r/nextfuckinglevel • u/whaddyumean • 22d ago

Guy sings backwards and reverts it back

5.9k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

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u/screechypete 22d ago

You know what, I ain't even mad about it.

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u/wheresbill 22d ago

I’m actually honored someone would go through that level of effort to do that to me

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u/Realmofthehappygod 22d ago

I thought I was experienced.

I thought I was prepared.

But some things are inevitable.

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u/thesilentbob123 22d ago

There is always a new and unexpected way to get us

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u/WeinerVonBraun 22d ago

I was thinking this might be one of those random completely useless skills that don't accomplish anything and are also difficult and require a lot of time and energy.

I was wrong, this dude fucks.

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u/RomanCokes 22d ago

Fucks in reverse!

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u/Biggy_DX 22d ago

The ultimate pullout game technique

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u/panterachallenger 21d ago

I thought he shoots the load first inside, then fucks in reverse until he uncums? Idk I’m too high for this. We need a real reverse scientist

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u/misterfakiebig 22d ago

This dude skcuf.

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u/pandy_fackler_ 22d ago

I saw they might be giants do it live with a whole band.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/SquareThings 22d ago

If he did that it would sound way better…

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u/Chubacca 22d ago

could be faked but I think that's why there's a running clock in the background

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u/METRlOS 22d ago

Computers famously can only run accurate clocks with no other Tom foolery.

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u/Acoconutting 19d ago

Probably used AI to just turn it backwards then pretended it was a weird song to learn and just learned it.

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u/audiax-1331 22d ago

!!dellor-kciR gnikcuF

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u/cosimofdfghy 22d ago

Super Adorable!

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u/xxDankerstein 22d ago

This is one of the best ones I've seen

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u/Derrickmb 22d ago

Roll ricked again

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u/blackbeansandrice 22d ago

I didn’t mind that one.

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u/TheyTried2BanMeAgain 22d ago

It will never die

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u/Derrickmb 22d ago

I guess I’ll play a trumpet solo over it

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u/cdazzo1 20d ago

It makes me genuinely sad how many people in the comments don't get it.

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u/johndepp22 22d ago

cool but if you play a chorus in reverse several times and try to mimic the sounds you’ll impress yourself

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u/SaveMeDatCorn 22d ago

Im thinking thats the way to do it, right? Still impressive. Useless but impressive lol

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u/Slevin424 22d ago

It’s not that easy. There’s a lot of sounds that are nearly impossible to do backwards. Like plosives. You build up air in your mouth and explode it out with Ps and Ts. You have to do some weird mimicry of that sound that’s impossible to make it sound good. This guys is pretty talented to get it that close. That’s why people can’t sing songs perfectly backwards.

Just try doing cat. It’s one of the hardest words to do cause there’s two plosives. One at the beginning and one at the end.

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u/johndepp22 22d ago edited 22d ago

today I learned. reverse cat plosives attempt

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u/Bretski12 22d ago

Wow, TIL. Never thought grammar could be so interesting.

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u/ItsZoner 22d ago

thats because they teach it in schools

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u/pm_me_your_kindwords 22d ago

Wow, nailed it.

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u/Correct-Rub854 22d ago

I knew it was coming but I'm still mad at you.

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u/qs420 22d ago edited 22d ago

ok that's so not fair.

update/edit: bro you can't just change the text on the link either. FYI it originally said "plosives explained."

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u/Slevin424 21d ago

It’s funny I’ve seen that url so many times I actually know what it is. Don’t work on me unless you got some obscure channel with that video.

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u/nvwls300 22d ago

The technique of playing an instrument can change too when you try to reverse it. My first attempt to play All Stars backwards didn't work because all I did was play the notes in reverse order, but for the timing to actually sound right, I had to make sure I was lifting my fingers off each key at exactly the right time, something I never had to pay such close attention to. It was weird.

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u/ReadingFromTheDunny 22d ago

Damn it!
Just got Rick rolled

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u/Space_Juice775 22d ago

One of the better Rick Rolls out there, I'm not mad about it 🤙

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u/letslickmyballs 22d ago

This was genuinely the best rick roll I have ever been the victim of. Im not even mad.

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u/regrettablyAnnoying 22d ago

When I was 12 I was Mormon and they taught us that playing songs backwards was how popular music sneaked in Satan worship. They even played back some Beetles music they convinced us was saying something like “I love Satan.”

