LinkedIn has been connecting business professionals for eighteen years, and at this point it’s become a cesspool of indecipherable business jargon, faux-gurus, and humblebrags. Its endless scroll of hustle culture has ushered in the nauseating rise of broetry — cheesy motivational stories told line by line in single sentences — and the odd, stilted style has inspired parodies across Twitter and Reddit.
Another notorious aspect of LinkedIn is its relentless emails to your contacts, like asking some former classmate with whom you did a group project five years ago to “connect” (thanks to a 2015 lawsuit, LinkedIn can’t spam your email contacts quite as relentlessly as before).
