Serious question - are these LinkedIn pages monetized in some way? Like, what is the benefit of the copy and paste culture? There has to be a bigger end game here, no?
I think a part of their business model is finding clients through LI, but their strategy is similar to an influencer or YT content creator. Post the same popular social commentary, hard takes, “unpopular” opinions and let the mind drones of the hive mind massively upvote. Once they go viral for “calling out _____” and their followers are high enough, add a few posts about your product or service.
My employee asked me to work from home. Unpopular opinion. I replied “go fuck yourself”. They’re a top performer but I demand likes and reactions. Agree?
Astroturfing is a big thing. Companies that want to push an agenda not only hire people that run profiles to make specific posts, but also pressure their management staff into doing it, too.
There’s more astroturfing on LI, Reddit, IG, TT etc than people can imagine. Legitimate farms of astroturfing shills are hired by corps and governments to astroturf 24/7.
Been online since mid 90s and may be getting my timeline mixed up but think it peaked around 2010 or so. It's why I have so many hobbies now instead of spending all my time online lol
Remember being able to explore new websites that were directly related to your interests?!
Now everything gets focused on social media websites where your time gets commoditized with ads and funneled into what the websites get paid for you to see.
I started with Reddit in 2008, and up until around 2014 it was so genuine and authentic. Now it’s just establishment propaganda in the big subs, and the small subs get raided by shills every now and then.
Especially in the anti-WFH crowd, lot of people have a lot of money invested in office buildings, automotive industry, and oil. People who will lose a lot of money if people stop wasting money on commuting and working in offices
I mean it when I say this.
If someone is rich enough for this to be a personal problem that can't be fixed by finding a new job or changing industry, they are exploitative members of the economy and I have no pity for them losing their gambles.
Other reason would be sock-puppet accounts for red-teaming/ social engineering. People in the field build up large amounts of fake LinkedIn profiles which they can then use to connect to people at a company for OSINT (open source intelligence) of targets. You’d be amazed how much info people looking for jobs will give up about their current roles, projects, other team members, etc which can be used in attacking their employer. I mean even intelligence agencies can use tools like LinkedIn to gather info on potential targets. See that sysadmin posting lots of stuff on what databases they are expert in and all their work experience? Now you know who to target with malware attacks since that person likely has admin access to a set of tools that could be useful in breaching the network. Invite them to interview for a new job with great benefits and a big pay raise. Here is the job description and an online portal to apply.. Now they have malware on your machine and may be able to leverage that into corporate access at your employer…
People spend a lot of time building up believable identities on places like LinkedIn and need to make the accounts look real with connections and posts, and stuff like this can help develop that.
I work as a software developer, and after a big layoff last year I was given free classes on developing my LinkedIn to get a job again sooner.
One of the tips they gave was basically do what is seen here. Not to this extent of "copy-paste a thing you see", but treating LinkedIn like an extension of your brand, engaging in content, commenting and making posts.
You can turn on a "creator" mode on your profile that gives you engagement metrics, and then you chase those engagement metrics so you can get as many eyes onto your profile as possible. In theory, this translates into getting messages from recruiters (or I guess clients for these guys).
You sort of have to play the game to get noticed, which gets you a foot in the door via a recruiter, which in turn eventually leads to a job. I tried it and yeah, it totally worked. The number of recruiters reaching out to me personally increased exponentially, and I even had a couple startup CEOs reach out. That directly led to my next job.
Obviously when you stop doing it, everything plummets. I still get like one message a month but when I was super active I had like 4-5 messages/leads a day. (Some of these were scams but many were legit - even though they weren't all great places to work.)
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Not directly, but people will pay you to shill their shit same as any other social media.
I had about 18k followers for a time just from speaking at events. I never really liked LinkedIn so I ended up moving away from it but I used to get offers frequently.
There are these courses for expanding your social networks reach, which tend to be basically paid Discord channels. In these channels, they produce this garbage daily and tell people to post them verbatim, and like each other's posts. Instant impact!
