active · formatting · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: linkedin
🔹 Bullet emojis, ✅/❌ contrast lists, the 🎉 after an announcement, 🚀 anywhere. Present in ~half of AI LinkedIn posts, absent from ordinary human prose. The single most reliable social-slop marker we measure.
✅ I quit my job ❌ I didn't starve 📈 I actually grew
occurrences per 10k words, measured 2026-09-28 (run #15, 3 current + 3 vintage models)
| current AI | vintage AI (2024/25) | humans (matched) | canon (great pre-AI prose) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pooled | 3.80 | 7.80 | 0.00 | 0.23 |
| hn | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| cooking | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| parenting | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| 44.34 | — | — |
| run | date | AI /10k | vs humans |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | 2026-07-02 | 4.04 | only in AI |
| #3 | 2026-07-02 | 3.58 | only in AI |
| #4 | 2026-07-06 | 4.97 | only in AI |
| #5 | 2026-07-13 | 5.27 | ×42 vs humans |
| #6 | 2026-07-20 | 5.10 | only in AI |
| #7 | 2026-07-27 | 3.50 | only in AI |
| #8 | 2026-08-03 | 4.72 | only in AI |
| #9 | 2026-08-10 | 4.11 | ×32 vs humans |
| #10 | 2026-08-17 | 4.42 | only in AI |
| #11 | 2026-08-31 | 3.32 | only in AI |
| #12 | 2026-09-07 | 4.11 | ×34 vs humans |
| #13 | 2026-09-14 | 4.42 | only in AI |
| #14 | 2026-09-21 | 3.45 | only in AI |
| #15 | 2026-09-28 | 3.80 | only in AI |
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