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Why Every LinkedIn Post Sounds the Same
The ancient narrative structure of obnoxious social media posts
5 min readNov 18, 2022
What do self-aggrandising LinkedIn posts have to do with Star Wars?
A lot more than you might think.
A few months ago I saw a Reddit post about Viral Post Generator, a website that lets users “Use AI to write the perfect LinkedIn post.” All you have to do is fill in the box saying “what you did today”, give some “inspirational advice”, choose a “cringe level”, and then sit back, relax, and watch your post take shape.
Perhaps not too surprisingly, some of the results were pretty funny:
In addition to these tweets, the following fake LinkedIn posts were shared as comments under the original Reddit post:
