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 2026-07 (run #2: 3 current + 3 vintage models, 3 matched registers, 1,392 samples)
| current AI | vintage AI (2024/25) | humans (matched) | canon (great pre-AI prose) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pooled | 4.04 | 7.90 | 0.00 | 0.23 |
| hn | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| cooking | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| parenting | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| 54.34 | — | — |
regex: [\u{1F300}-\u{1FAFF}\u{2600}-\u{27BF}]