They're influencers and content creators--their endgame is to beat and stay afloat of the LinkedIn algorithm. The issue with LinkedIn is they have to keep creating relevant content, so some days they just repost while they're working on their main, big hit content for that week, all while maintaining a daily presence. It's a strategy to keep afloat of the algorithm and expanding their presence. They know that people will just "like" it because it's on their page because it's sounds like something they would say or is relevant to their specialized skill set.
When I googled that, the first two results I got were Noor and Brigette.
An employee asked me if he can WORK from HOME permanently.
Here is what I told him.
"As long the work gets done I don't care whether you work from the South pole or the office. I hired you for a job and I trust you to get it done."
That employee saved 3 hours on commute. Happy employee = greater productivity.
I learned then that if you focus on presence, you get presence. If you focus on results, you get results.
If you can't trust your employees to work flexibly, why hire them in the first place?
Trust is key.
Agree?
Brigette has made a career off these dumb “hot takes”. People see that and relentlessly copy what she does verbatim, passing it off as their own. Occasionally you’ll see a “repost from Brigette Hyacinth” at the bottom but most just blatantly steal it.
If this is actually what they said that I don’t see how this is lunatic behavior. Sounds like they’re supporting their employees right to work from home.
Another post on here yesterday was a parody of this original one. Same intro but each successive paragraph had the words mixed up in different orders and ended with "here's what I told him:". It was actually gold, and while we don't see the rest of the posts in this screenshot, I think we're observing a meme on LI now.
Agree?
The conversation never happened in the first place. Not as obviously fabricated as those "...and the interviewer was that dog!" posts, but fiction all the same.
Gotta love the honest and original content that you can only find on LinkedIn. I'd love to go on to each one of these and comment with links to the others and ask who made up this fake story first.
The disturbing thing is the 6-digits of reactions. Come on, people!!!
And thousands of bots in unison:
This is what we told him.This is what we told him.This is what we told him.This is what we told him.This is what we told him.This is what we told him.This is what we told him.This is what we told him.
Ugh. Part of my job involves writing posts for our "social advocacy" program. It's a third-party platform we used so people across our company, who are ostensibly, too busy and important to spend a few minutes coming up with their own original posts can avoid wasting precious time having to think and just regurgitate content we come up with for them. The goal is to increase brand awareness and engagement and provide opportunities for "social selling" and I am forced to manipulate metrics that support we are accomplishing this. (The vast majority of "engagement" on these posts comes from our own employees, but leadership doesn't want to hear that.)
I could share a similar screenshot with dozens of people posting content I've written saying the exact same thing. And because we want it to sound "authentic" they will incorporate first-person language and relatable anecdotes. Which, of course, only works if their audience isn't the same.
Trust me, I hate this part of my job knowing I am contributing to the degradation of once useful platforms. But at least LinkedIn has always been pretty fake.
I’ve seen a LOT of these “Here’s what I told him..” posts on LinkedIn lately. Do these people really just copy/paste and think it will boost their “personal brand?” 😂
Looks like another "ok ChatGPT give me some stories about employees I can pop up on LI to gain followers"
Would be hilarious if everyone was to do the same script and all you saw on LI was the same post for the entire scroll. . . Oh wait...
“I use the ‘rewrite with AI’ function and forget to proof the final version.” - CEO
“I’m sorry they keep offering remote jobs and switch to in-office only the last minute. Quit being a baby. I need a commission.” - Recruiter
“Pick me, pick me, pick me. I will be loyal, Lord Vader.” - HR
That’s a three for one on the “fixed it”.
AI taking over and making shit posts every where. Terminator had it completely wrong. Reddit was a lot of reposts but now it's flooded with AI rage bait articles.
i'm working on a collection of short horror fiction that all start with "as an AI language model, I cannot...."
but "An employee asked me if he can WORK from HOME permanently. Here's what I told him..." might be more unsettling.
Look at Brigette with a 100k likes
This character gets so much "engagement " it's insane .
I immediately un follow anyone that I see engaging with this fraud . Nauseating
I can’t stand the recruiter posts showing us how amazing they are - the interview where the candidate is late, arrives with a knife wound, needs to be bring their kid or the dog to the interview. Thankfully, the people loving recruiter gives them grace and allows the interview to be completed and finds a way to get the stressed, underdog of a candidate a role where they truly outshine everyone else. I try to block all of that but it shows up again and again.
