InnoDB: 1118 Row size too large

I'm currently working on a project where users can create a quite extensive profile. This contains about 20 free text fields.

When the profiles get too big InnoDB might show the following error:

1118 Row size too large. The maximum row size for the used table type, not counting BLOBs, is 8126. You have to change some columns to TEXT or BLOBs

What seemed to be an easy to fix problem took me quite some time to figure out.

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