Marketers and their bots have been using reddit to hype up brands. No wonder Reddit feels like shit these days.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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That's one of the signs of LLM output, take any idea and have it flesh it out into short article. It'll bullet point the crap out of it
Yeah, but even when it's not an LLM, they type like this now
Monkey see, monkey do...
It comes from marketing copy. Same with the emdash. My company has a style guide for marketing material and it calls out using bulleted lists and em dashes exactly how AI does it.
LLMs learned it by watching these idiots.