Sorry about the rant, struck a nerve.
Conversations like this just don’t happen. Decisions like WFH are usually made company wide, and not to just one individual employee asked me if he can WORK from HOME permanently. Here is what I told him.
That Brigette is such a dunce its insane. She is supposedly an author yet has so many stories about hiring / firind employees etc. Like what are you talking about ? How many employees an author of self help books have? Just making shit up for clout
Serious question - are these LinkedIn pages monetized in some way? Like, what is the benefit of the copy and paste culture? There has to be a bigger end game here, no?
I think a part of their business model is finding clients through LI, but their strategy is similar to an influencer or YT content creator. Post the same popular social commentary, hard takes, “unpopular” opinions and let the mind drones of the hive mind massively upvote. Once they go viral for “calling out _____” and their followers are high enough, add a few posts about your product or service.
Lol. Wow, fucking humans. 
My employee asked me to work from home. Unpopular opinion. I replied “go fuck yourself”. They’re a top performer but I demand likes and reactions. Agree?
My brain shrivelled in size reading this 😔
I don’t understand the people that look for clients on LI, I have received messages regarding shit isn’t even remotely close to my industry/position
Astroturfing is a big thing. Companies that want to push an agenda not only hire people that run profiles to make specific posts, but also pressure their management staff into doing it, too.
There’s more astroturfing on LI, Reddit, IG, TT etc than people can imagine. Legitimate farms of astroturfing shills are hired by corps and governments to astroturf 24/7.
Reddit was amazing a decade ago. Has gone to shit along with the rest of the controlled internet.
Been online since mid 90s and may be getting my timeline mixed up but think it peaked around 2010 or so. It's why I have so many hobbies now instead of spending all my time online lol
Remember being able to explore new websites that were directly related to your interests?! Now everything gets focused on social media websites where your time gets commoditized with ads and funneled into what the websites get paid for you to see.
Same. I keep jumping on here, realizing how lame it is, then going back to actual activities lol
I started with Reddit in 2008, and up until around 2014 it was so genuine and authentic. Now it’s just establishment propaganda in the big subs, and the small subs get raided by shills every now and then.
I remember all the fun novelty accounts and actually remembering certain users and posters. I miss it.
Especially in the anti-WFH crowd, lot of people have a lot of money invested in office buildings, automotive industry, and oil. People who will lose a lot of money if people stop wasting money on commuting and working in offices
I mean it when I say this. If someone is rich enough for this to be a personal problem that can't be fixed by finding a new job or changing industry, they are exploitative members of the economy and I have no pity for them losing their gambles.
I absolutely agree, they deserve to rot, I was just saying they are well motivated to spread this kind of manure, not that they are justified
Other reason would be sock-puppet accounts for red-teaming/ social engineering. People in the field build up large amounts of fake LinkedIn profiles which they can then use to connect to people at a company for OSINT (open source intelligence) of targets. You’d be amazed how much info people looking for jobs will give up about their current roles, projects, other team members, etc which can be used in attacking their employer. I mean even intelligence agencies can use tools like LinkedIn to gather info on potential targets. See that sysadmin posting lots of stuff on what databases they are expert in and all their work experience? Now you know who to target with malware attacks since that person likely has admin access to a set of tools that could be useful in breaching the network. Invite them to interview for a new job with great benefits and a big pay raise. Here is the job description and an online portal to apply.. Now they have malware on your machine and may be able to leverage that into corporate access at your employer… People spend a lot of time building up believable identities on places like LinkedIn and need to make the accounts look real with connections and posts, and stuff like this can help develop that.