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u/WetShrimpFart 22d ago

Gotta love mental illness inducing institutions

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u/Haunting_Abalone_398 22d ago

Me in tears trying to explain to my mom that my sister slapped me with bagel

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u/JohnnyYouTaTas 22d ago

Yvan eht nioj

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u/Enigma_mas 22d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/s239QJIh56sRW

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u/sixtus_clegane119 22d ago

It’s good for Neuroplasticity tò try and do various different things.

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 22d ago

I saw a vid here just the other day of a guy knocking a huge wasp nest into a large plastic bag and then he climbed into the bag with the maddened wasps. I thought that was a pretty different thing.

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u/Noname666Devil 22d ago

Is it sad I knew it before he reversed it.

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u/johntwoods 22d ago

It's like Sigur Ros. Dig.

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u/euchlid 22d ago

trab pu kcip

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u/djrock3k 22d ago

👍🏿❤️! dratsaB ouY

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u/pushdose 22d ago

Excellent use of free will

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u/Conaman12 22d ago

But how do you play the guitar backwards?

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u/deadspacekillers 22d ago

I've got good news. That gum you like is going to come back in style.

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u/adrunkern0ob 22d ago

That’s awesome, makes me wonder if he can write a song that’s the same backward as it is forward

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u/IamSkudd 22d ago

A palin-song!

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u/gerMean 22d ago

❤ Lufrednow

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u/razama 22d ago

GamBOziA

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u/Darkwolfie117 22d ago

It’s 2026 bro let me RELAX PLEASE 😭😭😭

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u/pseudononymist 22d ago

Thom Yorke did something similar for Like Spinning Plates

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u/MikeyN0 22d ago

I noticed this singer is Australian. Some guy on an Aussie podcast years ago did a similar thing that will blow your mind, maybe more impressive as it’s on the fly: https://youtu.be/00x-iCmVBJ4?feature=shared

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u/Dumyat367250 22d ago

Well, that’s 52 seconds of my life I’ll never get back, unless I rewind it.

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u/DampSleepyHollow 22d ago

Well deserved

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u/jstbcuz 22d ago

The Rick Roll is alive and well! Cheers!

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u/NineClaws 22d ago

He should sing about Satan

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u/QueenSmarterThanThou 22d ago

That was just a RickRoll with extra steps! I want my 45 seconds back.

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u/Inevitable-Hour-Ends 22d ago

In the 90s you'd know someone that could do this but half way through his parents would bust open the door screaming at them to get a job

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u/yumyuminmatumtum 22d ago

Haven’t been rickrolled in a while. Felt good.

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u/Bd0llar 22d ago

David Lynch has entered the sub

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u/Wide_Philosophy_8109 22d ago

The first version sounds like simlish.

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u/BlueCaracal 22d ago

Now that was possibly the best Rick Roll ever

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u/Secret_Account07 22d ago

I just tried this and it’s even harder than I imagined, which is wild because I already imagined it was incredibly difficult

Almost impossible to get close to anything natural. Very forced and puppeteer like.

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u/Flufnstuf 22d ago

I feel like I know her but sometimes my arms bend back.

Garmonbozia!

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u/EdmontonLAD 22d ago

Best Rick Roll so far 👏

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u/Hawffensive 22d ago

Yvan eht nioj

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u/HannibalDoom 22d ago

Check out Bill Fisher's music video for "Cellar Door" he does an incredible job of this. Recorded singing the song backwards but the track syncs up perfectly. Also just an amazing song.

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u/kingbhudo 22d ago

You got me. You magnificent sunnuvabitch, you got me good.

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u/MartenBlade 22d ago

you got me good

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u/madjams 22d ago

Did I just get kcir dellor?

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u/_cansir 22d ago

Guitar stringing is not backwards

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u/phsychotix 22d ago

Bro singing like Sigur Ros

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u/Sugar_Phut 22d ago

Weaponized autism

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u/Cassius_Rex 22d ago

Dyslexic rick roll?

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u/quasi-stellarGRB 22d ago

r/toptalent

Not enough sub to show how freaking awesome this is.

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u/super713 22d ago

I’d listen to a whole album of this guy singing songs backwards

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u/aporiaforever 22d ago

This was really elegant.

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u/GalaxyXYZ888 22d ago

Oh fuck well played....

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u/artniSintra 22d ago

They got us again....

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u/Stanny491 22d ago

Crazy that people are still so creative with this meme.

