I'm just wondering if there aren't....

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Silverobama

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Last night in my chatroom, a man tried to ask the participants in my chatroom to leave and use Instagram to chat. He said "There are many weirdos here on Tiktok and you guys need to talk on Instagram or other apps". I was annoyed and I asked him a question:

I'm just wondering if there aren't any weirdos elsewhere.

Is the above italic sentence natural? The intended meaning is "I just want to know if others places don't have weirdos and only Tiktok has".
 

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Yes.

(NOTE: TikTok
 

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Mistake. Now deleted.
 

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To come back to your question @Silverobama, what you said was perfectly natural in the sense that a native speaker might well say exactly that.

(Also, it was a nice shot.:👍🏻)
 
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