I go to LinkedIn to message old colleagues whose other contacts I lost, and the thing that baffles me is the thing where people describe things in this weirdly epic slop style.

"We were doing X. But then we suddenly found that Y. This is where frobling the wjoozies finally made sense. As a Long time warbler, I can tell you need to..."

Who do they write it for? What value to they get from writing it?

(Not everyone writes like this, luckily).

I don’t participate, but signaling other participants that you’re willing to participate is a signal is a subconscious signal in itself, apparently.

Weird stuff all around. Quality of the audience or the content doesn’t matter at this point. There’s an implicit understanding that the bigger your audience, the more likely you can get any attention, which translates into influence, money, trend and culture setting.

They aren't writing that, it's the AI running with their ideas.

Maybe the only place in the entire world where AI has improved the quality of writing.