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silversmithyesterday at 8:37 PM5 repliesview on HN

Where did that trend start? Who writes like that, with emoji bullet points? I'm seeing it around, but surely nobody looks at that and says "yeah that's good"?


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pvtmertyesterday at 8:40 PM

Around 2020, I think tools like Notion (notion.so) made it popular. Even the Huggingface itself is an emoji...

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_verandaguyyesterday at 8:41 PM

LLM-driven writing's been a big part of this trend, unfortunately.

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markedathomeyesterday at 8:50 PM

I've really seen it a lot in Discord channels that have [emoji]channelname Occasionally in some channels lists may be bullets with emojis particularly the welcome/rules, usually to match reaction emojis, or to automate channel(s) selection (click on the youtube icon to get notified when a youtube vid is posted, etc.)

mgfistyesterday at 8:40 PM

ChatGPT was the first place to really do it to this extent

2OEH8eoCRo0yesterday at 8:41 PM

Look inward at our infantile and excessively positive industry. We are just trying to have fun! Do you hate fun?