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There was a Swedish summer hit song with basically this premisse a few years ago. "Anna, the bot".



Isn't that song about their IRC bot and how they love her because she kicks all the lamers from their channel and protects it from takeovers?

Here's a video with english subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7iU0GGVco8

EDIT: oh yeah at the end <SPOILER ALERT> it does turn out that she's really a human girl. </SPOILER ALERT>


Basshunter (the artist) is famously geeky, another of his song's is "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA" ("We're sitting in Ventrilo, playing DotA". If I remember correctly he performed at some gaming/esports event like DreamHack a few years ago, too.


Hey! At least write "spoiler alert"!



Haha, was that about this? 'Boten' sounds like 'boat' (and the Dutch equivalent, 'boot'), and so we had a cover in our language about someone who had a 'really beautiful boat' called Anna.


With his accent, it is the same in Swedish. Combined with the song playing way too much in commercial radio, it created some resentment. Someone on a festival had a sign saying "You have a boat up your ass".


Reminds me - still waiting for a season 3 of Äkta människor




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