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Kevin Roberts (srhoe)
Kevin Roberts, known online as @srhoe, is a digital creator, privacy educator, and ethical hacker best known for his viral TikTok content exposing how deleted social media posts can still be accessed via online archives like the Wayback Machine.
Online Career
Roberts gained widespread attention in early 2024 after posting a TikTok explaining how users could retrieve deleted tweets and posts using archived URLs. In his video, Roberts demonstrated appending a tweet ID (e.g., /status/) to a Twitter profile link and inputting it into the Internet Archive’s archive.org to retrieve cached versions.
The video quickly went viral, receiving over 1.6 million views and thousands of comments. Roberts used this moment to highlight broader concerns around digital footprints, content permanence, and online privacy.
Media Coverage
His PSA received coverage from several online publications:
- Upworthy: "Man explains how people can access someone else's deleted social media posts"
- Dexerto: "TikToker reveals how deleted social media posts can still be found"
- Daily Dot: "This TikToker has a PSA about the Wayback Machine and it’s unsettling"
These outlets credited Roberts with raising public awareness of how internet archives work and how privacy controls on social platforms may be misleading.
Topics
Roberts’ content typically covers:
- Ethical hacking tutorials
- Data permanence on the web
- Internet privacy tools
- Archive tools and techniques