Bots in Popular Culture
- The 2006 Basshunter song "Boten Anna" is about a man who mistakes a female IRC user named Anna for an IRC bot.
- During the naming contest for a Hungarian bridge, Colbert Nation forum members developed a bot to stuff the ballot box. Stephen Colbert asked his viewers to cease their voting to name the bridge after him, and apologized to the Hungarians with a large segment on his show, The Colbert Report.
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