solely of dandelion. Her character points out however she's rather business minded in selling her 'interestingly scented yoga mats' and has quite the desire to crush her competition.
* Graev's parents in the LGBT slice-of-life comic ''Webcomic/{{Bridges}}'' are a fairly classic hippie couple. They're also Pagan.
* Sparrow's mother from ''Webcomic/ButImACatPerson''.
* The parents of Sabrina's boyfriend in ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'', resulting in him growing up to be an uptight, straight-laced IT person. His dad thinks it's because they named him after Richard Nixon; it's implied he was conceived while they were "celebrating" his resignation.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
%%* Brandon and Stuart Higsby's parents in ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' appear to be a mixture of this and MyBelovedSmother.
* Ben's rarely-seen parents from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10''. Although in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', it's shown Ben's father is a city engineer and seems to be a solidly respectable middle-class type.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'':
** Jane's family, although that might just be HandsOffParenting (for which it used to be the TropeNamer). Jane and Trent are ''relatively'' well-adjusted, but their three older siblings are kind of dysfunctional as a result.
** Flashbacks show that Daria's own parents were hippies; they've since sold out, but sometimes seem wistful about their decision. One episode focuses on their old friends the Yeagers, who are still hippies and have a teenage son of their own now. [[spoiler:They're unhappy with their life and begin to "modernize" by the end of the episode]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In the {{revival}} seasons, it turns out Mandark's parents (shown above in a fan-comic) are hippies who were so averse to gender norms [[ABoyNamedSue they named him Susan]] and [[DudeLooksLikeALady had him affect a very androgynous appearance]] (long hair, pink clothes), as well as discourage Mandark's interest in science. They remain oblivious to how much their son has hated all of this (and them) [[EnfantTerrible since the moment he was born]].
* Peter and Lois temporarily become this in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Deep Throats."
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', there are several generations of hippies in a family, all called Free Waterfall.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': According to "Vantastic Voyage", Lynn Sr.'s dad, Leonard, had a hippie phase.
* Sarah's [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] in ''ComicBook/TheMaxx''.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyDadTheRockStar'': Rock's wife is a hippie of the New Age aromatherapy type. His mother is the right age to have been a real hippie, and she's sort of closeted because of her snooty husband.
* Nina's parents, Zeph and Fern, in ''WesternAnimation/PixelPinkie''. They wear tie-dyed clothes, are vegetarians, keep chickens in the backyard, and drive a VW Kombi powered by biofuel.
* Mikey's parents from ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''.
* Vana from ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'' is frustrated to no end by her Hippie Mom.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Ned Flanders' parents, though they are more Beatniks, TheFifties version of this trope. [[HandsOffParenting They didn't discipline young Ned at all]] because they didn't want to inhibit his self-expression. His mother describes it as "we've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas." Played straight in a later appearance, where they visit Ned and pester him with their laid-back stoner ways.
** Homer's mom was also a hippie. (Well, she started out as a political activist opposing biological weapons testing, but she eventually fell under the hippie spell.)
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'''s father Greg was the BlackSheep of his stuffy, conservative family and ran away to follow his dream of being a musician while legally [[HippieName changing his surname to Universe]] and living in a van. He's a big proponent of HandsOffParenting as he believed in freedom above all else due to having ControlFreak parents, which a grown-up Steven [[CallingTheOldManOut clashes with him over]] as he felt he was [[KidHero denied a normal life]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTofus'' stars a pair of such parents, as well as their children, who share little of their interest in the granola lifestyle.
* Mandy's mother, Phoebe, was this in her debut appearance in ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies''
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