Deleting messages on any platform is sometimes necessary to free up space, reinvent yourself, or eliminate years of clutter.
Some can even clone a channel and remove all messages in the process.
A self-bot is nothing more than a user account that runs on an API token.
Thanks for the heads up.
The Discord API currently supports a POST request that fires a Message Delete Bulk gateway event, allowing bots to quickly delete all messages that are less than two weeks old.
It gained a lot of popularity and there are a lot of users who are using this platform worldwide.
Examples of bots that need this permission are and which are used to delete messages on the server.
If you manage a Discord channel, housekeeping is one of your core tasks.