Comment by LearnYouALisp
18 hours ago
Hm, narrows eyes after the tenth perfectly pair-spaced em dash.
Scans downward ... this does remind one of the general tone of fanfiction, which in fact comprises a large proportion of the text base of data.
//The realization that potentially many of these comments may be fun- or profit-motivated 'advertising'.
I like to think I'm part of the reason the bots use em dashes so much, since I've been using them — or the ASCII "--" that we used to have to type to represent them in the pre UTF-8 times — since you could write stuff and post it on the internet.