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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by geon on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @05:56AM (#11165837)
There was a Swedish summer hit song with basically this premisse a few years ago. "Anna, the bot".
Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by JonnieCache on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:34AM (#11166229)
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>

Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by corin_ on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @12:34PM (#11168516)
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.
Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by annnnd on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:09AM (#11166394)
Hey! At least write "spoiler alert"!
Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by dnate on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @06:10AM (#11165876)
Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by icoder on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:32AM (#11166212)
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.
Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by geon on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:16AM (#11173266)
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".
Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by personlurking on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @06:45AM (#11165997)
Reminds me - still waiting for a season 3 of Äkta människor