Discord code is running multiple times for no reason

Question

So I have this piece of code which is running on a discord bot which should repeat what the user says after a command. It does this but repeats it another 7 times after making 8 total runs through that script. Can anyone spot why this might be happening?

Note: The code that actually runs starts from the elif but I put in everything just in case something prior was messing with it.

@Client.event 
async def on_message(message):
  if message.content == "s!ping":
    userID = message.author.id
    Client.send_message(message.channel, "<@%s>" % (userID))
  elif message.content.startswith == "s!say":
    args = message.content.split(" ")
    Client.send_message(message.channel, "%s" % (args[1:]))

Image to show test input and output

Answer 1

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