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'Wow cool post’: Why are people flooding FB comment sections?

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/reuters/05/17/20190517-facebook-rtr.jpg"/><figcaption>Are you wondering why people are flooding Facebook comment sections with the phrase &quot;wow cool post, thanks for sharing&quot;? File/Stephen Lam, Reuters</figcaption></figure></div>Whether it&#x27;s a post linking an article or a Facebook livestream of an online game, hardly any Facebook page is safe from netizens &quot;thanking&quot; them for sharing content. In recent days, comments sections in some Facebook pages have been flooded with the phrase, &quot;Wow cool post, thanks for sharing,&quot; paired with a random emoji. Other netizens, based on comments on ABS-CBN News&#x27; website, are also pairing it up with some monkey emojis. <div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/life/05/17/wow-cool-post_1.jpg"/><figcaption>Screengrabbed from one of ABS-CBN News&#x27; Facebook posts</figcaption></figure></div>The origins to the trend are unknown, but some suggest that it was started by alt-right groups on international gaming website IGN&#x27;s Facebook page, as the site had allegedly started posting content favoring liberal ideologies.Website GamingPH.com <a href="https://gamingph.com/2019/05/wow-cool-post-thanks-for-sharing-a-comment-trends-in-facebook/amp/">suggested</a> that Facebook users are fighting their way for a &quot;top fan&quot; badge on Facebook, a feature introduced on the social media site to promote engagement between pages and its users.People with a &quot;top fan&quot; badge, according to Facebook, are considered the page&#x27;s &quot;most engaged fans&quot; and are &quot;rewarded&quot; accordingly. Such a trend is not new, though, and is called &quot;copypasta,&quot; a phenomenon defined by UrbanDictionary.com as &quot;a copy and pasted block of text usually posted on a message board to troll newer users and as an inside joke between older users.&quot;

Are you wondering why people are flooding Facebook comment sections with the phrase "wow cool post, thanks for sharing"?

Are you wondering why people are flooding Facebook comment sections with the phrase "wow cool post, thanks for sharing"?