What's your most liked or shared comment on social media?

Levar Burton once liked one of my tweets on my birthday.

I wasn't sure I had anything so I opened my reddit page just now to see, had to be from there since the only other major social media account I've had is a facebook that I deleted in 2011. Then I realized I actually kind of did have something that counts, even if it wasn't a post. I'm pretty sure you couldn't make public posts at all on facebook when this started getting me reactions, you needed a university email to use the site in the first place.

I had tried to upload some silly photo I found accidentally on an image search to be my profile picture and it was declined for being too big. That image was absurdly large for some reason, I wasn't sure why a photo of five overly serious-looking German businessmen standing in front of a sign that read "PEES" needed to be taken with a camera with a resolution that high, but I had figured facebook would just rescale it for me the same way the image search had done before I opened the original. Trying to dodge this restriction, I realized that rather than a filesize limit, facebook had limits on how many pixels wide and how many pixels tall an image could be. I set out to test those limits and was successful in doing that.

Not being satisfied with my search for those numbers only being a five-minute excursion, I next set out to test the limits of when facebook would resize your photo, but I found it would only resize if it went over the width. I had the amusing idea to put the width at the resize limit and give it the maximum height, so that anyone opening my page had to scroll for an eternity to post on my "wall". I thought that was pretty funny.

But then! I realized that I could use an image the same width as a thumbnail and it still wouldn't resize it. I just left the words "testing how tall I can make the picture" on the image. That took four or five lines since "testing" already took up almost all of the thumbnail width with a legible font size, but I had more than four or five lines worth of space to work with.

If someone was friends with (for example) my friend Ryan, anytime one of Ryan's friends opened his profile and my name made it to the randomized list of six friends, they would have to scroll an absurd length just to get to the bottom of Ryan's page to leave a comment on his wall. Since everyone's friend list was only like fifty people it would usually only take a few refreshes to show up. I heard from basically all my existing friends that they were getting complaints about me, but I also was getting a bunch of friend requests from people I had never met to leave praise on my wall. People thought I was a social butterfly who obsesses over adding every acquaintence because I had like 400 friends at a time when that was absurdly uncommon.

When it opened up that you could dm people you weren't friends with I got a few of those every week. At some point facebook did start resizing for height too and I still like to believe that my profile picture was the one that forced their hand.

Not this one.

I once shared a reel on Facebook and it was shared nearly 1500 times.

Seems like a great way to link past socials to the current ones....

It was my content but not my comment. It was maybe a decade ago, I was really new on social media and I had a blog. I made a blogpost about something personal, knowing it was public –I found it easier to talk to everyone than to someone I know– but thinking maybe three people at most would read it.

Somehow, it reached someone from a collective who shared it on twitter, FB, all. Thousands of RT, more of 1000 views on my blog, which was a lot for me. I didn't know how to handle it, but I think it participated to change my political life.

I posted an original meme in a Dune shitposting group and it had 700+ reactions. I also have maybe 4 or 5 reddit comments that hit 2000+ upvotes back when I was active there.

I posted a meme on Reddit during 2018 that got 10k+ upvotes. It will probably be the most liked thing I'll ever post in my life.

Not a comment but probably one of my MS Paint Pepes or abstract CIA (baneposting). Ahhh, my depressed, NEET days... I don't miss them, lol.

I think the most likes/shares i ever got on any comment anywhere was the time i called Mineta from MHA "Bad Ball Boy". People seemed to enjoy that lol

One time I said something about crypto being better than options or stocks because brokers always warn you about possible losses, but crypto never did. It got liked by the head of coinbase security for a little bit and someone from binance.

I made a way too long reply to a post on a nerdy meme page on Facebook. I haven't even logged into FB in years, but the last time I did it was still (rarely) getting likes.

I remember the image, a Nat 20 and the "What do you see with your Elven eyes?" scene, but I can barely remember what I wrote outside of it being Legolas being able to see everything.