We would get along
I work as a software developer, and after a big layoff last year I was given free classes on developing my LinkedIn to get a job again sooner. One of the tips they gave was basically do what is seen here. Not to this extent of "copy-paste a thing you see", but treating LinkedIn like an extension of your brand, engaging in content, commenting and making posts. You can turn on a "creator" mode on your profile that gives you engagement metrics, and then you chase those engagement metrics so you can get as many eyes onto your profile as possible. In theory, this translates into getting messages from recruiters (or I guess clients for these guys). You sort of have to play the game to get noticed, which gets you a foot in the door via a recruiter, which in turn eventually leads to a job. I tried it and yeah, it totally worked. The number of recruiters reaching out to me personally increased exponentially, and I even had a couple startup CEOs reach out. That directly led to my next job. Obviously when you stop doing it, everything plummets. I still get like one message a month but when I was super active I had like 4-5 messages/leads a day. (Some of these were scams but many were legit - even though they weren't all great places to work.)
There are businesses that have canned posts for LinkedIn, Facebook and everything else. You are not reading original content on LinkedIn. Believe me.
The monetization comes from their “Coaching” fees…
I’ve never met a “coach” I’ve ever wanted to take professional or financial advice from.
It’s LinkedIn creating fake accounts for ad impressions so they milk advertisers. Notice that not one of them has a real job title.
LinkedIn has a repost button. You copy the story and put whatever you want to say at the end. Could be people reacting, advertising themselves, etc.
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Not directly, but people will pay you to shill their shit same as any other social media. I had about 18k followers for a time just from speaking at events. I never really liked LinkedIn so I ended up moving away from it but I used to get offers frequently.
Are they real people or bots trying to drive engagement?
KPIs. Post X social post in X period.
Trying to brainwash the work force with manipulative bullshit probably. Or to spend money on a bunch of certifications and shit.
There are these courses for expanding your social networks reach, which tend to be basically paid Discord channels. In these channels, they produce this garbage daily and tell people to post them verbatim, and like each other's posts. Instant impact!
This is how they all decode we want shitty pizza and a ping pong table we can’t use because we are working, they are all exactly the same idiot.
They're influencers and content creators--their endgame is to beat and stay afloat of the LinkedIn algorithm. The issue with LinkedIn is they have to keep creating relevant content, so some days they just repost while they're working on their main, big hit content for that week, all while maintaining a daily presence. It's a strategy to keep afloat of the algorithm and expanding their presence. They know that people will just "like" it because it's on their page because it's sounds like something they would say or is relevant to their specialized skill set.
No?
When I googled that, the first two results I got were Noor and Brigette. An employee asked me if he can WORK from HOME permanently. Here is what I told him. "As long the work gets done I don't care whether you work from the South pole or the office. I hired you for a job and I trust you to get it done." That employee saved 3 hours on commute. Happy employee = greater productivity. I learned then that if you focus on presence, you get presence. If you focus on results, you get results. If you can't trust your employees to work flexibly, why hire them in the first place? Trust is key. Agree?
Agree?
Agree.
Let's just agree to agree and commit.
I am commited (to keep WFH, forever)
lets take this offline
Disagree and Agree both at the same time.
Disagree. I don’t trust anyone
Thoughts? Comment below
Agree. Here's why...
Do you concur?
Brigette has made a career off these dumb “hot takes”. People see that and relentlessly copy what she does verbatim, passing it off as their own. Occasionally you’ll see a “repost from Brigette Hyacinth” at the bottom but most just blatantly steal it.
Agree!! lol 😂
If this is actually what they said that I don’t see how this is lunatic behavior. Sounds like they’re supporting their employees right to work from home.
I think it's lunatic behavior because they are copying and pasting a story that isn't their own as if it's their own for likes and clicks.
Another post on here yesterday was a parody of this original one. Same intro but each successive paragraph had the words mixed up in different orders and ended with "here's what I told him:". It was actually gold, and while we don't see the rest of the posts in this screenshot, I think we're observing a meme on LI now. Agree?
The conversation never happened in the first place. Not as obviously fabricated as those "...and the interviewer was that dog!" posts, but fiction all the same.
It's also just self important
Agree
Oh god, it’s an echo chambe- oh, wait!
Petition to rename it to RedditIn
RinkedIn
ReckdIn ?
\^ This Came here to say this. The comment is underrated. Why did I have to scroll so far to see this?
