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AWM39V spams hard on YouTube comments, but the meaning has nothing to do with Star Wars
YouTube users have been left puzzled after comments featuring AWM39V were spammed across multiple videos including the trailer for Star Wars: The Acolyte.
The mysterious comments have popped up everywhere, from movie and TV trailers to news videos and even podcasts, prompting fans to question their origin and meaning.
Comments featuring AWM39V appear across YouTube
Reddit users were quick to point out that numerous comments featuring the mystery string of letters and numbers had appeared under the new trailer for the Star Wars TV series The Acolyte.
One such comment read: " Impossible! The Sith are extinct! They have been for nearly a millenium." – Ki-Adi-Mundi should know AWM39V is in its prime.
Despite being a bunch of gibberish, the comment has been liked more than six thousand times and over 100 commenters have replied to it, many of whom suspiciously pay no notice to the bizarre nature of the comment, while others sensed that something was clearly amiss.
Reddit users highlighting the appearance of the comments on The Acolyte trailer were soon joined by posters who reported to have seen similar comments under trailers for Netflixs Rebel Moon: Part 2 as well as Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
The strange comments even appeared under ordinary videos too, with Reddit users spotting them under an episode of Joe Rogans podcast as well as on video from NBC News and CNN.
The mysterious comments explained
Its pretty clear that the nonsensical AWM39V comments are courtesy of a host of bots and that most of the engagement they have received is thanks to yet more bots.
The spamming of the comments and the amount of engagement theyve had lends increasing weight to the online dead internet theory which claims that the majority of activity on the internet is now the result of bots interacting with other bots, rather than the activity of ordinary humans.
In terms of the meaning behind AWM39V, the strange code appears to be linked to a website supposedly discussing cryptocurrency news.
However, given the aggressive way the mysterious comments have appeared on YouTube, many people suspect that it could be some kind of scam.
Given the somewhat shady nature of the comments, the best thing to do if you spot one would be to report it as spam.
Social media reacts
The arrival of the mysterious AWM39V comments has sparked quite a reaction online, with many taking to social media to discuss the bizarre phenomenon.
One commenter on Reddit said: There are literally hundreds of them on the trailer, each with more than a hundred likes despite the comments not making sense.
A second claimed: It’s a crypto scam purporting to be a coin affiliated with Amazon. Report them and carry on.
It’s spam, I’ve been reporting the comments! Y’all should do it too, said a third.
A fourth wrote: Prob[ably] some AI-powered bot spamming AMW so it gets known/relevant in Google search results.
And finally, this commenter summed up how we all felt while reading the comments: Bro I was so confused =
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