worse: enjoying a youtube video for the first time, then seeing your comment as the first one in the comment section.

Or seeing your likes as you scroll through the comments

I once searched for a solution for a tech problem, found a reddit thread that explained exactly what to do. Lo and behold, there is my own comment thanking the poster for the solution from three years before

I have replied to my own comments years later and agreed with myself before realizing.

Nice, you can be a politician or even a us president if your condition degrades soon

reading the comment first, being glad you finally found someone you totally agree with to then see it's your own comment

One time I couldn't figure out how to do something in this old game I was replaying. Typed in the problem, and found an old forum post of mine where I explained what to do in that section. At least I didn't do a classic "nevermind - solved it" post back then.

Same vibe - searching for a solution on StackOverflow, best answer is one I wrote ...

It seems you've also seen a sphere being turned inside out

Your comment: "found the issue, was something completely different. thanks anyway!"

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I once was two hundred pages into a book before I realized I had already read it.

It wasn't a very good book the second time either

Oh my god, that finally fixed it! I thought I'd never find a solution! Thank you so much!!!

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I swear youtube is messing with me, I get videos sometimes that I don't have liked but i swear I've seen before

What kind of psychopath reads the comments, let alone likes them...

That's what the image says....

I've been 2.5 episodes into a "new" show before realizing I'd watched it before.

I once searched for a solution for a tech problem, was bombarded with people posting variations on the most unhelpful text of all time: "It's working for me".

It's common for channels to repost old videos so YouTube promotes them as new again. Often with tweaked title and thumbnail to try for more click rates the second time, but sometimes it's just reposting something old enough that due to user turnover it will be new to many of the people it's promoted to.

Also, it's common for channels to steal content from other channels, to slap together with minimal editing what the original creator took weeks to research and design presentation for.

Who were you, DenverCoder9? What did you see?!

Anyone still watching in 2026??

(dear lord I hate these comments on every damn video)

i have been back to rediscover some song for the first time in my memory 3-4 times already

Often those annoying cliche comments are made by bots.

It's not an indication of psychopathy. Probably an indication of having no social life.

There is nothing new under the sun.

I used to be smarter than…..me?

More than once for me it's been a comment that I posted.

The thing is sometimes they're 8 years old videos or sometimes music I know I have listened to before. For music I'd guess that there are new videos because of labels, mv and whatnot, but I have no explanation for the really old videos

I did that, found the exact issue I have. Looked at the author and it was me 3 years earlier, still without the answer I was looking for

You ever rewatch a show because it's been long enough that you forgot what happens? Well, the same can happen to internet content too. Only you'll forget that you had ever saw it in the first place because it's not a show with hours of content under its name.

best part is you discovering the comment because you wanted to post a comment and it's the same thing verbatim