Using BeautifulSoup to extract specific nested div

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I have this HTML code which I'm creating the script for: https://i.sstatic.net/KFSPT.jpg
I would like to extract the highlighted text ("some text") and print it.

I tried going through every nested div in the way to the div I needed, like this:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = "the url this is from"
r = requests.get(url)

for div in soup.find_all("div", {"id": "main"}):
    for div2 in div.find_all("div", {"id": "app"}):
        for div3 in div2.find_all("div", {"id": "right-sidebar"}):
            for div4 in div3.find_all("div", {"id": "chat"}):
                for div5 in div4.find_all("div", {"id": "chat-messages"}):
                    for div6 in div5.find_all("div", {"class": "chat-message"}):
                        for div7 in div6.find_all("div", {"class": "chat-message-content selectable"}):
                            print(div7.text.strip())

I implemented what I've seen in guides and similar questions online, but I bet this is not even close and there must be a much easier way.
This doesn't work. It doesn't print anything, and I'm a bit lost. How can I print the highlighted line (which is essentially the very first div child of the div with the id "chat-messages")?

HTML CODE:

Using BeautifulSoup to extract specific nested div

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