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Found a weird trick to find the best comments on an old post...
I was scrolling through a viral TikTok post from like two years ago, and the top comments were all the same boring stuff. But I noticed if you sort by "newest" first and then scroll way down to the very bottom, you get all these wild replies that never got any likes. People arguing in threads that nobody saw, or inside jokes that never took off. I spent a whole lunch break doing this on a post about a cat stuck in a dryer, and found someone claiming they were the owner and the whole thing was staged. Nobody ever replied to them, so it was just sitting there frozen in time. It feels like finding a message in a bottle from the past. Has anyone else tried digging through the bottom of the comment pile like that?
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claire_ramirez1d ago
Did you try sorting by "controversial" too? I did that on a old gaming thread and found a guy getting roasted for saying the final boss was easy when everyone else was stuck. It's wild how those buried replies feel like they're from another world.
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sam_murphy3924d ago
That's a solid way to find the hidden gold, man. It's like the internet's version of an archaeological dig.
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Hidden gold"? Wait, did somebody actually find something real or is this just a meme?
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