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I've been seeing this pattern of text crop up in many places. On LinkedIn, much of my feed is filled with posts of short sentences that follow this exact pattern. What's more, even the replies are obviously AI-generated.


I hear people talk like this on the phone. The one I hear a lot is: "It's not about X, it's about Y1. It's about Y2. It's about Y3." Where Y is usually something humanizing.


Proving or disproving intent is hard, in court trials often taking days of witness testimony and jury deliberation.

These hot-take/title patterns "X is about Y1" are exploiting the difficulty of disproving them.

I often see it in the pattern of "Behavior of Group I Dislike is About Bad Motive."


I agree. LinkedIn is completely dominated by AI slop replies to AI slop posts these days.

It's almost worse than Twitter.


"Formulaic headlines considered harmful"




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