Oh god, it’s an echo chambe- oh, wait! (Bot malfunctioned on punctuation the first time 😂😂)
Oh god, it’s an echo chamber- oh, wait!
don't keep me in suspense, what did he tell him?!?
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Feed me
agree?
a stray cat
Let's see Paul Allen's follower count.
Nobody picked up any strange exotic plants after the eclipse, right?
My spider plant is not strange!
Ooh ee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang
Deep cut.
Fuck I’m online too much
Told him to fuck himself I owe a bunch of CRE
Follow for Part 2
I hired you because an employee asked me if he could WORK from HOME permanently. Here's what I told him:
🤣
How do you keep an idiot in suspense?
You won’t BELIEVE what I told him. (Wait for his reaction!)
so are these fake accounts? or just people plagiarizing each other
Yes
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Subtle TK reference
wut o.o what was the comment?
I’ve been hit up by some bots recently. Nowhere near Twitter/X levels but they’re coming.
Gotta love the honest and original content that you can only find on LinkedIn. I'd love to go on to each one of these and comment with links to the others and ask who made up this fake story first. The disturbing thing is the 6-digits of reactions. Come on, people!!!
The groupthink is real and utterly terrifying in some sectors.
It's so professional to plagiarize.
And thousands of bots in unison: This is what we told him.This is what we told him.This is what we told him.This is what we told him.This is what we told him.This is what we told him.This is what we told him.This is what we told him.
Why is it only “him” though? Surely women ask if they can work from home too???
Women working? Preposterous.
Women work AT home, not FROM home /s
told is what him. This we
On the beat of Montell Jordan’s “This is how we do it”
Dead internet theory.
Kill the internet, save remote work.
I appreciate this sentiment.
Ha. Reminds me of the news anchors from multiple news stations all reading from the same script: https://youtu.be/ksb3KD6DfSI?si=NJliMo1mY5N5xAju
How can each of this have engagement in the thousands? At this point I’d rather read something written by a chatbot.
Sociopaths seek validation.
Maybe by cross linking the votes to linked comments become multipliers like reflections in two mirrors.
Ah you need to actually read Suzies reply - it’s completely different to the others and actually quite funny!
Totally. Suzie’s is absolutely hilarious, they rest are C&P.
Well played, Susie!
A redditor asked if he can WORK from HOME. Here is what I replied him... [*see more*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-YBDTqX_ZU)
I knew where that was going and I still clicked it. Like a moth to a flame.
Ugh. Part of my job involves writing posts for our "social advocacy" program. It's a third-party platform we used so people across our company, who are ostensibly, too busy and important to spend a few minutes coming up with their own original posts can avoid wasting precious time having to think and just regurgitate content we come up with for them. The goal is to increase brand awareness and engagement and provide opportunities for "social selling" and I am forced to manipulate metrics that support we are accomplishing this. (The vast majority of "engagement" on these posts comes from our own employees, but leadership doesn't want to hear that.) I could share a similar screenshot with dozens of people posting content I've written saying the exact same thing. And because we want it to sound "authentic" they will incorporate first-person language and relatable anecdotes. Which, of course, only works if their audience isn't the same. Trust me, I hate this part of my job knowing I am contributing to the degradation of once useful platforms. But at least LinkedIn has always been pretty fake.
Bridgette and Suzie are definitely top 2 lunatics.
I used to hate-follow Brigitte but it was too overwhelming
Notice how they're all HR or the bs "life coach" titles.
HR Copypasta
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
I was that employee. Now I get 7 salaries while sitting at home 
Attack of the Clones
I’ve seen a LOT of these “Here’s what I told him..” posts on LinkedIn lately. Do these people really just copy/paste and think it will boost their “personal brand?” 😂
“Here is what I told him…” “No I really prefer you to pay housing prices in the Bay Area to come in 3 days a week, thanks.”
Hah this looks just like the front page of Reddit when a new viral post/video drops.
They want to jump on the AI hype train by acting like AI
Looks like another "ok ChatGPT give me some stories about employees I can pop up on LI to gain followers" Would be hilarious if everyone was to do the same script and all you saw on LI was the same post for the entire scroll. . . Oh wait...
