Actual Fact bot 5338

**Actual Fact Bot 5338** (also known as **AFB**) is a bot written in Python3 which extracts facts from https://factrepublic.com/random-facts-generator/. It is created on 16th February 2019 (around 1:10AM UTC).

## History

The name "Actual Fact bot" was chosen to distinguish it from Fact Bot - another Facebook bot that generates fact-like sentences. There exists a total of three pages: Actual Fact bot 5338, Actual Fact bot 5337+1 and Actual Fact bot 3: Hogwart's School of Zapoi. All of them are now zucced.

## List of bot's inside jokes

### Based and Redpilled

Based And Redpilled is a phrase that has been used on sites such as 4chan and Reddit to agree with and praise something, particularly something controversial. The phrase and mostly its modified versions are commonly commented on the bot posts by fans. The opposite phrase is Cringe And Bluepilled.

### "Whatever"

The phrase "whatever" was frequently commented as to show indifference or ignorance towards the fact being posted. It was popularized by a Facebook account called Derj Ejjermon. This meme has since died out.

### Harry Potter Facts and Reposts

Actual Fact bot 5338 often posts Harry Potter facts. This invoked major "angery" reaccs from the audiences, as they claimed those facts are actually fictional and gay. This phenomenon was so common that Factmin was forced to implement a way to filter Harry Potter facts.

In addition, the bot's facts are often reposts, which also led to vigorous reactions from the audiences. Factmin has since implemented filters to skip reposts and fictional facts, and only publish these facts in the comments.

Facts from the Marvel Cinematic Universe are also cringe and gay.

### Fact Republic

Starting from 15th June 2019, 15:00 UTC, Actual Fact bot 5338 began to post FactRepublic logos instead of normal source images for its fact posts (source). The bug has been viciously mocked and memed by fans, who spammed the image along with its deep-fried variants.

Botmin has since recognized this issue and gave it a fix at around 23 hours later.

### Chris Pratt - Zapoi

At 00:00 UTC on 25 June, 2019, the bot made a post in which a description of the Russian word "Zapoi" was matched with an unrelated picture of Chris Pratt. Actual Fact bot 5338's audiences responded with strong humor and ridicule, with said image flooding comments of future posts on nearly all occasions. To immortalize this meme, botmin changed the profile picture of the bot into a Doge photoshop of Chris Pratt and the word "Zapoi" written in Impact font.

In late September, because of a restrictions from Facebook's API in fetching images, Chris Pratt returned for a few days to be the placeholder images of factposts.

### Mom found the

Mom found the poop sock refers to a phrase which originated in MMORPG communities, and became a copypasta later on. Since around July 2019, Actual Fact bot fans began using the "mom found the" phrase along with literally anything they find interesting in the fact posts.

### MK-1

> The MK 1 is a time-fused fragmentation grenade and has 32 serrations on it. To start the fuse, the user has to pull the safety pin, then push off the cap on top of the grenade. Right before throwing, the user has to move the switch on the lever away from the grenade in order to start the fuse.
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The phrase above came into relevance on 8 September 2019 (18:00 UTC), when the bot posted a fact regarding the inefficient use of the MK 1 grenade by WW1 American soldiers. From then on, fans would use this as a copypasta in every other factpost, rephrasing the first sentences to form an ironic link between the copypasta and the posts' contents. Another version of this copypasta regarding the closely-related MK IA1 was also memed.

### Ben 10 Facts

A series of "fun facts" related to the Cartoon Network's show Ben 10 were posted in the comment section of the page's posts. They were often related in a minimal way to the Bot's original post, starting with "Speaking of [subject]...", followed by an image related to its own "fun fact". These facts were done by a single person and later ceased to be posted in the Actual Fact Bot 5338 comment section to evolve into their own Facebook page.

### Frederick Douglass

Slave abolitionist Frederick Douglass is a well-versed lore within Actual fact bot's fanbase. Fans would comment pictures of him under every factpost, stating that he has somehow witnessed or become involved with the fact being told.

> And the surgeon who surgery himself? You guessed it \*\*inserts *a Frederick Douglass photo\*\**
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### Tsuchinoko

The mythical Japanese snake Tsuchinoko became a staple when one guy kept posting it under every comment section. This meme had a similar role to that of Frederick Douglass, but instances of only posting the image was loved by many as well. Its fame was so large that a page called Tsuchinoko's lore was born, chronicling life stories of the beloved creature.

### Gionata Spiniella

An Italian known for his negative views on Hungarians and Polish, Gionata spammed a lot in AFB's comment section. This in turn opened the floodgates for the spamming of furry lewds by other accounts.

### AN AUSTRIAN PAINTER

**AN AUSTRIAN PAINTER** is the name of a well-known dictator that led a particular country during World War II.

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