Why is 18atcskd2w considered a common password?

One of the most logical explanations is that those accounts were associated with a bot. Same goes for passwords like 18atcskd2w. Graham Cluley wrote an article about this: So, Just Why Is 18atcskd2w Such a Popular Password?

Can so many people really be choosing to protect their online accounts with the same, seemingly random choice of “18atcskd2w”, “3rjs1la7qe,” or “q0tsrbv488”?

The answer, of course, is no. People are not choosing those passwords.

Yes, those credentials can be found amongst the stolen data, and those passwords are being used on many tens of thousands of accounts, but it wasn’t a human being who chose that password. It was a computer.

Human brains were responsible for choosing passwords like “123456”, “password,” and “qwerty.” But there is no way that 91,103 people independently chose to secure their accounts with “18atcskd2w.”

Instead, what I believe happened is that these accounts were created by bots, perhaps with the intention of posting spam onto the forums.

Edit:

Ok, I went to check some of records ("dumps") from breached websites:

ilerrhyc@qgjkwntm.com:18atcskD2W

lprfzoyj@aboriaqk.com:18atcskD2W

ytjcvfhx@erbnxkjx.com:18atcskD2W

imuudluz@qsldpvlx.com:18atcskD2W

rrrowvvn@gdcufxsg.com:18atcskD2W

kixtigma@snjkuxjh.com:18atcskD2W

I'm pretty sure that those passwords were associated with the bot, but the funny thing is that the attacker used a random username with a random-non-existing domain, but a non-random password.