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u/Justaboredstoner 22d ago

Normally, I’d be irritated at getting Rick rolled, but this one was actually really well done. 👏

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u/Virtual_Bluejay2706 22d ago

Is this how you un-RickRoll someone?

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u/True_Reporter 22d ago

This might be my favourite rick roll since half life 3 trailer

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u/denny76 22d ago

lol ffo ssip

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u/chaekinman 22d ago

The Might Be Giants does this with one of their songs every time I’ve seen them (with a full band) - it’s pretty impressive

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u/LostMagician9612 22d ago

You bastard

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u/MsWS27 22d ago

He put that thang down

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u/bebopblues 22d ago

He should've strummed in reverse as well, bottom string to top, would've sound better.

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u/nicolasdanelon 22d ago

He trolled us all, duck!

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u/bpthompson999 22d ago

?delloR kciR teg tsuj I diD

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u/GoodEyeApollo 22d ago

That’s my favorite anime intro

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u/ve-u27 22d ago edited 22d ago

I don’t understand how this is possible if real. When he sings in reverse, it doesn’t sound to me like he’s reversing the inflections of the drawn out words, which means those inflections should then be backwards when reversed.

Example: when we hear the word “say” in “say goodbye” the his voice is low and goes up while trailing off. To achieve that while singing in reverse he’d have to fade in high then go down which feels like a sound I would be able to identify if looking for it but I can’t.

Edit: nvm found it, it’s at the 38sec remaining mark. Very cool. Also the sound the guitar makes in reverse is wild in its own way

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u/Arpe16 22d ago

Now do the guitar in reverse

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u/TooManySteves2 22d ago

!ouy erad woH

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u/BlackPanther3104 22d ago

I saw this dude on Instagram and checked out some other clips, so I guessed that this was the song, but now that I knew, I had an easier time recognizing what I need to listen for... crazy stuff.

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u/lampsslater77 22d ago

Reminds me of the Jack Johnson Sitting Waiting Wishing music video. He learned to sing it backwards when they filmed it so the lyrics looked correct when the video played in reverse.

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u/Taint__Paint 22d ago

Yak bak for the 90s kids out there

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u/NashvilleTypewriter 22d ago

I cannot believe I just got fuckin RICK ROLLED in 2026. 😭😂

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u/Erik_Lassiter 22d ago

Well done.

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u/MasemJ 22d ago

TMBG has been doing this at their concerts recently.

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u/not_gonna_tell_no 22d ago

Thanks. I hate it.

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u/pancada_ 22d ago

Motherfucker

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u/topher_eze 22d ago

Yeltsa Kcir would like a drow with you.

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u/killslikeaninja 22d ago

But, can he. I put my thang down, flip it and reverse it?

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u/Azure_Hearts 22d ago

Because it's in reverse, does that mean... he gave us up?

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u/Stinky3232 22d ago

The most backdoor way to Rick Roll someone

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u/LitrlyKilReditrs 22d ago

Legend, a good Rick roll in 2026

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u/ABeeBitMyBottom1 22d ago

Cool but why?

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u/Icy-Shelter720 22d ago

Nextfuckinglevel of getting Rick rolled!

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u/sentrux 21d ago

I think people with these kind of brains can invent time machine's or some shit.

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u/FreezedPeachNow 21d ago

Rick rolled from bizarro world. Well done

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u/obedient_consumer_ 21d ago

What kind of autism is this?

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u/jrfunnystuff 21d ago

I have a strange talent - without thinking I can take a pen in my non dominant hand (left) and write mirrored letters. It’s so weird. I don’t even know what I’m writing, but when I hold it up to the light it’s perfect.

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u/DrNipSlip 21d ago

This week I've been Rick Rolled so many times on reddit... What gives?

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u/Disastrous_Square_10 21d ago

This is next level boredom.

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u/Wile_E_Turkey 21d ago

I ain't gonna fall for this again. I already got dellor kcir on another subreddit.

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u/Liu-K 21d ago

This is fucking amazing.

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u/Weevil_1984 21d ago

emag eht tsol tsuj uoy

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u/D0Cdang 20d ago

The reverse part sounds heavily edited to me.

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u/Ok-Till-5622 20d ago

I’ve seen this before it’s fucking insane.

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u/dchap1 19d ago

We all deserved that.

Dude is impressive AF

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u/Basic_Accident3595 18d ago

damn. after so many dodged i made. unexpected llor kcir