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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/excelling_anxiety on 2026-03-24 23:35:24+00:00.
I’ve had my Reddit account for as far as I remember. Like many people, I signed up with some random Gmail I made back when I was a kid and never really thought about it again. Fast forward years later, I’m still using the account regularly… except I completely forgot that the email attached to it basically no longer exists.
Today my account got locked and Reddit asked me to reset my password. No big deal, right? Except the reset link gets sent to that old email.
So I try logging into the email… and Google straight up tells me the account doesn’t exist anymore.
That’s when it hit me: years of karma, posts, and history… just gone because I never bothered to update my email.
At this point I realize I’ve played myself. I even have a phone number linked, but that doesn’t help at all.
I contacted support, but it’s not looking great. In the meantime, I had to make a new account and start from scratch.
Moral of the story: if you have an old account tied to some ancient email you don’t use anymore update it now. Don’t be me.
TL;DR: Ignored an old email tied to my Reddit account for years, it got deleted, account got locked, now I can’t recover it