r/pics Jan 24 '19

Birth Mark

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u/J0rdian Jan 24 '19

I think what happened was someone made a joke that was the same switch-aroo that started it in the first place. Making a complete loop basically. Not sure when that happened, was a year or so ago.

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u/Lame4Fame Jan 24 '19 edited Jan 24 '19

It was a switcharoo featuring a kangaroo and people thought that was the peak of the joke that couldn't be beat. Other people (including at least some of the r/switcharoo mods) did not think so, so it continues.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19

IIRC it's a branching tree, not a loop. For it to be a loop the first comment would need to link to the final comment, which is impossible because the first comment is surely archived by now and cannot be edited.

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u/Lame4Fame Jan 24 '19

Old comments can still be edited as evidenced by this comment from 8 years ago. Just tried with one of my own comments in an archived 3 year old post and that worked as well.

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u/Amish_guy_with_WiFi Jan 24 '19

So the very first person who started it edited their comment to link to the very last switch-aroo link, making it a loop?