How to view reddit posts from a deleted account
Ever since MizumiKahago deleted both her reddit accounts upon being banned from the r/danganronpa subreddit, I've been struggling to find any archives and/or links of her posts/comments. My previous methods for viewing deleted/suspended accounts' histories was by using the website Unddit. However, since Reddit's API changes, the website has become basically useless for me. For a long time, I thought that there was no way to recover, and that I'd have to give up on my search forever...
that is, until I discovered a method for it. When typing into the reddit search bar on a desktop (or selecting the magnifying glass on mobile); author:Username, you can view the post/comment history of any account, even deleted/suspended ones, AND you can filter by specific subreddits.
I learnt this from this post, and with it, it has helped me find proof of which posts/comments were made by Mizumi, and which ones weren't. Now, you may be asking, how is that helpful? Well, I can give an example;
A while ago (nearly two months, wow, this blog's been alive for that long), I made this post where I linked a reddit post of someone I claimed to be Mizumi, calling komahina shippers an ableist slur. I made that claim based on memory, and memory alone. This is quite unreliable, as you cannot just take someone's word for something under the assumption that they're telling the truth. At the time, I had no tangible proof that this person was actually Mizumi, and as such, my post could be interpreted as me just claiming some random person was Mizumi, in an attempt to slander her.
BUT, now that I've discovered this method, I can test out whether or not this post actually WAS made by Mizumi. So, let's see if my hypothesis is correct;
First, I'll go to the r/wehatenagito subreddit.
Next, I'll type into the search bar "author:MizumiKahago"
Now, I'll scroll down a bit until I find the post, aaaaannnnd,
There it is! My hypothesis was correct, and I can use this method to determine what posts/comments were made by Mizumi, versus which ones were made by other users.
