2 Reasons Why ‘Wow cool post, thanks for sharing’ is On Every Facebook Comment

Here’s a fun fact: do you know that Facebook is now trying to get more people to “comment”?

It’s an effort for them to create “meaningful interactions” between users because let’s face it: Facebook is full of toxic people who’re always angry, or humblebraggers who’re always telling us about their vacation ten years ago.

This could be why youngsters are jumping ship to Instagram, while the even younger ones swam over to Telegram.

Facebook’s new direction is understandable.

But with every effort comes with even more effort by bad actors that are trying to game the system.

Like this latest phenomenon.

“Wow cool post, thanks for sharing” Comment

Go to any Facebook post and you’d start to notice a trend (though some Pages we follow seem to have banned or removed these comments altogether).

People are commenting with this: “Wow cool post, thanks for sharing”

It’s almost like the purple bird we used to have, but this time it’s a tad bit darker.

Because unlike the purple bird, which was made in jest by users, this isn’t.

This stemmed from spam bots.

Top Fan in Facebook

You see, in recent months, you might have noticed the “Top Fan” or “Top Contributor” badge on some people who commented on Facebook.

Basically, if you’ve interacted with the Page regularly (doesn’t even need to comment; clicking on its links or Liking it would suffice as well), you’ll receive a notification, declaring that you’re a “Top Fan”.

That would provide you with a badge when you comment on the Page’s post.

What’s its objective?

Other than showing others that you’re a top fan, which gives you bragging rights that also shows your loyalty to the Page, it’ll encourage you to comment more.

After all, remember: Facebook wants you to comment more.

That’s when bad actors decided to abuse the system.

Meet Spam Bots

Despite Facebook’s continuing efforts to remove spam bots, they still exist. The goals of these bots are simple: spam, or spread fake news.

Now, imagine a bot interacting with a page regularly—it’ll become a “Top Fan”. But as a bot, it’s as woody as your boyfriend / husband, so it’ll just post one simple sentence that looks legit: “Wow cool post, thanks for sharing”.

Once they’ve the Top Fan badge, they’ll look more legit, and people wouldn’t look at them as spam bots.

After all, one of spam bots’ goals is to look like a regular account.

Then people started to pick it up.

Real Users Started to Use it to Annoy Others

For reasons only known to the Internet (i.e. you’d never know), real users like you and me decided that it’d be fun to emulate the comment, and therefore started to post the exact same thing.

And so the trend of “Wow cool post, thanks for sharing” became yet another phemomon.

The Internet is a weird place, isn’t it?

However, there’s another theory.

It all Started with IGN

IGN is a website that publishes video game news. For some reason, IGN was posting too many times, and so, users spam them on the comment section instead.

Now, do note that this is not verified, but then again: nothing on the Internet is verified.

But if it’s like the purple bird phemonon, we’re sure it’ll die off as fast as it went viral.