they were available 4 years ago, now the store might have run out of the 8 year old candles

Shame that this piece of shit subreddit doesn't allow direct links to itself. I understand why you posted a screenshot.

If I were you I'd try to hijack the top comment, but it doesn't matter. Reddit will IPO for 100Bn with 75% of the posts and comments on the site just being karma bots.

22k now

They got 45k they literally beat the original. Wild. And they say Reddit isn’t a hive mind.

Check the user's history.

Usually it will be a fairly new account, or an old-ish account but only recently active. There will usually be a few comments first (not replies, and usually on reposts from other bots, because they stole a comment from the original post). Then they will have a few posts that they generally don't reply to comments on — or, if they do comment, it's stolen from the original post.

There are also quite a few subs that are notorious for bot farming — which I would name if this sub weren't such a PITA and auto-removes any mention of other subs. (Hence the reupload.)

Honestly, just keep looking at a user's post history when they get accused of being a bot. The patterns will become apparent quite quickly. (It also helps to be on Reddit way too much — I personally saw this post go by before and remembered it had the exact same title; same with OP's AirPods post.)

Automatically generated username. Reddit will give you a username if you want. Why try to do that as a botter if reddit will just do it for you.

Account less than a year old, but not brand new. Done to try and beat out subreddits that have a minimum account age requirement.

Account will seemingly "spring" to life one day, and begin from that point forward, posting and commenting in random unrelated subs.

Google any comment or post title and you'll probably very quickly find the original reddit post or comment from which the bot stole the content.

Once you've caught a few, it takes less than 30 seconds between suspicion and confirmation.

I did that but it didn’t seem to meet the “harmful” part but if that’s what the sun has decided to go with, ok!

Serenity by Jan

Big small candle

There are 10 types of people in this world; those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

As a kid, counting your candles before blowing them out was a thing for my family. Just having one candle with a number on it is lame. Maybe when you get to like 15 and older and having a 1 and a 5 would be cooler.

Exactly, one of my daughters birthdays is tomorrow actually and this is exactly what I would do in this situation. Like you said its cheaper and more to blow out aswell. Some people I tell ya.

Its not even mildly infuriating. Its barely mildly inconvenient

Glad it’s only got 40k upvotes good work

It is truly a wonderful answer. We can be glad we all came to it.

I identify as a non-integer age

Sir this is a Wendys

Also thought 10

I think the 9 might work better for that

No, but it's the exposure to math in fun ways that benefits a child.

You could show 4 fingers on one hand and 4 fingers on the other.

Count 8. Now remove one hand. And have them count the one standing hand, and they'll see 4. Idk.

According to Google, you learn division in grade 3 and third graders are 8-9 years old.

yeah he could just buy a pack of the normal candles below, it's an option for sure

In fairness, $2.49 is expensive for a one-time use candle that will be lit for the duration of a four sentence song. Besides, there's no rule that says you have to buy a new candle for every birthday, nor is there one that says you can't reuse those candles (assuming you're able to wash them off and keep them from breaking).

So, for a mere $25 (once you find the 0 and 4), you'd have every age covered for everyone in your family. And with the way inflation and price gouging is going, buying them all now might actually be cheaper in the long run.

Just saying. Lmao

My parents had 4 kids and they got use out of some candles 😂

Note to self: stop at 54

You too? When my mom turned 40, I tried to put 40 candles on her cake. It melted the whipped cream topping, and the first thing she heard was not "happy birthday", but "oh sh***" XD. Those tiny candles melted like nothing in that amount.

Also don't try lighting them with a propane torch because you'll just end up melting all the wax while they refuse to catch fire. That cake didn't taste too good after that one.

Yeah the kinda power each other up. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

Bro I hope my 40th burns my fucking house down!