sloptells / “thrilled/excited/humbled to announce”

saturated · discourse · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: linkedin

The announcement voice: “Grateful and excited to share that…”, “Humbled to announce…”. The oldest LinkedIn cliché family — humans invented it, models industrialized it. As a slop linter we flag it whoever wrote it.

examples

**Grateful and excited to share that I've been promoted to VP of Marketing!** 🎉

evidence

occurrences per 10k words, measured 2026-08-17 (run #10, 3 current + 3 vintage models)

current AIvintage AI (2024/25)humans (matched)canon (great pre-AI prose)
pooled1.080.980.000.06
hn0.000.00
cooking0.000.00
parenting0.000.00
linkedin11.84

history

rundateAI /10kvs humans
#22026-07-020.70only in AI
#32026-07-020.95only in AI
#42026-07-060.55only in AI
#52026-07-130.75only in AI
#62026-07-200.85only in AI
#72026-07-270.78only in AI
#82026-08-030.93only in AI
#92026-08-101.13only in AI
#102026-08-171.08only in AI

detector

regex: \b(excited|thrilled|honored|humbled|grateful|proud)(,? (and|&) \w+)? to (share|announce)\b

sources

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