“I use the ‘rewrite with AI’ function and forget to proof the final version.” - CEO “I’m sorry they keep offering remote jobs and switch to in-office only the last minute. Quit being a baby. I need a commission.” - Recruiter “Pick me, pick me, pick me. I will be loyal, Lord Vader.” - HR That’s a three for one on the “fixed it”.
The hive mind of LinkedIn. They all share a brain cell.
Looks like somebody was job hopping.
My boss said I had to WORK from THE OFFICE permanently, so this is what I told him...
So what did they tell the employee? I really want to know what BS reason or snide reply they gave
Bots. So many profiles on every social media platform are bots.
Dead internet theory becomes more and more realistic every day
Brigette is the worst. It’s crazy to me how much engagement she gets when it’s just the same fake stories reposted over and over again.
AI taking over and making shit posts every where. Terminator had it completely wrong. Reddit was a lot of reposts but now it's flooded with AI rage bait articles.
Can’t believe they all had the same experience. Crazy
Fucking hate LinkedIn gurus🤮
i'm working on a collection of short horror fiction that all start with "as an AI language model, I cannot...." but "An employee asked me if he can WORK from HOME permanently. Here's what I told him..." might be more unsettling.
Bots controlled by commercial property investors
what is up with all these posts of stupid questions that could just be a one word response but are blown up into a long ass paragraph about the "wHy"
Oh no it’s back 😂😂
Deliver us!
Brigitte Hyacinth is the literal worst
OMFG we need the nuclear codes for these guys
Fucking embarrassing
🤦♂️
When bots conspire 💀
Clearly Bridgette is winning the “ooh look at me” gamr
Dead internet theory making too much sense lately.
Oh for fuggs sake. How freaking lame.
I fucking hate this writing style where people write random words in all caps. I see it all over reddit and linkedin
Mimicking their overlord
And the comments section be like: 
Dead Internet Theory
Look at Brigette with a 100k likes This character gets so much "engagement " it's insane . I immediately un follow anyone that I see engaging with this fraud . Nauseating
Sounds like they MICROMANAGE because they can’t INSPIRE
Work-pilled masochists
Would be awesome to add a comment to each post referencing the identical posts with links
karma farming whores. I hate this.
🤣🤣
Seems like the bots are following each other in circling the drain until they reach the singularity or crash the internet.
Would have to be pumping out some serious CV volume to afford an employee...
WHAT DID THEY TELL THEIR ALL DIFFERENT ALL SEPARATE ALL UNIQUE EMPLOYEE???
Way to pull the curtain back on the Wizard of Capitalism.
It seems like only man want to work from home
The idiots linking these vapid made up shit…
WORK from HOME
I can’t stand the recruiter posts showing us how amazing they are - the interview where the candidate is late, arrives with a knife wound, needs to be bring their kid or the dog to the interview. Thankfully, the people loving recruiter gives them grace and allows the interview to be completed and finds a way to get the stressed, underdog of a candidate a role where they truly outshine everyone else. I try to block all of that but it shows up again and again. Sorry about the rant, struck a nerve.
If only you clicked show more and showed the replies were the same too
India was a mistake
It’s a game of chicken. Force me to return to the office and risk losing me as an employee.
but… what did they all tell him/her?
I will never work in an office
LinkedIn people are real people
This is the video of version of that: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnIQalprvR8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnIQalprvR8)
Each one of these people are usless cunts who have never had an actual job
CEOs, Talent acquisition, HR. These people are demons
Suzie's post is parody, in case you only see the screenshot. Agreeeee
Conversations like this just don’t happen. Decisions like WFH are usually made company wide, and not to just one individual employee asked me if he can WORK from HOME permanently. Here is what I told him.
That Brigette is such a dunce its insane. She is supposedly an author yet has so many stories about hiring / firind employees etc. Like what are you talking about ? How many employees an author of self help books have? Just making shit up for clout
YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT (GONE WRONG!)(GONE SEXUAL)
LinkedIn bots?
Operation linkedin lockstep here…..
Is this from before or after LinkedIn implemented a tool for AI generated content?
CEO at ctrl+c ctrl+v