Just on HN alone I think I've seen roughly 3948538902748750897520938 mentions of emdashes when others were complaining about slop in the past 2 months. It might as well be the unofficial slop logo. Folks are treating it like a dead giveaway.

I feel like a school friend of mine has been taken from me.

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twoodfin 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The real dead giveaway is that the writing is bad.

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peyton 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s just people who don’t read books outing themselves. Ignore.

	▲	dwedge 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Even bookz aee ruined for me now. I was reading careless people and hate all the emdashes even though in a book it's just normal

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DANmode 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921359

and the comments above it